This was fun to watch you transition this from cartoony to realistic. The shadows that changed the directions of each section, is amazing. The spikes are what really made it look extra special.
I've used velum for ghosts , clouds and anything thatI thought needed a cloudy or soft look. Seeing you stamp and color on the velum opens up a lot of possibilities. Thanks for sharing.
You can use vellum for pretty much anything you use paper for. You can heat emboss it, stamp it, stencil it, use alcohol markers, pastes, gold leaf etc.
Another beautifully created card. Love seeing projects using vellum. I like seeing ideas using gmail, too. I was fascinated watching the cactus lean toward me. TFS
Coincidentally I moved to Arizona and I do t think I’ve seen a prettier prickly pear cactus. Boy, you should see the cactus flowers in the Spring! Sandy, the colors are so intense and varied; I had no idea pink came in so many hues. I love the juxtaposition of the sharp leathery pads and the thin fragile petals. The pencil sharpener is very hungry, eating up too much valuable pencil
It's fun to see more cactus in the stamping industry. I live in NV and we definitely have our share. Love your prickly pear...I have tot try coloring on vellum! TFS
Sandy. Your card is gorgeous. I learned so much watching your video. The pencil sharpener made me gasp 😮. I couldn’t believe the point you got . It was fabulous for coloring. Thank you for sharing your ideas with us today.❤️🤍💙💚🧡🖤💜
Grrrreat coloring, Sandy, as always (and even after years of following you it's still always a joy to watch)! I've read that this sharpener comes with a piece of sanding paper inside of the residue box, which should help you to get to an even sharper point.
Hi Sandy, coming back to quickly update my above comment. After having thought about buying this sharpener myself for almost a year, your video finally convinced me to do so. It arrived today, and I really don't regret the purchase. I love the long point this thing makes especially for graphite as it helps to lay down an even coat of color/graphite when the pencil is held at a flat angle. I think that's the biggest advantage of this tool. Also, I found that to obtain a really sharp point on pencils sharpened with the afmat you could use an inexpensive lead sharpener (3.15 mm) as a last step. (I'm not sure if this works with all pencils but it definitely does with the Polychromos.)
I watched in awe as the pencil fed itself into the sharpener. I remember "in the old days" when you had to push the pencil into the sharpener. Maybe pushing would get a better point?? But hey, I'm all for electric ones to do the work! Love the effect on the vellum. TFS
OMG! My heart stopped for a second as the pencils got shorter and shorter!!! Beautiful card as always! Love the base you chose for it and the bow! Laura
I loooove coloring on vellum! So many neat looks you can get with it. That pencil sharpener.....I'm torn between thinking it looks amazing and helpful and thinking omg! It's eating all of the pencil! 😆 Glad to know you seemed to like it overall.
It’s not eating it. Everybody’s freaking out but it actually eats less of the lead. I did a video this weekend that will post tomorrow so you’ll see more of it.
@@SandyAllnock1 it makes sense because the it's eating the wood and leaving a longer point on the lead. Thank you for sharing. It's just hard to watch those dollars slip into a pencil sharpener 😁
I'm so happy to be here and see you color on vellum. I love the cactus image. I really thought all the elongated pencil leads were sure to break. I don't understand the physics aspect on this sharpener and why leads break when much shorter than these. I'm intrigued!
With that pencil sharpener you sure got some long points, but it looked like it was eating up the pencils. They kept getting shorter and shorter. I love your cactus card. I think coloring on vellum is so soft and pretty.
I love it! Sandy I have a question about how you stuck the vellum to the white card stock? I have used 1/8 inch double sided tape in the past but it shows through so I solve that by framing it. Wished for another solution and here is this awesome video. I never knew that I could color the vellum either so I usually color the paper underneath and put the Velum on top for that nice smoky look I want. Very informative video thank you.
Hi, Sandy - I think you meant 'Prismacolors" when you were saying which pencils were wax-based. This was around 1:10-1:20 somewhere. You had already said that Polychromos were/are oil-based and then you said their name again when you were discussing wax-based. Happens to me all the time if I am trying to think of one thing while discussing another. Thanks for the video. I did not know this type of sharpener but I love product testing! Bonne fin de semaine! / Bon week-end! / ¡Buen fin de semana! L in PA
Yes, I know several people have continued correcting me. (And less kindly so I deleted a bunch.) If only others did as much voiceover as I do-in free videos-, folks would be less critical of an occasional misspoken word 😖
I dont know velum but that was a super sharpener. I laughed as you lost ( or appeared to lose) about an inch off each pencil. I have one of those battery sharpeners which was great when I got itbut now the blades seem blunt and I havent a clue how to change them..its black about 5 inches high with different size holes in the top, you just press your pencil in and away it goes...anyone have any advice please?
