Two weeks ago was my youngest son’s graduation. I needed some quick and easy gift ideas for the girl’s invites we received and altered these mini composition books.

I used Tombow’s Mono Glue stick to adhere the designer paper to the front and back of the notebook.

Be sure to stop back in tomorrow as Melissa will be posting May’s challenge for you all to play along.

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Hello Everyone!

I was so excited to get to spend the weekend at the National Stationery Show in New York City.

Yesterday, I got to perform at the Live Theater where I was able to give a demonstration of the new Tombow Doodling Kit!

Doodling is a stream of consciousness put on paper – sometimes random, often intuitive and always fun. Creative people doodle to experiment with seemingly undefined concepts and forms, sometimes discovering the very thing they weren’t looking for.

There is no single style of doodling, and no right or wrong way to doodle. Doodling is about creative thinking skills which is why doodling is “noodling” put on paper.

Here are some little samples of what I have created with the Fun Doodling Kit:

With the Fun Doodling Kit, you can create beautiful projects, add your own touch, impress your friends and family with your creations and have fun while doing it. The Tombow Fun Doodling Kit will be available for purchase soon! Keep checking out Tombow’s Facebook Page for more details.

We would like to announce the winner of our blog hop with Kristina Werner!

Hope Gustafson

Congratulations Hope!

Please send us a message with your address and we will send you your prize!

Big thanks to everyone that blog hopped with us this week and Kristina Werner for being our Guest Designer!

Tombow is very excited announce that Kristina Werner is our Guest Designer this week.

Kristina Werner is a graphic designer, avid paper crafter, and amazing blogger. After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design from Brigham Young University – Idaho, Kristina started her graphic design career at paper crafting company Stampin’ Up!  It was during this time that she discovered the wonderful and creative outlet of stamping, scrapbooking, and card making. Since finding her love of all things paper crating related, she has designed product for Stampin’ Up!, BasicGrey, her own digital kits, and now for Simon Says Stamp.

The schedule for this week is:

Debbie
Melissa
Jennie
Marie
Kristina
Tombow

This week Tombow will be giving away a really fun prize package!

It includes:

Dual Brush Pens 6 set, Jewel

Mono Adhesive Removable

Mono Adhesive Permanent

3D Foam Tabs

The more you comment, the more chances you have to win!

The winner will be announced Friday May 17^th  at 3:30 Eastern Time.

Holy Craft is blog that was created by Rachel, a stay at home mom!

This is a little sneak peak of a tag she created for the 100 days of Tombow Program.

 Check out Holy Craft  to see what else Rachel created for the 100 days of Tombow Program!

Don’t forget, you can show your support by trending #Tombow100

Every crafter has an Achilles Heel and mine is everything masculine!! As much as I try I always end up adding a touch of super girly like shimmer, sequins, beads or bling. This one has a little of all that. I tried my best but I couldn’t help myself.

 I embossed the glassine bag and then added a little shimmer of mist. Then I put the sequins inside and I sewed it on the the base of the card. I colored the cute robot with Tombow Dual Brush Pens and I used the Foam Tabs to pop him up a bit.

 To put the card together I used the Stamp Runner Dot Adhesive and for the sequins outside of the box and gluing the bow twine I used the Mono Aqua Liquid Glue that has a small dispenser at the top for smaller jobs like these and it dries completely clear.

When it comes to crafting what is your Achilles’s Heel?

I hope you enjoyed my post!!

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I have another Inky Antics box/project to share with you today. So far this week, we have had spring like weather, so maybe the snow is behind us now. Just a week ago today we had snow!

I used Inky Antics X1-0021 Gift Bag Template and Trudy’s 11156MC Swirly Butterfly set. I love using Mono Multi Liquid Glue to adhere boxes together. The images are colored with Irojiten Dictionary Colored Pencils and blended with Gamsol. I used the Mono Aqua Liquid Glue to add glitter to the butterflies.

Using the dot patterned Stamp Runner, I added lots of scallop borders, designer paper, and lacy tag and you have a fun springy gift box to fill with goodies for someone special.

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I thought I would share with you the drawing, even though it needs finishing,  that I started at NAMTA (International Art Material Trade Show) that was held this past week in Minneapolis. I used the Irojiten Colored Pencils, Vol. 3, Deep Tone 1. I would also like to thank Canson for the paper I used (my favorite is the Mixed Media paper) and Studio Design for the awesome drawing table used during the show at our booth.

For the texture in the leaves I used the scrumbling technique. It gave them an old, decomposing appearance. I used crosshatching for the spaces between the leaves.

The impressed technique was used to make the veins in the leaves, the detail in the acorns and the lettering on the pencils.

The squirrel’s fur was rendered using the strike stroke – which is still needing lots of work!

Basic blending and layering was used on the wooden sign and the dragonfly holding the Tombow banner.I used the Dual Brush Pen Colorless Blender on the wooden sign to soften and blend the colors together. Now back to the drawing board to finish the drawing!