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Watercolor Wednesday! | Watercolor Wednesday! Throwback Farmhouse Christmas watercolor tutorial with Bonnie Krebs! | By Art Impressions Rubber Stamps | This is our second day of the throwback. It was so much fun and you know, it's just, it's so versatile that I thought I would just carry it over to Watercolor Wednesday and do another project with that little farmhouse. So, once I switch my camera around, I'll show you the project from yesterday and then, I'll show you the one that we're doing today. And I will show you everything involved in that project. So, we did little you guys did a vote. And so yesterday I showed you a Halloween one and a Christmas one. And after that you guys all voted. And the Christmas one is is our one for today. We all voted too. So it was really fun. Um I've I've so surprised that you guys love that Halloween one so much. I had so much fun making it. And so what I did was I pulled out all the sets I used. Even though we're not doing the tutorial today. I'll show you the sets that I used to put that Halloween project to other. So, first, I just, I gotta say hi to all my people who are on. Julie, hello, Jen from Buffalo. Hello. Uh Simone is on. Diana, hello. Joy from Wild Mart. Well, Wildomar, Joy, did I say pronounce that right? Well, it's not wouldn't be wild. Wildemar. That's what I'm guessing. Okay. Linda, hello, Cathy, Sandy, Lori, Theresa, hello to all of my people who are on. Um Jane, Colleen from Michigan, Laura from Pasadena. Good to have all of you guys on. Diane Mason, talented Diane. She is on. Lee is on. Joy, hello. Thanks for joining me, you guys. I I love watercolor. Do I, I probably say that every time but I probably will continue to say it every time because I love watercolor Wednesday. It is just the funnest thing to do and I love it when we have something new too because it's just fun to just spring something new on you guys and then teach you something new. Um Upstate New York. Debbie, hello. Lisa, hello. Brenda. So, yesterday, we were on. So, the the throwback is the farmhouse from the ninety-seven catalog and I'll show you that when I flip my camera. For those of you who weren't with us yesterday, is the farmhouse and it has a it has a clothesline and so, I don't know. We got off on a we got off on a tangent with the clothesline discussion about growing up with a clothesline in our backyard and the towels feel like when you hang them out on the clothesline. I mean they're just they're like cardboard. When you come in the house. I was laughing about that literally all day yesterday you guys. And just like having that in common so many times, you know, those memories, we think that it's just ours and there's so many people who have those same memories and we just walk down memory lane together but that was so much fun. So, those of you who don't know, there is a clothesline in this farmhouse set. So, Okay. Hi everyone. Shirley says, hi from Arizona. Sorry to hear you won't be at the Mesa, Arizona. Oh, you know what? We really miss that one, Shirley. That was always a favorite. I always went on that one because you know, any excuse to go to Mesa and we just I just the absolutely most wonderful people are just the most wonderful people. Um our creators anyway are in this industry. This craft, paper crafting, painting, industry. And we just have just met the most awesome people but I love that show. I love that show. Um so, really, you know, there's so many things about being on the road like that that we really, really miss. So, it's fun to to, you know, stay in contact with so many of you and if you saw us out on the road like that, say, say that in the comments because those are such good memories of being out like that. Um Colleen. In rural areas, people hang them out in the winter. My mom, I, my mom hung hung our sheets and towels and clothes and everything out all year long. And we would bring them in and they would be like stiff as a board. Everything was just stiff as a board from outside. Oh yes, the memories. Hello from Kansas. Cindy, hello. Margaret from Ohio. Ginger, hello. Ellen. You guys, this is great. Um that was my first, oh, that was my first experience with you and Kendra. Got me going on watercolor. Okay, did you I don't think we had a class. I don't think we had classes at that show, did we? But Kendra did. Kendra came along on that one a lot. I mean, you know, we all love that show because it was a chance to go to Mesa and there were two, I think in Mesa, one was the the Expo, Stamp, Scrapbook Expo, or was it CKC? One of those two was in Mesa and then there was always the local or the the rubber stamp convention. Isn't that what it was called? Um that was a different one. That wasn't part of the circuit. Um Margaret says met you in Pennsylvania. Yup. Love that. That was a really fun show too because you know, being from Oregon, that was really far east for us to go and we got to see so much of that absolutely beautiful area. Um the Amish, you know, driving their buggies. That was so cool. A lot came to the shows and I just remember just asking them a million questions and they are so gracious. Just the nicest people. Um just such good memories all over. I think I really think we have driven across or been in every state now. Just because of that show circuit and just being you know at all those different locations. It was really fun. It was really fun seeing different parts of the country. Um Carol hello from Missouri. Um on a or simple scene. Charlene says I wish you would do one of the chickens on a truck or simple scene. Are you talking about the chickens from like ages ago? The bird brains? Is that the one that you're talking about? Are you talking about the chickens that are free with this with this release. So tell me about that. Met you in Sacramento. Ruth Ann. Yes. Sacramento was always also a really fun one because we would drive to that one and it was it was pretty close. So it's about Sacramento is about 10 hours from us. And so we've made that trip you know from Oregon all the way down to Southern California. Many, many, many, many times. Many. And okay no in the throwbacks. Oh putting them in a truck. Okay that would be really cute. I get it. That would be super cute. Diana, I think my first exposure was either at Scrapbook Expo in Pleasanton, okay? Or Santa Clara. Took a class that Kendra taught and I was hooked. Still have those projects we made in that class. She traveled down there. I think she traveled down there and did some classes. Is that what you mean? Or were you talking about at the show? Because there were some stores down there and she used to visit those stores and do classes there. Okay. I met you in Dallas. Caroline. Okay, is that the Arlington show? Cuz we did that one in Dallas. Um so many you guys. Just absolutely just the best memories. Just the absolute best memories. So fun. Just the nicest people that we met. And then we would always hire you know a local person to help out in the booth. And that was always really fun too. Just so many things. Um okay how many of you saw Georgia when you were at a show? Because Georgia also traveled a lot. She traveled a lot with Joel and Phil and Kendra. She was she was awesome on the road. She taught classes and did demos. And wow did we ever love having her as part of the team. She was so good. Um okay you guys. Did you go to Stamp Away in Cincinnati? Yep. Sure did. Went to Stamp Away. Yes. Oh man. Those memories. How in the heck did we ever do that? I don't know. I think about now. Like literally you know cleaning the kitchen and you know, picking up and I'm just shocked. I have to go sit down for 10 minutes. So, I don't know how I ever do. I ever did that. You know, the adrenaline gets going and you just have so much fun and then we got so much positive feedback from everyone and you know, we have such good memories. I mean, some, you know, some of the best times. Just traveling that without. Stamp away is bought my first stamps. Okay Siska. Oh how fun. How fun. Okay, Ruth Ann says she met Georgia at the warehouse sale. Okay. Yeah. Georgia is an amazing teacher and I don't know if you guys knew this but Georgia used to own a stamp store in California. So, she has been in this industry a long, long time and she is super super talented, just all around talented. Caroline, love Georgia and Kendra. Yup. They travel together. You know, it just it was such good memories. Alright, you guys. Let's get to our project. Um I'm going to switch my camera around. And this is the project that we did yesterday. So if you were not with us yesterday just check out this tutorial from from yesterday. And here is the actual set. So let me just show you. This is the release. This is the actual farmhouse set. And it is from let me show you. It is from the 97 catalog and it is there's the Skew 12 seventeen. That is the farmhouse that I have that has inspired the new farmhouse So, you can see, it's changed quite a bit from this to this but mostly, it's is that it's cleaned up. It's cleaned up. The lines are removed and we put those back in later because of too much color. So, the color comes from the lines and we get too many lines like this. This would all just be a muddy pool of color. So, it doesn't, you know, the technique that we have now, it just does not work with this. Um however, you still can stamp these in black ink, in permanent black ink, and then add color to it. You can still do it that way. That's how we used to do it. Stamp this in permanent ink and then add the color to it later. So, we change a little bit since then. So, this is it. It comes with, this is all one stamp. Now, you know, keep in mind that you can always leave things off. So, when you go to ink it, you can leave things off of here. You don't have to use the fence or you can use the fence with something else in the foreground. Um you can leave the clothesline off. You know, you can leave the tree off. You can leave the porch off really and you know, there's ways to make it more versatile. So this is all one big giant stamp right here. So, it all comes together and we did this project. kind of a summer project. Um so that you can see the basic use for it. Which is you know something like this. The little clothesline going and we did we did this project. Um yesterday. So check that out. With that you get these little chickens. So this little set of chickens. Uh this comes as a free gift with that. So if you purchase that throw a farmhouse you will get little chicken, these little chickens. And they're so cute. These are all rubber by the way. Just FYI. These are all rubber. This is the promotion one that we have brought back this time. Um this is part of the you know collector's guide. So we bring these back once a month for all of you who collect these. These were never on sale. So they were never available to the public as a purchase. They were a free gift with a purchase. So these all were just giveaways. And we had them for a limited time. And then they were discontinued. So, we're bringing them back as a throwback. Um exactly the way that they were when we released them. So you can get these for the three days that you can get the throwback. So, to see them all, go to Art Impressions. com at the very top where it says get inspired. Click that and you'll see the collector's guide and you can see them all on there. Everything that's an exclusive is on that page. So, you'll be able to see that. Alright. So, yesterday, I showed you two other examples besides this one and they the Christmas. This is the Christmas one that we're going to be doing today. And then this other variation of it. So the Halloween version. And I am so shocked. I said you know what? You guys give me such great comments about this Halloween version. That I said okay you guys vote and tell me which one you want to see tomorrow. So you know this is the one that we're doing. But it was so close. You guys I'm so shocked that you guys love this so much. So what I'm going to do before we get to our project the Christmas one is I'm going to show you what I used in here. And how I put this together because I know there were so many of you who love this and wanted me to do this for the tutorial today. So let me just show you the sets that I used and what I used in it. So, first of all, the pumpkins across the front are from this set. This is the harvest set and these are the two pumpkins that I use. There are pumpkins and other sets as well but these are the ones that I use. This is also a really good little scrappy, you know, branchy thing that you could put into the background. It would be back in here. I didn't use it in this one but you for sure could. This would be such a great one to use with this whole theme of you know, overgrown, dried up grass and stuff. Okay, so those are the pumpkins that I use. Um the branches. So, the one, this one comes with the tree. So, you can see the tree comes with part of this set but I added some dried branches to it and so I added them from here but you could also add em from here and you could use this one on the side. So, if you don't have this particular one right here, this curly cue which I'll show you Um you can use any of these branches and add more scraggly trees next to the little structure right here, okay? So, anything out of this set is going to be great. I also used it here in the front. You know, where I kind of grew some dead vines across here and then I added a few little you know, leaves in here. Just some dried leaves with some browns. Okay, so there's one. Here's that little branchy thing that I used. And I used you know one on each side. I just added one to the tree over here on this side. And then I added one over here on this side. So these are super easy to use. And you know it just it's you know you if even if you just have these and you don't have the branches or the branches and don't have these. Basically what you're doing is you're getting these you know kind of gnarly trees and scrubby brushes in the background. So that's that's really it. So if you don't have this, don't worry. You can use your your branches and whatnot but that's what I used back here on these two, okay? And then, I use the little spiders from here. So, this little spider right here is from this set and this is from the Halloween accessory set and I also use the little bat right here. So, this little bat right here and you can see em right up here too and that's really, those are the only sets that I really used besides. Um I did use this one to add the little leaves and things you know to it. So you can see if you zoom in close. Let me just zoom in really close here. So you can kind of get a close up. And you guys take a screenshot. If you really want to make this take a screenshot because you can figure it out. You'll be able to see exactly what I did here. Um you can see the branches in here. I stamp those in. You can see the tall kind of taller scraggly grasses. Which are these. These right here. So I use the tops of and I use these in here and you can see those kind of scraggly brushy things in here and I just used I used an olive green. Um I used some browns in the in the in the grassy area. It really doesn't matter what kind of what you put in here. But it's pretty, you know, just just keep it loose. Just put a little bit of color and don't worry about it. This doesn't all have to be color in solid. Is I guess what I'm saying. Um you know, it just don't don't overthink this kind of thing. Just get a little bit of color in here and there and you get the idea. You know, you don't have to you know, color it in like from, you know, edge to edge, I guess is what I'm saying and you can see here, here's that, here's that little branch again. Here's the tall grasses back here. Here's the branch again. Um twice. Um I believe it's right here too. You can kind of you can recognize these shapes a little bit. Here it is here and then, all it is is a branch and a few tiny little leaves on it. It's it's just really really simple. So, here's the here's the freehand and the freehand is just So here, this one. What I did was I drew four tiny little triangles. Just right across here. Just four little triangles. And then I just made a straight line and I used my bullet tip of my brown marker. So this one, the brown marker. So, this is the 969 brown marker. So, the bullet tip and I just drew these four lines right here. Just straight down and then two smaller ones across this way. Just two ones crossed that way. And then I went over it on one side with the black. To really give it that dark look. And then I hit it with my white paint. Just to give it a so it makes it look a little shinier. If you hit it with that white paint because it gives it a a highlight. Gives it a highlight. And then the faces on the pumpkins. I mean you could just put whatever face you want on it. These are the easiest faces to make. Honestly. Three little triangles. Little tiny triangles. And then a big mouth You know, like this and then, get your white paint and make these little teeth and I just think they are just hilarious. I'm absolutely, you know, obsessed with these pumpkins. I don't think I can make em another way. I just, I love them so much and putting these little white teeth on em, I think is so hilarious and I just, I had so much fun making it. So, I put five across here but you literally, you could put as many as you want. You could put one up on top of the fence too. Up here. That would be really and if you if you want to don't be afraid to hand draw one. You can draw a smaller, literally they're ovals. They're just ovals and you could put a little face on it and a little, you know, stem on it up here and you could put one back in here too. So, you could put, you could put one here on this railing. That would be really cute too. And I just, I just did a cobweb. You know, I just added these cobwebs and you guys, cobwebs are the easiest thing to do. If you just, if you just remember one thing with these, you need a you need a you know, they need to be grounded onto something. You know, so they have to attach to something Um so, the ground, you know, I've got them attached to the ground. I've got it attached to here. I've got it attached to the fence and to the pumpkin, okay? And so they're all kind of coming from this point right here. So, they're coming out this way, this way, this way and think about, if you were to take this little focal point right here and pull it, what direction would these go. Okay? They're going to they're going to go this way, right? Because if they're straight and you're going to pull it, you're going to pull this from the middle here and they're going to have this kind of an arc and that's really the important thing. You can't have the art go the other way. You can't have it go this direction. It's got to go this way and think about it as it's being pulled. Look at this one over here. Here's a here's that anchor point right here. These are all coming out and if you were to take the anchor point and pull it, you would get arc right here. And that's the biggest thing. That that's the biggest thing when you're making a web. So you like this one too. It's kind of anchored to the house and to the ground and to this and that. You know and then you're going to if you pull that you're going to see that it's going to pull this whole thing. This web. And the and the arc is going to be going this direction. Okay? Now it's different if you have something like this. And you have an opening Let zoom in. And you have an opening like this where you're putting this web. So you can see all these little anchor points right here. Onto here. That means that the center, this is in the center. So you still want to kind of look at it like that. Like everything is pulling to the center. And so this is going to still come in like this. Okay? It's still all pulling to this direction. So that this is where the this is where the center would be. And then here's how that curve would be. So it's really important to get that curve into the like this and make sure that it's attached to something. It's gotta be attached to something. See this one here? Here's that here's that anchor point right here. Now, you could make one with the center here and you can anchor it here, here, here, here, here, here and you can have the center. It would be the same. Same as this. You just want to make sure that your your art, your your arcs. That's the biggest thing and there's just a there's so simple to make and they're really cute and I just use my I just use my twin tone, my brown, the the tiny end. So, the tiniest end and just did it like that it's just it's so easy to do. You could put a few little highlights on it too on the web with your white paint. I didn't do that on mine but you could for sure do that. You know, like it's kind of catching, catching the light, alright? So, let me zoom out now. Um whoops, wow, that's too far. Okay, so right about there. So, that's really it. I I mean I added you know, some wet. Let me zoom in again. So, we're going to be making, we're going to be making some shutters, you know, on this project today and basically It's it's too you know it's too horizontal or too lines that are right next to this vertical lines right next to the window. So I'll show you how to do that. The difference is is I made this one at an angle. So, it's kind of falling off the house. This one too. It's just kind of falling. It's just leaning. So, think about that. It's just leaning to the side and you can make that so easily, so easy and then this, I just, I just put two pieces of wood, just drew in two long rectangles right over the top of the window. Super easy and we know how to do this, you guys. We just darken in these little cracks. Once you make your lines in here, you make a little a little triangle and just darken that in and now you've got wood that's kind of kind of you can kind of see through. Okay, how'd you make the moon? Okay. No, I didn't mask it. So, what I did was put this in first. Put this in first before I added all these little branches and so, you know, when I what I mean first is, I did it after I stamped the basic image which has the tree in it, okay? But the tree branches are pretty, let me show you Um see they're they're pretty short. See how short these tree branches are? I was able to go in there with my yellow. Just fine. But I did it before I put all these spiky branches in. So you want to do that after. And I used a circle dye. Um let me tell you how big it is. How big that that is. So it is it's one and a quarter inches. Is how big that is. And I just kind of put it right in here next to the house. And like I said I colored that. It's it's probably a combination of orange and yellow. And then I all those little, you know, brushy trees in. Okay. Uh Bonnie, your pumpkins are the best of anyone. I love them. I, Tina, I am like literally obsessed with these things. I look forward to Halloween. Honestly, so I can make the pumpkins which is one of the huge reasons why I made this project. Cuz I can fit five of them right here, right in the front, right in the front. I just, I think they're just so happy. They're just the happiest. Elaine says Halloween will always be my favorite holiday. My family really doesn't do Christmas. You know what, Elaine? I have such fun memories of Halloween when I was a kid, you know, getting my giant bag and filling it up with candy and I just, it's just so much fun. Um for me too and I know a lot of people don't really celebrate Halloween and that's why I was so surprised that so many of you really like this but you can easily and we we talked about this yesterday. You can easily just make this fall. So, you could put your pumpkins in the front. Maybe you got your white ones and your blue ones and your orange ones and you put those along the front and then, you've got your big tree that you could just do your your fall tree. So, your reds and oranges and browns in your tree. You could have all kinds of foliage. There are some great fall tutorial s from last year on here that you can check out on how to make a fall tree, how to make fall foliage, and you could just put that all around here. Be so cute and then your your house, you could just make it white with maybe brown shutters or something like that Oh my gosh, Patricia. Okay, I also went with a pillowcase and stayed out late. That is so funny. My mom allowed it too. She had no idea. I stayed out till like 11 o'clock at night until I had that thing filled to the top and I drag it, literally drag it home. So, that is so funny. I tried to find the biggest pillowcase I could find and I just went off on my own and I just went all over. I mean, literally, it feels like I went miles. I'm sure I didn't go miles but I was out for hours. Absolute hours. My favorite unseen. Diane is the one who looks like it's singing. That's true. Oh my word. How hilarious. Yes. It does look like it's singing, doesn't. I assume you're talking about this one right here. It does look like it's singing. How funny. Um anyway, you guys, this was a this is one of the funniest things I've ever done. Okay, so now, here, on the roof, let's just, let me just tell you this really quick. So, I know so many of you wanted this project. It was so close, you guys. The voting. Um I in these straight lines first. So, when I I colored this roof in, I put in these straight lines like this and I just did it with my twin tone and then, I came through and I just kind of made these little square, kind of like U shapes like this. Don't make em all the same. Just kind of wonky, you know, just like this. Some of them a little bit longer. Some of them shorter. Just like a U shape. You know, just go in this direction as you're going and then, some of em you could make it extra line like it's cracked. Um this one up here, I just made that little triangle. So, it looks like it's broken out. This one too, looks like it's broken out. So, you're just trying to make something look kind of old and rustic but these little roofs, they're so easy to do and I really can't put them in the design. I can't make them part of the stamp because it's too much color and you really want to get that 3D look by doing it this way. So, if you want to put in this wonky roof, you can easily do it just have to do it with your marker. You can do it with your bullet tip Um marker too. And then the details in the door. I just put these little hinges in. Just literally just nothing to that. Put some details in the door. Stripes you guys. Stripes. So I hope you guys have an idea of how this came together. But honestly if you just break it down into sections. Let me tell you I used the purple on the the six thirty-six and I also use the dusty, kind of that dusty purple and Leah, if you're on, would you, would you comment the number of that pin? It's a, it's kind of a, it's a kind of a desaturated purple. So, it's, it's more of a dusty purple. That's kind of what I would call it. And I use that too, in here. And I drag out some of this brown to kind of muddy it up a little bit because I don't want it to be super bright. And then this, okay, let me just show you this thing too. So, I made a new window. I just made a square and put a little little window treatment underneath and then, I just literally, this is a U, a U, an upside down U, U shape. Like literally, that's all it, that's it and then, I colored in this dark blue behind and the dark blue in the windows is the five sixty-five. So, this one right here. That's in all the windows. That's this dark blue. And then, I just put the eyeballs in a little on it. Um six two three possibly not you know what? I'm not sure. I'm not sure if it's six two three or six oh three. But it's it's got a it's got a purple cap on it and it's a it's like a dusty. If you have either they they're probably fine. Basically what it is is it sort of takes the brightness out of this purple. Cuz this purple is really really bright. And it kind of tones it down. You could add a little brown to it as well. And it just tones it down a little bit. And you can see I have some different variations of color here too. So it kind of looks like it's not all just freshly painted I think that's I think that's pretty much it. Most of it, it really is a little freehand but it's super easy freehand and you know, the sets that I use, not very many sets. So, probably things that you guys have in your stash or that you could substitute. Penny says, pillowcase here too. Yes. Oh my word. That's so funny. Julie says, same here. Then, I had to hide it from my dad and brother because they would eat my candy. Okay, I never had that problem. Nobody ever tried to eat my candy. I mean, I'm embarrassed to say, I ate it all myself and we used to, I used to put it in lunch and take it to to my lunch for I don't know weeks and weeks after that. I think it probably is that purple sage. I'm guessing that's it because sage sounds like what it is. Um that's probably it. So, if you guys have that color, that's what I used. Really pretty much and then this is the warm brown and and mixed with this one. So, these are the two browns, the nine sixty-nine, 947. This is more of the roof is more of this color. The nine sixty-nine. This has more green in it. So, that is probably the roof color. I, you know what? When I get on stuff onto my palette, so many times, things get mixed up and you know, I just I'm not really sure what what colors I use. So, alright you guys. Let's get, okay, enough with this one. Let's get onto our project for today. And it is the Christmas one which is also just so cute. So, This is the one that we're doing. Super simple. I mean, literally, I think I have three stamps that I'm using with this in addition to the the basic image from here. So, let me tell you what those are. Um the little vine, this is such a great one to use. These two little vines that are they kind of go to the left and right. So, that's the one and I I believe I'm using the one that curves two two the left. So, this one right here but it's your preference. It it really it doesn't matter which one you use. Um that's the one I'm using that's going to go on the fence like this and then the tree. So we're using this tree from the tree set. But if you don't have this one, there are and you could use these two. You can use a small one. So, there are small ones in other sets. You can use those and you just just continue. So, you're going to stamp it and you're just going to continue stamping it all the way down until you have it as big as you want and then you can kind of swing your stamp out to the side. Alright and this one. So, this tiny little foliage, we used this yesterday Um there is a drawing on the Halloween house and the Christmas one. So, if you are just set on that Halloween house, be sure to put that on the comments. If you weren't, if you get picked, if you have a preference. Carmen, okay. Thanks for joining us. We'll see you. We'll see you on the replay for sure. Um okay. Alright. So, here is this one. This is the one that we're using right here and that's that's literally it. Um other than the white paint that we're using, alright? So, I went ahead and stamp this and you can see from here, I made a few little changes. So, here is the original and I will show you guys as soon as I find that packaging. Here it is. So, here is here's the original. So, I I didn't ink the clothesline. So, that's one big thing that's missing and I didn't ink this little pot that's hanging on the on the porch. So, I took those two things off. Everything else is going to be the same. It's just going to be the same. Just like this, Alright? So, let's let's get to it. Let me see if I can. Keep this in here. I should've trimmed that down a little bit. Maybe we'll just go like this. Alright, I think I can keep most of this into the seam so you can see Um thank you Leah. Yep. Thank you. Leah to the rescue. I can't tell you how many things she has memorized. She probably didn't even have to look at those pens pen colors. She has so many skews and we have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of skews. And she she is a numbers wiz. She really is. Amongst her other many talents. Tell you. Um okay. Free. I think I remember a small freebie stamp from a few few years ago of a garland. Yep. You do remember correct Could that be used on the fence? Absolutely, Diana. If you have that garland and did I, did I bring it back in a throwback, you guys? I've just, I'm, I'm drawn a blank here but I feel that little garden, garland was from years and years and years and years ago. Um it's just a really cute little stamp. It's it's just an arc. So, it was a little foliage that just was an arc like this and I feel like I brought that back in a throwback but it's been, it was probably early last year or maybe maybe the year before. So, if you have that, you can absolutely use that on your fence for sure. That would just be perfect. It was brought. Okay, Cisco, it was brought back with a throwback. Okay, that's what I thought. So, if you have that throwback and you have that little garland, you can use that on here. It's it's such a great little stamp. It really is. You could put it under your windows too which would be really cute or you can hang it from up here. Onto your your little overhang here. I think it was a freebie and a Christmas throwback. Mm hmm. That could be. You could use half of a wreath. Yep, you sure could. Yes, that's a great idea. You know what, Julie, why didn't I think of that? You absolutely could. From last year, that little set from last year that had the two little reeds in it. Yup, that would be really, really cute. Yeah, you guys. Great job. Okay. When the memory fails, I know I can just, I can just call on you guys Okay here we go. So the first thing we're going to do, you know, of course, is pull the color out of the line. So, again, stamp this off twice. This is rubber. So, you know, when you ink this in the two colors. So, the two colors Um 565 and not this one. And the nine sixty-nine. So this one. These two. Blue first and then brown right over the top. Stamp it off twice. At least twice. And then when you go to stamp it onto your canvas. Always make sure you're not just mashing it into your paper. You want to just a light press. Just a light press. So that you get the lines the way that they're meant to be used. So the lines are really thin. And they're because that's the amount of color that comes out. So, we don't want, we never want too many, too many lines in here, too much color. So, when you stamp it really, really hard, you get those lines really thick and we don't, we're just going to get an outline then. So, just kind of keep that in mind when you are stamping these things that it's you're putting your hand close to the paper. You know, your your hand is almost right onto the paper and then you're pressing, pressing, pressing. So, you're not from up here. And stamping. You know, like this, like this motion. So, not like that. So, it is a little different. It's stamping but it is a little bit different. Okay so we're going to start out just by pulling a little colour out of the lines and mostly, everything is white. So, we don't have to do too much with that and you know, there's not going to be a ton of color in here because I've stamped it off. So, I can just pull a little bit of this out across here. Down in here. And then a little bit under these windows. You know, when we get to the fencing, we'll put in those shadows once we get the little the little garland on there, alright? So, that's all we really have to do right now. So, let's let's add, let's see, what shall we do first? I think we should do the the sky first. Let's get the sky in because we need to be able to get our snow into the tree and then these trees that we're putting in on the side, we don't want to have to mess with that blue once we get our trees in and have to work around those things. So, let's just get, let's get the sky in. So, it's going to be this five sixty-five and let me just put this on my palette. And this is five sixty-five. Make sure you have enough water. Look how much water I have on my palate. Make sure you have enough water when you go to put this on because you really want this to but you want to be able to kind of spread this around. Without getting brush lines. That's really what we don't want. Our you know dry brush lines. Where there hasn't you know there isn't enough water on there. So you're seeing those marks. And this is this is really kind of the look that we want here. Kinda this watered down version and some of it will be lighter and some of it will be darker. And that's okay. It's totally fine to do it that way. And you don't have to come all the way down. I mean just probably a little bit to here is going to be just fine. And then we just want to go into this area where the tree. The tree branches are. And just kind of get this blue down in here. So, when we go to put in those branches and the snow, we can see that in the blue. So, we do have to get a little bit of color in there behind the trees so that we can see the snow on the branches. Let's go down here just a little bit more. Okay, so now, that is done And now we can kind of go on from here. Alright. So, let's put in, let's just start from the top here and let's put in the lines, you know, they go across here. So, let me get my pencil and my ruler. And we're just going to go across here like this. So, we're going to start here and you can make these, you know, narrow or you know, however wide. So, on the last one, I think we made them pretty wide but we can come down. Let me show you what it looks like when they're just a little bit narrower. So, just you know, your preference Oops went a little far on that one. That's why the eraser is just, it's so great And you know if they're a little off or not quite straight or even. well, that's okay. And again, the eraser, the eraser. You can go through and erase it and change it if you want to. Alright, so now, let's go in here and add some color to this part of the of the house and we're going to do that with the light brown. So, the nine4seven. So, let me get this back in here. 947. And we'll just brush this color onto this part of the house. And you can you know make this any colour that you want. You know, I just made it brown but you can, like I said, you can just choose any color that you want for this. There's no, there's no set way you have to do it. And just kind of brush it in just like that Good enough and then, we're going to put a little shadow just right under it. So, right under here and that will just kind of bring it forward. And we might go in and just do a little dark one once that dries Okay, let's go ahead and do the the insides of the windows. So, in here, you can change this up. Now, I made these little window panes blue but if you want to, you can make em yellow. I mean, it's so snowy outside or you can make a couple of em yellow. And you know, kids just look so welcoming to just come on in. Okay. And then I just left this window off. So, I just, I made this big red door and I just colored right over the top of that little window. So, let's just do it that way. But you could also just color that window in. And that would be totally fine. Okay. So, now, let's put our shutters in and I left them off the top one just to show you that you don't have to do them on all of your windows. You could just do them. You could do them just on a couple if you want to and here's here's how you do it. You're just going to draw a line next to the window. And another one just like that. So, two lines and then, do the same over here And if you want to use your ruler, you know, you can do that. And then one Over here. So, let's just do all three of these and then just draw a line across Just like this. And if you were going to do that Halloween you know picture you could just angle it. So you're just going to make your line come out here and just do it like this. You know what? Let me just show you guys. So you're just you're going to just make your your line your angle. See it like this. And it would just come off. And it looks like the the the little shutter is just hanging off the window just like that. It's like nothing to it. And if you don't get it right the first time just erase it and just do it again. Okay? This one looks a little wonky here. So, let's just redo this one. Um and we got our little shutters in. Okay so now let's do let's do that little chimney. And this little that leather little chimney too. So let's do this this colour. And we're going to just take a little of this blue and add it to here. So get a little more of a gray. And we'll color that little chimney in like that. And this one. And I was going to make that red and then I sure didn't. So you know what? You can make it red if you want to. Um I just totally space that. Alright. So now we're going to take some of this brown and some of this brown and let's just put a little colour into our tree. I want to make this pretty light. Um because you're you're kind of given the impression that it's cold and icy out. So things are not like super dark colors. Um just kind of make it look like that tree is just really icy and cold. And we can also you know, extend some of these branches out you know, if you want to and just kind of elongate these a little bit. And just bring those out. Be brave, you guys. Be brave. Okay, let's do the shutters. And we're going to do them in the green. So, the 249 green. So this is two forty-nine. And we're just going to brush this on. Like just brush it on. Like so. Okay. So, got that done. Um let's do just a little darker shadow under here. I feel like we just need that little darker shadow and same here and then, let's put in the snowy the snowy roof. So, here, we're going to add this part of the roof. We're going to add the snow with the white paint but over on this side, we're going to just make that bank that's literally right up here on the roof and that's going to lift that up. See how that just creates that snowy bank right here Same with this one. So, we're just going to make this blue line right here and now, we've got a snowy roof on there. And let's just do this little brown section right here. Onto here. And this one this one is going to kind of stay white up here. But we do need to put that shadow in. So we're going to just brush this this big shadow that goes right next to this line right here. So you want to make sure we get that in there really dark. And that just does not just change everything. Just these little tiny things make such a difference. So, I'm just going to turn this now and just put a small one over on this side. Okay Now, let's get Let's get a little more green on those shutters. I feel like we need to just hit these with a little more green and just a little darker. Ruth Ann, you make painting these so possible. Oh, you guys. I just, I'm so impressed with your work. It it just, it's so fun to see how you are just progressing. You know, a little bit of practice and you just, you're artists, your water, watercolor ists. In every sense of the word, Okay, so now, once we've got this done, let's get that door. Let's paint that little door and we're just going to use the red and I have, what red do I have? I have the eight fifty-six red which is just a great color. Doesn't matter which red you use. And then we're just going to brush this on. I'm brushing it clear right through this window here. And it'll just kind of wash out. And then we'll just go over it one One more time. And we've got our just cute little red door which is just so cute. Okay, so now, let's put some detail into the little shutters. So, I'm just going to use my, maybe I'll just use my little brush here. Use my little number one And just put in these little details. You get the idea. You know, that's why it's so, it's it's so forgiving and you know, not it doesn't have to be perfect because you get, it's just the idea of things. It's the idea and you can see that clearly these are shutters and they have a little detail in em. And that's it. Okay. Let's put just a little bit of this brown next to the door here just a little bit. And I'm just going to come in with my twin tone and just darken this this little door handle. Like so. And get that dark darker up there. Okay, guys. Coming together. Alright. So, now, I'm going to add a little blue to the side of this house just a little bit because we just, it's it's in the shadow. So, I'm just going to draw, you know, draw a little bit of a blue line along the side. Pinch my brush off and just kind of drag it over. And then, you know, take a little bit of this color, you know, a little bit that's from the windows and just drag a little bit of it over. And kind of just muddy it, muddy it up a little bit. And then let's just go under here and make this just a little bit darker. And then we need this dark line underneath here also. But we're going to do the little wreath first. So this can be either a little wreath or a tree. Just depending on how you want to want to make it. Because so small in that area. And basically what we're doing is we're taking this section. We're making that a window. So right here this whole little square. We're just making that a window. And we're putting in a wreath or the tree, however you want to do it. So, we're taking this tiny little foliage like this. This little one. And let me move this out of the way. Cuz I'm going to be spinning my paper around. So you're going to have to just spin it so that you can get a good position. So, I'm making it with the two forty-nine. So, this is the two forty-nine and I'm just going to just kind of spin it in a circle. So, I'll start over here. And I'll just ink it again. And I'll just kind of go around in a circle. It's a tiny little area but you can fit this in there. And it's just it's so cute. So you can see how you could easily make it a tree and you could just even use that little Christmas tree and just stamp it, you know, right inside. Alright so now We're going to add some water to it and just kind of blend it out. And then we're going to add some blue around it. So, I'm going to take my bring my palette back and I'm going to take some of this blue and just kind of blend it out in here. Just kind of fill in around like this little window. And it will it will kind of bleed into that blue. And that's that's okay. We kind of want that. And then this down here we're going to add the railing into the into the porch. So we want to have color down there too. So, just kind of let that just bleed out into here. And then if you want to make this a wreath you just we're going to just make that. In fact we'll just do that one on this one. So this one I didn't put the centre in it. I just kind of made it look like a little Christmas tree in there. But let's do it with a wreath. As a wreath. And we'll just make us little circle in here and we add the white paint and I'll show you how to do that. And then you can add you know some little red balls like this. And then maybe some Let's see what other colors. Maybe some blue. And they're, you know, they're inside the room. So, they're they're kind of, you know, they're kind of muted You know the colors are kind of muted so it's like it's just the kind of the idea of it. That's inside. Especially if it's inside the glass. Okay I hope you guys can see that okay. Alright, let's keep going here. So, we're going to put our trees in now and we're going to do that with our little this little Christmas tree. This little fir tree. And we don't need the the trunk. So, we're not going to ink that. We're going to use this this green. Again. And we're going to put this right next to the house. So it's going to it's going to go kind of right in this area right here. So, we're going to ink this up and we're going to start out, you know, up high, a little bit higher. So, it's going to, it's going to be kind of a good-sized tree. So, we'll start out here and we'll come down and then, we're going to ink it again, just the bottom. Just the bottom of the tree. So we can kind of come down to the bottom. And then just swing it out a little bit. Just like this. Just going to swing that tree out. And then we'll just clean that off. You know with the baby wipe. Just wipe that off. And then we're only going to ink about oh probably two thirds of the tree and we're going to do a smaller tree over on this side. And then we'll get that again and we'll kind of swing it out a little bit. And then we'll do another one. Kinda same size. And we'll do it over here. And you can add, let's do, let's do one little one over here too. So, we can add. So, you can see these trees are just, they're so easy to do and the, you know, the more that you swing it out. So, here's what I mean by swinging it out. You can just add, you know, a little bit more to the side, you know, as you kind of turn the tree. And then we might as well just put in our little foliage that we have here. And I'm just using that other green. And we're using this little foliage again. And we're just going to stamp it in here like a little bush. Kind of right next to the house. And then we'll just get a few kind of down here down in the bottom Okay, now we can add the water to these. And you just kind of go section by section with these little trees. I'm going to zoom in. I'm going to zoom in here so you can see. Um you're adding the water to it and you're kind of adding it, you know, like the the kind of like the tree, the shape of the tree. So, start out on the top, you know, really small and then, just kind of, you know, bring these little branches out. And this one is, you know, in front of this tree. It's going to be in front of this tree but you can see that it doesn't completely cover that tree but the white paint will. The white paint will. When we a white paint on here. It just literally covers everything. And then this little hedge. We can mix some of this green into it. It's just kind of growing right here. And this one. Front of that little porch. And they just you know start at the top and just kind of let your hand just kind of go to each branch. Just dab. Just dab it. And you can drag these branches out a little bit farther. These are just the absolute funnest things to make. And they they make the cutest, most beautiful Christmas cards. Watercolor. Just these snowy trees. Just put a snowy tree on a card and somebody will just love it. So now, I brought some of these branches forward. You see how it looks like the tree branches are coming forward. So, it's not just flat. It's not a flat tree with branches that going side to side. It's rounded and these branches come forward. And then this little one back in here. Also. Okay. So we've got those in. And you know this is this is how they look. Like there's just there's it's it's pretty hard to mess it up. Honestly. These trees. They they kind of look like you know they don't have a lot of definition but you know we get that snow on them. They're just they're so beautiful. Okay so now let's get our our little garland on here onto the fence. And I'm just you know laying this on here. Like this is a big you know bush that was kind of growing over the fence and now it's all snowed over. Okay so we're going to use same green. So the two forty-9. Imma kind of turn my paper And this has a bit of a an arch to it too. So we're going to just bring this down. We're going to kind of grow it up like this and we're going to bring it down onto the fence. Like some of these little branches are coming down like this. And you know this one might come over. And then this one. You, you know, don't worry about, you know, getting it exactly in the right place. It just really doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Just get it, get it on here and then, just get a few of these little branches kind of hanging down. You know, like they're, they're kind of hanging down from the weight of the snow. The snow is on em and they're just kind of falling down. Let me just turn this one a little bit. And then maybe we've just got a few up here. Okay. And that's all we have to do with that. So we're going to add water to this now. And we're going to do the same way. Just dab Just dab and let it just kind of all blend together. So, really, really lightly. Remember, you're only inking the tip of your brush. So, you don't want to get too much water on here. And just let that kind of hang down Okay? That would be cute just by itself. You know, for a summer one. I mean, not the trees in the background necessarily but this little fence and you could have some little flowers just kind of hanging down off of this. That'd be so cute. And now we want to get a shadow on here. So we're going to use that blue Let's get our pellet back in here. You know what? Let's just turn it like this. So, we're going to take some of this blue and we're just going to go alongside some of these little fences. And this one is kind of it's kind of broken so we can see a little bit more in that one. And this one now we're showing the side, the other side. And again in here this is kind of broken out. And I would just put a little, you know, a few little lines in here and in here also. So, let's just put let's make this a little kind of a blue in here. And then we'll hit this with a shadow. And then I'll just make a little shadow. Can I a little snowy shadow coming down? And then this one will kind of come out like this. So we'll see that little snowy path. Okay. I think. Are we ready to do the snow? I think we are. I think we're ready for the snow. Is there anything I missed you guys? Trees are beautiful. Lisa, I, they are, they're just, this absolute snowy trees. It's just so quiet. It and you know, when you're walking out in the snow, it's just, it's so quiet. Just like, so peaceful. Alright, so let me move this out of the way now and let's get the white paint and we're going to we're going to finish this up and put all the fun stuff in. Okay, so I've got my white paint. You guys, my magic paint, Doctor PH Martin's Bleed Proof White. We can't do a Christmas project without it. I mean, we can but it would not be the same. Okay, so I'm going to use my larger brush and I'm going to just get this in here. And I'm added just a little bit of water on my brush. So that I can just kind of mix this paint up a little bit. It's pretty thick in the jar and so you do need to kind of add a little water to it when you use it. Um not too much. Um because you don't it it'll you'll start to see through it. So that's how you'll know. Is you can see the green coming through, you've got a little too much water and just go over it again. Just paint right over it. Dries pretty fast. Okay so I just kind of bring it over to the edge like this. And then we can start out on our trees. And I'm going to let's zoom in. And we're going to just start out over here. And we're going to just think about kind of how these how the snow kind of lays on the tree. You know on these little branches. Just kind of bring it down like this. Don't stress out about it. And these branches that just kind of come forward. Think about that. Snow is just laying on the top of those branches. It's just laying right on the top. And then this one. Same. Just kind of put that snow just right on the top of those trees. And then this little hedge you know, the the snow is just kind of laying right on the top of it here. So, it can just, it can just look like that. Same with this one just right on the top. And let's go over to these trees. We're going to do the same thing here And just just lay that white paint right down on top. You know, when you make these separate little mounds, that's just another branch. That just shows that there's another branch coming out and it's sitting on top of that branch. And same as this down here when it comes down here. Like this. And this one just doesn't need a lot. It's kind of in the background. How cute that is. Just so cute. So, now, let's do these in front and the same thing. So, when you see a branch like this coming forward, just put that paint, you know, on it just like this. You know, like it's just coming forward. It's just laying right on the top. And this one too. It's just laying right on the top and then, these over here, you know, it's laying on the top of these two. And just look at, kind of look at each branch. You know, how's it laying? What would the, if the, if somebody dumped some white paint on it, what would it look like? And then don't don't overthink it. Okay? That's it. That's all we have to do. If you see some areas. So here's what I mean by if your paint is a little too thin. You you're going to see through it a little bit. Just go over it again. Just add a little more white paint to it Cuz you shouldn't be able to see through it at all. And all of these down here Okay. That is just exactly how we want it. So now I'm going to just put some more white on my brush. Or some more water on my brush. Cuz I want this a little thinner. When we do this part of the roof. So I want to be able to get a good brush stroke on here. So I'm just kind of mixing this up with my brush. You can see how much paint I have on my brush. And that's that's about the consistency right there that that we want. You can kind of just you know get it off like this. So, let me zoom out a little bit now. Okay. So, we're going to draw, we're going to put a line right here along the side of this roof So, here's our here's our snowy line right here. We're just going to make this line that goes right along the side of the roof, right in front of that chimney. And then just come right down the other side. Like so. And make sure that's dark. Make sure that's dark enough. And here, you know, we can just kind of take out some of these some of these lines. You know, we don't want these really dark lines in here. You can leave a little bit but you don't want too much. And then let's just let's just make this snowy roof here We'll just add a little more of this. Snowy roof on here and then, let's just add some snow over these fences. So, it looks like they're just, they're sitting in a snow drift Okay, what else? Oh, we need to do that little When you do the little railing. But let's do the let's do the trees. Actually you know what? Let's switch to the small brush. So I'm going to clean this off really quick. And then we'll switch switch to the small brush. And get the snow on the branches. So, in here, you know, where this where this tree is. And it's just think about you know it's going to kind of just sit in these little these little pockets. Like so. And then of course we need our little snowflakes. And we're going to just they're going to just be coming down all over. So, in front, maybe of this little red door. Front of the shutters So cute, you guys. I'm thinking, I need to start Christmas shopping. I mean, you know, we might as well say it's here. It's coming so fast. So, I'm going to just add a little highlight you know, to the side of this chimney to just give it a little highlight and then, just a little bit on the edge. Of the house. And then we want to put in the little railing. Let's get a little more paint here. So it's got that little railing. It's so cute. And let's do the little center in the wreath. And you guys, get your glitter out because putting the glitter is just, it's so cute. And let's just put a little shine on the windows Okay. So, I think what we need to do, the only thing we need to do is put a shadow underneath the snow and put our little red berries in. So, let's do the berries first. Make sure that all the snow is really dry. And we also need to put a a shadow Let me just grab my palette. We need to put a shadow under that or overhang. So, where the door in the front door. So, we're going to take a little bit of this blue. So this blue right here. We're going to take this and we're going to run a shadow right across that area here. And we're going to just darken this little opening a little bit. Okay. And it's good to put a little shadow Uh under the windows too. So now, we want to get this area up here under the eve. So, this right here, we want a little shadow under here so that we can see that that's a snowy look at look at the difference that made. Just kind of lift it. You can see that that's a snowy bank now on that on that roof. Alright, so let's put the little the little blue. So, we just want to and I'm just using the same blue. So, here's my palette right here. I'm just using the same blue and I'm just going underneath these little snowy areas on the trees and just putting a shadow in and you see the difference that that makes? It just kind of banks banks these up. It's the same same concept of when we put it on the roof. It just kind of creates a bank and makes it look a little more three dimensional. So you just hit it with that. A little blue. Look at that. Look at how that changed that. Just the little things and you don't have to you don't have to be careful about it. Just just kind of hit it all. You could use some of that green too. Now, let's put the detail in. I can see we didn't, I didn't put the detail into the side of the house and I did that on the other one. So, let's just put this in. You could do this in the beginning too because your tree is just going to cover up everything that you know has a line like this. So, I guess it would come down a little bit more like this and get all this detail in. Probably one more there. Okay. So, now we've got all that. Look how cute that is, you guys. That's so cute. Let's put a detail in the door. So, I'm just going to use my red, my bullet tip. This is the red that we used on the door. So, the eight fifty-six. Just going to put in This detail in the door and I'm going to put a little bit on my palette. So you put in these little berries in here. They're just kind of hanging down. And just put as many in of these as you as you want. Red is such a great accent color. When you've got mostly like these really pretty blues and whites. And then you add just this pop of red. It is just it's so cute. It's really Christmassy. Okay, so we'll just put a few little dots in here. And I think I think we might be finished. Alright so I need to sign this. So let me just kind of sign it right here. And make sure that we've got these dark areas, you know, in the fence and you could add more things, you know, on the bottom down here. You know, if you wanted to, you could add some grasses kind of growing up here or just You know, whatever details you want. Who suggested yesterday, a little sleeping fox? It was such a cute idea. Okay. I think, you guys, I think we're finished. Um don't forget to add your glitter to it. So, we have these little wink of Stella, this little Wink of Stella and they're little glitter brushes but you, you know, whatever glitter you have is going to work, Um be sure if you get one of these, you take this little ring out because I couldn't get mine to work and it's because I didn't I didn't take that ring out. So, take that out and then it just brushes on and it's got and I don't know if you can even see this on the camera but it just brushes on. Just this cute glittery finish. And it's not gritty at all. And so all these areas where you have all this snow You can just add all this sparkle to it. And it's water based so it will kind of blend your color too. And you just add as much of this as you want. So cute. So I don't know if you can even see that. If it's sparkling at all. Probably not. But it is so cute to add that. Alright. Um let me go over this one more time. So here is the Christmas one that we finished up. And you guys I will be giving away the Christmas one. I will give away the Halloween one. And the spring version. So this one that we did yesterday. Let me zoom out a little bit here. So there's so many there's so many ways that you can make this. And I I think the fall one. Now I wish I had time to do the fall one too. Um it would be just so cute. So you could do kind of a same version with the pumpkins except just don't put the faces on em and put them out in front of your house So here are the three that we made Well the two that we made. Um here are the three that you can make with this set. Um and these are the three that I'll be giving away. So if you have a preference to any of these be sure to say that on there. When Leah picks a winner. So she always does that. Here is the set. Here's the actual set and how it comes. Um it is good until Thursday. Um 11 59 PM Pacific Time. So, you guys, if you really must have this, which I mean, you just must have it. It's so cute. Get your order in right away. There there is limited supply. So, be sure to do that and then, with this, you will get this free set of these little chickens. So, this is our free gift to you for buying the throwback. You're going to get this and then, this is the little promo stamp that we are bringing back as a throwback. So, here is the little mouse and it is EF oh nine two four and this little guy is available on the website right now. So, here you go. This is it I'm going to switch my camera back. So, I can say so I can say hello, back hello again, and goodbye to you all. Okay, tell me your favorite. You guys, you gotta tell me your favorite. Um which one do you think that you would try first? You are so welcome, Erm. You do absolutely beautiful work too. So, I'm a huge admirer of you as well Irm is a wonderful artist. I just love seeing her posts. Marriette, I love them all. Anyone. Halloween. Okay. Spring with the clothes hanging. You guys. So fun to see your reactions. You know it's it's really fun to think of different ways and now, when I do these things, I immediately think of other seasons and how to use it because I want them to have lots and lots of possibilities. Um Okay, you guys. Thanks so much for hanging out with me today and yesterday. It's always fun to have it throwback in watercolor Wednesday next to each other. Um I will be back next week and I will see you guys all again. So, enjoy the rest of your day and I'll see you guys all next week.

