Hi guys, this is Julia from Just One More Card and welcome back to a new coloring tutorial. Today we're going to focus on the topic of coloring on white. And the recipe for happiness, damn said, by my favorite things, is just perfect because these cooks usually were white clothes, at least until something disastrous happens in the kitchen. They're white. So we're going to create a really fun square card, and I'm also going to be using some dyes by Tonic Studios. And as always, the products that I use are linked in the video description below. I started out by diacoding a window into a square piece of cardstock. So I did this on this diagonal, like intentionally, and this will be my leftover piece that I can use for another project later on. I'm going to first stamp with VersaMark ink. So I'm just going to grab a few of the smaller stamps from the stamp set, and I'm going to stamp them with VersaMark ink. VersaMark ink is clear and sticky. So when I then go in and use my perfect pearls powder with a very soft brush directly on top of the VersaMark ink, I get a very nice subtle background effect, like this with this light shimmer. And you can very lightly spritz it with water, and that will settle it. So it doesn't rub off. Then I'm going to prepare my sentiment, which I'm going to heat emboss with white embossing powder onto black cardstock. So I just wanted to have everything ready. And then I can finally start with my coloring. For coloring, I like to use mainly the Simon's stamp heavy cardstock, because I find that it accepts Copic ink quite well. And in addition, it doesn't feather. Feathering means that if you put down a lot of ink, the ink starts to seep off to the side, so it goes beyond the stand lines. That is one of the gripes that I have with Nina cardstock, because that usually happens there, so I'm not terribly happy with that. You can also use specialty Copic paper, but that's usually rather thin. That's why I prefer the Simon's stamp paper, which will be linked in the video description below as well. You could see here already that for my coloring, what I actually quite often do is I go in with my Copic markers and lay down the first layer of color with the Copics, because the Copics you can blend them quite easily. But what I find often difficult is adding very fine detail. Simply because maybe I haven't got the motor skills to actually do that. So what I like to do is I then like to grab my pencils, which I can sharpen to a very fine tip, and then go in and add very fine details. And by having the Copic on like as the first layer, it makes it easier to blend. Because if you just use pencils, you actually have to add quite a few layers until you get a nice solid coverage. So nothing like white is peeking through. You have a nice gradient going from dark to light. If you do the first layer with your Copics, you basically already put down some color, so you can use the pencils to enhance shadow areas or certain details, but you don't have to spend as much time blending color out to make sure they have an even layer of color out that makes sense. So basically the Copics are your base layer and the pencils are like your top layer that just enhances what you've been doing. So you can see that here as well. I mean, I could have even left it at that, but I like to make sure that my shadows are really nice and dark. And for that, I really like to use the pencils and combine them with the Copics. Of course, once I've put down the pencils, I'm not going over them with the Copics anymore because I don't want my nib damage by taking up the pigment of the pencils. So Copics first, and once you're done with the Copic coloring, then you put down the pencils. And you can see I'm just working my way here through his clothes and the utensils. You can see here, especially on the scarf, it's quite challenging to get in there with the Copic nib and do like fine details. I know that some people can do it, but like I said, I can't do that. I don't know, that's too challenging for me. So I just like to use my pencils for the really, really fine detail because that's so much easier for me and less stressful. So that's how that's how I roll. Then I glued this little guy onto this panel and formatted the panel onto a square carpet, obviously. And this will kind of look like the guy just popped out of the frame. And I had tried to use watercolor to make it look as if he is like, as if he accidentally is spraying soup out of his bowl. But I didn't look right, at least it didn't look good enough in that moment. So I actually adding some new clothes here on top of some of the watercolour stuff that I did just to create the impression as if he is accidentally throwing around soup. I hope that makes sense. It was just a weird idea that I had and I kind of had to turn it into a card. Sometimes my brain works in mysterious ways. Anyhow, I hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial and you will give coloring like white clothes or maybe white fur a try. It was really fun. If you have any questions, let me know in the comments section. Please subscribe because I have lots more videos coming and thank you so much for taking the time to watch. See you again soon. Bye bye.