 Hi everybody, it's Sandy. Welcome to my YouTube channel where today I am going to show you how to make an alpaca pulling a Yeti uphill in the snow with a Copics and Brush-O. And yeah, I know that's a silly name, but I couldn't think of a better one that was more entertaining for myself for a video. So there you go. I'm going to be using brand new stamps from Lawn Fawn as well as some older ones. And this one, Winter Alpaca says baby it's cold outside alpaca my scarf. So I'm going to do alpaca my Copics. And we needed a little friend for my alpaca, so I got out my Yeti. And the Yeti is cold outside is similar to the baby it's cold outside. So I ended up using the Yeti sentiment in the end. And I also got out another new stamp set from Lawn Fawn to use the wagon. I wanted something to pull the Copics in and I could have used the handle, but I decided instead to use toboggan together, which is a durable stamp set, and that one has a little string in it for pulling things. So we're going to use that one. And then Riley's ABCs so that I can make the word Copics to add onto the card. And if that were not enough, the forest border and the stitched hillsides dies that I wanted to use to make the snowy scene. So I'm going to show you a little bit of the inside process that I go through sometimes. One way that I do think sometimes they come out perfectly and I know exactly where to put everything. Other times like this one, I knew it was going to be a little struggle with all these little stamps and figuring out what was the best way to make the scene. So I stamped on sticky notes. I did have a piece of Nina underneath there because I was thinking maybe I'd be ready to stamp sooner. I knew I wanted the alpaca my Copics in the lower right and somehow the sentiment beginning in the upper left and a hillside around there somehow. But I fussed around with it and since I stamped on stickies, I could move them and I moved them around so that I could get the hillsides arranged the way that I wanted. And when I did this, I suddenly noticed that those two slopes are the same and it's going to play into what I'm going to do in just a few minutes. So remember that they're the same. I taped them down with some washi tape and I die cut right through this Nina and the sticky notes and everything all in one fell swoop. And I know that may not have been the smartest thing to do, but that was what I did at the time because I didn't want to undo all of the planning that I'd already done. So now I have my die cutting at least begun here. So I started thinking through how I was going to do this and I took my stamps and I laid them right on top of the sticky notes so I could close the misty, pick up the stamps. If you don't know how a misty works, then look for more misty on my channel and you'll see a lot more. When it came to adding the Copic markers, I got out a multi-liner pen and I just drew some basically rectangles with rounded ends in there. And then I needed to figure out how to make that other slope with the trees behind it because I didn't want to fussy cut out the heads and the markers and everything. So if you see that pencil line just barely there, that one I made with the die and I just drew it along the edge so that I could then fussy cut it and cut out just the heads and the little hands of the Yeti. And then when I glue it down, it's going to pop up over the tree line, but it's not going to be as much fussy cutting. So that's the planning process. Now, I got out a piece of watercolor cardstock because I wanted to do some brush-o-work for the sky and I had the sentiment stamp there in the corner in VersaMark and I heat set it with clear embossing powder or I heat set clear embossing powder with my heat gun, shall we say, and was hoping that this was going to work so that the watercolor would resist right in that area. And it actually did. This is one color of brush-o. This is the black. And if you wanted to just try some and you just want to get one and see what it does, look at all the color this one gives you. The less you put on, the more color you'll see. So if you do a really light spritz of it, then you'll see all of these colors. If you add more powder, then they start mixing and going black. And it's up to you how much you put on. I would, you know, wait, let it let it sit for a minute, see what it does. And then I put more on, then I spray some more water and just kind of go back and forth. So you can get a lot of mileage out of one color if you get just the black. And it just really did some cool things. Now this one is not takedown. And so it does something interesting as it does this little arch because it starts to pull the the color and kind of drag them down both sides of the arch. If you picture this this card stop bending just a little bit. So you can see it's getting sort of a little line in the middle. I have a second video on my second channel. I'll link you to it at the end that you can see what I do with this one because it was actually really cool. All right, so let's get back to doing this the right way, which was taping it down. Although actually the other one came out cool enough. I shouldn't say that this is the only right way because you don't have to tape it down. So now I'm I spritzed water on first and I'm shaking on powder and then spritzing on more water just going back and forth until it looks like what I want it to look like. So just keep adding some on. Now this is arches