SEPTEMBER THROWBACK 2024! | SEPTEMBER THROWBACK 2024! Throwback Farmhouse watercolor tutorial with Bonnie Krebs! | By Art Impressions Rubber Stamps | Halloween and I will doing be doing a project tomorrow on the same on the same set. So, let me switch back. So, I can say, So I can say hi and goodbye to all of you. Okay, you guys. What did you think of that? That was such a fun project. The summer one is so fun. The Christmas and the Halloween also are just they're absolutely just a blast to do. So, Mary Ann loves spending time with you. Love spending time with you guys. Especially just walking down memory lane. I'm going to be thinking about the sandpaper towels the rest of the day you guys. Um that was hilarious. So you guys thanks for joining me. Um you guys are just the best. You are so kind Tony. You are so welcome. Thanks for all the support you guys. Thanks for all the encouragement. I just love spending time with you. Um sure to put in the comments if you would like to win one of these.

Watercolor Wednesday | Watercolor Wednesday NEW 2024 FALL RELEASE! Foxes Set Watercolor tutorial with Kimberley! | By Art Impressions Rubber Stamps | Hello Hello, everybody. Happy Wednesday to our Art Impressions people. Is everybody having a good I can't talk, okay? Let's just start this back again. Oh, wait, it's live. And go back. I can't talk today, okay? Uh I have an excuse today. It's the first day back to school where we live. And wow. Has it just been a tornado of a morning? Okay. Two kids Two schools. Today actually usually they start at the same time which is hectic in its own way. But today we had late start for one of them. And so I'm just all over the place and can't put a sentence together. So it's good that I'm on live with you right now. So, hello everybody. Um I'm going to just check to make sure all of my comments are on. Let me know where you're watching from, what platform you're watching from. Um do we have any YouTube friends on today? Oh, I see one. Hello, Theresa. Hello, Facebook friends. I'm seeing your comments here. Hello, Tony and Ellen and Julie. Good morning to my people. Good morning Diana. Oh you're so sweet. Um it's great to have you on. Hello, Val. Okay, Val. I have to tell you. I was just in Edmonton. What was it? A week ago now? Um and it was just the best. I wanted to stop by the store. We just did not have a chance to do that but I thought about you and all of my Edmonton ladies. Um it was beautiful. We had a little bit of storminess and those of you who have been to Edmonton, Alberta know that they get really awesome storms in the summer time. And so we got to see one right before we left tons of lightning and thunder which was interesting right before you were taking off on a plane. But it was fine. We had a great flight. Um the weather was just beautiful. I will say that the wasps there are so aggressive. They are so aggressive. And we have them. Yes. We have them here in Oregon. But for some reason I don't know if it's because it's the time of the year. Um but they literally roll your window down. You can be in a parking lot and they will dive bomb you. We got like so many into our car window. Um I don't know what it is about that but if any of my Edmonton ladies know why that is, let us know. Inform us here. Hello, Pauline from California. Hello, Debbie. Hello, everybody. I am so, oh my gosh. And hello from the Netherlands. I can't forget to say that. That's really cool. Um I am so excited to be on with you today, okay? I some of you guys have seen the post this morning of what we're going to be working on and we are going to be doing the brand-new fox set here. Okay, I'm going to show you this close up but this is my brand-new set, you guys. This will join the birds. This will join the pandas and I guess the exclusive sets that I've done for my classes too. So, yes, the animals. You guys know me, you know. I had to do another set. And you know there might be more coming. Okay? Down the line. So I thank you for the ladies that were super excited about this online. I have been waiting a really long time to be able to show you this. Um so this is the fox set you guys. This is live on the website right now. I cannot wait to show you the samples from the set. Um we're going to go through all of that. But first before I forget make sure that you are signed up for our Email newsletter, okay? There is a an enormous announcement that is coming out tomorrow that you do not want to miss. Do not miss this. Enormous. Okay, the queen bee says this is like top importance, okay? Um so, make sure that you are signed up for our newsletter list. You're going to be the first to know. Um so, don't miss that and then, next week, the queen bee will be back on Tuesday with, okay, I know I say this every time but this throwback is so cute. I wish I could just show it to you right now. She will not let me. But I wish I could show it to you. It you're going to go crazy for it. Okay? You are going to go crazy. This is my all time favorite throwback. Really. She I told her that this morning and she said are you sure of all the throwbacks? I said 100percent. This is the cutest one. So you're not going to want to miss that on Tuesday either. Okay? So big announcement tomorrow. Throwback Tuesday and obviously we're going to talk about the foxes today. So let me switch cameras here and I can show you a bit closer Okay, here we go. Alright, you guys, let's zoom in here. Oops, raw, it's the wrong way. Okay, look at this. You get all of these little foxes, okay? And I had to do because obviously when you think about foxes, you think about the sleeping fox, okay? Just the furry little bundle of cuteness. So, I had to do two. So, here's a bigger one. This is an adult one and then here's a little baby one and then these ones too. And then you're going to get some foliages which we're going to use today. And then you're also going to get these two little birds. And then a couple sentiments here. Okay. So this is what it is. This is like a decent size set. Here there's a lot that comes in here. And I'm going to show you some samples. Okay? Because for me I like to see it in the sample. Okay because I can't my brain doesn't automatically like think about oh I could use it for this and this. No I need to see it. So here's some okay? That we did. So, this is what we're going to be doing today in our Watercolor Wednesday tutorial. This is so easy, you guys. This is really, really easy and I just, I love the animals and I'll never stop doing the animals. There's lots of animals in the animal kingdom. Lots more to do and but you can see how simple it is, right? We just use our post-it tape here, add in in some branches and some foliage and then, use that. I only used one set or one stamp that was not in the set and that is and we'll talk about this more in a little bit. But that's this one right here. From the mini foliage set. Okay? And I use that just to build up the foliage kind of down on the ground here. But all of the other stamps are from the set, okay? So, if you just have this, you can make a lot of cute things. Okay, and then this one. Look at how cute this little family is. Okay, this, now, don't forget, okay? That I, this does not come with dyes. I just cut this, okay? This was, this took like 20 seconds cut around this. And you can see I popped it up here. But I thought it was so cute because and I will say that I I did some samples with a lot of foliage around these foxes here. Um but I just really loved the simple image of this little family here. Um obviously it's in the fall and you have your little fall sentiment here. But you don't need to overload it. You know. I think sometimes we think oh we have to do this big scene. And we are going to do like little scene here, okay? And fill this up. But you can also just keep it really, really simple here, okay? And then have your busyness in your paper and then the way that you mount it on the card, okay? So, here's another way you can use it. And then this little guy, I don't know. This is just like a little fall card you could send to somebody but again, the the sleeping fox here and then when we color this today, you're going to color it all the same, okay? So, you can see it's the same white on the tail. Um you can't see his legs here but you're going to do his legs darker and then orange around, okay? Orangeish, brownish. Um but you can use any sort of tone you want. You could also make this an arctic fox and just keep it white. You could put a little you know hat on them to make them for Christmas. And we were just talking about that actually. Maybe we'll do another tutorial on this set. Um and make it a Christmas card because that would just be really fun. Cute. But I just I love these little birds with it. And actually there's another bird in here that I also really like. And it's this one here and he's looking down. So I made this to go on the branch also. Looking down on him. Um so you could have easily just you know swapped the two stamps and and done that one too. But again look at all this foliage in here. You know you're going to have enough to make whatever you want. And then the other one I did just again simple and you can tell. I used pretty much all the same colors in all of these samples, okay? The orange and then again, this is the same foliage that we're going to use today here from the Mini Foliage set and again, that's this one right here, okay? This is such a great foliage. You can use it for so many different things. See, look. That's how you're supposed to use it but you can use it however you want. Um again, the branch coming out, the blue, and then just very simple on the ground, okay? So, again, just so many different things that you could make with this set thank you guys. I'm just checking the comments right now. Thank you so much for the nice words and the encouragement. Um I really appreciate that. Um Mary, that's hilarious. She says I'm going broke. Okay, but think of how thankful your friends are for you. Because I'm sure you make them beautiful things. Um yes, okay. So, Sherry, yes. So, you can color these foxes. You don't have to make them orange. Like, there's all kinds of different color ones. Um and yes, or you can make it totally whimsical. Yes, purple, okay? The queen bee is saying purple. I love that idea. I love just a whimsical, yes, anything and actually this one, you could make for like a little a little child, you know, a baby or you know, whatever. Little a little child's birthday card. Um just tons of different ways. And that's one of the things I like to keep in mind when I'm making these sets is like how can we use them and how many different ways you know how many different seasons can we use them in? How many different things can we add to make them look totally different? Um okay somebody is saying where was that? Uh who said horses? I love that idea. Oh. That would be a really fun set to do. Um Yeah. Yep. Yes. Thank you Laura. That's really that's really nice. She said she appreciates the realistic animals. As well as the cutsie ones. I agree. I like to have both. Um I have a much harder time with like the cutesy animals. I have a really hard time drawing like really cutesy things. Um I like to draw a little bit more realistic things. Um so for me that's that's more my style and more like fun for me to do. Cathy's saying a Animal Journal 100percent. Oh. How cute would that be for like a first birthday or for any any oh that would be adorable. Okay, I'm I'm tasking you with making that so that you can show us. Um so anyway, okay, guys. Should we get started here with this little project Um I can't wait to make it. This was really fun to do. Um okay, let's get these out of the way. So, as you can see, I pre stamped my little fox and I stamped him as always in the the I'm blanking. Nine, the 560 the blue and brown, okay? I tried to think endeavors and which one I did first. Um so, I did 565 blue first and then I did 969 brown on top of that and of course, we stamped it off. Um definitely are going to want to stamp this off. I know we say this every time. But especially since it says white on it, you don't want just a ton of just muddiness that's going to come from dark lines. So, obviously, we say that every time but especially especially here. Um so, Stam off. I just taped mine and I don't have, can you, would you pass me that ruler? So, I can just show them the measurements on here. It's about two, I think two and an eighth Yeah, about two and an eighth, maybe a little over that. And I guess a little over two and a half. Okay? But it doesn't matter. You can do it however you want. I just, I mean, I didn't really even measure. I just, taped it. Um you, what you don't want to do you don't want to make it too much. Okay? So if you make it this big it's too much to fill. Okay that's why we can make it you know a simple image like this. Look more complex because it's like small. Okay? So this fits in here without overcrowding it. And without looking like too sparse. Okay? Alright. Um just checking the comments here. Hello Peggy. How are you today? Um let's see here. Yes, dogs. You guys always mention the dogs. Here's the problem with the dogs, okay? I love dogs and I really I I've already said I want to do, I want to do at least one dog set in honor of my dog who is a geriatric right now at age 14 and a half. Um but the problem is is you'd have to do like you know a hundred different breeds. You have to do like a set for every breed. Um unless you did like a small dog set and then like you know one that's a large dog. But everybody would say well where's my dog? I need my dog. It's hard to do generic dog anymore because people, you know, they know their breeds and they they want, you know, what they have, right? Like, I, I'll, I'll buy anything goldendoodle, okay? Anything related to a schnauzer? Uh yeah. No, but that's just it. Exactly. Um she's saying what I buy, you know, a set of like a bulldog or a schnauzer. No, I wouldn't. I would only buy a Goldendoodle because that's my daughter. Yes. It's really, really hard. Easy to do caps. Yes. Right? Because you can color the cat. You know, you can make a long hair or a short-haired cat. Um Ruth Ann is saying that I'm young and have time for hundreds of sets. Um I'm not young, Ruth Ann, okay? I am not at all young. I am into middle age. Securely into middle age. And you should see how long it takes me to do these sets. If I was to do twenty, let's say 20 dog sets, that would take, that would literally take me lifetime. Yes, at least at least multiple years. Um, because I am so slow and I'm so particular and I erase, you know, pretty much everything I do. She's so talented. Oh, no, no, no. She's my mom. She has to say that. Okay? She birthed me. So, she has a heavy bias. Okay. Um let's just check here. I could do a terrier spaniel. That's true. That's true. You can, I guess, condense it a little bit to like a medium breed or a small breed or something and then, you know, if we did one, Kendra would force us to do Pomeranian. As like the first. Yes. By itself. Yes. Yes. Only maybe a few of them. Yeah. Based on Wendy's poses that she does. Okay, you guys. Let's get started here. Enough jibber jabbering from me. Um of course, what we're going to do first is we're going to pull out our color here, okay? And you get a really nice brown foundation of color here, okay? Now, these legs are going to be dark. That's how I'm going to color em today but having this foundation here is going to be great. It's actually going to help us. So, don't worry about that. The only thing we're not going to really get too much color on are the white parts here. Okay. So, this part's going to be white and I try to make the lines so that you would easily be able to tell which part is white. Okay. So, you can see here. You just kind of like follow this down and again they all have different markings. So, however you want to do it is fine. Um but try to keep this white and then this tail white if you're doing like a red fox. Okay and then I'm going to go up here on the ears. And you know the way that these foxes are they have kind of like brown ears. You know they're orange. But they've got a lot of brown and black in them too. Which is really neat and fun to colour. Okay? So there's our first layer of color here. Okay. Let's see. Diane, do you have a yorkie? She's saying a Yorkshire Terrier. Does that mean you have one? And what is its name? Does everybody name their dog's human names like I do? Your dog's name is. So, I have a we have two Goldendoodles. Um you know, the the older one which is 14 and a half. Her name is Georgia George for short. She's just always George and she's extremely naughty. Like, extremely naughty. Um and then we have her daughter who is Betsy and Betsy is now nine. So, she's getting up there too. Um Naughty in a different way. Naughty in a not so smart but just naughty way. Um so, we have a and a Betsy. Um what are your dogs' names? And are they human names like mine? Yes, we always talk about, you know, when we when our older one passes that when we get another one, it'll 100% be like some kind of like, I can't remember what we said, like Dolores or something like something. Yeah. Mm hmm. Something human. Mm hmm. Okay, so we're going to use nineforty7 here. Um yes. Okay. So, somebody's asking here if it would fit in a journal. I think so. Sure. Yeah, a journal page. Yes. Yes, absolutely. Yes, that's a great question. That is a really great question. I believe except for the pig one. I'm not sure. And actually, you could separate them. So, you could if you wanted to put this in a journal, you could put the stump here instead of the little one. Take this off and like move it over or something if you wanted it to make sure to fit. I'm not sure. I'd have to check this one. Definitely this one. Definitely this one obviously like this one too and the birds and these. They should all fit in a journal. Combination. They would all fit. Yes. Yes. Um okay. So, Nancy saying her cancer, Stanley and Stella. I love that. Love it. Stanley. Love it. Julie's saying Zoe, I like that. Yes, a Yorkie named Tiger. That's hilarious. Oh, 16 years. Wow. That's that's a long time. That's a good life. Okay. Now, we've got nine forty-six. Use any orange you want. This looks I don't know. A little bit brownish. Um on the screen but it is a really bright orange. Then I'm going to take some of my nine sixty-nine. And this will be like for his little legs. You know, I don't like using black. Because it's too like one dimensional. And actually it can have like a green tone to it. Um so I like mixing up these two for any dark grays. Okay? And then I'm going to do this one. So this is nine ninety-two. This is almost like a sand colour. I like to mix some of this in on the white areas. Okay because if you look at them there is it's not just pure white. You know it's got a little bit of brown in it. Okay. So that's my nine two. And very lightly of course. And then I think that's it actually for this For the fox. So I'm going to take my brush. And we're going to do this by layers. Okay? Take some of that nine forty-seven. I just really love this like reddish orangish color to start with and you know of course we build our color Okay so you're just going to start light here. And remember, we're going to do the legs and the feet in that dark gray Just take it a little more. I go along his face here. I'm going to go over his ears and again, we're going to add lots of different colors to his ears too. See how easy that is. Just to get a first layer of colour on him. Just follow the lines. The lines will guide you where to put your colors. Oh Lacey. That's cute. That's really cute. Oh Sally. That's funny. She has a golden retriever named Griffey. Okay. Well mine are half golden retrievers. So I love them. Okay. Now, I'm going to go back and we're going to add a little bit more color, okay? So, I like to just start here and just make my way down. Underneath his little belly. And just look up when you're doing this, look up a picture of a fox. I know that sounds like very obvious but it really does help if you have something to see. Can't tell you how many foxes I've colored in the last couple of days. Probably like ten at least. Okay, now I'm going to take a little darker Just kind of go in the parts that would be kind of underneath behind. And we're going to lose some of these lines here but that's okay. Cuz we got we got our fine tip to add it all back. Okay? And you can go in and you can always add like a little more of that orange. Just depends what you like. There's no like exact shade that you gotta make this guy. Okay. Okay. Okay, Janice is saying, is that, is it Janice or Janice? Help me. Um look up a firefox. I will. I will. I just love foxes. They're just so adorable. They are adorable and they've got these like long skinny legs. Just so cute. Not the easiest to draw but very cute. Okay, so I'm mixing up a grey here and we're going to take this down the legs. And on the little toes down here. And you know, some of the foxes actually have black on their tails too. So, again, just look it up online but you know, it's your painting. You can make them however you want. And you can always go back with the fine tip on any lines that you've lost along the way. Okay. And you know as much as you want to do this don't fix the eye with the fine tip until the end. Okay? Not that I've ever done that and you know smeared the whole face when I add more colour. Um but don't make the mistake that I did. Um Ruth Ann, you're exactly right. She was smiling in the background. She has left the room at the this exact moment but she was here and she always has fun. I always love it when she's here. With me because one, she makes me a coffee right before I come on which is wow, so needed, especially today. Um but then also, she's just here to chat with me as I chat with you guys. And yes, she's always she's always having fun in the background. Okay, so I'm going to take some of this brown. And I'm going to add a tiny bit of the blue, okay? We're going to go in here. Add a little bit of darkness there. You can use this to add some shadowing if you want. We can go back in. I mean there's a really like nothing to these. Okay and actually if you want to get really technical they have this black line right at the top of their ears. But again, when we do our fine tip we're going to add a lot of detail to those areas. Thank you, Nancy. Thank you for saying that. Yes. So, when you get, when you order the stamp, obviously, if you're familiar with AI, you get the packaging too. So, this project will be on the packaging. So, you can always just look at this. For an idea. There's always going to be at least one idea and probably at least one on the sets on and how to use them. Okay? Okay. So, now, I'm going to go into that white area. It's just, it's too stark white for me. Hello, Patricia. Where in Maryland are you? I still live in DC actually. Well, many many lifetimes ago but I absolutely loved living there. I lived in DC and in Arlington. So, never in Maryland but I was very close. And I really miss it. I bet are you guys getting any fall colors on your leaves yet? Cuz that was my favorite. Fall is just the absolute best time of the year. It really is. Okay. So, you can see I'm just adding a little bit of this and it it really is a neat color for that. Again, it's the nine ninety-two. It almost looks like sand okay? We don't, normally with white, I like to add shadowing with the five sixty-five but because it's like, it's a living animal like it's and it's it's got a lot of browns in it. It's not like a polar bear where it's like all white or you know, even in Arctic Fox where it's all white. Um I just I think this this color is much more of a natural a natural colour to use for shadowing. Oh Ruth Ann you're just the sweetest. You are just the sweetest. I like to call Ruth Ann my personal cheerleader. Because she's the best. She is just the best. Hello, Mary from Michigan. How is the weather today, Michigan? Hello, Karen. You are in Edmonton. Oh my goodness. I love it. It's so beautiful. I will say it. Look, I haven't been back for 3 years. Um before we went a week or two ago and it has changed so much. There, it just, it seems like there's so many more people. Seems like there's so much more construction now which I guess is good. Like we were just, Kevin and I were just about this. Really? Cuz I I guess that's a good thing for the city. Is that it's growing and you know more transportation is being built. More housing and all of that. But it's just it's odd to go back to a place and have it feel so much different. Uh be careful of the wasps. Okay? Be careful of the wasps. Jerry are you on here? Jerry is another Edmonton gal. Maybe she hasn't answered for the wasps. Um but enjoy it. I'm jealous. We have the absolute best time there. Of course went West Edmonton Mall multiple times. Of course. So, you'll have to make it there. You know, they say that the physical malls, you know, the the actual locations are dying but that one is definitely not dying. It was so busy. Um okay, guys. Sorry, back to our fox here. So, now, I am going to take and honestly, like, look at, we are, we are just about done here, okay? With our fox and so, I'm going to take my fine tip now that I don't need to really add anymore and actually it might just do one more thing here. You know I just I'm talking. I just can't stop talking to you guys. That I just want to add just a little bit more colour to his little face here. Little more of that orange. Okay. Now, now that that is done because you don't want to add anymore color once you do your twin tone because it'll just like bleed everywhere. Okay. I mean, again, not that I've ever done that myself but okay, so we're going to go to his little nose here. Just need a little bit of a steady hand. And then we're going to add these little freckles in. Uh well they're not freckles or for whiskers. Um yes Val. Yes. You notice it too. Edmonton is growing. Um Karen where did you eat at the mall? We ate there so many times. You know when you're staying at a hotel, we've stayed with family a little bit. But you just eat out. We just I feel like we ate out so many times that week. It was just like ugh. By the end we were just so sick. Um okay so we're going to add in this little eye here. Okay. Do you see how that just like brings him to life? It really does. And so now we're just going to go in and any of the areas that we lost that we want to emphasize a little bit. You can add a little bit of the fur here. I always like to do that. That gives him the impression that he's really furry. Um but do you see by just darkening his eyes and his nose that that just like it brings him to life. And you could put any so we're going to put our little bird here. But you could put anything here. How cute to put like a little butterfly, a little dragonfly, you know, a whole, you could put like a branch and a multiple birds here. Okay? And then our magical animal land. They're all friends. Okay? He's not eating anybody. He's just, you know they're just friends. Okay. Thank you, Nancy. We will for sure enter you in this project giveaway If anyone else wants to win this, you know, we give these watercolor Wednesday projects away when we're done. Um just put that in the comments. Is anyone else dealing with back to school today? For your kids or your grandkids? I know my Edmonton friends started last week. And I know some I have a friend in Arizona. if she's watching hello. Um her son started like beginning of August. Isn't that crazy? Beginning of August. Can they get out early again? I don't know. I don't know. No. Well, I know and Edmonton. They go through June. So, they only get, they only get July and I guess, they went back at the end of August which to me is crazy. We always had three months growing up here. So I don't know. Okay. Thank you everybody. Yes. Leah will keep track of if you are wanting to enter the drawing. Okay so we're pretty much done with our fox here. That was so easy. And if I hadn't been talking so much I would have taken us like 5 minutes. I don't know. How many minutes into this we are but sorry. Um okay. So, now, what we're going to do. So, since we have it taped off, we're going to want to make sure that when we add in our branches and our sky that we go right to the edge. So, we can get this really nice finish around our project and you don't have to do that like on the ground as much as up here, okay? Cuz I mean, you don't want it to look like you're forcing it. You want it to look just very natural, okay? So, just keep that in mind as you're doing this And so, what I'm going to start with and you can do this either way. So you could colour the sky in. I've done it both ways. And it works okay either way. So this one I colored let me get this on screen for you. So I colored the sky in first. You can see there's not much white area here. And then I put the branches and the leaves on top of the sky. This one I did this guy second. Um because I wasn't totally sure where I was going to put the bird. And you can see that you gotta add it a little bit in here, in between the branches but actually, it gives it a really nice look. So, it's just whatever kind of look you are going for here, okay? So, either way will work for you and the other thing is what was really helpful to me is this obviously comes this is what your clear stamps come on when you buy the set. You can use this as a guide also. Like, oh, I want my bird, you know, to go right here. okay? So, I'm going to you know, keep that in mind when I'm stamping my branch, okay? And actually, you could take your pencil and just kind of mark where his toes are going to be. Like right here. Okay? Cuz we were just talking about whether or not it's better to stamp the bird first since you know exactly because the bird in this case has to kind of go right here because he's looking at it. alright? So, when you're dealing with a an image that you know, a certain thing has to go in a certain area. Do stamp that first or not. Um and the queen bee is telling me that I should still stamp the branches first. Mm hmm. And let me just point something out. Please. Point something else out for us. I don't know if you did this intentionally or just innately you knew. But do you see the light halo effect here? Oh. Around the face. Mm And you did it on this one too. So you've got this light area. And so because of that you have More space to put your little bird. And that's always a highlight here anyway. You should accent this area because if you get too much color around his face unless you're going for a really dark night sky. Mhm. But I'm just I'm so impressed that you did that. Oh gosh. And he just I don't know if you did that just knew it. Or just do you know what? I will take this compliment. Okay? I you all have heard it. You are witnesses to this that I've received a compliment from the community Okay. But that's exactly right. And it's really really important to do that. And you just you just nailed it on this because look how that sort of illuminates his face. Yeah. And makes it kind of stand out. And then your eye automatically draws to this circle. Yes. Right here. Yes. Yes. And especially if you are going to the edge. With your painting. And. You have to have something open. Otherwise it's just a muddy. Notice. Notice here too See this little halo effect right here? I just taken that as a high high compliment. Okay? Thank you. Actually, that was a good tip. Yes. Such a little thing but it it really really makes a difference. I'm just, I can't, I'm so pressed that. Well, thank you. Gosh. Well, thank you so much. I hope I don't mess this one up now. That's a lot of pressure now. Yeah. Okay? To get this right. Yes, but anyway, that is a good tip. Thank you for sharing that with us. We'll take any impromptu tips that you can give to us. I'm just 100% confident you. Oh. The rest of the way. Oh, gosh. Wow. That's too high of confidence for me. Oh, that's so funny. Okay, Cecilia, thank you so much. This is her first time live with us. Um thank you so much for joining us. We are hope you're having a good time as much as I am. I mean, I'm having a blast. I'm always having a blast with you guys, okay? Okay. So, one of my favorite parts of this set is this branch and I love it. I think we need another branches set. I'm just, I'm putting that out there. Okay. Right now. You should design there is the absolute best. Is that even just for the branch? I mean, as cute as the foxes are. Here's the branch. That branch is so multifunctional. And you can see, it's pretty large and and I love it because you don't have to color in every single part of it. Okay? When you're stamping this, in order to make it look a little different, sometimes I do just this long one and this tiny short one. Sometimes I do just this V and that's the thing about these stamps is you can make it like look like five different stamps just in how you color it, okay? Yes. Give the people what they want. They want another branch that. Yes. Okay, we'll be expecting that. Oh, gosh. From me. Wow. I, that's not what I meant. Okay, so I'm just stamping this in the nine sixty-nine brown And because I kind of know where my what my bird to be. Just going to go here. Maybe another one here. Um honestly there's no exact placement for this. Okay? You can do it wherever your heart desires. Let's see. And maybe Another one there. And maybe even one right there. Okay. So you're just kind of framing it. Um and then you know we're going to add in our bird. And actually I might do one more here. One more coming down. There we go. Okay and so we're going to add our bird right in here. Okay? And if for some reason even though we kind of marked it it's not in the exact you know it floating on top of the branch. You can always take your fine tip and add in another like off shoot to the branch, okay? So, we're not worried about exactly stamping anything perfectly, okay? We just, this is not, this is not the technique where you have to be perfect, okay? Which I am just absolutely thrilled about. Just thrilled. Cuz wow. Nothing I do is perfect. Not even close. Okay So, then, the other foliage stamp that we have in here are these little vines, okay? These are just simple, little vines and they go opposite directions, okay? I've got one here. It doesn't matter. Which one which one you are using. I'm going to take this yellow. Um and this is, is this the right yellow? I don't think this is the right yellow. Here, I, do you want the lemon yellow? Uh no, I want the like this one. The one that has like, yes. The warm yellow, the nine thirty-three. Nine ninety-3? No, that's what I have. Oh, I thought there was one that had a little bit of brown in it. Not the lemon. I think it's that one. Yes. Okay. Yes. Queen bee coming through. Yes. Coming through for me. Okay. Devil is not my. I mean, I just knew when I put this on the palette, this was not it, okay? I know my yellows and wow, that was not the right yellow and this looks green on the screen but it is not green at all. So, this is zero twenty-six and this is a really neat like fall yellow, okay? And I'm going to do just a little bit of this, okay? Just a couple just kind of following following my branches here, okay? And yeah, that looks really odd and green here but it's not just trust. Trust me here. And I'm going to do another one here. Okay, you can kind of see a little bit more on this side. It's like I don't know, like a very. A gold. Almost like a gold. Yeah, with a like a hint of like a tan or a brown in it. You know, it's really, I think it's really neat for fall. Okay. So, I'm going to pull my colour in that and then I'm going to show you one of my and I'm going to say this on every single stamp in a set. Sorry. So one of my other favorite ones is this one and I'll show you that in just a sec here. But let's pull the color out. One thing at a time. I'm I'm jumping too far ahead. We're just going to very gently pull the colour out okay? And bring it all the way to these lines. And worry about, you know, staying exactly where you stamped it, okay? You're not, you're not limited to just this exact area. Okay, you can bring this color out if you want, okay? Just make sure you don't color too much over these lines because then you will lose them completely. Hello, Georgia. How are you today? Are you teaching any classes? You got any classes coming up? You could tell the people about. Okay. Same thing here. Right up against that line. Okay? And this is already so cute just the way it is and remember, we're going to add our bird here, okay? Um now, before we go any further with our foliages, we want to do that bird. Okay. So, I'm going to take this just because I just, it's nice to just look like this. Okay. So, we want him. want him maybe right here. Okay? Right here. And we're not I'm not worried that some of this yellow is on him. Not worried about that at all. In the slightest. Okay we want him right about here. Okay? So now we're going to take our positioner. We don't want to take any chances on where this guy's going. Uh Georgia, I know the feelings so she is getting ready for her class. She's cutting paper. Wow. Do I ever know that feeling? I'm going to be doing that in a couple weeks too. Classes are so much fun. They're so much fun to teach. So much fun to do. But wow do they ever require a lot of prep but very very worth it. And just you know a really neat time to spend with you guys in person. So I'm sure Georgia feels the same way. Okay. Nine sixty-9 brown for this little guy. You could do him in gray too. It doesn't really matter. But I'm going to use this positioner. So I can get him exactly where I want him. Eh? And that's pretty cute like that. Okay. Right there. Sorry, I'm just talking to myself. No big deal. Okay. Now, give it a little huff. Okay. And there he is and don't worry, his head is a little light. Well, we can go ahead and add that line back in. Um after we color him. Okay. Now, I'm just going to use my number four but you can use a number one on this for sure. Um Suska, that's a great question. Okay, so she's asking if I'm doing an online version of my yet to be revealed Christmas class in October. I am willing to listen to the people. Um always want to lean towards yes doing that if there's interest. Um so if you all are interested and I know it's hard to say if you're interested because you haven't even seen the project yet. Um. Amazing. But I'm telling you. This is going to blow you away. Okay? This is a new concept. Okay? It is a new concept and that is all I'm getting the evil eye from across the room saying do not tell what this is. Um it is a new concept and I'm just saying you have to just trust me that you are going to absolutely love it. Um it will be very similar as far as like the process to my other classes, okay? Um online videos, you'll get a physical kit in the mail. Um of course, access to the videos like whenever you want and then, I am working on a little a little exclusive set or stamp for it right now. That you know, if you love animals, let's just say you'll like it. Um so, I we will show it. We will show it before the class maybe the do we know? Is it the end of the month? I don't know. I I'm not going to say because I don't I don't know. I don't know that we have an exact date for it but my class is on October fifth. So, we will show it sometime before then and then we can maybe do like a poll online if people are interested in that. I'm happy to make an online version. If you guys are interested. Um definitely. Definitely would be willing to do that. Um so stay tuned for that. We will eventually, like I said, show you what that is. So that you can say whether or not you want it. Um Diana, we're going to miss you. Val, we're going to miss you in person but thank you for letting me know that you would be interested in online version. It's just so fun. It's so neat that technology allows us to share these classes with you even if you can't make it. You know, I just, I love it. Okay, so I'm just pulling color out. I'm staying away from doing too much of his head. And then, I'm going to do this. Peggy, are you coming in person? I can't remember if you're on our list. Um Yay. Joy and we will see you there. Great. N52 for this. This is like a blue. Um I really like this blue. I think it goes really nicely with the yellows and the browns of fall. And really these little birds you can make in whatever color you want. Okay You really can. You don't have to stick to like oh, this, you know, this bird is exactly this color or whatever. Doesn't matter. He's so small anyway. So, I'm just adding some of this blue here. And I'm going to give him a little pink cheek. And I'm going to make it a mings in his belly a little darker. But actually I'm going to do that even more. Um with the the fine tip of that blue. I'm just going to extend this branch here. But see how you can do that? So easy. Um That's so funny. Have we never been injured? Of course. No, I know. My, you guys are just the best, most encouraging people of all time and so, you know, when you get excited about something, it just makes us like doubly as excited about it. Um so, you know, if you ever feel like, oh, you know, maybe I shouldn't say that I love this or maybe I, you know, we always appreciate the encouragement. So, thank you so much. Okay. So, I'm going to take my fine tip of this N 52 and I'm just going to go over this. Okay. Add a little bit of definition to the wing. The tail. Maybe a little underneath. Okay? You don't have to do that much here. He's just cute like just the way he is. And we're going to add here's my orange. This is the wait where's the orange I have for my fox? Oh here. It's hiding. I'm going to do this one for his little beak. And this is again the same orange. Nine forty-six that we did for the fox. Okay, his little beak. And then you can take your fine tip here. And go underneath his belly and add him his little eye Okay? So simple. And then you can give him oh I guess you can't you can give him a little cheek. But you probably want to do that before you do the eye. But I can be very careful here. Okay, little bit of the red. And again this is 856 red. Okay, make sure this is like super light. And I'm using this just tiny brush. This is a zero. See, you can give him just a little cheek like that, okay? So simple. And I just love them looking at each other like that. It's so cute. And then You can always take your pencil Cuz sometimes we were just talking about this. Sometimes that the twin tone is just a little bit too harsh for these tiny tiny lines. So it really helps to just take your pencil and come come in here too. Okay so I went over those lines but not too harshly. Okay? Now we get to focus on our foliage. Okay so we're going to go back to that. So switch gears in your mind. And to show you this stamp which is so I know it looks kind of random. It looks odd but it's actually made to go with this branch. Okay. It's made to stamp right over it. I can get it, right? Just like this. Right over the top, okay? And it's going to align with the branch. Actually, it's supposed to go this way. Sorry. Look at this. Like this. Here we go. But you can use these separately. Like I'm about to show you here. Okay, so we're going to take and I'm going to start with my start with an orange. Okay so the same orange for the fox. And I'm just going to colour these top two. And you can just add these in like anywhere. Do you see how cute that is? Just as like almost like an accent on top of the vine, the yellow vine that we've already done. Because you know that's the best thing about doing a fall themed card is adding in all these fall colors. Okay, you can go right up to that line here. And see this orange with this yellow too. It's just adorable. It's adorable. And then so you can wipe that off or do it the proper way with a baby wipe. Then, you can go in with your red even to this side here. So, this one is even, this is the opposite side. So, I was using this one down here. Now, I'm using the top one. And I'm going to just even do that. Okay? Just all around. You can do as many as you want. And you can twist it. So, when you rotate your hand, it looks even a little different, okay? And you can do that with all of these, okay? So, you can wipe that off and then, you can do you can even grab your yellow, your 993 yellow. You can take do this one coming out of the side. Just like that. Okay? And let me just do one more red. To maybe this one. Okay? Yes, okay. So, so easy and then, I'm going to take my brush and because all of these colors are like pretty cohesive together, like you can, with the orange and red, like, pull out the color together. That's really going to like combine it and make it look really neat. And as you do it, you're going to see the areas where you think, oh, I'm going to need more. There okay? So, just bring this all the way down. All the way around here. Okay? And then you can even go on the top of that. You can do, I think I want like a couple more reds at the top here. See? And you can just even you can leave them like that if you want. Because you can use them as sort of an accent too. Where you don't necessarily have to you know soften it by pulling out the colour. You could just leave it like that. And remember we're still going to go in with our blue here. Alright? Okay. So, that's pretty good for the sky. And oh sorry. Yes Ellen. The red is eight fifty-six. This one's all worn down. But yeah so you can use either red. Any red you want. We have the Wow. I cannot talk. The eight eighty-five as well. Which is actually what I used for this one I think. This one is the eight eight five. You can see it's a little bit more orange. Um so it's whatever you like. Okay so now I'm going to go in with The only other set I'm using today which is again, the mini foliage set, five three seven two and I'm going to go in and you can use this either one, okay? So, I've used both of these. I've used the 860 and the 228. Both of these are really neat fall colors, okay? I'll go ahead and use this olive one. And you can just take this and just kind of go around the fox here. And it's really neat. It's almost looks like brush You could also even add little bit up here in the in the trees too. These branches. And so when we go when I go and pull out the color, I'm probably going to go back with this stamp and add a couple on top and not pull out the color, okay? Oh. Sharon, you're exactly right, okay? So, when I was looking at it this way, it's at 860 but this is upside down. Is it Sadie? So, it's actually zero ninety-eight. Oh. Wow. Wow. Thank you for catching that. Yes, you're exactly right. So, I'm going to pull the color out of these this little brush here. You can see this is a really nice olive green and pull that to the side, okay? I'm going to do the same here and you can see like however much, you know, definition you want. You can also go back and add in some of these branches and leaves too if you want to. Now, I'm going to use other one The other green. If I can find it. What in the world did I do with that green? Oh, here it is. When I put it upside down, I only see this black top. So, I can't see the Okay, so this gives it a little more green So it's just what whatever you like. Okay? Gonna smudge these colours together. Yeah, I have green too even though it's a fall. You can bring this up too. Okay? Now I'm going to take a little bit of brown. And put underneath his feet. Just a little bit of the nine sixty-nine. Again, we like it to just go right to the bottom here Okay and so our last step. Look how cute he is. This is just feels like so whimsical to me. I just I love this style. I love the style. I love the animals. I love you know anything like woods or woodland. I just love it. Okay. So I'm going to take my 965 and so this is what you really can use any blue you want for this guy. Um you don't absolutely have to use this one. But I just I love I love like the coolness of this blue with all of the warm of the foliage all around. Okay. Thank you Peggy. That's very sweet. I I also like the individual leaves. I think it gives you lots of control. To put them wherever you want. Okay, now remember, we want to keep like a white kind of like a halo around, okay? And then we're going to just take the sky and we're just going to go all the way around. And you can take a little more and go like in between. Okay, because you are going to see a little bit of that sky in between the leaves. Okay? Don't worry we're going to soften that up. Quite a bit. I don't like any harsh lines in my sky. Like everything to be very soft. Okay. This is just so fun. And it's September. So you know it's going to be like 100 degrees this week. But I don't care. My mind is really in fall mode. Okay give me all the pumpkin everythings. All the pumpkin drinks. All of the spice. Okay, so go ahead. Yeah, you can add some of these little bit darker I just I think it gives it just a really neat look to it. okay? And then that's pretty much it. You guys. We are just about done here. Um of course you get a sign. Take this off. This is like the reveal time. And look, you got yourself this adorable little fall project here. Okay? I like to sign right in the corner. And you can cut it out. You can mount it like we did here. Oh and I forgot that I added some white paint. Here, should I do that really fast, you guys? I forgot about that. I was kind of on the fence about whether or not it would make it look too busy but I'm just going to do it just so I can show you guys, okay? Anytime you have, oops, any like very thick area of bushes or whatever. You can always add some white flowers to it. To break it up a little bit. Okay? And that's it. And even though we already took our our sticker paper off, it's totally fine. That is it. You guys. Thank you so much for joining me today and being excited with me Um about this new set. Let me turn my camera around here. Hello. Okay. Thank you again you guys. You guys are always so very encouraging whenever we bring out something new. Um and especially me with my sets. Um you know I put a lot of thought into what would be really great for you guys when you're creating your cards. So I just really appreciate all of the encouragement. The sweet comments. Um if I miss you I will go back and read all of the comments. Um and again, don't forget tomorrow, big announcement in the E blast. So, if you're not signed up, you still have time sign up to get that so that you're the first to know. and then, of course, Tuesday, do not miss that throwback, okay? You guys are going to absolutely love it. Um have a great rest of your day. If any of you are doing school pickup, good luck with that. I'm going to be doing that here pretty soon and I will see you soon. The queen bee says goodbye also. Bye all. Bye, you guys.

