Art & Craft Tutorials

Marie Browning

This beautiful mobile combines paper crafting and basic jewelry making skills. What holds it all together are Tombow adhesives to form a decorative mobile to hang where a little vintage twinkle is needed. Using the Caged Bird Die cut from Sizzix, cut out four birdcages from a dark brown cardstock. […]

Birdcage Crystal Mobile by Marie Browning

June 11, 2012 in General tagged Connie Crystal / Crafting with Crystals / Dual Brush Pens / Foam Tabs / Marie Browning / Mixed Media / MONO Multi Liquid Glue / Power Tabs / Sizzix / Stamp Runner Dot Adhesive by Marie Browning

June is for Roses! So here is the Rose DoodleDab for you to create with Tombow’s Dual Brush Pens. They are a great way to add a beautiful embellishment to a card, a gift tag or the front of an envelope. I love to use them to embellish stamped images […]

Rose DoodleDab by Marie Browning

June 4, 2012 in Cards & Papercrafting / General / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged DoodleDabs / Drawing a rose / easy drawing techniques / Marie Browning / quick embellishments / scrapbooking / Stamping / Tombow Dual Brush Pens by Marie Browning

What a great challenge, use Tombow Correction Tape in a craft project! Sharron gave me this great idea of using it to ‘paint’ lines on a chalkboard! I have it displayed on an easel, but will be hanging it on the wall next to my desk to help me focus […]

‘To do’ Board by Marie Browning

May 28, 2012 in General / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Altered Chalkboard / Fastener Tabs / Irojiten Color Dictionary Pencils / Marie Browning / MONO Aqua Liquid Glue / Power Tabs / Tombow Correction Tape by Marie Browning

I am loving the products from Canvas Corp this week! The beautiful natural materials such as burlap, cork and canvas are a joy to work with. I just started playing with everything and decided to use the pieces to make storage jars for my art materials, or my ‘Weapons of […]

Canvas Corp Storage Jars By Marie Browning

May 21, 2012 in General tagged Dual Brush Pens / Foam Tabs / Marie Browning / MONO Aqua Liquid Glue / MONO Multi Liquid Glue / Power Tabs / Recycled jar project / Stamp Runner Permanent Adhesive / Stamping / Storage Jars by Marie Browning

Here’s a step-by-step blending and layering with Tombow’s new Irojiten Colored Pencils. These high quality colored pencils are beautiful to use and the colors are really yummy! I colored the stamped image with the Deep Tone I colors from the Irojiten Rainforest Edition. For the wings I used the green/blue […]

Blending with Irojiten Colored Pencils By Marie Browning

May 14, 2012 in General / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged blending with Colored Pencils / Dual Brush Blender / Irojiten Color Dictionary Pencils / Marie Browning / Rainforest Irojiten Colored Pencils by Marie Browning

Here’s another DoodleDab made with Tombow Dual Brush Pens! This super easy DoodleDab is a wonderful accent for your lettering, to decorate an envelope or to doodle onto a card. Sunny and bright, they can embellish all your spring paper crafts! Here’s a reminder of the steps for making a […]

Daisy DoodleDab by Marie Browning

May 7, 2012 in Cards & Papercrafting / General / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged DoodleDabs / Doodling / Drawing daisies / Dual Brush Pens / Marie Browning by Marie Browning

This simple card was colored using the Irojiten Colored Pencils and put together with the Permanent Stamp Runner and Foam Tabs. I love my new Wizard of Oz stamp set from Crafty Secrets – where I also found the cute shoe pattern for the ruby slippers. The pattern is found […]

There’s no place like home! by Marie Browning

April 30, 2012 in Cards & Papercrafting / General tagged blending with Colored Pencils / cards / cute paper shoes / Foam Tabs / Irojiten Color Dictionary Pencils / Marie Browning / Permanent Stamp Runner by Marie Browning

Using Tombow’s Foam Tabs you can transfer a stamped image, like this cute little furry friend from the Sweet Stamp Shop, into a card with a dimensional ‘Wow’ factor! This stamp is perfect for this technique – simple and easy to cut out. Stamp out three images onto smooth […]

3D Stamped Card by Marie Browning

April 23, 2012 in Cards & Papercrafting / General tagged Dual Brush Pens / Foam Tabs / Marie Browning / Stamp Runner Dot Adhesive by Marie Browning

Using beautiful papers, like the ‘Once upon a Springtime’ Collection from Graphic 45, and the Foam Tabs from Tombow you can create these simple cards quite quickly! While some 3D layered images use 3 to 4 images, I am just using 2 of the same image. In this sample, I […]

Cards with a Layered Look by Marie Browning

April 16, 2012 in Cards & Papercrafting / General tagged Dual Brush Pens / Foam Tabs / Marie Browning / MONO Aqua Liquid Glue / MONO Multi Liquid Glue / Stamp Runner Dot Adhesive by Marie Browning

In my large family nobody gets a birthday party by themselves! It also means I have to be ready with lots of cards and gifts when we have a party. I was a little behind in getting ready this month, so I was happy to pull out my Dual Brush […]

Lettering with Tombow by Marie Browning

April 16, 2012 in Cards & Papercrafting / Handlettering / Parties & Entertaining tagged Dual Brush Pens / Marie / Stamp Runner Permanent Adhesive by Marie Browning

I use Tombow Power Tabs a lot – and I especially love them when creating a mixed media project! They are quick and easy, stick on contact and have tremendous holding power. This nature inspired shadow box had me adhering different mediums – polymer clay, metal bottle caps, and fabric […]

Power Tabs and Mixed Media by Marie Browning

April 9, 2012 in General tagged Marie Browning / Mixed Media / MONO Multi Liquid Glue / Power Tabs / Tipnique by Marie Browning

This week’s Tipnique is all about the wonderful new Fastener Tabs! They are fantastic for use as a closure on any object you want to open over and over again – like this paper wallet to show off your Zentangle tiles! What? You don’t know what a Zentangle is? Check […]

Zentangle Wallet by Marie Browning

April 2, 2012 in Design Team / General / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks / Zentangle tagged Dual Brush Pens / Fastener Tabs / Glue Pen / Marie Browning / MONO Multi Liquid Glue / Tipnique / Zentangle by Marie Browning