 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how I've made these really pretty cards using the brand new Nova markers now these alcohol based markers that I've received from TrimCraft and yeah they've been really really nice to use now what I'm going to be doing is showing you two ways to use your markers so there's this easy way which is using what I call the one marker blend that's this one here so there's only one two three four five on that one as well six different markers used to create this so this here is all using the same blue marker it's just a very very easy technique I think if you're starting off with markers using alcohol markers this is the best way to start off and then this one here is using more different colors so I've used lighter blues medium blues dark blues for the basket and so on you know with the card there so I'm going to show you both techniques because you start off with that one and then you just introduce more color to get this style both I love equally so depending on whether you're you know need to do things quickly then definitely this way but if you've got more time to sit down and relax and color then this is a nice one to try so let's talk about the markers these are a brand new range for TrimCraft so this is Nova now there are 15 products within the range so you've also got water color markers which I will share in a different tutorial and there are metallic markers as well so you get there are nine within the these this marker pack range and I've got six of them so I'm missing the greens the neutrals and the brights so I'm going to be getting them because the neutrals appeal to me that's your skin tones and the greens I use green with everything fortunately there was one green that I've been able to use which is this one here which is in the pastels which I've used to create the the color there for the leaves so you get six in a pack but there's also packs of 24 they're alcohol based these have a high quality fiber Japanese nib and you've got your fine and then your broad or chisel and yeah on the back tells you the colors that you have there quick dry ink acid free low odor and non-toxic and they are low odor because I compared them to some of my other marker pens and these are considerably lower odor so if that's something that you don't like then already these are from all of the markers I've got these ones do have the lowest odor okay so let's just have a little look quickly and then I'm going to get straight into coloring because I think it's best to see them actually working I won't keep them in this anymore because I have mine all kind of stored differently but if you are someone that does like to keep them in the packets that's nice that on the side they do have it all listed there for you so everything has a code and you've got there easily tells you the fine and there we go fine and you do have that gray bit that kind of dips down so it is quite easy to distinguish and I have been using it and then here you just can see their Nova designer markers and then it says there your broad and and you've got a little kind of detail there as well but yeah and the colors are pretty good as well that was one thing I did notice they do yeah they come out pretty much the color that they they say they are there's a few that maybe but it is always hard to get that true color to a plastic you know something on paper to look like a plastic is is difficult anyway so you can see that I just take that end off as well and that one and they do pull up really nicely they do click in but I've got some pens I've literally had to again they're cheap and nasty ones and I don't really use them anymore but I'm like this and I remember I took the lid off of one once and the nib just went flying out and you also get drips as well from some of the cheaper alcohol markers so when you pull the lid off you get little bit to the you know the actual ink itself like dripping and I've had that drip onto my projects before and it's ruined it so again you know they're the kind of things that that you do see a difference in when you do buy cheaper markers to you know not more expensive because these are really competitive prices as well so all the links to everything will be shared below so I'm gonna just get every single one out because like I said I'm not gonna keep the packaging anymore okay so that's all the markers so now I want to get some images stamped so I've already put my stamps on here I'm stamping the same image again so this is the Daisy May and this is the Daffodil basket set it's beautiful I've been wanting to use it for a while and I thought right I'm gonna sit down and enjoy I've had a movie on and yeah I've just been playing around with these it's been really nice so I am using I'm really enjoying this this ink here this is the Nouveau Hybrid and it's pretty much the one I'm going to all the time if you are using alcohol markers also Memento is really good but this one I'm just grabbing all the time now because it works for watercolor and alcohol you just don't have to think about it it's great and eventually I think when the others run out this would be the one that I have all the time so I have already loaded up push that away a bit there we go so I've already loaded up the Daffodil basket and the extra Daffodil there I'm also gonna add the tags I kept doing that separately but we'll pop that on there as well because I will need to stamp it eventually so I'm just gonna ink this all up and stamp it onto my this is a smooth 300gsm cardstock is alcohol friendly or alcohol marker friendly so you do want to make sure that you've got something that can obviously handle the alcohol markers they do bleed through but that's you know all alcohol markers do that even the best ones on the market it's not a bad thing it's you know it does happen so just going to stamp that I'm gonna need to do that obviously again okay I've just come in a little bit closer so first of all I'm just going to talk you through the really simple