Watercolor Wednesday! | Watercolor Wednesday! Part 2 NEW RELEASE Encouragement Journal watercolor tutorial with Bonnie Krebs! | By Art Impressions Rubber Stamps | Hello, everyone. Welcome. Welcome to Watercolor Wednesday. I am just, I'm so jazzed to see you guys. I just always look forward to this morning and seeing all my people on. So, I am, today is no exception. I'm just, I'm so thrilled to be here with you guys. Um today is the second part of the Encouragement Journal. So, we went through half of it last week and you know, these little Slim Journal s, they're so quick because they only one page. So, the original journal has three pages that glue into the spine on either side. So, that's quite a bit in there and these just have one. So, they're pretty quick to just you know, cruise through and so we got through half of it last week and we're going to finish it up today in this live. So, before we do that, I just, I gotta say hi to all my people. So, good morning all of you. Amy, hello. Watercolor Wednesday. Yay. Oh, 100%. Yes, 100%. Um Jane is on. Good morning. Linda. Hello. Suska. Hello. Um she says hi Bonnie and AI family. Exactly. Hello to my AI family. That's what I need to say every morning. Hello to all my AI family. So good to have you on. Simone, hello. Elaine, hello. Linda, hello, Diana. Hello from San Jose. Hello from San Jose. Rain, good morning. Mary Ann. Hello Hello, Mary steamy, hot, and humid. Ontario, Canada. Oh my goodness. Wow. That, you know what? That's one thing that, you know, we don't really have in Oregon is a humidity. So, we get a lot of drizzle. We get that kind of wet but we don't have a lot of humidity in the summertime. So, that's kind of nice. That's the positive thing. Um good morning, Julie. Hello, Erm. Hello, Sheree. And Carol, good morning. Tina. Hello, all of you guys. So good to have you on here. Caroline from Orange, California. Cathy, good morning. Um Shirley, Linda, hello. Joy, hello from Waldomar, California. Where is that? Wild Amar. Did I pronounce that right, Joy? Wildamar, California. Where is that? I don't think I've ever driven through there or been there. Um hello, Sandy. Hello, Caroline. Hello. Carol Stockwell. Hello. Diane Mason, hello. Good to have you guys on here. Steamy Hot Kansas. No doubt. No doubt, Cindy. Absolutely. Um Vicky Gross, hello. Peggy, Consuelo, Ellen, Theresa, Tina, Tina. She says, sunny and hot. 88 degrees in Cincinnati. Okay. That is that's similar to what we're going to have today. We've got Sunny, clear skies. I don't know. You guys, something about waking up to a clear blue sky whether it's cold or hot. Just something about that. You know, the sun, the clear blue sky. I mean, in Oregon, especially in the winter time, we have a lot of gray skies and so, maybe that's why I just I appreciate it so much to have that clear sky in the morning. Pixie just want to just get up and just get going and start your day. Okay, Theresa says, hundred and expecting a hundred and2 today in Virginia. Oh my word. Um hello from Calgary. Hello, Sheryl Lynn. Hello, Sherry. Good Morning here for part two. Okay Sherry. Have have you guys have you guys downloaded your sentiments off the website? Those of you who want the scriptures, those are on the website to make your encouragement journal. I'm just, I'm really excited to see you guys make this and how you kind of make it your own because that's that's what makes it personal is when you make it your own. So, don't forget, those are available on the website. So, we have the sentiment pack that has all the sentiments, you know, hope you feel better, thinking of you all those like things that you want to say to someone who's going through some sort of difficult time. You know, whether it's health issues, family issues, financial issues. It's just so many people are going through something right now and so, a kind, you know, thinking of you, you know, thoughts are with you, prayers are with you, something like that is just going to, it absolutely will make a difference to someone. So, Mary Ann says, Bonnie just love the idea of the Slim Journal. You can make it into so many things. Yes, Mary Ann. You know what? If I had just nothing but time, I would make journals. I would make them because I'm constantly thinking of different themes. You know, and a lot of it comes from you guys because of your ideas and I I just think that the list is absolutely endless. So, what I'm doing is I'm just giving you ideas for pages and that's kind of what I feel like I'm doing now. How to set up a page and how to do an interesting pocket or something that you can add to your your journal that you have. Whatever theme it is. Honestly, whatever theme it is, whatever color palette you want to use, just something, some interesting way to add a frame or a pocket or something. So, that's kind of what I think when I'm putting these things together and then, you know, I mean, I'm in the middle of one and I've already got, you know, like six ideas for six more. So, if I just, if I literally had nothing but time, I would just make journals. I just think they are just so much fun to do and once you start the hardest thing about the journal and tell me if you guys agree with this. The hardest thing about starting the journal is the first page is you know, gluing in your first watercolor, you know, image. Setting up your first page and then, as you go, by the time you're done, you're kind of going, oh my word, I don't, I'm out of pages. What am I going to do with these other 18 thoughts I have in my head? So, it does. It it it sort of it sort of takes on its own life. Or that's what it does for me. I might have an idea when I started. You know, okay, I'm going to use this color palette and I'm I'm going to use these stamps. I'm going to use this theme and then Joel can attest to this. I most often change my color palette and change everything. So, you know, when he's doing the paper, he has to kind of work with that and sometimes he'll get a whole bunch of ideas for me and then, I'll say, you know what, I'm going to change this to a different color and he's so good about that. He's just, he's so brilliant. He really is. He's just an incredible artist so thankful for him. Uh so anyway they do kind of take on a life of their own. And by the time you're finished it's got it's kind of got it's own personality. You know that's kind of how I feel about it. And it's just it there's just so much fun. So you guys I just I hope you feel that way too. Um and I do always want to make them simpler and quicker. I do want to do that. Um okay Julie says picking paper and ink set is a match is a challenge for me. And which dies to use. Yeah, that goes right along with setting up the page. It really does. If you can pick out your palette beforehand which is a huge reason why we do these paper packs now is because it's hard to pick papers that will that will be cohesive in a journal especially something that flows like a journal that has multiple pages on it. Uh you need a paper pack that is going to all go together. So, regardless of what paper you pick, you're going to have a cohesive journal that's all going to kind of come together. So, that is a big and if you can kind of pick out your your color palette beforehand, at least at least loosely and then focus on about two or three main colors. You know, blues, lip for example, blues, greens, purples. Those go really well together and then some wild color like orange or red. You know, or violet or magenta. Something like that. You can just kind of throw in there. Um so that it's really pretty simple as far as keeping your colors together and then when you throw that wild color, yellow. Something wild that just sort of jumps off the page. Not the same amount. You don't want to use it the same amount as you use the greens, reds, or the greens, blues, purples, those colors. You want to use it the same amount. You want to just have that pop of color. They just kind of comes in. And you can do more than one pop of color too. But for the most part, keep your the majority to those simple colors Um those, you know, it doesn't doesn't have to be green, blue, and purple but that's a good example because they work really well together. So, I get, I absolutely get that. Um okay. Let me see. Cisco says loves the journals. Me too. Me too. Um Ruth Ann is on. Hello, Ruth Ann. Always glad to have Ruth Ann in the house. Uh Mary and all you guys. Okay, thank you guys for being on. So, let's get to our project. We're going to finish up the journal today. and you guys, it is just been the easiest thing. When you get your stamps and you should be getting them soon, I believe some of them have shipped already and so they will be coming soon. We had a you know, a few little issues with supplies but I think those are all resolved and your your projects, your bundle or your sets should be arriving soon and then, I just I can't wait for you guys to get started. You will have the tutorial s all done. So, all you have to do is come on and just you know, push and slow it down and just follow along with me. But these things and part of the reason that these things are so simple is that I specifically wanted it that way for the Encouragement Journal. Because I don't want something that is a complicated and difficult project to be a deterrent for you to send this. So I want you to be able to go in here literally stamp two things or stamp one image and be good to go. And then you know be just change a few things and give you some new ideas with these glass containers which are really fun but the whole idea is that it's quick and so the Slim Journal is perfect for that but keep in mind that all of these things, these papers are great for cards. They also will work together, whatever. In fact, I just literally 5 minutes before I got on. Um just put this one together and I'll show it to you underneath the screen too but you could see how the papers just go with the color that we're using. They just go together. So, whatever ones that you pick, whatever ones that you choose, they're going to work together. So, you can grab your papers, literally put them in your journal, and you know, stamp your your little florals and you're going to be good to go and this format that I've that I've done on this journal is really really simple. It's really, really, really simple. So, it doesn't require a lot of complex things in it. So, that was really my thought putting this together because I just have felt so much. This is just been on my heart for so many weeks and I just have felt compelled to make this specific thing as an encouragement to someone Um someone close to you, maybe a neighbor, you know, a family member, somebody that you know needs a little bit of encouragement and I just have felt compelled to make it. So, I did. And you guys, I just love it and I can't wait for you guys to try it. So, let's to it. Um I'm going to switch over Um okay, Sandy, I gotta say hi to couple more of the view that just popped on. Julie, hello. Sandy from not so sunny Florida. Oh no. Are you guys having weather there? Um you know, they have these water bombs. That's what they're, literally, that's what they're called. Where the, the sky is basically open up in a bucket of water drops down. So, Okay. Hello from Norway. May Britt hello. Good to have you on with us. I'm so happy you're here. Um okay you guys. Keep saying hi to me because I will try to watch my screen as I'm going. But you know guys know how that goes with me. Um I always have good intentions. Alright so I'm going to switch over and let me just show you what's in this bundle. So the bundle is a really also really good value because of you know it just because of this journal. So this is the journal that we are making. You can see it's the slim line. For those of you who might tuning on for the first time and we're not with us last week. So, we got through half of this. So, if you would like to make this journal, you can go back to last week's Watercolor Wednesday and you can get the first half of this journal. So, last week was the release of this bundle and it's eleven pieces but I just I just kept adding to it, you guys. I just did and so, it's turned out to be eleven pieces but it's a really good deal. It's 20% off and then this is free with a bundle. So, you can also purchase this. So, it's it's free with the bundle but you can also purchase it on our website. So, some of you can't get the bundle right now or don't want to get the bundle right now. Um you don't have to. You can get these things individual. Maybe you would just get a little thing of containers and a little, you know, a few of these long stems and really, you know, they, this, you can do simple projects in this journal. So, I'm I'm using multiples of these just because it's all, they're all in the bundle but you can single one. single sets. You know, this one here, you can see has multiple florals in it. You can just pick a container and just do these multiple flowers in it. So, you don't have to get the whole bundle. You you don't have to do that. You can get just a couple of sets if you want to to make this or you know, it's the same process. You can use things that you have also. Uh but if you do choose to get the bundle, it's a really, really good deal. Um we always help you with that. If you want to get the the full bundle. So it is the little bud bases. This little set here, it's got five in it. These can all be turned into glass containers. So, to turn one of these little these little pots or containers into a glass container, I showed you that on the first tutorial. So, last week on watercolor Wednesday, if you go back to that tutorial, we did two projects turning them into glass. So, glass by that I mean see through. So, that you can see the water and the long stems into the container which was intention when I made these is that they would look like that these these would look like glass containers and of course you can see that they can also be ceramic. So, they don't have to, they don't necessarily have to be glass but that's why I made these long stem florals or flowers and foliages. So, that you can add them to your container and you can see them through the glass. So, that was my intention for these and then, of course, they work in other containers as well, as well. So, those and then these little farmhouse Containers. I just thought these would be so cute to use in there. So we're going to be using this one. Uh this is the one I used on my card. So let me just you know what? How cute is that? Like literally less than five minutes before I came on. I thought oh you know what? I should just put this on a card really quick. And I just you know what? I just die cut it and glued it together. Literally in 5 minutes. So always keep that in mind. Especially when we're doing a journal. Um some of you may not be interested in doing a full journal but you want to send a card. And you can do that easily with these also. So a little farmhouse. Um images, you know, these little containers work great with these larger images, with these larger images. Now, I should also say because I did, I said this last week. Now, these containers all three sets of these containers came in rubber. Now, we ordered them in clear. That was not my intention that these come in rubber but they did. So, we're taking em and you know, they're available. So, if you are just a rubber fan and you love rubber. Um now's your time. Now's your chance to get these sets because when we reorder them they will come in clear. So and and I went over that too last week about why some sets are clear and why some sets are rubber. And why I have really changed my thoughts on the clear. Uh because of the quality of the product now. And the use. Um so if you're really curious as to why sometimes we have rubber and sometimes we have clear. Um go back to last week's tutorial. I sort of went in depth about that because we get asked that. You guys wonder, why do you want to just do 'em all the same? So, these three, these container sets would be, will be clear in the future when we reorder them. So, if you really love rubber, like I said, now is the time to get these. And then, here are those two new clear sets and these are clear. So, and they're clear for positioning. So, that they're easy to position but here is the glass container and we actually made this image sample in last week's tutorial. So, if you want to see how to turn these containers and let me just show you which one it is. So, it's this one right here. We just turned that into a see-through glass container and you can see how to do that on the tutorial from last week. So, here are these two and this is what I mean by these. You could just use one set in this journal. One set and maybe a container that you have or one set of containers that are in the bundle and you can make a ton of different illus for your journal. Okay? So we're going to be using some of these and let's see. Which ones? Let me just tell you. So we're going to use these two. Um these two right here we're going to be using this one. And I think I think that's all. Just those three. And then containers we're going to be using this small one right here. And the little the little teacup. So we're going to use this one too. Okay? And then in the bundle also is the sentiment pack. So, this is loaded. We jammed as many of these in here as we could. on this size stamp set. So, this is a four by 8. So, it is just loaded and it's got lots of different things. You know, healing thoughts, strength and courage, sending love and healing, rest, you know, hugs and support your way, things like that for different types of things that people, you know, maybe somebody is struggling with. So, this is a really really good set. Um very user, you know, will a multipurpose, I guess I should say, and it comes in the journal, or in the bundle, and then this is the, this is a free set. So, thinking of you, this is also rubber. Thinking of you and to a dear friend. So, these two sentiments will be really good for just whatever. You know, on your card. You know, could have put that on my card. If I had two more minutes, I would have put this on my card. Um, and then the two, the paper packs. These both of these paper packs come in the bundle. This is, I absolutely, I gotta show you the back too. Like, look at just how cute this paper is. It's so cute and it all just goes together. It's super super user friendly. Um it doesn't honestly doesn't matter what combination you have of these papers. They're all going to go together really beautifully. So, This one is great. This one is a cover pack. So, basically, what this is is for a journal cover. So, the journal covers because they're they're wide. Uh they don't, you can't cut them on a six by six paper, piece of paper and if you're like me, I want them to match. What's inside? And sometimes the cover paper is the hardest to find. It is for me. Trying to find a cover page that is perfect on the outside and the inside and a lot of time you know, 12 by 12 inch paper packs. You know, they don't they they might have like some specialty little you know, sentiment card or something on the inside of the paper. So, the outside is great but the inside isn't. So, these are plain on the other side. They're white on the other side and they just have the pattern on the front. So, they work great for a cover and then, you've got six six different ones, two two pieces of each. So, you've got a twelve and you could do six different journal covers with these. And then it's going to match whatever you have in here. Be perfect. Alright so let me set these aside. And we are going to get to our project. So last time. Let me zoom in a little bit now. So wow that was maybe just a little bit out. Okay so here is our journal. Um for those of you who weren't with us last week this was the this was the release. This is the journal that we are making. And so we went through the first half. And here is what we made. This is what is in the tutorial last week. Last watercolor Wednesday. So we went through this page. Um this page there's only one page in the Slim Journal. Just one. So you only have you know the the one page and the center and then the page on the other side. So there's not a lot that you have to do with these. They're they're actually pretty simple. So we made this. We tucked in a little special little sentiment in here. Um and then I just I cut the opening out so that my image from the backside will show. And I think that turned out really cute. So we did this one. So we did the page. And then we glued in these little extra little pockets that fit right into the spine. So I like to show this because you do have extra space in there. Especially if you're wanting just a little pocket like this. You can glue something into the spine. And it just adds a little more depth and interest to your to your journal. Hello Zilla. You know what? We'll take anytime we get you. So, if you're late, we don't care at all. Uh Mary Ann, thank you so much. You guys are so, you guys are always so encouraging. I just, I love this. I and you know what? I love about it. I love the the lavender. There's something about lavender. Anyway, that is relaxing. You know, you put it by your pillow so that you can sleep well. It's peaceful. Uh it's just something about lavender in this journal that I just love and that's really the color that I started with was the lavender. And we can get that beautiful lavender. So, we've got a, you know, we've got a a purple. You know, we've got a purple marker like that's this but this isn't lavender. This is more violet and the lighter it gets more violet, it gets but we can make lavender by adding blue. So, we add a little blue to it on our stamp and into onto our palette and we get this beautiful lavender. It's so pretty. So, that is what my thought was when I made this. Um so, I just I love that. I love that these things all go together and it's just a cooler. Lavender is just a cooler purple It's just a more peaceful. It's a really soothing color. And it's just I just absolutely love it. Um we made our little heart paper. This is a paper clip. You guys. And then I just die cut a little heart. And then glued it together from the backside. So let me just show. Let me take this off and I'll show you. So it's the same. It's just the same on the backside. And it will it can clip in your little frame or a note Or just you know anything. And I'm just I'm really a fan of these So, I love these little paper clips and I made this before I got I got this. Okay. so I was looking for colored paper clips. I bought this on Amazon and I don't, you know, I was looking for a a number or something and I I just I wonder if it came and I it just I just removed it, removed the tag but you can find this on Amazon. It's it's kind of big but I just, you know what? I feel like I might use a lot of these. So, it comes in different sizes. So, these are big. These are big paper clips and then here are the small ones and I ended up using this one in in the journal that we're making today but I just love this. I think it's so cute. You could do lots of different themes with it. You know, you could do a little you know, especially for Christmas, a little snowflake or you know, just a little circle with a. I thought that would be really cute. Cut it out of yellow paper and just put a little on it and just add these kind of add these little paper clips just wherever. You want to add, you want to just attach something like that. Now, I actually put it in with a with a a ribbon. So, this is holding it in place here but this is just another option that you can attach. You know, with this little paper clip. So, I I think that is just, I think that turned out really cute and I just I love this idea, you guys. So, I'll be using, I'll be doing stuff like this again. Um I just love that. So, gluten in these two little pockets. So, here's where we ended. We ended with this with these little pockets last week. And so we're going to do this page. We're going to do this one with the parchment paper. And then we're going to go over to this page and we're going to do this one. I just love this little image. It's so simple. You guys this is two stamps. And literally you know I mean two colors. Two stamps. Two color. Well I guess by the time you stamp this you know when you're going to add color to it. Literally two colors. Three colors. So it's it's super super simple. But you see that lavender color in here. That is a combination of the blue and the purple. And you're going to get this beautiful lavender color. So we'll go through that when we go to when we do our project. And then with an Encouragement Journal I mean you need a card. You need a card or something special that has you know some sort of sentiment in it. And maybe you want to write a personal note. And maybe you want to put in several notes. And you can do that too. So we've made we've made these little notepad ads where, you know, you're just, you just cut it here and you have two rectangle pieces like this and they just glue em together at the top with a score line and now, you can make a paper pad and so you can write multiple things in this and you know, maybe it's a maybe you have a memory that you want to share. Maybe it's you know, just a promise to get together for a coffee. Just you know, whatever. Just a personal note of something that you want to write that makes it makes it special for that person. Something that you love about them. Just something encouraging. And then, I just, I made this little parchment pocket and I think it turned out really cute. Put a little sentiment on it and this page is is done and then, on the back, we're going to make this little teacup with this little flower in it and any of these flowers can be switched around. So, whatever, you know, any of those flowers will work great in this little teacup. Okay, Amy says, oh, thinking it was great, be great to make that frame a magnet and attach it. That is a great idea. Amy, that is a great. How cute would that be? You could, you could put it onto, you could attach it to your refrigerator but you could put it onto a a file cabinet, you know, something that's that's metal, somebody that might have it at work. Um I think that is so, that is such a great idea. I love that. I love that idea. Well, I'm going to have to keep that in mind. That's a great idea. Yep. You know, and this one, you know, it comes in a frame, a little frame. So, you can cut, you know, another frame and just glue it to the back. You can put a little easel on it and you can make this a little stand up, a little stand-up frame too. That you could attach with paper clip, you guys. We're going to find all kinds of uses for paper clips. I mean, no kidding. That's why I bought this giant container. Honestly, I'm like, you know what? I just, I might just use all 9000 of those paper clips. I might make 9000 journals, you guys. Just might. Okay. So, we're going to we're going to do our projects and then these three projects and then we're going to add them to our journal and we will be finished. We will be finished with this journal. So, let me set this one aside. and let's get to the one that we are working on right now. So, here's where we are. We've gotten these pages in. We've gotten our little frame. I love this little frame too. I just, I absolutely love this frame. I think it's just, it's so cute and I love that it fits. You can cut it out of the six by six paper. So, if it's perfectly in your in your journal. It's so cute Alright. So, we are onto this page and then, we will be finished once we get these things glued in today. So, let me set this aside now. And let's get to our projects. So, here is here they are. These are the three. oops, let me get over into the screen. And zoom in a little bit further. Whoops. So you can see exactly what I'm doing. I'm going to go through and now I pre stamp these again for time's sake. But I'm going to show you exactly how I stamp them. And I did use a a platform. A stamp platform. But easy to line up because these are clear. So I stamped my little container and I used 222 colors to stamp this. This is a a ceramic container so it's not a clear glass container. Although you could easily make it that easily make it a glass container. Just watch the tutorial from last week and you'll be able to see exactly how to do that. So, we're going to use two colors. So, we're going to use the the blue first, the 565 and then right over the top, the 969 and we're going to stamp it off twice. So, stamp it off twice and then stamp it onto your your canvas. And once you've got that done, you want to just take a little piece of poster tape and just cover the lip right here. Cover this. Post it this edge so that you can stamp this inside. And now with this one we're going to use two colours. To ink this. So we're going to use the blue and the purple. And the purple is the six thirty-six and the blue is the five sixty-five. Alright? So we're going to ink it. And this isn't really important. If you want to get that beautiful lavender color. You're going to ink it with the purple first. This one first and then right over the top you're going to ink it with the blue. The five sixty-five. Okay? And once you're done with that you can stamp it directly onto your canvas. Or you can tap it off first. And by tapping it off I mean I don't mean just you know stamping it really hard even with your stamp platform. I mean just just barely closing your platform or touching it to your paper. Just to get the bulk of the ink off. And then stamping it onto your canvas. Okay? So for the most part what I do is I stamp it the first time but I stamp it really really lightly. I mean, it hardly touches the paper. When I close the lid of my stamp platform or you know, I touch it down to the paper. I barely touch it onto the paper and then, you can lift that lift that lid and look at how dark it is and most of the time, it's just, it's just perfect. It's really, really light. This is what we want. We want it to be this this dark. It it's really, really important that don't get too much colour on here. And the lines if you look at the lines they're very thin. And the reason they're thin is so that they don't make a dark outline. We want these to look as natural as is possible for them to look to look with the stamp. And we want people to see it and think that it's this is a watercolor that you've painted. And we're we're getting that. You can get that. You just want to be careful that you don't stamp it. Um too hard on there. Okay? And make sure if you want that lavender color that you're stamping that purple first and then the blue right over the top. Just right over the top. Okay? Same with this. Same thing with this one. And you know again if you want that lavender that beautiful lavender look you can you can do that. You can use the two colours. Which I think I did for this one. Now this one I think I might have just used. Let me look back here. I think I just used the purple on this one. I think I just used the purple on this one. But either way. Either way. And this is the one that we're going to use with the vellum. Either vellum or parchment. So if you have vellum paper, great. If you don't have vellum paper which I didn't have. I went to my kitchen and got my parchment paper roll out and I made it out of that. And that works really really great. So either one is going to work. So let's just let's start out with let's start out with this one. And then I'm going to zoom in way in. So that you can see because really important how you pull the color out of the lines now. We're going to start with the little with the florals. So, let me just get into the get into the screen and you guys, I'm so sorry. I always get on here and I have paint all over me always. And I am just so sorry about that. But I just I can't keep clean. Because I'm always into watercolor. So I've just I've got it everywhere. You guys. I'm so sorry about especially when I zoom in. Okay so now we're going to get our water and we're going to get our palette. And I think I can maybe just fit all of these things in the screen so that you can you can see. So, the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to use a a very small brush. So, this is a one, a one or a zero and you're going to really saturate your brush. This is how we always start and then, take your thumb from the metal. Everything that's been in the water and pull that color off. Ellen says, I like it when your hands look like that. You know what? I used to get my nails done all the time, Ellen. I used to get my nails done and I would go like four weeks and do it. and then, you know now that I'm into watercolor, I it's pointless to do that because they're just, I, my hands always look so bad, you guys, and I try but they're just, they're never, they're never going to look good. They're just never going to. Oh you are so kind. Cat Okay, you guys. Let's get to it. This is why I love watercolor Wednesdays. Um you guys are always just so kind. Julie says, no apologies. We all have colored fingers. You know what? That's our badge of glory. That's our that's our badge of honor is our inky fingers because there's there's literally no way around it especially your your other dance. So, you have your dominant hand that you're painting with and you're always pinching off. So, this you're just you're going to get just paint all over Um these two especially because you're always pinching off your brush. Just always doing it. But you can't use a paper towel because you can't control the water at the same. You have to feel it. You have to feel it when you pinch it off. And you're getting it off both sides. So I just I've tried. And because I always want to make it simpler for you guys. But with there's just there's no way to do it other than pinching it off. Okay so now now that we've got our brush all saturated. Next time we dip it. When we go to dip it again. Only the tip. Just the tip. Just barely the tip and pinch it off. Okay? So, the first thing that we're going to do is, let me just move this out of the way here. We're going to pull the color out of the lines and you can see how these petals all sort of bend. So, what we want to do is we want to show the color where it's the darkest and then, we want to leave highlights where it's the lightest and that's really it in a nutshell. That's really what we're trying to do. So, if it's easier to to to see where it's the darkest. Um start there. And that's usually what I do. I start where it's the darkest. Where the petals connect to the base of the flower here. That's going to be the darkest areas. Because they're coming down. They're coming down into the head of the flower here. They're coming down into it. So that area is going to be the darkers. So this this in here. That in there. As I petal. See how that drags that petal down now and attaches it to this part of the flower. Just that one little stroke. Just this little thing. This one. See how this folds over? This little petal folds over. So that's going to be a little shadow under there. Because this now is at the top. And you just kind of keep working your way around. And remember the rule about pulling the color to the shaded side. So you know, pulling this color. Now, from the line. So, never you're not going to ever ever take your brush and follow the line. Never do that. We're never ever doing that. We're pulling the color from one side to the other. Either side. To the inside or to the outside. Wear the darker part is, okay? Same here. So, I'm going to drag this color down. And you can see how that just brings that petal brings this part of the petal up. Same here with this one. And this color will come out and because these lines are really thin, it's just, it's enough color. It's just enough. We don't want too much. We don't want too much. So, let's continue on around here. So, we're dragging it to the outside edge of this edge and see how this bends over again. So, inside here, this tiny little area, that's dark. That's really dark. And then over here, along here and take your time with it. Just take your time and you can see how this flower is just coming coming together. Elizabeth, I have bad habit of wiping my fingers on my pants. Yes, you know what Elizabeth? I also have that. I do. Because I'll I'll go to pinch it off and then I'll drip something, you know, on my clothes. So, I usually have paint literally everywhere. Um Sandy, I have it on my hands and clothes. Me too. Me too, you guys. That's, you know, that's just part of it. We just, we can't help it. Sort of like bakers who get flour everywhere. We can't help it. Okay, so your just going to continue around. And you know what, if you go pedal by pedal, it's much less stressful than looking at a flower and being like, I'm not sure where to start with this. Start with the with the areas that you know for sure. You know, are going to be you know, that are going to be coming into where this petal is. And then just keep going. See as you're coming in here, same. In here, these are folded over. So, here's that highlighted area here on the top and then inside here, this is pretty dark and you can just kind of dab that. You see all the little dots in there? That's going to be different a different variation of colors. See this beautiful lavender color. It's so it's just so beautiful. I just love this combination. Marianna. Mary can I have an apron to wear while watercolor ing. I'm a slob. You know, a part of it too is just being in a hurry and trying to just get on to the next thing and I'm at the messiest creator. That's why I love my stamping uniforms. Misplaced my cleaning cloth again. No biggie shirt. Pants always works. Yes, Jane. I love that. Your stamping uniform. Love it. Okay. So, see in here how this one kind of comes forward and notice how it comes forward over this this one. So, this is coming forward. So, we can drag this color right on top of this little petal. See how that created a shadow right there? Because it's leaning over this and this one is inside and it's kind of just leaning over. And you know, these two underneath these two, as they're kind of leaning over, we're going to see that shadow and really, that's all you have to do. Honestly, you could add a little bit more color to it if you want to but if you're nervous to do that, you don't have to. You can leave it just like this. Now, you can go back in and get a little dark color You know, at the bottoms of these. See this one? You know, as it's coming forward, we're pulling a little bit of this color because this is this is kind of a rounded area here. And you don't have to do anything with this outside edge. You don't do anything with that. Just just leave it. Just leave it. And if you want to add color you you're going to do it from your palette. So we're going to add a little bit of this purple. And you can see the difference in the color. When you add when you add water to it you can see how that changes that color. See it's got it's just a little more violet. And when you add the blue to it you're going to get that that lavender. And you're going to get variations of it. So, when you kind of mix it together and you want to keep it really light. So, when you're mixing it together, you're going to mix it together in the watery part. And you can kind of see the color too a little bit better when you do this and then, you're going to pinch it off. So, you don't get too much color. You're just taking a little tiny bit of this. Not from here or here. This is too dense. This color is too dense. You want to take it from here where it's really light and just really beautiful. We're going to take it from here and here's where we can add just a little bit of color if you want to to the petals. And you're going to just kind of focus that darker color again down here. And then pinch it off. And then just drag it. Just like we apply color, you know, anywhere we apply color. We add the apply the color. We pinch off our brush and we drag it. Drag that color over. So, you can see, you can, you can apply that color to where it's the darkest area. See down in here. And you know, maybe just a little bit in here and down in here where it would be really really dark. And then just pick up different areas of color, you know, on your palette. And your brush with just plain water will just smooth everything out. It will just kind of blend. Okay? And that's really that is really all we have to do with that. Is that just so cute? Just put a little bit more color on here. As long as you have these areas the lightest. So if you want to add more color to it, just remember where the lightest areas are. So, you've got something that's bent over sale. This is bent over. You gotta have a highlight on that or it's going to be flat. If you color this little petal all solid, it's a flat petal. So, when you keep that dark color down here, you know, down here where it's connecting. You keep that dark. That's going to turn that petal and bring it up and around. It's such a, it's really a simple thing, you guys. Honestly, it is. And you'll just, you'll be surprised at how soon you just start to see it. You just, you just will start to see it when you're doing these things. Alright, let's go into the next one. So, we're going to do the same, same exact thing again. So, we're going to pull this color out of the lines. Let me move this aside and just look at it. Start with the ones that you know are connected to, you know, from the outside. Those are always the easiest ones to start with. So, we're bringing that color to the outside because that's where it's going to be the darkest. So, over here, drag this color out, drag it from here, and here Same. Even if it's a small area, you're going to do the same exact thing. You know, this petal is above. So, this one is going to come forward. This one's going to go back. So, that color is is below. It's below that line. That's where we're pulling it from. Is because that's going to bring this petal forward. And same in here. See how it connects there? And it's kind of bent over a little bit. So we can pull this color out. And see how that edge comes forward. Sandy, I love this but a little intimidating. Honestly, you will, Sandy, if you just, if you take your time and just look at it, just really look at it and see where it connects and start where the, start with the simple things, the simple ones. You'll, you will get it. You'll absolutely get it and just follow along with me. Just follow along. See, this one's, this one comes forward. So, it's going to, it's going to have that shadow, you know, under here. This one's bent over. And then it's it's kind of leaning over this one. This one is kind of, you know, leaning over, bending over and then inside where the little dots are, that's the, that's the darkest and just touch, just touch it. Anything that is a a curve is going to need some kind of highlight To make it a curve. I just think these are just the funnest and simplest little things to do and they just they look so cute and you guys, you can do it. Okay, look how cute that is. Just absolutely just the funnest thing. The mixture of 565 and 636. So beautiful. Yes, Tina. It is. It really is and don't be afraid to do that. I've done that on several things. You know, lately, especially is mixing the color when I go to stamp it because it really makes a difference and it does on these make a difference when which one? Which color is first? Which color is first? So, you know, with the blue and it calms down that purple. So, the purple is a pretty dark purple and I tried it both ways. I tried the blue first and then the purple and I didn't get the same result. So, the blue needs to be second when you're when you're putting this when you're inking it. And Zilla, you are welcome. Especially when it comes to these things. Like, you know, and and being able to zoom in this close, like, that's pretty, that's pretty awesome, that I can zoom in this close so you can really, really see. Um, the other thing is, have a tiny brush. Have a little tiny brush because that will also make a difference. And just take your time and go slow. And then, we can add a little color to it if we want to and and again, I'm mixing this on my palette. So, the two colors together, mixing them on my palette. I'm going to just make it really dark in here. Because when you can do that, when you can add the dark area, that really really makes a difference. See this little tiny section in here? That's really dark Um anywhere or you can add this darker color and think about what's on top of what. You know, whatever is on top, you want to the the shadow is just what's underneath. And that's how you're pulling the color out. Remember, you never color on the line, never. And and the shadow underneath always lifts what's on top of it. And again, I'm not doing anything with the outside edge. I'm just leaving that and using this little brush just really makes a difference. And where you take your colour too that's also, you know, that's also really important. Um, when you're going for a really light color, you want to take it out here where you've mixed that color. This one, this little petal back here is kind of in the shadow. So, I just added a little more color to it. It's kind of in the background a little bit. Okay. How cute you guys. Um Zilla. Need time to process. You'll be surprised Zilla how fast you catch on. Honestly. You you will. It says if there's literally it it's just it's a matter of a few steps and you know and it doesn't matter what colour you use. So you can do this with you can do this with pink or red. Or you know just a violet. You could just use the violet. If you really like that colour you could just do that. Or you can mix another combination. So I'm going to add just a little bit more color to this little petal here. Okay and I think we are good with this flower. So, let's do the little stems and I just used my my cold green. So, the 249 green. I just use this And when I inked it of course, I inked the blooms with the two colors and then I inked the stems and the leaf with the green. So, I didn't say that in the beginning but yes, two colors. And then just, you know, drag this, drag the color out and then you can go back and add a little more color. And where that green, you know, where that stem connects to the flower, the bloom, you want to have a dark, little dark spot there. That's darker. It it cast a shadow. You can put that little detail back into your leaf if you want to. Veronica, if I want to color the peony in pink, what marker should I use? and also two colors, also two colors. Um you know, I would I would I would do a test on that. Uh and you know what? That might be a really good live too to see what kind of combinations we could use. Um I would almost think a red and a pink. I would almost think that because you want to get that dark, that dark pink and if you mix red and pink, your you're going to get that. You might have to ink it with the red first and maybe stamp it off and then add the pink to it. But I would I would try that. 249 green. Yes. Yes, Theresa. 249 green. Um that's a great question. That would be really fun to try but it's so much of it is experimenting and I had to do that with mine too. I had to experiment with some different colors and see how they sort of interact and what what not just what combination but what order to ink them in because that that really a difference on this one. But when you use those two colours so I don't know if you can see if I hold this up even closer. Do you see the mix of color? Some areas it looks more purple and some areas it looks more blue. I love that. I love that. That's the thing about inking it in two colors also. Is that you don't have the exact same shade everywhere. And when you put it on your palette you're kind of mixing these colors up. You're going to get that. You know some code that you're applying to your petals might be a little more purple. Some might be a little more blue. But because of the way that flowers are and the way that the light you know is on them. They do have different colors. And so you can get that. It looks a little more natural. Alright so let's go onto the little container. And now in this case, Um we're just going to so I inked it in the two colors. So the blue and the brown. Just like just like before because it's a ceramic. So the 565 first and the nine 69 right over the top. And because they're rubber this time. So when they're clear you only need to stamp it off one time. But when they're rubber two sometimes three times if you want it pretty light. If you want it pretty light. So I think I probably stamped mine off. Um stamped it off two or three times. At least two. And I could have stamped it off three. Um because I do want it to to be mostly a white ceramic. So I don't need a ton of color. But I do need a little bit of that dark kind of earthy colour in it. Which is exactly what we've got here. So we're going to add we're going to add some color to it now. And a little bit of a shadow which will be the blue. So, this blue right here, we're going to add just a little bit of a shadow under the lip like this and you know, you could just put a little shadow of this flower that's kind of leaning off to the side and maybe maybe we just put a little bit over here too where that leaf is. So, you can see what a difference that little tiny stroke made. It brings this whole thing forward and makes it look three dimensional. So now we can just put a little bit of color just kind of along the side. Just to give it a little bit of a shadow so we can really see the highlight in the middle So, pretty light with this. Okay and then, we're going to we're going to do this little base with this combination of the blue and the purple. And you can test this. You know, so if you when you go to brush it on to your canvas, you can kind of test it and see what color it is. Okay, that's that's pretty close to what we're looking for. Is that that lavender So that's this is really close. So, we're just going to take this color now and we're going to just make a line Across the middle and then we're going to apply the color to the sides. I just love this color. Have I told you guys how much I love this color? I just love it. There's always something to be learned. You know, and I've been doing this for many years and I learned something all the time. There's always something that we can learn to improve our So now, we're going to go another, we're going to make just another pass and we're going to just add another color to the edge and then we're going to dip our brush and pinch it off and then we're going to drag it over. And and leave a little bit of a highlight in there. And then we're just going to mix a little bit more and just put one more stripe. See if I can get this straight. Okay, listen up. Ain't that cute? That is so cute. I just love it. I don't know what I love most. The flowers or the color? Because you guys know how much I love the color. Okay, already. We did it. And then you can add just a little shadow. You know, to the base Um just like that. And it just is just the cutest. Okay so we are finished with this one. It's my favourite colour no matter the shade. Peggy I know. I love purple too. I love all kinds of purple. And Veronica, you are welcome. You guys, if you have any questions, more questions, ask me. I am so happy to answer em. If I have an answer. Okay. So, let's go to this one. And you know what? It's going to be really similar to the other one. It's going to be really similar. So, we're going to go back to our small brush. And this one, I think I kept most of the color to the inside. And and we can do that. So, we're going to just begin to pull the color out. Now, we don't have anything laying over the top of each other with this one and this one, I think I I think I mostly did the purple. I mean, it could be wrong. I'll find out when we go to pull the color out but with this one, we're just going to pull that color where it's the darkest again. Nope, I see the blue in there. So, I must have done the two colors. So, you're going to start out just by dragging the color from the center and just leave that outside edge. And just, you know, you gotta do each section individually. Just each one. And this one's kind of bent over. So we're going to do a little shadow underneath. Because we want to highlight this top. Same with this. This one's kind of bent over too. This one. It's kind of leaning over. So, it's just, it's darker on the bottom. So, you see that little shadow on the bottom. This one too is kind of bent over. And then you're just pulling it from from the inside and again, same idea is that we want it to, we want these flowers as they connect, the petals connect down to the base. We want to see that darker area. In here. So, let's do the same. Mix this color and we're going to add some more color now right here at the base of these flowers. And then, put your brush and just drag that color over and it just, it'll just kind of spread that color out. And in here we're going to really, we're going to add this color right to the center like so and then pinch your brush off and then just kind of drag it out a little bit so it'll just kind of fade out And just keep going. Take a little more of this color. Mix it up. Pinch it off. And then just drag that color over to the petal. To the top of the petal because the very top where it kind of curves. So the petal isn't coming straight out. It's got a bend to it. And so that's what's catching the light. It's right about here. And then that petal is coming down and connecting right here to the bottom And then pinch your brush off. And drag that color out and let's just put a little color in here And that little bud. Alright, so now we want to get the centers darker. So, we want to get pick up some darker color here. And we want to just add some color to the center. And just kind of dab it in like this. You know, where you'd be able to see it. Then we're just going to make a few just a few little lines here. You can do this with your twin tone or you can do it with your brush. And then we're going to add some we're going to add a little white paint to these two when we're finished. So just a few little detail lines. And you can see I'm mix I'm picking up some blue. I'm picking up some purple. Okay. So, now, let's go to the green. Lori, hello, welcome. Doing yard work. Oh, good. Good to do it in the morning before it gets too hot. Lori, you can always go back and check too. We're in the middle of part two of the Encouragement Journal and so we're doing the last of the images in that journal. So now, I'm taking, this is same green that I used before, that 249 green and we're just adding this now to to the petals, to the leaves. And this is why a little brush is a must. And this isn't in a container. This one's not in a container. So, it's just stamped on here. And because we're going to use that parchment paper. And make a little bouquet. Which will be so cute. And just keep going. Get all these little stems. And this one, you know, would be really cute in a glass container too. You know, that big, one of those big glass containers because of the stems are long. So, they're made to, they're made to fit in those containers. Show. Show through the glass. You could use your other green too. You don't necessarily have to use this green but it's kind of a calming green. You know, it's blue. It's kind of a blue green. It's a soft colors. These are just really soft colors. And we are almost finished with this. So you can go back in now and you know, where you, where these flowers connect, you know, that should be just a little bit darker. This one's kind of in the background You know, under here, that will just bring them forward. Bring the the bloom, the head of the bloom forward. And if you add just a little more color to some of these leaves, it will change em up a little bit so they don't look all the same. That's that's really what we don't. We don't want everything to look uniform. And you can also just mix up your greens. So, you can add some of the other green to it too. The oneseventyseven. You can add some of that to it too. Okay. That one is finished. So, let's get on to our last one and you guys, it's the same exact thing. It's very similar to what we just did. Um that's why these flowers are just so easy. Cecilia, first time on a live. Oh, just got home. Cecilia, hello. Welcome. We're so glad to have you on here. We're just painting away, painting florals. So, I'm going to switch over to my larger brush. These are bigger blooms. So, I'm going to switch over to my larger brush and again, you're going to look at what's on top of what, okay? So, see how these petals, so this petal, right here, is on top. So, the color is going to come out on top like that. Do you see that? It's going to come below the line. This one's on top. So, it's going to come below the line. Uh this one, And this one And this one and this one. Now do you see how that just raised those little petals up? It just raised him up by doing that So, we're going to do the next one. We're going to do the next one same way. So, we're going to drag the color from from the bottom of the line because this petal is in front and then, this one, let's see. Is that one in front? Looks like this one's in front. And this one's in front. And this one And this one And this one now. See how this one kind of curves around? So we're going to we're going to darken this in here but we're going to leave this white this light highlight right along this ridge. So it's going to be a little darker here. And a little darker here. And now we can see where these petals, You know which one is on top. And which one's on the bottom. Oh, Cecilia. Thank you so much. What a kind thing to say. Um I just appreciate you being on with me. I love that we, you guys love to do this with me because it is just I just love doing it. I love it. Thank you so much. Okay. So, now you could see how those petals are raised. See how that just shadow underneath just brings that up and now you can drag this color out a little bit. Again, we don't want to do anything with the outside lines. Really don't have to do much with that. So, we're just going to drag a little bit of this color out And then this these little buds. I don't have to do too much of those. We just have gotta get a little color on them. Okay, so now, we're going to add some more color to this and a little bit more purple to this one. Change it up a little bit. And again, the same thing. We're going to we're going to add that color to the to the inside where they connect. That's where it's going to be the darker, darkest and then, pinch your brush off and just drag it so that you kind of break up those harsh lines. Like literally that's it. That's it. The biggest thing is how you pull the color out of the lines. And then let's add that little dark center. Which always makes a huge difference We do that. See how this one kind of bends over? This one kind of bends over. So, we're going to just make sure we see that highlight on the top You see that little highlight on the edge? And then add some more color in here. And then blend it out. And then add a dark center here And we just move on to the next one. Same thing. Now, I'm thinking about that red and pink. You guys. What could you use? I think I would use red and pink. I think I would try that first. Or a burgundy. Some sort of a a violet. Um there's a really pretty violet pen. You could try that one too. You know, I'm going to get off live and I'm going to go try that. The pink. Cuz that would be so cute especially a really light pink. And adding these little lines in, that's that also adds a lot to it. Just putting these tiny little creases in where the petals are. Pinchy brush off and just blend it out Add your dark center. And a few little accents. And we're almost finished. So, let's do this. This little bud. This one is the, you know, kind of tucked in behind. So, it's going to be just a little darker and even on these tiny little things, you know, if you can get a little highlight in there, you're going to be, you're going to be much happier with that. Okay. So