 Well, hi there. I'm Sandy Allnock, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and today I'm going to color a ginormous Cupcake and get two cards out of it When I purchased this Colorado craft company stamp set I did not realize quite how big that cupcake was but you know There is not a problem with sugar being really big and cupcakes are delicious. So there you go I decided I would color it with my Copic marker So I got out a bunch of colors if you want to pin this image along with the image of the cards So you're welcome to do that and then they're both together. They are on your Pinterest and I just started in on the coloring Made my strawberry have some pink highlights to it and then going into some really deep rich Reds as I get into the shadows Then came the decision about what kind of frosting to do Because part of every cupcake has to be chocolate and either the frosting or the cupcake if not both have to be chocolate I don't write the rules. I just follow the rules. So there you go It's just a rule and you know, don't don't yell at me over that I decided for cream cheese frosting on this one And so I'm putting some kind of cream colors over the whole thing Leaving some white highlights and then adding brown shadows Around each one of those sections where there's a line across it Because the lines indicate each of the folds of the frosting as they kind of cascade around The cupcake and then blended them in and then I'll add in a little bit more of a light color In the highlight areas, but still leaving some white there because I don't want my frosting to get too dark and just get everything all nicely blended and Since of course, this is the cream cheese frosting on the top section The cupcake has to be chocolate Because we're not going to break the rules of the universe when we color sugary treats Because I am like a five year old when it comes to things like cupcakes There are people who are Just they like the cake thing and they don't want the frosting Or they always pick the piece of cake from the sheet cake that doesn't have the roses on it or whatever And I am the five year old who always wants the piece with the frosting and the rose and everything Now there are some nasty frostings, but in general, I'm I'm still that little kid give me the sugar I know it's bad for me, but there you go. It is my vice I decided to make the wrapper on this the same colors as the strawberry And then that would all coordinate with each other The way that you can do these little folds these little zigzags so that the pleats look like pleats is on The ones that are facing the left side Then put the shadows on the right side and then the ones facing the right side You put the shadows on the left so you end up with just the outside edges of each one of those zigzags Being the thing that's got the highlight on it because everything else recedes toward the cupcake Not sure if that explanation is making any sense, but you just want those tips To have the highlight on them. So again, if you want to pin that one so you can follow it when you color That might be helpful And then finish all of that blending get it all nice and smooth ish Decided to make my cupcake a little darker and add a little texture to it so any with a really dark brown and then I'll add in a little bit of detail on my strawberry By adding some white pen for the little seeds and the seeds can either be dark or light and sometimes there's both I guess on strawberries, but I decided to just make mine all white and then I wanted sprinkles because you know Sprinkles are a thing. They're yummy So I put in some black dots because I wanted to add some white highlights onto them There are some little marks and and things made on the frosting itself on the stamp But those didn't look much like sprinkles. They look more like the texture of the frosting itself So I added my own and you could add this instead of using white pen. You can use some sort of a You know a nuvo drops or something to make those Dimensional and colored and then I went over the wrapper with just a little bit of a wink of stella Just give it a little bit of a shine And then I fussy cut it out There's not a whole lot of fussy cutting except for around this top section. The rest of it was just big chunks So it was super easy. It's only this top section that needed a little bit of fussing So i'm going around that with my favorite ek scissors That work really well for a lot of the detailed fussy cutting and now comes the part don't cry Don't cry. There's no screams going on. There's no blood But I've got my image in my trimmer And i'm just chopping it in half. I know There are people who are probably very sad right now But it is the way it is because I get two cards out of this and for that much coloring It's always nice to have an extra card From one bit of stamping and coloring So I've got my layers on my paper that light brown paper is actually a wood grain paper that I don't think exists anymore But it was in my stash and it went with the colors So I used it. I apologize for using something you can't go get The little strawberry leaf up on top was lonely And I decided it would be better if he weren't there at all because it looked kind of weird to only have one And then I had to add my sentiments So I decided I would put it in the misty to do that and get them lined up nicely And on this wood grain paper if you've ever used wood grain sometimes If you get a long part of the actual grain in it Then your ink will splooge a little bit up the grain So I used my onyx black from versifying in order to make sure that I kind of get it Stamped once really well If you put too much ink on these sometimes you just get some really strange Little stamping effects. So Got the bible verse on this one and we'll stamp a different sentiment on the other card To finish off my card. I wanted to add a little bit of something to it So you use my connect glue from Gina K Added on some essentials by ellen embellishments These are supposed to be Christmas ornaments, but they work great on something like this And I used my quick stick to pick them up because my fingers are no longer tiny like they once were And there are my finished cards with the embellishments in two sets of threes threes above and threes below Is kind of my little rule of thumb And then I wanted to share one other thing which is this card is going to be over on IGTV Instagram And I believe I can put a link to it in the description after it's live That you can watch even if you're not on instagram, so you can still watch this one There's no voiceover, but I thought you'd enjoy a no-line coloring and we'll do chocolate frosting on that one So there you go. That's about all I have for you today. 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