 Well, hi there. My name is Sandy Allnock. I'm an artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and I'm partaking in the rainbow challenge today And I'm going to watercolor some dies and inset them to make a pretty flat card And I'm going to start with the all-inside set and stamp the bear and use the bear die along with the sundae and The houses and trees from home and hearth And then we're going to add to it a few clouds from up the happy I'm just mixing lots and lots of sets and then this bitty envelope is going to be on the inside of the car that you'll see at the very end Now inside my misty I've placed the piece of paper that I die cut the Bear from from watercolor paper and I'm going to place my stamp in here I only want to stamp the eyes and the nose in the mouth Instead of stamping the rest of it and that's just one way if you're like me and you're challenged in getting your dies to line up with your stamps All you have to line up is the face. The face doesn't have to be perfect So I'm stamping it first on a piece of acetate just to make sure it's going to work the way I want it to and I'm just taking my stamp pad to very carefully Ink up only the eyes and the nose and Then place my piece of paper in there inside the die and But a moon butter being he's all ready to go Now on the back of it. I'm going to put a little bit little bitty piece of adhesive So that's going to hold it both up off the surface of what I'm going to paint on as well as holding it still for me And I'm going to do some quick watercoloring with Daniel Smith watercolors the little bit of quinacridone gold And it's sort of a brownish gold really nice. I just love the the flavor of this This type of gold and just paint the whole thing first And then while it is still wet I'm going to take a little piece of Kleenex and just dab off a little bit So that I get some highlights on one side that you could leave it just like this and that would give you some dimension to it But of course, that's not me. I don't leave anything alone. I overdo everything so I'm just kind of going to go over it with a damp brush with just a little bit of paint on it and Smooth out a little bit more of that. So then I have a little more color on the left side Little more down in the foot and then I thought, you know, maybe I could add even a little bit more So I took some quinacridone burnt sienna a darker color and I started adding some Down at the bottom of the feet and just some of the areas that I wanted to add a little more color too You can see I'm doing wet and wet. So I'm just dabbing this on These are a really nice colors that go well together and then after I got it done I lifted up his arms and just put a little bit of that quinacridone burnt sienna underneath and That helped me to to add that extra dimension at the very end after it was all dry So just a little bit of layer on top with a very very slight amount of extra color To give my bear a little bit more pop to him now I'm setting up my set of Dies all of the dies that I pulled out I'm kind of setting them up as a scene to figure out exactly where I want things and look at which things are in The front and I have to die cut the things that are in the front first So the clouds and the sky are in the back So they're going to remain off for for just a moment And I'll tape these down and go die cut them first I wanted to have a whole row of trees and things behind this so I could only do two at a time Now I simply replace the dies where I want them Making sure that I don't create any little spaces that are going to fall out except for the dies Because if you create those you're going to have to figure out how to place them back in So it's easier if the background stays as one piece and you don't leave any little orphans hanging around So I've got one more tree to cut out and then the clouds. I want to have interact right here with my bear so I'm going to cut that piece out and Then do the next cloud behind and just keep building until I get to the back of the scene Cut that guy out and then the Sun. I want it to tuck down behind the clouds So I'm just gonna kind of stick it down behind there So the bottom half of the Sun doesn't die cut out past the cloud So all those pieces are cut out and to do all these little ones. I could have put them on the same dimensional adhesive But it seemed to make better sense to just put a little adhesive onto a piece of scrap watercolor card stock And then paint on top of that and just glue them all down on there And then I'm going to make rainbows out of my trees And you see some of the colors there phthalo green yellow shade French ultramarine blue quinacridone purple and quinacridone violet to make a little bit of a rainbow going down the trees and painting them on there Wet on wet so the color blends into each other and as you can see I'm not fussing a whole lot about being careful with blending This is just to give that little bit of a rainbow effect the house I wanted to have in little different colors So I'm going to use a yellow with some oranges and then throw some reds on top And I'm just letting the color be really wet and let it mush together. I Did decide that since I liked having that red there is going to add little red on the tips of The trees on the bottoms of them just because the purple didn't quite have enough punch for me And then I'll throw some of the yellow the same yellow and same red on to the