let's do our our leaves and our stems. Again I'm using the same green. And the green, you know, in here like the lines, those are really for color and see I stamped over that little container but it just washes right out. And you can still see the lines. So, if you use those lines for color, you know, where you just get your brush and just kind of blend those lines out just to get color into the leaf. Um you can still see them. So, it's totally fine to do that. And then you can just add a little more color in here. And then once that's dried well let's go in here and really darken these these areas that are kind of in the background. They're pretty dark back in here and this one So, this stem right there Back in there. And once that's that's dry, you can you can kind of put in these little these little lines again. Kinda follow the lines and just put some details back in if you want to. Um okay. So, let's finish up here with this little container and I just put a little detail on it So, I just made a little scallop and I I would do this with a pencil because I just would probably would have to erase the first time I made it and you know what? Maybe I did it okay this time. But a pencil is really nice because you can just erase and I just wanted to make it a a two-tone But you can decorate this these little this little cup too. Stamp a little flower with a leaf on it. It'll be so cute. Okay so now we're going to mix this color again. We're going to get that lavender. And we're going to put that on the bottom. So, I'm using my my big brush. And kind of mixing this this up and we're going to just kind of apply that color And I think we'll just make the stand the handle the same colour. So, you see how much water I had on here? I just keep pinching my brush off to get all of that extra water off. And then I'm just going to apply the color to the sides. And then pinch it off And just drag it over. And just leave a little Just leave a little highlight and you can make it, you know, however dark you want to. You just keep adding to the edge, the outside edge and then, pinch your brush off and just drag it over. So cute. And we're going to add a little white paint to it. And we'll just do a little bit of blue along here. Because even though it's white It's still going to have a bit of a shadow. And you know what? You can just drop a little shadow from these leaves too. If you're brave just drag a little bit of that color down below Okay. So, now, let's put a little shadow down below here. And we are finished with this. Okay, let's do our let's do our white paint. Let's move this out of the way and as soon as this is dry, I want to make sure that's really dry before I take that pencil line out. I think it is. And then we can just take this pencil line out of here. Okay. Just going to just darken that a little bit on there. Okay so now let's get our white paint. And we're going to add a little bit of white to the centers of these and I think I think that's all just for these. So let me zoom out a little bit. So, I, let me show you guys this. So, if you're white paint ever looks like this how many of you have opened the jar of your white paint and it looks like this? Um I went to grab this and I thought, oh my goodness, I'm glad I looked But it is, this, do not throw this away. Add a few drops of water to it and sometimes you can just shake it up but it will come back to life and it'll be as good as new. Thank you for doing this. Really help inspire me. You are so welcome. You are so welcome. You could use a scallop edge dye to help draw them in. That's a great idea. You sure could. Yep, a little scallop edge. Just lay that right across there and just draw it, just trace it right on. Great idea. Okay, so I'm going to have to resurrect this back again but you're not supposed to be able to hear it like that. So here's the one that I was looking for. and even it, you see the crack in the bottom? Like, they do just kind of dry out. Even if you have the lid on really tight, just add, you know, a couple of drops of water and you're you're good to go. Alright. So, I'm going to dip my brush in my in water. Pinch it off. And then I'm just going to take some of this paint from the side. This is just how I do it. Just drag it kind of up to this to the to the edge And I might need just a little bit more water. You know a little bit really makes a difference And just kind of keep mixing it up. And they can drag it you know to the edge. Get that excess off and you can just add some little dots in here Okay, that's all we have to do with that. And then for this one, we're just going to add a little a few little dots just right here. And you could add, you know, another little stripe or something too. You can also just add a couple of little highlights in here. Okay, that's so cute. Um you could add just a little highlight on the handle where the light just might be catching that. A little bit here on there You know we always gotta try to find somewhere to put the white paint. Little bit on these. So cute. And even on your on your leaves. You can put a little bit on there too. So cute. Alright so now clean my brush off. And let's get this assembled. Into our journal. Okay. Lid on. And out of the way. Palette out of the way. Okay and let me zoom out a little bit. So we can get this into into our journal. Alright. So, we've got our little projects here and then, let's get our journal. So, this is the one that we are working on and you can see we are all through the center. So, we are on this page right here and this one is the one with the the parchment paper. So, let me glue this in. Oh, you know what you guys? My glue is over. Hang on. Hang on. I gotta get my glue. Hang on. Don't leave. And I'm by myself in here so I don't have anyone to, I don't have any gophers to get stuff for me. Okay, I'm back. Okay. So, I've got my glue and I'm going to start out by just gluing in my my background paper So, my accent paper and I'm just using this and this is cut out by so this is from the original die set and I'll show you as I go what die set. Um I'm doing these things from. So, this is the original journal set and there are there is tons in here. Even if you just have this one, you've got frames, you've got pockets, you have banners, you have lots of stuff that you can use from this die set but this one the actual die, the actual journal is from this set. So, this is the Slim Journal and the difference is that it has a small spine. It's exactly the same, the page sizes are exactly the same. It's just got a really small spine because it only fits one page. So, you can see up here. This is this is basically what it is. So, it's the journal and then it's got one page that just attaches into the spine area. So, that's what I'm, that's the, that's the cover that I'm using for this but this page is from the original journal set. So we're going to glue that in. And the accent page just adds some colour to the background. Basically is what it does. And you can choose any paper for this. Like literally look how cute this would be also. This is on the backside. See how cute that would be in here? I mean you could just use either. It's hard to pick sometimes. Uh and then when I cut it out I'm like oh my gosh I should've just used that backside. That's so cute. So you just kind of glue this in here. Just put it in the center. Um straight include that onto the page and then that gives you color so that you can add your your flowers and whatever else. So, this is the one that goes in here and we're also going to use a few other things. So, we're going to glue in our little floral like this but before we do that, we're going to glue this one in. Um to the other side. Or or we can glue it in here this way too. Which would also be really cute. In fact, kind of like that bitter. Let's do that. So, we're going to attach this to this So let's attach this first. And we're only going to attach it with on three sides so that we can make a pocket. Right here. So we're going to create a pocket with this. So we're just going to glue it on two side or three sides. So just like this. And then we'll just glue it in here. Kind of in the centre And this is from this set. This is the other one that I use the most. So these are all like layering dies. And they create all these little accents like this because they're kind of made to fit on the inside and they just layer on top of each other. So they give you just a really nice effect because they're different edges. They have all different edges. So use that one a lot. And then our our image is just going to go right on top of it like this. And I'm going to do the same with this one. So, we're just going to or glue three sides so we can make a pocket and then we're going to just glue it onto here. Okay. And then this is the one that we have the the parchment paper on. And I just cut these little triangles and I'll show you how I cut these. I just literally cut triangles for here. And then I fold it over the long side. And I'll show you how I I'll show you how I do it. But then they they kind of just connect. And they make this really cute little bouquet looking thing. That we just glue in. So we just glue it in. Just like this. And then we've got a bow that can just glue right on to the top. So, let me show you before I glue this in, let me show you how I made it. So, I just took a piece of parchment or you could use vellum. Um like I said and I just folded it in half. So, I fold it in half so that I I've got equal. I mean, this is a 45° angle here and so, I just folded it in half. And then I measured with a ruler. And I made a little pencil mark. At the top. So, this is about one and about one and three quarters, close enough. One and three quarters. Made a little pencil mark right there. Right here and then this one is about two just about two and a half. Two and a half made another pencil mark. And then draw a line. Draw a line between the two. So straight down here. And then you can make another line. This is this is your fold line. But you don't you don't even have to. You can just fold it down. It doesn't have to be that exact. So now you're going to right along this outside line and then you're going to cut it, cut it apart. So, you've got two because of that fold line, you got two of these. So, then, you're going to just take your scissors and just kind of put that, the scissors right along that edge and cut these and if they're not exact, it's it's totally fine. And now, you're going to fold on the long side. So, you're going to just fold it in. Just a little fold like this. Just fold it. Same with this one. Make sure you're folding on the long side Okay? Just like that. And then just just trim off the just trim this edge off here. And you got this really cute little triangle like this. But you need two of them. So, trim this off and then, they just, they go together like this They just go together like that. This would be really cute on a card too. Just on the front of a card. How cute. And make your little bouquet. So you could use any you could use any of these. And put them in a little bouquet like this. This one too. How cute would that be? And just put it on a card. It would just add a little extra to it. Um And it it's just it's going to work great. Okay so let's just glue it in. Let's get all my mess cleaned up here. And like I said, this is parchment paper from my kitchen. So, there's I like, I literally have feet and feet and feet of this. So, it's cheap and you probably have it in your drawer and you could just run down and get some. Okay. So, now, what we're going to do is we're going to kind of you know, put these together like this and put just a little glue dot right here at the at the at the corner. Just to kind of glue em together. Just like that. Another another hook together. So they're not going to come apart. And then you're just going to add some glue. To the bottom. Like this. And you can just put it right there at the bottom. And you can see through it which is so cute. You got your little villain or your little parchment And then what did I do with that bow? Here it is. And then I just tied this little bow. And we can just put a little glue on it. And put it right here in the center Let that dry. And isn't it just so cute? And then let's make a little a little pullout. And I just cut this. Uh this is just from the the rectangle set. And then the little tab is from the frame set. So let me show you. Where that is? It's from this it's from this frame set. So it's this little this little tab right here. I use this so much. Every time I make a journal I have some kind of pullout. And I use that to pull out these little tags. And this is just just you can make this whatever size you want depending on what sentiment you want to put on it. But it's kind of just a perfect size to fit into these little pockets. Cuz you can't make them too big. Um they won't fit all the way in here. So these are just perfect. This little rectangle Let me just tell you the size because if I were watching, I would want to know. So, this is inch and a quarter wide by two and one, two, three eights. But you could go two and a half also. So, that's just the size and then I rounded the corners. Just rounded the little corners. And now you can just attach your your tab to it like this. So, we'll just put some glue on here. Okay. So we've got this glued on. Now you can put your sentiment on here. Whichever one. And and by the way you guys that if you want the scriptures this is on the website. So, there's the sentiment set that comes in the bundle. But there's always this there's also this available. So, if you are someone who wants to send a scripture verse verse of Encouragement, this is a free printout. So, you can go to our website Art Impressions. com. Go to Get Inspired and at the very top, you'll see the Encouragement Scripture Pack and click on it'll tell you where to go to download it and print it off as many times as you want or you can buy this and we'll put it in your order. So, this is on heavier card stock. It's printed in the purple and you can buy this for $3 If you want that. If you don't have access to a printer that could print this off for you. So, you can you can just buy this but these all fit on this size is what I'm saying and oh and good amount of these also will fit on these little pullout tabs. So they're kind of made with that in mind, right? So, now, I'm just going to slip this in here like that and I've got my little tab and this should be all dry and we're ready to go. So, I didn't I didn't glue it all the way down to the to the paper here because I wanted it to look a little more three dimensional. So, I just glued the edges down and then that tiny little dot right here on the side. Okay, so let's go to the next page. And this one is our the little ceramic pot. So, this one we're going to put this one on this page. So, we're going to add our accent paper and I put this cute green. Isn't that just so cute. Love this and this would be also cute. I do this every time. I go flip it over and I'm like, oh my gosh, I should've I should've just done that color. Cuz it's just they all they all go together really well. So now we're going to glue this in. Make sure that is straight. And then I cut this frame. So this is from that the square frame set which I just showed you guys. So it's this one. It's this one right here. This frame. And this is the the rectangle frame set. So that's the one I use. This is a great set. It not only does it have the tab but it's got these cute little frames too. These are amongst my favourites. Um I love these two. And these two frames. I use these all literally all the time. Um so got it here. And the the neat thing about this is that you cut it out with your accent paper. But then you cut it out with watercolor paper. And then you take the center and now you know that fits in here just perfect. So this will fit in here just perfectly inside this little frame. And you can pop it out if you want to or you can just glue it in flush with it here. So we're going to glue this down. And then you know that it's going to fit in here perfectly. So we'll just glue this in here straight. Glue that down. and then, like I said, you could, you could easily pop this up and that would be it. Let's just do it because I think that would be really cute to pop that up now that we're talking about it. So, let me just put some little foam dots on here. Rip that right off here. Put some of these on. Just put four on just four Time's sake. All these little stickers off. And then we can just put this into our little frame. And it will just be so cute. Okay. So we just pop that up. And that is so cute. Alright so now we're going to do this page. And this is the so here's our accent. Now this one is because it's because this is a cover side. Um the accent you can use the accent page but it's going to be way smaller than this page. So this is what I used for this is the set. This set right here because it has these cover decorative edges here. The big ones are for the cover and then the small ones are for the inside pages. And so I just use one of these. This big one right here. And I just cut it and it just fits perfectly right there. And look how cute this side is. You guys, I mean, this would be so cute too. It's hard to decide, honestly. And I'm going to leave leave this edge open just in case I want to add another pocket or a tab. Oops, let's get that straight. So I've got room now if I want to add something more in here. Okay, so now, let's glue down. Here's my parchment paper. I just cut my pocket out of this parchment paper and so, let's just glue it in here. And we'll just put it right down here Super easy And I like that you can see through it. I my thought was, you know, how you can see really pretty, beautiful, you know, wedding cards or birthday cards that have that beautiful vellum on the top. I just think that's so pretty and it adds a little bit of elegance to it and I thought, I wonder if we can just put that into a journal and you know what? Sure enough. We can. Okay. So, this is just that same piece that I cut. I just cut another one and folded it in half and got this and then I just made a simple front on it but you could also do a little watercolor on here too. You could cut a little oval out or a square or use that little frame Um this one. Use one of these little frames and put a little watercolor in here. Be so cute. Maybe a single bloom. Just one of these. But I just I just did a simple version here. And I put a dot on here and then put a little heart with a little sticker jewel And these are just cute to add anywhere. Um it's just it's just one of these. You guys probably all have these in your stash. Just these little gems. And I just had these little purple kind of purple purplish blue ones. And I just think they're so cute. Okay so now we've got our little card and again, just, you know, put whatever you want in here. Just put a white, cut a white filler, paper, and just write a note or you can write on this too but write a personal note or put something, you know, a picture, tuck a picture in here. That would be so cute. Could totally do that. See how cute that is in there? I think that's so cute and of course, we have room for a pocket too. So, now, the backside, is our all picture. In the cup. So, we're going to glue this together and I just cut up a larger oval that will fit on here and just make a little frame for this. So, we're just going to glue this together. And attach this See if I can get it lined up in the center. I don't know why. Sometimes ovals are just so hard to line up. Do you guys have that problem? Uh because they can turn a little bit. And so you just you just want to make sure you get it right. I need some tiny bit off but that's okay. Um now before you glue this on you want to make sure that it's going to fit in the opening. Perfectly in the opening. So let's let's just do that. So want to line up and make sure that it's going to fit right here. So, what I do is I just kind of lay it in here like this and make sure I've got it in the center exactly where I want it. And straight. And I think that's that's probably pretty good right there. You're so welcome, Linda. You're so welcome, Catherine. You guys are so welcome. Okay, so now that I've got it here, exactly where I want it. So, I'll hold it in place like this and then, I'll just put a little bit of glue underneath it. Right here. And then I'll just turn it and put a little bit of glue down here. And then I know that I've got it in the right exact right place. Just hold that there for a second. Okay so now we've got our little journal. And we've got all of our pockets. We've got all of our tabs, you guys. We've got this all finished. Um make sure you go through and just initial all of your art. Now, that's something I didn't do in here but I will. Um go through an initial. All of your art. Make sure that you have signed everything. every single one of these little compositions is a one-of-a-kind original. So, you want to be sure and do that. Make sure you sign and date. Um all of those things. And this will go together just like this. Then, you know, I just used a I just used a ribbon to close mine but you can use the clasp, you know, that is from the original die set. You can use that or you can use the the heart, little heart clasp. You can use that one too. So, okay, I'm going to switch over you guys. Now, that we are finished. Can you believe it? We did it. Um you could use the 20twenty-four stamp in here. Catherine, the twenty twenty-four stamp. Oh yeah, the 2020. Oh gosh, took me a second, Catherine. Yes, absolutely. You could. She's talking about the little date stamp from the Bible Journaling Set. You absolutely could. Um Siska, can't wait to get my bundle. She be coming quick, Suska. Should be, should be on its way. Um okay, let me switch over. So I can say goodbye to all of you. You guys, how much fun was this? I I don't know if you had as much fun as I did but I had so much fun putting this together. I hope you guys do too. Um don't forget that don't forget the inspiration that you can download. So, all the scripture verses, you can get this free on our website. Just go to get inspired and you'll see the scripture pack up there for the Encouragement Journal and then the bundle is on the website. So, you'll be able to see it right into the where the the slideshow is, you'll see it in there. Click that and it'll take you right to the bundle. Uh big discount on that and I hope you guys enjoy this tutorial Just ordered the bundle. Thank you so much. You are welcome. Love all the journals. You guys are so kind. Uh thank you so much for your encouragement. I always walk away from here feeling so thankful and just so blessed to be in this group and to be with all of you guys. So, I just I think of you as my friends, my people. Um we talk about you like that all the time. All of us do and we're We're so thankful for all of you. Thanks for being on with me and I will be back next week. So, I'll see you guys all again and Diane, you are so welcome. Thanks everyone. Thank you so much for being on with me today. Uh I'll be back next week and you guys enjoy your day and I hope you I hope you make this journal. Have a great day. Have a great weekend and I'll see you back next week.

Watercolor Wednesday! | Watercolor Wednesday! NEW RELEASE REVEAL! Encouragement Journal reveal and tutorial with Bonnie Krebs! | By Art Impressions Rubber Stamps | Hello, Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Watercolor Wednesday and this is going to be a fun one. I have been looking forward to this Watercolor Wednesday for weeks and it has been a long time coming but I'm so excited to show you what is new. Um we've got a big release for you today. We're going to do we're going to do some watercolor projects and I'm going to kind of explain, I'm going to go through all of these sets and it kind of explain everything to you and then I'll show you what we're going to be doing today. So, let me say hi to everyone. Before we get started. Uh Theresa, Sheree, hello, Amy. Amy is on. Hello. The new Journal though, yes, Amy. It is going to be so fun. So, this this release kind of has a theme and I had this in mind when I started putting this together and we're calling it the Encouragement Bundle and it is because that's the theme. It's the Encouragement Theme. Um we're to be doing a journal, a small one. So, a Slim Journal, we're going to do it in two lives. So, we're going to get halfway through today and then, we're going to do the other half next week on Watercolor Wednesday. So, you guys, I just, I absolutely love this so much and this has just been on my mind for literally months about creating this journal and and and not just the journal but cards also. So, you know, keep in mind that these things can also be used on cards but I just feel like there are so many people that need to be encouraged and we can put something together that will really brighten someone's day regardless of what they're going through. It just seems like, you know, there are so many people struggling with hard things right now and so, that is the theme of this bundle and that's what I had in mind when I put it together. So, I can't wait to show it to you guys. We're going to go through the whole thing then I'll show you that little journal that I put together. So, let me say hi to everyone Peggy, love the theme. Yeah, Peggy. It really is. Like I said, this has been on my mind for weeks and weeks and weeks and finally got a chance to put it together and I just felt compelled to make it and sometimes that's just how it is. Sometimes, I'm just compelled to do it. Whether I think I have time, whether I think that, you know, it's a Good you know time to do it or not. I feel compelled to make it. And that's kind of how I felt this time. Just you gotta make this journal. Gotta make it. Gotta make this line of stamps. Just gotta do it. So here it is you guys. It's finally ready. And I just I can't wait to show it to you. Ruth Ann it'll give Joy absolutely. It will give joy. And you know something like that just a word of encouragement. Um something that is hand Created, you know, made special for someone and you know, I used the Slim Journal because it's it's quicker. You know, it's not as in depth as the full-size journal. However, you can make one of those too but it's it's quicker. The projects are ultra simple, ultra simple and I know the watercolor, I say this all the time that watercolor is really simple but these are ultra simple because I want you even if you're a beginner, I want you to be to do these projects. They are absolutely the easiest thing. I'm going to show you today. We're going to do some. Uh the journal itself, it just has six watercolors in it. They're so easy. That's why we're doing it in two lives because it's that easy and that quick. So, I want I want to go through all that with you and I want to go through all of the new sets and the bundle and of course, you know, we've got a bundle especially with a release like this. There's a bundle. It's a substantial discount 20%, you guys, for the bundle because there's a lot in it. There are a lot of sets but you know what? It's just it's it's so it's just going to be so fun. It's going to be so fun to make and everything in it is super versatile. So, again, it's part of your collection. You can get it individually. You don't have to buy the bundle. You can get it individually if you want to and just go slow. So, that's also an option but for those of you who just want to get everything, you just gotta have everything. We're giving you a big discount on that. Um so let me just keep saying hi to everyone Um Sherry says, stressful times, we need to share joy. I have just absolutely felt that so much in these last months Um just so much, you know, uncertainty and you know, whether it's personal or just the world we live in, just uncertainty, fear, anxiety, depression, financial issues, relational issues. It's just, you know, it's just it's it's hard. It's a hard time for people. For all of us. It's a hard time. And I just felt like I needed to create something that would be an encouragement. So you guys I just I'm so jazzed to show this to you. Um I'm going to go through everything. Um Azilla, you haven't missed anything. You're we're just getting started. So, I'm just saying hi to everyone. saying hello to everyone who's on here. Kinda scrolling through. Theresa, hello. Uh Consuelo, hello. Uh Pauline, Ellen, Julie. We can all use encouragement. Exactly. You know, exactly. Um Ultra Simple is appreciated. Yes. You know what? It's gotta be simple because it's also gotta be quick. Like, we're, you know, we're busy. We have busy lives and we have good intentions of creating some you know beautiful but sometimes it's just a matter of time. We just have to have the time to do it. So, trying to do something that's super simple Um you know, it's always a good thing. Karen says perfect time. I'm so glad the Lord put this on your heart. I just felt that you guys. I just have felt it. Compelled to do it. And you know I just I couldn't put it aside. So here it is. And you guys I love this little journal. I absolutely love it. And I love that it's simple. It's simple. So you guys You guys, let's switch over. I'm going to switch over. I'm going to show you all of the sets that are in the new release that are in the bundle. I'm going to show you all of that. There's a new paper pack which I absolutely love. I know it. I say this every time but this now is my favorite. It is just so beautiful. The colors are really subdued and beautiful and regardless of what you're going through, this Encouragement Bundle will be good for any of those things. It will just cheer and bring joy. It honestly will. So, Let me switch around and I'll show you. I'll go through all of the sets and then I'll show you the the little journal and then we'll get started on it and like I said, we're going to finish this journal in two tutorial s. So, we're going to get halfway through today and then, we're going to finish it up next week and we'll we'll just we're we're going to do the watercolor and then we're going to assemble it. So, half of it will be done today and you guys can just be inspired, I hope. So, okay, let me switch over. Let switch over and I'll show you what is in here. Okay, you guys. Here it is. This is it and I love, you know, once I got started in this, so, you know, I was thinking with the Encouragement Journal, I just saw florals and I just I see things in my mind. So, when I'm visualizing this journal or these cards that you're going to be sending to people, you know, whether it's a sympathy card, whether it's a get well card, whether it's a thinking of you, I know you're struggling right now. Whatever it is, I just see florals. Florals and it's good for everyone. It's it's good for every age group. It's good for whatever and so, I thought, I'm going to do some new floral, super simple ones and then, some new containers, Simple containers that I have not done before. So, I started out with these little bud vases and I just love these. The other thing I was really wanting to do was something that is clear, something that's clear like this little sample right here. So, that you can turn these containers into a clear little little vase like this one. And then do something simple. This is such a simple little illustration here. It's a simple little bud vase. One flower and one little leaf. I mean and it's so cute. You could put that on a card and you're good to go. Like literally this would just take minutes. So I did this little bud vases. All different sizes. Well all different shapes. And let me just show you kind of what they look here and then we'll come back to this because I have some information to give you on these. So, here's what they look like and here's actually the size. So, you can see on here, these are a little bit smaller than the actual size of the stamp but look how beautiful that is. They're just, there, the the colors and the the the florals are really soft and just really beautiful. So, here's the actual size of one of these little bud vases. So, it will make a beautiful little card. It really well. Just this simple little thing. So, that was the first one that I thought of was something that is clear and something that is simple for a long stem. So, then, you know what? We need long stems. So, we've got two sets of long stems that will go in those little vases and these these will work great together. So, we've got a little a little florals. We've got also got leaves that you can into it. So, this is the foliage set and then, this is the floral set. This is the one that is showing right here and then this this little leaf right here in this little vase and then, I made it made it clear. We're going to do that today. I'm going to show you how to turn these little containers into clear, clear glass containers which I think adds so much charm to em and just kind of changes it up a little bit. So, these two sets. This is a long stem foliage and the long stem flowers. So, these I had in mind with these new containers. Then, I wanted some containers that also could use the long stems and these also could be clear. These could also be clear pots. So, we're going to be, we're going to be doing that today. Like I said, we're going to be doing this also. We're going to be doing next week, this one. Oh, is it this week? Next, we're going to be doing all of these in the next two weeks, you guys. We're going to be doing them all. So, we can turn these little containers also into glass containers. So, this will be really, this will be really, really fun to do and super simple, okay? So, then, I needed the flowers, the simple flowers and this is what I did. I put them all together. I put them all together like this in simple bouquets that could easily be put placed into a container. These are made to go into these containers. Let me show you the size. You can see the size on em and they will just fit perfectly in any of these containers. You can put them in. And then, I needed some farmhouse containers. I just did. I haven't done any new ones of these in so long. So, I thought I'm going to do some little country, you know, rustic things that could that would also be new. Things like this. Look how cute this little sample is on here. Um and that is from this little tub right here. So, this is the farmhouse container set and it also, here's the actual size of it. So, you could on this one it's pretty close to, well, I guess it's still a little bit bigger than the image that is on the packaging. So, this is the actual size of this little container. So, these are really really fun. Here's another, here's another sample of this one. This one right here. This one could also be glass. This could be glass. Wouldn't that be cute? We could make this a glass 1. So, I'm going to show you how to do that. It's the same rule on all of em. So, we're just we just do a couple of things and you know, it turns it into glass. You guys, it's so easy. It's so simple. So, then, I needed some larger things like this that could fit into these wide-mouth containers. So, we've got the little bud vases that we can do the single long stems but these can go right onto the top. So, they can sit right on the top of these containers. So, you can see the sample right here. Here's the little cup and this just sits right on top. This is one right up here. And these are all so simple. Uh because they're all together. You don't have to worry about stamping everything you know into the container. Although you can do that. You for sure can. But I have just completely simplified it so that you don't have to. If you want to do these quickly you can stamp these little florals in there and they're just they're so beautiful. Then I needed some sentiments. So, I needed some words because words sometimes are the hardest things to think of when you're putting a card together. So, all types of things. Wishing you strength and courage. Um lean on me. I'm here with open arms and a listening ear. Keep going. You're growing. Each day brings you closer to feeling better. So, lots of sentiments, lots of things that you can put into your your card, your journal, Something that you can say to someone because like I said, sometimes it's you know, thinking of what to say is hard. Now, I also have, for those of you who would like a scripture, you would like to put scripture in your card or in your journal. So, the journal that we're going to make in the next 2 weeks, these fit in that journal. So, this again, just like we've done before, if you would like to have this, this is a download on our website. So, it's free. You can go to Get Inspired at Art Impressions. com. Go to Get Inspired. The very first one on is the Encouragement Scripture pack and you'll see it right on there. Click that and you'll see this document come up and there are two places that you can click. Number one, you can click for a download. If you want to download it and print it off as many times as you want, you can do that. There's another place that you can click where you can purchase this. If you want to purchase this card, this is a heavyweight card stock. You can purchase it, add it to your order for 3. So, it's on so both of these are in that same location. Just click on that document and you'll see where at the top, it'll say download here for for download click here and to purchase, click here and then, you can add it to your cart or you could download it and just print it off as many times as you want to. So, that's an option. This is this is a free download or $3 if you want to purchase it, okay? So, but for those of you who aren't interested in that, we've got these sentiments here that are good for to any absolutely anyone. Alright? So then we've got paper. So we've got a new paper pack that is absolutely just the cutest and you can see on the back, just beautiful colors. These purples are just so pretty and it's kind of a it's a very light teal. Um and it it's it's a it's a really light teal. It's a really cool green and it's just a beautiful lavender. So, you'll see when I show you the the actual journal Excuse me. We also have the Journal Paper. So, for those of you who want to make a journal, this is included in the bundle. You'll be able to use this. This, there are two sheets of each one of these because we couldn't narrow it down to three. So, we've got we've got six different designs in here that will be beautiful covers for the journal. So, the reason that they're in larger paper is because the cover, the journal cover is bigger than a six by six. So, if you want that cover to match what's inside the journal, you can use this paper in here. So, there are six different ones, two sheets of each and it takes two sheets to make a full cover. So, you'll be, you'll be able to choose between all of these six designs in there. So, two paper packs and with the bundle, a free gift. So, you get this free. This is two sentiments that can go on the front of your card or on the inside of your card just thinking of you or to a dear friend. Just just simple. Sometimes, you know, words can just be simple because they know that you're thinking of them. You are sending them something that shows that. They're not, they know they're loved. They know they're thought of and they know that you are with them, you know, going through whatever they're going through. So, thinking of you or to a dear friend, you know, those are great just to put, you know, on your journal or in your in your card. So, that's a free gift for you. Um if you if you get this, if you get this bundle. So, there are eight, let's see. Let's count em. One, two, three, four, five, six, 7, eight, six In the bundle, and then two paper packs, and then the free gift here. So, these are they are available. They will be shipping out next week. So, you guys, if you are interested in this, I show you the journal next. But but you can go ahead. You can order this. It's on our website right now. There is also a walk through of the journal. So so this is this is the journal that we're going to be making in the next two days. And there's a little video walk through of it. So let me zoom in. And it's on. I believe the link is on Facebook. And it's on YouTube right now. So, you'll be able to see that. So, this again, this is the Slim Journal. So, it's this. Let me show you which one it is. And I'll show you, you know, we go through this and especially when we're assembling it, I'll show you what I used in it but this is the Slim Journal. So, basically, it's the it's the exact same thing except that it has that really narrow spine. So, let me show you. It has a really narrow spine and where the where the large journal has three pages, this just has one. So, it's much simpler and much quicker to make this journal. So, I'm going to go through this and I'm going to show you what we're going to be doing. So, I just love these colors. I love this lavender and I just think that I just think this would bring so much joy to someone. So, I cut out the center so that you can open up and see to the back page and so, let's flip through here now to the front. Here is that container. Here is one of these containers that I made clear. Question, are the C five eighty-seven flowers from the spring bouquet bundle? A size? Absolutely, yes. Consuelo, yes. Absolutely, they will. Yup, good question. Um so, this is the clear. So, I've turned this into a clear pot. This is what we're going to do today. We're going to do the first half of the journal and then we'll go on and we'll do the second half next week. So, there's a places for little little tags like this, sending hugs and support your way so you can add all kinds of special little messages or personal messages that you want to put in here. So, then we can flip to the next page and I put a little bookmark in that has a little message on it. Brighter days are coming. So, just a little encouragement or a message to someone. Here's that little container, that little clear container. We're going to make this today with a little butterfly up here. Super easy. These are all so simple and then, I made these little pockets that kind of fit right in here. So, in between each page is about I want to it's about a quarter of an inch. Well, you got, you've got some space in there. So, if you want to add something that has something like this, this is about, you know, you have a quarter of an inch space. So, this is probably like three sixteenths, I'm guessing and you can add something that will fit right in between there and so, we're going to we're going to add these in. So, these are just little extra pockets and they pull out just like this. So, you'll be able. Whoops, just like this. So, you'll be able to see special note, you know, wishing you strength and courage. Rest my friend. You'll soon be on the mend. So, you can see that you can make those special little pockets and then, this is the little frame and it just fits in here. So, you can attach. I made this little I made this little paper clip with a heart on it. So, you can attach your little frame to it like this or you can tie it in like this by threading your ribbon through a little, you know, a little piece of decorative paper. So, I just cut this out. This could be any shape and I just cut it out with a cart with a rectangle die and threaded my ribbon through it to hold my little frame in place but isn't this just so cute? You can see, this is this container could be clear glass or it can be ceramic like this one but you can see how the flowers just fit in there. Let me just zoom in on this. So, you can see how the flowers just fit. So, you just stamp, you stamp this and you stamp this inside it. Add a little color to it, and you're good. You're good to go. I love that these things are so simple and again, you can attach it with this little paper clip. I just thought this was so cute. Putting a little heart up above and or you can just tie it in. You know, you can just tie it in like this. You know, with a little bow. You know, like this. So, let's move on. Oh, let's see if I can tie this. I'm just not very good at tying bows, you guys. So, let's see if I can do it. Always takes me a couple of tries to do it. So, let's see. Maybe I'll get it on the first try this time. Okay. I did it. So you can tie that in. And then it'll it'll stay secure in here. It won't fall out of your little journal. So, let's zoom out. I just, I love these little pockets. I just think these are so cute and you can just put whatever messages. You can put two messages in here if you want to and a tuck in a little note. So, maybe you handwrite something personal or you know, some kind of remember when we went to the beach together and we this and that. You could write something like really special like that. Maybe to maybe to make someone laugh or remember just a really fun time. Remember we coffee together and you know whatever. Um but something special, something personal that you can tuck into these pockets because the fun of these journals is seeing these little pockets with notes in em. I think that is just, it's just, it makes these all so personal and so special but I just love these colors so much. Um so, then, on the next page, over here, I took some parchment paper and I just cut two triangles and lay them on top of each other. So, here's where we're going today. So, we'll finish to this point today and then next week, we'll finish from this point on to the back of the journal. So, we're going to do this. I'm going to show you how I did this but isn't this just such a it just turned out so cute. I love it. You can kind of see through it and what made me think about it is the vellum, the paper that is on that is in cards. You know, beautiful wedding cards or you know, beautiful florals that have like a or a you know parchment paper like this on it. And I thought that would just be so cute to just stamp. This is just stamped that bouquet and this is laid over the top. So you can see how these just kind of overlap. So here's the first triangle. And then here's the second one. So I just cut two that were the same and put a little bow on there. I just think that turned out so cute. It's such a simple thing. But it just kind of adds special interest to your to your journal. Here's another little note. Um that you can put in any of these things can be made pockets. So you could put another pocket over here. They're just, you know, you could tuck little notes in literally everywhere in these journals and then we get to the backside. Um here's that little here's another one of those little ceramic containers that could be clear And these little beautiful florals that are just they're just so they're so fun to do. You guys. You'll be shocked at how easy these are to make. The the lines are really thin but they have color. So, there, it's just, it's going to be really simple to pull that color out of the lines. You're not, you're going to be, it's going to be hard to make a mistake and I'm going to show you how to do it. So, you're going to you're going to do, you're going to be able to do these. Even if you're a beginner. So, now, we get to the last page and then, I thought, I just, I love that parchment paper so much and by the way, it's the parchment paper that's in your kitchen. The big roll. Um I just went downstairs to my kitchen and got some parchment paper and cut out the it. Also And I just think it turned out so cute. Isn't that cute? Just a little parchment. Just glue it in. Glue it into your journal. And you have this you know little see through. Um card that you can put in here. So you can write you know a special note. Um some of these sentiments are a little bit larger so you can glue one of these in here. Um, this one says, may each day bring you closer to feeling much stronger. So, lots of different sentiments that could fit different different times, and then put a personal message. Just handwrite it. Hand write it in there You know, just thinking of you, my friend, or you know, just something personal that you can just tuck in little places where somebody could find that special note and then, the back. The back also. So, you can see we're going to be doing some florals but they all, they're all the same. They're all going to work the same and I'm going to show you how I stamp em and I'm going to show you how to pull the color out of the lines and then these little containers are just, they're so easy. They're just so easy to do And I just made a a little decorative thing on here. But you can do them just plain too. So I'm going to show you how to do this one. We're going to we're going to do all of these projects. So we're going to do this one. This one. This one. Next week. And then this week we're going to do this little this little one and how cute to send a frame. I just love these little frames because they just tuck in anywhere. And you could put inside your card. So, if you're making a card with a beautiful floral on it, maybe you match this on the card. Maybe you make the same image on the card and then inside, you have a little frame that is a gift and you could put something personal on it. Glue a little banner on it and you know, a thinking of you or to my dear friend and I just think that that would just mean so much. They can take it out of the journal and they can set it up and look at it and know that they're the have a friend who's thinking of them. Um I just think that would mean so much to people now. You know in the times that we live in for sure. So, we're going to do this one. Uh we're going to do this one, this little bud vase and make it clear. And we're going to do this one. With the tulips in it. And make this big one clear. So the big ones and the small ones. They're the same. They're not one is not harder than the other. Sherry says I thought it was Vellum. Yes it is it's villain but you know what? I didn't have any vellum. So, I went down and got parchment paper but you know what, Sherry, if you have vellum, that would also be cute. That would be so cute. You could do, you could use either. You could use either but you know what? This is so cheap and I just got it out of my drawer and cut it and glued it into my journal. So, yes, Zilla. Yes, it's like baking paper. Yup. She, oh, she said, she only has the brown colored. Okay. Well, we we call it parchment and it's just, it's on a giant roll and it's it's super cheap, Super cheap. Ciska had to start an AI GoFundMe. Guys. Oh, you guys. I, just, you guys give me a laugh every time. Every time I'm on here, I just love being with you guys. So, if you want to flip through this, you could, you know, you could take a picture of every page. We're going to we're going to assemble it in here. So, I have everything precut. I have my little journal all precut and ready to go and we're going to glue everything in. So, once we do the projects, we're going to glue them into the journal and we will have half of it finished. You guys, by the end of the day, by the end of the day By the end of our live. You didn't know you're going to be here til six o'clock tonight. Ruby says must have parchment but not always vellum. Yes. So, I, you know, like I said, I didn't have vellum but I had parchment and it works great. So, whatever you guys have is going to work. I just like that you could see through it. I think it added just a little bit of elegance to it and I love that you can that you can see through it. And Julie, yes, the spring bundle flowers absolutely will work with the containers. Yes. Yes, for sure Um okay, you guys. Are you ready to get started on our projects? So, let me just set this aside and like I said, if you go to on our Facebook page, there is a link to the little walk through of the video and it's also on YouTube. So, if you want to just you know, look through it and just see how it's made and you can, you know, this is just inspiration for you. So, you can make this your own. You can make this your own. For me, I I to make something that would go specifically for this journal. So, when I was visualizing this journal, this is what I was thinking of and then, I wanted to make it as simple as possible. So, just you know, the simplest florals that just literally anybody could do and the simplest containers and then, I wanted to mix it up so that I can make em glass. So, you guys, that's what we're going to do. We're going to, you know, put this together. So, this folds together like this. So, whatever you want to put on the outside, you can and then it will show through to the front of of your journal And then I just closed mine up with a with a ribbon. So you can use the clasp that we have. You can use whatever you want to close it up. But I just close it up with a ribbon. Alright so let me move this aside. And let me get my projects and here they are. Look how simple these are. These are just so simple. And I also had the little butterfly. So we can do this one too. Just any any little butterfly you could you can use anything. You could use a bee. You could use a butterfly. Just you know whatever you want or or none. You don't have to use anything. You could put a little a little high up here in a circle. You know so I I just use this. This is from the Leah if you're on. It's the it's the set that has the the shoe house. The little the little whimsical shoe house. And the the little teapot house. It's in that set. The big blooms. Yes, Valerie. The big blooms. The they're so they're so much easier to use and especially they they they have to be a little bit bigger because you have to be able to get inside there and show the dimension because you can't just color it all one the same. You have to be able to show the dimension in there and we're going to we're going to do that. We're going to get to that. So, we're going to start out with these. These three that are in the journal And then we will get to those other ones that are larger blooms. So, alright. So, me zoom in because these are small. So let me zoom in. And then let me just get all of my stuff out of the way because I have so much stuff here in the way. Okay. So, let's start with, let's start with the small one. Let's do this one first. Um and what I want you to to see on these is, you know, they're very simply, you know, they're really simple. The way that they're stamped and you can see by looking at em, the blooms are one color, the stems are another and then, they're stamped into the container. So, the only thing that you want to remember is you want to, if this is a glass container, you to cover the lip of the jar with a just a tiny little bit of masking tape. Post it tape. Sorry. Post it tape. You want to cover this lip right here because that needs to show. We don't want to stamp over the lip. We're going to stamp everything out over everything else in here in this container but we want to make sure to leave this white so that we don't have any color on there, okay? And the same here and I did the same here. This was so tiny but I just cut a tiny little thing. You could also, you guys, if you, if you missed that or you you don't want to just cut that little you can use your white paint and you can put that white that white line back in. So, you can do that too. So, we want to just make sure that that that's a really, really important when you're creating a glass container like this, alright? The other thing is, is that we need to show the bottom of the glass because we're going to see that. We're going to see the bottom of the glass and the the biggest thing, you know, with these, there's there's really two things that you want to make sure that you are doing. Number one, you want to leave a little space of white between the line and where the water is and where the color of the glass is. Just a little space and I'm talking about a tiny little line that's about this big. So, you just, you don't want to color all the way to the edge of the glass and if you do that, you're going to your your sort of taking away the edge of the glass because the glass container has an edge to it and that's what we're showing. So, it's not the glass, the edge of the glass isn't a thin line. You're going to be able to see that edge of the glass and we're going to show that. So, the water and the color on the inside of that line. So, all around the edge, you want to leave just a tiny little gap. You can see it more here. Do you see it here? This this little edge here. This little edge and and you can see on here, I can, you can really see it on this side, not so much over here. It doesn't have to be, you know, shown super visible on each side or or everywhere. You just kind of have to indicate it a little bit here. You can see here where it's on here. So, you want to see the edge of that glass. Then, the other thing is you want to see the bottom. You want to see the bottom of the glass and basically, that's just a little. So, if you just kind of picture this little sitting, you know, sitting down, and you're going to, you're going to just kind of draw this line and actually, I would think, I think, a little bit bigger and use your pencil and just kind of draw it in like this and then, we want to see that line again. So, I want to see that line. So, this this bottom of the glass, that's a big thing too. So, those are the those are the three like big things about making something look like glass is the edge of the lip right here on the container. The the the gap between the color and the line, the edge of container and the bottom. The bottom down here. Uh Christine says what about masking fluid? Absolutely. Yes, you can use masking fluid for sure. Um Bonnie, did you use a block to stamp or a Misty? I used a Misty for sure, Diane. I'm just so much about that now because I get an even impression. So, a Misty or a stamp platform. If it's a small, if it's something small, you know, like this one, you can pretty much eyeball it. Um I should tell you guys before we go any further on here. Um why some of these are rubber and some of them are clear. So let me let me just take a second on here. Let me zoom out just for a second. Um the containers and the florals. So let's kind of separate these out. So, these are clear so that they're easy to position. You know, when they're when they're clear, you can stamp the container, you can place that, you know, right where you want it using a stamp platform and you can see exactly where it's going. You can see through it to to position it and this is really high-quality photo palmer, you guys. It really is and I just prefer this now. Um I like the way the ink beads up a tiny bit on it because it adds a little bit more dimension to the stamp. It's not a a single line and I just that you can see through it. So, these are clear and you can see the different sizes here in these two, okay? Um these are rubber because they are stamped in a repeat. So, that just means that you're going to, you're going to want to stamp these a few times. So, for example, if you add your florals in there and you want to stamp your your little vine in here. One, two, or three times. You can do that with these long stems. So, generally things like this, are just a single stem like this so that you can stamp it in a repeat are rubber because rubber will hold the color better than clear. So, when it comes to clear, these are all contained. They're all contained. So, you would not be stamping these on a repeat. You would, you would, you're only going to stamp em one time and you're going to put em into the container but these can be stamped over and over again. So, one, two, three. In a repeat, you're going to repeat that over and over again, okay? That's why these are rubber Okay? Now, these We ordered these in clear and they came in rubber. So, for those of you who absolutely love rubber, they're rubber. The very first, our first batch that we got came in rubber and when we reorder, we will be reordering them in clear. So, if you want these, I would just encourage you to get them. This is the first order and when we run out, then, we'll be we'll be ordering them in clear. So, this is why these are rubber. Otherwise, these would also be clear. They would be just so that