Omdays 😍 ,I thought we had these at school,well the teachers had them and I always wanted one 🤣but can’t remember them been this good 😊 I haven’t used pencils on vellum for so long,Thanks for sharing,gonna get my Vellum out now 🥰
Beautiful, Sandy! I would love to know if you would recommend using this sharpener on Prismacolor pencils? Also, I put gamsol in a Tim Holts alcohol pen. That way I don’t have to keep dipping into the gamsol. I may try using a brush for larger areas. Thanks for the tips!
Watch tomorrow’s video Dash I’ll talk a little more about the sharpener. I still want to do more testing with prismacolors in general but in tomorrow’s video I used a white one.
Wow what a point!!! Sandy have you every done a drawing with marker on paper that you wanted to affix to another type of substrate?? I have a drawing, I want to affix to a stove cover I made but because I used markers I’m concerned about bleeding and smearing. What do you use to affix marker? I’ve read lots of info but my head is swimming. Thanks. I love vellum work.
I would think you go through your pencils quite quickly??? This cards came out gorgeous, Sandy. Question don’t you usually color on the backside of vellum ?
See the next video got more on the sharpener. And I’m not sure everyone colors on the back of vellum, there was enough surprise in the comments it must not be common. 🤷🏼♀️
I have the dahle 133 wich if you have bad tremmors comes with a desk addon and was a must for me. I have been searching for a decent price and this one is under 20 euro and even get's my prisma's to a realy sharp point, wich is pretty much a miracle, given how soft prisma's and pastel pencils are; it doesn't damage casing either; but does take a bit of practice pressure wise. If you dont have money for the afmat wich I found realy expensive this one works just fine.
I have been wondering what would be the use for this very long pencil tip. I did notice that when you sharpened your pencils it reduced the length significantly compared to using a regular method of sharpening.
Yes! It looked like about 2 inches of pencil got eaten away! Seems an unnecessary waste. Especially if you press too hard and break that long point, you’ll have to sharpen another 2 inches away!
Does this sound weird,but I thought if you was to build colour up on the reverse piece of vellum,that you would have to layer the colours backwards 🤔 but seems you don’t have to lol
Just wanted to share: an empty Copic Sketch marker filled with Gamsol works great for me. Touching a blending stump makes me shudder, so I had to find a workaround.
I was sad when you cut it down. The whole picture was so pretty I would not have wasted any. That’s just me. I just can’t cut any piece down. I almost feel as if I hurt it. Wonder if others are like that. 😊
Weird? We had these in primary school in asia. Every kid had one, pink blue cartoony. I always thought it was the same around the world 😂 They went out of fashion many years back because they're too big to bring to school.
It looks like the pencil sharpener is eating up half the pencil. I would be afraid to use my expensive pencils in this sharpener. That being said when I took a drawing class in college the art professor would make us use a razor blade to remove about an inch of wood from around the lead when we were drawing. this would have saved so many headaches of accidentally cutting through the lead trying to get that point with a razor blade.
It actually eats zero of the pencil nib - only the wood. I measured a pencil before and after, and every sharpener takes off more lead than this one. You may have had a different one, but it seems people just wanna hate this thing.
This was fun to watch you transition this from cartoony to realistic. The shadows that changed the directions of each section, is amazing. The spikes are what really made it look extra special.
I've used velum for ghosts , clouds and anything thatI thought needed a cloudy or soft look. Seeing you stamp and color on the velum opens up a lot of possibilities. Thanks for sharing.
Love this use of velum & pencils!
You can use vellum for pretty much anything you use paper for. You can heat emboss it, stamp it, stencil it, use alcohol markers, pastes, gold leaf etc.
I love the cactus on the vellum. Beautiful colors and blending! Thanks for sharing this technique!
Wow I never would have thought to color on the back of the image on vellum!!! I love how this came out! It’s beautiful!
