Sparkle, Sparkle, Sparkle

Wow, it's Monday again...this year has just flown by for me.  I can't believe it is almost Christmas and before you know it 2014 will be here.

Today, the Tombow Designers are sharing projects that we made using glitter from Art Institute Glitter.

I have two sparkly cards to share with you today.

This card was stamped in black ink and colored with Tombow Dual Brush Pens and then I added some Tombow Mono Aqua and sprinkled Crystal glitter from Art Institute to give the flowers a pretty glisten.  I used Tombow Stamp Runner for panel to panel layers and Tombow Foam Tabs to pop up the image panel.  

For this card, I stamped the image in black ink and colored the flowers with a combination of Tombow Dual Brush pens and Irojiten Colored Pencils.  For a finishing touch on this one, I added Tang Ultrafine Pearlescent glitter from Art Institute.  I like how the Tang glitter had just the perfect orange color to go with the beautiful California Poppies.  I used Tombow Stamp Runner for the flat layers and Tombow Foam Tabs to pop up the image panel.

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Debbie
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Jennie
Marie
Art Glitter Blog

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Batty For You

Hello and happy Monday to each and everyone!  I really appreciate that you spend a moment of your day with me.  

Today the Tombow Design Team is hopping with Kim Watson, you should have arrived at my blog from Debbie's blog, but if you didn't you can go back to Tombow's blog and start at the beginning.

  I don't do many Halloween cards as we live in a rural area and we don't get trick or treaters unless you count the occasional wildlife that cruise through,  so I took two of my new sets to create a sweet note for my hubby that has a bit of Halloween flair to it.

My inspirations for this card was sketch #225 from Unscripted Sketches (see below) and the Reverse Confetti Spooky Sentiments and Forever Fall stamp sets.

I started with a white base card and added a panel of black and a white embossed panel.  I popped the panels up with Tombow Foam Tabs.  Next, I cut three strips of print paper from my stash to create little banner flags.  I attached these to the embossed panel using Tombow Mono Adhesive Dots .  The sentiment and heart were stamped with black ink.  I cut the heart out and popped it up onto a couple more Tombow Foam Tabs.  The bat was cut from a Silhouette cut file and attached to the heart with a small piece of a Tombow Power Tab.  For a finishing touch I added 3 flat green nailheads between two of the strips and added Tombow Mono Aqua to the bat and then sprinkled black ultrafine glitter from Art Institute to make him sparkle.

Here is a close up of the sparkly bat.  He doesn't look too spooky to me!

Here is the great sketch I used. 

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MONO Adhesive Removable
Refill, MONO Adhesive Removable

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Debbie
Melissa
Jennie
Marie
Kim Watson

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Lollipop Gracie Valentine

Happy, happy Friday.  Whew, I started off the week with a bit of a cold and must say I was glad to see it go!  I can't believe we are nearing mid January already, before we know it February will be here and it will be time to remember the sweeties in our lives on Valentine's Day.  

Today I am sharing a sweet Valentine I created using the Lollipop Gracie Framed digi image from By LORi Designs.

I printed the image onto some Neenah Solar White cardstock and colored the image using Tombow Dual Brush Pens in the following colors:  #800 Baby Pink, #850 Flesh, #991 Light Ochre, #835 Persimmon, #885 Warm Red, #856 Chinese Red, #N00 Black and the Colorless Blender.  I used Tombow Mono Adhesive Dots to adhere each of the flat layers of cardstock together.  The image panel is popped up using Tombow Foam Tabs.  For her sweet bow, I cut a Tombow Power Tab into fourths and used one piece behind the bow.  I used the remaining pieces behind the button to hold it firmly in place.   For the heart, I filled it in with Tombow Mono Aqua Glue and then covered it liberally with red glitter. 

TTFN,

Christmas Rewind

Sometimes best laid plans are just that....best laid aside for another day.

 I had some surgery last Friday and I thought for sure I would be able to whip up a mighty fine project for this week's post, but find I am having a small setback in my recovery and will hold off on my "sweet" post until next week.  

Today I am going to share a couple of my favorite Christmas cards with you.

 I used Tombow Foam Tabs to pop up the snowflake embossed panel onto the white card base.  For the trunk of the tree I added some Tombow Mono Multi and wrapped the trunk with twine.  For the star I used Tombow Mono Multi with some "Tang" glitter from Art Institute.  Want more details, click here.

For this card, I used Tombow Mono Adhesive Dots to layer my embossed panel to the white card base.  I die cut some snowflakes and covered them with Tombow Mono Aqua and liberally coated them with Crystal Glitter from Art Institute and then popped them up with Tombow Foam Tabs.  For more detail click here.

{ho ho ho and merry christmas}

I have been working on some Christmas cards and decided to share them with you this week.  All month long the Tombow team is partnering with Art Institute Glitter so you will see a bit of sparkle on Santa. :) 

Both of the image stamps are from Inky Antics and the sentiments are from Hero Arts.  

For this card, I stamped Santa in Memento black ink and gave it a quick shot with my heat tool to set the ink a bit.  I colored Santa with Tombow Dual Brush Pens in #845 Carmine and #847 Crimson and added a little bit of #491 Glacier Blue around all of the white portions of the snowman and Santa's outfit.  #850 Flesh was used for his face and his boots are a combo of N65 Cool Gray 5 and N75 Cool Gray 3.  I used Tombow Mono Adhesive Dots to adhere the Doodlebug print cardstocks to the red card base.  I die cut Santa with Spellbinders Petite Classic and Scallop Oval dies and added him to the scallop oval base with Tombow Mono Adhesive Dots.  To pop him up a bit, I added some Tombow Foam Tabs.  To add the Ultrafine Crystal glitter from Art Institute, I put down some Tombow Mono Aqua and then sprinkled the glitter over the top.  I shook off the excess and let the card sit for approximately 15 minute to let the glue dry.  

This card was created using the same Tombow Dual Brush Pen colors with the addition of #195 Light Green for the ornament.  Again, I used Tombow Mono Adhesive Dots to adhere all of the flat layers and some Tombow Foam Tabs to pop the ornament and sentiment up onto the card.  The same process was used to apply the Ultrafine Crystal glitter to Santa's hat.  Be sure to let the Tombow Mono Aqua set for a few minutes as this will allow the glitter to set really well.

Snowflake Tree

Hello!  This is ABC week for the Tombow team and my project this week is a cute little tree made from wine bottle corks.  

The tree was very easy to create with just a few supplies.

You will need to gather 13 corks (I ask people to save them for me) and several strips of coordinating print papers.  I cut the strips into 1 1/4" x 3 1/4" and wrapped each strip around a cork and used Tombow Mono Multi to adhere the ends.  You will need to do this for 11 of the 13 corks.  I used a glue gun to attach corks together to form the shape of a tree.  For the trunk of the tree, I put a line of Tombow Mono Multi onto the back of one of the corks and wrapped twine around and held it in the back for a minute until the adhesive set.  Attach trunk to tree with glue gun.  Next, I dripped some of the Tombow Mono Multi down the front side of the tree and sprinkled some Art Institute Ultrafine Crystal glitter to create some snow.  After the glitter was dry, I added some snowflake punchies to the tree with Tombow Power Tabs.  I cut the Power Tabs into smaller pieces so that you could not see them behind the snowflakes.  To finish the tree off, I used a larger snowflake and button at the top of the tree.