it's easier to line them up. Um and of course, you know, rubber works great But so, just so you know, this is why. There's a reason why we do the clear and there's a reason why we do the rubber and in this case, we order these in clear and this is how they came. So, they are rubber. They're rubber for now. So, I know that there are those of you who absolutely just love rubber and have been stamping for a long time. So, you guys, these are rubber for now And then we reor room. They will be in clear. So, I just wanted to explain that because I didn't really address that when I was going through the sets. So, okay, back to our little project. So, I'm going to zoom in again so that you can see. And these these are the colors that we're going to be using. So, let me grab my palette and I'll tell you what I stamp the container in. So, these are smaller little containers and it's not as important to pull the color out of the lines. I mean, we're going to a little bit but you can see how thin these lines are. These are really thin because we don't want a lot of color coming out right next to the line because that space. We want that space. Okay? Um so, I'm going to grab my brush and my water. I have so much stuff on my desk, you guys. Just stuff everywhere. Okay, so I've got my water and I've got my brush and I'm going to show you how I stamp this. So, the first thing that I stamp was the container and I used this color. So, this is what I used for that glass. This is an Nfifty-two and it's a it's kind of a let me show you what what it looks like. So, it's a blue gray. It's a really nice glass color. It's not as brash and dark as the as the dark blue because this is a small container. So, normally, if we're doing something that is glass, you know, or something like this, we could we'll be using this. Something that's white or clear. We'd be using this but in this case, that's a small container. So, I'm using something like this and you could also use a gray. A gray would also be fine. So, I stamped this container with this Um Janice, forever repeat stamping. Yes. Yes, Janice. That's that's why. That's why I do it that way because with rubber, you can get probably five impressions on one ink. So, you can ink that stamp and you can go one, two, three, four, five and get 5 impressions. Clear is not like that. Clear does not hold the the color like that but it has a different purpose. So, it has a positive side as well. So, that's that's exactly why. Um okay. So, I I inked the the container in this in this blue, blue gray, the N fiftytwo and then the little the floral. I used the the purple and the green stem. So, the oneseventyseven, the green, a you could use the other green. It absolutely does not matter. You could use either one or the two forty-nine, this one and I just inked the stem, one color and I inked the bloom, the other. So, I bloom in the purple. The six thirty-six, and then I stamped it into the container and you know, with these because they're so long, you can, you can kind of eyeball these and you know, you're going to get a pretty firm even impression because it's it's a narrow stamp. When you get into the large stamps, you really should, I mean, I I just really recommend some sort of stamp platform to get a good, even impression. It's just, it's really hard to with especially with a big block press down evenly without getting a dark line somewhere. Uh something that isn't didn't get enough pressure. So, it's super light and then something that got too much pressure and now it's dark. So, you don't have as even as an impression as you would with a stamp platform and to me, when you're doing watercolor, that's really important because we don't want it to look like a stamp. Well, we don't want it to look like that. We want it to look like it's painted. It's painted on. Pay says, I love rubber. Works with my twisted mind. Peggy, you're not alone. There are a lot of people that love rubber. Lots and lots of them. So, Peggy, you will want to get these containers before they're before we reorder. And you have time. You have time to get them. Alright. So, and then with a little foliage, I just stamp those in the same, alright? So, let's go ahead and let's do the the little floral first and I'm going to use my small brush. So, these are little. These things are small and so we're just going to use this the the little small brush. So, you can see the tiny little lines in in there. That's for color So, we're going to use this and we're going to stay in each section. So, each section Just do one at a time. Stay away from the the outer edge. Just kind of stay away from that. It should be pretty light even though it's stamped and it's got color in it. Um don't pull too much color out of the edge. We don't want to create this outline around these little blooms. And the darkest area should be in the center of the stamp, okay? So, we're going to get a little more color now I'm going to put some on my palette. And I think I can just zoom in a little closer here. Okay, that's better. And if you want to, you could add, you could mix a little blue to it. You know, don't ever be afraid of mixing color on your palette. You you can add a little blue to it and kind of cool it up a little bit. So, it's not all the same color. So, we're just going to pinch it off. Maybe we'll just add a little of this color and when you're adding color to it, you want to pull the color from where the water is. So, here. So, not from here where it's super super dark unless you really want this dark color on your flower but you're going to pull it from the the water down section from this and keep dragging it out until you you kind of have that really, really light, pretty color and then you just brush it in. So, we're just adding a little more color to it and kind of just building up that color and now, we can kind of let that dry and let's go to the little leaves here. And we're just going to pull this color out of these leaves. Same thing here with this line. It's really for color and you know, when you pull that color out, you can still see that detail in here. You can still see it. So, it's okay to kind of pull that color from the line. Alright, we're going to stop at the lip. When you bring this color down, and then we're going to bring it all the way down here And we're going to just kind of extend that color past. And the here. We're going to just bring this all the way down. Okay? Just like that. Alright so let's add a little more color to that bloom and just a little bit more to the inside. So, just kind of right in here. And you can see I I went a little darker with the color. So, I took it from this area up here where the colors were just a little bit darker and I'm just going to kind of spread it out a little bit. Okay? And that's really all you have to do. Just use your tiny little brush and take your time and just create these little, they're just so cute. And then if you want to, you can just take your your bullet tip from your purple and just make a few little dots kind of in the center. Just like that. You've got this all finished. Alright, so now, let's go to our glass container. And the first thing we're going to do is take our little tiny brush And we're going to go alongside this just a little bit just to kind of soften this line and you can see not a lot of color is going to come out. And that's that's what we want. Okay so just like that. And then we're going to just go with a little bigger brush. And we're going to get some more colour on here. And you know because we've got these green stems the water is going to look a little green. Now you can go with two different types of blue. You can go with this warm blue. That's the five twenty-six. Or you can go with the cool blue that's more like this. But we kind of want to mix a little bit of green in here. Okay? And you just you gotta just you know be courageous. Be courageous. It's it's honestly there it's going to look great. It it is. So, trust me, we're going to add, you know, the waterline in here. We're going to do that and then, we're going to add some color down here to the bottom and if you start down here at the bottom, you'll sort of get a visual of how the glass looks. So, you can see that. As soon as you put that bottom in there, okay. Now, it's starting to look like a little glass. Let's put a little shadow under the lip like this. And then, let's just mix a little bit of this color together and we're just going to come down alongside of it. So, just like this and and maybe just a little bit kind of on the other side too. So, a couple of little you know, brush strokes as you're kind of coming down. And then, just kind of, you know, bring it a little bit closer to the center. And you know, the water is not going to be all the same. It's going to just going to have some green in it so we could put a couple of little green streaks in here like that. Um don't overthink it. Just don't overthink it. And I'm going to add just a little bit more green down here with maybe a little more blue and then we we're going to erase these pencil lines too. And then let's just put a little darker line here along here and maybe we can just come down this like this. And these little stems, you know, they get because they're in the water, they're going to kind of get, you know, a little blurry. So, now, let's put in the waterline. So, we're just going to take, kind of take on a mix of color here. And just a little darker color. And you're just going to make a line. Make sure this is all dry here first. So you're just going to make a line just wherever you want to put that waterline. So, just a little line across like this and then, you could put it kind of along the back as well. And then, we're going to just put a little line across the bottom of these little stems. So, you can kind of see where the bottom of that is. And then I'm just going to add a little green on here. And then we're going to come back in with the white. And add a little highlight on here. But you guys this is so it's so simple. And you know what I would do? Would encourage you to do is if you get these containers stamp it a bunch of times onto your watercolor paper. And then do make a glass container. And just keep doing it until you get it. Till you get your confidence. And you know you just put a few more lines down here. And down here in the bottom. Just a straight, you know, a a darker. So, basically, this just needs to be darker than what's down here, okay? So, let's set this one aside and let's do this one and then, we'll add the white paint to it. And put all the little white highlights in. Okay? So, now, with this one, we're going to just bring this color back up to the the lip here. Of the jar and bring this color down. And just pull this color out. So, with this one, same thing. I stamp this in the two colors. So, the purple blooms and then the green and you can use, you can use either green. Doesn't, doesn't matter which one. And we're going to do the same thing here with these. We're going to just bring these little branches all the way down. So that they look like they're just coming down into the jar And then we can add just a little bit more. Actually, I'm just going to use my little brush. And we're just going to add some more color to these little stems. Just use your little your tiny little brush. You can mix up your greens too. You know if you want to add some more of this color. This is the cool green. This is the two forty-nine. Let's just write it on there. 249. That's the cool green. You could add some of this color to it too. Kind of as it comes down into the little container. And just, you know, again, just stay in each section and we'll just make that a little bit darker right underneath those blooms. Alright, so now, let's go to the little the tulips and these these were stamped in the purple. So, the same. So, the six thirty-six and then stamp into into the container with the with the lip showing. So, now, we're going to start on the outside and we're going to drag that color on the outside because these are these are rounded. So their contour. So the side is going to be the darkest. I'm going to do those sides first and then we'll come in here and we'll get these little sections. So it's really really important to do each section by itself. And then this one this little section here. This is going to be the lightest. Because that's going to have a highlight in the center So, same here with this one. Now, this one's kind of leaning over. So, the darkest color is going to be on the bottom. And this will be more of a highlight up here. So, the highlight will kind of be up here and here. Same with this one. This one's going to be darker on the bottom And you just, you just want to get in here and just do each little section. We can go back to this one. These areas that are on the inside. These are darker. Wanna make sure that we show those darker on the inside and then this These are going to be darker here. And then this one. And if you just stay in each section you're going to be really happy with how they turn out. And the biggest thing to remember is that you just you don't want to color them in solid. That that's the biggest thing. Don't want to colour it in in solid. So everywhere that you see a rounded area either it's on the top. Or it's it's in the middle. And you just want to make make sure that that's just a little bit lighter than the rest. And anything that's kind of down inside like this one. Um You want to make sure that's darker. So this one And this one because it's kind of laying down. It's going to have a little darker. It's going to be a little bit darker. Um on the bottom. Okay? So now we're going to go over it again. And we're going to do that just a little bit darker. I'm going to add a little bit of blue to it too. Change up the color a bit. So we can start with these and you know they're going to be darker down on the bottom. So, when you go to add this color, It's going to be darker down here. And then just pinch it off and drag it to the top. And this down in here, this is really dark down in here. As you can see that that's just it's starting to look a little more three dimensional. It's all because of putting those darks in the areas and the highlights where they need to go. So this little area down in here. You can see how dark that that would be. So, let's go on and let's do another one here. So, let's do this one and let's keep this darker down here and leave that little highlight at the top and this, this is going to be really dark in here. And these little brushes, they just really help to get the color into those tiny little areas So this one here is going to be dark inside. And then we'll just add some color down here and really, you know, down inside here is where it's just really dark. Okay, let's keep going. Same here. And let's add some more purple here. Go onto this one. And then inside, you know, always inside, these are darker inside these little petals. And I just I'm always pinching off my brush. Because I, you know, pinch it off and then just kind of drag that color up so you don't get harsh lines You know, when you when you add that darker color, you don't get a harsh line there. and then, this, let's just darken this in here. Coming together you guys. And the more, you know, the more times you go over this, like the darker these will get. So, if you want these tulips to be really dark or maybe you want a mix of color, maybe you don't want them all purple or you just, you want to, you want to make some of em yellow or some of em orange. You can do that too. They don't all have to be the same color. Okay. I think we're good here. Alright. So, let's go onto our our little container and let's put the bottom in. And then we got our we've already got this lip that's showing. So let's put this in. It's going to be kind of like this. Just want to see that little edge there at the bottom And then we want to leave, you know, some light space, some white space, you know, kind of like right along that edge. So, now, this one, I ink this container in two colors. So, I inked it in the the green and the blue. So, this one and this one and then I stamped it off twice and the reason I did that is because I wanted to kind of have a little green tint to it like a green like a green glass And so I use these two colors. So, I inked the green first, the oneseventyseven, then right over the top, the blue, the 526 and then I stamped it off twice, twice. Oh, I missed a couple of leaves. Thank you, Suska. You know what? That would have just bugged me. Thank you so much. You guys always remind me. Thank you so much. Would have absolutely bugged me. And this one back here. Okay. We're good. We're good to go. Alright. So, we're going to put a little edge, you know, along here and then we're going to get our color. And the same with this one like we did with the others. So, we're just going to get a mix of color because it's you know, when it's glass, there's lots of different colors in it and if you can kind of show that, you're going to be really happy with how it turns out. So, we've got some, let's put some green on here too actually. Some green We're going to just kind of blend these together a little bit. And we'll do the bottom. So we'll get this little bottom part done. And leave that little, just kind of leave that little edge, you know, on there a little extra color in there like this And then let's just put some color. Can you guys see that palette? Okay. Uh make sure it's pretty watered down. You know pretty watered down and you're just going to kind of come along the edge. So, you're going to just kind of start up here and you're just going to kind of come along the edge like this. Just to get a little color in there. and then, you know, once that dries up a little bit, you can add some more. So, let's just kind of work on these little stems here a bit. So, we're going to just kind of drag this, drag these down. And then we'll add just a little more green up here. In here. And then we're just going to end. I'm going to put an end on those Okay, so now, this should be pretty dry. So, we can come in here with just a little more color, maybe a few other lines like this and a little more color You know, in here like this, like I said, don't don't stress out about this, honestly. Honestly, this is it's going to look good. And sometimes we just focus too much on like a simple little detail. And really nobody would even notice that. Alright. So, now, we're going to put that center line in. That water, the waterline. So, we're just going to kind of go around like this and then, straight across like this. And that's where the where's where the water's going to be. And we can just use some different colors here. Just like that. Once you get the waterline in, you know, you can really start to see how that's the glass. And then we'll put in some highlights with the white white paint. alright? So, now, I'm going to take my my bullet tip of my green and I'm just going to darken some of these these lines as they come down. And then just kind of kind of skip that little waterline and just leave it like that. They don't even have to actually follow the lines of the flowers. You're just making some lines coming down. They can just add a little water to it. And it's just going to be so cute. Okay. That's it you guys. That's all you have to do. And you know, the more that you kind of practice it, the more confident you'll get at it. You absolutely will. Um because it just, it just takes all the the fear out of it. Just doing it a few times. And then you'll think oh why was I even stressed about this? This is just so easy. Okay, I'm going to just take my bullet tip now and I just want to put a dark. I want to make sure this is really dark underneath these these blooms. So, that it actually just shows a a little shadow underneath there. And you could. You know what? You could just put a little line in with your bullet tip too. If you want to get that really dark Okay and we'll come back and we'll put the highlights in. So let's finish let's go onto this one. And then when we're finished with this one we'll put the Amy says got my order placed. Thank you Amy. Thank you. I can't wait to see your journal. Um Terry says we'll be making these a lot. So pretty. You guys this journal was just the best. Um I'm are using the four or the one. Both. Both Mary. So on the bigger blooms when I was doing these You know what? Was I using You guys, was I using the big one? I was using the the large brush on the the container and I think I was using the small brush on the blooms. So, let's put those aside and let's do this one. And this is the same type of container. So, this is in the same set. It's just a little shorter. So, it can be ceramic or it can be glass. So, we're going to do this one in the ceramic. So, in that case, I stamped it the way we normally do. Stamp it in the two colors. The the blue first and then the dark brown. Uh Terry says when I finish watching we'll place my order. Thank you, Terry. Can I use this technique on other container and vases? Absolutely. You sure can. You can make anything glass. I mean, within reason. Now, some of these things you know, like these containers, let me show you on here. These, if you're going to make these glass, you want to leave these lines out of it. So, just see, just leave these these little cross lines out of it. Um you can easily make this glass and I would, you know, with this one, if can leave that these little lines out of it. that's the best. If you can't, it's okay. Just bring your line more to the inside of where this color is. This one, you can for sure make glass. Um this one might be a little more tricky but you could for sure try it. Just take these lines out. The lines that are in the middle but any of these other ones. So, this is the set that we're using right now. Any of these. Uh wouldn't this one be cute? This little round one. And this is the one we just Uh this is the long stem. And then this one is the one we did with the tulips. And this is the one that we're doing right now. As a as a ceramic. So, you can you can do that with with any of your other containers. And for sure these. For sure these. These would all be really cute as glass. Super cute. And when you're doing something like this I'll have to I'll do these. I'll do some of these too. We're going to you know after this journal I mean we're going to finish this journal in two two weeks. But I'm going to keep going with these florals because there's a lot of them that I need to show you how to do. So we're going to get through all of them. Um we may take a break in between but I will get to them all because I want to show you how to make these make these clear and especially this one that has the handles that has the handles because you want to be able to show that that's clear also. Terry says, need a fish for the round. Oh, how cute would that be? Oh my word. I should have done a fish. Terry, that wouldn't that be cute, a little beta fish in there or a little goldfish. Mary Ann said stamp off when using the yes. Yes, Mary Ann for sure. I did. Yup and you know, when it's rubber because so so in this case, when it's rubber and these are rubber now, for this, the first batch is rubber. You want to stamp it off probably two or three times actually because the the rubber holds on to the color. When it's clear, you only have to stamp off one time but with rubber, it it holds the color. So, I I'm sure I stamped it off at least twice and then when you're using a when you're using a stamp platform you're you're doing really light pressure. So, you're never pressing really hard on the stamp. When you go to stamp these things, it's it's more like press. It's it's bring the stamp down to the paper and then press. It's not it's not this this motion that we do normally when we're stamping. It's just a it's totally different. So, you're just an even, light, even pressure. Can also be cute on the shelves we have. Uh yes. absolutely. Puffer fish And puffer. Somebody try that. See if that would fit in there. That would be so cute. Or you guys you could freeze hand it. You know remember how we used to do fish back in grade school? It looked like an eight. Like a figure eight. Okay now I gotta show you guys. You know like a fish look like this. So you just you took your Okay, there you go. You could just restyle it. And then you can just put some little you know with a little eyeball in it. So, there you go. There's your lesson for the day. If I remember making these in grade school, just like a figure eight. With an eyeball Okay. Um let's go on to this one. Now, this one in here is a really light, kind of a a really pretty green color and I stamped it. I stamped it that way. So, what I did was I used the two colors again. When I stamped the blooms. So, you can see how light and pretty that is. That is this color. So, it is this pen. Um the 3twelve. That is the color of the blooms and then the yellow on the inside and then the bullet tip on the center. So, we're going to be doing that but that is the color. It's just such a pretty light tealish, green I'm not even sure what you would call it but I love this color. This is a mix of green and that warm blue. It it's it's this color. It just it's but it's really really light. So, we're going to be doing this one. So, let's do the let's do the flowers first. Imma use my little brush. So, I'll stay zoomed in here. So, you can see. And then we're going to just flip this over so we can put that other color on here. So, this is the this is the three twelve, the number 312 and it's such a pretty color. It's such a pretty color and I'm going to add a little bit more green to my palette and then a little bit of this and that's the 177 by the way. That's one seventyseven. This is 312 And then the the blue is the five twenty-six. So we're going to just add a little of this too. And then we're going to dip our brush and we're going to do each petal individually. So, we're going to dry the color out. Leave the leave the top again. So, don't don't worry too much about getting the color from the very top of the of the petal. So, I stamped this off at least twice. I stamped it off at least twice because it's pretty light and I wanted it to kind of stay light and it's the two colors. So, it's the green first and then the blue and then stamped off twice and it's just this really pretty, soft color and then we can add more color to it just like this. So just kind of work your way around. Get all the little petals and take your time. It's it's it's really really hard to mess these up. You guys, you just won't. You won't mess em up And especially if you just stay in each section, use your little brush, day and age section, pull the color out and then go back over it again. Keep the color focused to the center. So, the darkest color is going to be in the middle and what that does is it lifts the palette the petals up and the and the light catches on the edges because the edges are turned up and that's that's the impression it gives. That's what your eye sees. When it sees that highlight, on the edge. And the dark color in the center. So, this is really dark in here. And I'm just I'm mostly just pulling the colour from the from this area. And leaving that top edge kind of alone. And again, it's because also, we don't want a dark line and you know, when you're, when you're pulling the color out of the lines, you're never coloring on the line. You're never coloring on the line. You're not following the line with your brush. You're never doing that. You're coloring it on one side or the other and in this case, I'm coloring it on the inside of the line. I'm dragging that color to the inside. Okay? And then the stems, you know, of course, the stems are going to be green and either green. Doesn't matter which one. And even though the stamp includes all the all the blooms on it because it's water colored, they're still going to look different. So, every bloom is not going to look the exact same. You know, which is kind of what we're, what we want when we're doing these watercolors, is that, you know, when you're looking at plants, like they're all, they've got different shades of color. They're not all just one color. And we're still getting that with ease. Get this little bud here. Isn't that cute? And then I'm going to go back over this color again and I'm going to add just a little bit of this green to it. To this color and then just brush this back on. And keep that color more to the center. And again, you want to always be pulling that the color from the lightest area where you've got the where you've got the water. And if you have, you know, different colors in here, you could, you can kind of mix it up a little bit. You can add a little more blue to it You know, and then the the little petals, they all kind of look a little different Okay. I'm just going to add a little bit more green in here into the center. You know, don't ever be afraid of mixing your colors and getting extra color in here. Okay so now let's get this really kind of really kind of get this dark in here. Just to really lift those those petals. Okay. And let's just add a little more color to these stems. And let's put some of this blue in that little bud on there. Okay, so now I'm going to take my yellow So, this one, the number fifty-five. So, this is a kind of a lemon yellow and I'm just going to take the bullet tip and I'm going to color the insides of the flowers, flowers. So, wherever you can kind of see the inside, I mean, you can see a tiny bit in here, I guess. Um but just in these, and then, I'm going to take my green my green bullet tip. This is the this is the one seventy7 green and I'm going to just do some little dots in here. Just put a few little dots in the center of those flowers. Okay. And then let's go on to our little container. And we're going to pull the color now out of the line. So, we're going to drag this color out pull that color out and then we're going to add just a little bit more of that same color. So, a little of the green or the brown So let's just move this over here. So, this is the nine sixty-nine and this is the five sixty-five and then we're going to just get a little of this green down here on the bottom. So, let's do that first. We're going to put a little of this down here. So, we're just going to make a little line here like this. And just kind of color this in. Just leave a little bit of a highlight on here. Such a soft, pretty color. And then just one more little stripe. Okay. And now we're just going to take some of this and a little bit of this of these two colors and then we'll just do a little shadow under here and then we'll get this a little along the side. And I've kind of have that you know, look a little bit more like a ceramic container. Add a little more of this color on here. Little darker on the edges because it is a rounded container and that is Finished. And then we could we could just put a little shadow under here too. A little shadow like that. Okay. Now, one more thing. Now that everything is dry, I'm going to take my bullet tip of this really pretty green and I'm just going to make a couple of little lines in here. And just really tiny. Okay. A couple lines down there. Alright, we are good to go on that one and this and these. So, now, let's bring these back in. Let me zoom out a little bit here and then, we're going to, let me move my palette out of the way and now, you guys, we're going to assemble this into the journal. After we do the white paint. So, let me grab that. Grab this. And we're just going to put a little highlight Uh Mary Ann says the larger. You could do a terrarium. Oh that would be so cute. You guys they're they're honest. They're so easy. Just don't stress out about it. Oh yes. White paint Patricia. It's coming. It's for sure coming. I just I don't know if I can do one of these without some white paint somewhere in some vicinity and they do make a really nice little highlight on these jars. But you see the see what how that really makes that jar when you can see the edge like that. It's those three things. It honestly is and you'll be successful. Make sure you put the bottom in. This little section. Uh make sure you leave a space between the edge and make sure you leave the lip white. Do you need shadows beneath the glass jars? You absolutely can. Diane, good point. Let's just do it. Yes, I'm getting just a little bit of blue off of my palette. And then we can just put a little shadow on here. And then, you know, you can see, you can really see that edge on here too. When you put that shadow underneath Okay. Good point. You guys. Good point. Alright. So now we're going to take the small brush. And get some water in here. I'm going to take my small brush and my and I put a little water into my white paint, my jar. So that is I can spread it. You just want to be able to spread this paint. You know brush it on. And then, we're going to, let's just start with this one and we'll just put a little highlight just right across across the edge. I mean, that's literally all we have to do and then, just do a little couple little lines along the side Um like so. We can go just a little darker here. So, just a little you know, highlight along the edge of the jar. See how cute that is. Just so easy. And this one. So we need to get a little highlight on here. And then we'll do little edge on this and this is where you can put that the lip back in. If you if you lost that lip. Okay. There we go. And if you want to I mean, since you got your white paint out, you could do a just a little a little center like that. That would be really cute. We could do just a little highlight here and you could do a little highlight on your little highlight on your little tulips. That would also be cute Okay. So, let's clean that off Close that up. And then we're going to just erase these pencil lines. So, the pencil lines that are down here on the bottom, we just want to get rid of those. And these get rid of that. And these are finished. How cute are these? Alright so let's get to our let's get to our journal. So I'm going to move my water out of the way so I don't spill it. And I'll grab my journal. And let me zoom out. Okay. So, let's kind of set these aside. Oh, you know what? We didn't do the little butterfly. Let's do this really quick. Let's do this little butterfly. I just basically stamped it in purple So, the same purple. Um six thirty-six. I just stamped it in that. And then I'll use my little brush. And just I just pull the color out. It's it's a purple little butterfly. So, again, you want to concentrate that that color at the center. That's where you want to concentrate it and just drag it out from here. I mean, literally, that's it. And then this little butterfly body. And that's all. That's all we have to do. So now we can let that dry. I'll move this aside again. Okay so now, I have my cover. And the cover let's zoom out again. So the cover is from the and I'll show you these die sets as we go. So you can see where I'm getting all of this. So let me just get myself organized. Just stacks of stuff everywhere. Okay. Um here is the die set that I use. This is the same as the the regular die set. It's just that it has a small spine and so it only has one page. So, when you open it up, it's just got one page in the center. So, you can see how small it is. It's so, it's way simpler. It's got, it's got the big fold out middle but it's only got one page. So, you can do this really really quickly. Do them really quickly. So, that is this set. This is the Slim Journal set and that's what I'm using on here. Okay and then the pages, now, everything that you would use in your regular journal, you could use in this one because the pages are all the same. Everything else is the same. It's only the spine that's different and it's just, it's narrower. So, the pages are from this set. It is it's a decorative journal page one. So, this is the page that I'm using but there is a page that comes in the regular journal too and you can use that one and also, is there one that comes in here? Oh, yeah. There's a page that in here also. So, you can use a regular page. If you have this and you don't have a decorative page. But I just use that decorative page in mine. alright? So, the first thing I did was glue this together, Glue the two backs together. and then, put the pages in. So, I just went in and put the pages in and then I well, I cut this first. So, I cut the oval first and then I put the pages in. So, I just laid it flat, ran it through, and this is a, I'll tell you what size this oval is. It is two and a quarter by two and three quarters. And that's that's from the oval die set. So, you can use any, you can use any opening. You could use a rectangle opening or you can use no opening and you can just do something on your own on the front. You could just do a watercolor. You could put something like this on the front and that would be really cute. Okay? But I just I just did it to kind of just do something a little different. And so I just cut that opening in there. So now the very front, we want to kind of finish that opening up because we don't want this necessarily this raw edge, alright? So, I just cut these ovals and by the way, you know, if I were to do this again, the paper on the inside, I would, I would glue that in first and then, cut the oval. Um because it it has to line up. So, it has to line up on the inside. So, next time and I I just centered it and I lined it up but to make sure that it's exactly where you want it, glue this page in and then then cut die cut the opening. I mean, you know hindsight. I would have done it that way. So, on the front, just to finish it off, I just went with a little larger dice that can kind of just finish off the center. So, let's just glue this in really quick. This is just the next size up basically in the in the die set. And you can, you know, use whatever papers. The thing about this paper pack is that everything goes. So, it doesn't matter what you pick. Um everything is going to go together. So, that will fit right over that opening. Made that little frame. And then this one this tiny one will go right on the inside. So, it'll look just like this. So, let's do that. I haven't made a journal in a while and so it was really fun to make this. I love these things. I just I don't think I would ever get tired of making a journal. They're just so much fun and they're they're just so different. Every time that you make one, I feel like you kind of learn something different. I do. Or I try something different. And they're just they're so they're just so cute. Alright so I've just got this little opening. Uh Marriette says she's back. She just ordered. Thank you. Thank you so much and Tina. She just placed hers. Um you guys, Sheree, thank you. She just ordered hers. Um you guys, I can't wait to see your journals. Honestly, you will be encouraging someone. Like I said, this was such a this was such a big thing for me to make this paper pack and you know, make sets and then this journal and to to make it easy. Um I just I just had to do it and then it was just so fun when I finally got a chance to do it. Alright. So, this is going to just glue right over the opening of the of the oval. So, I just cut this out of the center. And you can, you know, this is just the paper I'm using but you can, you obviously use whatever paper you want to use but everything is going to is going to go together. So, it doesn't really matter what you grab. And I I'm just doing the same thing again now on the inside just to kind of finish off the opening Just put a little frame around it. Anybody have any questions so far about the the containers like the glass Um we're going to be doing more of these. Like I said, we're going to work through all of these sets. You know, with the journal, you know, only has six watercolor watercolors in it but it's super versatile. So, you could use whichever ones you want in it. So, I want to make sure that you guys know how to how to color them all. So, we will get to all of em. Um we'll we're going to be doing some more and you know what? I mean, fall is coming but we can still do florals. You guys. We could still do florals. They're timeless. Alright. So, now I'm going to do this little extra little frame to finish it off get that straight. Okay so now we've got this opening finished on both sides. And so now I'm going to oops I can see that through that a little bit. Oh well. Okay. Um so now we're going to put the little banner on. And I just picked this. This is from that free set. The Thinking of You. And I'm just going to put this on the front. Glue this to the front. And just kind of center it right in here. Make sure that just sits kind of in the center And then we're going to do the the next one on the back. So we're going to do the same one again on the back like this. And I'm going to glue part of this and then I'm going to use a little foam dot. To connect it to the one on the front. So, I'm just going to use a little foam. here And Ashley let's just get rid of that glue. And then I'll glue just a little bit on the sides of this. This little banner is from the basic basic journal set. So if you have the basic journal set you have this little banner. So you just going to line that up. With the one on the front Oops, I should've put a little more glue here. And we'll just line that up Like so. That straight? Okay, that looks straight. So now, now we've got it on both sides. Of this. So now, let's go to the other page and we're going to glue in this one and I just cut these. I mean, I use these so much in some way or another. I use these little these little dyes and that's what I use for this one too. I just use these little dyes so much. So, now, let's put in the next page. And it is all of these. So, let me grab these papers. And its little tag. So, we're going to glue this in first. This is the the little accent page. So, we're going to glue this in. And it's going to just go right in the middle. Just right in the middle here. Line it up with the other one. Like so. And then we can add all of the layering pieces. So this one can go in next. And you know when you glue these in you can just glue the just glue the outside edges. So the the outside edges. And then you can just create a pocket. So you can have lots of pockets on here. So I'm going to just kind of lay this out and see where my my image is going to go. So it's going to go right here like this. So I want to make sure that I have enough room for every else and I think I'll just glue this one here. Glue the next one. So pretty close to the edge. And this is another one that I I did from here. So these are just meant to layer on top of themselves. Now, this one, I'm going to just glue along these edges here. And then I can create a pocket and whether you use it or not, it's just kind of nice to know that you have that extra pocket there. That you could tuck something in And then this one I'm going to use this edge. So, I've already used this edge so I don't want to use two of the same. But these have two, two edges to em. So, we're going to do the same with this one. So, we're just going to glue this. And the edge. And then we'll put this one here. Right next to this. And this will just line up just perfectly here. And now we can just glue in our little tulips. So they can just glue right in here just like that. And we're going to do the same with this one. So we're just going to glue the the three sides. So that we have a pocket. And just glue this one in. Like so. And I put in my journal, I used the little, the letters And you know what? I'm not sure what number that is, Leah. If you're on, what a set is the little letters. Okay, and I'm, I just, I just wrote hugs and I just put this down at the bottom. So, let me grab my my little tweezers. So, you can just cut these little, I just cut, cut them out out of, you know, just a printed any other printed paper And let's just put a little glue. on here. Fifty-five sixty-two. Fifty-five sixty-two, Joel says. That is the number. Fifty-five. These are really handy because you can write these little personal notes or you know, put their put the person's name in there which would also be really cute. And you know, hugs is a really short word. So, it's easy to put in. That in there like that. And then we'll put the S in. Whoops. I got that upside down. Do that again. Okay. So, got hugs in there which is so cute and then, a little tab. So, the little tab is from well, this is from the rectangle set and then the little tab is from this set and it is the the rectangle frames and it's this little tab right here and then, we're also going to use this this frame in here. From this set. So, I I cut out the little tab and then I cut out a little rectangle and just rounded the corners. So, now, I can just glue this on like this and then, this is where your little sentiment goes. So, if you're using the sentiments from this this set, these all fit on here. The the majority of these small ones all fit on these little tabs. So, you'll be able to put them all on here and the same with the the scripture verses. These small ones all fit on the tab. And then the larger ones you could put in a frame or you could put it on a bookmark. And you could put it somewhere. Tuck it in somewhere. But on the tabs those will all fit. So let me put some glue on here. We're just going to glue both sides of this and then glue it to the little tab. And then you can add whatever message you want on it. Maybe you just want to put a little on it. You know that would also be really cute. And then this just goes in any of these pockets. So it can go in this one. It can go in this one. You could put one in each in each pocket. You could put one down here. Of course in here. And of course in here. And we've got this page done. So, let's go to the backside. And the backside is our little this little jar. So this is going to go here with the little butterflies. So let's just glue this butterfly in right now. So I'm just going to fold it in half. And I used regular watercolor paper on this but you could also use mix mixed media. It's a lot thinner. Um but this works for now. And I'm just going to glue the the little edge. And let it just kind of dry there like that. Alright, so now, let's glue in the accent paper So, we're going to glue this down. This is paper just so cute. Just love it. Joel is he's the paper king now. He is so good. He does all of our our graphic design, all of our ads, everything that you see on the website, all designed by him. We just have such a good time working together. And we always say we make such a good team. Okay. So, now, we're going to put in this one and we're going to put this one in. So, let's glue these two together. So, you can, you know, and then again, we want to leave a pocket here. So, we're just going to glue. I'm just going to glue this one. Just right along this edge here. I'll glue this on. Make sure that's straight. And then we'll glue it in like this. That'd be so cute. And then we can add our little tag into this pocket. So we just want to glue three sides here. And and these also came from that die set That same die set that has the all the layering dies that work in the center of your in inside your journal. So, I'm going to leave a little bit of space on the edge that I can see this paper over here. And then your little bookmark. You can use any of those little those little sentiments and put that on. Put that put something on there. What did I put online? Let me see. Um I put on Brighter days are coming. I put that on mine. So you could put whatever you want on your little bookmark. It's just a bookmark. It's such a a neat little gift because so many people you know will put it they'll put it somewhere. If they don't read books they'll put it in a journal or in a you know somewhere. You know, it's just a reminder. Every time they open that page that somebody is thinking about them and cares about them. Alright, so let's go to the center page now. And we're going to glue in this piece in the center. So just like this. And you can see where that edge is. So, when you fold this up, you can see where the the center of the page is. So, you want to make sure that you don't glue over the top of the score line right here. So, you're going to put this right in the middle of these two score lines. So, just like this. We're just going to glue this whole thing. You can leave. You can also glue three sides again. If you want to use that one as a pocket. And then we're just going to put this in here just right in the middle of it. And that looks pretty close right there. Okay? Now, what I did was I took a little just a rectangle like this one and I glued this right down to the center, just on the edges. So, then, you can thread your ribbon through this. So, just along the edges like this. And I just glued it to the center Straight. And then I can thread my my my ribbon right through there. Alright so let's put these little pockets in. Um Let's put these little pockets in. I'll show you how I cut these. So, I cut four. See where the other one is. I cut four of these out of the same paper, okay? And then, I took two of em and I made a scoreline that is about, you know, I just, it has to fit in this section. So, you can see where the, let me just zoom in a little bit so I can show you guys. Okay, do you see where this little score line is? So, when you're folding up your journal, you know, it's folded up like is. So, there's a little space in between here. See, right in between that you can place something like this. You can just glue this right into this little space right here And so, I cut four of these and then I scored it. I just used a, you know, a little Xacto knife so that I could get a score line. I just used a ruler and scored it about like three sixteenths or so and I think I I probably just eyeballed it so that I knew it would fit in that little space because this is about, I think that's about a quarter, maybe is that a quarter of an inch? What is that? Um Not quite. So one, two, three. Yeah, this is three sixteenths. So, it's it's pretty small but you you'll be able to just fit that right into the into that little space, okay? So, I took one that scored and then I took another one the opposite way and I glued it so that it was right on the edge of that fold. So, when I glued this one down. So, you see where that fold is. I glued this right here just to the edge of that. So, let's just do that. And then, you know, we want to leave that edge open because that's our pocket So, we're going to glue this down right to the edge. Of that. And now we can see that little decorative part on the outside. And I just take these so you know the cut line was on the other side. So I just take these and just kind of smooth it out a little bit. So just like this. And then it's going to go in here. Just like this. And it's just going to be so cute. So let me zoom out now. As you can see what I'm doing. Alright let's do the other one now. So we've got the one with the fold line and that's going to go in here. So we're going to glue this one now to it. On three sides. So we can see that contrasting colour. So let's make sure we get this in the right place. This blue dries so fast that you have got it you just gotta be fast. Getting this glued on. Okay so now we've got two of these. And so see this cut line I just go like this and just smooth it out. And glue that together. So now we can glue these into the into the spine here just like this. So, let's do it. Let's glue this in and you want to just put it in the center, Right in the center. With that accent, the accent paper showing to the inside. So, this direction. So, they kind of open together from the inside. And then we'll do this one. Same. Same way. Just right in the middle. And just glue that down. We'll just let that dry for a second and we'll do our little frame. So this just cuts out, you know, the diaphragm and it is, let me show you which one that is. I just love these little frames. I love these little guys and they fit on your six-by-six paper. So, they fit exactly. So, any of your paper packs, you can use these with. And this is what they look like. So, there's one that has a straight edge on the bottom and then there's one that has a scalloped edge and they come with the with the cutouts for the openings. Mary Ann. So, plan that AI. Okay, what am I missing here in the comments? Um okay, Suska Hasko, we'll see you back on the replay, Suska. Okay somebody who is who started talking about a cruise? Okay. Okay, you guys. Yep, that would be fun. Alright. So, it's got it, you're, you're going to score the little tab right here and then, you're going to glue it down. And before you do, just place your your little your little watercolor image kind of where you want it to go. Um like this. So, I think that's pretty good right there. And then I just kind of hold it in place and glue it down. Just to keep it in place. And then I can just glue it down all the way. So cute. Make sure that's centered. And then we'll just hit it with a little more glue over here. It just has to hold in the frame. Just stay in the frame. And then you just going to glue it shut on the little tab like this and you've got your little framed art and you could put your your little message on here, you know, to a dear friend or you know, thinking of you would be so cute and I forgot the little easel. So, it had the the little die set comes with an easel so that it can stand up and I forgot mine. So, I have to add that later but yeah so you just put you just put the easel on the back. So now let's make these little pull out tabs. We're going to just glue these. Again, just like we did before. So, same rectangle and I'll I'll tell you what size this rectangle is actually. And then I just cut the corners. Used a little corner cutter. And then just whatever sentiment you want to put in there. And then they just go in. They just tuck in here like this. Tuck right into the side. This one So let's put it's little tag on. Tab on. And you guys, we're almost done. We're almost finished So, now, you can pull these two out like this. That cute? So, we are getting done and our little frame will fit right in the center. So, that will be really cute and then, let's just do the little butterfly paper clip or not the butterfly, the the heart. So, I just cut these two hearts out and you can glue em together or you can use a little pop popped popped a little foam dot. And. just put it right in the center of your paper clip and then just glue your on one side And then the other. Isn't that cute? Such a just a cute little addition. Just a little extra thing. And then you can just put it in here until I glue it backwards. I did. You guys, I did it backwards. Here, let's do it this way. We gotta do it this way. Now, we need a new foam. Okay. We can't stress the small things, right? Okay, so this time, I'm going to put it into the heart like this and then, I'll put it through like this and then add my little heart to the back. I think I'm just going to glue put a little bit of glue on the inside. And you could make these out of you could do a little star. That would be really cute. Um a little circle with a message. And you could do multiples of these hearts. You could do different ones on different pages. But it's just cute to attach it. Um to your journal. There we go. Now, it's attached and then, this one, so, the your your ribbon just goes through here. Just thread it through like this and then, you can just tie in your your little frame. See if I can tie this right. And you can use whatever ribbon you want. Of course Okay. And then Just tie that in like this and then turn it off and it's going to stay there and like I said, you could also tuck it into your your little paper clip too. That would be really cute. So, it's kind of big here. Let's turn this off a little more. Okay. you guys. Look how far we got today. And we'll finish the rest of this. So, we've got this page. So, we've gotten to here We've gotten to here. So, next week, I'll show you how to do the little the parchment. Um we'll finish up this page and then, we'll go to this one and do this cute one and then the little booklet and the little teacup. So, we'll finish those up tomorrow and get those into the journal and we'll be finished you guys. You will have tutorial s on how to make this little Journal. So, let's just go over this and oops this goes like this. So, let me show you again what's in the bundle. Let me zoom out a little bit here. And I'll show you what is in the bundle. So First of all, two paper packs so that you can do the cover. So, these two paper packs are in the are included in the journal. So, this this one has This is twenty-four designs. So, there's two of each and they're double sided and look at all the cool papers. We just used a few. But there are so many different papers that you can use out of here. I just love this so much. And then this is for the cover. Your journal cover. So, you'll be able to pick from any of these six and use it on your journal cover. Then, we have the long stems. So, two sets of these long stems. So, flowers and foliage and then, the little bud vases. So, these little guys right here, remember, these are rubber just from just for this release. The next time we order them. They will be in clear. So, there are three sets of rubber containers. Um just on this one. We sent them. We ordered them clear and we got them in rubber. So here they are. Um so, three sets of containers. And then these two large florals that can go into your containers. And you can see the size of these. This is the ones. These these are the ones that we use today. These two. But we'll be using these from this set. Um this one for sure and this one. Next week. So you guys we will get them all. We will be getting through them all. Um I promise down in the days to come. Um also the sentiments. The set of sentiments. Um just for all difference for all different reasons. You can send send these. And if you are interested in scriptures, sending scripture verses in your journal. These are available online. So at Art Impressions. com. Just go to the very top under get inspired. And click on the Encouragement sentiment pack. And click on that. You can order it for 3. Just it'll come just like this. Or you can you can download it for free and just print it off. So, you can do that. These will all, these, these are all made to fit into the journal, okay? And then, your free gift with the bundle. So, if you get the whole thing, you get the whole bundle with all the pieces in it. You get this free, this little sentiment set free in rubber. As our gift to you and then, of course, everything is available in individually. So, you can order any of these things by themselves if you want to. Um the bundle is a huge discount. It's 20% off you guys because I just I'm so I love this this idea of sending these encouragement cards and keep in mind any of these things can be on a card. So, you know, they're they're great. Here's a here's the sample I showed earlier. You can see how cute that is. That would be so cute on a card. Just beautiful. Alright. So, I'm going to switch back over. So, that I can say goodbye to all of you. You guys, that was so much fun. Um I hope you love this journal as much as I do and I just I can't wait to see what you guys make with it. It'll be shipping next week. So, we take the orders as they come. So, if you've already got your stuff ordered in, you're going to yours is going to ship out right away. Um thanks for a great time together. Mary Ann, you are so welcome. Thanks for all your encouraging words, you guys. Always are so encouraging to me. I just love it. I love showing you guys new things. I love making new stuff and I Watercolor Wednesdays with you guys. So, thanks everyone. If you have any questions, be sure to leave it in the comments. Um we'll answer them and then of course, Leah, you can ask Leah anything. She is just the best. So, thanks everyone for staying with me for 2 hours. Those of you who are still on. Um it goes by so fast. So, thanks everyone. I had a great time with you and I'll see you back next week.

