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Are you ready for Christmas? I can’t believe how fast it is sneaking up on me. Wednesday is the last day of school and then hopefully I can get some stuff done.
This week Tombow is partnering up with Elizabeth Craft Designs. I first learned of this company at CHA and I LOVE their stickers! They are open images that you color in. You can even remove the sticker after coloring in to leave a white border, but I liked the raised image on my card. They make coloring fun and cardmaking quick and easy.
I colored the image with Dual Brush Tip Pens and adhered the layer with Mono Adhesive Permanent. We were sent so many lovely designs. For my card I chose Christmas Ornaments. These come in gold, silver and black.
The colors of pens I used were 847, 098, 993, 452, and blender.
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Negative Image with Peel-offs
This technique is a fun and different way to use peel-offs and Tombow Dual Brush Pens.
My favorite Peel-offs come from Elizabeth Craft Design – the designs are beautiful with lots of open spaces for coloring.
Supplies:
Tombow Dual Brush Pens - 725, 755, 856, 982, 173, 195, 245
White Cardstock or lightweight watercolor paper
Water Mister
Elizabeth Craft Design
Peel-offs
Step 1: Place the peel-offs onto the paper panel. I like to use a piercing tool. Fine tipped tweezers also work to lift the peel-off.
Step 2: Color the peel-off and add color around the outside edges of the peel-off image.
Step 3: With the water mister, lightly mist the card so the colors blend. Let dry completely.
Step 4: When the panel is completely dry, use the piercing tool to remove the peel-offs. It’s important that the panel is dry or the paper may rip. Do not use a heat tool to dry this quickly; it tends to make the peel-offs stick more.
Step 5: Reattach the peel-off off centering it from the colored image. Leave blank, as in the ornament card or color as in the tree card.
Finished card sample using ‘Christmas Ornaments’ from Elizabeth Craft Design
Finished card sample using ‘Christmas Trees’ from Elizabeth Craft Design
I hope you enjoyed this “Tip-nique” and find many usful ways to use it. Thank you for stopping by. Untill next time…Happy crafting,
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Here’s a review of how to make a teardrop stroke and a two-toned teardrop stroke.Teardrop Stroke Using the brush tip, ‘dab‘ onto the paper to make the teardrop stroke. It’s that simple! Make sure to press down firmly and make large teardrop strokes! Brush Blending – For creating two-toned strokes Use a sheet of clear plastic taped to a white piece of paper for your blending palette. To make the two-toned strokes, choose one dark and one light color. Add a few strokes of the darker color ontothe blending palette. Pick up this color with a lighter colored pen by dragging the pen through the color. Make the teardrop stroke and you will have magically created a perfectly blended two-toned mark. You will find you can go far with just one load of color; you do not have to pick up more color for each stroke.
Christmas Tree Tombow Dual Brush Pens: 277 Dark Green, 173 Willow Green, 856 Chinese Red, 985 Chrome YellowWith the fine tip of the Willow Green, draw the tree shape.
Fill the space with two-toned teardrop strokes using the dark and light greens. Add the red berry garland and a yellow star using the fine tip.
Variation: Tall Trees
Use the same method as the Christmas tree. Add long tree trunks and a few branches lower on the trunk.
Mini Tree
Tombow Dual Brush Pens – 277 Dark Green, 173 Willow Green, 856 Chinese Red, 985 Chrome Yellow, 977 Saddle Brown
Make a cluster of three teardrop strokes. Add two more on each side. Fill in the middle of the tree with three more strokes. With the fine tip, add the ornaments and star. Add a trunk with the brown marker.
The mini tree is great for accenting lettering, hand drawn or stamped!
Menorah
Tombow Dual Brush Pens – 623Purple sage, 476 Cyan, 553 Mist Purple, 491 Glacier Blue, 856 Chinese Red, 985 Chrome Yellow
Make two toned teardrop strokes using the Cyan and Mist Purple. Make five strokes straight down with two to form the base. Make four strokes on each side. Add the nine candles using the Purple sage.
Add the curved lines – use the pale blue to first draw these in and then follow the lines with the darker blue. Add the flames made with two-toned yellow and red teardrop shapes. I make them a little
skewed so it looks like the candles are flickering. Make a tiny wick using the dark blue or black marker.
Variation – Kwanzaa Candles
With a few changes you can make the 7-day candles celebrated on Kwanzaa
Many thanks to Rick for the Mini Tree and Menorah designs! Watch for more DoodleDabs every month!
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The Tombow Dual Brush Pens I am using for this technique: 476 Cyan, 703 Pink Rose
Step 1: You can, of course, use any two colors for this technique. Always add the darker of the two colors to the blending palette. With my two chose colors the
Cyan is the darkest so that’s the color that is added to the blending palette using the brush tip.
