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Color Combinations Using the New 2012 Colors by Marie Browning

Sharron — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:00:06 +0000

Keeping on the theme of color this January, here is another color combination using the 2012 Top Ten colors

(January 9 Tombow Blog Posting)

With this project I have chosen both paper colors and Irojiten Coloring Pencil colors to create a muted floral combination using the following colors: (I have also Listed the matching Dual Brush Pen Colors.)

Irojiten V-7 King Fisher, Dual Brush Pen 528 Navy Blue Irojiten DI – 4 Sage Green, Dual Brush Pen 192 Asparagus Irojiten VP-1 Cameo Pink, Dual Brush Pen 723 Pink Irojiten P-20 Crocus, Dual Brush Pen 623 Purple Sage Irojiten Lg-2 Cork, Dual Brush Pen 992 Sand

I used the Dots Adhesive Stamp Runner to attach the ribbon and the torn colored panel onto the card front. I had a delicate piece of a paper wasp nest and added it to the corner by first applying the Dot Adhesive then laying down the wasp nest. I simply rubbed away the exposed adhesive. The bee charm was added using MONO Multi Liquid Glue.

This is a really fun and creative way to combine two differt coloring pproducts and achieve a great blending effect. I hope you enjoyed this project and learned a little more about Tombow’s products. If you enjoyed this post please follow us we’re on http://www.facebook.com/tombowusa and http://twitter.com/#!/tombowusa

Impressed Color Drawing TipNique by Marie Browning

Sharron — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:00:24 +0000

This drawing style uses Irojiten colored pencils and a technique that marks impressed lines on the paper with an embossing stylus before applying the color.

For the paper, I used a smooth, hot press watercolor paper. I then transferred a design to a piece of tracing paper to make the pattern. Tape the pattern onto to the watercolor paper and with a heavy hand; trace the pattern with the embossing stylus.Remove the tracing paper pattern to reveal the impressed line outline of the design.

After the main lines were impressed, I removed the pattern and added the filler design lines. I did this free hand without using a pattern and pressed hard to create the deepest impressed line possible.

I then start shading and adding color to the design. It’s kind of magical to watch the lines appear and stay white even with the hardest shading pressure. I go over the edges of the motif to make the lines show up best. It also adds a fanciful effect to the drawing.

The last shading uses darker colors and the heaviest shading to create the finished look. Do not be afraid to add lots of layers of different colors and darker hues for the most interesting drawings.

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Pantone Top 10 Spring/Summer Colors for 2012 By Marie Browning

Sharron — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:20:44 +0000

I have taken the Ten Top Pantone Colors for 2012 and matched them to Tombow Irojiten Colored Pencils and Tombow Dual Brush Pens. Even though the colors reflect fashions, color trends take their cue from lifestyle trends and filter down into scrapbooking, greeting cards and home décor.

Some of the colors are a perfect match and some are close. I only had to do one blended color with the Cabaret Irojiten color. Some Dual Brush Pen colors are a slightly darker color but would be a perfect match if blended out with the blending pen.

PANTONE 17-1463 Tangerine Tango

Provocative Tangerine Tango, an enticing juicy orange, is a vivacious and appealing refresher to enliven anyone’s outlook this spring. Tangerine Tango is also the color of the year!

Irojiten V-2 Tangerine Orange

Dual Brush Pen 905 Red

PANTONE 18-2140 Cabaret

Scintillating and sexy, Cabaret is a sensual and intense rosy-red

Irojiten Mix of V-1 Cherry Red and P-1 Orchid Pink

Dual Brush Pen 755 Rhodamine Red

PANTONE 13-0759 Solar Power

Providing a jolt of energy, Solar Power radiates warmth and cheer.

Irojiten P-13 Gamboge

Dual Brush Pen 985 Chrome Yellow

PANTONE 19-3953 Sodalite Blue

Sodalite Blue, a classic maritime hue, brings order and calmness to mind. Like an anchor to a ship, this dependable shade works with every color in the palette.

Irojiten V-7 King Fisher

Dual Brush Pen 528 Navy Blue

PANTONE 18-3628 Bellflower

Fanciful Bellflower, a distinct ornamental purple, exudes uniqueness and creativity.

Irojiten P-20 Crocus

Dual Brush Pen 623 Purple Sage

PANTONE 14-5420 Cockatoo

Cockatoo, a tactile blue-green, is sure to make spirits soar. This unusual hue adds a whimsical touch to the palette and makes a strong statement.

Irojiten P-17 Turquoise

Dual Brush Pen 373 Sea Blue

PANTONE 14-2808 Sweet Lilac

Fragrant Sweet Lilac evokes the fresh scents of summer. This delicate pinkish lilac adds a touch of romance.

Irojiten VP-1 Cameo Pink

Dual Brush Pen 723 Pink

PANTONE 14-0116 Margarita

Margarita, a piquant yellow-green, lifts spirits with its refreshing and stimulating glow. Reminiscent of a blossoming garden on an early spring morning,

Irojiten DI – 4 Sage Green

Dual Brush Pen 192 Asparagus

PANTONE 16-1120 Starfish

Starfish, a perfect warm neutral, complement all of the colors in this season’s top 10.

Irojiten Lg-2 Cork

Dual Brush Pen 992 Sand

PANTONE 18-1210 Driftwood

Natural, versatile neutrals add practicality to this season’s brights. Driftwood, an adaptable blend of beige and gray with a slightly weathered feel,

Irojiten D-10 Taupe

Dual Brush Pen N79 Warm Gray 2

What a wonderful world of color…and so many beautiful colors to choose from….I hope you enjoyed this project, if you did please follow us on

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Dual Brush Pens and Peel-offs are great card companions… by Marie Browning

Sharron — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:00:01 +0000

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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Dual Brush Pen Holiday Doodle Dabs By Marie Browning

Sharron — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:00:24 +0000

Ready for the holidays? Here are a few fun DoodleDabs to add to your cards, envelopes and tags!

