 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching today. So I found this video on my laptop which is from Wave Before Christmas probably almost towards the end of the summer and it is using the well it's showing you how I use the Arteza twi markers or twi markers. I'm not entirely sure how they are meant to be pronounced but anyway. So you get a pack of 100 and these are water based ink pen and they're blendable. So you've got your easy blend markers which are alcohol markers then you've got your brush pens which you add water to. These ones you don't add water but they are blendable and they come with a blender pen. So you have your brush pen or it's it's not as brush pen like as the brush pens but it does have that kind of look to it and then the other end is your bullet you know your more fine fine tip. Really nice pens and the thing I liked about this is the amount of just colors that you can see there there's just so many. So you get a real nice mix of your pinks your oranges your blues your greens and then your grays and your blacks. So I went and swatched them out and I did actually try adding some water to them just to see if well basically how it did react and you do get a bleed it's more of a I guess it's just more of like a just the dye just bleeding out it's more of a stain rather than I mean well you can see that there's a real intense color with the pinks you don't really see it so much with like the yellows and it starts to come into the oranges some of the purples are quite strong and I'm just showing you there just the the width of the the finer tip there as well. So I went through swatched everything some like I said much much more stronger than others but I just wanted to show you that you can if you use this on watercolor paper you can get some nice effects with a small amount of water added to them but like I said they're not intended for water yet to be added but they are blendable with each other so when I show you what I'm you know the card I'm about to make in a moment when you color it you don't want to go over with too many layers because it's almost got like a bit of a felt tip kind of reaction so it will almost start to kind of lift the paper I don't want you to think this is a criticism it's not it's just that you don't want to be using them like you're using them as like a watercolor pen or something like that. So I'm using this huge stamp it's one of my favorites this is an indigo blue it's the huge poppy and I'm just stamping this one I can't remember what ink I'm using there I'm just trying to look it looks like it could be versatile but then yeah it must must have been versatile so anyway so I'm starting with a you can see there the orange one on the left that was the another one that I done and I laid down a very light orange and then I built up the darker tones so with this one here I'm laying down a lighter more coral red festival just block color all the way over it and then I'm starting to pull out deeper colors so I've kind of got flipped through quite quickly there because otherwise the video was going to be too long but you can see now I'm just adding in that real darker color now the black is already on the stamped image and then just kind of build in from that really and it's it's really nice to use like I said I didn't you don't want to use these pens you don't want to add lots of layers they pretty much you lay it down you could do a little bit of blending and then move on but you can see by keeping that lighter corally red at the beginning it now looks like it's very light on the edges of those leaves so it gives you some real lovely depth to your stamped image now because I laid down quite a lot of color I am just drying it off there with my heat tool and then you can just go back into it again if you wanted to just around the edges and stuff but you don't want to layer these up they're not like the alcohol markers or the brush pens these work very differently so and then this is the blendable pen now that I'm using it's quite subtle but you can notice it in person so when you're doing it yourself you do see it and they're the cards so it's just a very quick video just introduce you to these markers or these pens if you've seen them on the website maybe you're about unsure how they are used and I really like them they're really nice I said the fine tip is very fine so it's great for detail and I hope you agree the the card's there you can you know really pick up that vibrant color and just a different tone there so thank you for watching I hope you liked this quick very quick video just for some inspiration and I'll be back again very soon with another tutorial thanks for watching bye