Art & Craft Tutorials

Yearly Archives: 2017

Learn how to use Tombow USA dual brush pens to create simple watercolor valentines with @renmadecalligraphy. — If you want to put a handmade touch on your gifts for February 14th, this tutorial for simple watercolor Valentines will be the perfect amount of inspiration to get you started! Hey there lovelies!!!! Lauren (@renmadecalligraphy) here and I am so excited to show you a fun and simple way […]

How to Make Simple Watercolor Valentines

February 4, 2017 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / Handlettering / Mixed Media / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Blending Kit / Blending Palette / Brush Calligraphy / calligraphy / diy Valentine card / dual brush pen / Dual Brush Pens / Lauren Fitzmaurice / Lettering / Tombow Design Team / Valentine's Day / valentines / Watercolor / watercolor brush lettering / watercolor lettering by Lauren Fitzmaurice

Mixed Media Valentine Banner featuring Tombow Adhesives, Dual Brush Pens and Fudenosuke Soft Brush Twin Tip Pen — Happy early Valentine’s Day from Beth! Love is definitely in the air with Valentine’s Day right around the corner, so I created a Mixed Media Valentine Banner featuring Tombow Adhesives, plus a lot of other Tombow goodness. I am going to share a bunch of tips and tricks to utilize […]

Mixed Media Valentine Banner Featuring Tombow Adhesives

February 3, 2017 in Design Team / DIY Decor / General / Mixed Media / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Beth Watson / Mixed Media / Tombow Blending Palette / Tombow Dual Brush Pens / Tombow Foam Tape / Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pen Twin Tip / Tombow Mister / tombow mono aqua liquid glue / Tombow MONO Drawing Pencil / Tombow Xtreme Adhesive Tabs / Tombow Xtreme Permanent Adhesive / valentine / Valentine's Day by Beth Watson

Love Your Selfie Vision Board — Hi friends! Dani here and today I’m sharing a fun mixed media project with you! In honor of Valentine’s Day, I created a Love Your Selfie vision board because the most important person you can love is YOURSELF. Sometimes when I’m having a bad day or feeling down, it helps […]

Love Your Selfie Vision Board Using Tombow Dual Brush Pens

February 2, 2017 in Design Team / DIY Decor / General / Mixed Media / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Dani Manning / Dual Brush Pens / Mixed Media / MONO Permanent Adhesive Runner / photo board / PopFizzPaper / Tombow / Tombow Dual Brush Pens / vision board / Xtreme by Dani Manning

Hey Everyone! This is Jennie and love is in the air – or at least all over my desk while I made this little Valentine’s Day Mail Art project! I have a bunch of these canceled stamps that I got from the National Postal Museum and from friends. You can also […]

How To Make Valentine’s Day Mail Art

February 1, 2017 in Art Journaling / Design Team / Mixed Media tagged Blending Kit / Blending Palette / Jennie Garcia / Mixed Media / Mono Multi XL Liquid Glue / Tombow Dual Brush Pens / Tombow Mono Multi XL Liquid Glue / Valentine's Day by Jennie Garcia

Hello everyone, Katie here! Valentine’s Day is sneaking up on us so I wanted to create a little bit of mixed media Valentine’s art inspired by the holiday! Pink is my favorite color, so I was excited to have an excuse to use it. That being said, you could also make […]

Mixed Media Valentine’s Wood Slice Art

January 31, 2017 in Design Team / Mixed Media tagged art / Blending Kit / dual brush pen / Irojiten Colored Pencils / Mixed Media / MONO Aqua Liquid Glue / Tombow Xtreme Adhesive Tabs / Valentine's Day by Katie Smith

Hello Crafty friends! This is Smitha here and I am making a special Valentine Mixed Media Book today. So grab your supplies and get ready to cut and paste! Now a mixed media art piece basically means you can add in different media other than paper- like lace, rubber embellishments, […]

Valentine Mixed Media Book

January 30, 2017 in Art Journaling / Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / Mixed Media by Smitha Katti

An Easy Pencil Lettering Tutorial Using the Tombow MONO Drawing Pencil Set Hello everyone! Smitha here with my first post for 2017 and I am using one of my all time favorite tools- pencils! I am doing some easy pencil lettering and will also share a time lapse video of […]

Pencil Lettering with Tombow’s MONO Drawing Pencil Set

January 21, 2017 in Design Team / Handlettering by Smitha Katti

Hi Everyone! This is Jennie and today I’m showing you a little cubism art project I sketched using the NEW Tombow MONO Drawing Pencil Set. I know what you are thinking, 2005 called and they want their mp3 back –I have a reason for that. Whenever I get a few minutes […]

How to Make a Cubism Art Project

January 20, 2017 in Art Journaling / Design Team tagged Dual Brush Pens / Jennie Garcia / Tombow Dual Brush Pens / Tombow MONO Drawing Pencil Set by Jennie Garcia

Lettering with the Tombow Mono Drawing Pencil Set — Have you ever wondered how to pick the best pencil when you are doing a lettering project? There are so many different kinds of pencils out there and it’s not always clear which is the best to use in specific situations. Hello lovelies, it’s Lauren or “Ren” from Renmade Calligraphy […]

How to Pick Your Pencil for Lettering

January 19, 2017 in Design Team / General / Handlettering / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged calligraphy / handletterer / handlettering / Lauren Fitzmaurice / left handed calligraphy / LEFT HANDED LETTERING / Lettering / PENCIL PROJECTS / PENCIL TIPS / PENCILS / RENMADE CALLIGRAPHY / Tombow MONO Drawing Pencil Set / Tombow MONO Drawing Pencils / Tombow MONO Light Plastic Eraser by Lauren Fitzmaurice

Hey y’all, This is Katie here with my first blog post as a part of the 2017 Design Team. Today I am showing you how I used the Tombow MONO Drawing Pencil Set in my Art Journal! Supplies: Art journal with mixed media paper (atleast 90 lb paper!) MONO Drawing Pencil Set […]

Easy Mixed Media Art Journal Page

January 18, 2017 in Art Journaling / Design Team / Handlettering / Mixed Media / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Art Journal / Drawing / Dual Brush Blender / Dual Brush Pens / fudenosuke / Lettering / MONO Drawing Pencils / MONO Light Plastic Eraser / Tombow Fudenosuke Soft Tip Brush Pen / Tombow MONO Drawing Pencil Set / Watercolor by Katie Smith

Hi Tombow fans, Beth here to share some really great news! Tombow recently released the brand new MONO Drawing Pencil Set, so I reached back into my college art school memory banks to share some of the basics on drawing and pencils. Let’s start with sharpening. Always use a hand-held […]

MONO Drawing Pencil Set Basics

January 17, 2017 in Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Beth Watson / Tombow Metal Pencil Sharpener / Tombow MONO Drawing Pencil Set / Tombow MONO Light Plastic Eraser by Beth Watson

Hi friends! Dani here and today I’m sharing with you an easy value scale I created for the new Tombow MONO Drawing Pencil Set! A value scale is just a fancy name for a guide that shows the shades of lightness and darkness you can achieve with a particular medium […]

Value Scale Using Tombow MONO Drawing Pencils

January 16, 2017 in Design Team / Free Downloads / General / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Dani Manning / Drawing Pencil Set / Pencil test / Tombow / Tombow MONO Drawing Pencil Set / Tone Scale / Value Scale by Dani Manning