100 Days of Tombow

100 Days of Tombow

Have you seen all the posts and talk on FB and the Tombow Blog about "100 Days of Tombow"? If  not, be sure to check it out, there have been some amazing projects.

Here is a quick refresher on the 100 days of Tombow Program:

“Since its launch in March, more than 60 crafting bloggers have joined forces in contributing to this amazing movement in crafting and scrapbooking history. Every submission for the “100 Days of Tombow” blogging program will result in a $100.00 product donation to the Council for Arts Education.  Each of their projects have contributed to Tombow’s goal of donating up to $10,000 in product to the Council for Art Education and have been featured worldwide on social media outlets such as Pinterest,Facebook and YouTube. Not to mention, the campaign has been recognized by multiple national crafting media outlets, resulting in more than 3 million media impressions amongst craft bloggers. Wow! This is definitely something that you do not want to miss!”

This week the Tombow DT is playing along and sharing projects with you using Stamp Runner Dot Pattern Adhesive, Dual Brush Pens, and/or Irojiten Colored pencils.

I am sharing a cute Christmas card that I created using Tombow Dual Brush Pens and Stamp Runner Dot Pattern Adhesive.

This is how the post order works this week:

Monday Nov. 25^th: Debbie  

Tuesday Nov. 26^th : Melissa (you are here)

Wednesday Nov. 27^th : Jennie

Thursday Nov. 28^th : Marie

Friday Nov. 29^th : Tombow a post on BLACK FRIDAY Specials 

I also wanted to share links for Tombow's Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals.

http://tombowusa.com/black-friday-daily-deals.html

                             http://tombowusa.com/cyber-monday-specials.html

Hop with Tombow and Michelle Woerner

Happy Veteran's Day! 

I want to start off by saying THANK YOU to all of our veterans.  You are appreciated more than you can ever know.  

Today the Tombow Team is hopping with the fantabulous Michelle Woerner.  Michelle is an amazing designer and I am thrilled to be hopping with her today.

You should have arrived here from Debbie's amazing blog, but if you didn't be sure to pop back to the Tombow Blog and start from the beginning.

I recently had the pleasure of teaching a group of ladies how I watercolor using Tombow Dual Brush Pens and this is one of the projects we made.  I created the wreath by cutting a ring using two nesting circle dies.  I cut several 1" x 3" pieces of cardstock from the Bo Bunny Autumn Song collection and then snipping the ends into a banner flag and then folding them in half but a little off kilter.  I placed a nice bead of Tombow Mono Multi onto the front side of the paper ring and then started placing the strips around the wreath, overlapping each one just a bit.  When I was finished wrapping the strips around, I flipped over the wreath and adhered the strips down with some more Tombow Mono Multi.  I used Tombow Power Bond to hold each of the layers together as the watercolor paper is pretty heavy and I wanted to make sure this turkey didn't budge :)

Here is a close up of the turkey....he is so pretty with his glitter!

I embossed the Inky Antics Tom Turkey image with black embossing powder onto some Arches 140# Cold Press Watercolor paper.  I used Tombow Dual Brush Pens in the following colors:

#020, 845,847,879,925,969,991

For this technique, I do NOT pre wet my paper.  I draw a thin line around the area that I want to add color to and then use a small #2 paintbrush to pull the color out and fill in the area.  I suggest letting each part of the image dry completely before moving on to the next to prevent the colors from running together.  If after an area dries, you can go back and repeat the process to add more color if necessary.

I have kept you long enough, be sure to stop by each of these blogs:

Tombow Blog
Debbie
Melissa
Jennie
Marie
Michelle Woerner
Tombow Blog

Before I send you on your way to Jennie's awesome blog, I wanted to let you know that if you comment on each blog along the hop you could win the following prize pack:

MONO Multi Liquid GlueMONO Adhesive Removable
Refill, MONO Adhesive Removable

In order to enter to win the prize, please comment on all the Design Team’s projects this week as well as “Like” TombowUSA and Spellbinders on Facebook.

I would love it if you would "like" my INKclinations Facebook page as well.

{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.

Pick a Posy

Hi there!  Today I am sharing some of my favorite floral stamps from Our Craft Lounge.  I think flowers are wonderful because you can use them for any occasion.  

I used Thankful Flourishes for this card.  I saw this layout while surfing the web a week or so ago and I just love it.  The flower was colored with Copic markers and the leaves were  watercolored with Tombow markers.  See our pens can play nice together.  :)

For this card I used the cute little flower border and birthday sentiment from Tweet Thang.  The flowers were colored with Copics.

This card is a recent favorite of mine.   I used stamps from the Pretty Petals and Big Birthday Wishes sets. I colored this card with my Tombow Irojiten Colored Pencils and a wee bit of Gamsol.  

For this last card, I didn't use a floral set, but I wanted to show you how nicely the Big Birthday Wishes set works when paired with a pretty flower.  Funny thing about this card is that I made it for our very own Debbie Corbari's birthday and it is still riding around in my car waiting to be mailed.  I am the worst when it comes to mailing things.  Heck, she may get it in time for her birthday next year.  :)

Thanks for visiting us today, I really appreciate each and every visit.

Color My World

Happy Friday!  Whew, we made it through another week.  Yeah!  Now that Valentine's Day has come and gone for another year, I am starting to think about Spring.  I have to say, we really haven't had Winter here yet.  Although I am not a fan of cold, rain and snow.  We really need the water, so I say bring it on!  