way of doing the one marker blend so I'm just going to pull out this orange here so this is the R07 I'm just going to draw a square up here just so you can get an idea okay actually I'm going to use the thicker end for this just to color it in so I'm just going to color in this whole square okay so I've just colored that there and already where I've gone heavier with the color here can you see it's darker than this is lighter so that's because there's more layers have gone over that section to create a darker shade so if you just keep that in mind and then carry on coloring over that so I'm just going to color more in this corner here if you kind of go around on like an angle like that just kind of then kind of let it dry in between the layers just so that then when you place it down again it can get even darker but you can keep adding to this obviously you're going to really saturate the paper and already you can see there it's bleeding through so make sure you've got something that's going to create you know protect your table underneath but this is what I mean by create by this one marker shading or whatever it is blending you want you know it's it's really really good especially if you're just starting out now if I go all over that again obviously I've made now that darker but can you still see that this is still darker and it will work for any pen that you use any marker that you use so again I can just go in here and just really make that dark right in the corner there but I haven't really done anything else here okay and that's it that's all that's to it so the darker areas you just keep adding more layers and don't even touch the initial color that you kind of lay down unless you do want to blend it a little bit better so that's it you know hopefully I've explained it easy enough I'm now going to just basically do that on this here so I'll kind of want to keep the same colors but I think I am going to do let's do a different blue on the basket to start with I think it might have been that one that I used no that was turquoise no we're going to go with that one so parts of this video I'm going to put on high speed because you don't need to watch me coloring the same color constantly but what I'm going to do first of all is I'm going to practice I'm going to color this whole basket and try and just keep one layer so try not go over too many areas so it might be worthwhile to cover the larger areas first of all with your broad tip so I'm just going right over everything try not to really go over because I want this to parts of this isn't I'm never going to color over again so probably like this middle section I'm not going to color over that again but parts of the kind of stand here at the bottom these kind of areas are going to become very very dark because they're going to you know if you think about it you got all the flowers over there and which we're going to create a shade and also this is almost underneath the baskets it's going to be very very dark so I'm just kind of covering like so okay I'm not really going to touch that anymore it'd be just the outer part of the handle so now I'm going to go in and tidy this all up go right up to the edges and then I'll come back and we'll start going over a bit more okay so that's just laying down one layer really but now you can start going over all the areas where you would imagine there to be more of a shadow so if you think all these flowers are overflowing this basket so all underneath them it's going to be dark so you just start going over with exactly the same color right around them so I'm just going around all of them trying to stay within the lines and then all of that I'm going to cover all the same all of this will be very dark all these tiny little areas just cover and then down here I'm going to really go nice and dark again and I'm going to keep going over it so I'm going to keep this light on the front here but I'm going to go just all around this part here if you put some little kind of curves in the color as well that will give it more of an authentic look of you know like the Sun coming down on parts of it yeah this will be really dark and then all around here okay so now I'm really pleased with how that's coming together but I don't like where I've got little patchy bits here so I am just going to go over it again just to kind of blend that all in but then I'm going to go over and I've gone over that leaf there I saw that in a minute but now I'm going to go over it again even darker around here and each time you keep going over the darker sections it will make this look like it's lighter and if you do a few like little flicks just to kind of get a little bit of a blend it will all settle like so once I start adding more color to it I can go back into that but that's just the basics of it but it's really just layering up the same color will create that depth for you and actually make it look like you've used more than just one color marker so that's your easiest way to do that so I'm going to leave that like that for now but what I am going to do is introduce some other blue tones into it later to show you how you can then kind of you know do more colors with it so now I'm going to bring in the green I do only have that one for the moment so the green I'm using is the G35 from the pastels so I'm now going to do exactly the same so I'm just going to go over everything once okay so just gone over that once now I'm going to go over and I need to kind of go over it quite a bit there because where the blues overlap you can see that more than the is darker than the green but again just where you've got it where it's kind of meeting with the flowers and stuff it's going to be very dark in those areas so I'm just focusing on the the center really of everything and then just kind of flick out a little bit on this one here the nice thing is is you can just keep going into it as many times you like you know do let it dry a little bit in between it would just be a lot easier because you