Watercolor Wednesday! | Watercolor Wednesday! August Throwback 2024! Fall Bench Set watercolor tutorial 2 with Bonnie Krebs! | By Art Impressions Rubber Stamps | welcome to Watercolor Wednesday. We are going to do some watercolor today. So, I am just, I'm so happy that you have joined me today and we're going to go back to the throwback. So, yesterday was throwback Tuesday. So, that's the Tuesday of the month. The second Tuesday of the month where we bring back something from the archive. So, you know, in the 37 years that our depressions has been in business, there are a lot of old, old vintage images that it's fun to bring them back. So, that's what we've done. Every month, we bring one the second Tuesday of the month and sometimes they are exactly like what they were way back when and most of the time now, they are inspired by. So, lots of changes have been made and they've been changed up so that they're easier to use especially for us who watercolor. So, we're going to be doing another project today because I, you know, I finished that project yesterday and there's so many things that we can add to it and change it that I just thought, I'm just going to do one more today. I'm going to do one more project for you guys to show you the versatility of some of these things and to just show you how to kind of you know think outside of the box a little bit with some of these projects. We're going to do the little owl because I really wanted to show you how to color that and I just you know we're going to bring in some things for some other sets and show you how you can switch these things up. So I'm looking forward to that. So let me say hi to my people on here. Um Vicky Girls, hello. Ruth Ann is on. Hello, Ruth Ann. Cathy, hello. Good morning, Caroline. Hello to you. Elaine, how is your foot today? Elaine said she broke her foot. So, we are just feeling bad for her. Um give us an update, Elaine. Patricia is on. Hello from sunny Maryland. Hello. Barbara, good to see you. Sally, hello. Diana. Hello. Good to have you on here. Um Theresa, Laura. Hello from Pasadena. Okay. Oh I bet it's hot there. I always think about the weather you guys. Where you guys are at. I always think about that. Um we're pretty temperate here in Oregon. I mean we have our days where you know it might get close to 100 but not not a lot of days like that. You know, we get more, you know, high 80s and you know, kind of low nineties. So, I'm always curious about, you know, what the weather is in your state and I know some of you, you know, you of people or Arizona people. I know it's just blistering hot there. But so it's always really interesting to hear what your weather is like. And I bet Pasadena is really hot today. Um Wildemar, Joy from Wildomar, California. Hello. Welcome. So glad to have you guys on here. Um Peggy. Peggy is on. Diane Mason. Hello. Uh Maricella. Did I pronounce that right? Maricella. Watching live. Yay. Um you are so welcome. Erm is on. Theresa, Linda, Linda, Linda, and Linda. Um Sheila. Hello, Sheila. Put in her order yesterday. Thank you guys who have ordered these. You know, it's good to order early because we do run out of these things. So, it's good to have it in especially if you are a thousand% sure you want this set. Get your order in early. Um and like I announced yesterday. So, and the orders go out in the order that we receive em. So, Jill, let me just make that point but we do have, we do have a bit of issue. So, our shipment was delayed and so it's coming and it's on its way but we won't receive. It won't be able to ship out orders til the first part of the week. So, I just want to give you guys a heads up because normally, Leah in the shop is she is on it and she gets these orders out fast. So, in case you're wondering why your order is taking an extra day or two, it's because of that. So, we will be getting em in. They're on their way and we'll get them out to you guys. So, thanks for your patience on that. Okay, Tony is on. Anna, hello. She made it on time today. We're so glad to have you. Whenever you pop in, doesn't, you know, even if you're not on time. If you just pop in in the middle, that's awesome. Or catch us on the on the replay. Um hello, Suska. Shirley from Arizona. Oh gosh. Yeah. It's probably really hot. You know, people from Arizona and Florida, you all have air conditioning. So, it's not, you know, it's just certain months where you don't go outside just like here. You know, in the winter time we just we don't go out in January, you know, or February or December, or November When it's raining and raining. Um, Upstate New York, Debbie, hello. Hello, Carol Meyer. Um, good to see all of you on Hot in Florida. Yep, I bet, Sandy. Hot and humid. Um, hello, Ellen. Hello, Sheryl. Hot Kentucky. Oh, wow. I bet. Um Twin Fall s, Idaho Good to have all of you. It's so fun to see where you guys are all from. Is this cool that we can just all be together? I just, you know, I feel like you're all in my office with me. So, I'm not talking to myself, you know, to the camera. You're all here with me. So, but from all parts of the country, I just think that's just so cool. Um Laura says going to be in the low 90s today. Oh, wow. I guess that's probably cooled off a little bit, huh? Um It's hot and only ten o'clock Bellflower, California. Oh gosh. Wow, Anna. It's going to be hot later. Um hello, Debbie from Salem, Oregon. Um can't wait to see you in Ottawa. Hello, Theresa. Good to see you. Elaine, okay. She's given us an update on her boot. Okay. So, it's hanging in there. Must wear the boot until September 19th. Oh my goodness. Oh, wow. And they'll X-ray it again. Oh my goodness. Hopefully, that heals quickly. Um Cheryl, talking about Leah. Yes, Leah is amazing. She's the speed queen on orders. That is for sure. Um hello, Consuelo. Hello to all of you guys. I just love that you comment on here and say hi. That's awesome. Mary Ann, hello. Polly from Idaho. Hello. Um staying let's see. Shirley. Beautiful in the winter and spring. Yep. Stay in during the summer but beautiful. Exactly. So it's just a it's kind of a trade off. You have your you know bad months but then you have your wonderful months. So Hello from hello from Missouri Carol. Hello. Cathy from Missouri. And Georgia. Oh hot outside but cool inside. See it's a good day to watercolor you guys. It's just it's a good day to hang out with me on watercolor Wednesday and watercolor. So that's what we're going to do. So like I said we're going to go back to the throwback because after I got done doing it I just thought there's so many and more ways that we can color this set. So we're going to do one more project. We're going to stick with same color palette. And we're going to mix it up a little bit. So, I'm going to switch my camera around and show you some different ways that you can stamp these things and then, we're going to do our little project. So, let's let's go to it. We switch off here. Okay. So, here is the exclusive set. For those of you who did not tune in yesterday. This is the exclusive set. It is the throwback and it is good until tomorrow at midnight. So, these are the sets and we bring them back for just three days and then they're gone. So, this is what we did yesterday. This is the project that we did and you can see the little squirrels on here and this is on the this is record on the replay. So, you can watch this on YouTube or you can watch it on our Facebook page. So, it'll stay archived on there and we added some little branches in here. We added some mums in here and we moved the little wood basket up onto the bench because this comes by itself. So, we just moved it right over here to the bench and stamped it on there and added this extra little thing and then we colored this whole project. So, we did it kind of basically the way it shown here. Kinda left everything the way that it is. And then added a few little branches with some leaves on it. Um here is what you're going to get with that set. So this will just come with it. You don't have to order it. Just comes with it as a free gift. This is our gift to you. Um for buying the throwback. So this is also an exclusive. And just a gift for you. So this also goes with the bench. And which is another reason why I wanted to do it today. So that I could show you the little owl. Cuz he's just so cute. And you can just put him on that on that bench. So we're going to use him today. And then this is the little promo stamp that we bring back. So we bring one of these back every month. Uh for the same amount of time. Just three days. These are little promo stamps that we that were giveaways over the years. And we bring one back because so many of you are collectors of these. And you can see the whole collection on our website. So if you go to Art Impressions. com at the very top where it says get inspired. Um you'll see a little tab to click on that says the collector's guide and if you click on that, you'll see all of these little guys and what year they were released. So, you can check out that box. Um check off the ones that you have that you have and see which ones are still coming. So, this little guy is available on the website now. You can get him til Thursday. And like I said, this was our project for yesterday. So, here's what we're going to do today. We're going to just change it up a little bit and if you can see on here, you can see the changes. So, number one, I took the off. So, in other words, when I say I take them off, I just did not I just didn't eat them. So, when you've turned your stamp over and ink it with your marker, you just ink those areas that you want to show up in your composition. So, I just left the little squirrels off. I didn't ink em at all. So, when I took them off, it left a space. So, this little guy, when I took him off, you can see that the line here on the bench, it stops right here. So, it leaves a really nice, safe place for you to something else. So, I just put the little wood basket up here on the arm of the bench and I think it worked really well. And you notice there's no acorns in it. So, I took the acorns out. So, when I went to stamp this onto the bench in that open spot, I just left the acorns off and I just made the little wood basket. So, these things are so versatile because we are stamping em with a marker and that just means that you're just coloring the section that you want to use. And the rest of it you just leave off. Use your use a positioner and just place that where you want it to go. So I placed it on the arm of the bench. Okay? So down here on this one you can see I did the the little flowers. The mums. And we're going to do those again today. But instead I put apples in here. So let me show you where those are from. Those are from this set right here. This is a fall set. And this is from you know several years ago. This is the watercolor harvest set and it's got some little pumpkins in it too. And another little wooden basket which would be so cute to even set onto the bench. So there's some really good stamps in here. It comes with this little tractor which is so cute. But the apples are really really nice because there are so many containers they fit in. And depending on how far down you drop them into the basket you can put them into a smaller one. So you know for if you picture, you know, you're going to mask this off with your masking tape. You're just going to mask this off and then, you're going to use your positioner and place these apples into your little pot. So, the lower you drop them, the less there are in the pot. So, that means you can use a much smaller pot when you're putting these apples in and they're just so cute for fall to put em in here. So, I made them all in red. You know, in this example but I think today, we might mix em up and put some green ones in there too. Just for fun. So, this a really great stamp and I just, you know, there's so many, you know, from these older sets that have come out, you know, several years ago, there's so many great images in em and I just don't get back to em enough to use em but this is a really, really good, versatile one to have because of these little pumpkins and some of you may have these because we use pumpkins a lot. Um you know, in the fall and I and I use these two. These are two of my favorites that I just use all the time and if you have this set, you've got this little these little apples that are just really nice to put in containers like this. So, we're going to put these. We're going to use this little container. We're going to we're just going to put apples in em. So, now, instead of putting this onto the binge, I used a little critter like this little fox and it comes in the little mini critter set and it just fits right in here. You could use any, I mean, maybe not the deer but you could for sure put the little dog on here, the bunny, the cat, then, of course, little fox and I picked him because he's orange. You know, and I thought, oh, he'll just go perfect with this but the cat could also be orange. She could be an orange tabby cat and she'd be so cute on here. So, there are things that you could use, you know, to put, you could put another pot here. You could use that little basket like I showed you from this set. Um this little basket and you know, keep in mind with these things, you know, the size of it, if you if you look at this, if you go to color this and you only color to this line. The only color to this line that drops the basket down and now it's way smaller. It's way shorter because you've only got this section. Same as the reverse. So, if you only color this part and down, you have a really cute shallow basket that you could maybe put onto the ground next to these baskets. So, always kind of think of that when you're looking at these images because I do. I always think of that when I'm creating em. How how many ways can you use them? And especially when it comes to baskets like this. Same with this one. Same with this one. You could do the same here. Is you could just make a very small one just by using this section down here at the bottom. Okay? So always keep that in mind. Alright so here's another thing. Um that I used. So I used these little leaves from this set. This was from I believe this was from last year. A 2022 so fall. Um when this one came out These little hay bales are also really would be so cute on this bench and they will fit on here. So, I almost used one because I just thought they were so cute and then I opted to place this up on the arm and put the little fox in here. So, you know, these little things, this would also fit down underneath here. You could add something really cute on it like these little guys. These came out at the same time as these little hay bales. So, if you have this set. Um you know, I took those larger squirrels off. but these little ones would be so cute here. Especially that would make this owl so much bigger and you know, kind of a little bit scary to have this owl on here. If these little mice and squirrels were smaller, I think that would be really cute and you could put them just everywhere. You could put them on the bench. You could put them, you know, kind of up on the top here. Um there would be so many ways that you could use these little guys down underneath here. They be just so cute or put on it on a little hay bale. You know that would be really cute too. So these would be really fun to use on the bench for sure. So any of these fall sets that you have kind of look at them and just see you know what to what you have and what you could use. You know for things like this. This one also would be really cute. And you could you could just ink this part. Here and then you've still got the top where you could add some mums in there or just whatever you want to put in there too. And really that's all we need for right now. So other than those, we're just going to use the little grass. This one right here. And we're going to use that because we're going to make this a white mum here. So, we're going to use more green. We're going to use the green all the way up around here. And then it's going to really showcase that white against the white bench. And then this one, the little mums. We use these yesterday and they're just they're so cute. So, we're going to use this one again. Okay, Diana says I'm on I know I'm sitting on the bench. Absolutely. And you know what Diana? I almost got the fairies out and put them on the bench. I honestly did. And I thought okay that's overdoing it. But how cute would a little whimsical bench be with with with a gnome or a fairy on it? Yes. 100%. They're just they're so anything like this that's a bench is just a great catch all for things. And if you really just start thinking about what you could put on here. Uh it just it kind of opens up a whole new world for you. It honestly does. And it's not hard to mask things out. It really isn't. And you know stamp them on here. Take things off and add new things on. It really is not hard to do that. Um so we're going to do that today. And you can see here is the here is the line drawing of where I placed everything. And you know I'll go over it again so I can show you exactly where to do it. It's just it takes so much less time to do these projects. If I pre stamp it. But I want to make sure that you can how I did it on here. So, stamping the apples, of course, you're going to need a piece of post-it tape and that would be, you know, this one right here. Just something like this. You're going to tape off that little that little wash tub and then, you're going to use your positioner and stamp your apples in here and you can stamp em as high as you want. You know, you could you could use just maybe three of em and put something else in here. So, it just what's going to eat, what's going to stamp in here is what you ink. Exactly. alright? So, those are what I added. I added these in here. I just, I think I just eyeballed these because I think these are part of a clear set and so I think I just eyeballed these but you can also use a positioner to make sure that you've got it in the right place. Now, this one I for sure use the positioner on. Um these are the throwbacks are rubber. So, you will for sure need a positioner to stamp this in the right place unless you're, you just want to risk it. Um so I I would for sure suggest that. Um this little guy too, you want to make sure that he is positioned in the right place. So, you know what? Just it it just it doesn't even if they're clear, it's not a bad thing to just take an extra minute or two and just use your positioner and get it in the right place so that you have it and then, the little owl because you know, when I took that squirrel off, and you can see on the line art here, you can see when you take these off, it leaves a space. So, it leaves a little space right here. So, I just, you can just ink from here over down to this line and then just from here down. So, you're just basically leaving off these two little critters on here. Deb says, is there some place to learn how to use a positioner? Oh my goodness, Deb. Yes. I will show you. I will show you at the end of this tutorial. In fact, Joel, will you grab a positioner for me in my office? And it's in the it's in the box with all the blocks in it. Four. Okay. Um I will show you that Deb. Just hang on if you can or it will be on the on the replay but I will don't let me forget to show you that at the very end. I'll show you how to position with the positioner because it will, it is just, it takes all the guesswork out. Alright. So, anyway, that's what I did on here. Position this, position this, added these, added these, and added the owl onto here. So, it totally changed the composition but it's so cute and it's so cute adding the owl on here and using some of these other critters and using these things in different ways is also just really fun. So, let's get let's get started on our project and I'm going to zoom in a little bit. I'm going to get my my position or my palette out And then let's zoom in here. Valerie says the positioner honestly, game changer. It honestly, it is and it's, you know, it's really small. It's not, it's not expensive, and it will save you lots of paper. That you might mess up on. Um, just by, you know, having something go flying off. Yes, that is perfect. Thank you. I'm going to put this right in front. So, here's what it looks like. It's just a little L bar with a an acrylic plate that looks like this. And it fits right here, here into the corner just like this. In you know what? Let me just show you right now. Because let me just show you how to use this. And you know what? Let's do. Let's just position this little flower into this little pot right here and I'll show you. So first of all let me just tape this off. Because you know why you guys? Because I'm afraid I'm going to forget at the end. I just you know me and my memory I'm afraid I'll forget. So the first thing we're going to do is just cover this. And we'll go back to the florals and everything. But I just want to show you this really quickly. So the first thing we're going to do is ink our stamp. And we're going to ink it in two colors so the green on the bottom and the blue. Let's use the blue on the top. We'll put that blue mum in here. So, we're going to now place this acrylic plate into the corner And you can do it either way. You can do it this way or you can do it this way. And you're just going to kind of hold it here with your two fingers. And then you're going to place your stamp into the corner. So it's flush with both sides. So, right into the corner, Your block. And now you can see your stamp on your plexiglass. okay? So, now, we're going to take it over here and we're going to look. Okay, here's exactly where I want that little floral to be and I've covered the pot I can drop it down a little bit. But that's exactly where I want to stamp this this little floral. Okay so now I've got it in place. I'm going to take my positioner and put it back. I'm going to put it right back here and now I'm going to remove this plate. So now I'm going to eat this again. I'm going to ink it again with my green. And my blue. And now I'm going to place it back in the corner just like I did before. So, put your finger on here so it doesn't move which I just moved in a tiny bit but it's okay. So, so it doesn't move and then, place this back in the corner and stamp your impression and now you have it exactly where you want it to be. It is just, it's a, it's an absolute game, game changer. You know what? We might as well just add all the flowers in here now that we've done this here. Sometimes we just work out of order, you guys. Sometimes we just, it's just out of order. Okay. So, and I'm just adding these in here just like this. And you know what? Needed just a little bit more green in here. Okay, so now I can remove that and I've got my little florals in there. Okay, so now, I don't, I won't be stressed out about forgetting that positioner. So, Deb Yeah, you, you will, it's just, I think they're, how much are they, Joel? Like, $11? Uh, all Lincoln. Okay, Joel's going to link it. Um, into the conversation. So, you'll be able to see where they are, but they're not, they're not expensive, and they will just save you, and they're easy to travel with. They're small, and they're just, they're absolutely, it's one of those tools that you just kind of must have in your toolbox, for sure. Okay, so now, I'm going to dip my brush and remember you guys, really saturate brush like this. Saturate it and then pinch it off from the middle up because the middle's wet. So, you want to pinch all of this off till it's flat and now, every time that we go to get our brush wet, only the tip. just the very tip goes in the water. Pinch it off. Okay? So, now, let's just, let's just do these little flowers since, you know, we've got them in here and I'm just touching them. So I'm just dabbing The the water will kind of do its thing. And the stamps will too. And now I'm just going to brush this little these little grasses. These little stems. Just brush them down to that pot. And the colours are going to kind of mix in together. And you know that's going to be fine. Totally fine to mix in the colours like that. It's going to look really natural. Is that just so cute? I just love that little stamp so much. It's so great. Alright now let's go back to step one you guys. So we took a little detour. But now let's go back to the beginning. And we're going to just pull some of these color out of the lines. And we're adding a lot of color to these things. We don't have to do too much of it. This is what we did last time too. We just kind of dragged the color out. And you guys know if you've been doing this for very long it's very important that you pull the color out the right way. So you know when something is round the color is darker on the sides. And it's a dome. The color is darker on the bottom. So when comes to these little pumpkins. You know, they're they're they're kind of rounded so they are going to have a bit of a highlight on top But mostly, that that the dark color is going to be around the sides and the highlight will be in the middle. So, same with this This section of the wash tub, this comes forward. So, we want to make sure that the color is below the line. Never ever and I probably should say this more often. Never do you pull the color out of the line by coloring on the line. Never, we never color on the line, ever. We color on one side and let the color bleed out. Depending on what part of that line comes forward. So, it's just it's really important to do that and you know what the more that you do this this process, the more that you kind of automatically think that way. You just kind of automatically. So, see on this little fox, the head is coming forward from here so that color is below the line. It's below the line. Same here. Same here underneath. And this little section of the wash tub is coming forward. So, that means the color is below the line and it's rounded. So, that means we've got color on the sides. And these little apples, you know, we don't have to really do too much with these. They're pretty small. So, we can pull a little bit of the color out. You know, they're rounded also. So, as soon as you add color to the side, it's it's it's a it's round. As soon as you do that because you automatically leave a highlight in the center and the sides are darker and when the sides are darker than the middle, it's it's rounded. It's just it automatically is. You don't have to worry about it or stress out about it. It just will be. So, always keep that in mind. So now on this one, you see how this little band is coming around here. That band is going to be on top of the wood. So, in that case, the color is below the line. And that will bring that little band forward. You see how that just does that? Let me just zoom in really close on that. Oops. Let's zoom in really close on that. You see how putting that color underneath the band brings that band forward. And this one on here. Same thing. So, we're going to bring this forward. So, that means the color is is on the outside. See how that is and now, if if it were if there were more down here, we would use this line. And in between. In between these boards We're going to make that a little bit darker in here. You can see how that just has now kind of taken shape. Um with these pots too. This little edge here that's coming forward. So that color is down below. It's down below. Now here on this side this little wood basket. It's coming forward. So it's in front of the bench. So in that case the colour is on this side. Because it's going to bring that forward. Same with this. Same with this little guy. It's going to bring this forward So, it's really, you know, it's really kind of important to keep that in mind but like I said, the more that you do this technique, the more that you will just think that way. You just will automatically kind of know. See, these wings are coming forward. So, that color is on the other side. See his little his little edge here that's coming forward over the top. The jar, the lid, you know, this is coming forward a little bit. We're going to make this clear. So, I'll show you how to do that. Uh anything that's back in the distance, you know, that's kind of going back. This is going to be darker here. This little edge because that's in the shadow. And this is how we're going to apply the color too. Exact same way. Okay? So, really, this is about all we really have to do. We don't have to do too much with these leaves because we're going to add some color to em but you can see they're kind of laying on their sides. So, what anything that's that's on the side, you know, that's laying like this. Um the the the highlight is going to be on the top. So, that just means and these aren't round. So, that just means the color is going to be at the bottom. You see how I pulled that color out from the bottom. Alright. So, let's keep going here. So, we're going to add some color to this. And let's just start let's just start with the little owl on the top and let's put some color into let's put some color. Whoops, let's go out a little bit. Whoops, not too. Whoa. Okay, let's get some color onto the palette. So, you can see what colors I'm using Um Lorisa just ordered this today. Excited for it to come. Lori, this is such a fun set. I, you know, things like this where you can just change it up a little bit, you know, and kind of think of different ways to use it. You can use the same stamp over and over and over again and just change out a few little things and changing out the color palette too. You could go with kind of more of the traditional browns and oranges and maybe put in some you know, some more cooler colors instead of that warmer, instead of the warmer blue, you could change it up with the cooler blue. It's just, it could just, it would be so cute and then, of course, you guys, can make those of you who love Halloween. You could make this Halloween which would be also really really cute especially with the little owl up here and the little mice running around. So cute and some, you know, dried up, kind of dried up branches coming out of these pots. I can just see it. I need another day, you guys. Can I come on tomorrow just do the Halloween set. Cuz it'll be so cute. And then all your little pumpkins. You could put make little jack-o-lantern faces on them and they would put a few little cobwebs in with some cute spiders and it would be really really cute. And you could do the apples. You could do the apples for you know lobbying for apples on Halloween. That would be really cute. Um so always just so many different ways to use these things. And I just I love showing you guys that. Alright so let's put some colour on here. So we're going to need we're going to need some blue. Some let's this on here. This is five twenty-six And then some orange. We're going to need some of these oranges. So the nine twenty-five. This is that. More red. Um what color was this? Nine. 92-5. And then our other orange. This is the nine thirty-three. This is my favorite orange. I love this orange but it it looks a little it looks a little brassy on my screen anyway. So, it looks kind of gold but it's a really beautiful orange. This is a nine thirty-three. And I do, I use a lot of these two colors and then I also mix them together. So, I I like to put them next to each other because I do kind of mix mix these colors up quite a bit. Um let's our browns now. So here is the nine forty-seven. This is that warm brown. You can see it has yellow in it. This is nine4-seven. And then I'm going to put it next to my other brown. So, this is the nine sixty-nine and by the way, that's what I used to stamp this whole thing, everything in this combination. So, I should have said that in the very beginning. So, the dark blue first, five, six, or you guys could could just guess. Um so, the five sixty-five first and then right over the top, the nine sixty-nine. And then stamp it off. Stamp it off at least one time. Mary Ann says you could make it Christmas scene And instead of pumpkins make them wreaths. Oh my goodness. How cute would that be? That would be really cute. Oh wow. Now, I want to make it Christmas, you guys. That would just be so cute. Tony has to go to appointment. You know what? Tony, we'll be, we'll be on here. So, you can catch us later. Vicky, thank you so much. The size interplay among all of your sets. Great job. Thank you. That is a huge thing for me. I want these to be you. I want you to be able to use them in multiple ways. So, you can kind of go back to em and the whole idea is that it's a collection. So, the more that you add, the more options you have to be able to interchange, you know, some of these sets. So, Theresa, you will be in the drawing. So, if you guys comment, Leah will pick a winner and you know, there will be two throwback winners. So, you guys, you know, comment if you to win that and Leah will pick a winner. So, you can see on here, okay? So, this this color is a little red. This is a new pen. So, this is a nine sixty-nine. So, I I like to put this if I have a new pen. So, by the time it's old and here's what happens to it. When you're using it to ink your design. So, you're using it to ink your your your stamp. You're using this one first and then right over the top, you're using this one and this one will become grayer and grayer because of that. It will pick up the blue and it will become grayer and grayer and the more that it does, the better the color is. The better it is, the more versatile it is and the more natural the color will get when you're using it for rocks and sort of you know, things like that. So, it's a good idea to do the blue first and let that blue kind of saturate your pin. Only this pen, the nine sixty-nine. Um because it is it should be more gray and a little greener for these things that we're using it for. So, when I have a new pen, a nine sixty-nine, a new pen because I've just absolutely worn out my other one. So, I had to get a new pen. I always put it next to the blue on my palette because I mix them up. So, it's just kind of like mixing it on your on the pin, getting the blue on the pin. We're getting the blue into it from the palette. So, this is the five sixty-five and we use this a lot anyway because it's all the shading. It's all the shadows. Are this cool? A shadow really is a cool blue or purple. So, you know, what I mean by that is the difference between this blue, this is warm. You see the difference between this blue and this blue. If you looked out on a snowy scene and you saw a bunch of shadows under the trees, would it look more like this? Or would it look more like this? So, this has the more of a a purple tone to it. Um this has more yellow. So this is a warmer blue. And this is a cooler blue. So, when I say cooler and warmer, that's kind of what I'm meaning by, this has more yellow in it. So, this one and this one make a really good combination because it makes this a little grayer and so, it it just works. You know, when we use the Marvi markers and some of you still use those, you have a Sepia pin that is this color and it's just, it's what I started with in the very beginning but we have had such a hard time working with Marvi and getting those pins that we had to switch to Tombo. And so we've sort of created this combination to work the same as that CPA pin. But I know a lot of you still use the Marbys. And if you do it's that's totally awesome. You know if you use those because there's so many colors in there that are just great for this process. And I use them for years and years and years. And the Sepia pen was my favorite because it did have that mix of color. It was different from any color. It was different than brown. You can see this is brown. It's brown. This is a mix of colors and especially when we add this blue to it which is exactly what is outside in dirt. You know, it's not really brown. It's a mix of colors and so when you're getting into these earthy things that you're doing, rocks and tree bark and you know, ground. It it takes this color and that's why we start with it is because things have substance when we start with this mix of color or that seepia Marvi pen. Wise, it doesn't have any depth to it. It it doesn't if we were to just color these things orange, you know, they and especially if they're larger images, they just, they don't have that substance to them to look like a thing. It looks like a stamped pumpkin that is colored orange but to make it look like a watercolor, it has to have substance which is what we get from these pins. So, all that to say, all that to say, I put these together and especially if I new pen. So, if you have a new pen that looks like this and it's it's redder. So, you can see it has a redder tone to it. Um you want to just get that out and start inking some stamps and put it onto your palette. So, you can kind of mix it up a little bit and then, you will get that. A just amazing color which is just perfect for what we use it for. So, I kind of put these, place these three colors together usually on my on my palette. Uh Janice said, it took me a while to give up my CPI. Uh you and me both, Janice. That was the, that was the hard part about switching to the tombow but Tombo has been so much better to work with. They are just a great company and their product is really good. You know, the other thing about these pens is that they can't be too wet. If they're too wet, there's too much color on em. So, it they have to they have to really be work well for this technique. It's just a different, it's a different technique than anything else really out there and so the pens have to work for what we're using em for and so they really they're just really nice of that. They hold up really well. They have a really nice bullet tip. Um you know, the Marvis have a a finer bullet tip which I also really liked but we find ways around it. We find ways around it and so, now, we have our, you know, our little twin tones that work also work great that even have a finer tip. So, like I said, if you're, if you love your Marvies and you are you just you have a hard time switching by all means, just stay with your Marbys. They work great. They work great pins and I just I love them for years and years and years until we just could not we just went months and months without being able to replenish our pins. We just could not be without them for that long. So Marion says love me too. It took me a while. And there are some colours that I wish they would have. Um you know I wish they would expand their greens. So we're working on that. And you know to be able to use those. But the browns and the blues, the dark brown, and the dark blue. This this is the one that I use the most. This dark brown. And the dark blue are very similar to these these colors that are on the palette. So, you know, we just they work. They work right now and you know, once you kind of get used to it, it's easy to to use them now. So, and they do the job but this is why we start with those two colors. This is exactly why and you can you can change out to that combination depending on what you're doing but when it's something like this that has pots, you know, an actual bench You know, things like this, it's it's so much better to ink that all in this combination of colors and these things too, they're great inked in that. They're great inked in that and then we add our color to it and they do have substance. So, okay. So, let's get going. What other colors do we need on here? Did I get them all? I got the browns and the oranges. Let's get a little bit of the green on here. So, this is the one seventy-seven. Let's see if I can move this up a bit. One seven 7 on here. And I think we just need a little bit of the red So let's add. This is the 856 red. So I'm going to just write eight fifty-six up here so you can see it on the screen. And just add the red. Down here. Okay. Do we have all the colors on here? I think we do. Alright so let's start out with this little guy. And we're just going to start out really light with him. Uh we're going to take some of brown. And you know what I mean by light? It's just you just want a little more water. So I pinched my brush. I'm always dipping my brush. and pinching it off. And you know dip the tip and still pinch it off. Even though you're kind of you know saturating your colour a little bit and adding more water to it. You're still going to pinch it off. So we're going to just start out adding the color to these little lines here. And this guy he's pretty small. So we don't have to worry too much about highlights in here. Um really because We don't have tons of room for that. Now, for these feathers that are down below, I'm going to take a little more of this brown down here and maybe just a tiny bit of the blue and we're just going to change these colors up a little bit. You could see how that just kind of grade up that brown and change the color. And just adding a tiny little bit of these things just you know, really, it just, it totally changes the colors. See how warm this color is now up here. So, I'm going to add a little bit more of this color. So, the more times that you go over it, the darker the color will be. And stay, you know, in each section. You never want to cross the lines. You never want to cross the lines. Because we don't, you know, we don't want to erase those lines. Even see his little toes? I'm not going to just color this whole section in even though it's all the same color. I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to do each section at a time. Okay. Now, we're going to go a little bit darker and add a little blue in here too. Gonna go a little bit darker on this section on the top of his his little head here. And you could use your your small brush. I probably should have done that. Just use my tiny brush. But I've got a pretty good point on my on my brush so I think we're good here. So, you can kind of bring this down a little bit and then, this under here, we're just going to keep this really light. This little section here. And then, just a tiny bit of a little ring of color right around here and that's that's all we really have to do. We're going to take just a tiny bit of this color from the edge. And you know, you can see that I do this a lot. I'm just pinching my brush off because I don't want too much color and if I think it's too dark. I just keep pinching my brush off. And isn't he cute? That's all really you have to do. And then we'll come in here with a twin tone. So we use the twin tone. We won't always want to darken the features up. So that just means the eyes. And notice I've kept this area where his eyes are really light. Uh if you if you have too much color here where the face is you will just kind of lose that character. You just you just lose the whole personality of that character. So I'm just going to darken his eyes. You know using my twin tone. This is where that tiny little point comes in and then his little beak here. And he's he's got these little tiny eyebrows up here. And we can just add a few little you know they have these little feathers that kind of stick out. You know at the top. Let me just zoom in here. So you guys can see. I got these little, you know, feathers that kind of stick out on top but you can add a few of those in. You can also just kind of add in a few little lines here where the wings are. And then, you know, where the feet are, you don't have to really worry too much about this because we're going to add these florals in here and chances are they're going to kind of extend up into this area anyway. So, But isn't he just he's so cute. And he's so he's just so easy to do. You could add just a few little details in here too. Um some little owl details. And there you go. It's nice to mix the colours up. And see how that change just by adding that that darker brown and a little bit of that blue to kind of cool it down. That's just really what we did. We just changed that color. And there's no color that's this. There's no pen. But you don't need to have 600 pins. You don't need to. You can mix them on your palette. You know, it's totally, it makes it so much easier when you can put these colors on your palette and just just mix 'em up yourself. You don't have to hunt and hunt and hunt for a pen that's this color. Okay? So, let's zoom out a little bit. So, you can see the palette again Alright. So, let's keep going here. Um let's add some color now to these little to the pots and the pumpkins. So, we're going to add some blue. So, this some of this warm blue and we're going to start just like we pulled the color out of the lines. We're going to start on the sides. That's where we apply the color first. Always apply the color first to the sides and then, pinch your brush off and then drag it to the center. And it's just going to get lighter and lighter. So, just drag it over. Pinch your brush off again and let it just kind of fade out to the center and if you do it this way, you won't get that definite line in the middle. You know, sometimes it's to control your color and then you end up with your highlight. This is just a straight line on either side. It's easy to control that just by doing it this way. So now, if you want that pot darker, you're going to do it again. So, you're going to apply that color to the side. Like this. Pinch it off. And then drag it to the center. And then you can definitely see where that highlight is. And you can just keep doing that. You know for you know as dark as you want that little pot to be. So let's add some colour now down below here. And down here, you know, it's kind of back in the shadows. We don't have to worry too much about a highlight down here. Um, because it's kind of, you know, it's back behind these pumpkins. We wouldn't see it that much anyway. And make sure you know if you're, you're adding more color to it you let it dry enough so that you can really see that color on top. If you, if you apply the second coat too soon, it's, it's going to just kind of blend into the other color and you won't get that darker contrast. Alright, so let's do a little terracotta one next to it. So, we can start out with the orange, Same thing. Same thing. Apply the color to the to the outside. And then pinch your brush off and drag it to the center. It's just going to get lighter and lighter. And this one too back here, you know, it's it's kind of back in the background. So, it doesn't, we don't have to concentrate too much on that. Um, that highlight. I mean, if you can get it in there, good. And if not, it's okay. So, back in here again. And down here again, pinch your brush off and drag it to the center. So easy you guys. It's just these simple little rules. And they just they just work. It'll just do its thing. You'll be surprised. And now you have a rounded contoured pot. Just like that. And we can add a little of this colour. Maybe we just want to mix the colour up a little bit. And add some of this orange. In here because you know having a mix of colour is always a good thing. So you're not colouring everything the same. And then we're going to take a little of this blue We're just going to take a little of this and we're going to make a little shadow underneath See, this is the same concept of pulling the color down. See that little shadow? That's the same thing that we did by pulling that color down from the lines is we moved this little edge forward and see putting that little shadow in there immediately brought that forward. Same here. I'll do a little shadow under there too. So, now, not only is our pot rounded but we can see that this edge, this lip comes forward. Alright, so now, let's go on to our little pumpkins and these are rounds. So, you know, we know that the color is going to be concentrated on the side already. We know that because it's rounded but we also, you know, it's it's kind of it's nice to have a little highlight that is up here also and maybe one here. So the the biggest thing you guys is that you don't colour it in solid. It's it really is. Don't try not to colour everything in solid and everything the same. Because it just will be flat. And it's hard to fix that. Once you've colored it all in solid, it's really hard to fix that. You can go back in with your white paint. And you can add some highlights in there. Um But it is better to just try to leave it. Leave those highlights in there. So now we can take a little of this color and we'll just blend. This and getting that mix of color in there is just it's just a win. It's just a win win situation. Alright so now we're going to do a white pumpkin. So last time yesterday we did the pumpkins. Um two two orange ones and a blue one. So today we're going to do a white one right here. And to do a white one, all we do is add the shadow. Because we never leave anything white. That's another rule. We never leave anything uncolored. So, anything white has a shadow. So, just like this. It's going to be a little darker on the bottom. You know, when you go to to add that color to the bottom. It's going to be a little darker down there and that's it. That's all we have to do. And then this one down here. Let's make this one blue. I think we have this. Didn't we have this blue last time? Uh we did. So same thing. We're going to add this color, you know, down to the bottom because it's a it's a round, it's a dome on top. So, there's going to be a highlight up here and it's round. So, we're kind of kind of have a double highlight. So just kind of keep that in mind. You know there's just a little highlight up here and the little highlight here. But the main the bulk of the color is going to be in here. Just add the bottom because if that light's coming straight down, this is going to be kind of in the shadow here. This will be the darker section. This is what makes it look like a painting. It it's it's the difference between a coloring book image because you could stamp this and you could just color it like you would a coloring book but it's not going to it's not going to have the same effect is if you just follow these rules a little bit. Okay so we've got our little this little pumpkin Little blue one. Got our little highlight on here. And now we can move on. Let's move on to our little fox. Oh Ashley let's do the let's do the stems. So we're going to do those in this little grayer color too. So I'm just going to mix some of this blue. Um into the brown. And just put this on. We'll go back over it with the twin tone. Um later on to see gray that is. See how gray that color is? And then we'll just we'll add some more to that Um to that later. Alright So, our little fox, we're going to do him. Uh we're going to color him orange. So, I'm just going to mix these two colors. Just going to mix them up. And he just he just needs a little orange. So we're just going to so they the the the way that these little foxes are coloured. So the little cheek area. This is orange here. And then it comes straight down the nose. So, he just, he just looks like this. He's got his little, kind of his little cheek area that kind of comes over here that's white and then, his ears and the top of his head are orange. So just like that. And then we can add some to his back. And we need to see just a tiny little highlight up here. On the tip of his back. And then he's got a white, a white tip on his tail. And that's that's how easy a fox is to colour. He's just he's really easy to do. And then we're going to take just a little bit more of this colour. This bright orange. Just leave that little highlight, you know, at the top of his back Let's make the inside of his little ear a little darker. And then of course he's can be a little darker on the bottom. And then, we don't want to leave this part of him uncolored. So, this is white but it's not like bright white. So, want to just add a little bit of color here just a just a little tiny bit of maybe a little of this gray. So just a tiny bit of this kind of under here. And then you can see that. Just putting that colour underneath just really kind of rounds it out. Okay? So now I'm just going to darken his little eye And his nose because you know, the eyes, they just kind of get lost because they're tiny, they're tiny little lines and they don't when you stamp it on a watercolor paper, you know, you just kind of lose that, lose that tiny little line. Let me zoom in here so you can see. How cute he is. But it's just, it's so, he's just so easy. You know, just just bring that, just bring that orange line, you know, just to the edge and then you could just darken his little ear in here just a little bit. Okay so let's move on. And let's just go onto the little wooden basket here. So, I'm going to take some of this warm brown and we're just going to add some of this color to this band Okay? And then we're just going to add a little of this this kind of this grayish brown just to the basket because it's going to it's going to be white but we don't want it to be stark white. So just going to kind of dirty it up a little bit. Just like this. And then we're going to add some detail with the the twin tones. So, as soon as that's dry, we'll go back to it and add some details in here. So, in the meantime, let's go on and do the little candle and I just colored this one this time with the orange. Just color that and the little flame. And then to make this look like it's in the glass jar. You just want to put wait till that's really dry. Well let's just do this little detail here first. Click it. Put a little stripe on it. A little just a little stripe with the red and then let's do the Let's do the lid. With a little blue Little blue lid here. Or rim. And then we're just going to bring down a little bit of this color on the side. And to make it look like a glass. Here's the trick. You just need a little oval. At the bottom Just like that. Okay? And let's just go a little darker on the ring. Cute. Okay, so now, let's go back to our little wooden basket and we're going to take the twin tone. And we're going to darken some of these little cracks. So you can see these little cracks in here. Oops other side. And we're just going to darken these. With that twin tone. And it's just going to make this look a little more rustic. You can add the little kind of the little screws back in and you can see how that just, you know, adding these little details just really makes a difference and we can just go add a little dark area underneath this band. Okay. Now, it just looks a little rustic. Little more rustic. And we can take a little blue So a little bit of this glue from the palette. And we can just put a little shadow under here. You can see how that just lifted that band up. Isn't that crazy how simple that is? So simple. Alright, so let's come down now and let's go to our little wash tub here and we're going to kind of make this kind of old and well used and so we're going to do that with some of these some of this gray also. So, we're going to mix these two colors. So, this brown and blue. We're just going to put a little of this colour on. And just you know what? Just keep pinching it off. You don't want a ton of colour. Um just keep pinching it off. You know, so it doesn't look just stark white. Looks kind of just a little kind of mudied up a bit. Like so. And then let's go to our We'll come back with our twin tone on here and with a stripe but let's go to our little apples. So, I'm just using this green. And let's see. Where should we make some green apples? Maybe right here? And again, I'm just leaving a little tiny bit of a highlight because these are rounded. So, if you can get that highlight in there, it's good. It's great and if you can't, it's it's fine too because they are pretty small. They're pretty small. So, let's do one. Let's do this one. And maybe we just do one more. Let's do this one over here. So it's kind of in the background And you can see I'm doing them all in each section. So one section at a time. So the leaves. And then let's go to the red ones. So we're going to take some of the red. So this is the red that I have on my palette. The eight fifty-six. So, that's the red I'm using. And just doing the same thing. Putting this colour on. And you know try to stay away from if you if you really want this colour to be bright try to stay away from the lines. And we've dragged a lot of the colour out of the lines already. So we don't have too much colour still in there. But try to avoid those lines. so you don't muddy up your color. And one little red apple back here. I kind of like that mix of colors. So, like I said, on my sample, I made them all red and I thought they were really cute until I thought about a green apple and then I thought, oh, that might be really cute to mix it up and you know, you just, you never do the same one twice. I never do. I do even if I try. I'm going to make some sort of change when I redo it. So, and with this one red, you know, I really didn't get a highlight in here. So, I'm going to come with my white paint and I'm going to put a a highlight back in here. Okay so now let's put in what's that smart orange to the palette here. So it says that 933 orange. And I'm going to just do a little shadow on the sides. Of this because it is kind of light It's kind of a light color And let's just put a little shadow back in here. Like so. And then now I'm just going to put my you know my trademark stripes you guys. I just I need to always have a stripe in here somewhere. So cute. Alright, so we got that. So, let's go in here with the twin tone now and we're going to darken these little apple stems So just like this. Here's another one. Here's another one. Another one like that. And then, you know, in between here where these amp apples are, you know, there's a tiny little crease. You can just add a little dark there and you can connect now this to the back. So, do you see that? Let me just zoom in on that. You see it and these things are so tiny, you guys, but they really make a difference. So, this this is just a this is just a straight line here. So, I just continued that line to the back and then colored it in. Same over here. I continued that line to the back So now you can see that the that the little washtub continues on around the apples. And then we're going to really darken this back part of the handle. That goes back to the back. See this little section here. We're going to really darken that. You see how that just brings all of this forward. It just it really it makes such a difference. And then anywhere that you think. See, I'm going to put this little screw back in. You know, don't be afraid to add some of these lines back in that may have washed out Okay, so now, let's go to these little pumpkins, these stems and we're just going to make some lines in here. Some little details. And then we'll And it's just basically we're just putting some texture in. And it's going to just going to really make these little things pop. Okay? See how that just kind of wakes it up? I mean, adding these little details in just makes such a difference Let's fix this little candle. And a little hook. Bring this down some of these little details back in. Okay. Starting to shape up you guys. Okay. So, now, let's continue over and we'll get some color onto the leaves and then, we'll add our florals into our little pots and you know what? We're going to be really close to being finished here. Alright. So, I'm going to use some, let me zoove out a little bit. So, you can see the palette. So, we're going to use some orange and some red Some orange and red on these leaves. So I'm using the red right now. And you just you're just going to brush it in. Try to stay in each section. Clean my brush out. And then we're going to add some orange now to this little maple leaf. And don't worry about the lines in the middle really. Um you can just you can just kind of blend over them. You know the texture lines. You'll be able to see them a little bit. And you can put the detail back in. But they're so it's so tiny that it's hard to get the color on without kind of obliterating those lines. But you can see them enough. Um that you'll be able to put put those details back in. So, let's do a little green one. Little green leaf here. And then maybe a let's do a brown one and just brush it on. So, you could still see those little lines in there. And it's these are kind of all laying on their sides. So, that just means that the color is just going to be a little bit darker down here on the side. And then, this one, let's just do another orange here. And we'll put a little more of this orange on here. Add a little more color to it. Same over here. And we could just get a little more red onto here. Cute. Okay and then we might as well just put a little bit of color down underneath the bench And so I'm just going to take a little blue. And I'm just going to add a little colour. Back here. Just like that. And you know, we can come in here and put a little shadow under these leaves too. And the little pots. Little pumpkin. And then you know what? We might as well just come in here. And darken these little legs. Because these are just, you know, they're in the background. So, they're going to be pretty dark back there and that's going to set them back back into the distance. Same here. With a little bench. See how that just kind of goes back into the distance and this side of the post. And then under here, this is really a dark, kind of a dark shadow under here You know, where that overhang is and again, putting that dark, that dark color underneath brings this forward. So, it brings this bench forward and pushes this back just by putting that little dark, the dark shadow and then, let's just do a little Let's do a little shadow here. On this table, on this bench Like so. And just a little shadow under here also. Okay, you guys. We're getting there. We're getting there These little fall scenes are just they're just so cute. They're just so fun to do. Okay, so let's go on now to our florals and then we're going to put some details into the back of the bench because we have room. We have room now. So, in the one from yesterday, we put this little basket up here with the acorn. So, didn't really see too much of the back of the bench but in this case, we're going to be able to see that. So, we're going to add some detail to it. Alright and then, we'll add some white paint. So, let's get our little floral out. And clean it and I'm just using a baby wipe but you could use just a wet paper towel too and we're going to just cover this little pot. Like so And we're just going to I'm going to use two colours in here. So I'm going to use the red and the orange. So let's just start out with the orange. And I'm using this this orange, the 925 orange. So, the darker one. And then the green And then we're just going to add it into here. Like this and maybe I'm just going to add a little bit more green in there. And then I'm going to clean it off. And I'm going to change to red. So we use the red and the green. And you can just you can hit it again by just inking the top of the blooms. So, just the top of the blooms like this. You can get it again in here. So now we've got those in there. All we have to is add the water to it. And just you know it's always a good idea to start with the lighter ones. So got our orange in here. And then we just go right into the red. It's okay if those colors kind of bleed together a little bit. This is so cute. And then, once we've got that done, then, we do the green. And let the green just bleed in. Like so. And then to do this one. So I wanted to make this one a white mum. So I just used the I just used the green. The grasses. And I just ink this inside here. Just you know, quite a bit of this grass. Just kind of inside like that. And then, just add it, add that water to it. and then, we can just, we've got a base now to put our our white blooms. So, be able to add those in there. Okay? And I'm going to just take this green and just add a little more color to my apples. They just they looked a little washed out. So, I'm going to add just a little more color to em. Okay. Uh okay, let's put some detail in and then we'll go to, oh, you know what? Let's put some, let's put a little Sky in. So, we're going to take this five twenty-six. And we're going to really water it down. So, really really water it down and you know, make sure that you can really move that color. And then be careful not to touch any of your lines. And I'm just kind of just spreading it out a little bit. And then maybe we just put a little bit kind of down here. And then just a little bit over here too. Okay? So cute. Alright so now I'm just going to put a little more blue in here. Just a little darker shadow Like so. And just a little darker line back here to the back. Okay, so now, now that this is all dry, I feel like this is all pretty dry here. Uh we're going to just going to take a ruler a ruler And we're going to make some lines straight across. And you can just you can just eyeball it. And you can make these little planks as wide as you want them to do. Just get a really sharp pencil. Um a really sharp pencil. And just make these straight lines. And you know they don't if they're not all perfect, well, that just makes the bench look kind of rustic. So if they're a little wonky or they don't look like they're all even, that's totally fine. In fact, this one looks a little crooked. So, let's do this. Let's just make a little line. So, it looks like it's a little broken out. And if you do that, you know, if you if you have a little section. So, let's just say we have a little board here and maybe that board looks like it's kind of broken out. If you just make a little, you know, triangle and you just kind of darken that in. Um it'll look like it's just kind of kind of broken and rustic. Okay, so now we're going to take a little bit of this color just kind of from all around. Okay, so a little color of this, a little color from this, a little bit of this and we're just going to kind of drag it over to the to the back of the bench. And and what it does really is, it just kind of it looks like the color is you know, a little reflected a little bit on it. It just kind of messes up the white so that it doesn't look too perfect. It makes it just a little bit more rustic So you can just kind of do that a little bit. You can do that down here with the posts also Um and don't don't worry about don't worry about it. You know don't overdo it. Okay, so now, let's add our white paint And then you guys will be finished. So, I'm going to just dip my brush and mix my paint around. And just bring it to the side. Until I kind of get at the right consistency. I I don't want it too thick but you know it it shouldn't be runny because if it's runny it just you're going to be able to see through it. And the whole point of this paint is that you can put it on and it's bright white and it won't the color underneath won't come up through the white paint. So we're going to get you know these little florals in here and pretty tight because they're going to be like these kind of you know where it's a it's a mom. And so these little blooms are pretty tight in here. You can go out a little bit. and then, you know, leave it kind of a more of a little straight line. So like this. Doesn't this white paint just makes such a difference. And see how cute these are? Just really tight like this together. They're so cute. And then let's put a little let's just do a little highlight. You know on some of these apples. Um you could just do a little highlight on this little metal container soften this up with just a little bit more and you know, we can do just a little highlight on our pumpkin. Maybe on this one. And this little guy add a little white to him, to his little face. And then, you know, if you want to add some into these little pots. You can do that too. Add a little white in there. It just, you know, it kind of brightens it up. A little bit down in there and maybe we just get a little highlight on these little leaves. Anywhere that you have an edge, if you add a little white to it, the light catches there. So, you're basically what you're doing is you're you're adding texture because you're making something come forward. You know, and and I hope I'm not just confusing you guys by saying that but anywhere there's white, the light is catching. So, it's making it so that it's not just smooth. It's giving it texture. See how it change those little these little stems. Keep our candle a little more life. And style. And I think We are finished. With this little painting. So cute. Just so much fun you guys. This was a really, really, really fun one to do. So, I'm going to clean my brush out and close the lid on my paint because you guys don't know how many times I do that. Forget to clean my brush or forget to put the lid on the paint. Being in a hurry and just you know being impatient. That's me. I want to get on to the next thing. Or I just I have an idea for something. I need to just hurry up and get it down. Tell me I'm not the only one you guys. Okay so if you want to you can put some of these lines back in. So here's what I mean about putting them back in with your twin tone. You know, you can just add a few of these, just really lightly, add a few of these lines back in because you can see where they are. Kinda through the through the color. And then, you can, you know, darken some of these little stems maybe and then assign and date So be sure to put in the comments if you would like to win this one or the one from yesterday. This one will be giving both of these away. So be sure to put on there that you would like to win it and you guys, okay, which one was your favorite? You know, it's fun to mix it up. So, let's zoom out a little bit so you can see the difference. So, the palette is similar. You know, we're using the same colors but it's just, it's so fun to try different things and I just, I love how this little thing is sitting on the bench handle. You know, on the, on there. I just think that's so cute sitting there like that. And I don't know. I just I I've never done that before. I actually put something on a on the arm of bench or a chair. So I'll I'll have to do that again. So I think that was so cute. So, you could you could stamp the owl and leave one of the the little squirrels. You could use these on in other projects for sure. You could put one of put another one down here on the ground. You could repeat this one and put it down here on the ground. Um Just so cute. So, let me switch back so I can say goodbye to all of you guys. Okay. Did you guys like that project? Um you know, I don't know which one my favorite was. I think, you know, I think the squirrels were just the squirrels are just so cute and fun to do but that little owl, he's really cute too and he would be good in any of your projects. So, you know, keep that in mind too. Any of these things that come in sets like this, you can use in your watercolor projects. This is just another add-on to your collection. So, these things are all going to kind of have the same look as far as the lines go you know, they're the same, the lines are the same size as far as pulling the color out because that's really important. If the lines are too thick and too uniform, they don't look natural when you pull the color out. So, the lines have to be a little bit rough and just the right width. Okay, you guys. Um Elaine, you like em both. Okay. Good to know. Thank you for your time teaching each week. Entering to the drawing. You are entered. Uh naturally lean to the owl being I being my favorite as I had a pet owl. You did? Oh in Africa. Oh my goodness. Okay you can't leave us hanging now. You gotta tell us that story. So what kind of owl was it? Um and in Africa you lived in Africa? That is so cool. She and you also had a squirrel years later. Okay I'm going to stay on until I hear the story. So you guys who else had a pet owl? I imagine. That is just so cool. So you know the owl painting the owl, sometimes it can be a little intimidating. Something that has a lot of the same color. You know, like the fox, it has that white and orange. So, it's a little simpler but when you're doing something like the owl, you know, it has a lot of brown tones. So, if you can, you know, think about mixing your colors, adding a little blue to it to kind of cool it down. Um that would, that makes a big difference when you go to put that, you know, put that color in especially next to each other like that. Okay, you guys. Be sure to say, like I said, be sure to say that if you want to win one of these in the drawing, like I said, Leah will Leah will pick a winner. So, in the meantime, here is the throwback set. It is five nine four six. This is it right here and available until tomorrow at midnight. So, you guys have a little bit of time to get it still. Um this is the free gift. The little owl. So, you get this free with the purchase of the throwback and it is WCO eighttwo 4. This is this little guy here. Um it's not sold. It's a free gift for you. If you purchase that throwback. So we always just appreciate you guys doing that and purchasing that so you get that free. And then this little promo guy. This little fox. Um he is available on our website Justin Tilt Thursday. So this guy is from 2019 and we brought him back every month. We bring one back so that you can have a chance to add to your collection So, those two are available until Thursday at midnight Pacific Time. So, okay. Um Sue says it was an eagle owl. Aren't those huge? I think they're huge. I think eagle owls are huge. I was born and bred in Africa and my great grandparents were missionaries. We were eventually we were eventually when we left, I think, sixth generation, oh my word. How amazing is that? Um wow. I think an eagle owl. Okay, correct me, you guys, who are bird lovers. Isn't an eagle owl enormous? And I think I learned that from my granddaughter, Kendall, who loves birds and I feel like she told me that an eagle owl was huge. So how cool is that? So, do you go back to Africa ever? Um or are you still living there? How cool is that you guys? One of these times on the lives, we're just going to have to tell stories about our lives. I just learned the most interesting things when I'm on here about where you guys live and what you do and you know, one of these times, we're going to have to just say what we do, what we do for a living. What do you guys do for a living? That would be so much fun. Um Margaret says, love the scene with the Owl Best. Yay The owls are fun. And they're versatile. So, you guys, okay. Thank you so much for joining me today. I will be back next week. Um so, next week, you guys. Um it's going to be a big one. So, this Wednesday, this is another one of those things that I've just been hanging onto for absolutely weeks and weeks and finally get to share it with you guys. This is going to be way way up there with my favorite releases. So, I will be showing you that whole thing on Wednesday, next Wednesday. So, be sure to be on with me Wednesday on Wednesday live or check it out on the check it out on the replay also. I know a lot of people have to work and can't be back be here on live. So, I appreciate you guys who are on with me. Thank you so much. Um I will see you next week. I will be just counting the days until I can get back on with you next week because I am just so jazzed to show you what's new. So, you guys, thank you so much. Have a great rest of your day and a great weekend coming up. Thanks so much. I'll see you week.