This week on the Tombow Blog, the design team is focusing on working with some of the fine art pencils that Tombow carries.  I have created two cards using the Irojiten Color Dictionary Pencils.

For this card, I stamped the pretty outline flower/leaf from the Our Craft Lounge Pretty Petals set in Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto some Neenah Classic Crest Solar White cardstock and then colored them in using some of the green, yellow and orange pencils in the Irojiten Seascape set.  I blended the pencils out with some odorless mineral sprits and then glitzed the flowers up a bit with some Diamond Stickles. I stamped Happy Birthday from the Our Craft Lounge Big Birthday Wishes set in black ink onto a scrap of blue print cardstock and layered it to the front of the card using Tombow Foam Tabs.  I used Tombow Mono Adhesive Dots, Roller to adhere all of the layers together and a Tombow Power Tab to fasten the button to the front of the card.  

Using the same Irojiten Seascape set for this card I stamped the Classic Fabric Background from Hero Arts in Alabaster Fluid Chalk ink onto some black cardstock and then colored over the white areas with the pencils.  After I was finished coloring, I spritzed the black panel with some pearl shimmer spray.  It is so pretty in person!  The aqua panel is raised up with some Tombow Foam Tabs and the rest of the card was secured together with Tombow Mono Adhesive Dots, Roller. 

Would you like to have one these cards?  I would love to send you one.  Just leave me a comment letting me know which one is your favorite and I will pick two winners, one for each card.  For an extra chance, I would love it if you "LIKE" my INKclinations Facebook page.  Just come back here and let me know you "LIKED" me.  :)

I will randomly pick the winners on Feb 22, 2012 and announce them here and on INKclinations Facebook on Feb 23rd.

Miss Daisy

Hello, today I am sharing the card I created for the Outlawz Twisted Thursday Challenge.  This week we were to create a card with "Lots of Layers".  Well, I did a happy dance when I found out we were going to use my favorite style.  

I have used Prismacolor pencils many times over the last 20 years but I had never stamped an image on kraft cardstock and then colored it.  I was inspired by one of my color pencil heros, Dorcas from Dorcas Designs. This gal is a master with colored pencils and she often colors on kraft cardstock and I love how it looks and decided to give it a try with this sweet little mousie image from the Inky Antics Teacup Mousies #2 Clear Set.  I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then I gave the image a base layer of white Prisma and then started adding colors.  I am really happy with how it turned out for my first try. 

Now we would love for you to join in on the challenge with us this week.  You might even win a prize!  Check it out HERE. 

I am also entering this card in the DYSU Challenge Blog as this weeks challenge is Layers, and you all know how I love me some layers!

Check this out!

A few weeks ago, I was contacted by the very adorable Jackie Wamhoff from Inky Antics and she asked me if I would like to guest design for them for the month of February.  Of course, I said heck yeah!  Jackie sent me some fantabulous Inky Antics stamps to work with and I got busy.  Each Sunday in February Jackie will be sharing my creations with you on the Inky Antics blog.  You can check out the first post HERE.  Be sure to head over to the Inky blog and leave a comment as you will have a chance to win some free stamps.  Ya gotta love that!

My Heart is Yours

Hello!  This week on the Tombow blog we are continuing our journey through some of the past Pantone colors.  Today I am sharing the 2010 color which was Turquoise.  Tombow's Dual Brush Pen #373 (Sea Blue) was a great match so I decided to use it along with some of the Irojiten Colored Pencils for today's card.  

I stamped this adorable Benton Heart Bear from Inky Antics and then colored the heart with Dual Brush Pen #373.  I then added some Tombow Glue pen and sprinkled glitter over it to make the heart really pop.  

I colored Benton with Irojiten Chestnut Brown and Autumn Leaf colored pencils and blended them out with some odorless mineral spirits.  I used Tombow Mono Adhesive Dots to adhere all of the layers together.  The buttons were attached with the the small Tombow Foam Tabs.

Inky Butterfly

Good Morning, whew I have made it to the end of the work week and look forward to a little time with my family this weekend.  


This month the Tombow team has been sharing projects created using colors that coordinate with the Pantone "in" colors for the last few years.  Today I am sharing a card that I created using the 2011 color, Honeysuckle.   

 Tombow's Dual Brush Pen #743 (Hot Pink) is great match.  I used the marker to color in this beautiful butterfly image from the Inky Antics Brush Calligraphy #3 set and stamped it onto some white cardstock which I then cut out using some cirlcle nesties.  I wanted the wings of the butterfly to have some subtle color so I used the Tombow Dual Brush Blender Pen to pull some of the ink from the stamped image.  I really like how soft the wings look.  I added a touch of glitter to the butterfly for a little sparkle.  I used Tombow Permanent Stamp Runner to adhere all of the layers together and some of the Tombow Foam Tabs to pop up the sentiment panel.  

CHA Inky Antics

Good morning! Another quick post from me today. These adorable boards are from Inky Antics. Inky Antics has been around for along time, their images are sweet and adorable. The samples on the top (Merry Mousies) board were created by my internet BFF Debbie Fisher. I am so happy for Debbie that she has the opportunity to create such adorable works of art for Inky Antics. Tomorrow, I will be sharing with you a new company that Robin and I both fell in love with.