Art & Craft Tutorials

Marie Browning

The Zentangle folks have done it again! These new, beautiful round ‘Zendala’ Tiles are so much fun to tangle and color! Coloring them with Tombow Dual Brush Pens could not be easier! All the Zendala Tiles shown here were done using the Jewel Dual Brush Pen Set, which includes 10 […]

Colored Zendala Tiles by Marie Browning

June 25, 2012 in General / Zentangle tagged Dual Brush Pens / Jewel Colors / Marie Browning / Tangles / Time to Tangle with Colors / Zendala / Zentangle by Marie Browning

My family has definitely caught the travel bug! Nieces, daughters and son off to new places to experience and explore! I thought of them as I made these travel zipper pulls that can be used on jackets, bags, key chains or backpacks – a perfect gift for a man or […]

Bon Voyage Zipper Pulls by Marie Browning

June 18, 2012 in Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / General / Parties & Entertaining tagged Dual Brush Pens / Epiphany Crafts / Fastener Tabs / Foam Tabs / Heidi Swapp / Marie Browning / MONO Multi Liquid Glue / Stamp Runner Dot Adhesive / Tombow Adhesives / Travel Craft / Zipper Pulls by 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

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