Thank you! Cheers!
Another beautifully created card. Love seeing projects using vellum. I like seeing ideas using gmail, too. I was fascinated watching the cactus lean toward me. TFS
Sandy, that is, oh so nice. Wow! I love it. Brilliant work, well done.👏🏼
Coincidentally I moved to Arizona and I do t think I’ve seen a prettier prickly pear cactus. Boy, you should see the cactus flowers in the Spring! Sandy, the colors are so intense and varied; I had no idea pink came in so many hues. I love the juxtaposition of the sharp leathery pads and the thin fragile petals.
The pencil sharpener is very hungry, eating up too much valuable pencil
It actually isn’t eating lead. Just wood. See the next video after this one. 🥰
It's fun to see more cactus in the stamping industry. I live in NV and we definitely have our share. Love your prickly pear...I have tot try coloring on vellum! TFS
Sandy. Your card is gorgeous. I learned so much watching your video. The pencil sharpener made me gasp 😮. I couldn’t believe the point you got . It was fabulous for coloring. Thank you for sharing your ideas with us today.❤️🤍💙💚🧡🖤💜
Beautiful card! Love the coloring on the vellum!
I love the way the coloring on the back of the vellum came out. I may try this today, (but with Prismacolors and my regular sharpener!) Thank you.
Grrrreat coloring, Sandy, as always (and even after years of following you it's still always a joy to watch)! I've read that this sharpener comes with a piece of sanding paper inside of the residue box, which should help you to get to an even sharper point.
Hi Sandy, coming back to quickly update my above comment. After having thought about buying this sharpener myself for almost a year, your video finally convinced me to do so. It arrived today, and I really don't regret the purchase. I love the long point this thing makes especially for graphite as it helps to lay down an even coat of color/graphite when the pencil is held at a flat angle. I think that's the biggest advantage of this tool. Also, I found that to obtain a really sharp point on pencils sharpened with the afmat you could use an inexpensive lead sharpener (3.15 mm) as a last step. (I'm not sure if this works with all pencils but it definitely does with the Polychromos.)
I watched in awe as the pencil fed itself into the sharpener. I remember "in the old days" when you had to push the pencil into the sharpener. Maybe pushing would get a better point?? But hey, I'm all for electric ones to do the work! Love the effect on the vellum. TFS
Pushing doesn’t help a thing.
OMG! My heart stopped for a second as the pencils got shorter and shorter!!!
Beautiful card as always! Love the base you chose for it and the bow!
Laura
So awesome! Thanks for including your fix it tips!
I loooove coloring on vellum! So many neat looks you can get with it. That pencil sharpener.....I'm torn between thinking it looks amazing and helpful and thinking omg! It's eating all of the pencil! 😆 Glad to know you seemed to like it overall.
Right?! That's what I thought... It's eating the pencil!!😭
It’s not eating it. Everybody’s freaking out but it actually eats less of the lead. I did a video this weekend that will post tomorrow so you’ll see more of it.
@@SandyAllnock1 it makes sense because the it's eating the wood and leaving a longer point on the lead. Thank you for sharing. It's just hard to watch those dollars slip into a pencil sharpener 😁
@@atkinsba2009 yeah it looks really scary! I had the same thought. Measuring it though, that gave me a lot of comfort🤣
Boy, did that turn out nice! Thanks for the good ideas and tips about Gamsol.
I'm so happy to be here and see you color on vellum. I love the cactus image. I really thought all the elongated pencil leads were sure to break. I don't understand the physics aspect on this sharpener and why leads break when much shorter than these. I'm intrigued!
Me too! Stay tuned for more tomorrow.
I had a sharpener like this since the 80s. Was brought from Japan. I love it.
What a great idea to use pencils on vellum! This looks so beautiful! Thank you
You are so welcome!
You had me thinking you were colouring strawberries to start with, but doing the stems red and berries green, lol. Lovely card Sandy!
After watching this demo...I think I will try...like it better than Copic technique. Thanks for demonstrationting!
Can this sharpener be used with watercolor pencils?
Sure can!
@@SandyAllnock1 OK!!~~thanks. 🥰
I really love that, I always learn so much from your videos, thank you ❤
You know, I know you are a good teacher and I’m learning from you when I know what you are going to do (or what I would be doing) next
Magic lady, you have done it again 🥰
Beautiful
I didn’t know you could use pencils on vellum. 😍
I love this! Beautiful
Super pretty! ❤️👏🏻
how did you apply the velum to the cardstock without any glue showing?
