“Fabulous Friday” and another Sneak Peek…
Today we’re sharing all the wonderful projects and “Make ‘n Takes” that will be at Tombow booth #1195 at CHA. We hope you have the opportunity to come by and see all these great projects in person. You’ll have a chance to meet some of our DT and the wonderful folks at Tombow, so come on by, we look forward to seeing you.
We’ll be back next week sharing projects using the fabulous Pantone color ” Blue Iris”. Until then, have a wonderful weekend.
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“What a Sweet Face” is a layout of our new puppy last year. So sweet and I wanted to remember just how cute he was as a puppy, I know the time won’t last forever.
I wanted to use these heavy chipboard pieces on the layout but the adhesive already on them did not hold on the paper, it kept falling off.
I applied a layer of Tombow MONO Permanent Adhesive to the large chipboard piece so I could display the layout. I held great, now I have a real memory keeper. They grown up so fast don’t they…
I hope you enjoyed this sweet project and I’ll see you next time…..
Kathy
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It’s never too early to start thinking about Easter is it? I didn’t think so, so I have created an “Easter Egg Seed Packet” for my project today.
The adorable seed packet cover and packet template is from High Hopes Rubber Stamps.
I stamped and embossed the image with black ink and embossing powder. I stamped the sentiments inside the banners with black ink. The image was colored with Tombow Dual Brush Markers. I added liquid appliqué to the clouds and heat set it to make it puffy. I made the seed packet with cardstock scored on the fold lines and cut the window out. I adhered a piece of acetate behind the window and the edges of the seed packet with Tombow MONO Power Adhesive Bond . Using my doily lace punch I cut ¾” strips of white cardstock and punched the borders. I cut the corners at 45degree angles and adhered them to the back edges of the image. Using foam tape I adhered the image to the seed packet front. To close the packet I used Tombow Fastener Tabs. Fastener tabs are sticky backed hook and loop fasteners perfect for papercrafts where a closer is needed. They close securely and open with ease!
I filled the seed packet with candy and it’s ready for an Easter basket!!
Here are the Tombow Dual Brush Marker colors I used…. 947 brown, 985 yellow, 451-491 blue, N25 black, N65 grey, 761-772 pink, 623- 603 purple, 133-126-076-177 greens.
This is a fun and creative way to send some Easter fun to those you know far and wide…I hope you enjoy this project.
Huggs,
Karen
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So cute, it just calls to you to run into your studio and make this adorable card for that “Un-froggetable” person in your life…
I created a card with the adorable “Froggy Gift” from High Hopes Rubber Stamps. I made the card base 4 ¾ x 5 ½. I cut the green cardstock 4 ½ x 5 ¼ and embossed it with a heart embossing folder.
I adhered the blue, brown and designer paper, after punching the borders, with my Tombow Stamp Runner and colored the image with Tombow Dual Brush Markers.
I cut out the image and blue with my nesties labels and adhered them with my Tombow Stamp Runner and layered all the pieces with Tombow Foam Tabs. After threading bakers twine through the buttons, I adhered them with Tombow Power Tabs.
Here are the Tombow Markers I used… 942-912 …Flesh, N89-N60 …Background 076-098…Green, 990-991…yellow, 947…brown, 772…Pink, N89-528… Blue
I hope you enjoy making this card as much as I did, I’m sure you will find
someoneone ” Un-froggetable” to send it to…
Enjoy your day,
Karen
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TOMBOW Foam Tabs
These acid-free double sided adhesive tabs are great for adding dimension to many projects, the small tab is 1/5 x 1/5 and the large tabs are ½ x ½, they are also great for layering and can be stacked for added dimension. They are suitable for most surfaces including paper, glass and metal. They are also crush resistant and instantly bond and hold.
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I think I speak for all the scrapbookers and crafters out there when I say that most of the time the projects or layouts we make are for other people. We work so hard to tell all the stories about our children and family that we often forget about ourselves. Once in a while we should make a page about ourselves, that way when future generations see them they can get an idea of who we were. I am the first one to run away from a camera, always behind them, never in front of them, but I HAD, not wanted, HAD to take a picture of myself. Since it came out pretty decent I made a layout about things I currently love. This week we had to use turquoise, one of my favorite colors!!