Step 2: Now with the lighter color, here the Pink Rose, pick up a little of the blue off the blending palette. Start to carefully color in the stamped area and magically the color will change from the blue to the pink.
Step 3: With this stamped image I added zentangle inspired designs in each section using the fine tip of the Cyan marker.
The finished stamped sample showing the effects of brush blending. I’m sure you’ll have loads of fun with this technique…see you next time…
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We are so pleased to be able to help with this initative, providing cards for our armed forces to use to write home to their loved ones…..Each of our designers have created cards that are sure to be a sure winner when they are given AND received. There are loads of sites helping with this so be sure to hop over to each of their sites to see just what that have posted…
Here’s a list of all the participants and a link so you can go right from here…Have a great day and remember, our troups are there to protect our freedom…let them know you care.
Hero Arts http://heroarts.com/blogs/club/
Sizzix http://sizzixblog.blogspot.com/
Prima http://prima.typepad.com/
Ranger Industries http://blog.rangerink.com/
Studio Calico http://studiocalico.blogspot.com/
Tonic Studios http://tonicgallery.wordpress.com/
Basic Grey http://blog.basicgrey.com/
SRM Stickers http://srm-stickers.blogspot.com/
May Arts http://www.mayarts.com/blog/
Here’s some love from Marie…
Debbie set a wonderful card as well…
Melissa wanted to get her great card here as well…
…and these sweet cards from Jennie…
Here’s what Sarah sent us…
All of our Design Team enjoyed making these cards for our soilders, I know they will be appreciated by all that recieve them….
Thanks you to eveyone for such great support.
How do I get ready for the holidays??
To be honest I am always behind, except when it comes to shopping. I hate to be in lines for hours so I always do my shopping at the beginning of November. But I work on cards two weeks before Christmas. Since I don’t do so many… it works for me. However, when it comes to scrapbooking Christmas memories I always do it the next year. This is the case of this layout, last years pictures and I just did the layout. The good thing about this is that I use things that I already have instead of going to the store to buy more things.
I used an old Momenta paper pack for this layout and the solid textured cardstock for matting and the blue background is from Colorbok.
For the doodling around the page I used the Tombow Blue Dual Brush pen #443 from the Groovy Collection and for the green circle I used the Green #195 Dual Brush pen from the Retro Collection.
For this Cute Santa I did some fussy cutting from another page and the title is a punch out that I matted. I used Tombow’s Foam Tabs on the Santa Claus and all the punch outs.
I used dew drops of the Tombow Mono Multi glue on the I Believe in Santa Punch Out and the letter stickers are from My Little Shoebox.I also used some bling on the Christmas Tree. Noticed the simple gifts? Well this is the time to save money on gifts before she starts asking for PSP, DS and all the other expensive letters.
Have fun with your family this Holiday Season!!
Tombow products used:
I hope you enjoyed my post!!
Take Care!!
Jennie
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This week the Team at Tombow is sharing a Thought for the Day with you. I found this wonderful quote about gratitude and knew it was perfect for today’s post.
“There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind
than gratitude.
It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction
that the duty is sufficiently rewarded
by the performance.”~ Joseph Addison
I am sharing a thank you card that I created for my pal Theresa Momber.
You see, a couple of weeks ago, Theresa sent me this beautiful pink paradise card and her latest stamp set called Celebrate the Season that she illustrated for Gina K. Designs. The branch used above is from that set and the bird and word Thanks are from two of Theresa’s other sets. I started with a Kraft card base and then added some Memory Box print paper using Tombow Stamp Runner Permanent Adhesive and then added a frame that was popped up with Tombow Foam Tabs and the button and sentiment flag were attached with Tombow Power Tabs. I really like these as they are thinner than the Foam Tabs, but still give you strong hold and a little bit of lift. Give them a try, you will love them!
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There are so many quotes out there that I love that I had a hard time choosing one to create with. Since this month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I decided to choose one of my favorites that I could make a card around honoring this month. My g’ma, 2 friends, DH’s aunt, as well as others we have known, have courageously battled this cancer.
I can only imagine the amount of faith it takes to deal with cancer and each on the ones we know had to take that first step, even when they couldn’t see the whole picture.
The card I chose to create uses a new image from Designed2Delight to honor Nat’l Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It is called Hope 2011 Cancer Awareness Set. The nice thing about this set is that you can color the ribbon to match the cancer. Here is a link that tells you which cancer each color represents.
I used My Mind’s Eye papers, Tombow’s Glue Pen to add Cotton Candy Sparkly Fluff (from Our Craft Lounge) to the ribbon and dots image, Foam Tabs to raise up the butterfly image, and Dual Brush Pens (761 & 800) for coloring and Mono Adhesive permanent.
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