 Well hi there, I'm Sandy, I'll knock artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and it is our lucky day because it's Ellen Hudson's 11th anniversary. I'm gonna use the Flora and Fana stamp set with these cute little critters in it and the lucky stamp set. I have a die here and I'll explain why I have the die out in just a few minutes but I'm gonna use the lucky stamp from Ellen Hudson and I'm gonna put my little critters onto the word lucky, their toes didn't quite touch so I ended up actually drawing their toes in, making them have a little longer feet so that they would touch the word. I don't throw things away when my stamping gets awry if I can possibly change it up and make it look like I meant to do that that I try to but what I thought I'd try here for my coloring with my Copic markers is to show you a little bit of color theory stuff that I talk about in my classes a lot, one of which is to change up the look of a trio of colors by just changing one of the colors in the trio. So the base color on both of these is YR27, the shadow on both is an E19 and that's going to give them some commonality between them. If you were trying to do a set of cards that go together or if you wanted a bunch of animals on a picture if they're all in one scene to look related but not exactly the same you could do the same thing. I changed up the mid-tone color for the fox to a YR07 to make it more orangey and I made a more neutral brown the E57 for the deer so that that one would go a little bit more to the neutral side but then I went back in with the YR27 to blend everything together. These two animals look like they're closely related now but one looks more orangey than the other because I changed up one of the colors. So you can do that to save yourself buying more markers, you can take fewer markers with you when you go coloring with somebody and change things up by just changing one in the trio. The other part of this card that I wanted to show you was making the letters look like they are dimensional and I love the funky script on this word lucky so I decided to put some shadows on it with my G99 I'm just adding shadows on the left slash bottom of each of the shapes trying to think of them as shapes rather than letters and it helps to make them dimensional in your brain but I'm just going to put my shadows on there I'm going to take another color and soften that out a little bit in a third color and soften that out even further and as long as my colors stay within this this green which is sage from kathryn pooler then it doesn't matter if I stay completely you know if I fill in absolutely every bit of it or if I stay completely within the lines if my lightest color is going to be fixable so if I go out of the line a little bit I can just clean that up because there's no black outline I can sort of fudge it if I need to so I just experimented on a piece of scrap paper to find colors that we're going to work with this and then I'll add some white pen highlights to it but I wanted to sit here and talk for a minute about why this stamp set is on my card today it's because it's Ellen Hudson's 13th anniversary lucky 13 and I am just so proud of her for being in business and running it with such integrity she's one of the the people that I trust so much to do the right thing all the time she's an absolutely amazing woman you may not know her as a business woman you might just know her as the lady who runs this website and you see her stuff online and that sort of thing but she treats people so well she she doesn't do drama she doesn't get involved in like crazy industry drama stuff she's just she's just a wonderful person and I treasure her friendship I feel lucky to be her friend I really do but what she's doing for her celebration she always likes to give away fun things when she's having a party so she's giving away if you buy $75 worth of stuff after the coupon code which I'm going to give you the coupon code in just a minute if your order totals $75 then you get the lucky stamp set not the floor and fauna's tip set sorry about that just the lucky one with all the other sentiments that go with it and if your order totals $150 then you get the stamp set and the die set which is pretty swanky and then if you don't even get to the 75 it's possible a little birdie told me it's possible you may find other little treats in your box so it's a great time to order because she's just having fun giving away stuff she loves to inspire people and bring joy so when you get your box if you feel joy by whatever she's put in it then send a note to the the website and just say thank you you brought me joy and that's going to make her so happy so here are my finished cards I just kept them really simple I stamped the secondary sentiment lucky me to have a friend like you on it and popped it onto the card base and here is the coupon information 20% off sale it's on everything except for a few new release things so see the disclaimers on the website but lucky 13 good from now through Friday and if you order $75 worth you get a stamp set $150 you get the stamp and the dies and that is it for today I hope you have a great week I have something special coming up this weekend I hope if I get it done and I will see you of course very soon right here on YouTube thank you much have a great day bye bye