Art & Craft Tutorials

Katie Smith

Hey y’all, It’s Katie here and today I want to show you how to draw Fall leaves and create a cute Autumn-y illustration! Supplies: Tombow MONO Drawing Pens Tombow Dual Brush Pens Watercolor Paper Tombow Irojiten Colored Pencils Tombow Blending Kit How to Draw Fall Leaves: For the first part […]

How to Draw Fall Leaves

September 17, 2018 in Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks / Watercolor tagged autumn / Drawing / Dual Brush Pens / Fall / Irojiten Color Dictionary Pencils / mono drawing pens / Tutorial by Katie Smith

Hey everyone, Katie here showing you how to make heat embossed bookmarks inspired by The Hunger Games book series! We’ll be using the Tombow MONO Multi Liquid Glue to heat emboss with, rather than embossing ink! How to make Heat Embossed Bookmarks: Supplies: Tombow MONO Multi XL Liquid Glue Tombow […]

DIY The Hunger Games Themed Heat Embossed Bookmarks

September 3, 2018 in Design Team / Mixed Media / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Blending Palette / Book Quotes / bookmarks / cricut bright pad / Heat Embossing / Lettering / Mono Multi XL Liquid Glue / The hunger games / Tombow Dual Brush Pens / Tutorial by Katie Smith

Hey y’all, it’s Katie here sharing how to paint a watercolor drip style page in your art journal! This is such a fun technique to use for a quick and easy background! The new Tombow XL Blending Palette is sized at 8×10″ to give you room for even bigger and […]

DIY Watercolor Drip Art Journal Background Using the XL Blending ...

August 24, 2018 in Art Journaling / Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Art Journal / Dual Brush Pens / Mixed Media / Stamping / Tombow XL Blending Palette / XL Blending Palette by Katie Smith

Hey everyone, It’s Katie here! I love sketching, and will sketch on anything within reach if I have time to kill. So if I have my planner nearby, it will definitely get filled in with some lovely doodles and artwork. Today I will be sharing some of my top tips […]

5 Tips for Sketching in Your Planner

August 6, 2018 in Design Team / Planning & Journaling / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Bloom Daily Planners / planner / Sketching / Tombow Dual Brush Pens / Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pen Hard Tip / Tombow MONO Drawing Pens / Tombow TWINTONE Markers / Tutorial by Katie Smith

Hey y’all, Katie here! July 17th is World Emoji Day, so to celebrate I am showing you how to make emoji stickers! More specifically: Cactus Emoji Stickers! You can customize these in any way, change up the emoji, or the colors, or letter little sayings with them! DIY Emoji Stickers: Supplies: Tombow […]

DIY Cactus Emoji Stickers

July 16, 2018 in Design Team / Planning & Journaling / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged 1500 colored pencils / Emoji / MONO Drawing Pen / stickers / Tombow 1500 colored pencils / Tutorial by Katie Smith

Hey y’all, who’s excited about Summer? Katie here, and today with a Summer Happy Mail DIY! I am showing y’all an easy way to sketch girls with sunglasses and how to use them to make super summery and fun envelopes for Summer mail! How to Draw Cool Girls with Sunglasses: […]

Summer Happy Mail! How to Doodle Girls with Sunglasses

July 6, 2018 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Bright Set / Doodle / Drawing / Dual Brush Pens / happy mail / Summer / Tutorial by Katie Smith

Hey y’all, It’s Katie here and today I want to show you how to make a frappuccino birthday card! It’s pink week here on the Tombow blog, so this doodle is obviously inspired by Starbuck’s Pink Drink. Which I haven’t tried, but I always think it looks SO pretty. Have […]

How to DIY a “Frappé Birthday” Card

June 21, 2018 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Birthday / Card / Doodle / Pastel Dual Brush Pen Set by Katie Smith

Hello everyone, it’s Katie from Studio Katie here! This week on the Tombow blog we’ve been sharing wedding related projects, so I wanted to share a project that will make for a really fantastic wedding gift: A custom couple portrait! I’ll be sharing a few tips on how to create […]

Easy Wedding Gift! Illustrate a Custom Couple Portrait

June 8, 2018 in Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged DIY wedding / Doodle / Drawing / Dual Brush Pens / Gift / kawaii / Tombow Dual Brush Pens / Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pen / Watercolor / Wedding by Katie Smith

Hey everyone, it’s Katie here! This week we are focusing on cursive, so today I wanted to share with you a fun cursive postcard that you can send to a friend! We’ll be using the TwinTone Dual Tip Markers, which are perfect for monoline cursive. The inspiration behind this postcard […]

DIY Cursive Postcard Art To Mail

May 23, 2018 in Design Team / Handlettering / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged cursive / Doodle / Drawing / postcards / Tombow MONO Drawing Pencil / Tombow TWINTONE Markers by Katie Smith

Hey Tombow friends! It’s Katie here, and you know I just love doodling! Today I wanted to share with you some easy bears that you can doodle! Supplies: Tombow MONO J Pencils Tombow MONO Drawing Pen 05 Tombow Dual Brush Pens Mixed Media Paper (I like the kind by Strathemore) […]

Easy Bears Anyone Can Doodle

May 9, 2018 in Design Team / General / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Doodle / Drawing / Tombow TWINTONE Markers / Tutorial by Katie Smith

Hey everyone, It’s Katie here to show you a fun technique you can use in your Traveler’s Notebook. This week we’re working with Webster’s Pages, who was kind enough to send each of us some of their gorgeous new product line! Today I’ll be working in the Soft Lilac Pocket […]

How to Draw Maps in your Travel Journal

April 26, 2018 in Art Journaling / Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Drawing / Pastel Set TwinTones / Tombow TWINTONE Markers / travel journal / Traveler's Notebook / Tutorial by Katie Smith

Hey y’all, it’s Katie here with a fun new project! Today I want to show you how to make fringed cards! Fringe and tassels are pretty trendy right now. I see a lot of them, especially on clothing, so I decided to fringe some paper for a unique 3D card! […]

DIY Paper Fringe Cards

April 9, 2018 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged cards / Foam Tabs / fringe / Stamping / Tombow Mono Adhesive + Permanent by Katie Smith