 Hi there! My name is Sandy and I am bringing you a watercolor powders series. This is number three in the series so you may wish to go see number one or number two first. This video is going to present my way of labeling my brush-o bottles and I'm also going to talk about how to swatch out your colors and make a chart for yourself so you know what colors you have at hand. This video is primarily focused on brush-o since it needs the most work to get the bottles ready to use. So I have the 24 and the 8 here. This is I believe the US packaging. There are also other types of packaging you can get and I ordered a set of 12 and that came in a different box but it's the same product so if you get a different one don't worry about it. If you get the 12 those colors are duplicated within the 24 pack but the 24 and the 8 make up the entire 32 with no crossover and the 12 and the 8 can be used with no crossover but you don't want to cross over the 24 and the 12. Does that make sense? I hope so. I'm going to write it out on my blog just in case you forget or if it helps to read it in writing. So any of these boxes that you unbox come with a beautiful little flyer and the flyer lists out the colors. Those are somewhat accurate to what the colors are but not superbly and here are the 8 bottles from the 8 pack. I'm going to swatch out two things. I want to use this hex shape to make myself a hex chart with spritzed powders and I want to do spritzed powders for a specific reason and I'm using the fourth from the fourth shape from the smallest one because that's going to fit this PDF that I posted on my website. It's a free PDF so you can follow along and make your own hex chart if you have this die set from Lifestyle Crafts. I'm also going to punch circles to put on the tops of my bottles and those are going to have solid color. It's going to be painted with a brush so I know what the solid color looks like as well as what the spritzed color looks like and I'm going to prepare for all of this by cutting a bunch of strips of one and three quarter inch paper and I've die cut a whole mess of these hexes. So they're going to be ready for my charts. I have another set of strips that have sticky on the back so you can use different products. I used here some B Creative Tape on the back so that I could make circles that are stickers to pop onto the top of each one of these in a certain order. Be sure to follow the way I say to do it because I did it wrong on a few of them and made a mess for myself. So you want to do as I say not as I started out doing I want to save you some trouble. So I'm going to get all those punched out and I also have some thumbtacks. I ended up getting clear ones after I got my 24 and my 8. I used white on the other ones you've seen in the other videos but I wanted to write on the back first the color on the back of the hex chart piece so I can match them up later with putting them in the right order. And then I wanted to punch a hole in the top. Now I'm using thumbtacks you can use a piercer. These bottles don't tend to leak a whole lot but I left the little thumbtack in the tops of each of mine just because I want to make sure they don't spill out ever. The hole is so tiny it's not likely to actually spill but for me it also made them so I can grab them real quick by that little little thumbtack. Now I'm going to do a quick spritz on the hex chart piece and then I'm going to let that go. I'm going to leave it all all mushy and then after I'm I have a little bit tapped out as well onto my work surface and you want a work surface that you can get wet and that will clean up really well. I have a little bit of the powder so I can take a clean brush you want a super clean brush. Don't let yourself contaminate one color with another because when you're swatching out you want them to be perfect and so I'm just going to put my color on the top of the bottle. After it's dry I'll repunch the hole through it and then add my tack back in. If you put water in and you have a hole there you're going to get water into your bottle potentially that was one of the mistakes I made. So do as I say I'm trying to help you and I'm using a magnetic craft assistant from Ellen Hudson as my base here. You can also use a craft mat or something. You want something you can clean up really well in between every color and don't have your extra pieces all those extra white watercolor pieces anywhere near where you're working because any stray powder that flies through the air is going to contaminate your future colors and you don't want to have to redo any of this process because you've accidentally contaminated things. So I just went through every single color. I did a hex piece, I did the circle for the top, painted the color on and then added my thumb tax after it all dried and cleaned my water. I actually changed my water between like every two colors because I didn't want to get any contamination going on. Here's the set of 24 and you can see they all nest beautifully in their little box and once I got it all finished this is what I ended up with. I'm looking for good storage for now. I've got them in an envelope box and all 32 fit nicely in this and you can see the little thumb tax weren't great as handles to just grab one and pull it out and use it and I'm finding this works for the moment at least. I've uploaded all my swatch charts to my blog including blank charts that you can print out on regular card stock and then cut out your own hex shapes to add your own spritzed swatches too and that's probably overkill for a lot of folks. You can print out my pdfs as well but just know that the colors will be more accurate when you swatch it out yourself. This is the Color Burst set and if you've watched the other videos in this series these are the ones that are much brighter, much more intense than the the brush show colors so if you like really really bright these are fabulous for you they do come in a smaller bottle. These are the 12 sets of brush shows and if you're going to just get into one set and you only want the one set this is a good one it's got a really good rounded rainbow of colors but remember that this will be duplicated in the 24 so if you eventually think you may get the 24 I wouldn't go for the 12 so you don't get multiples. You can also buy them all individually though and totally save yourself the headache of trying to worry about duplicates. This is the set of eight and I think what happened here is they had the set of 24 and these are filling colors additional colors but this would be a great set if you wanted to try them out and use it for Christmas cards because look at the reds and greens in there. So here we have the set of 24 and I'm just showing it to you with the empty spaces for the eight that will fill in and then you have the full set of 32 brush show colors. There is a white here I don't know how to use it yet I don't find that it works in the ways that I would think it does but I will let you know as I discover more about them. Thank you so much for joining me for this series if you liked it please click the like button and feel free to watch one of the others in the series if you have not yet and if you want to subscribe to get more videos on watercolor powders I would love to have you come back again sometime. I will see you guys later have a wonderful day