 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you these Arteza Ever Blend alcohol markers. This is something I've had my eye on for a while, they weren't available in the UK and now they are and Arteza kindly sent them to me so thank you guys. This is the 60, there are now 120 also available so they've doubled their colors. Because you know I'm not someone that actually uses alcohol markers, it isn't I've got the Spectrum Noir, I've got the Touchpens, I've got the Aqua Spectrum Aqua, whatever ones I've got. I've got a few and I kind of tend to use them for writing and things like that so not really what they're intended for. So I'm really excited and I have already made some cards and I've been really pleased with the results and I want to show you a really easy simple kind of format to use to just get a really nice blend because I for one I'm not very good at putting that pen with that pen or you know so on and so forth. I like to use my markers like I use my watercolor so I kind of use one color and then I will kind of you know add water to it and bleed it out and create a really nice blend and then maybe add a little bit of a darker pigment to it and that's kind of what I've done here and I think a lot of you will probably find it quite helpful. So this is the 60 Ever Blend Arte markers, they come in this really nice little carry bag and like I said I have already opened it all but I just kind of stuck it loosely back together so you can see exactly how it would come if you were to purchase and then on the back here I thought that was quite handy you do also get this little swatch thing so you can just cut that off or leave it on there if you want and it has them all listed there. You've got a little zip on the back so again if you want to keep any extra bits and pieces you've got quite nice little roomy area there you don't have to have the handle on that can clip off and actually I'm going to clip it off just for the video just so that it's not going to catch on anything or get in the way so you've got your double buckle on the front and velcro so it's super strong and then you open it up and you have all your markers now the first impressions is nice you get to see all these great colors you get to see your number codes and also the colors the names of the colors as well. Then you've got your velcro side so just undo that so this is a really sturdy case I mean there's you know velcro everywhere so nothing's going to be falling out there you have it so you've got 12 on each section so it's 12 there 12 12 12 and 12 okay and then you have room here for some extras as well if you want so the case can actually hold 72 but there's 60 in here and this section here comes out as well okay so that's always handy if you want to just take that section with you and yeah so I these aren't the order they came in and they weren't really I guess in the blending order when they came because everybody has their own way of doing things so I've like I said I've already been playing with them and I actually store them not in this because I've got other areas where I store all my pens and pencils but I just wanted you again to see how it all comes so I'm going to take all the pens out now and then I can talk a little bit about that okay so here are all the markers let's have a little look at one closer so they are a triangular barrel they are double-ended so you've got this end here you have your chisel tip okay and then this end here you have your fine tip okay these will fit on either end the lids so it doesn't matter they both say the same a410 rows red but the good way to distinguish between the fine tip and the chisel is they do have obviously the little image there but also this has the color kind of little piece here so when you put the lid on you can see and I've actually used that more than looking for the little pictures I just know straight away when I pick it up so even if it's like that and I can't see anything I know that that's my fine tip end so I quite liked that it was easy to distinguish because I have other branded ones and they don't have that so the amount of times I've pulled one end and it's been wrong I'm about to turn it around and pull the other one so they are relatively easy to take the lids on and off I mean with something like this you need it to be pretty secure because you don't want any air getting into them because otherwise they dry up so there does need to be an element of force I guess but they're pretty easy and you can hear they click in really nicely and just says Ateza Everblender art marker and then you just like so got little pictures and then at the ends so that is how it is for all of them they're really nice to hold I quite like the triangular shape because it fits if you think this is a triangular shape you know in your hand so the pen does fit in there really really nicely I do quite like it they are shiny so they're a little bit slippery I guess if you are coloring for a long length of time you know your hand may well end up kind of falling down to the end of the pen but is that really a big issue I don't color for a long time so probably not but hey I'm just thought I'd tell you so I have already done a swatch now this was the swatch that I done as they came out of the pack really I kind of just kind of grabbed them as they came so I what I've done it now since and I know they're all obviously like this but I did bundle them together once I started working with them more now I've got a bit more used to the blends and how I kind of like them I have changed the way that I store them away if I remember I'll take some photos of that and you'll see them in the end of the video or over on my blog post but you know overview here of the 60 there's a nice variety I see what people meant by there's not a lot of brown tones I mean there's literally a little cluster here and this one could kind of sit there but it's more of the gray you know you kind of had that one that's more of