watercolor paper. If you use other different kinds of watercolor paper, it may move differently. It may color differently. I mean that the arches tends to soak in the color a lot better and they get richer colors. So this might be richer because it's the arches but try it with whatever watercolor card stock you have. And I keep adding water in that upper left hand corner because I started getting nervous that my sentiment wasn't appearing on this one. I don't know why it didn't come out as bright as it did on the other one. But you know, stuff happens when we're crafting. I set that aside to dry while I get busy on the Copic part of this card. So I wanted to color the trees but I didn't want my brush nib dragging over top of some of these and potentially catching on them or tearing any trees off. So I'm just tapping color on from the ink refill bottle of the BG72 onto my trees. And I went for a BG72 because it's a little duller of a color. It's a blue-green so it's not quite blue, it's not quite green, and it's got a little bit of a gray content in it which matches what's going on right now that I can see off-camera in my my brush-o background, you know, that watercolor. So I wanted a color that would really tie into that nicely. I'm using the same kind of colors, same BG7 family, on a couple elements in my image and the reason is because I want to tie that to the trees so that I have that common color across the image. And I also want those colors to be a little duller in some parts of the image because I want the pop of color on the animals, the markers, and the sentiment. The sentiment is actually stamped with clean color pens. I colored each letter by hand. I set them all up and then colored them and stamped them all at once. And it worked really great to do that. You can do that with any of your watercolor-based markers, water-based markers. And now I'm coloring the image with the little alpaca. I wanted him to be kind of bright colors. So he's using the E0 family. The zero means it's a very saturated color and it's a brighter type of brown. And if you've ever wondered, E probably stands for earth tones in the Copic family names because there's no E color name as far as I know. So next, I wanted to add a little bit of inside to the wheels. So I did that, went back and caught that part that I had missed. And now I'm on to the Yeti. The Yeti I'm going to color with the E4 family. This is a duller type of brown. You can see already that there's more gray content in this brown. It's just not as saturated, not as bright or intense. And that's going to give the Yeti a little different look than the alpaca for one. It's going to make him look a little dirtier. And in my mind, Yetis like live out in the middle of the mountains and they don't take baths. So they're probably pretty dirty. So this little guy is going to be both furry and fuzzy as well as a little on the grungy dirty side. So I'm layering a couple of different E4 colors. And on both of these, the BG family, the E0 family and the E4 family, I'm using natural blending groups. And natural blending groups are a great way to choose colors that are going to go together easily because when you pick the letter and the first number that are the same, they're just going to blend the easiest. So if you have trouble with your blending, this is a really great tip for you to just look at the numbers and pick from those. I'm adding a little bit more layers of dark color now. So I can darken up that fur and add a little bit more contrast to it with my E4 7 and then I'll do a little more E4 4 and then E4 9 inside his mouth and make him a little pink tongue and then start adding colors to the marker nibs or the marker ends. And that'll be a little splash of color that'll stand out more since I use duller colors elsewhere on the card. These are the two backgrounds that are finished. The one on the left will be used in the bonus video. But you can see it did curl a little bit more of course than the one that was taped down. But it also gave a very different effect because it was curled. So I'm going to trim this one down on the right and then assemble my card. I've got my little panels ready to go. And remember how I cut this curve so that it would match the trees, that tree line? Here all I have to do is glue it on top and it's going to line up just perfectly. So it looks like I die cut that right behind their heads, but I really just have to glue this down on top, which is very easy to do. All right, I'm going to add some dimensionals to this and assemble my card. It still has to go in a card base, but I'm going to add some little stars in the sky with my signal pen first and then pop it onto a base. And I just love this card. It was one that as soon as I saw alpaca my scarf, I knew this little alpaca was going to be carrying a lot of things. And now that I know that the little wagon works, this little pack is going to have a lot of things to carry on cards from me. So don't forget to go over to the other video because in the bonus video, which is the one on the left here, not only do you get to see what I do with that background, you also get to see a tour of Lawn Fawn headquarters and what I got to do while I was there because I got to help them make samples. And on the right is a link to my brush show series. I did a whole long series, three videos all about brush show and color burst and comparing those two mediums. All right. See you guys later. Bye.