Posts Tagged ‘Dual Brush Pens’
Just Jingle… all the way!
I’ve been a loyal blog follower of our guest designer, Jennifer Ingle, for years now. Let me first say that her ideas and writing will suck you in with inspiration and giggles and if you just happen to start poking around over there and suddenly realize 2 hours has past well…. I won’t say ‘I told you so.’ Okay now on to some of her latest creations!
An Altered Ikea Mirror…
SO cute! These would make adorable Thank You gifts and seriously so cute. Made with MONO Aqua Liquid Glue, MONO MULTI Liquid Glue, and MONO Adhesive Tape POWERBOND.
more? well since Jennifer has so much- A Chocolate Card! (and who doesn’t love chocolate?!)
Using Tombow Adhesive Tape Powerbond (for ric-rac and ribbon) Mono Glue Pen and Mono Permanent Adhesive Runner.
Wait? Theres more! Yeah, this girl seems to come up with projects more often then I eat… which is really sayin’ something! Check out this awesome card using Tombow Mono Adhesive Tape POWERBOND. Look at all that texture?! Seriously it adds so much to the finished product. We really have all fallen in love with Jennifer’s work, can you tell?! So… we’ve decided to really spice things up. Leave a comment on today’s post letting us know what you think of our guest designer and be entered to win Jennifer’s three Favorite Tombow Adhesives, POWERBOND, Mono Glue Pen and the classic MONO Permanent Adhesive Roller. We’ll also throw in a pack of her favorite MANGA DUAL BRUSH PENS! Be sure to check out Jennifer’s Blog- Just Jingle for another chance to win the same Tombow sponsored love!
I have been planning this Guest Designer for weeks and I am SOOO excited to share with you her uber creativity. Jennifer Ingle is a gem, full of personality, fun and artistic talent. Of course she loves Tombow too! This card uses our Dual Brush Pens (Jennifer loves our Blender Pen) and PowerBond, aren’t the colors BEAUTIFUL?!
I asked Jennifer a few questions to get a peak into her creative process … and be sure to check back tomorrow for a fun surprise and WAY MORE of Jennifer’s work!
Where do you live? Massachusetts
Family? I have a wonderful husband and two black labs, Maggie and Thatcher. They are my little girls! LOL!
How would you describe your style? Yes. HA! I love trying new things and working according to how I feel. Because of this, my style changes with my mood!
How long have you been scrapping? Oh, it’s been a long time now…over 10 years.
What’s your favorite Tombow product? Hmmm…that’s a tricky on, but I think I have to go with the Mono Permanent Adhesive. It’s a classic and I am never without one handy!
What size do you scrapbook? 1 pg or 2? . Mostly 12×12, single page. I’m interested in doing more mini albums, though.
Do you make cards? Yup! LOTS! I love card making!
What is your creative space like? I am fortunate enough to have a room just for crafting. My studio is set up so that I have a view of my supplies and things like tools and adhesives are very close for quick access.
Is your scrap area messy or neat? Messy.
What camera do you use? Right now I’m shooting a simple Nikon point and shoot. It’s a great little camera. I plan to move to a dslr, as I used to shoot the N75 35mm slr, but that will come later.
Your favorite ink? Close to My Heart and Ranger
Where do you find your inspiration? EVERYWHERE! The world is so full of it!
Hand journaling or computer? Both.
What’s your favorite scrapbooking color? Hmmm….kraft, maybe? I love red, though, so you will see that in my work a lot.
What’s your most-used scrapbook tool? My CutterBee scissors.
Are you a slow scrapper or a quick scrapper? I would say I am in between. I can do a layout in a few hours. Sometimes they come quicker and other times they take forever.
What’s your favorite quote? Honestly, I don’t really have one.
What do you do to get out of a creative ‘funk? I look to magazines and books for inspiration and I get together with other creative people.
What project have you done that you are most proud of? Lately I have been creating dolls and I am really proud of those. They are a whole new way for me to express myself.
Give us your favorite tip: You didn’t screw it up – you just changed your plan. – In other words, take advantage of mishaps and use them to be creative and try something new or unexpected! Sometimes you will find you are happier with it in the end!!!
This week we’re pulling out a few of our favorites over the last year… just in case you missed them the first time around. 
and just because I’m feeling generous and super summer-y let’s throw in a giveaway for good measure. Just take a few minutes to look through our archives and then comment on any (or all) of this week’s posts with your top 2 favorite posts since we started …. winner announced next Monday!
Today’s ‘best of’ is a favorite video…. Summer Paper Hibiscus, watch the video HERE.