might get a little bit of a bleed just where there's a lot of the ink down because it will still be wet so and then I'm just going to come out a bit darker on this side here but again I think this is picking up but can you just see look the two different shades there but just from one marker but again if you don't like that line just flick on areas just to get it kind of a bit more of a neater blend okay so again I'm just going to leave the green there for the moment then I'm going to come in with my yellow so I'm going to go for I think it was that one there I used yeah so this is the Y00 and I'm going to do these two here now this one is a decoupage one so you would die cut this again and then it goes on top of that so if you're not using that then obviously you want to make sure this looks really nice but I'm just going to do a little bit of this just I'm not going to do the center because this one's going to go over the top so this one I'll do properly and then that will stick over there so again just adding it one layer down so try not to overlap the color too much okay and then exactly the same again just go back into those always like kind of work around the inside if it's a flower and stuff that's always where it's going to generally be darker and then just start building that up again I don't really need to worry about that one it's this one here okay I'll go back into that again now I'm going to do the same with this one here I think I'm going to go a bit red with these ones so let's try the oh yeah that's a lovely red but it might be a bit too dark to let's also try this one oh yeah I'm going to go for that one okay so I'm going to do exactly the same with these again just applying kind of one layer don't overlap too much okay and then at the bottom these are tulips here so at the very bottom of the tulip I'm just going in with that red again I'm just flicking it out and then here you just can focus on all these bits together here you know use pictures as well as a reference they do help a lot you can see there and again just flick that color out a little bit you see there just how dark I've really got that okay so I'm really pleased with this next I just want to add a bit of an orange in the center of those daffodils so this here is the RY15 okay so that is how you can get a blend of different colors using one color marker all right you can really notice it on the blue there now if you want to then start to make things look even lighter you apply darker color so for example to make this basket look actually much much lighter than it is I want to bring in some darker blues so I used the the bo7 so I'm going to bring in this B19 and you can see there just how dark that is but if you go very fine if you go very thin just around little areas where again you would know a shadow would form it will start to make this color here look much much lighter so okay then what you can do is go back in with the original color so whatever color you lay down and go back over and literally color right over and it will almost start to bleed them together so you just get a bit of a nicer blend again if you don't want that harsh finish but sometimes the harsh finish does look good as well so you don't want to always get rid of it completely okay but you see now how this looks much much lighter than it did before it actually looked quite dark because it was against its same kind of tone whereas now we started to bring in these darker colors it really lifts this to a much much lighter color so I'm really happy with the basket now I'm going to keep that as it is so I got that look there by just using two colors so that was the B19 and B7 then I want to start making these reds look even brighter so there are some darker reds here so we've got the R20 and the R19 so I'm just going to check what I probably do is lay down the R19 first this is a little bit more of a yeah and then I might come in with that one after so just down the bottom here again just go over really where you were before and then just kind of little bits here just to make the rest pop right at the bottom there of the tulip and can you see by adding that dark it makes this look so much lighter everything there just starts to really lift and you get this highlighted effect okay so again I don't think I want to do too much now if you again if you're not happy with there may be a line going with the original color that you lay down this is when you just need to start remembering the markers and you just kind of will remove any harsh lines like so and then with this one I'm not going to do too much with the real dark color all I'm going to do is almost just do like just a little line just at the very bottom there it's almost you know you creating like a black so so dark down there might do it really dark in the center here actually love it think that looks really really nice then I need to sort out the yellow we're not sort the yellow out the yellow as lovely as it is but if you do again want to go in with a much much darker yellow now I haven't got anything darker than that one so what you can do is actually come in with an orange because orange and yellow obviously work really well together and I don't want to go into dark so let's try I don't want to do the same orange it's in the middle there so I'm going to see what this one is yeah this one's fine so this is the R no this is the YR 18 and I'm actually going to do a very very little kind of ring around the center of the duffer deal and you get this effect on duffer deals anyway but okay now flick out just a couple little bits okay like that okay and then I'm going to come in with the original yellow and maybe a darker one actually so but why 00 y02 yeah I think that will work so much you can lay down the darker one first and go back over the orange and you almost then they like turning into a bit of a watercolor because you're saturating it so much that it starts to bleed into one another it won't damage your nips it's a way of blending two