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Give Me A Hug Card!! By Jennie Garcia
The theme for the week is Give Me A Hug !! I love this stamp set not just because is super cute but I get to do two of my favorite things when I stamp: paper piecing and coloring.
I always start with the image and then I decide what the background will be. First I picked their clothes, or the pattern paper to paper piece their clothes and then I stamp the image to cut their clothes. Then I decide what color to use on the hair, eyes, etc. Since these are gnomes I have permission to use any colors I want which I love! I color the parts I want to color with my Tombow Dual Brush Pens BEFORE I glue the clothes with my Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue. Using my Stamp Runner Dot Adhesive I made a simple background with a hill and a pair of rays. I doodled the background before adding the gnomes with Foam Tabs. I also used twine and a cloud for the sentiment.
I think this is a pretty magical card. Don’t you think?! 
I hope you liked my magic!!
Take Care!!
i have a very affectionate family. and my kids are still young, so they don’t mind giving me a hug or kiss…most of the time. and they will even give each other hugs!
as i was going through pictures i came across several that caught little signs of affection without them being staged or posed. those are the sweetest ones.
sometimes it is just good to use pictures of one theme, even though they don’t all fit on a time line together.
this is layout #8 for the year.
i used Tombow MONO Adhesive Dots to adhere the paper and the pictures, and Tombow MONO Multi Liquid Glue for little metal tag.
i also put the handy MONO Glue Pen to work by going over the flower petals and adding crushed velvet flock to create a softness within the layout. the glue in the pen is perfect for holding the flock in place. even little fingers trying to rub it off will be no match for the Glue Pen. and just in case you haven’t used the Glue Pen before, it is good to know that the formula used in the glue does not adhere to your skin. so when you are laying the flock down onto the glue you can press it down with your fingers and it won’t stick to it. no mess! (unless you spill the flock…cause that can get messy! been there!)
so go ask someone for a hug! we all need them!
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Is that time of the month when we give cards a week free to make other type of projects. I love making layouts and I plan to do a whole lot more. For those of you, brave people who are making the LOAD (Layout A Day) Project I hope you are all set with your Tombow products to tackle this quest. Since I’m not that brave I’ll stick to a Layout each week, here is my Layout for this week.
I’ve wanting to do this background for a while and I found this great photo to use. First I sketched it on a blank page but you can also do it on the back of your page. Maybe you can even free hand it but I am a perfectionist. After gluing the stripes I matted my photo with the Stamp Runner Dot Adhesive which is the one I always use since is Acid Free and glues smoothly. I doodled all the stripes and I used my Tombow Dual Brush Pens with the fine tip ideal for perfect doodling. I used alpha stickers for the title and I drew a line around the letters so they can stand out and I added twine to some of the letters. I hold the twine in it’s place using the Mono Aqua Liquid Glue and for a little extra detail I like using a staple on both ends. On the right I clustered many embellishments like the journaling and Bingo Card Stamp, some Puch Outs, the brad, and for the tag I colored the brown hole protector with a Tombow Dual Brush Pen and added Twine. For the green embellishment in the center I glued the Bubble Cap with my Mono Multi Liquid Glue and Glued the green part to the layout using Power Tabs. On the corners for balance I used the punch outs, brads and twine and in the bottom I used Tiny Alphas.
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I hope you liked my layout!!
Take Care!!
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can you handle one more LOVE/VALENTINE related post? i hope so, because this one is too cute to pass by.
i found the idea on Pinterest to melt crayons to create little valentime hearts. it was very easy to do, and my daughter totally loved breaking the crayons.
once i had the crayons melted down and cooled, and my clever husband printed the heart base for the card, i got to work attaching the crayon hearts. the wonderful thing about Tombow having so many different adhesives is that there is always something that will work to get the job done. for this project it was the Tombow Power Tabs! these sticky squares are strong…strong enough to hold the crayon to the cardstock without the fear of it falling off. i packaged the hearts in individual plastic bags, so they wouldn’t “draw” on each other, but once in the bag i didn’t want the crayon to come off the card and color on that. but they stayed put with the Power Tabs.
thank you Pinterest, the original creator of the heart crayon, and TOMBOW for making our Valentine’s homemade and extra special.
