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Vintage Beauty…..by Melissa Cash
Hi there! This week our theme is “What’s New”. Each year Pantone comes out with the new “in” color for the year and for 2012 it is Tangerine Tango. Today I am going to share a card with you that I created using a monochromatic color scheme and a pretty little flower. I used the Tombow Stamp Runner-Permanent Adhesive , Tombow Power Tabs and Dual Brush Pen #885 (Warm Red).
I inked up the sentiment with the Warm Red #885 Dual Brush Pen and stamped it onto some cream cardstock. I assembled the card layers using the Tombow Stamp Runner, leaving the top right corners adhesive free. You will roll these down for a little added dimension to your card. Next, you will use the stamp runner to apply adhesive to the backside of your ribbon/trims and lay them across the card. I didn’t have the right color of pearls, but no worries. I used the Dual Brush Pen (#885) to color them for a perfect match. Give it a try, you will be amazed at how easy it is to color match using the Dual Brush Pens.
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i have lost count as to how many organizing ideas i have tried out. well, add this to the countless number.calendars are great, but they never seem to give me enough room to write what i need to. or more importantly what my family needs to see.
so i thought i’d give this a try. i made magnets for each day of the week. then i put them on my fridge with a piece of paper under each one. it is easier for everyone to see what is going on that day, who is going where, and what needs to be done.
crossing my fingers for an organized 2012 (while still using my organizational binder, and my bill sorter, and my kid’s daily schedule…i told you i have tried many ideas!) to make the magnets i used Tombow Dual Brush Pens to color raw chipboard. the colors seep in nicely to the chipboard textures leaving an even and soft color.with 96 colors it is easy to find a color to match the papers i was working with. with a circle punch i made 7 circles and inked the edges with a dark brown Dual Brush Pen. then using Tombow MONO Multi Liquid Glue i layered all the pieces together -raw chipboard circle, pattern paper, marker – colored chipboard, with a raw magnet on the back. the Multi is strong enough that even the force of raw magnets will not separate the magnet and the chipboard, and tacky so it holds the paper and the chipboard well without warping or bubbling because it is too wet.
as an experiment i wanted to see what would happen if i coated the raw chipbaord with Tombow MONO Aqua Liquid Glue before coloring it with a Tombow Brush Pen. the result was a slightly more vibrant color with a shine. see the difference between the flower with Aqua and the circle without?
wishing all a HAPPY NEW YEAR and HAPPY CRAFTING!
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Is the last ABC Week of the year!! I hope you enjoyed this year with us as much as I enjoyed being on this awesome team!! For this project I felt like doing something a little more free and for me instead of making something that needed to be perfect for my daughter or someone else. I just came across a list call 33 Ways To Stay Creative and I just loved it!! This is a must project for every craftroom or crafty friend and I think we all need to take a little something of this awesome list. It helped me a lot!!
For this project I went simple green, meaning that I used Toilet Paper Rolls for the base of this mini and then used 6×6 patterned paper and Mono Multi Liquid Glue to cover the rolls. The Mono Multi Liquid Glue also work for embellishments like the felt flower I made, the feather and of course the paper butterfly. The great thing about a mini like this is that you don’t need to buy extra stuff to make it, so if your New Year’s Resolution is to hoard less paper or embellishments this is a great project. I just used whatever I had laying around my craftroom. I used 5 toilet paper rolls and on the inside I took a 2×8 piece of cardstock and fold it in half, that way each piece had 4 pages. That was a total of 20 spaces to write the 33 ways to stay creative. I picked my favorite ten and used them for the outside of the paper rolls and the rest were displayed on the cards. Instead of printing the list or using my handwriting I used lots of alpha stickers, punch outs and my label maker. I used my Tombow Dual Brush Pens to doodle, color stamps and stamp some of my images.
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I used a lot of alphas and mixed some of them up because for some reason there are never enough vowels, r or s. I also used decorative tapes, border punches and paper scraps. I used my Stamp Runner for the scraps, the stamp feature of the Stamp Runner is great for those tiny pieces of paper. I also used some free downloads to print.
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I loved making this kind of inspirational project, without a doubt I’ll be making a few of these in 2012. Well, I think this project takes care of #33. Do you think you are in the mood to try some of the things of this list?
I know some Tombow Products that can help you…
I hope you liked this project!!
Take Care and See Ya Next Year!!
Did you all have a Merry Christmas? If you have a large family like I do, you may still be celebrating. We have one more gathering at my cousin’s New Year’s Eve day and my youngest son’s birthday is tomorrow, so we will be having a party then as well.
With all the Christmas projects I’ve made lately, I decided to share with you a non-Christmas looking project, even though I made these as gifts. They are so quick and easy to do…altered mini composition note pads.
**A timesaver tip: I stamp a bunch of images onto cardstock, cut apart and keep in an envelope. I take them to work when I’m going to stay at school over my lunch break and color (we only get 30 minutes for lunch, takes me 5-10 minutes to eat, so I have plenty of time to color Ü). Then when I have time, I just match the colored images to paper and create whatever.
For this particular project, I just covered the notebook with papers using Mono Adhesive Power Bond and colored the images with Irojiten Pencils. These are so handy to have extra on hand so that you have a little something for someone when you need it.
I hope you enjoyed this quick and easy project. I would like to wish you a very Happy New Year! We have some fun things to share with you next year starting just next week. Be sure to come back and invite your friends too!
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this week’s blog hop allowed me the opportunity to stretch my creative juices and take these fun stickers past just paper and try using them in a different way.
and added a bow to the top of the ornament and tied on some gold cording. the result is an outline of the image, that allows light through, and glows when it hangs on the Christmas tree. and i love it!
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We are three days away from Christmas, can you believe it?!
But before the year is over we got to play with stickers from Elizabeth Crafts which are very versatile, fun, cool and they work perfect with the Tombow Dual Brush Pens.
For my first card I used some of Marie’s Tips on Monday, isn’t she a genius?! After I used the sticker to color the negative space I cleaned it a bit with a wipe or dry cloth and stuck it behind the strip I made. For the sentiment I used a rubber stamp with my Tombow Dual Brush Pens and then added a tiny bit of water with a water mister and it worked gorgeous because it made it darker in a few corners like a shadow but it covered evenly. I also used the Tombow Dual Brush Pens for the Faux Stitching. In case you didn’t noticed *the Tombow Dual Brush Pens work for coloring, rubber stamping, doodling and calligraphy. They would make the perfect gift for that special crafty person in your life. I know I love mine because they amp up every project I make.
On my second card I went Springy, I know is Winter but I don’t do so well with winter temperatures and I can’t wait for Spring. These bird stickers are the cutest!! I wanted to make a little scene based on the sentiment which says “Follow Your Dreams” in Spanish. I took simple white frame and I stamped my sentiment there and then I doodled the border to spice it up and I did the same to the leaves. When I glued the leaves with my Mono Multi Liquid Glue I just applied glue to one point on the leaf under the branch and bent the other to give it some dimension. For the clouds I used Tombow Foam Tabs and for the bird I stacked two Foam Tabs together.
Doing the mask technique with my Tombow Dual Brush Pens was really fun, I hope to try it again soon!!
I hope you liked my project!!
Take Care!!
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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