Art & Craft Tutorials

Katie Smith

Hey guys, Katie here! Have you seen Tombow’s newest product? Tombow just released their new MONO Drawing Pens and I’m so excited to be sharing them with you, so today I’m doing a mini product review by using them in my art journal! The MONO Drawing Pens have already become […]

Art Journaling with the NEW Tombow MONO Drawing Pens

June 20, 2017 in Art Journaling / Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Art Journal / MONO Drawing Pen by Katie Smith

Hey Y’all, Katie here! This week on the Tombow blog we are spotlighting Summer Party DIY’s and what is more summer-y and trendy than a pineapple right now? Because pineapples (and other fruits!) are everywhere right now, I am sharing how to make a 3D honeycomb pineapple! Honeycomb tissue paper […]

How to Make a 3D Honeycomb Pineapple for Summer Parties

June 12, 2017 in Design Team / DIY Decor / Parties & Entertaining / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged party / Summer / Tombow Mono Adhesive + Permanent / Tutorial by Katie Smith

Hey everyone, Katie here! This week we’ve been celebrating teachers for National Teacher Appreciation Week, so I wanted to create a project that would make a good gift for any teacher in your life. These bookmarks are super easy to put together, and because they are magnetic they won’t fall […]

Free Printable Bookmarks to Color for Teacher Appreciation Day

May 6, 2017 in Adult Coloring / Design Team / Free Downloads / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Blending Palette / bookmarks / coloring / Dual Brush Pens / Teacher Appreciation / tombow extreme adhesive by Katie Smith

Hey everyone, Katie here with a fun project! This week, Tombow has partnered up with a few amazing crafting companies to celebrate National Scrapbook Day! While I love scrapbooking, I also love using my scrapbook supplies in my other paper crafting and mixed media projects. So today I am showing […]

How To Art Journal with Scrapbook Supplies

April 25, 2017 in Art Journaling / Design Team / Scrapbooking & Project Life tagged Art Journal / National Scrapbooking Day / paper crafts by Katie Smith

Restyle empty jars for Spring with this tutorial by @punkprojects and @tombowusa — Hey y’all, Katie here with a fun new project! Today I am showing you guys how I restyled these mason jars. I wanted to give them a fresh, fun look inspired by Spring colors and dragonflies! Fun fact: Did you know that Tombow means dragonfly in Japanese? It’s true, […]

How to Make Dragonfly Inspired Jars for Spring

April 8, 2017 in Design Team / DIY Decor / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Dragonfly / Home Decor / MONO Aqua Liquid Glue / Tombow Mono Twin Permanent Marker / Tutorial by Katie Smith

Hey everyone, Katie here! Today I’m showing y’all how to color stamped designs using the Tombow Blending Palette! If you ever feel it’s impossible to color designs with markers without having marker streaks, You need to try one of these 2 methods! I’m sharing both how to blend Tombow Dual […]

2 Easy Ways to Color Using the Blending Palette

March 20, 2017 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Blending Kit / Blending Palette / coloring / Stamping by Katie Smith

Hey guys, Katie here! Pantone’s color of the year is Greenery, which I absolutely love! Today it inspired me to make a garden journal using Tombow’s Dual Brush Pens and I’m going to show you how! Supplies: Tombow Dual Brush Pens Tombow Irojiten Colored Pencils, P-05-Lettuce Green 90 lb Mixed Media […]

How To Create a Garden Journal

March 11, 2017 in Art Journaling / Design Team / Handlettering / Mixed Media / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Dual Brush Markers / fudenosuke brush pens / Irojiten Colored Pencils / Pantone / Tutorial by Katie Smith

Do you read more books on a Kindle or e-reader or do you prefer actual print books? This is Katie here, I read a lot of both, and today I’m showing you how to make a Kindle cozy! I love “real” books, but my Kindle also comes in super handy when […]

How to Dye and Hand Letter a Kindle Cozy using ...

February 28, 2017 in Design Team / Handlettering / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Dual Brush Pens / Fabric / Tombow MONOTWIN Permanent Marker / Tutorial by Katie Smith

Hey Y’all, Katie here today with a fun art journal tutorial! I am showing you how to use the new MONO Air Correction Tape in your art journal! I find it such an easy way to add white labels to journal on, write quotes or you could even just use […]

How to Create Art Journaling Labels Using the Tombow MONO ...

February 18, 2017 in Art Journaling / Design Team / Mixed Media tagged Art Journal / Blending Palette / Dual Brush Pens / MONO Air Correction Tape / MONO Correction Tape / MONO Twin Permanent Black Pen / Tutorial by Katie Smith

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

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