August 2024 Throwback! | August 2024 Throwback! Fall Bench Set watercolor tutorial with Bonnie Krebs! | By Art Impressions Rubber Stamps | Hello, everyone. Good morning. Welcome to Throwback Tuesday. It is, it's that time of the month, you guys, when we bring back something from the archives and now, it's something that's inspired by the archives and Vin reworked a little bit but still from way, way, way back then. Back when. So, some of these things are you know, from catalogs that are from the early 90s and this one today is also from an early catalog. So, this one is from The ninety7 catalog and I did a variation of this back in May and you guys loved it so much that I thought I would just do another variation of it and do a full version. So, that's what we're going to do today. It's so cute, you guys. I hope you love it as much as I do. These throwbacks are just so fun for me because they just take me way back way back to my old drawing table and my old lighted desk and what I was thinking of at the time and the trends were, you know, we're going on our, oh, let's see. Is this our 37th year? I mean, it's just crazy. So, thankful to still be here. Okay, I see my people coming on. Uh Sheree is on. Uh Linda, hello, Lisa. Hello, Roberta. Hey, good to see you. Roberta, glad to see your creation today, Bonnie. You know what? I'm so glad to show it to you, you guys. Uh you know, I happen to be a really I know I've told you guys this before. I'm a really impatient person and when I finish something, I want to like immediately get on and show it to you guys. So, you know, we have to go through the whole process of the whole creation of it and get it made, get get it packaged, all of those steps but I just wanted to draw it and then I want to show it to you. So, I've had to wait a few weeks before the big reveal but it also makes it really fun when I do finally get to show you guys. So, Let me see who else is on here, you guys. Uh Mary Ann, hello, Elaine. Hello, Elaine with your broken foot. What? What in the world happened? Elaine is from Oregon just down the road from us about a half hour. Um oh my goodness, Elaine. We'll have to hear that. You'll have to just comment again and tell us what happened. Um Uh Amiri says had to tune in when I saw the picture. Oh good. You guys there's something about fall. You know, the colors and you know, the oranges and then the little fall creatures like I always think of squirrels and there's squirrels in this project and I just think they're so cute gathering up all their nuts for the winter and I just think that you know, just those colors are fall are just so much fun to do. Even though it's the introduction into winter and then, we're going into winter. It's still, it's still so cool. Uh Carol is on. Hello, Carol. Hello, Lori. You guys, it's so good to see you on here. Okay, I'm scrolling down so I can see everyone Uh Erm, Marion, hello, Mary, Peggy. Hello, Terry. Good to see all of you. Karen from Colorado. Hello. Rosalie, Shirley from Arizona Linda oh from Florida. Oh my goodness. Bet it's hot there. Hot, hot, hot. You know what? We've got some cool weather today. It's cooled down a little bit in Oregon. So, it's a little overcast but no rain. So, it's kind of nice to have that cool, some cool weather. Ellen, she has not been here before. Hi. Hi, Ellen. Welcome. You are part of the best group. This group of people are just the most encouraging and kindest people on the planet. So, you know what? Just keep commenting and saying hi. People will say hi back to you. Um Karen is on. I can't wait to see what you have today. Um Melody from Elk Grove. Hello. Um Bright and Breezy Felix. Is it Felix? Hi from all Hi, all the AI friends and crew. Hello to you. Let me see who else is got Rain. Patsy, you guys, this is so great. Hello to all of you. Welcome to my office with me. Welcome to the studio. We're going to do some watercolor ing and you guys as always, this project is super simple. So, if you're a beginner, don't worry about that because you're going to be able to do this project and you know, when we break it down, little piece by piece and just go over the rules. You will be shocked at what an amazing artist that you can become. You really will. Isn't that true you guys who have been doing this for a long time? I see your work and it's amazing. It's absolutely amazing. So, Barbara from Michigan, hello. Um yes, Elaine, please heal quickly. Right. Ellen is from Iceland. Oh my goodness. Hello. What time is it in Iceland? Well, welcome, Ellen. Good to have you with us. Hello, Jeanette. Hello, Renee. I love love the squirrels and acorns. Yes, Renee lives kind of out in the country. How many acres do you guys have, Renee? She lives kind of out in the country, trees all around, beautiful in New York, just beautiful. They have deer. I think, have you had bear come to your house? I feel like I've seen a picture of that on your Facebook page. So she has probably lots of squirrels. Georgia, hello. Sandy, way too hot here in Florida and hot and humid. Hot and humid, I bet. Um Okay, you guys. Are you ready to get to our project? I'm going to flip my camera around and then I will we'll get started on the project, okay? Everybody ready? Oh, Renee says, yes, bear. Four acres. Wow. Jeanette has all the land. Jeanette, how much land do you have? Now, we're going to need to know that. Well, four acres. And okay, what kind of bear? Was that a was it a black bear? I'm guessing. Um crazy. Good afternoon from Michigan. Mary, hello. Welcome. Jane is on. Hello, Jane. Jamie, hello. Um so good to have you guys on here with me. Just the best. Okay, Jeanette. I need to know how many acre. Oh, 38 and a half. Oh my goodness. Wow. You probably have some wildlife in there too. That's awesome. So, what do you do? Do you farm that? Is it you know, out kind of in the wilderness? What what do you have on your 38 and a half acres? Um Karen Day, hello from Canada. Talented Karen. She is so, has such a beautiful style. Barbara is on. Welcome you guys. Madge, hello. Madge from Florida also. Wow, Andrea. Hello, Andrea from New Mexico. Good to have you on. Good to have you guys on with me. Thank you so much for joining me. This is such a fun day for me. Like I said, the throwbacks are a fun day because I don't, you know, I started this in nineteen, let's see, 1987 and I think I was, I was about thirty. So, yeah, I was 30 years old and I still feel like I'm 30 years old. until I look in the mirror but there's something about that. So, there's something about our internal age that we just feel the same. I mean, we get to a certain age about 30 between 30 and 35 and then, we never really feel any older than that inside. I mean, other than like our stiffness and aches and pains and can't remember things and can't see but we still feel like that young person and so I still feel that age. You know, when I kind of started this business and we were working together, Phil and I, we, you know, did so much of this together and we had our, you know, vulcanizer in the house. Um so many memories and I used to work at the kitchen table a lot and I worked up in my bedroom a lot and I still feel that. I I can still go back to that place and so when I look at all these old catalogs and this catalog from nineteen eighty-seven, I think this catalog took me a year and a half to put together because it all, it all had to be, you know, hand drawn. I didn't have a computer and I just did a lot of like gluing and pasting and putting it together. I think it was about a year and a half. That it took me. So, I I remember laboring over all of these images that are in this these catalogs and I can put myself back and I can, I know what the trends were kind of at that time with the style was way back in the 80s and so it's really fun to go back then, you know, now, I, my style has changed so much and I look at these things and go, oh, wow. I really, that's needs to be redone. So, that's why I say they're inspired now is because I can take those images and then, just kind of rework em and tweak em. Ellen says, I know that feeling young in my mind but the body, yes, okay. Is that a thing you guys because I feel like that and I've talked to other people that kind of feel that way too. So, if you weren't looking in a mirror and you were just, you know, looking out or just being in your life, would you feel, do you feel like you're the same at age thirty-five? I mean, I'm just shocked that I'm sixty-seven. I'm shocked by that And sometimes, I mean, I, like I said, until you look in the mirror and then, you know, it's like, oh my gosh, where did this old person come from? With all these wrinkles and everything. Mary says same. Yes, you guys. My brain thinks I'm young. My body says, what are you thinking? Yes, exactly, Sharon. That is exactly right. Okay, Madge. Hopefully, you'll do a throwback on Madge. Madge, just for you. Absolutely. Um okay. So, Mary Ann, question I'm dying to know the answer to. How did you discover this technique of watercolor? Okay. So, I I think I told the story before. So, forgive me if you've heard it before but it was a total accident. It was an absolute complete accident but I feel like it was a divine accident and one time, I was up in my office and I was in my bedroom office and I was using, I had bought some watercolor pencils and I was trying to figure out how to use them. And I had some watercolor paper and I had some card stock. And I had done the scenery. So if you've looked at any of the old old catalogs. I had some flowers and foliage. But at the time it was just stamping on card stock and kind of stamping over the top. You didn't use any water on it. You just kind of stamped you know all over it. I don't know. Tell me if you guys remember Dee Gruni. Do you and the big Marvi brush markers and her big bold stamping of stamping things on top of each other. It was sort of along those lines and I had I had flowers and foliage but it was a different, it was a different way of stamping. It was all done on cardstock with, you know, bright colors, no water, no brush and I was trying to figure out how to use these watercolor pencils that I had and so, I tried coloring it on the cardstock and then some water with my brush and didn't really like that and then I tried adding my wet brush to my colored pencil and brushing that on and I just didn't I didn't I didn't like that either really and so I kind of thought, well, maybe I'll try watercolor paper and it was just a series of things that I tried and I picked up a stamp the most random stamp probably in my collection. Um not a flower, not a character, but a pile of rocks. Just a random pile of rocks. And I picked that stamp up and I grabbed a pen out of my stack of pins. And it turned out to be a Sepia color. Which if you're a painter you know that Sepia is a hugely important in outdoor things. Rocks, dirt, you know trees. It's that earthy color. It's that earthy color that we mix by mixing these two colours together. That blue and the brown. It's got a bit of a green tone to it. It just it looks like it looks like earth. Rocks. Things that are in earthy things. Tree trunks. You know stuff like that. That that kind of grounds it and makes it look like a thing. And I grabbed this Sepia pen from Marvi and I grabbed this pile of rocks. And I stamped it instead of on the cards card stock. I stamped it accidentally on the watercolor paper. And I grabbed my brush. And I pulled the color out of the lines. And I just couldn't I was just the biggest aha moment. Because it was the CPA that you would use with a rock and it was the watercolor that pulled it from the lines. So, it was just a wet brush because I've been using a brush on my watercolor pencils and so I had a brush and it was kind of wet and I just tried to color it in. And I thought color ran out of the lines and I got this the most beautiful image of rocks. And I just couldn't believe it. I was just absolutely shocked. And I was such an aha moment. And I sort of you know it took a long time to kind of develop it. And you know this has been years and years and decades ago that I this I happened on this and I feel like it is one of those things that was a divine inspiration. I just feel like god had his hand on that. Because I have used it so much. And it has just blessed so many people. Something about this art form because it's it's easy to use for anyone. You know if you think that you're a left brain person or a right brain person. Whatever. It doesn't matter. You can do because it's stamping and pulling the color out of the lines and it just, it's for everyone and I just feel like, you know, it has just blessed so many people especially, you know, in the last 10 years but I've just kind of developed it over the years, tried to make it simpler and simpler and then, you know, I started teaching it quite a bit about I don't know, you know, 12, 13, 15 years ago and then, and then, I really honed in on it to how to make it with a few simple rules. We don't have to go into elaborate detail about, you know, where the light is coming from and you know, the dimensions of everything and the foreground, in the background, and all of that. We don't have to really deal with any of that. We can make it really simple and put out really beautiful art. Um without doing any of those things with just a few rules. You know, the rules about, you know, how to put in a few little highlights and shadows. You know, those are things that you can easily learn. You know, it's kind of like learning, you know, math. If you're not you know, inclined like me. Um I can learn how to do simple math if I'm taught the right way. It's the same thing with art. If you're taught, you know, so that you can understand it, you will be so successful. You can absolutely do it. So, this has been I should have written the date down of that because I still remember it. I remember what I had on. I remember what I was working on. I remember where I was. You know, what desk I was at and I just remember everything because it was such a just a moment for me and I just thought this is the biggest thing I've ever seen. This is the coolest thing I've ever seen and it really, it really has been. It really, really has been because I have seen literally hundreds, thousands of people who can now paint and can create watercolor paintings that would never have thought that they could do it before because of this simple, little technique, simple, little accident that's really not an accident. So, anyway, that sort of, that became a long story but if you hadn't heard that story before, I'm happy to tell it and those of you who who heard it, you've probably heard it before but it is a it's such a it's such a cool story. It's one of those times in my life that has a big marker because it really it was a trans transitory or transitionary pivotal point in my life and I've done lots and lots of art over the years. Oh my goodness. I couldn't even I I couldn't even count the thousands of images that I've created in the last, you know, 30 years But that is the one that I remember the most is that that watercolor. That watercolor day. So, Cathy says, I'm walking in the truth of that. Absolutely. Um all of you on the AI way, all of you who have formed these groups, the Art Impressions Stamp Group, all of you who are in these private groups that watercolor together and do art together. It's just it's such a blessing. It's just it's absolutely, it's so humbling. It's such a blessing and I can just see it over the years. A lot of times at the time, you know, when I had this kind of aha moment, I thought it was the coolest thing but I had no idea at that time what it would become. No idea and I just felt that it was such a big thing and we just, you know, we never know how god is going to work and what he's going to do with a little thing that we have. It could be such a little thing and and he uses it. So, you guys, I feel like it has blessed a lot of people. I hope it's blessed you too and we're do some watercolor today. Okay? So, you guys, I'm going to switch my camera around now and show you the throwback. So, this is it. So, here's here's the original catalog. This is that, this is that catalog you guys. It took me literally a year and a half to do and I can see all of my like, you know, pencil lines and all of my strokes in here. All of these little borders, you know, had to be just glued in. Everything was just, you know, hand done you know, way back then, look at my illustrations here, my camera work, you guys. I mean, just so many things. Just the whole style of it has changed so much. Um but it's as fun now as it was back then and funner, even funner. So, I had this little country bench bench because country was big then. You know, that whole country style of the dusty rose and the country blue. Um that was absolutely everywhere and so, country was a big thing. Recognize these these shelves. Guys, I mean, I had one of these. Um so, I had this bench and I did, this was the throwback from May. So, here's here's that bench that I did from May and it had these little things that you could put on the bench and then you just kind of fill it in sort of like a foundation. Andrea, you have a 97 catalog. No way. Oh, wow, you guys. Georgia, you have one too. Ginger, oh my goodness, you guys. Wow. Thanks for being with us all these years. Wow. You guys, you don't what that means. Thank you so much. And those of you who have been with us and don't have the catalog, thank you also. Um that is just awesome. So, anyway, I did this this little binge and then I I changed it because you can see all the lines in here. Now, with the technique that we have, this would be too much color. So, the lines are really important because that determines how much color is coming out of those lines and if you have a lot of hash marks like this, that's a lot of color. A lot of lot of color. So it becomes kind of muddy when you try to you know pull pull this color out. So, I took these lines out. I changed the style of it a little bit. And then I added these little things that can go onto the bench. So, I sort of follow that same. This was, you guys love this so much and then, I think I showed you a, did I show you a Christmas version, you guys, the memory, just the memories. Uh I think I showed you a Christmas version of this one. So, there's so many things that you can do but it would be kind of hard to do a fall version of that. So, I did a Bench. Just because it really it really was so much fun. And I added these little squirrels. I put these little squirrels. So here's the actual here's the actual package so that you can see. Let me zoom in on this so that you can see it up close. Whoops. And you can see these things that come with it. So, this little, this little scrub brush right here comes with it. Um this little basket with the acorns. Comes with it and they are, of course, giant compared to the squirrel because it's just so cute to make em big. So, they can be like, how in the world am I going to get that into my tree? Uh so, I did that on purpose just because I thought that would just be so cute to make these little tiny squirrels with these big acorns and then I have the little pumpkins up here. So, you can add a stack of pumpkins and just really make this up maybe for Halloween and make jack-o-lanterns on all of these. That would be really cute. Um and of course the little basket that you can put up here. Which would be really really cute. So that comes with this set. And then as a free gift you get the little owl. So if you were going to make this a Halloween version you could put the little owl up here instead of one of these little squirrels. Which would be really cute. You can interchange that anyway. You could set him on the bench. So he sized to go with with this. This little guy He's pretty small and he's decided to go on the bench. Ginger. I'm looking at all you people who say that you have the cattle. That's crazy. That is crazy, you guys. That's awesome and okay. So, here's the little throwback that is going to be available now this month is this little fox and I can't I don't remember when he came out. This is a promotional stamp. So, we bring these back one a month. These are little promotional stamps that have never been for sale and they were given as gifts with a purchase order of about $30. I think it's it's been $30 across the board. Uh so, when you put in order of that size, you get a little free gift and this was those and they're available for a time, a period of time and then they're gone. So, he's been gone for quite a while and so, we brought him back just for the the time period of the throwback. So, just from so today's Tuesday, Wednesday through Thursday at midnight, will be the last chance to get this little guy and he is available on the website right now. Uh this little owl, he, this is free with your set. So, you don't have to specifically order this. This is going to come with the the fall bench set. So, this little this throwback that's good only until Thursday at midnight and then, this will go away and be gone. Um Leah is the fox clear or rubber. You know what? I'm not sure. Leah, if you're on, will you answer that? Good question. Okay. So, let's keep going here These are available like I said through Thursday at midnight. You'll be able to get those and I'll show them again when I get off, when I when I come back on. So, I'll show that again. For those of you who maybe hopping on late. Um in addition, we only need three stamps to do this project. So, it's sort of like the the foundations where everything is kind of on here and then, you just add in, you know, the flowers. So, I put in these little mums Because they're just they're so cute for fall. And you can make them any colours. You know yellows, oranges, whatever. Whatever color you want to make them. So we're going to add those. And literally that is one stamp. It's this right here. This little tiny stamp from the mini flower set. So we're going to use that to create all of these florals. The little branch. We're going to use this one. And then the little tiny vine. So either one. Whichever one is easier for you to manage. Sometimes you know they're easier going to the right, sometimes to the left. So that's totally up to you. One of these two little branches we're going to use to add the leaves onto these branches here. And that's it. That's it you guys. We only need three stamps. And they're little little stamps. So just these three. And we're going to do our our project. So I added. So, this comes with so in here this comes separate and this comes separate and this. So, you can add either one of these in. So, I went ahead and pre stamp this and added the little basket into into the bench and it's sort of like the other one. The only thing that you have to do is so this line here on the original image comes clear across like this. So, if you're going to put something on the bench, just don't stamp this little area here. Or just rub it off with your thumb. Because then you don't have to deal with that line there. And so that's the only thing that I had to take off. This will fit just exactly perfectly into this little section on the bench. So let me zoom in again now. So, this will fit in here as well the pumpkins. The stack of pumpkins will fit in here too. Okay. So, let's get a palette in here and let's get started doing this. Anybody have any questions Let's see. Okay, you guys. Looks like we're ready to go. Alright. So, I'm going to take my brush and water and let me just show you where the water is. So, the water is here. It's off screen but the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to get our brush really wet like this. Just tap it off and then, just starting with the middle part all the way up, you're going to just pull that off until your brush is flat. See how flat that is? So, we're going to pull that water off and then, I'm just going to move this aside and now, when I dip the brush back into the water and pinch it off, I'm only dipping the tip. See where the color is? I'm only dipping to there. When I dip into the water and take it out and now I'm just pulling it off like this. Never never bring your brush back into the middle part again. So it's only going to be in this this on this little tip. And then we're just going to start out by dragging some of this color out of the lines. And we don't have to do a lot really. Um this is always just kind of the first step of just pulling some of this out. Because we're going to add we're going to add color to of these things. And especially like these little acorns. You know we're going to add lots of color to these things. The little wash tub down here the pumpkins. So, I should tell you also I stamp this in two colors. So, the first color is the nine sixty9 and then the 5 sixty-five but we're going to do it in this order. So, the blue first, five sixty-five and then right over the top. Don't stamp it off right over the top. You're going to color it again with the nine sixty9 and then you're going to stamp it off one time. You're going to just stamp it off and then you're going to stamp it onto your canvas. So we've got this little lantern here that we're going to do. Little legs of the bench This is a very simple design. I simplified this quite a bit just because it just it's you know the focus is on all the little elements that are in it. So we can make this bench kind of simple. And you know, keep in mind that these little squirrels are part of the bench but you can you can use these separately. So, you know, when you go to ink this big image, just ink this little section and stamp it. You know, there, this is, these are clear. So, these images are no, they aren't. They're rubber. Are they rubber? Leah? Yes, they are. They're rubber. So, you're going to need to use your stamp positioner or your stamp platform. So, you can position it but you can also do that with a little squirrel and keep these separate. Use them individually. Okay. So, you can see, I'm just pulling a little bit of this color out. We're going to we're going to add some more color to it and then, you know, anything that's rounded is going to be darker on the sides little candle. So, that's really about all we have to do. And you can see that it's it's looking a lot more three dimensional now. Just by doing those little things you know, pulling that color out, darkening, you know, making it darker where it would be darker. See these leaves back here or these legs back here. Those are going to be darker because that's going to set it kind of back in the distance. Alright, so now, we can start adding some color onto our little pots, our basket. So, let's get some color onto our palette And this is the nine twenty-five. Let's see. Might have to zoom out just a little bit so I can see the colors on here. So this is a really really bright orange. This is a nine twenty-five. And then we're going to use this orange. This is the nine thirty-three. You can see this has a lot more yellow in it. This has a lot more red. So this is the nine thirty-three. And it actually it it kind of shows gold on the screen. But it's it's pretty orange. It's a really really pretty orange. So then we're going to use the 526 blue. 526 blue. Um we're going to need, let's see. We're going to need some let's see. What other colors? Oh, some brown. And this is a nine forty-seven 947. Joel, will you grab me a number 177 green Somehow, I'm missing the green in my stack. Yeah and then, let's see. Are we going to need any blue? I don't think we need any blue. Yeah, we do need. No, we got this blue. Oh, we need some of this blue. So, this is a shadow color. This is the five sixty-five. Did I get all those colors on here? Yes, that's it. And then the one seventy-seven. I thought, how did he find this pen? This has been well used. Um okay. So, alright. So, let's get some color onto these little pots. So, I'm going to dip my brush and let's just start over on the side and kind of work our way over. So, we're going to take some of this light blue and we're just going to color this little candle. Maybe just leave a bit of a highlight on it. Like so. And then let's just continue on with the blue here. Since we're in it. And let's do this little pumpkin. It's really, you know, my natural inclination is always to make all the pumpkins orange. But they're really neat to do in different colors. You know, leave some white, do some blue ones. And it just really add adds a lot of color to your, your kind of your composition. So, we're going to leave a little highlight here. So, little highlight from the top and then a little highlight because it's rounded. And it's kind of tipped a little bit. So this area kind of in here is going to be the darkest area. And so if this is the darkest, this is the lightest up here. And then let's get some color on this little pot here. It's kind of hidden in the background so I don't have to worry too much about the shadow on here or the highlight on here. And you can, you know, of course, this is all subjective. You can make your little, you know, pots and whatever. You can make these whatever color that you want them to be. So I love the orange and this blue together. I just think this is such a, it's such a beautiful combination. This bright blue and that orange. So pretty. So, let's do a little, let's do a little terracotta pot up here. So, with the orange And we're going to see just a little bit of a highlight kind of in the middle. Kinda as we come down here. And it's, you know, it's pretty light when you put that first layer of color on it. It's pretty light. But when you go over it again, you know, however many passes that you make on, it's going to get darker and darker. And then, let's add a little bit of this other orange in here. Just kind of mix up the color a little bit and especially kind of underneath here. It's always, you know, because this part of the pot hangs over. So, we're going to see that darker underneath. This underneath the line is going to, if you make that dark, this section is going to come forward. So, now, might as well just finish our little pumpkins here. Let's just do these guys. Same thing with the highlights. It's kind of on the top but it's in the middle also because it's rounded you know it it's not as important, you know, how big the highlight is as it is, that it's, that it's there. You just want to make sure when you've got something that's a contour like this, that's rounded, that you have that highlight because that's what makes it look round. If this, if this were all colored the same, the same the same color, the same, you know, dark darkness. Uh it's going to look flat. But the you put that little white tielight in, it becomes round. And then, you know, underneath and we can kind of, you can mix your colors too. So, take some of this color and just mix it up and put put it under here because you don't want all of the same color on anything. You wouldn't just color the pumpkin just the same orange. It's just going to look much more natural to do it this way. Okay? So, now, let's take some of the brown, slight brown and let's add some to this little basket here. We're going to keep this basket pretty light. This little wood basket. And then we're going to come in with some of the details in here too. So, let's do our little acorns and you can see these are also rounded. So, we gotta see that little highlight in here. Do each one separate. Just like we did the pumpkins. Uh all of these little acorns separate. So, you never want to just color in this whole section. Even though these acorns are all sitting next to each other and they're all the same color. You never want to cross any of these lines. So, you just want to go into each one. And do each one separate with their own little highlight You know, even if it's tiny. Now, see this one's kind of laying on its side up here. So, you know, if the light's coming straight down, it's the highlight is either in the center or the top. So, if the acorn were standing straight up and down, the highlight would be in the center of it like this one. See, this one's kind of straight up and down. Highlights in the center. When it's laying on its side like this, the highlights at the top. Because the darker area now is on the bottom. So we can make this this area down here pretty dark. Anything that kind of goes back into the distance back here is going to be pretty dark. Okay? So let's add a little more brown on here. So, this is the nine sixty-nine. So, let's just add some of this. And we're just going to add a little bit of this blue to it. And just kind of gray it up a little bit. So it just it just kind of changes the colour of that brown. You see the difference in that? This is a little grayer. It's just a kind of change, change the color up a little bit so it doesn't look all the same And then we can add some of this you know. We're going to use our twin tone too and get back in here. But just take your time with these little things. You know they're so tiny but they really, it really makes a difference to do all these little, these little things. Okay? So, now, I'm going to just take a little bit of this, kind of this light brown and I'm going to just kind of muddy up this little basket because we don't want it to be Too white. I'll just put a little shadow underneath there. You see how that brings this this little band forward? Just like putting that little shadow there. We could put a little bit here too. And then on here, let's just put a little shadow on here. Round that up. And a little bit of a shadow there Okay let's go onto this this little pot here. And we're going to just add some random colours onto it because it's it's kind of a it's an it looks like an old kind of an old wash tub. And so we're just going to kind of mix some colors and we're just going to brush this on. And you know, sometimes you just come up with the best combinations just by taking colors off of your palette and just mixing em up. And it's just, it looks kind of well used and just kind of old and rustic and this part of the handle back in there, you can see that that would be really dark back in there Um all of these little stems now and the blue just graze up that brown it just grays it up. It just it makes it a just a different a cooler colour. So don't be afraid to you know mix your colors on your palette and then you also get a a variation of color, you know, when you're doing that You know, everything doesn't look the same. Okay. So, now, I'm going to take my my twin tone This aside just for a minute and I'm going to darken some of these areas. So, I'm going to zoom in. So you can see why this kind of makes a difference. So the tops of these little acorns you know they're they've got a kind of a a rough edge to them. So we're just going to come in here and just make a little rough edge onto the top of these acorns. Don't don't overthink it you guys. Just you know a little area where it just looks like it's got texture. And then these little, you know, tops, little stems that are on the top. We can really darken those and then, you know, underneath these little caps, you know, we can just make that just a little bit darker under there and you can see how important it is to keep those little white areas, you know, and not, it just, you know, really try hard not to color everything in solid. It's just, it's so hard to do that but if you can just keep yourself from coloring it in solid, you'll be so much happier with with how it looks and then, this area kind of here where the basket, you know, it looks like the boards are kind of pulling apart. If you just darken that, that will give you more of that rustic kind of rustic look. And then the dark just really makes it look three dimensional. It really just adds that depth to it and and we're going to add some of it now to these little stems because these kind of need to be dark too. We're just putting in texture lines. So, straight lines So we're just kind of going down So, just down like this. Down like this and this this little handle here, you know, where it kind of comes around the back, that's going to be really, really dark. You see how that just changes the look of that. And we can just add a little bit of color to this. Little post. Okay. We're getting there you guys. See how simple this is? It's just it's so simple. If you just pay attention to those tiny little things. Those just tiny little rules. Okay, let's put a little orange flame in our candle here. And then I'm just going to I want this to look, you know, like it's glass. So, I'm just going to put a little blue line just right on the inside and here's the trick. If you want it to look like it's glass, you need to put in this little bottom section. See how that changed everything? This is tiny, little bottom section. Like a little oval at the bottom. And then, let's add a little to the jar, the lid and let's go on to our little squirrels and then we'll put in our florals and you know what? We're going to be almost finished you guys with this. Okay, so now, I'm going to take some of this and I want to kind of gray up these squirrels a little bit. So, you can, you know, when it comes to browns, you can mix, you can mix your warm, this is a very warm brown. This is a warm brown brown and so is this. This one has a lot of red in it. So, if we turn this over, let me just show you. Um the difference in these colours. So this has this is a warm colour. It has more yellow in it. This one you can see. Looks like it has more green doesn't it? And then adding the blue to it, you know, kind of in between will actually change up these colors. So, you see how that will just kind of gray that up and this one too. So you can change your grays. You know, you you got this whole, you know, You've got this whole area that you can create of browns. It's basically what I'm saying. So, put your, you know, colors next to each other like this and just kind of let them mix up a little bit. Mix em up on your palette. So, I'm just mixing the blue in here with this brown. And then, I'm just going to brush it on and leave a highlight on the tail at the top. And always, you know, if you feel like you got too much color, pinch your brush off. I do this all the time. I'm always doing this and again, each section. See the top of his little thigh here? Leave that little highlight His little belly. Just leave that light. The top of his backseat is kind of bent over Just leave this lighter and as he's bent over, you know, it's a it's just a little bit darker down here where his his little feet are and underneath his tail. Got his little ears. And then you want to keep his face. I'm going to just switch over my brushes here. So I'm going to switch over to a small one. Once once we get into the face. So in the face you want to keep this really really light. Bring that cheek in. I'm going to see if I can zoom in a little closer. Okay. So, bring the cheek in This will bring that little cheek forward and just try to keep the area you know, this area here really, really light. You can add a tiny bit of color to it but just keep it really, really light and then, add just a little bit of red in here to his cheek. And then you can just kind of blend that Blend that out a little bit. And then come back in with some of this darker brown. Underneath here. And just kind of work your way up a little bit. See, under his his little front arm here, that's going to be a little bit darker. Let me just move this up so you can see what brown I'm pulling out here. And they don't, you know, you don't have to Color it in solid. You you really don't want to do that. You don't want to colour it in solid. And if you can get you know some different variations of colour that all the better. And just you know, stay in each section. It's the other rule. Okay? And then let's come in with his little eye. And isn't he just so cute? And his little feet. You know anywhere that you think you might have lost a line or something. You can add in. Um but really he doesn't. He doesn't need to have too many lines added in. Okay let's go over to the other one. I'm going to just going to do the same thing. We're going to we're going to drag some of this color From the blue and the brown, just going to mix these two together and get this little gray tone. Get that highlight in there. So important. And stay in each section. Take some of this brown. And leave this area, his little belly right here. Leave that light and again, bring that cheek in. Bring his little cheek in but keep this area where his face is. Keep that really light. And then let's get this underneath here. Get this little darker down here. And if he's got multiple colors on him that's a good thing. Which is going to make them look a little more realistic. And let's get his little cheek in. His little eye. Okay, let's zoom out now. Maybe not that far. Okay so now we've got those guys in. Now let's get our let's get our florals in. So we're going to use this this little flower. This little mum. And we're going to start out with with the blue. So, the 565 and we're just going to put a little piece of post-it tape across the top because we don't want to stamp over the top and leave it just a tiny little bit so you can see that pot under there. Uh Lori Okay she's Oh, she's talking about her order. The bench is included. Yay. Okay. Got it Lori. Glad yes. Absolutely. Um okay so let's get the blue in here. So we're going to do we're going to do the florals in the blue. And just just run your brush right along the top. And then the green is underneath. In the where the where the stems are. And then it's just going to you're just going to stamp it in here. You know a few times. And then do it again. And so like it again. And then that blew it right across the top. And you can go back into it again and get this a little bit higher if you want to. Then, you just add, we're just adding some water to it. So pinch your brush off and then, you're just dabbing. Just dab and let it just do its thing. Just touch it. No brush strokes. Don't try to don't try to brush like this. And then just brush the little grasses, little stems straight down. Okay? And then let's do this little one. And so this one is the red. So let's cover this one up. Like this. And actually we should probably let's see. Maybe we should put a little bit over here as well. So we don't stamp over the top of that pot. And then I'm just going to use a a baby wipe. And clean this off. So that I can get the red. I can use the red. So make sure you get that all off. Get all that color off so that you get a really good bright red So, same thing again and then we're just going to add this one in. Just touch it with the brush. And I just got a little bit of this green in here. So, I'm just going to add a little bit from my palette This is the one seventy-seven So, I'm just going to add a little bit of this into my pot since I didn't get that stamped in here very well. You can also just use your bullet tip too. Okay? so let's do this one down here and I'm going to do this one on the red also. So, let's cover it Well, actually, maybe this way. No, let's do this. Let's use this one. And just going to cover that up And then we're going to ink this again with the red And the green. And you can use whichever green you want. And just damp it about three times and then reink it again. Take those out. Aren't those just so cute? And if you want to make it taller, just ink the, just ink the florals. And just go up and above here like this. This is just the best little stamp. It's just so easy to use. It's just, you can just use it in so many different ways. Just kind of fits anywhere. So, then, we're just touching it. Just let it, just kind of blend out. Don't don't leave those white spaces So, I want to see those individual florals. So, don't color it all in solid and then, this just up and down with your brush. Just straight lines up and down. And let that kind of blend blend together like that. If you want to make something decorative on here you can. You know I usually have some kind of stripe on something. So, let's, you know what? Let's just do it. Let's just put a stripe on here because I feel like we need one. Okay. I just think that adds a ton. Alright. So, now, let's see. What do we need to do? Let's color, let's add some of the shadows now kind of on this bench because where all these things are sitting, this is going to kind of be in the shadow, the seat. The seat of the bench. And then, you know, in here, we can make these a little bit darker And the sides of the the handles like right here. So it's going to be in the shadows. This will too. Under here and the back of this leg. That's going to be in the shadows. Same. Back here. And this little portion See how that brings that back? See how that brings this back into the background here? Just add a little more blue onto this basket. And let's put a little shadow underneath there. So that just it's just amazing what a little blue line can do. It really is. Okay. Just put a little shadow in here. Okay and then let's just do a little sort of a a hint of a shadow underneath this bench. And you you don't have to you know really do too much. You're just going to put a few little lines here in here like this. Just a few little lines. Just like a, you know, little, just a little idea of a shadow in there. Okay, so now, let's see. Now, we want to put in our little branches. You can use whatever branches that you want to use Um so, let's let that make sure that dries a little bit and actually, I'm going to just put a piece of poster tape here and then, we'll do this little one that goes up above. So, I'm just going to ink this in that dark brown, the nine sixty-nine. And just going to put this in here just kind of like this. Couple of little branches in there. And then let's just put some in here. Is that dry? Yep. And then let's put a couple in here. Okay? And now with the leaves you can make these whatever colour you want to make them. So let me move this out of the way. So, for fall, you know, you could you could do the orange. I did orange and red on mine. So, let's start out with the orange. And we're just using the very tip. So, just a you know, just these few stamps that are kind of on the tip and we're just adding, just adding them a little bit here and there. So, just you know, just a couple of times on here. And the same with these. Maybe we just put a couple in here. Okay? Just like that. And then clean it off. You know on your on your baby wipe. And then get your grab your red. So, this red is the 850 A little deeper red. And do the same thing. And just get some red in here. Just you know. Wherever you feel Kinda led to put it. And let's just put a couple down here. And then we're just going to get a brush You guys, be sure to put Lisa. Good job. Put on here if you would like to win this one. So, I'll be giving it away. Jeanette, you have not won before. Oh my goodness. It's time. Jeanette, I feel like it's going to be your lucky day. You guys be sure to put in the comments if you would like to win something to be given it away. So, put in the comments if you would like to win it. Um Leah picks our winners and so she just might pick your name. Okay. So, I'm doing the, you know, the dark colors first and then, I'm just kind of cleaning my brush off and then doing the light, light ones and just touch it because we kind of want to see the definition of those leaves and the colors that they are. And then if you want to, you could add a little sky in the background. Just a little hint, you know, of color back behind here You know, in fact, maybe a little bit under here You know, it doesn't, you don't have to color every single area. You know, with the with the sky color. You just just put in a little bit of it here and there and it's good. And let's just add a little of this colour to the bench. Again, we like to use like multiple colors Let's add a little red to these pumpkins too. Just taking a little bit of this red for my palette. Okay, so now, if you want to, you can add some white paint to it which you know me in the white paint. Uh I just love finding a place for it. Oh, let's make this a little darker here. Make that stripe a little darker. Uh let's add some white paint. I just feel like we need to find a place for it. So, We could add some to our florals up there. So I'm just going to dip my brush. You know, by the time I use it, you know, it's pretty thick in here. It might be a little dried out. So, I just dip my brush in water and then, I just kind of mix it around until I get it, you know, thinned out a little bit. Just kind of mix it up like this. This is the easiest way that I found to apply it. You know, you can also take it out and put it on a palette and mix a little water to it. You can do that too. So I'm just going to add now some little white little white flowers in here. And I just think we need some in here also. Make some of the white mums in here. Those so cute. And maybe just some little white. I don't know. Are there white berries? There are in this painting. So we're adding a few little things back here. You can you know add another little highlight to your acorns to your pumpkins. To your little basket You know, there's just add it to our little floral and just how cute is this you guys. Dominique, those are my colors. I know. Aren't they so beautiful? Something about this blue and orange together. I just absolutely love it. I come back to it all the time and I try using more of the traditional colors but I always find a way to add the blue to it. It just, it's so pretty with that orange and then, add the red in, you know, as kind of an accent. It's just, it's so beautiful. It's such a pretty combination. Okay, I need to sign it because you know, we always sign our work Okay. Let's see. Is there anywhere else? That we need to add Anything? I always just find somewhere to add some dark lines before I'm finished. I just always do. Get our little squirrels on here. They're so cute. Okay. I think you guys I think we're finished. What do you think? That was so fun to do. Okay. I'm going to switch back over so that I can do a little recap for you. Um but let me show you that set while I'm under the camera. So, here is the throwback set and it comes. This is one piece here with the squirrels are on the bench. Comes with the little pots and the pumpkins on it. So, it's a fall set because it's got the pumpkins there too. You could, however, leave them off if you wanted to. You could leave all of these things off and do something different with it. Uh this is separate and this is separate so that you can add them to the bench, you know, either one. This is the one we added to the bench. Comes with these little scrappy branches. So cute. And then as our gift, as a thank you for buying that throwback, you get the little owl free. And he is perfectly sized to fit on the bench. So, if you decide to use him, just leave one of the squirrels off when you're inking it. And add the little owl on here. It'll be so cute. And then, available just till Thursday at midnight. This promo fox, we're bringing him back. So, he's coming back one more time and then he'll be gone. So, this was this was one back from I'm it? Nineteen? 2 thousand nineteen. So, he was a little gift with a purchase. So, none of these little throwbacks have ever been for sale. Uh we've always given them as gift. So, he's available now on our website and you can get him til Thursday. Okay, so let me switch back. Um to all of you, so that I can say Uh goodbye. Okay, you guys. I just love this project. I hope that you guys will give it a shot. Um okay, I want to say one thing about this the throwback. So, normally, when we release the throwback, they're available to ship that day or the day after. We have run into some shipping issues. So, they are delayed a bit. So, they will go out probably the first part of next week. So, don't panic. If you don't have your throwback in the next couple of days because Leah, normally, is on it and everything is shipped out so fast. So, if you're wondering why your throw hasn't come in the next day or two. Um it's because we cannot ship them until we get them in. So, we've just run into a little bit of snag. They are on their way and they will get to us but it will be the first party next week before they're shipped. So, you guys, we'll get your throwback. Thank you so much. Um this was a really fun one. I hope you guys will give it a try. Um quantities are always limited on these. So, if you absolutely must have it, I would get your order in as soon as possible and you have til you have till Thursday at midnight. So, you guys, I will see you tomorrow. I'll be back on for watercolor Wednesday and I'll have a really fun project for you. So, I will see you tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock Pacific Time. See you then. Thanks again.

