Tombow & Elizabeth Craft Designs Blog Hop

Good morning friends!

Welcome to the Tombow and Elizabeth Craft Designs Blog Hop! In addition to lots of inspiring projects, there is also a prize to win! What to do? To be eligible to win, please comment on each of the designers projects and don't forget to "Like" the Tombow and "Like" Elizabeth Craft Designs Facebook page!

Before I share my project, here is a look at the awesome prize package, and there are links below the picture so you can get a good look at what's included in it.

This is what is included in the Prize Package:

Elizabeth Craft Designs:
Selection of Peel-Off stickers
Watercolor Paper
Double Sided Adhesive Sheets
Congratulations die
Stand Up Helpers die set
Warm Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter

Tombow:
Xtreme Adhesive
Dual Brush Pen Set, 10 Retro

Tombow will announce a winner on Monday April 21st, at 3:30pm EST!

If you came here from Marie Browning's Blog you are in the right spot. Otherwise, be sure to start at the beginning so you don't miss any of the fun!  The lineup today is as follows:

Tombow Blog

Frances Byrne

Kelly Booth

Marie Browning

Karen Aicken (you are here)

Els van de Burgt

My parents gave me a couple of sets of Tombow Dual Brush Pens for my birthday, and I have loved using them since then.  I was so excited to find out that Elizabeth Craft Designs and Tombow were going to have a joint Blog Hop, and that Tombow offered to send us a package of their Dual Brush Pens! When I got my birthday markers I had also picked up some water colour paper to use with them, but bought the 140# package instead of the 90# one. Since it's nice and sturdy though, it works perfectly to cut Accordion cards from!

That is what I did here .. I cut two Oval Accordion pages from the water colour paper and attached the bases together. Tombow's Xtreme adhesive works great for this, and it gets even stronger after 24 hours!

Now came the fun part - adding the colour with my Tombow Dual Brush Pens! I have always liked the look of water colour, and with these markers it's incredibly easy to achieve the look.

First, I attached the Oval Daisy Peel-Off to some water colour paper. Using the Tombow plastic palette, I scribbled some colour onto it then picked up the colour with a damp paintbrush and simply painted inside the sticker lines. It was easy to add shading and additional colour this way.

Then I cut TWELVE Oval Flourish Frame Edges from water colour paper. Again I scribbled colour onto the plastic palette, picking it up with a wet paintbrush and painted the colour onto each of the frame pieces.  I used a glue pen to attach 8 of them to the two inside pages, and the last four to the right back side. This is the side that shows  when the card is closed to put in an envelope, so I like it to look nice too. The frames align with perfectly mitered corners - love that!

Gold glittery Peel-Off border stickers were trimmed and added to the mitered corners of the frames for some sparkle and shine. I fussy cut the painted daisy oval and popped it up on the left oval panel then outlined the oval with a different glittery Peel-Off border.

The 'Thank You' was die cut from water colour paper, and painted the same was as the frames, by scribbling with the Tombow Dual Brush Pens onto the plastic palette and painting the colour onto the words with a wet paintbrush.

Since I had the water colour paper out anyhow, I painted a section using the same technique then die cut the Daisy Silhouette from it when it was dry. That gave me the pretty background colours. Then I added the Daisy Overlay using double sided-adhesive and yellow Silk Microfine Glitter.

Here is a view of the card from the top ...

... and the back.  See the painted ovals? They were cut from water colour paper using the decorator dies that come with the Oval Accordion, and painted with ... yes ... Tombow Dual Brush Pens scribbled on the plastic palette and painted onto the ovals with a wet brush. The Daisy on the back side has a simple overlay cut from water colour paper.

I left the right oval blank as a place to add a message and signature.

Since there was still colour on my plastic palette, I decided to go ahead and paint another die cut oval and make it into a tag.

If you poke around my blog, you will see how often I have used the Tombow Dual Brush Pens on my projects. Using them with Elizabeth Craft Designs Peel-Off's is a perfect pairing ... either as I did here by picking up the colour with a wet brush or by using water colour paper and the Tombow Blender Pen. They also colour on the ECD Silk Microfine Glitter beautifully!

Now be sure to check on the last stop of the Blog Hop today ... Els van de Burgt.


Supplies used:
Oval Accordion, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Flourish Frame Edges, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Daisy die - 901, Elizabeth Craft Designs
Daisy Oval Peel-Off - 2558, Elizabeth Craft Designs
Gold glitter Peel-Off - 7010, Eizabeth Craft Designs
Thank You word die - 788, Elizabeth Craft Designs
Tombow Dual Brush Pens - Tombow USA
Tombow Blending Kit - Tombow USA  (LOVE THIS)
Tombow Xtreme Adhesive - Tombow USA
Seam binding - Stampin' Up
140# water colour paper

Thanks for stopping by today!