Oh Tombow! How do we love thee? Let us count the ways! It was a party in the Tombow booth, lots of colour and LOTS of gorgeous products! Along with the popular brush lettering trend, Tombow Dual Brush Pens are blendable colours that are lovely for watercolour too. The rainbow of markers and pencils are so pretty! Demo tables were always busy, hosted by the happy smiling faces of Tombow representatives. Tombow products are perfect for all the adult colouring and artwork happening now. For coloured pencils, there are the Irojiten and the Recycled Color Pencils. The Irojiten coloured pencils also come in colour theme packs, with eraser and sharpener. The body is coated with a white overlay that makes long hours holding the pencils much easier and more comfortable. Remember Tombow has a whole range of adhesives too, for crafting, home and office, making your projects stick together with…
The Chameleon Pens booth is a colourful experience. With the adult colouring book craze in full swing, Chameleon Pens are trending. For those of you unfamiliar with Chameleon pens, they are alcohol based pens, each one producing varying tones of the same colour. This means you need only one colour of each pen instead of many pens to blend multiple tones. Chamelon Pens feature • Double-Ended Pen • Japanese SuperSoft Brush Nib and Bullet Nib • Professional Quality Alcohol-Based Ink • Refillable Inks • Replaceable Nibs • Permanent on Most Surfaces • Compatible with all other Alcohol-Based Inks • Non-Toxic and Low Odor • Ideal for All Paper Crafts, Manga, Graphic and Fine Art Currently, the full Deluxe set of Chameleon Color Tones Pens consists of 20 vibrant colours, plus a detail black pen and colourless toning/blending pen. They are also sold as singles and 5 pen sets, plus nibs and…
Chameleon Pens and Colouring Books! By Karen Ellis Okay, it’s official. I am stating for the record that I, Karen Ellis, love to colour! I have jumped on the adult colouring book band wagon and have come to appreciate the zen time it offers. Combine those books and Chameleon Pens… Oh yes!! I’m in heaven. If you haven’t tried Chameleon Pens yet, I invite you to do so. They are alcohol based pens (like Copic and Spectrum Noir) which allows great blend ability, but what makes these pens special is the built in charger that allows you to change the saturation of the pen ink while colouring. Brilliant! Instant highlights, gradation, and shadowing! I love “hopping” the colour, and creating colour gradations with my Chameleon Pens to create depth and highlights but I wanted to show you here how I used the pens to change the colour’s tone to expand…
Honestly now. How cute is this herd? Although these are simple cards, colouring can sometimes take time. Truthfully, I don’t feel like colouring in detail most of the time. Anything that takes time is not my style. (Patience, much?) Instead, I’ll stamp several images on some white cardstock and colour while watching one of my favourite shows. And let’s get serious… January is unofficially “camp out and watch TV” month. So, how did I do it? These are Stampin’ Up! Blendabilities markers. They are alcohol based and come in sets of three, which includes a light, medium and dark shade. They have them in packs of three because it takes all the guesswork out of how to blend and shade. There is a knack to colouring and blending but my rule of thumb is always – colour what looks “right” to you. You can think about the light source and…