a brown gray so I would sit it with the browns these are your gray kind of tones here but then you've got more of an iced blue there so I would possibly bring that up you know and sit it up with these here so yeah the yellows yes and okay nice mix there I think I'd maybe want a few more brighter yellows they're quite a lot of mustard more brown yellows so the darker tones and oranges yeah like I said I've used these and I've been really surprised with how well the colors have come out the way that I use them is probably a little bit different to some other people more experienced people I guess mine's quite an amateur use of them but I really like the technique I like the way that it works so yeah that's that one so what we will do now is I will show you the technique and then I'm going to make a card at the end okay so I've just zoomed in a little bit closer now and I'm just going to show you a few kind of easy techniques and just how well these kind of you know work now you do need an alcohol-friendly paper so this paper here is I've purchased this from Hobbycraft it's the Craft UK brand and it's an A3 sheet but I cut them in half and obviously get a lot then for my buck it's 300gsm at the time I didn't check to see if it was marker friendly but I've tried it and it does hold really well obviously you do get a bleed through but you get that with with all of your alcohol markers but it doesn't bleed into the paper it stays on top of the paper so I'm pleased with this but again you do just need to check that you have something if you were to for example color on copy paper it would just be a big blob it just wouldn't work so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to do a color with the chisel end and you can just see this is one of my favorite colors now whenever you color if you get a streak like that that's fine you just go over it again and it will end up kind of just covering and blending itself out so there you go I've gone over that a few times and you can see now once that settles it will dry slightly lighter as well and yeah I just think it's a really nice coverage really easy to use and I love like I said love this color this is the hot pink A4887 beautiful so yeah really nice now if I wanted to use what I like to do is using just this one color I can get a really nice blend so I'm going to use the fine tip now so if I just color so say I'm coloring a flower I'm just going to color the whole area so say that's the whole area of the flower I've colored now this technique works good with lighter colors as well so I'll show you that I'm just going to also bring in okay I'm going to use A4887 which is the watermelon pink this is a nice a lighter shade and this will show this technique as well so again I'm just going to color okay and again I'll just show it with the chisel nib see that one gave me very little streaking straight away see that's just one application I've got no streaking at all so but I can easily now go into that again just to make sure okay so the the idea when you're doing this is you need to kind of let it dry in between so although it is touch dry it probably is still wet inside the paper so you just kind of want to leave it for a minute so if you're doing lots of these obviously color away and do what you need to do but I'm just going to leave that for a few minutes okay so now what I will do is I say I want to just have a darker shade all around the outside of my flower imagine this is just one of the ends I'm just going to color right over that same section again can you see the difference between the wet and the dry it's quite a considerable difference so I'm just going to and then just roughly leave it like that okay and again I'm going to do the same with this one here so you can see now when you go on the drier the difference and that is just using that one color so already I've got two very distinct shades there from that one pen again now I'm going to leave it okay so I've left that again for a few minutes and now I can come in and again go in really dark again on the very top like so and then here like so and this is what I find an easy way to get a blend with just using one color so already now can you start to see once this one dries a little bit more it will slowly start to just blend in and create like almost like an ombre so you've got that light to dark but you're using that one pen color again here you can see it a bit more where it's starting to really blend in and you can go into this as many times as you want but what you don't want to do is ever touch the very bottom you want to keep that at its lightest and just keep adding so I could just even add just a couple of strips there now just on the very top and again that will just create a real darker end for me and again imagine if this is a flower and this is the center now of that flower we want that to be really dark and shaded and then just kind of come you know come out to that lighter color there you do also get the blender pen in this and now I don't think they blend they bleach so what they do is they just lighten areas I wouldn't say they really blend it so that's my kind of thought on it anyway but what you can do now is you could go over the whole thing but see I've got a little bit of like a line there if I just wanted to you want to start higher up and then kind of just slowly blend down and go right off to the end don't just stop because you might get a bleached line it's a bit like when you use the Tim Holtz Distressed Oxides you add water and then you add tissue to lift it that's bleach that's like fake bleaching but you you need to make sure that you're you're quite consistent with it with these you don't just want to stop it because it could look quite yeah quite severe so I can go over a little bit more and it's quite gradual which I like because some blender pens that I've used are really severe and you just do one line and it's yeah it can almost ruin it but can you see now how I've got