 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for joining me today. I've got another Arteza product review, this time it's the coloured pencils. So I've done the watercolour pencils and now I've got the coloured pencils. I do have other branded coloured pencils, I'm not going to talk about them today but I will probably do a comparison video in you know in later months, but for now we're just going to talk about these. So first of all they look exactly the same as the watercolour tin and the same quantity as well, this is the 72. These ones are circular whereas the other ones are hexagon, so that's the only difference really and obviously these are just normal coloured pencils and the other ones are watercolour. So a really nice variety of colours, I have swatched them which you'll see in a moment. When I first went to use these the first thing that kind of stuck out to me was how smooth they were. With a lot of coloured pencils they can sometimes almost tear your paper, they can be quite harsh and leave kind of like a track in your card or the paper that you're using. These do not do that at all, I got really good coverage, they've got a real high pigment quality to them and overall first impressions have been really good with these pencils. So I'm going straight in to show you how I've used them and what I've used them for. So I've just got this stamp here, this is the Woodwear Classic Rose Bunch or Bloom, no Bunch, really lovely one. I was just prepping it if you wondered what I was doing before, whenever I have a new stamp I always rub my hand over it, something like the natural oils in my hand, I don't know it just seems to help with the stamp because when these come from the factories a lot of the time they have like a chemical on them as such. So give them a wipe sometimes and things like that and you will find that after you stamp them a few times and just kind of prep them you'll get a much better impression. So I'm just stamping this onto some 300gsm craft card. I wanted to see because when I was swatching them I thought they had such a strong pigment to them, I thought they would take well on a craft card or a black card stock so that's why I've chose the craft card today. So the colours I'm using here, this first one I'm going in with is Eggplant. I'll also be using Fuchsia and then Forest Green and Basil for the leaves and then the White Quartz. I wanted to create a real kind of strong highlight to these flowers and I was pleasantly surprised at just how well that White Quartz coloured pencil took to the craft card. It just, you can see there the coverage it's so opaque it's just it's really really good. I absolutely love it. So yeah this was a joy to create and the nice thing is because these pencils are soft you can blend them. I was able to rub parts of this so you can see that it's a really I guess coloured pencils particularly these ones are I think maybe a good a good thing for someone who's never done any colouring at all and maybe you're a little bit not sure whether to go straight into a watercolour pencil. Usually I would say if you want to do blending and stuff I would say go to a watercolour or even an alcohol marker but these I was able to get a really nice blend with and you do have to work it a bit so you can see here I am going over it and I go back to it again and I rework it a bit more but I just really liked that I thought it was nice. You can also use a rubber to them I found that I could lift with my rubber so if I did go over any edges you know I could do that but I do go in at the end with my I also got the Arteza fine liners and I just went over the black stamped image just to kind of make that pop a little bit more. So I'm just going through you know the colouring these three flowers exactly the same way so I'm just sticking with those three colours the eggplant and the fuchsia and then that opaque white and it just was easy that's the easiest way to say this it's easy. They've got so many great colours so you know if this isn't your choice that you'd like to use for flowers or even a rose in this you know instance here there's there's so many different you know ones to choose there and the great thing about Arteza as well is they're that real kind of and they're a nice entry level the price points are good and a lot of even expert artists use them as well and rate them so again as I said before with any of these Arteza reviews although it is a review they do very very well they don't need people to do the reviews because a lot of people have already got the product and love it anyway so I'm just here to give you my opinion and just to introduce you to it really to anybody that hasn't you know heard of Arteza or know of them then you can you know have a little look here so again you can see they're just how there's not much kind of breakage I'm really pushing down on these that's another thing I want to point out as well and that's not because I couldn't get colour out of them that's because I was really kind of you know what's the word just kind of pushing it into the cardstock I guess just to get that really full coverage so but there's little breakage none of my nibs broke they're really comfortable to hold and yeah just loved it so here I'm blending now this is the forest green was the first darker colour at the bottom then I used that basil again they blended really well and then I just kind of you know tip the ends there of the leaves with that white quartz and then I go back over again with that basil green and it just starts to kind of blend and just kind of take away a little bit of that white because I didn't want as much as I initially had but yeah I just really like these you can see I've gone over the edges you know a few few times there but I do go and rub that out and I also then go in with the black fine liner so again if you're worried that you're going to go over the lines and stuff it's easily you know sorted it's not a problem at all now I did find that once I stamped this it really felt like that image had lifted off the craft card it became so 3d and I think is the highlight if you look there now from a distance it really did look like it was popping out from that cardstock and again really enjoyed doing this so I've now realised that I stamped it originally upside down so I just flipped the cardstock around and now stamping the sentiment there that also comes with that stamp set I will link all this in my blog along with a coupon code as well so if you are interested to purchase the pencils then I will share the code that you can use that's valid till the end of May sometime so now I'm just coming in with some Nuvo drops I popped this onto a 5x7 card base and I just thought the the white Nuvo drops just again kind of framed that flower and just added a little bit of texture and dimension to the card there as well and then you will see now that I will bring in the fine liner 0.4 these fine liners are lovely and they're really good for obviously writing in your cards but also for adding detail to any stamped images if you've stamped something and maybe you've missed a bit it's great to bring in the fine liner and now you can see just how much that lifts and look at the lovely kind of shine that you get off of that pencil as well it's a real wax kind of texture to the to the top of the stamped image there again I really liked it I wouldn't put this up if I didn't think it was any good I think it's going to be great for a lot of you that ask and then like I said the price points are really really good so and you get loads as well so yeah thumbs up heartase I really really liked this one and yeah I was a bit surprised because I didn't think I'd do too much with the pencils I thought well I'm not really going to be able to blend them and it's going to take a lot of work but this didn't it was really nice to do so you can just see some stills there and really pleased with how this has turned out so again they will be featuring in more tutorials because I really like them so I hope this has helped you in some way if like I said it's introduced you then that's a good thing head over to the website they have tons of great product and I have been reviewing quite a few bits now and I've got some more to share with you as well so until next time guys see you then bye