 Hi there, my name is Sandy Allnock, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and today I'm making a reindeer vest card, which is a little funny of a name. I'll tell you the story as we go along. I'm using W plus 9's stamp set called Santa's Reindeer and it's got a bunch of reindeer, a Santa Claus, a chimney and some sentiments. I bought two of them by accident, double clicked when I was shopping at Ellen Hudson. So when I got two of them I realized, I get to do a giveaway. So one of you will benefit if you would like to potentially win this stamp set, go leave a comment on my blog today. And I'm gonna try to pick the winner real quickly. I think I'll do it either a day or two only for the opening of the giveaway so that you can get the stamp set in time to use it. So I'm coloring on Desert Storm Nina card stock. It's one of my papers that I like to do, my colored pencil on. You may choose to do something softer if you have trouble with colored pencil so a Bristol or something can sometimes work better. But I like this one and it's Desert Storm so it means that the white that I'm gonna color is gonna show up because otherwise your white kind of doesn't really pop on a card. So I like to use Desert Storm when I'm gonna have some white Santa Claus little features and little puffy things. And you can see the numbers for the colored pencils that I'm using. I don't always write them down with colored pencils because I often use a lot but I chose a small range of colors because I'm gonna use them across the entire card and I'm doing this at real-time speed but I will eventually be speeding it up but rest assured it's the same pencil colors that I'm using in the rest. I'm using a purplish color it's a reddish dark dark reddish purple color for the shadows here and when I'm coloring with colored pencils I often only use two colors to shade with because you don't really need a third quite often. So I'm using the purple as the shadow going with this. If you wanted to do some shadowing with your white you could actually even just do hard white highlights and let it fade down so that the paper the craft paper actually acts as the shadow but I'm just coloring kind of solid white to make those really stand out nicely and I'll use two browns to color my reindeer. Now this is where the reindeer vest story comes in because when I was looking at this I wasn't really thinking ahead very much and I didn't realize until later I'm sitting here coloring is his little arms with the brown and that's probably supposed to be the arms of his Santa Claus jacket. So my reindeer I decided we're all going to be wearing vests instead they're wearing Santa vests so yeah there you have it sometimes your brain just doesn't kick all the way into gear and I think it still is going to work so you can judge at the end whether Santa vests on the reindeer were acceptable or not but for some people it might drive you crazy and I apologize for that so I'm using my secondary color to do my shading on my reindeer to give them a little bit of depth and roundness because that's always a good thing doing some shading underneath of the chin trying to make it a little heavier so that his head pops forward and I like to use a really sharp pencil if you've seen a lot of my coloring videos with colored pencil my pencils tend to be really sharp and I sharpen them often while I'm coloring and the quiet sharp is an amazing pencil sharpener even though it's a huge monster it is physically a giant beast and so if you don't have a lot of room on your craft desk you may need to find an arrangement to have it somewhere else in your room but it's fabulous it's a school sharpener so it has a lot of different options for different size pencils so if you have a range of pencils it also works great for that you just dial in a size it gives you a really sharp point and it also stops when it gets to sharpness it doesn't keep eating your pencil where there are a lot of pencil sharpers and believe me I spent hundreds of dollars on pencil sharpeners trying a bunch of them out and they ate my pencil so much that I just gave up on them and I finally found this one and it's not cheap but it's very well worth it had a lot of people email me back after getting it going oh my gosh it was so huge but it works so well it's okay so take that as their endorsement of the pencil sharpener links to the sharpener and the stamps and everything in the doobly-do of course down below so I'm using a very sharp pencil and a very light touch to do layers of color and I actually even decided to put a little bit of brown on this green bag because it just wasn't strong enough with the two greens that I chose and now I'm going to speed massively up I decided I would just do one at real-time speed and then fill in the rest one of the things that I find that I get a lot of questions about with color pencil is and don't worry about that one leg that I forgot I do go back and get that one later with color pencil a lot of people ask me do my pencils break a lot as I'm using them or when I'm sharpening them or anything and actually I don't find I have that problem and I have with particular pencils once in a while and what I have come to discover is that it's probably that you've dropped the pencils or the pencil case or it got dropped in shipping sometimes it can even actually get dropped in shipping so if you purchase them and right away all your pencils are breaking that lead inside could be cracked so check them fairly quickly after you buy pencils and make sure that you can sharpen them nicely and that they're going to work and color and image fairly well without the lead breaking because otherwise you might want to return them and get some pencils that have not been distressed and if you hear jingle bells in the background that's my dog running right in the background I tried getting it getting them to nap while he was doing voiceovers and when you want them to nap they just never do that is that I just have discovered that's the way it is with puppies and I can't send them outside by themselves while I'm working because they will tear up my yard so they're here trying to sleep and here's my card so I added a little sentiment on a piece of white card stock little scrap and tied a little bit twine around it did a bunch of layers of card stock just to give the card a little more beef and interest and I think it came out really fun regardless of my my little jackets turning into vests so I hope you enjoyed this video there's a couple more pencil videos here if you're interested in seeing some more you can hit the subscribe button if you haven't yet already be sure to go to my blog I am going to have a very short timeline on this giveaway so check it out right away because I want to get the stamp set out to somebody quickly so you have time to use it for your Christmas cards thank you so much for joining me hit that like button if you enjoyed this video and I will see you again next time have a fabulous day bye bye