Art & Craft Tutorials

Smitha Katti

Hi! I’m Smitha and you if have crafted with me before, you will know I love flowers. If you haven’t crafted with me, no worries, stop by my blog SmilingColors and you will know what I mean. So as I was thinking about this blog post, wondering what I could […]

DIY Paper Flowers by Smitha Katti

October 13, 2016 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team by Smitha Katti

Hello friends! This is Smitha here today making some DIY Monogrammed Note Cards! This week the Tombow USA team along with Felicity Jane are creating inspiring projects and I’m here to share mine today. I’ll be using the Felicity Jane September Kit along with the Tombow MONO Multi XL Liquid Glue and other products to create […]

DIY Monogrammed Note Cards

September 29, 2016 in Blog Hops & Partner Projects / Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks by Smitha Katti

Hello! I’m Smitha and today I am breaking open the New Beginners Lettering Set by Tombow and I will show you a few different ways you can start lettering today. The sets just released a few days ago, but SOLD OUT really quick! No worries, you can still get the promotional discount […]

Lettering with the Tombow Beginners Lettering Set

September 8, 2016 in Handlettering by Smitha Katti

Hello friends! Smitha here continuing the organization ideas with a few DIY Watercolor Labels today. For a really long time in our household, it felt as if I was always cleaning and reorganizing. Constantly. I would make bins, tubs, buy cute boxes for things and yet nothing actually was put away […]

DIY Watercolor Labels

August 18, 2016 in Design Team / Handlettering / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks by Smitha Katti

Hello Crafters! This is Smitha here today with an easy colorful DIY. It’s back to school time and I am making a simple DIY Classroom Calendar, but really you could use this calendar anywhere you need. I started out by adding some pretty scrapbooking paper inside a 8 by […]

DIY Classroom Calendar by Smitha Katti

August 11, 2016 in General by Smitha Katti

Hello! This is Smitha with an easy recycled paper craft today. I have a fun and really simple technique of reusing your printed paper, junk mail envelopes etc to make something useful- a surface to write on. All you really need is glue! Watch the tutorial video below or on […]

Recycled Paper Notepad

July 14, 2016 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team by Smitha Katti

Hello! Smitha here sharing a quick tutorial for you to enjoy. I’m using some cute Freckled Fawn embellishments and Tombow products to create a DIY paper note pad cover for my notepads. I have a short YouTube video explaining which Tombow adhesives I use with different kinds of embellishments. You can […]

DIY paper note pad cover

June 23, 2016 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / General / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks by Smitha Katti

Hello! Smitha here today sharing a fun bridesmaid gift idea! I’ll show you how to make a set of DIY Bridesmaid Cards in today’s tutorial. I absolutely love the watercolor trend that is so popular these days and I made these simple DIY Bridesmaid Cards with an easy watercolor technique […]

DIY Bridesmaid Cards

June 9, 2016 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks by Smitha Katti

Hello! This is Smitha and today I am sharing a colorful project using the new Adult Coloring Irojiten Colored Pencil Sets. This week the Design Team are being inspired by a Spring Moodboard that Jennie put together. I absolutely love the beautiful colors she chose! I’m using Colored pencils from the Tranquil set […]

Adult Coloring with Irojiten Colored Pencil Sets

May 12, 2016 in Adult Coloring / Design Team by Smitha Katti

Hi Everyone! Smitha here sharing a simple but cute Monogrammed Notepad tutorial. I was inspired by our awesome Tombow Design Team Member, Cynthia Banessa. She made this stunning monogram canvas a few weeks ago that has stayed in my mind, and today I am making my version of it. I’m […]

Monogrammed Notepad by Smitha Katti

April 28, 2016 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks by Smitha Katti

Hello There! I’m Smitha from Smiling Colors and today I am using my favorite Tombow Dual Brush pens with some Sweet Stamp Shop planner stamps to make cute gift tags! I have a video tutorial that shows you how I stamped and colored all of the above tags and you […]

Coloring Cute Gift Tags with Sweet Stamp Shop and Tombow

April 7, 2016 in Blog Hops & Partner Projects / Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / General / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks by Smitha Katti

Adhesives 101: Ways to use Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue on handmade cards or in any papercrafting! Hello There! I’m Smitha from Smiling Colors and in the video below I will show you 8 ways to use glue on handmade cards- some are obvious ways but I am sure there will be […]

8 ways to use glue on handmade cards

March 24, 2016 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / General / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks by Smitha Katti