 Hi, it's Vicky here and welcome back to another card making video. Today I'm going to play with my alcohol markers and there is a new set by Altenew that has just been released. This is the set D and it contains 12 markers. If you are not familiar with these markers, these are alcohol markers which means that they blend beautifully together, there are other sets available already but this is a great addition in your collection. Now the fun thing is that they give you 4 markers that you know the match perfectly for blending. So in this set you get 3 colour families, the purples, you also get these blue-green ones and also the browns. Also keep in mind that these markers are refillable and there are also available nibs if you feel that the nib of your marker needs changing. The barriers are triangular which means that they will not roll on your table. On both of the cups you get the colour as well as the number and there is a little ring that you can use to distinguish which nib is which so you get a fine tip one and a brush on the other side. This brush is really lovely and these markers are actually a great alternative to Copics if you don't want to invest on such an expensive product. Now I am quickly swatching them for you so you can see the real colours. I am working on Nina Solar White cardstock. I also like to store them in the plastic case they come with. I find that you can fit 4 of them in a row and you always know which markers go with which one. And I am swatching them so you can see the real colours since in the packaging they tend to have the colours more vibrant so you can see the difference here. Now the fun thing about the alcohol markers by Altenew is that they come at the same colours as their ink pads. So if you are familiar with their oval sets you will see that the 4 inks in the oval set come as markers as well which means that you can do lots of things in terms of design which is exactly what I am going to show you today. Now I am going to use these colours today to colour a flower and I am using a new stamp set that has been released for February. This is called Wanderland it has lovely flowers to practice your colouring skills and also it comes with lots of sentiments as well and you can see the leaflet here to get some ideas on how you can put together your cards. And as always without the new sets there are also matching dice available. I am stamping the largest of the flowers from the stamp set and I am using black permanent ink for that to make sure that it is not going to smudge when I will use my alcohol markers to colour it. Now I don't tend to over colour with my alcohol markers I always like to do some quick colouring and get this done so I am showing you here a way of starting with the lightest colour and moving all the way to the darkest and then back to the lightest one. Now this technique gives beautiful blending and great results however I am too impatient to do that for all the petals and that's why I am using a super quicker method which is I am using the lightest colour to apply colour all over the petal and then I switch to the darker one and move to the middle and that's it. So here I am going to show you again I will use this lightest marker to colour the entire petal then I will move on to the darker one and add the shadow at the base of my petal and then I will use the two middle ones to just add some strokes. So notice that I am embracing those brush strokes and I don't over brand I think it looks gorgeous as it is and a quick and easy colouring for me is the best. Now of course you can overwork it, you can end up with a beautiful and gorgeous ombre effect depends on the look you are going for really but in any case the secret on good blending is to use colours that you know much together and this is great when you are using these sets because you know someone else did the hard work for you and of course you need to use paper which is made for these markers, for alcohol markers. In my case I am using Neenah Solar White 80 Pounds cardstock. So I am going to let you see how I colour the whole flower and as I am doing that I just want to let you know that this video today is actually part of a blog hop. If you go to my blog you will find all the details about the blog hop. There is ton of inspiration and lots of giveaways along the hop so make sure to visit. You will find a link down below if you are watching on Youtube. You will also find there a full list of all the supplies that I am using today to create my card. I will use for the stem colours from the same marker set and since the area that I want to colour is so thin it gives me great opportunity to use the fine tip nib from my marker. Now this is such a small area that you don't really need to do lots of in terms of saving. This quick and simple here I will just mix a couple of colours. Now this would look gorgeous as a card you would need to stamp a sentiment that you are ready to go. However I always like to have some dimension on my cards, I cannot go completely flat so just had to use a matching dice to cut out the flower so that I can pop it later on on my actual card. For my background I am going to stamp one of the designs from the block print stamp set. And for that I will go with one of the ink pads from the oval set that matches perfectly the colours of my markers, which means that I will be using the rose petal oval set and the colour I am using is the lightest one rose quartz, which is also the colour of the lightest marker that I used. So now I have a background panel that matches perfectly the colours of my flower and all I need to do is to add a sentiment. I cut out the word friend and I am going to colour it with my alcohol markers and this is going to make sure that it is going to match nicely with the other colours on my card. Now I will not use the lightest colour because this is the colour of my background and if I turn my sentiment the same colour as my background it is not going to pop up. So I am going to use the next three colours and I am going for an ombre look here so I will try and add darker at the base and blend the colours out as I go towards the top. Once that was done I cut out the same word one more time so that I can stack one on top of the other and end up with an element for my card that is nice and thick and it is a high more dimension. It's going to pop better on top of my card. Now another fun thing that you can do with these markers and the matching colours on inkpads is to stamp the sentiment. For that I am using lagoon which is one of the colours that I used for the stems and I am stamping one of the sentiments from the same stamp set that says I appreciate your support. I am going to cut it out to be a very thin strip of sentiment and then it is time to put everything together on my card. I used foam squares at the back of the flower but at the bottom of the flower I am going to stick it completely flat on my card and here I had the idea to somehow combine the flower with the word so I just thread it through that loop of the letter F. I am going to stick it down and now I can move up and down the word friend and decide where I want this to go. I am going to leave the stem and the word and I am going to add some novelty looks at the back. For now only the actual petals are stuck on my panel so it is time to stick everything else down. Of course I added a little dot over the letter I and I am going to finish it off by sticking down the rest of my sentiment. Now of course you can take it a step further and add some sequins along the card or even add some glitter over the word friend. I think it looks gorgeous as it is so I decided to leave it plain and simple. So here are some close up photos on the card. I hope you had fun and could inspire as I matched my alcohol markers with my ink today. Thank you all so much for watching and I will see you all next time.