colors like that and then again I'm going to go over it with the yellow the original yellow and then just kind of dot in the orange there and they will keep reacting they will keep working for a while after as well and then one of you can do is bring in another yellow this is when I end up just playing around in the end but I'm not touching the very outer part I want to keep that at its lightest okay remember this one is going to go on top of this that's why I'm not really doing much with it now I did just bring in a green from one of my other branded markers you can mix markers perfectly fine there's no problem doing that at all but I just wanted to show you how it would look obviously with the green added in it as well I'll definitely be getting the greens from this range I'm just going back over everything with that original green that I laid down at the beginning it just helps blend everything back out there you go I think I might do some more of the darker bits around this part there but I think it just I do it's really funny I've always been so into my watercolor but since being introduced to alcohol markers I'm very new to this it's not something I've been doing for a long long time but I'm really like really enjoying it yeah it's just I don't know what it is about them they're just lots and lots of fun to use I think that's a little bit better there just very faint again always coming in with the original blue that you lay down or whatever color it is it will just help create that depth so you have to also remember when to stop because you can overdo it with them so I think I'm going to stop now because I don't want to go too much I want to get this stuck on here so I can see what it looks like now with this little tag here you get a couple of little sentiments from the collection you get thank you and with love I'm going to use thank you again so I'm just trying to just build up a few thank you cards and again I got the the tag here that's just using one color I went around the edges loads of times but didn't go over the center too much but again I'll show you how you can then lift that so I'm using that was the WG00 yeah so again I'm going to just use the chisel end there just to cover that area and then just go around all this okay so there it is just using this RV11 and the WG00 okay and you just again keep going over it to build up that color but then I'm going to introduce this darker pink here still just on this the knot really of this bow because that's what would be darkest and then come back in again and then with this one here you can actually add grays so that's actually quite a nice gray so you just go around here and the gray is a good one to blend but add a darker shade so for example if I just go around this like so and then come back in with the original going over that gray okay you can see there now I've created a real nice dark frame but it all kind of blends in together and just go around that a bit more start coming in further into the actual image each time and just coming back in with that one again just slightly overlapping it only a little bit and just put a few flecks through just to kind of help everything else there we get I think that will do so that's going to be my label I'm going to get this all die cut now okay so I have die cut them all I've stuck that on there I've also cut the center out there you can see this part because the die doesn't it leaves that white so I just wanted to remove that put some foam tabs on the backs and I'm going to stick everything down so it's a six by six card blank I've got it top folding orientation because I quite like that style and then I have done these mats and layers so I have the largest one which is a five and three-quarters squared and then the pattern is five and a half squared so I'm just going to stick them all down okay then I've got a strip of this thick linen and then this is like a hessian and I'm going to stick this onto the top just running some hot glue through that center strip I will end up trimming this down a little bit more as well and then I'm not going to trim that end but I want to have a similar kind of overhang on this side so I'm going to fray it I've just roughed up all the edges there and then I'm just going to take off my phone tabs and then I'm just going to sit that one over the top I think that looks so pretty it really does look quite 3d actually that blue is really kind of lifted that darker blue that I added and then I am going to bring in some sequins and I just added three on the top there and got two on the bottom so I'm just going to stick some of those down okay so there is the finished card I think it looks really really nice I do love the real dark blue parts here because it just makes the rest of it really really pop and yeah really pleased so there is the one where you just use the one marker and just layer it up really love that it's got much much more subtle kind of look to it but that's because of the colors that I chose so if you went for a much darker color then you would probably get something similar to this and then that's the same again but using different colors I think the yellows were pretty much the same obviously with this one I have brought in that extra green and I just really love them like that I've got the texture here and I've got the obviously the sequins there so you've got a little bit of just a little bit of shine catching but with regards to the markers yeah I really do rate them for my level of coloring I think they work really well and yeah there's certainly going to be one that I will yeah pull out and you will see me using a lot more so thank you trim craft as always you spoil us I hope you like the tutorial please leave me a thumbs up if you did and pop any questions that you might have as well in the description in the comment boxes below I will have all links to everything including the stamps papers all that kind of stuff will be linked in the description box and until next time I'll see you soon