Tombow

All I do is craft, craft, craft...

March 3, 2016Drawing, Watercolor, Coloring, Color, Cards, Crafts, How to, Hand Lettering, Paper crafting, Thrift, SuppliesGabriela SimsComment

Not really, but I wish that were true! I have been trying to up my crafting game and it's resulted in some purchases of supplies and then actively using them. I try to make sure that I use my supplies regularly and I haven't bought new supplies (besides adhesive) in a few weeks. That might not sound spectacular, but for me that's a long time. The truth is I realized I have enough supplies right now to go "shopping" in my craft studio; that realization forces me to use/rediscover what I already own. Doing this has yielded some "Responsible Crafting". I'm using that to refer to things like making swatches:

Practicing my handlettering:

And even working on my digital art:

I've been working to really get the most out of my supplies and I have to say I'm pretty happy. I feel like I have fallen in love with some of my supplies all over again, which I like because I think it's easy to fall into the trap of "hoarding" supplies and being afraid to use your "good" supplies. To be honest, the whole reason you buy things should be so you can use them. I'm trying to take my own advice there, happy crafting!

The Daily Marker 30 Day - All of the Brush Pens

February 13, 2016Paper crafting, Drawing, Coloring, How to, Supplies, Graphic design, Stamps, Graphic, Color, Hand Lettering, Watercolor, Crafts, Diy, ToolsGabriela SimsComment

I have been coloring quite a bit and working on my hand lettering. This week I crammed in several projects for the challenge, so I am listing them at once, rather than posting daily.

Tombow ink blending on Bristol paper with white gel pen accents, and gold metallic marker accents.

More Tombow on Bristol and some more ink blending.

This was done with Zig Clean Color Brush Pens on Drawing Paper

Also Zig Clean Color on card stock. Background is Distress Ink.

I did several pieces this week, and tried a few different tools. I have to say I loved the Kuretake brush pens right out of the box, fro drawing, coloring, and handlettering. They proved to be extremely versatile and easy to use, I wish I'd ordered them sooner! Next week I will have a post with a tutorial video showcasing some of the 2016 QuickQuotes PowderPuff Chalking Inks, until then, happy crafting!

More lettering and #muglife

January 16, 2016Crafts, Hand Lettering, Cards, Drawing, Color, Coloring, Graphic design, Graphic, Paper crafting, ToolsGabriela SimsComment

Hi everyone! This post just to capture the last of my cards and artwork for the week. I made this card for a challenge, the prompt was "Cup".

This was done by drawing the cup on watercolor paper, using Tombow brush pens to color and then embossing the #muglife.

i also found the time to do some more hand lettering.

I used a mixture of Pitt artist pens, Sharpie Fine, Le Pen, and Copic markers for this one. Took about 2-2.5 hours from start to finish, hopefully I'll get faster. I'll be starting next week with a 10 minute card, until then Happy Crafting!

Gab about practice

January 14, 2016Color, Coloring, Paper crafting, Diy, Crafts, Hand LetteringGabriela SimsComment

So I've been working on my hand lettering and really trying to improve. I'm hoping that by next year I can do freehand with no pencil guides...in the meantime, here's what I made!