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Monthly Archives: January 2012

Can you believe it is already the last week of January? Time is flying fast already this year. When you read this I will be in Anaheim, CA for CHA. I am so excited to be there and know I will have lots of fun goodies to share with you […]

Blue Iris You Rock for ABC Week by Debbie Fisher

January 31, 2012 in Design Team / General / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Debbie Fisher / Dual Brush Pens / Foam Tabs / MONO Adhesive Permanent by Debbie

Keeping on the theme of color this January, here is another color combination using the 2012 Top Ten colors With this project I have chosen both paper colors and Irojiten Coloring Pencil colors to create a muted floral combination using the following colors: (I have also Listed the matching Dual […]

Color Combinations Using the New 2012 Colors by Marie Browning

January 30, 2012 in Design Team / General tagged Dual Brush Pens / Irojiten Colored Pencils / Marie Browning / MONO Multi Liquid Glue by admin

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 […]

“Fabulous Friday” and another Sneak Peek…

January 27, 2012 in Design Team / General by admin

“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 […]

“What a Sweet Face” by Guest Designer Kathy Griffith

January 26, 2012 in Cards & Papercrafting / General / Guest Designers tagged MONO Adhesive Permanent by admin

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 […]

Easter Egg Seed Packet By Guest Designer Karen Goguen

January 25, 2012 in Cards & Papercrafting / General tagged Dual Brush Pens / Fastener Tabs / Power Tabs by admin

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 […]

Froggy Gift Card by Guest Designer Karen Goguen

January 24, 2012 in General / Guest Designers tagged Dual Brush Pens / Foam Tabs / Power Tabs / Stamp Runner Permanent Adhesive by admin

The birthday card was for a sketch challenge and I really wanted to make use of the small piece of yellow ball rick rack that I had. The only way to attach this ribbon was to use both the Tombow Permanent Stamp Runner and the dot portion for both parts of the ribbon so […]

Happy Birthday Card by Guest Design Kathy Griffith

January 23, 2012 in Cards & Papercrafting / General / Guest Designers tagged MONO Aqua Liquid Glue / MONO Permanent Adhesive Runner by admin

Hello! This week on the Tombow blog we are continuing our journey through some of the past Pantone colors. Today I am sharing the 2010 color which was Turquoise. Tombow’s Dual Brush Pen #373 (Sea Blue) was a great match so I decided to use it along with some of […]

my heart…..by melissa cash

January 20, 2012 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / General tagged Dual Brush Pens / Foam Tabs / Irojiten Colored Pencils / Melissa Cash / MONO DOTS Adhesive Runner / MONO Glue Pen by Melissa

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. […]

I Confess My Love with Turquoise By Jennie Garcia

January 19, 2012 in Design Team / Scrapbooking & Project Life tagged Jennie Garcia / Layout / MONO Aqua Liquid Glue / MONO Multi Liquid Glue / Scrapbook / Stamp Runner Dot Adhesive / Tombow Dual Brush Pens / Tombow Foam Tabs by Jennie Garcia

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, […]

turquoise….by sarah little

January 18, 2012 in Design Team / Scrapbooking & Project Life tagged MONO Glue Pen / MONO Multi Liquid Glue / MONO Permanent Adhesive Runner / Sarah Little / Tombow Dual Brush Pens / Tombow Foam Tabs by Tombow USA

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 […]

Sundae Birdy in Turquoise by Debbie Fisher

January 17, 2012 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / General tagged Debbie Fisher / Irojiten Colored Pencils / MONO Adhesive Permanent / MONO Glue Stick by Debbie

This drawing style uses Irojiten colored pencils and a technique that marks impressed lines on the paper with an embossing stylus before applying the color. For the paper, I used a smooth, hot press watercolor paper. I then transferred a design to a piece of tracing paper to […]

Impressed Color Drawing TipNique by Marie Browning

January 16, 2012 in General tagged Irojiten Colored Pencils / Marie Browning by admin