Posts from ‘Craft Products’
Patty’s Day Pretties!
Next week! St. Patrick’s Day is next week! I’m not Irish but, I I’m the kinda girl that just looks for any reason to celebrate. So bring it on St. Patty! (Not only that, but my kids seem to be thrilled with any excuse to decorate and have some out-of-the-ordinary fun.) So we made up this simple and WAY cute (if I do say so myself) garland using my green scraps, some black plaid ribbon, a sewing machine and my Tombow MONO permanent Adhesive runner. To make this… Continue Reading
We’ve been using our Dual Brush Pens a lot this week and I’ve gotten a few emails asking questions about them so today is all about clarity. In each of the new Craft Collection ten pack sets there is a BLENDER PEN. It has no color to it. It’s a moist-pen. It has the Dual Brushes just like all the others but NO color. It’s used to blend colors together or fade colors out like true watercolors without watercolor paper. While you’re working with it, you’ll notice it changes color because it picks up the ink from other colors. You can ‘pick up‘ colors directly from your page or by coloring on a non-porous material like plastic and using the Blender Pen to pick up the color. If there is too much color on your blender pen, just grab a scratch piece of paper and scribble it away. It will clean itself and go back to being clear (even if the tip looks tiny bit pink or green or whatever). I keep a scrap pad on my desk for notes and just use a couple brush strokes to clean off my blender pen in between each color. I hope this helps. Please go play with this product, I promise that once you start using it you will love it!
Oh and a heads up for next week- We will be introducing our FULL DESIGN TEAM! So be sure to check in on the fun here at the blog, on Facebook and Twitter! We’d love your feedback. Have a good weekend!
What’s your most used item when you scrapbook? Besides adhesive and basic card stock, I didn’t think I had one. It’s funny how you just do things and don’t realize you’re doing them until you notice your supplies diminishing one by one. You start hoarding them, yet are still forced to use them anyways because a layout or a project isn’t complete without it! Suddenly, it’s 11pm and you’re in the middle of a creative rush, you start stressing out because you can’t get your projects done because you just realized that you are out of an item that apparently you can’t live without! That happens to you to, right? …. right?!
After last weekends stress-fest I realized that basic white Photo Corners are that item for me. I really had no idea how much I used them until they were gone! I use them on everything from cards to layouts and albums. I even have some in my hybrid albums, calendars and planners. Of course, not everything in my scrapbooks is white. But I have my trusty Dual Brush Pens to fix that! EVERY color patched perfectly and smoothly. I love it! Lately I’ve been adding another dimension to my corners, spraying a little glimmer mist on my scratch plastic and then using a paintbrush to smooth it over my color. Dual Brush Pens, white photo corners and glimmer mist… oh the happiness. Yes, I went out and stocked up on photo corners first thing in the morning and now I’m ready to roll.
I haven’t posted much about this roller but I use it all the time. It’s the Mono Adhesive Roller- REMOVABLE. The refills are the same and snap into place and it has the same smooth roll-on application. When you’re looking for it in stores or online, it has green accents instead of blue on the roller and refils. I use most for my printer. I can just print out my type on a regular cardstock and then use my REMOVABLE ROLLER to adhere my smaller 8×8 paper, my ribbon or my fabric. I know it won’t tear my paper or stretch my ribbon after it’s printed on and I’ll still be able to use it on my next project. (MONO Adhesive Dots work great for this technique too!)
I volunteer in my kid’s classrooms at school. Most of the time, I come for story time or to help out the teacher but every once in a while I get the chance for a creative time with the kids. Since the 2010 Olympics will only come once I had to expose the kids to a little bit of the Olympic excitement. I sat down and taught them about different flags of the world. What they represent, or teach us and how they are such a big part of the Olympics and of cheering on other’s success. They loved our little discussion but when it came time for our craft, they were just as excited as if they had won the gold! After all, everyone needs to be cheered on a little and what’s more fun then being cheered on with your own custom flag? Well, to a group of Kindergartners, NOTHING is! So Today’s Tombow Tot project is Personal Olympic Flags!
SUPPLIES:
Cheesecloth Dishtowels
Scissors (or Rotary Cutter)
Dowels -cut to size (or pencils)
Stapler (or Needle & Thread)
Tombow Dual Brush Pens
All last month may office/studio was consumed with Dollhouse construction. I was surprised I pulled out my Tombow basket so much on that type of project. Since I happen to have a HUGE selection of beautiful papers we opted to hand pick each room’s wallpaper from my scrapbook stash. After a little intricate cutting and Mono AQUA Liquid Glue ta-dum! we had our ‘wallpaper’. Thankfully my daughter loves it!
Opening Ceremonies is 3 days away and we’re already starting to see the symptoms of Olympic Fever at our house. It starts out with chills, increased heart rate and can sometimes be a butterfly in your stomach or a knot in your throat. There is a sleep depravity commonly associated with Olympic Fever, esp. if you happen to be in a different time zone then where the games are being held. This terrible fever is usually exposing it’s raw symptoms during the crucial part of a race or event. So, we’ve checked into the recommended treatment and found the perfect medicine! Olympic Cupcakes!!
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Box up your Valentine’s this year in 30 minutes or less! Debbie Fisher created this great Valentine’s Day pizza box using our MONO adhesive Power Bond to hold the box together and Mono Adhesive (permanent) Roller for the patterned paper and embellishments. What a cute way to wrap up you Valentine’s this year! You can find the box pattern HERE. Thanks Debbie for sharing your creativity with us, we love your work!
Last week at CHA Marie Browning taught a great Tombow Specialist Degree Course and the response has been great. Everyone is raving about it which definately makes me wish more people could have experienced this great class! So today We’ll share our handout because there are a few *MUST HAVE TECHNIQUES* in there!! So CLICK on the tombow instructions below and DOWNLAOD it, PRINT it, USE it, and PLAY! We’ve love to see what you come up with!!
