 Ευχαριστούμε και καλώς ήρθατε back, είναι Vicky εδώ και σήμερα θα σας δείξω ένα νέο πρόοδο που έχει been released by Waffle Flower. Τώρα, αυτό είναι called water media mat. Είναι έκανη από σιλικόν, είναι νόμστικο, είναι waterproof and heat resistant. Αυτό είναι ένα great mat if you love watercoloring and the back clinks nicely on top of your surface so it's not going to move on you. Είμαι αλήθεια ότι έχει αυτό το παλίδι για τις φορές σας και είναι πολύ πόρτα, είναι πολύ σύντομα και μπορείς να το ρωτήσεις or just fold it like I did nothing is going to happen to it you can see that I am pressing really hard here and when it opens up it's in perfect condition now you can use it with the pallet on the left or on the right or even at the top another fun part about this silicone mat is that it has some markings at the top and at the bottom as well as at the center. Αυτό είναι έκανη σιλικόν για those who film videos so you can see it fits nicely the 16 by 9 ratio or videos as well as there are intentations for square videos for instagram so if you want a white background to work on this is the way to go plus it's not reflective now this is a silicone mat and it is marketed mainly for watercoloring but I am going to show you that you can do more things than just watercoloring on it So here I'm just using a watercolor brush marker and I'm going to add a little bit on one of those squares you can mix your colors in there you can also fill one of those with water and use it to clean your brushes and the fun part is that everything is contained within those squares so you won't contaminate the colors that you have added close by You can also take it to the sink and just wash it easily just use a baby wipe to wipe it out really easy to clean it I'm going to use a number of different mediums here so you can see how easy it is to clean it up So the pink one was the Arteza Real Brass this one was the Stress Ink Reinger now I'm using the Stress Oxide Ink Reinger I'm also going to use one of those squares to mix a couple of colors from this pallet You will see I'm going to add tons of mediums here and no matter what I did I wasn't able to stain this pallet however keep in mind that depending on the mediums that you are going to use and the pigment they have it might stain your pallet a little bit I really don't mind if I have a stained pallet after all this is what pallets are for to protect the rest of the area After all this will mean that your pallet is well loved and used and since we are testing things out instead of using just watercolor paints I'm going to use acrylic paint this is the one by Tim Holtz it's the distress paint I'm also going to bring in some fluid acrylic paint And let's try some pastes this is the Isink Diamond paint it is actually glue with glitter so I'm adding glue and glitter on top of my mat and I'm going to let this dry and to make things even mercier I'm going to spread with my spatula some of that acrylic paint And you can see I can start working on my project normally by picking up colors cleaning up my brushes I can use my brush to mix up the colors in a different square I'm making sure that I spread around all those colors in the squares so that we can see how nice it's going to clean up I'm also using my heat gun to make sure that the main area is completely dry remember that this mat is heat resistant And of course since it is non-stick you can create your very own enamel dots so I'm going to create some here and let them dry so that you can see how easy it is to peel them off Now I'm going to try and clean up the pallet for that I'm using just a dry paper towel to pick up all the excess from all those squares Again this is a paper towel and as you can see I'm able to pick up most of the paint from these squares The only one that gives me trouble is the red one which is actually the fluid acrylic but I'm going to go back to it with a baby wipe now this is a baby wipe It helps the situation here but it is still stained but I did find a way to make it completely clean and I'll share it to you later on in this video Before I clean up the main area I want to show you that this silicone mat works great for the smooshing technique with the distressed inks And I actually use distressed oxide ink here so when you spray water over the ink it beats up which is perfect for this technique It's super easy to wipe off any distressed ink oxide or none and all those cubes the ink cubes that you have fit perfectly inside those squares so you can create easily your own pallets And again remember that anything water based is super easy to clean on this pallet and here is where I try to clean up the stained one with alcohol And you can see that it completely removed that stain so I'm good to go not only with watercolors but acrylic paints as well Everything is completely dry on my main area so I'm going to try and peel off things The animal dots are really easy to remove although they are not actually completely dry they were kind of soft I didn't wait enough time And that's why I ended up having some dots on my mat which are really easy to clean up Now I'm going to try and remove that glue and glitter and you can actually peel it off Super easy to clean and you can even peel off the acrylic paint so it's really non-stick Which means that you can use any type of glue on top of it you will be able to peel it off when it's dry as well as your glue gun So you can see it's not only for watercoloring you can use it with other mediums you don't just wipe them off to remove like watercoloring But it is really easy to turn your mat into looking like brand new again So let's make a card using watercoloring I will be using products by Waffle Flower I'll be using this pitch bubble dye that it comes with 10 different dyes inside As well as this stamp set which is absolutely adorable it has a bunch of animals that are wishing you happy birthday This is called We Heard and there are also matching dyes available I am planning to do some watercoloring today so I will be stamping everything with a permanent ink so I know that it's not going to bleed on me later on And of course I'm working on watercolor paper to stamp my image I'm using my misty so that I can stamp it a couple of times to get a good impression since my watercolor paper has some texture For coloring my image today I will be using my good old distress inks so I have created a little palette there and you can see the colors that I'm using on the left For their faces I'm going with tea dye and since I'm diluting it with water it goes way lighter which is something that I like Notice that I don't cover up completely the whole face I'm only adding color on the left side With this technique I end up having some highlights on their faces without having to do anything else And I will repeat the same technique for their bodies I'm working with pomis stone here and again I will not cover up the whole body I am only adding the shadows on the left of the body as well as under the head For their ears I'm going with a worn lipstick and I'm also going to add some touches of that color for their cheeks Now here I have created another palette for coloring my balloons and you can see the colors that I used on the left of the screen Now if you are watering the watercolor brush that I'm using is by Arteza They have watercolor brushes in various sizes and I find that picking up the correct watercolor brush is kind of difficult Some of them are really difficult to control in terms of the flow of the water But this one is really nice it doesn't have too much flow and I can easily control it so I'm happy with it and I keep using it again and again Once everything was colored I used the magic dyes to cut out all my images And now I'm going to create a background for my card I'm using peacock feathers and I'll just apply a wash of color mainly concentrating the color at the top Which is going to fade out as you go towards the bottom and I'm going actually for an ombre effect And I did water the whole paper before I started with color which really helps on that washed out look I have all the parts ready to go for my card I can now put away my mud I can either roll it or just fold it I love how easy it is to store it away or take it with you on the go I think you will absolutely love it if you are into watercoloring it is a mud that you will enjoy a lot I'm going to quickly put my card together I have added foam tape at the back and I'm also going to secure down three little green strings And that's how he is going to hold the balloons but of course you can just draw some lines I'm sticking down the image at the very bottom of my background And I have also cut out a speech bubble using the dyes I'm going to stick that down and I have the sentiment there that comes from the same stamp set I'm going to stick it down towards the top and I will use my scissors to cut off the excess And finally put the balloons in place and the whole panel or four and a quarter by five and a half standard card I hope the review was helpful and answered most of your questions You will find links to everything I used down below in the description area I hope you had fun and you got inspired Thank you all so much for joining me today and I'll see you all next time