I put scoretape under the coloring and the spot where the ribbon went around. 😎
Love those leads! Frightened me seeing it eat up your pencil!
Surprisingly it didn’t shorten it at all, just lengthened the tip.
With that pencil sharpener you sure got some long points, but it looked like it was eating up the pencils. They kept getting shorter and shorter. I love your cactus card. I think coloring on vellum is so soft and pretty.
It’s actually an illusion. See the next video after this one where I talk about it.
Amazing talent
Love that sharpener!
Oh my gosh there’s one person who likes it? LOL you and me! It’s freaking everyone else out. 😂
What a nice idea.
I love it! Sandy I have a question about how you stuck the vellum to the white card stock? I have used 1/8 inch double sided tape in the past but it shows through so I solve that by framing it. Wished for another solution and here is this awesome video. I never knew that I could color the vellum either so I usually color the paper underneath and put the Velum on top for that nice smoky look I want. Very informative video thank you.
In this case the ribbon covers the adhesive-a tiny dot in the corners at the bottom holds that down lightly.
Wonderful!!
Hi, Sandy -
I think you meant 'Prismacolors" when you were saying which pencils were wax-based. This was around 1:10-1:20 somewhere. You had already said that Polychromos were/are oil-based and then you said their name again when you were discussing wax-based. Happens to me all the time if I am trying to think of one thing while discussing another.
Thanks for the video. I did not know this type of sharpener but I love product testing!
Bonne fin de semaine! / Bon week-end! / ¡Buen fin de semana!
L in PA
Yes, I know several people have continued correcting me. (And less kindly so I deleted a bunch.) If only others did as much voiceover as I do-in free videos-, folks would be less critical of an occasional misspoken word 😖
I think you can adjust the point shape and thickness
Thank you! I saw it in a video recently and spent an hour last week googling this without success.
I dont know velum but that was a super sharpener. I laughed as you lost ( or appeared to lose) about an inch off each pencil. I have one of those battery sharpeners which was great when I got itbut now the blades seem blunt and I havent a clue how to change them..its black about 5 inches high with different size holes in the top, you just press your pencil in and away it goes...anyone have any advice please?
Omdays 😍 ,I thought we had these at school,well the teachers had them and I always wanted one 🤣but can’t remember them been this good 😊 I haven’t used pencils on vellum for so long,Thanks for sharing,gonna get my Vellum out now 🥰
This isn’t your schoolteacher sharpener at all.
Beautiful, Sandy! I would love to know if you would recommend using this sharpener on Prismacolor pencils? Also, I put gamsol in a Tim Holts alcohol pen. That way I don’t have to keep dipping into the gamsol. I may try using a brush for larger areas. Thanks for the tips!
Watch tomorrow’s video Dash I’ll talk a little more about the sharpener. I still want to do more testing with prismacolors in general but in tomorrow’s video I used a white one.
Wow what a point!!! Sandy have you every done a drawing with marker on paper that you wanted to affix to another type of substrate?? I have a drawing, I want to affix to a stove cover I made but because I used markers I’m concerned about bleeding and smearing. What do you use to affix marker? I’ve read lots of info but my head is swimming. Thanks. I love vellum work.
No I can’t help you on that.
1:15 Did you say polychrome by accident?
Forgive me for making a mistake.
Hi what sharpeners did you mention that made sharper points, please?
See this video:
th-cam.com/video/DCb4qEa5CO0/w-d-xo.html
Question: Sandy, would you mind doing a tutorial on spray fixatives for colored pencils, pastels, etc.?
I don’t have any to compare, I only have one brand…And after this weekend I think I need to order another because it’s just about out LOL
I would think you go through your pencils quite quickly??? This cards came out gorgeous, Sandy. Question don’t you usually color on the backside of vellum ?
See the next video got more on the sharpener. And I’m not sure everyone colors on the back of vellum, there was enough surprise in the comments it must not be common. 🤷🏼♀️
Where do you buy this sharpner.
Please reply.
There’s a link to it in the description - I bought mine on Amazon.
But the pencil you sharpened looks very hard. Will it work for Prismacolor pencils too? Mine are so soft that they break easily.