Watercolor Wednesday! | Watercolor Wednesday! Garden Shed watercolor tutorial with Kim! | By Art Impressions Rubber Stamps | Hello, everybody. Hello, Hello. Waiting for my people to come on. Welcome to Watercolor Wednesday You get me today. I get the privilege of hanging out with you this morning. The queen bee lets me do that sometimes. So, that's. And I'm thrilled Yes. Do you know why it benefits both of us? I get to hang out with our ladies and actually so do you but you don't have to be on this side of the camera. But she is here with me. So if you guys have any questions for her absolutely ask away. Or Kim. Oh yeah. You know what? Ask away. I am an open book for my AI ladies. That's right. Hello. I see lots of friends joining us on YouTube. Hello Samantha, Tina, Linda, Ellen, Cathy, from Face book. Hello, everybody. Hello. How's everyone's Wednesday going today? Mine's going great because I get to hang out with you. We got beautiful weather. It's not too hot this morning which is fabulous. You know, we don't have AC in this office. Okay. Well, I guess we have a portable one. Yes, and we have some fans but wow, we suffer here, okay? So, on cool mornings, we are very glad. Hello. Hello, Jeanette. What are you making today because wow I love seeing your projects when you post them. Um they are just beautiful. Does everyone know that Jeanette our, she's the newest member, right? Of our design team. Um and she's just amazing. So. She's amazing. We just absolutely are. Yes. Just in awe for. I know every time she post something, I'm like, oh, wow. That's so cool. Hello, Diana. How are you? Hello, Michelle. Oh my goodness. All the way from Australia. Australia. Elizabeth from Texas. Hello. Hello. Okay. So, you guys, I have something so excited to announce today. Before we talk about our project, I'm just going to say this first because this is what I'm really, really excited about. Um lots of you are asking for more classes and we have heard you. Um we are schedule, we have scheduled our next in-person class with me for October fifth, okay? And you can go book that right now. We have limited space if those if you guys have ever been to a class in person with us, you know that you know, we only have a little bit of space. So, if you are interested, you can book your spot on the website right now. So, if you go to our website, you'll see it right on the main banner and you just add it to cart and that will get you all registered and so, I can't what project are we going to do? What are we going to make? Well, I can't tell you. I can't tell you. Yes. Yes. Yes. The class is scheduled but I can't tell you what we're going to make yet, okay? You just trust, okay? Trust me. Trust the queen bee. We are working on a new what do we how do we say it? Do we say it's a new concept. Concept. Okay. Using your watercolor. This is not a journal class. Okay? But it is an all day class. So it's nine to 2. Um at our AI headquarters. Um and we will be making a what I can tell you is that it is a Christmas project. Okay. At least one Christmas project. And it is going to be so much fun. You do not want to miss this. Just trust. Okay? Trust that the queen bee knows how to make stuff. And this new concept is going to be an absolute blast and so I will be the first one that gets to teach it. Um but it will be using your watercolor of course. We'll just be doing watercolor like normal. Um but in you know we're going to put it together in a different way I guess. It's what I can say right now. Um I will be you will not be disappointed. No. No. Um so will be able to show you as we get closer. So, the not just like sorry. I'm just sorry. She just my reminded me that everything is up on the website right now live. And that just threw my train of thoughts. This happens to me. Nobody can give me a message. And all because I completely lose my train of thought. And I just did that to you. Okay. Hashtag adult ADHD. Okay. But thank you. Yes. Everything is up on the website. Live right now. You can go and book that October five. That is a Saturday. Okay? Nine to 2 here at our head in Oregon. So if you are close, if you are semi close, Carol, Carol, you are considered semi close. In Canada. In Canada, okay. She's, you know, few hours north of us. Um Diana. Okay, I'm just going to call out people who have come from far places. Um so that yeah, Suska, yes, Andrea. Andrea. You know, Indiana, New Mexico. So, don't just count it out just because you don't live okay? This is our classes are inexperience, okay? I'm setting myself up now. But you get to hang out with the queen bee. She's, you know, there. She, okay, this is what I can say about my classes. And this is the only time I can say this, is that she assists me. Okay. She is my assistant in my class. And happily so. I'm teaching her concept, her stamps, but she assists me in the class. So, you know, I feel very, yeah. Yeah, she's on lunch and food and I spilled my water. Can I get a paper towel? Oh my gosh. We have so much fun. So, if you haven't joined us in the past and you're looking for maybe some, I don't know, Christmas ideas Uh highly recommend. Coming, joining us in person. Like I said, we have limited space I'm seeing on the comments here that some of you are asking if there will be an online version. I'm not sure. We'll see if there's a lot of interest just like kind of what we did with the girlfriends journal. We didn't make a decision right away but we heard from all of you guys that there was a lot of interest in it and so we did end up doing that. So, if if you are interested in that, let us know. That will help us make a decision on that after. Um okay. Yes. Okay. Diana's saying that she's going to see if she can talk her husband into visiting. Yes. See, this is what you gotta do, okay? Peggy, you are close. So, you don't have a choice. You, I mean, there's no excuse for you. You are local. Debbie is, actually, Debbie, I think works on Saturdays, right, Debbie? Correct me if I'm wrong. So, you never get to join us. Um but okay. Ruth Ann, of course, Ruth Ann is a guarantee. Ruth Ann, are you on? Yes. Okay, Ruth Ann is on. She, if you, if you don't know Ruth Ann, you need to know Ruth Ann because she's absolutely amazing and to me, she is equally a draw as the queen bee bond. Oh, yeah. Equally a drop. More so. Uh huh. Like everybody wants. Everybody, yes. Everybody loves Ruth Ann. Everybody wants to hang out with her and be her best friend. So, Okay. Well, Debbie, so you work Saturdays but you can drop in on your lunch, okay? That's right. Um come say hi to us. Um okay, Shelby. I love that. So, she's Shelby is saying that she lives an hour south of Atlanta but someday, she plans on making a trip to do a class. Love that but she can't this time which is fine but the next time, I'm going to call you out on here. Um okay, just checking comments here. Thank you, Roberta and Valerie, thank you so much you guys for like the feedback on an online version. Definitely will be taking that into consideration. So, if again, if you guys are interested, October five, Christmas project class with me. Um watercolor here in Oregon. So, if you're interested in that, go ahead and sign up on our website. You just add it to your cart and that will get you registered and then I will check in with you as we get closer to the class date as far as like what to bring. Um usually, we don't have you bring hardly anything. Maybe adhesive. Um we provide everything. We'll probably provide lunch again. Um you guys can go shop shop the shop. We always give like a special discount for those of you who are in the class. So, lots of maybe new things And oh yes. Thank you for reminding me. Okay that that keeps me on track here. So, the queen bee is reminding me that with the purchase of the class, always comes in exclusive, okay? So, we're working on that right now. You get an exclusive, you get the class, obviously, the project, and you also get a paper pack for this, okay? So, lots of extra things included. We always do giveaways. Um there might be, you know, sets that are not yet released that you might get your balls on. like like the last one. We the our last in-person class. Um the ladies got a little sneak peek at the pandas. Yes. So, we will have lots of fun. So, if you're on the fence, just you know what? Jump in, okay? Jump in. Take the leap. And the other thing that's amazing is getting to know our Facebook family in person and it's they're the best. Mm hmm. AI people are the absolute best people that there are. So, you know, it's just all around the great. It's a win. A win, win, win, win, win. And me, selfishly, I get to hang out with you. So, and we get to make something really beautiful. Kendall will be down there Yes, Kent. Oh, yes. Kendall is already saying that that is on her calendar. That she will be. She has a calendar. Yes, she has a calendar. She is almost 10 now. So, we are entering tween years and she has let me know that she will be available to help as long as she's paid. So, So, she will be down there. Um and has a nut and and if there's treats. Yes. Treats and a paycheck and she is wow. She is there, okay? And some kind of social activity. That's all she needs in life, you know? Right. Okay. Well, you know, thank you guys for joining me in, you know, today, Watercolor Wednesday, being excited about classes with us. Um we just really appreciate you all and let's get to our project today, okay? I'm going to switch you here to the project. And to my sets here. Okay. Look at what we get to make. And I'm going to zoom in a little bit. That was a request. Oh. Somebody requested the the garden shed. Um that we had. Yes. The garden shed. So. Great. Yes. Here we are. Um the only tutorial that we have done on this is in the Best Buds journal class. So, those of you who have taken the class, have already made this but we wanted to do it in you know, like a fall version, a very simple version here. K. If you have this set but you don't know how to use it, this is good for any season. How cute to make it Christmas. You can put little Christmas lights on here. Oh. We need to do that. That just popped in my mind. Yes. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Some like maybe some snow all around. Snowy trees. Yes. To it. Okay, do you guys want us to do that? A Christmas version of this in the next like couple of weeks. Let let us know in the comments. Um that would be. Yes, let us know if that would be something you're interested in or if that's just us, you know. Try make everything. Yes. Oh, wrong way. Here we go. Which we do. Yes, we like to make everything, everything fun and festive and holiday related. I like that. And you know, we are getting into, I mean, I know we're in August but we are getting close to the fall season which means we're practically in Christmas, okay? Yeah. That's how my mind works. Once we're fall, we're Christmas. That's right. End of the year. I know. Like. You might as well start shopping. Yes. Of course. Yes. Yes. Yes. I know. Some of you are probably thinking, okay, October, Christmas project. Um I'll have all my cards done by then. Some of you guys start in the summer, okay? Some of you overachievers. Now, for us, we do everything last minute. So, October for me doing Christmas project is very like very early and very overachieving. Um okay, Chris. Oh, okay. Linda is saying a Halloween version. How cute. Oh. Oh, we gotta do that. We gotta do that. Oh, that would be so. You could make it like the windows all broken out. You know, I don't know if we've done a broken window. That would be a great tutorial. Yes. To do. A broken window. Yup. Broken glass. Broken glass. Okay. Linda, keep those ideas coming. I love that. Okay, who said that? Did Michelle who said the flamingos with the Santa hats? Okay. Valerie, I don't know who said that but that is such a cute idea. That's so cool. Of animal you guys know. Like any type of animal in Christmas. I am very into. Very into. Just you know putting that out there. Uh okay, you guys. So, this project, okay, let me get the so here's the shed that we're doing and you know, when we did it in the journal, we did a very summary, very full, I mean, look at this. This is very full, okay? We're going to go very simple here and do you know how many stamps? That we used, okay? Aside from like the main stamp, it's two stamps. It's this and I'm just going to call these mums because they're, it's fall almost. So, we got this stamp and this is in the mini flower set here. Right here. Of course, you could use like literally any flour you you have. You could use the daisy bunch and then, do you see this little grass here? This. Foliage set one right here. Okay. Just these two plus the main image. Okay, that's what I love about this. This is almost like a almost like a foundation kind of. Um where everything is pretty much done for you and you just add like the beautiful to it, right? The flowers and the foliage Um so, that's all we're going to do today. We're going to we stamp this. We're going to color it in these really neat fall colors. Like, don't you love this little purple here with this green? I do and of course, the yellow. Duh. Like the yellow is just happening of course. Um and fall, I mean, look, we can work in yellow too. I, I, should say I can work in yellow too. Absolutely any season, any occasion, okay? And I know that you guys have been calling me out that I have not been using yellow as much. So, I'm really getting on that. Um Oh, okay. So, Linda is saying on Facebook, a nutcracker. Cute is that idea? I'm writing it down. Okay, she's writing it down. You guys, honestly, we get so much inspiration from you and do you know that the queen bee Bonnie can literally make anything. She can make anything. She can draw anything. For me, I need to see something. Like, you know, I need to see it before I can draw it and she can just draw it out of her head. So, she's already got probably ten ideas for a nutcracker. So, Linda, I love that. I don't think we have any. I know. No. How fun. Watercolor. Yes. Oh, that would be so cute. Yes. Okay. Phil throwback, yes. Michelle, that's so funny. Do you know like every live, people ask for a Phil throwback? I'm just, you know, we actually may have talked about that the other day. So, don't worry. I'm I'm elbowing her to to to listen to the people, okay? Okay, Christmas gnome set. Oh. Cute. Great idea, you guys. Uh love it. Okay. So, they're saying a Halloween version for the shed spider webs, ghosts, pumpkins, broken window. Yes. Caroline, I love that. So easy to do. And you guys probably have already everything that you need to make for that. Yeah. I need a cube pumpkins and. Yeah. You know, they don't want to do. We can show them again how to do the webs. Yeah. Webs are so good. Webs are easy. Yeah. Spiders. Yup. Michelle, I'm challenging you to make a a Halloween version right now, okay? Michelle is. Michelle can do anything. Absolutely anything. Yes. Yes. Yes, she can. Um Tina's saying more gnomes. You can't, can you have enough gnomes? I don't think so. I guess not. No. Okay, you guys. How about enough jibber jabbering on my end? Let's get started here. Okay, who's going to tell me what the very first step is? What we're going to do? Okay. Um what do we do first? You guys are all pros here. I'm going to pull the color out with my brush. And this was stamped in of course the combination of the 969 and 565. Blue and brown. So any of you newbies that are joining us. Um we don't use stamp pads. We use these water based Tombow markers. Okay? We layer them and of course you always want to stamp it off. Okay? You do not want any thick heavy lines. Like look here. Like you want to have the freedom to add in the lines you want them. You don't want everything just super dark and heavy, right? Okay. So, I'm going to take my brush and I'm just going to pull Okay, Nadine is saying Christmas penguins. Yes. That would be a cute throwback because you know, does anyone have those old Christmas penguins? Well. Do you remember those? I don't know how many penguins I've done over the years but different styles. Yeah. Like snowman. Yeah. And how many snowman? Mm hmm. I've done in the last thirty. Well, we can't ever have enough. I I don't. Snowman. We just count. Snowman every year. Yeah. So, I'm just going here. Go Along these lines. Obviously we don't cross the lines. And it really doesn't matter Um you just want like a nice little foundation of color here. And we do this because for two reasons. One, we want that, again, foundation of color there and two, when we add our color, we don't want it to get muddy with the color that's already on the lines here. Okay? And this one's going to be yellow. So, I'm going to try and keep that as light as possible. And I like doing these simple projects because not everything has to be you know complex and take an hour to do. You know sometimes you only have 15 minutes to make something if it's you know somebody's birthday or there's you know some other occasion where you gotta make a card. Sometimes you just want to get in and get out and get it done. And have it look just beautiful. And this is this stamp is a really great one for that. Because again like it's pretty much all done. And if you here. We're going to keep three of these pots white, okay? So, this is seriously like the most simple project you could do. Okay, Laura saying 12 days of Christmas. Love that. Oh. Be cute for like a journal. How cute. Yes. Write these down. Okay, this is. Okay. Amy, you are not missing anything. We're just coloring. We're just chatting Um we talked about a an in-person class on October 5th here but other than that, you just, the only thing you missed is me jibber jabbering. Just chatting away. Every topic under the sun. You know? Whatever comes to mind. Okay. That's a pretty good base layer. Okay. Thank you, Cindy. Appreciate that. Cindy saying that she's interested in online version of class. Um I appreciate that. Thank you for trusting us to make something cute where you would be interested in doing that. We will definitely keep that in mind. If there is enough interest in it, and just you guys, just wait til you see how cute this is going to be. I am just dying to you. Um I'm not allowed to. The the queen bee is not letting me show you. Okay? She's cracking the whip saying, don't give it away. Don't give it away. And I'm one of those people who if I get a birthday present early for somebody, like I just give it to them. Like early. Like I can't wait. That's true. I can't wait. I just have to blab it. So if there was any possible way I could just blab this right now. I would love to. But I'm being held back by her. Okay. But just trust me, this is going to be just the absolute cutest. You are not going to want to miss it. Okay, I'm going to start with my nine forty-seven. I love this brown. It is perfect. I'm going to move this over so you can see it a little better. So, I'm going to get that. I'm going to get, this is a really nice like, I don't know what eggplant color. I don't know. 6 79. It's a really nice like a dusty purple. Yeah. And wow. Am I low on ink on this? But still, no, it's okay. It it works fine. You guys can use, you know, it doesn't matter really if your pen looks like this. You can still use it. You can still color just the same. Um and then going to put yes. And then I'm going to add this one. Zero nine eight. This is like this is a really nice I don't know. It looks more green on the camera. But it's almost like a yellowy I don't know. What do you what would you call this? It smells like an olive green. Yeah. An olive green. It's actually called olive brown. Okay. But it's obviously it's green. Yes it's very warm. It's almost like in person looks like a little brown. Has a little brown to it. Um and let me just show you just again what sets I'm using So, here's the garden shed right here. And this is called The Potting Garden shed set. Okay. This is has all these like cute little sentiments here. Um and then obviously these two flowers and foliage sets. So this tiny grass and then this mini flower set in this one. We're going to make these mums. Just because we want want it to be. Okay, Amy's asking. Those of you, those of us who can't come to get the sets for the class. Um are you meeting the in-person class? Like, are you meaning like a kit for it? Um because yes, like, if we decide to do the online version which I mean, there's a good chance that we will do that since it seems like lots of you are interested. Um that will come with like, you know, if you've taken a class with me before, you'll get all of cut paper. You'll get everything you need to make the class. And as far as the stamps that were that we'll use for that, they will be available to you. But again, everything will be pre stamped for you. But, you know, if you want to make it again, and, and of course, the videos. You'll have access to the videos. Um, on your membership tab of your login to the AI website. So, I hope that answers your question. Okay. So, I'm going to take some of this brown. I'm just going to start with the roof here. Gonna take some of this. And you know always we just start light. Can always go back in but I like to just follow these lines here. And at the end, I'll take my twin tone and add some detail but for now, I'm just going to do this here. Tumble calls it avocado. Thank you so much Avocado. Zero nine eight. Yeah, I guess it is kind of an avocado. So, except it seems a little more brown to be an actual color of an avocado but Okay. So, you can see these little ones poking out. You can use your number one too if you prefer that. Um you know, if you follow my classes, you know, I like to just always use the four. Because It's easier. But you could definitely switch off in some of these small areas with the one, okay? No way that we would have time to do that on Sections. And then it's not like overwhelming. And then you can come up here. Go in these little triangles. Maybe I'll go down just a little bit more Okay. And that is pretty much it for this green. Now Okay. Can everyone see me okay on Facebook? I'm seeing some of your comments here that it's going in and out. Switched to YouTube. Yeah. That's what yes. Yes. So switch to YouTube if you guys are having any trouble. Seems like YouTube is okay. Yay Barbara. I'm so excited. Uh we missed you last time. Cuz what were you like on a cruise or something? Barbara is joining us with class. Yes. Ruth Ann So excited. I'm just so excited. Okay, now I'm going to take some of this. Look at this when you add water to this purply here. This eggplant colour. It is just such a neat color and I just rarely use it. But I need to start using it more. Okay, so you're going to go color these areas in. Get underneath here. And you could use a one You know it's probably better if you use a one in these small areas. But if you don't have a one a four will work. And you know we're always going to add in our details. Right? Because look at what a difference it makes. Once we add in our shadowing and our details with our twin tone. Right? It just brings it to life. Okay. Oh my goodness. Yes, we missed Barbara last time at our in-person class. She was on a 33-day cruise. Oh my. How cool. Wow. Where did you go? Tell us. I've never done a cruise. I don't know that I ever could do a cruise. I just the thought of being in the middle of the ocean is it's a little scary. Okay. I'm not going to lie. Does anyone else feel that too? Or do you not even notice it? Because there's just so much to do Who has done a cruise? That's the question of the day. Okay I'm just following like these little trim pieces here. These colors are just so cute together. And then the door also. Okay, Samanthaville's the same way as me. I'm not the only one. Okay, Cheryl, where did you go? Have you been on one? Ruth Ann, I knew you'd be with me on this one. Okay. I mean it would be really neat to be able to just you know, have a fun way of going to like amazing places and you know, with so much to do on it, like, I see the appeal of it. It's just my own anxieties. Yeah, too much to do. Cheryl says there's too much to do to be scared. Okay. And who is asking, Amy, was that you asking about Kendra? Back in the comments. Um, she's great. She's doing great. She started her rotations And she is just loving it. She's telling us you know, about all the things that she has to do and we're like, oh my gosh, we would never want to do that. Who would ever want to be a doctor? We are not you know, she's the only one in the family that is that is like that, that doesn't, you know, run away from things like that. Yeah. You either run to it. Yes. You run away. Exactly. And we've. Yes. We run away. Yes. Just being in the hospital, you know, she's in her first rotation is in a hospital. Um with a doctor not emergency medicine. Um. Internal medicine, yes and so, she gets to see all kinds of things and wow. Wow. Am I glad that that is not me? Couldn't do it. Would never do it. Couldn't be paid. Yes. Yes. Yes. We would like to just make things. Uh huh. That's what we like. Okay. So, I'm going to take some of this brown. I'm going to keep it Very light. Okay, Sheryl is saying an AI cruise. Yes. Okay, that I could do. Okay, just classes fun hangouts. Yeah. Okay that I could get into. Mhm. That I like. And you know I pray we we just be too busy to even think about what was happening. Um do we have that light blue? That light blue Bonnie or Tabani. Oh, which one you need? Um, for the window. Oh, five, oh, it's the, it's the regular I think it's. No, it's it's the grey blue. It's that light grey blue. Oh, yeah. Let me find it here. Yes, the Nfifty-two. I think it's the Nfifty-two. I'm pretty sure. Oh, was it that one? I think it's this one. Is it that? Could you just use that? I could just use this. This is cute. Or mix the two. Yeah. Mix the dark blue with that. Yes. Okay. So, I'm going to make these windows here. These little window panes. And it's the blue that I used. I'm pretty sure was this one. And I didn't grab it. So, luckily, I have my assistant, Bonnie here to help me. At your service. Anytime I can have her assist me since it's usually the other way around. I'm going to do. Okay? Okay. So, we've got this. N52 and I just, I like this more than I liked this bright blue, okay? And you could always mix them together like this is just five twenty-six. We'll use this for the sky. Um but this is this is kind of a grayish color but it's got a little bit of blue to it and but it's more muted which kind of goes with our fall theme here and so when you make these pains. You just do little yeah. There we go. Rectangles. Okay? Got some kind of thread on there. Um would you grab me a number one? I am just. Absolutely. You need the one for this. The the is a one able to be found. Yes, hang on. Okay, again, N52. We just roll with it. You know, You just roll with it And now I don't need it. It does make it a little easier if you have a one. You know, getting into these like small spaces but you just use what you have. Um oh. Amy saying a stencil of all different types of the window paints. Yeah. That's a great idea. Really good idea. Hm? Yes. Okay and then I'm just going to take my my I'm just taking my fine tip here and I'm just adding a little more definition here, okay? Just to get it to stand out a little more. And there's no like exact way to do this. Okay. You just want you know a variety of tones. In this okay so from dark to light. Yes, Mary Ann. That's a great idea. Who's planning it? Who's planning the AI cruise? Who's in charge of this? Ruth Ann. Oh my goodness. You guys are fun. This is really fun. Um okay. Now, I'm going to do our the little birds and I'm just going to do them in that same brown at nine forty-seven. And then a little bit of red. Okay? So again you could use a one here but who has time for that? I mean, unless you have somebody bringing you one like I do. Okay, so just you know, keep an eye on their faces here. You don't want it to be too dark around their faces but they're pretty small. So, Ruth Ann says she'll plan it from the land. Yes, exactly. This is eight fifty-six And we're just going to add some little red to their bellies and keep it light to start. And you can make this any color, honestly The cute blue too Going in with one shade darker. The brown. Okay. Don't worry. We're going to get our fine tip here. Um And then now so we're just working our way through it. Right? Section by section. So we started with the roof. Then we did the green. Then we did the trim. And then the door and the birds. And now we're going to just block just put in a little bit of the color into the pots. Okay? And then we'll add our flowers and then we'll go back in with our fine tip and add all of those really awesome details. Okay? So, we already have a little bit of that foundation colour for our pots. But I'm going to take some of that N fifty-two. You know that like blue grey. Since these are white. And I'm just going to add a little bit. Cos you want a little bit of something on there. Okay we just we don't want to leave it like completely white. But it gives it a really nice like kind of rustic look to it. And then the yellow star of this project is the yellow Okay. So, this is, this is oh five five. And you can use what's the other yellow? It's that more The banana yellow. Yeah. Yellow. Yes. This is the lemon yellow and yes. This one is nine nine three. Nine nine three. You could also, yes, it's more of a warm. This is obviously more of a cool tone yellow. Wow, this looks neon in this camera. Oh my. Amy's asking if we're painting an outhouse. Her husband said, is that an outhouse? It very well could be. It could be. Put that little moon. Moon. Yes. You totally could do that. That's hilarious. Yep. Mhm. You could. Okay. So, we're going to go here and we're just going to add some color to the bottom half here, okay? And if you notice where we put our bright colors, okay? We have the white background behind it. So, it really pops out, okay? Notice that. You don't really want to compete with this in the middle here. Okay, you want your brightest colors with light in the background. And I'm just going to go with my fine tip here. You see that? Okay, well, that really looks neon. It's not. This color is not actually neon. But wow, from this, sure looks like it. And this is really easy to my gosh, that looks so bright. It looks really neon. It's not actually that neon. Yeah. Sometimes you know the camera doesn't pick up the actual shade of the colors, okay? So, this one's done. I'm going to take a little bit of this five twenty-six. You can see that when we add the sky, that's what we'll use but you can see I added a little bit just throughout just to kind of brighten up the color. So, we're going to just add a few little pops of that. Again, that's just the five twenty-six. We use that all the time. I mean there's no exact like place to put this. You can put it wherever you want. But I just thought it was kind of cute. Okay? There's no exact rule. This is your painting. So you can use whatever you want. You're the artist here. Okay. Now I'm going to go in and add my flowers here. Again with one single stamp. Okay I got my little wipe. Here to clean it off. And I'm going to start with the lightest one first. Okay? And that's the yellow. You can see right up here is the yellow. Um yes thank you very much. My assistant is bringing me some post-it tape. I knew you've been asking. Oh my. Yes. Okay. So, going to put that. Make sure. Okay, I know we've probably said this a million times to you but make sure you can see that top line a little bit. Trust me, I've done so many where I've added floating foliages and flowers. I mean, wow. Have I just made some mistakes here? Or off yet? Yes, off the edge. Yes, like you want to be able to see it a little bit, okay? So, you just don't go too crazy. Okay, so we're going to add our yellow. Color in our yellow and then the bottom, I'm just going to use our normal one seventy7. This is our warm green. Okay? And I'm just going to stamp that right in here. And you know the yellow can be a little soft, right? When you first stamp it. So, you probably have to go back through it Okay? So you're going to get something like that. Very cute and it's up to you how much of the green you want to see, okay? So, this one, you can see a little bit more green. It doesn't, it honestly doesn't matter, okay? Don't don't get too like wound up. You know, it has to, you know, be this exact place. Flowers just grow every which way. Okay, that takes the pressure off of you to make it look, you know, exactly perfect. Okay? So, me just wait till that dries. And I'm going to go back one more time over the top. And you can see I'm inking this again in the yellow. Cuz I want just a little bit more definition to it. Okay? See that? See how that just like makes a difference here. So it's not it we want it soft but we still want a little bit of definition. Okay? And this pot is almost done until we get our fine tip. And we have to add it's obviously hanging. So we'll add those lines in there. But not yet. Next up, we're going to do the second lightest color which is the orange and we're going to do that right here and again, I can see my line. It's exactly where it goes and we'll probably, I have to add some more green in there once we find out where our orange is going, okay? So, go ahead and clean this off. You don't have to be as worried if you're starting with the lighter colors and then you you just you don't start with the red because red is red is hard. Yeah. And red doesn't always come off. It's a accent color. So it's. Yeah. It's the pop that you want. Oh and I grabbed the red. To the to it. And you you have to really clean your brush out. Yes. Still stay in your brush. Red is wow. Yeah. So I'm using the orange here. So just do the exact same thing that you just did. Okay? So that's again nine thirty-three. With the one seventy-seven. Thank you Terry. Yes, if you're interested in winning this project, just put that in the comments. Okay, Shirley's asking, is there a right or wrong baby wipe? I think Annie is fine. Annie. Yeah. You can even have just a damp paper towel. Mm hmm. Yup. Okay. So, you can see how light that is when you first stamp it. You're almost always going to have to go back in and add more and I'm just reinking the top, okay? And you can see we have a little more green in this which I like. Okay? And so, I'm going to pull the color out and I will probably go over it again to get a little more of that definition. Okay. Pinch it brush. But you see, aren't we glad that we didn't go over this? Too much. I mean, that we stop the color right there, okay? And now, wash my brush out and I'm going to just very gently pull this green. Okay, see how just adorable this is. So, again, Going back in with the orange. Make sure it's dry. I can see here that mine is dry. Okay and what you can also do you can take your fine tip you can actually also add more in there. See how cute that is. So, you really get three different tones here. You get the really light tone that you pull the color out. You get the sort of medium tone which is the the actual stamp that I went over the top and then you get the darker tone with the fine tip, okay? You would also do that with the yellow. Just add a couple more here. See how easy that is and that just looks so, so, so cute. Carol, you're so nice. Yes, of course you're entered in the drawing. Of course. Um okay. Now, we're going to clean this off and again, we don't have to worry as much because we're going to red. Okay so this is all clean So we're going to add The red to this one right here. Okay, is anyone stamping along with me? Does anyone going to make this today? I want to see your creations you guys. Post them because really that really does inspire us and it gives us ideas and it encourages other people to do the same. And you know sometimes it's easy to order something and then, you know, it kind of sits for a while. I know I'm guilty of that. Um so, by you posting yours, your paintings, your projects, that is going to encourage other people to do the same, okay? Same thing here Okay? And I'm going to do pull the color out. Do the green for it. It doesn't matter which one you do first. Wash out the brush. Pinch it off, and then go in with this red here. And you can also just I just want to show you this. So one seventy-seven. You can put this on your palette. And go and add a little of this here too. And the more you do it, the more you're just going to be able to pick up these little tips and it's just going to become, you know, second nature. So, again, I'm going to take my red. Eight fifty-six Gonna go on top of there. Look at how adorable this is. And then my fine tip Okay? So you can smooth that out a little bit. I like the texture to that. So, I'm going to leave it. Um it's whatever you like, okay? See how easy that was? We use one stamp for this, this, and this, okay? I'm going to add a little bit of grass here. And that's going to pretty much like be it besides our fine tip. Same green. Okay. Oneseventyseven. Oh Ruth Ann, you're the best. Routan makes some really incredible, incredible things, you guys. He does. And I what I love about Ruth Ann's projects are that she she just thinks outside the box, right? She has an idea and she just makes it. She just tries it. And that's hard. It's hard to do that because you know. Take a chance. You have to take a chance. Yes. Oh is this going to look good? You know you can get in your head about things. And it's better just to do it. And that's how you get better and better and better. Yeah she's fearless. That's a great way to put it. Okay. Just going to add some of this here Little bit of grass. All the color out Okay, Zilla's saying, avoid baby wipes with alcohol acid or oil. Alcohol and acid damage your sounds and oil repels water. Interesting. Oh, I didn't know that. Interesting. Well, you know, they have those wipes now that are like 99% water. So those may be a good one to use. Yeah, that's interesting. I didn't know that. Um paper towel. Yeah, a wet paper towel. Yes, exactly. Good to know. We learned something. Yes, we do. Okay, so I can just maybe take a little bit of this green. Okay. Now I am going to I'm going to add a little bit of white paint in here but I'm going to do that at the very end. Okay. Now, we gotta do a couple things here. The first thing we're going to do before we go in with our fine tip is we're going to add some texture to these walls and do you know what I need for that? Is a ruler. Coming right up. Thank you. Okay. Now, you just it this is don't overthink this, okay? We're going to make lines too. If you can see here on the sample, it just lines all the way down, okay? And you can see these ones match the angle of this, okay? They're not the exact same. Don't go straight all the way across. Okay, do these first and then match this angle with this top trim piece, okay? And just go all the way down. Don't overthink this. You don't have to measure in between anything. Just eyeball it. And it's going to look great. The biggest thing is just making sure it's straight. I always have a pencil like handy when I'm doing my watercolor projects. I think I use a pencil like every single project. And there's no risk to it, right? It just if you don't like it. You just erase it. Erase it. And sometimes you don't want, you know, the super dark of the twin tone in all the areas. You know, the twin tone is a necessity but sometimes you want that like. You can get color. You can pull color out of the pencil lines too. Oh, interesting. Did everyone hear that? That you can pull a little bit of color out of the pencil lines. It's just. I like that. For details and stuff, it's just, it's, it's the best. Mm hmm. So, just very simple and then, no, this is not a, this is just a regular pencil, not a watercolor pencil. Okay. So we're going to match this angle. And I'm going to go like in between these, okay? So, it doesn't look as like uniform. Okay. See how cute that is. And then we're going to actually do the same thing here on this bottom part. And I'm going to make these a little thinner. Okay and then maybe just It's been like that. Okay. Now, we're ready for our fine tip, okay? Twin-tone Here's the skinny one. Skinny side. And we're going to start with I'm going to add some detail to this roof. Okay. Gonna add some little nails. And I'm going to go like pretty much on every board here. You really do need, you can see how this is like pretty one tone and actually, you know what I haven't done yet? Is my shadowing. So, before I do the twin tone on all of these areas, I want to add my shadow because otherwise, if I do that after, it'll just smudge. So, of course, our shadow ink comes from fivesixty-five, okay? That'll be the last step. And you really need that. Like why is this look one dimensional? It's because there's no shadows. Okay so you're going to go one this way. Okay and then you're going to do another one underneath See how that just like brings that out here? Just a little swatch of color. Same with this. Okay? And that's maybe little one here. You don't need to do much. Just a couple little lines like that. Okay. Now we're ready for our twin tone. The more you do this, the more you're going to like immediately be able to see what it needs, Okay? And if you need to like turn your paper like this do that. Okay, just add whatever kind of texture you like. And yeah this is going to be pretty dark under here. And this is going to be really dark. So I like to kind of go over that a little bit. Add some there. And any of your lines that you have lost you just add those back in. And just go lightly because you can always go over it again. You see how that just adds such great dimension? And then you could even like on this area I might want to just bring my brush over it to soften these lines. Okay? So we're going to keep going. Keep going here. Can't forget our little birds. We're going to darken up their beaks. And get their little eyes in there. And just have a light touch when you do that. Add in those legs. Okay. And any other detail you want to add back in. It's going to be great. See how that just gives it a really nice depth here. Okay? And go all the way around. Cuz we really like that rustic look here. Gonna go over the entire doorknob. We have a little highlight there and again, there's no exact like placing for this. It's whatever you like. And whatever lines you think you need to kind of highlight in there. See how cute that is Love this. And just have it. Make sure you have just kind of a light touch here. And the details just changes everything. It does. It does. The details just make it Go back in here too and add and then the last thing we're going to do sorry that was out of out of the camera area is we're going to just hang this, okay? So, grab your ruler. And the first line is just going to go like this. Very lightly. Okay. The next line is going to go straight down. And I don't do that one all the way. Okay? So that it can show that it's kind of in the back. And then this one will just go right here. Kinda gives the idea that the flowers are kind of like, you know, in front of the wire in some areas. And then this will add some dimension here. And then, you can go and you can take your white paint and you can add a little bit of just white flowers to that area. So I do have my number one brush for this. This is sometimes you just don't have a choice in this right now. You need something small. And again, no exact way to do this. Just do it however you like. But it just kind of breaks up the color down there a little bit. More detail is always good. And then, the last thing we're going to do is we're going to add in our sky. Okay and again that's just five twenty-six. From our palette. And remember for Sky you want more water than you think you need. Because we don't want any streaks. Okay and I'm not going to go on top of the birds here. I'm just going to kind of go around here. And that that gives it the impression that it's like high. You can go back here a little And again you can just like bring this blue down to Isn't that just adorable? Just a really simple sort of fall project and you can put a sentiment here and mount it on a card. Get it out the door. And you want to sign it. Okay? I like to sign a pencil. There we go. That's it. What do you guys think of this project? Um do you like it? Are you going to make it today? Were you making it with me? Let me know. Um I'm going to switch back to Hello. Hello again. Um thank you guys so much for joining me today. Thank you for being excited with us about our upcoming class on October fifth. Again, that's live on the website. If you are interested in booking your spot, I would say do it sooner rather than later because typically they do sell out and you know, come hang out with us. Come hang out with me and you know, the whole AI family. Um but thanks again you guys for following along with me. Join us next week for another watercolor throwback. Oh throwback next week. Oh my goodness. It's going to be a good one. Um Tuesday at ten and then following water the next day Watercolor Wednesday. Um both you get Bonnie both days next week. Okay. Woo hoo. Get excited. Um thank you guys again so much. I hope you have a fabulous rest of your day.