that's quite a lot there so I need to kind of work that a bit more down here but the good thing is with the blender pen is you can then go in with color over the top again so don't you know don't be afraid that you've gone too light and you want to go dark in you can but can you see that so though they are easy to use a lot of people get really scared with using alcohol markers and myself you know I'm not one if you were to ask me now to pick out a load of other colors to blend with this I wouldn't really know I'm not good with that but I know that if I just want to keep adding darker here and slowly blend that out I can but the good thing is what you can do now is if I look at my my swatch here so the color I've used here is the a487 so which is this one a487 now when you look at the darkest part of that it's actually looking more like a416 so if I find a416 which is this one here I could then room in right at the bottom with a very thin strip and then back with this and just let that dry and you can see there now that that a416 actually blends really nicely with the layered darker color of the a487 so and that's how I use them now the cards that I've made are these cards here so this rooftop the pink here the green fence and the yellow door so I've used four colors but I've created all that shading by using that technique so I went over first of all and colored the whole house in pink and then I went around the edges with the same pen and just on a layer then I went over again and done a layer and I just kept building up until I got the darkest colors all around all these parts here and then you'll see there that this kind of real highlighted area is just the first layer of that same pen so it's a really I think a really easy way to use alcohol markers it's very quick and like I said not much thought needs to be put to this you just need to choose what colors you want to use and just go for it and the same with the green now with the fence I did add a darker green once I'd got that real dark kind of shade that I wanted I just went in with a darker one so that was the house really love this I'll show you the stump sets and dyes that I used to create that little home sweet home card which I'm going to be given to my friend and then this one here is another absolutely stunning card really enjoyed using this one and again I've used three colors so I use this yellow color for the bow use the green for the stems and the leaves and then I use this peachy color and I just laid it up so you see that real darker color that's just where I kept layering up that same peach colored pen and then I just went in with a very deep orange just right in the very real kind of darkest parts there again with the green I did go in with a very darker green right at the end but easy peasy the max pens that were used on that six pens so you don't need to stress and worry that if you wanted to create that blend that somebody's used six different oranges to create that because that just absolutely confuses the hell out of me and I just can't do it and maybe in time I might become more like that but I actually really like this effect that is what I want I want that highlight area with that deeper shade that's it that's that's the coloring I like to do and that's what I like to do when I'm using my watercolors and I've shared that in previous videos so yeah so I hope that makes sense you can see again here as it dries you know you can keep going in so with this one here if I want to go even darker up here you can really saturate that again once that dries through it will just naturally blend because it's just yeah it's just settling into its original color and this one here I can bring this again and go out over the whole thing even though I've already kind of used the blender you can go right over that all again and you'll see there you just get a really nice ombre blend so that is that's my level with alcohol markets that's where I'm at with them and that's how I use these so okay so I'm now going to make a card so what I'm going to do is show you what I've used to make these and then what I'm going to use to make the card and then we'll do some coloring the stamps and dies that I used to create these two cards that I showed earlier the house is using the daisy made designs welcome cottage stamps absolutely gorgeous so you can see there get all the lovely detail and you get the three sentiments have a beautiful day home sweet home and welcome home and the picket fence and then you get the dies to match so beautiful set of dies and the nice thing about this is is that you can stamp your image multiple times and you can then die cut other areas of it and create your own decoupage so you'll see here that I actually have these separate layers so I just stamped the whole house again and just colored in the windows and the door and then die cut them separately so you'll see here you've got the frame for the door which is what I used there but you could then stamp the door again and die cut the inner part of the door to lift it up even more to have real dimension and I love decoupage and I love that you can have that option with this stamp and die set so it is a really handy one to have I love the image it's super cute and I like that you have the three sentiments so you can have it as a new home you can have it as a welcome home card and you can also have it as just a nice kind of birthday card so that's the one I've used for that one and then for this one I've used the lovely peony bloom stamp so here it is here it's lovely size and I like that there's not too much detail so you can really see your coloring and I've used every part of this stamp set apart from the mason jar you do have that option you can paint the water and it just looks really nice as well so I will definitely be using that again on another card and you again you have that decoupage element so you have the flower here and these leaves and the flower there is the exact image