After I gather all my supplies for a layout I start by matting the picture, but instead of using just white cardstock, I used Tombow’s Dual Brush Pen to draw some stripes and then added the photo to do some doodling around it. Before I assemble I everything I doodled the base, the 8 1/2 x 11 patterned paper and the strips of paper with the things I like. Before gluing everything I like to lay everything down to see where it looks better. After I decided, I stamped the heart and the eye so I could use the last one instead of the letter “I”. I also used some die cuts that I assembled using the Mono Multi Liquid Glue, it was great to use the fine tip specially for the black piece of the bird. The fine tip of the Mono Multi Liquid Glue allowed me to glue these detailed parts easily without making a mess. I made some embellishments with my Spirograph and the Dual Brush Pens and glued other embellishments in the center with my Mono Multi Liquid Glue which works great with paper and embellishments like the rose I made. The 8 1/2 x 11 paper, the octagons on the corners, the doily, the mat and the photo were glued with the the Stamp Runner Dot Adhesive. For the turquoise rope I used the Mono Aqua Liquid Glue since it dries completely clear you won’t notice where is the glue, the staples on the corners are just for decoration because there is no way that it will keep the shape without glue. The rest of the embellishments were glued with the Mono Multi Liquid Glue or with Tombow Foam Tabs for a little extra dimension. I used Tombow Foam Tabs for the shadow in the die cuts to make them stand out.
I really love the vibe of this layout!! The Dual Brush Pens help the page feel like it’s moving. This was a nice idea, maybe I’ll make one once a year so future generations can make fun of our likes.
I hope you love my loving project!!
Take Care!!
here we go…another layout! these color challenges have been great! isn’t great to feel accomplished!?!
this layout used the color TURQUOISE, which is quite possibly my favorite color. one thing i love about turquoise is that it can be so many things… summer time when paired with oranges and blues, winter when paired with silver and white, spring with pinks and reds, and fall with browns and greens. it can be used for boys or girls. it is the color to use for tropical pictures and even baseball pictures…okay, if you are a Marlins fan.
anyway, it worked perfectly for these pictures of my daughter dancing in a (extremely cold) winter festival performance.
i used the Tombow Dual Brush Pen #343 to doodle a few snowflakes. i looked back on some of Marie’s instructions on using the pens for doodling and attempted some of those techniques.
the pictures were adhered with Tombow MONO Adhesive Permanent Runner, the snowflakes were popped up with Tombow Foam Tabs, the metal letters were glued down with Tombow MONO Multi Liquid Glue, and lastly i used the Tombow Glue Pen to “draw” over each of the snowflake doodles. push the roller ball tip down until glue starts to flow, and then trace the lines previously drawn. when the glue from the Glue Pen dries it is clear, but leaves a slight shine or wet look.
one more color challenge to go this month. hope you’ve been playing along!
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In case you haven’t guessed, this month is all about Pantone’s color of the year, present and past. This week the Design Team is showing off Turquoise, color of the year for 2010. I would say this is still a very “hot” color. I have seen so much of this color in clothing, homes and fashions of all kinds.
Not only do I love this color, but I love ice cream sundaes. My favorite is hot fudge, what is yours?
The card I have to share with you today is using Irojiten colored pencils. I like to use Gamsol to blend the colored pencils to get a soft look.
How fun is the inside? (you can click on the pictures to get a larger view)
When using Honeycomb papers from Inky Antics (all the stamp images are by them as well) I prefer to use Tombow’s Mono Glue Stick. It is perfect for the thin papers and adheres so well to cardstock. The adhesive I used for the rest of the card was Mono Adhesive Permanent.
I hope you are enjoying our color month and will give these “colors of the year” a try in your papercrafting.
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For the paper, I used a smooth, hot press watercolor paper. I then transferred a design to a piece of tracing paper to make the pattern. Tape the pattern onto to the watercolor paper and with a heavy hand; trace the pattern with the embossing stylus.Remove the tracing paper pattern to reveal the impressed line outline of the design.
After the main lines were impressed, I removed the pattern and added the filler design lines. I did this free hand without using a pattern and pressed hard to create the deepest impressed line possible.
I then start shading and adding color to the design. It’s kind of magical to watch the lines appear and stay white even with the hardest shading pressure. I go over the edges of the motif to make the lines show up best. It also adds a fanciful effect to the drawing.
The last shading uses darker colors and the heaviest shading to create the finished look. Do not be afraid to add lots of layers of different colors and darker hues for the most interesting drawings.
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