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This week at Tombow is Designer’s Choice and since I love making layouts all I needed was a photo.The other day I was going through some High School pictures and thinking about how things were back then. So I made this layout documenting some of my favorite things at the age of 15.
I matted all the patterned paper with black cardstock using my Stamp Runner Dot Adhesive. Sometimes I like to use double mat like in the picture and the journaling card. For the banner I used my Tombow Foam Tabs to emphasize the title and birds. I used my Tombow Dual Brush Pens to doodle on the blocks of patterned paper including the base. The little Attention Man is one of the icons of the Cricut Imagine that I cut and printed. I thought that it was a bit too bland a little boring and I used my Tombow Dual Brush Pens to make him more snazzy. I used a page of a Roll Book for part of the title and to journal. I used my Tombow Dual Brush Pens to stamp the red flowers on the title. I also used some Twine and to keep the bow in place I used the Mono Aqua Liquid Glue. I matted the Roll Book page and added a little bit of patterned paper to make a nice journaling card. For each topic I used some bling as a bullet point. Using my Stamp Runner Dot Adhesive I made a pocket with the journaling tag to put a shipping tag inside, in case I remember more things. The hand is also from the Imagine and I also used the #025 Light Orange to color some details like that fine string on the finger.
Tombow Dual Brush Pens are a great way to add detail to some pieces that may be a little simple.
I hope you liked my layout!!
Take Care!!
Sometimes we hold onto supplies long enough that they become the perfect thing we need to finish a project. such as it was this time with this vellum quote…”truly, madly, deeply”. luckily i had on hand my Tombow MONO Clear Adhesive Runner. take a close look…can’t see it can you. i love giving close ups on vellum and transparency projects, because the adhesive is quite invisible.
the rest of the layout was put together with Tombow MONO Permanent Adhesive Runner and the journaling was done with Dual Brush Pen # N25.
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This is a great project for children and teens. There is a really nice YouTube presentation of traditional black and white friendship bracelets – this is a colorful Tombow version using the Dual Brush Pens.
Start by cutting strips 8 ½” x ¾” from ordinary cover stock paper. You will also need to cut ¾” strips from overhead transparencies or other clear plastic sheet.
Choose your Dual Brush Pen colors – the best color combinations are those that are close together on the color wheel – some suggestions include: Greens and Blues: 195 Light Green, 373 Sea Blue, and 565 Deep Blue, Pinks and Purples: 725 Rhodamine Red, 665 Purple, and 606 Violet, Oranges and Reds: 933 Orange, 725 Rhodamine Red and 815 Cherry.
Draw the designs onto the paper strip – you can get lots of design ideas from the Zentangle Books from Design Originals.
Use the Dual Brush Blender Pen and blend all the colors together. Let dry.
With Clear Adhesive apply two strips of adhesive to the top of the colored paper strip. Place the clear strip over and rub firmly with a bone folder.
Trim the bracelet to a ½” strip and to a length to fit around your wrist. Cut a Fastener Tab in half and apply to the ends of the bracelet. It’s now ready to wear and share with friends!
This is such a fun project, I hope you enjoyed it and hope you share this with all your friends and tean that enjoy making their own Frienship bracelets.Until next time…
Happy Crafting… 
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The theme for this week is “Pencil Me In” and I came across this awesome Digi Stamp and I just had to try it. I am trying to pile up some cards for Operation Write Home and I thought that this card would work great for the cause.
I love Tombow Dual Brush Pens they are unbelievable easy to blend, take it from me, when it comes to coloring I am kind of a newbie. I really wanted to use that green conversation bubbles patterned paper but I didn’t want the girl to blend in the green. So I made this pattern and put it together with my Stamp Runner. For my cute girl I paper pieced the pencil and I used Tombow Foam Tabs to give it some pop and I also used Tombow Foam Tabs on the whole girl. Since this is an easel card I need that bottom piece to hold the card. If you knew that I would use Tombow Foam Tabs you are absolutely right. For the sentiment I did some double matting, which I love to do with sentiments because it gives it a little bit extra detail. I used twine tied to the red brads so I used the small Tombow Foam Tabs on the corners to lift it without interfering with the twine. To hold the twine and bling in place I used the Mono Aqua Liquid Glue.
Here you can see all the Dual Brush Pens I used. I love my Foam Tabs they are super durable and for this cause we need tough adhesive.
I hope you liked my card!!
Take Care!!
