Friday, March 21, 2014

Tombow Hop Time!




It's Friday, you know what that means!!!  It's HOP Day! Yay!!  The Stampendous Design Team is hopping along with the TombowUSA Design Team and I'm sure there will be plenty of eye candy to soothe your sweet tooth!  Remember, we have prizes to give out but you must comment to win a prize!  So, you may or may not recall that I received the set of 6 Jewel Dual Brush Pens and a Blending Kit from Tombow.  My first project uses five of the colors, 847/Crimson, 636/Imperial Purple, 245/Sap Green, 476/Cyan and 946/Gold Ochre.  I didn't use N25/Lamp Black for obvious reasons!  Here's my card using the Splash Technique:




Here's what I used to create this project:

Canson® Watercolor Paper
Black Cardstock
Archival Ink™ - Jet Black
Hug Snug® Seam Binding - White

Here's how I created this project:

Trim watercolor paper to fit blending palette
Color blending palette with markers in wide stripes (as shown above)
Spritz blending palette with water
Apply watercolor paper to blending palette and rub paper to make sure it picks up ink evenly
Set wet paper aside to dry (dry paper shown above)
Trim seam binding to desired length
Re-color blending palette and mist
Lay ribbon across palette and rub ribbon to help apply ink
Continue doing sections of ribbon while moving down palette
Set ribbon aside to dry (you can use your heat gun to speed this process up)
Stamp image on dry inked watercolor paper
Trim away excess paper at bottom
Stamp sentiment
Create card base to fit image
Adhere image to to card base
Tie dried ribbon around top of card with a simple knot in front

For my next project, I went back to mixing colors on the blending palette and applying the color using the Indirect Blending Technique to color my image with the blender pen.  I really like this technique!  


Here's what I used to create this project:

Bazzill® Cardstock in Parakeet and Lava
Making Memories Kids™ Collection - Emma
Canson® Watercolor Paper
Archival Ink™ - Jet Black

Here's what I did to create this project:

Stamp image and color, trim to desired size, set aside to completely dry
Create card base from green cardstock
Trim red-orange cardstock pieces as shown
Trim patterned paper as shown
Stamp sentiment on dry image
Adhere all layers as shown

So that's both of my projects, I hope at least one of them may have inspired you to give this a go yourself.  Easy and fun, what more can a girl/guy ask for!?  Here's the complete link list, I wouldn't want anyone wandering lost around the Internet, it could be light years before you're found! 

Lea Kimmel (me!)


Don't forget to leave some love along the way in order to be entered to win a prize.  Thanks for hopping by and I hope to see you again soon!  Have a blessed day!

Hugs,
Lea

50 comments:

  1. I love your rainbow horse! It is a great technique and one that I must try!

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  2. Love the horse...I have a fondness for horses. And the color on the background is awesome. I will be trying this out very soon!!

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  3. Wow! Both cards are lovely! I have always loved the Filly stamp but hadn't seen the Jar Bouquet. Thank you so much for sharing the steps for how you made each. Such an inspiration!

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  4. I love how you colored the flowers. Beautiful!

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  5. WOW, that's just beautiful, I really think i need to invest in the blending tool. That is just so creative. Thank you for sharing.

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  6. Loved reading about your techniques! Beautiful projects!

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  7. Two great projects but I really love the second one!

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  8. Your techniques are wonderful. Thank you for sharing them with us!

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  9. Great techniques and beautiful results. I was looking at that blending palete at Tombow last night. It's not very expensive and now I know what to do with it. Thanks!

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  10. Beautiful colors and techniques on both cards!
    Sue in Ohio

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  11. The colors are so beautiful and vibrant on both cards but especially the horse one. I am trying to do this but don't have the markers for it. I just love the effects.

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  12. What a vibrant card with the flowers, love your coloring. The filly card is great too, but I love flowers. Thanks for sharing.

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  13. Love the look of both your gorgeous projects, wonderful vibrant colors!!!

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  14. YOur beautiful Filly card has stolen my heart!! I just got this stamp and will be trying this out. Will have to figure out something to use in place of the blending palette since I don't have one yet but love how it turned out!! TFS!

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  15. Love the rainbow look with your horse. I think I would frame that card. Your second card puts a smile on my face, I love flowers in jars.

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  16. The jar looks so realistic with the water inside. Love the blending behind the horse. Both projects are great.

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  17. beautiful! love the colors! thanks for the inspiration

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  18. Both cards are really special and I thank you for the detailed tutorial on how you created each one. That is always so helpful! The colors are beautiful on each card and the water coloring looks just about perfect to me!

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  19. OMG...both cards are lovely.
    US address.

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  20. Great projects.

    craftymom205 at yahoo dot com

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  21. Wonderful work. Thanks
    for sharing how to make
    the lovely horse card.
    Carla from Utah

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  22. Jewel Dual Brush Pens and a Blending Kit is something I need to get! Such beautiful projects. I need to learn these type of techniques, the coloring and blending! -con

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  23. Well done on both cards. The first has a very artistic feel. My favorite is the second card. I love the "homey" old fashioned feel of the card. Well done.

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  24. BEautiful colors and like every girl I love the horse!

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  25. Love the colors and technique, but the real winner is the horse. Like every girl -I love horses.

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  26. Great cards Lea! I love watercolor, so both of these are right up my alley. Thanks for hopping along with the Tombow team!

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  27. Great card...can't wait to try to make that background!!

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  28. love your cards! Great technique on the watercolor horse card

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  29. both cards are nice. but i'm over the moon with the tie died one. thanks for the mini tute.

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  30. Beautiful cards Lea! Love the rainbow card and tie dye looking ribbon!

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  31. Oh, I love the rainbow! thanks for the chance to win! cjdempsey9 at msn dot com

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  32. This is so pretty- love the rainbow colors.
    isoscia at aol dot com

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  33. Great tutorials, wonderful projects! Thanks for the inspiration!

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  34. You did a wonderful job with the techniques! Love the bright rainbow background!

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  35. Both projects are just gorgeous!!! Love your coloring and love that splash technique. The dyed ribbon is perfect!!
    <3 J

    jwoolbright at gmail dot com
    HerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com

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  36. The rainbow background is amazing! The flowers are beautiful! I think I better go check out the Tombow blending kit!

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  37. Love how the splash technique turned out! So striking against the black cardstock. Wonderful job. Thanks for sharing.

    Katie B.

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  38. Beautiful colors and coloring technique! Thanks for sharing.

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  39. Both projects are great - I love the vibrant colors!

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  40. Gorgeous projects! I love Stampendous and Tombow, such a great combination. Thanks for sharing your creative ideas!

    Carol B
    ciaoitalia2007(at)gmail(dot)com

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  41. Beautiful projects! I love the coloring on your jar card!

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  42. Love the watercolor background TFS.

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  43. I LoVe both of your projects. But I have to say the second one is my favorite. I LoVe the mason jar with flowers in it & thanks for the directions. Thanks for the chance to win... ;0)

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  44. Gorgeous projects! I love the vibrant colors, thanks for sharing.

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  45. Two projects with great use of colors and watercoloring

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  46. Both of these projects are great! Thanks for sharing and inspiring others!

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