Art & Craft Tutorials

Tombow Dual Brush Pens

It’s Halloween Card Week here on the Tombow USA blog and I am excited to experiment! I created a trio of cards that I can’t wait to share with you now! Start out with A2 Kraft card blanks. Measure and cut three squares from 90 lb. Watercolor paper 4″ […]

Watercolor Halloween Cards by Beth Watson

October 13, 2015 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / General tagged Beth Watson / cards / Halloween / Tombow Adhesive Dots / Tombow Dual Brush Pens / Tombow Foam Tape / Tombow Xtreme Adhesive / Watercolor by Beth Watson

Hello and Happy Saturday! We hope you have thoroughly enjoyed our lineup of guest letterers this week. But, as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. We’re capping off our Lettering Week with a whimsical lettering tutorial by our very own Signature Designer, Marie Browning. With more […]

Lettering Tips from Signature Designer Marie Browning

October 3, 2015 in Design Team / Giveaways / Guest Designers / Handlettering / Parties & Entertaining tagged Hand lettering / Lettering / Marie Browning / Tombow Dual Brush Pens / Tombow Glue Pen by Tombow USA

Lauren Fitzmaurice is a left-handed calligrapher from Owensboro, Kentucky. She is also a full-time teacher, wife, and mommy to two sweet boys, Lauren enjoys a good doodle and working on lettering projects in her spare time. She believes that lettering makes life more fun and also loves to encourage and learn […]

Lettering Week: Tombow like a Lefty with Lauren!

October 2, 2015 in Guest Designers / Handlettering / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Fudenosuke Pen / Hand lettering / Lauren Fitzmaurice / Lettering / Tombow Dual Brush Pens / Tombow like a Lefty by Jennie Garcia

Howdy Letterers! I’m Abby G, I live in Dallas. Yes, I love lettering! A quick intro about me…Weekdays I’m a full time Art Director for a crafting company. At night, I’m a full-time illustrator and hand letterer. I’ve been in this industry since I was 8. However, my relationship with hand […]

Lettering Week: Spacing, Colors and Glue Pen Fun with Abby!

October 1, 2015 in Guest Designers / Handlettering / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Abby Guempel / Fudenosuke Pen / Hand lettering / Lettering / MONO Glue Pen / Tombow Dual Brush Pens by Jennie Garcia

Hi Tombow! My name is Maia Then and I am the art Director of a Publishing Agency. I live in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic where I make all my lettering! When I say that I Love Lettering it falls short! I’ve been practicing for 6 years and I’m lucky to […]

Lettering Week: Big, Bold and Colorful Lettering with Maia!

September 30, 2015 in Guest Designers / Handlettering / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Fudenosuke Pen / Hand lettering / Lettering / Maia Then / Tombow Dual Brush Pens by Jennie Garcia

Sharisse is a brush calligrapher located in Sacramento, California. She enjoys engaging with other calligraphers and handlettering artists and learning something new every day. When she is not chasing her toddler twin boys or working at her day job, you can find her creating, teaching, or blogging about brush calligraphy. […]

Lettering Week: Applying Pressure in Brush Calligraphy with Sharisse!

September 28, 2015 in Guest Designers / Handlettering / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Brush Calligraphy / brush lettering / guest designer / Hand lettering / Lettering / Tips / Tombow Dual Brush Pens by Jennie Garcia

This week we are remembering the past! You saw the 50’s, 60’s 70’s and 80’s. Now is my turn to share with you my 1990’s inspiration! I thought about the fashion… Oh God NO! That was an awful time for fashion! But then I thought about TV and I have […]

Brush Lettering inspired by FRIENDS! By Jennie Garcia

September 25, 2015 in Design Team / Handlettering tagged Hand lettering / Jennie Garcia / Lettering / Tombow Dual Brush Pens by Jennie Garcia

TGIF! This week we have all been inspired by music! I felt a little artsy so I drew a cassette. For those on you under 20, this is how we listened to music in the olden days. I always keep my Drawing Pencil and Tombow Mono NP Eraser handy, they are […]

Lettering Lyrics! By Jennie Garcia

September 11, 2015 in Design Team / Handlettering tagged Drawing Pencil / Fudenosuke Pen / Hand lettering / Jennie Garcia / Lettering / MONO Eraser / Tombow Dual Brush Pens by Jennie Garcia

Happy Friday! This week we have been playing with the color wheel! If we are talking about playing with colors we have to talk about the Tombow Dual Brush Pens and the Blending Kit! The Blending Palette is great for mixing colors for lettering but I also love it to […]

Playing with Colors! By Jennie Garcia

September 4, 2015 in Design Team tagged Blending Kit / Jennie Garcia / Tag / Tombow Dual Brush Pens by Jennie Garcia

I love thinking outside the box when it comes to crafting and since it is Back to School Week on the Tombow Blog, I decided to craft with actual school supplies! I created this pencil topped box, which would make a great gift for your child’s new teacher and would […]

Back to School Week – Pencil Topped Teacher Box

August 25, 2015 in Design Team / DIY Decor / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Beth Watson / Gift Giving / MONO Multi Liquid Glue / MONO Professional Drawing Pencils / Tombow Dual Brush Pens / Tombow MONO Plastic Eraser / Xtreme Permanent Adhesive by Beth Watson

Happy Friday! I hope you enjoyed this Mail Art Week so far! You have learned enough about customizing envelopes and making postcards. Today I’m going to share an out of the envelope mail art! I got the idea from an event called the Mail Social Club that happened in the […]

Out of the Envelope Mail Art! By Jennie Garcia

August 21, 2015 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / General / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Jennie Garcia / Mail Art / Tombow Dual Brush Pens / tombow mono aqua liquid glue / Tombow Xrteme Permanent Adhesive by Jennie Garcia

This week the Design Team Members are featuring Mail Art! Now I have to admit that I wasn’t sure what mail art was, but I am always decorating my envelopes and creating my own postcards, so I was creating Mail Art and didn’t even know it – LOL! Here are […]

Mail Art Week – Mixed Media Postcards

August 18, 2015 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team tagged Beth Watson / Mail Art / Mixed Media / Tombow Dual Brush Pens / Tombow Dual Tip Blender Pen / Tombow MONO Plastic Eraser / Tombow Mono Twin Permanent Marker / Tombow Xrteme Permanent Adhesive by Beth Watson