sun and Create just a little tiny bit of shading very very slight on this one then let all those pieces dry nicely and My adhesive for the back of this is going to be a B creative sheet So it's double stick and I'm going to be sticking it onto this so that the sticky part is toward the front of the Card and you'll see how that plays out. It doesn't cover the entire thing, but we'll fix that at the very end I've at least got enough for all these little pieces to be able to stick in here Get it pressed down and then I can start assembling and it's basically like a children's puzzle I'll just put all the trees back in place all the clouds the Sun and everything And if you press them at all they're going to stick entirely but if you just kind of set them in there then you can get an idea of what you might need to fix and I decided I wanted to add a rainbow in the sky So I carefully pulled out one of the clouds so I could watercolor a rainbow up there And I wasn't sure if I was going to go all the way to the edge of the card until after I made these first strokes And then I went, you know, I think it does need to connect all the way at the top So as I added each one of the colors I just slowly stretched that arc out until it was all the way out to the edge of the card Now this rainbow I decided to make it really soft and I could have Potentially made the outside edges bleed out to white But since the rest of the card had very sharp edges on each one of the die cuts I thought it made a little more sense to make this actually a little bit of a hard-edged type of rainbow And if you're making a card like this There's probably even some rainbow dies in your collection that you might add to it as well Which would be kind of fun Now I decided there was not enough yellow in there yellow is my favorite color So I added just a little bit more across there to brighten everything up and then let it dry let the colors Just kind of mush together For the ground I started out thinking I was going to do just the phthalo green yellow shade with the French Ultramarine blue just to carry the same colors across the whole card And that's always a good thing to try to make things fit and match a little bit and not add too many new colors But this seems so expected to have just green and blue in the ground So I decided I was going to add some purple Really glad I added that color because it pulls in the purple from the trees as well as add some nice weight to the bottom of the card The clouds started looking very white on white So I decided I would put some color in them with just a little bit of the blue at the very bottom And then some clean water to push that color around and while it's still wet you can usually soften out that edge nicely and If it dries too much just scrub at it a little while and try to see if you can loosen the paint at that very edge Some colors work better at doing that than others and Then pop it back into my card front and I can press it all down now because I'm done with my painting portion I added a little heart in his arms and there's some dimensional adhesive behind that That's the only dimension on the card. The rest is very flat and Now I've got it in my misty because I'm gonna put the sentiment on it And I am known for putting crooked sentiments on at the very end and ruining a lot of work So I've learned to do it in the misty. This is the mini misty the small one I've placed it for for just general placement and now I'm gonna use the grid on the lid of the misty to straighten it up And then double-check it before I actually do any stamping to make sure I get it just right and then I can ink it Up and stamp once or twice if I need to to get really good coverage on this rough watercolor card stock that I'm using Next I need to add it to the card base and I need to make sure each one of those pieces That has a dye set into it has some adhesive on the back So I'll put a little piece on the Sun as well up there just to make sure everything sticks down nicely Press it all down really well onto my card base and But um, but um, she's all done rainbow challenge met My card is nice and flat. It's gonna go through the mail really well Without having to cost extra in postage, which is always a good thing when we're mailing our cards But I still have that tiny bit of dimension on his little hands and his little heart The inside of the card I added a dye to that one as well the little bitty envelope and did a little water coloring on it and added it to a stamped sentiment I did decide to add one more card to this video This was some practice pieces that I had left over on my desk a practice bear Who needed to be on a card and a practice background and the little heart that's on there I cut the tines off the back of the brad Before adding it to the card because I oops and didn't leave a hole in my card so that I could put it on there before finishing it there's a couple other videos here on the left and right are two more Daniel Smith watercolor videos and in the center is Another inset dye coloring with airbrush You can watch one of those you can hit the subscribe button or you can go over to my blog There's some blog candy over there right now for the rainbow challenge I've challenged my patrons to join in making rainbow cards, so they are all over there doing that and All the links are in the doobly-doo for the blog as well as supplies and I'll see you guys next time take care