If you like this you might also like the Vintage Paper Roses and the Daisy with Dragonflies video’s too.
Paper Posies is a monthly scrapbooking kit club dedicated to bringing theirmembers the hottest and newest scrapbook products on the market. The kits are chock-full of patterned papers, specialty papers, cardstock, always two alphabets, ribbons/trims, tons of embellishments, and an alterable project (and this month, some added Tombow gifts!). Their Design Team gallery is ALWAYS full of inspiration and ideas on ways to use the product in the kits. They have challenges (and PRIZES!) going on ALL month long to keep creativity readily flowing. Add to that a fun and friendly message board with a live, online chat every Friday at 11am PST and a regularly updated blog and you can see exactly why we are so excited to partner with them this month!! This week we’ll be featuring projects from our DT using the Paper Posie’s July kit. Of course we’ll be doing our amazing giveaway at the end of the week so don’t be shy, you won’t want to miss out!
Old Fashioned Picnic Invitation
The Paper Posie package arrived and I was immediately motivated by the sizable assortment of paper and superfluities – a beautiful collection of soft, romantic colors that quickly inspired a vintage project. With Independence Day coming up I thought an old fashioned picnic was called for, complete with a fun invitation.
The invitation includes a pocket in the front, held down firmly with MONO Adhesive Permanent. Place the i
nvitation, chipboard tickets or even a menu into the pocket.
The ruffled ribbon accent is super easy to make. Lay down the MONO Adhesive Power Bond and a very thin line of Mono Multi Liquid Glue onto your project. Take a length of ribbon (I usually work right off the roll), and pleat it down the adhesive in a back and forth fashion. Don’t worry about being perfect, the irregularities in the size and direction of the pleats are what make this embellishment so endearing. The adhesive holds the pleats in place as you work and the Multi Glue holds it forever, especially when working with wider ribbons.
The chipboard tickets were colored with the Dual Brush Pens, with the easiest and fastest way ever to finish ‘raw’ chipboard! I used #723 pink and #126 light olive to match the Paper Posie package. Scribble the colors onto a piece of plastic and spritz with water. Place the chipboard down into the color and lift. Repeat until it is covered with color. To give the antique edge, and while still wet, run a #977 saddle brown Brush tip around the edge. The brown will blend as the chipboard dries.
I finished the pieces by stamping details with brown ink.
The Paper Posie package was not even dented – so I created a page ready to add favorite photos and journaling after the picnic! I would most likely antique the photos before printing to match the theme of the page. I mirrored the pocket from the invitation and kept the design simple with a quad panel showing off the pretty papers. This would also make a fun gift for an honored guest at your picnic.
-Marie
I loved this assignment. Something about trying something new and getting our of my comfort zone really gives me new perspective on how I create and with how hectic my summer is I was really drawn to the idea that a Zentangle could actually calm me down and relax my attitude. For my zentangle I grabbed a couple 4×6 and 3×4 card stock pieces because I knew I wanted to incorporate a few of the styles into my Project Life album. I made up about a dozen different styles for things we are doing this year. Swimming, gardening, sandbox time and running through the sprinklers. Some turned out better then others but the process was all relaxing and very invigorating. I loved the layers it took to create each piece. I can’t wait to try it again on a larger scale… maybe making an entire background paper for a layout or something. I’ll be catching up on my Project Life album together this weekend and I post a few picts soon. Enjoy your creative weekend!
-Joanna
We promised you a manga illustration and a Tombow Tale in our May 27 post, and that’s exactly what you’re going to get! This illustration, created by Nate Morris, is featured on the packaging for our Shojo Dual Brush Pen Set.
We were so inspired by the illustration that we created a Tombow Tale to tell the story of how this wonderful drawing came to be. Check out the story below and tell us what you think of Yumiko and her magical Shojo Dual Brush Pen Set.
“tangle” supplies;
Tombow MONO Adhesive Dots , Tomobw Dual Brush Pen – N15 black , Tomow White Gel Pen
the idea of the “ZENTANGLE” is interesting to me. all those doodles in
the notebooks of my college classes actually have a name now! well, unfortunately i am
not much of a doodler now, but i took inspiration from the zentangle
and put it toward my scrapbooking.
this layout was inspired by the doodling now called zentangle. Both the pattern paper blocks on the page and the title were a result of the research i have done concerning zentangle. the result is a fun technique that fits my style. i’m coining my own phrase and calling it a “scrap-tangle”!
using coordinating pattern papers (all of mine came from OCTOBER AFTERNOON’s recess line) i cut (mostly) straight lines from one of the pattern papers. then using the other coordinating patterns i filled in a 4″ square piece of white cardstock. the final result is similar to the different doodling one might do with they were creating their own zentangle.