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 onto
the 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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“Fine Pen” Tip-niques by Marie Browning

Sharron — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:00:49 +0000

I use a poem or a saying sometimes to inspire a journal page when I can’t think of anything to draw or write. I often need that extra visual stimulation that poetry offers to get me going on polishing my writing and drawing skills.

Here I used Robert Burn’s “A Red, Red Rose“ to fill a page with the poem and a rose pen drawing. I colored part of the rose with the Irojiten Color Pencils.

Writing and drawing in the journal is a pleasant experience when I use a fine pen . I am a huge fan of black ink color and blue ink rarely finds it way onto my journal pages!

I like the Tombow Ulltra pen for it’s bright silver color and it’s smooth, comfortable writing. I prefer the rollerball but it also comes in a ballpoint. This

contemporary designed pen is also refillable! Don’t forget, Tombow pens make a WONDERFUL gifts….

I hope you enjoyed this tip-nique, see you next week with more wonderful ideas from Tombow…

Image Transfer “Tip-nique” By Marie Browning

Sharron — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:00:23 +0000

Image transfer is a technique where you can adhere a piece of treated paper to a surface and render the image translucent. The sample shows a frame with the wood grain showing through the translucent image transfers for a romantic, vintage appearance. Light backgrounds usually work best with this technique but you can experiment with medium or dark backgrounds for interesting effects.

Step1: Apply a liberal amount of MONO Multi Liquid Glue to the front of the image using the broad applicator. Problems can occur if you do not apply enough glue. I left a slight unglued edge around the image that will give a distressed edge. If you wish a squared edge, make sure the glue is applied right to the edges. Immediately lay the image down onto the surface of the frame, image side own. Burnish softly with a damp cloth and avoid getting glue on backside of the image. Let the glue dry completely, overnight is best. With this technique, the image will be in reverse, so choose papers without words. If you want to use words with your own images, make a mirror image color photocopy (an ink-jet printer does not work).

Step 2: Spray the image with water and let it soak into paper. Gently peel off the paper by rubbing in small circles with your fingers. Remove the paper until you can see the image. If you scrub too vigorously, you may scrub away the image. Be gentle with the edges.

Step 3: Wipe off image and let dry – you can use a hair dryer to speed up the drying. When dry, you will see a white haze on the image, this means you need to repeat the water step and remove more paper. You can repeat this step until your image feels smooth. You will always have a little white haze on the image. It will disappear after you seal the image with two coats of clear matte acrylic varnish.

Step 4: Motifs from the decorative paper are cut out and adhered using the MONO Aqua Liquid Glue. These are a nice contrast to the translucent images.

Step 5: Add your embellishments. The keys were glued on with MONO Multi Liquid Glue and the flowers,
bows and flat marbles with Power Tabs.

This is a fun project and would make a great gift. Give it a try, you’ll be amazed at the results.

Until next time, happy crafting….

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Tombow “Tip-niques” ~ Brush Blending with Dual Brush Pens by Marie Browning

Sharron — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:00:10 +0000

This technique is a in-direct method that uses the blending palette. It’s perfect for coloring in a section of a stamped image when you want one color blending into another.

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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Tombow “Tip-niques” Holiday Flourish DoodleDab by Marie Browning

Sharron — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:00:24 +0000

This easy DoodleDab is nice for adding a little holiday flourish on your projects. Use it to decorate an envelope, add it to a stamped image or even embellish the Christmas Dinner Menu.

The Tombow Dual Brush Pens I am using for this DoodleDab: 277 DarkGreen, 195 Light Green, 845 Carmine

Step 1: Using the fine tip of the Dark Green marker, draw a curved line for the main stem.

Step 2: Using the brush tip, add the Dark green to the blending palette. Pick the Dark Green up from the palette with the Light Green marker using the brush tip. This will create a two-toned leaf.

Step 3: Using the Teardrop stroke, add the leaves in bunches of three or five.

Step 4: With the fine tip of the Dark Green marker, add curls and stems.

Step 5: With the fine tip of the Carmine marker, add the berries. Leave a tiny white
dot uncolored to create the highlight.

Envelope Sample Embellished Stamped image

Detail of Menu Sample

I hope you have enjoyed this unique “tip-nique” there are many uses for this , I am sure you can find many of your own for upcoming holiday events. Until next time, Happy crafting……

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Tombow “Tip-nique” Distressed Ribbon Flower by Marie Browning

Sharron — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:00:11 +0000

This is a fun project for kids and adults. Great for a Saturday or Sunday…

Step 1: For the base to create a distressed pleated flower on, punch out 1” circles from a scrap of decorative paper and coat with MONO Multi liquid Glue. Let dry completely clear. On another piece of scrap paper, make the center of the flower by gluing down a flat marble with the Multi glue. Let dry and then cut away the excess paper.

Step 2: For this technique, soft ribbons such as silks or organza ribbons work best. To distress the edge of the ribbon, run a piece of Permanent Adhesive onto a piece of scrap paper. Place the edge of the ribbon firmly onto the adhesive and then remove quickly to create the frayed edge.

Step 3: Attach the end of the ribbon to the paper circle and finger ruche the ribbon completely around. Trim off the excess ribbon. Do this for each layer you wish to create. The sample flower shows two layers, a distressed pink silk ribbon and a distressed green organza ribbon. Attach the layers together and flat marble for the center with Power Tabs.

Here’s the finished product, so sweet. You can make a pin out of this, an embelishment or anything your heat desires…I hope you enjoyed this, thanks for stopping by, I’ll see you next time witn more Tombow “Tip-niques”

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