Art & Craft Tutorials

Marie Browning

I Love the yummy colors of the Irojiten Colored Pencils! The pale colored volumes are especially nice. I often use them on colored papers to give me wonderful effects. I am using assorted colors of pastel paper from Canson but any smooth colored paper works as well. Here is a […]

Irojiten Tipnique by Marie Browning

March 26, 2012 in Design Team / General tagged Irojiten Color Dictionary Pencils / Marie Browning by Marie Browning

To easily transfer a pattern onto thick paper, such as watercolor paper, make your own graphite paper using Tombow Drawing Pencils. Take a copy of your pattern (My favorite is source is copy-right free Clip Art from Dover Publications) and with a 5B Drawing Pencil, cover the backside of the […]

Tombow Drawing Pencil Tipnique by Marie Browning

March 12, 2012 in General tagged Dual Brush Pens / Irojiten Colored Pencils / Marie Browning / MONO Drawing Pencils / MONO NP Eraser / MONO Removeable Adhesive Runner by Marie Browning

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 […]

Colorful Zentangle Inspired Friendship Bracelets by Marie Browning

February 20, 2012 in Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks / Zentangle tagged Dual Brush Pens / Fastener Tabs / Marie Browning / Tombow Adhesives by admin

This drawing technique is the art of removing. You can quickly create beautiful drawings with the subtractive technique using thin metal stencils, Tombow Drawing Pencils and Tombow Erasers. This is a very different and enjoyable technique and can be used with any stencil image to make appealing little pencil drawings […]

Subtractive Drawing with Tombow MONO Drawing Pencils and Zero Erasers ...

February 13, 2012 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / General tagged Marie Browning / MONO Drawing Pencils / MONO NP Eraser / MONO Removeable Adhesive Runner / MONO Zero Eraser by admin

Here’s a pretty little butterfly with heart shaped wings flown in just in time for jazzing up your love notes for Valentines Day! A quick review of how to make the teardrop stroke with the Dual Brush Pens from Tombow: Teardrop Stroke: Using the brush tip, ‘dab‘ onto the paper […]

Heart Wing Butterfly DoodleDab by Marie Browning

February 6, 2012 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / General tagged Dual Brush Pens / Marie Browning by admin

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

Color Combinations Using the New 2012 Colors by Marie Browning

January 30, 2012 in Design Team / General tagged Dual Brush Pens / Irojiten Colored Pencils / Marie Browning / MONO Multi Liquid Glue by admin

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 […]

Impressed Color Drawing TipNique by Marie Browning

January 16, 2012 in General tagged Irojiten Colored Pencils / Marie Browning by admin

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 […]

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

January 9, 2012 in General tagged Dual Brush Pens / Marie Browning / Tombow Irojiten Color Dictionary Pencils by admin

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, […]

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

December 19, 2011 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / General tagged Dual Brush Pens / Marie Browning by admin

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 […]

Dual Brush Pen Holiday Doodle Dabs By Marie Browning

December 5, 2011 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / General tagged Dual Brush Pens / Marie Browning by admin

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 […]

“Fine Pen” Tip-niques by Marie Browning

November 28, 2011 in General tagged Irojiten Colored Pencils / Marie Browning by admin

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 […]

Image Transfer “Tip-nique” By Marie Browning

November 21, 2011 in Design Team / General tagged Foam Tabs / Marie Browning / MONO Aqua Liquid Glue / MONO Multi Liquid Glue by admin