That’s why I tried it first on my hardest leads. More testing needed.
I have the dahle 133 wich if you have bad tremmors comes with a desk addon and was a must for me. I have been searching for a decent price and this one is under 20 euro and even get's my prisma's to a realy sharp point, wich is pretty much a miracle, given how soft prisma's and pastel pencils are; it doesn't damage casing either; but does take a bit of practice pressure wise. If you dont have money for the afmat wich I found realy expensive this one works just fine.
I do have this sharpener . Perfect for charcoal pencils.
I ordered some charcoal pencils that are thinner, because my big fat ones don’t fit. Excited to try them out!
I have been wondering what would be the use for this very long pencil tip. I did notice that when you sharpened your pencils it reduced the length significantly compared to using a regular method of sharpening.
Yes! It looked like about 2 inches of pencil got eaten away! Seems an unnecessary waste. Especially if you press too hard and break that long point, you’ll have to sharpen another 2 inches away!
No, it actually does not eat more of the lead. Watch tomorrow’s video and you’ll see.
Does this sound weird,but I thought if you was to build colour up on the reverse piece of vellum,that you would have to layer the colours backwards 🤔 but seems you don’t have to lol
It probably depends on the opacity of the individual color. Most are semi transparent so some shading comes through.
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Just wanted to share: an empty Copic Sketch marker filled with Gamsol works great for me. Touching a blending stump makes me shudder, so I had to find a workaround.
Good tip!
Look like the sharpener work good.
That sharpener eats pencils like a hungry puppy with hollow legs! 🐶🐶🐶
See the next video-it’s actually the most efficient sharpener I own!
How much pencil goes in! What a waste of pencil!
Picture came out nice. I used to enjoy colouring on vellum when doing pergamano
Watch tomorrow’s video. It doesn’t waste pencil at all, I measured a pencil before and after sharpening it. It just looks scary.
@@SandyAllnock1 Oo good! I'd cry if my pencils got eaten!
If I saw it destroying pencils, I wouldn’t have kept using it. 👍🏻
That said, I’m still not positive how much I like the long point. I’m going to work with it for a while and see.
@@SandyAllnock1 if the extreme point breaks though, it has to sharpen down a long way again. The long points scare me 😆
“It’s only 4 pencils”...
Proceeds to demonstrate with 9 pencils sharpened to an extreme point 😂
Yeah, I know… After I started to trust it I was willing to try it with other pencils. My original intent was only four 😂
I was sad when you cut it down. The whole picture was so pretty I would not have wasted any. That’s just me. I just can’t cut any piece down. I almost feel as if I hurt it. Wonder if others are like that. 😊
Schools used to have similar in every classroom
No not this one. It’s far different technology.
Weird? We had these in primary school in asia. Every kid had one, pink blue cartoony. I always thought it was the same around the world 😂 They went out of fashion many years back because they're too big to bring to school.
This wasn’t invented then….it’s not the same tech.
It looks like the pencil sharpener is eating up half the pencil. I would be afraid to use my expensive pencils in this sharpener. That being said when I took a drawing class in college the art professor would make us use a razor blade to remove about an inch of wood from around the lead when we were drawing. this would have saved so many headaches of accidentally cutting through the lead trying to get that point with a razor blade.
It’s actually not. Watch tomorrow’s video and you’ll see. It’s even more efficient than my fancy expensive sharpeners.
You are way too critical of your coloring. It is perfect and looks real ❤️
Beautiful! Do you like this pencil sharpener?
Some things I really like a lot but the verdict isn’t final yet.
I had one of those kind of pencil sharpener. Ate way too much of the pencil.
It actually eats zero of the pencil nib - only the wood. I measured a pencil before and after, and every sharpener takes off more lead than this one. You may have had a different one, but it seems people just wanna hate this thing.
We had that kind of pencil sharpener in school, but the tip wasn’t that long. 😮😮
This is not at all a school sharpener. Very different technology.
I thought this was about a pencil sharpener.
When I talk about any art supply I include showing it in use…did you miss the sharpener at the start?
It's a comon one not wierd one.
Common in some communities for sure, just not the crafting one which has been my primary audio for some time.
Eats half your pencil!
Nope it’s not. Watch the next video.
Looks like it’s eating your pencil away. 😩
It’s not. Watch the next video.