*tips* (because i tried this three different ways)
*you can doodle a zentangle first.
i took my 4″ square piece of white cardstock and drew directly on it first.
then using a piece of vellum i laid it over the design and traced it.
next i flipped the piece of vellum over onto the pattern paper i wanted to use and re-traced the lines on the back side of the vellum.
this will transfer the lead from the front side of the vellum to the pattern paper.
now you have a guide to cut out your shapes out of patterned paper.
a suggestion with this method – number each piece that is traced on the vellum AND on the pattern paper. so when all of your pieces are cut out you can fit it together like a puzzle with a pattern.
*another way to do this is to use scraps pieced together
generously apply adhesive to the background you want to use, again mine was the 4″ square, and then apply pattern paper. i used the Tombow MONO dot runner, as it is a little more forgiving if the pieces need to be adjusted.
then after laying down the background pieces i covered the seams, where the pattern papers came together, with the bold strips.
*keep all of your “bold” strips the same pattern paper. it will keep a cohesive feel to the final piece.
*try to make your bold lines wavy, not always straight
*use your Tombow Dual Brush Markers and ink the edges of the pieces being put together. it makes the “scrapped zentangle” have more definition.
“scrap-tangle”!
Tombow is highlighting their Mono White Gel Pen this month and at the same time Joanna challenged us to a Zentangle inspired project. It was a tall order but once I rec’d the lovely Capella packet from Basic Grey (I know!! One of my all time favorite paper companies!!) I knew I could do it. I had a direction that turned out so very vintage and lovely!
For this card I used Basic Grey paper, brads and some lovely vintage lace from my stash that matched perfectly! To keep with the scallop and circle theme in my “zentangle” drawing, I punched one edge of BG paper with an eyelet scallop punch.
I colored my Zentangle image with Tombow DBP’s and put the whole card together with Tombow’s Mono-Adhesive Dots. I am pretty pleased with how it turned out. It was a fun challenge.
-Debbie
When I got this assignment I have to admit…I started out a little bit nervous and spent more time than necessary just thinking about what I should do. I may be other things, but I’m not a “pen” artist…I leave all that drawing business to my husband and boys who are pros. I’m a stick figure and basic map kind of girl, and that’s about it, so this was going to be so hard! Nope, totally wrong. Just getting the pen to the paper was really the difficult part, because once I began I was really surprised to see how easily the design flowed.
I made two gift tags for a few upcoming baby shower gifts using Chipboard pieces, both of them are colored with Tombow Dual Brush Pens first and then allowed them plenty of time to dry well. After they were dry, I went about creating my Zentangle-inspired creation on top of the color with the Tombow Mono Gel White Pen. I’ll punch holes in them and then string organza ribbon through both before I attach them to their bags. The first is an “H”, I wanted to have a doily effect. The second is a tiny round tag, and I was a little more abstract with this one. I like the look of the white over the color, make sure and give that a try! And now that I conquered my silly fear…I’ll be using this technic a lot more now!
P.S. While I was working on these, both my older boys came over and watched and decided they needed to make Zentangles too. I was really impressed with what they came up with…Show your children the basic concept, give them a small paper and a pen, and you’ll be amazed at their creativity!
A sneak preview of what I have been working on – coloring Zentangles with Tombow Dual Brush Pens. What is a Zentangle®? It is basically a doodle – a doodle that reduces stress and improves your focus while you create a beautiful piece of art. Traditional Zentangles® were developed by Maria Thomas and Rick Roberts. They use Zentangles® as a ritual way to meditate and give you a sense of well being. Their mantra is “Anything is possible one stroke at a timeTM”
Although not a traditional zentangle technique, I love to color the Zentangles® with the Tombow Dual Brush Pens. Tombow offers 96 different colors and a colorless blending pen to provide an endless array of color combinations and shades. I used a permanent black pen to create the tangles and then choose my colors.
The Dual Brush Pen palette used in this Zentangle® are:
173 – Willow Green 195 – Light Green 245 – Sap Green 451 – Sky Blue 452 – Process Blue 493 – Reflex Blue 761- Carnation 723 – Pink 743 – Hot Pink N00 – Blender
All this week the design team will be posting their take on Zentangles and the many ways they were inspired by this simple, relaxing process so check back often, you’ll be amazed at all the different ways Zentangle can show up in your everyday creations!