of that flower there so you stick it over the top and you'll see that I've got that dimension and again just think it looks really really pretty and there is the dies for that one okay so these come as bundles I'll share all the links below on where you can purchase those ones and then for today's card I'm using this lovely a4 stamp set by craft work cards you get 22 pieces and it's called floral and I'm going to be using these here which I've already stamped out so I will show you them here so they are just kind of sketched images so they're not they almost look like they're not complete but that's the the style of them and I really like that and I like that they're just very plain so again I can add all my color to these and then I will probably add some of these lovely sentiments inside the perfume bottles or the handbag or shopping bag there and you've got the bow so I've already stamped those out again I'll share the links to this stamp set it's got some beautiful lovely sentiments here and that lovely kind of brush letter effect and I stamped all of them using the memento tuxedo black so stamp it and just let it just kind of dry set into the paper don't heat set it just let it dry for a while and then we're going to start coloring okay so that's my images are all colored so you just watch me there kind of blend them I'm just going to tell you the two colors I used so the first color I colored this one was using the a4-817 which is the bubble bath pink and then I kept layering up around the outer sides until I got them dark enough that I could then bring in the a4-887 which was the hot pink and you can see now but just putting a thin line of that around there and then going back over it again with the bubble bath I've got a nice blend there and just that deep kind of frame to really make this lighter color pop and you've got so many different tones now within that and yeah I'm quite pleased with this once I stamp my image on it then for the little perfume top there I just used the fog gray which is a152 colored the whole thing it can kept layering up around the outer edges and then I went in with the noir black which is the a5000 just very very faintly and then just went over and blended it again with the fog gray and then for the handbag and the bow this bow I'm actually going to be putting on here because this works really well with this color they complement each other well so I first of all went over with the arctic blue the a268 and just colored and worked it and worked it and worked it until I'd lifted a dark enough color on the outer edges to bring in this a265 teal so they actually work really well as a blend so although they're quite far apart in color on the ends of the pens here once you've worked once you've colored this one enough it does end up working really well with this one so that's one thing I would say that once you start doing this kind of one pen blending you can start introducing other colors and I think it's a much easier way to do it that way because a lot of these swatches they don't look exactly like the color they are I mean the a268 to be fair that's pretty good and the a265 teal that's not bad those ones I'd say were okay but some of these for example this one here which is now this one I'll talk through that so I used I went over it first of all with the pale peach which is the a9426 but if I put that against the a it's actually much much darker so if you layer and layer and layer you get this really nice dark outer edge and then I was able to introduce the apricot the a2497 which is this one here so you can see there they are quite similar that's why they worked well together and then when I got that dark enough this one here which was the coral the a416 which is all the way up here and you can see the difference in the colors but it works really well and I was able to get a nice blend of that one so those three now although looking at them you wouldn't think looking at the lids but they actually work really well together so they will stay as little bundles for me because I know these colors work well together and that's what I will do with this and that's what I'd already started to do before the video is you go through and kind of start grouping together your blends and then you know you know they're ready to go when you need them so those are the three that I have or four things that I've colored I'm now going to get these cut out and I'm going to create some cards so here are my finished cards so I have just fussy cut the bottles and the bag there and I kept them all the same so I've just got a different embossed background for each one then that kind of really kind of matches it I've put a bow on these here and that one obviously I stuck the bow that I actually colored so they're very simple but they really do you know show that image and allow it to kind of pop on the card which I really like and yeah really pleased with how they come together and again just to show you those two there so very different style cards but using the exact same coloring method and I think it all comes together and works really really well there you have it guys that is my review and demo of these alcohol markers by Arteza the Everblends I think they're great and I love the cards that I've made so I hope you've enjoyed this review and demo please pop any kind of questions and the comment boxes below I will share all the links to everything used today even the embossing folders the stamp sets everything and there will also be a coupon code as well for you to use if you do want to go across and check out the Arteza website you don't even have to buy these pens you might see some other stuff that you like there because I will link up here my other Arteza product demos and reviews as well because there's some other great products there that you may well enjoy so until next time guys please hit the thumbs up button if you've enjoyed today and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye