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Katie Smith

DIY Moon Phase Planner Spread

Hey guys! This is a project I originally shared on Tombow’s instagram account, but as you know I’m a huge space nerd, so I wanted to share it here too. Today I’m showing you how to make a Lunar Calendar Spread in your bullet journal/planner! Supplies: Planner or Journal. For my planner this year, I’m using a Bloom Daily Planners Dot Journaling Planner. I added one of my Galaxy Girl stickers to the cover to customize it , but I love the marble background too. Tombow Twin Tone

Katie Smith

Easy Rainbow Geometric Art

Hey y’all, I wanted to let you know about my latest tutorial for Tombow! DIY Geometric Rainbow Art! I used Tombow’s new Rainbow Twin Tone Markers & Templates by Josie Lewis to create these “watercolor” geometric designs. Using the markers makes this super easy, because they dry a bit faster than regular watercolors, and are super vibrant. Find the full tutorial on the Tombow blog here. #tombow #tutorial #watercolor

Katie Smith

Paint a Watercolor Constellation Portrait with Tombow Markers

This post contains affiliate links, which help pay for this site. That being said, I never promote anything I don’t love! If you purchase using them, I might get a small commission at no additional cost to you. Hey everyone! I have a new post up on the Tombow USA blog today: How to paint a Watercolor Constellation Self Portrait! I had so much fun with this project, and I’m really pleased with how it turned out. In the past I’ve always struggled so much with self portraits (w

Katie Smith

How to Paint Galaxy Hair using Tombow Dual Brush Pens

This post contains affiliate links, which help pay for this site. That being said, I never promote anything I don’t love! If you purchase using them, I might get a small commission at no additional cost to you. Hey y’all! You know how much I love galaxies AND drawing girls, so today I am showing you how to paint galaxy hair. I’ll be using Tombow Dual Brush Pens for a watercolor effect. Supplies: Tombow Dual Brush Pens (I’m using the Galaxy pack) Watercolor Paper Paintbrush +

Katie Smith

My Top 5 Tips for Sketching in Your Planner

Hello everyone, My latest post for Tombow USA is live and I wanted to direct you over to it. In the post I am sharing my top 5 tips for sketching in your planner! I doodle on everything (I always drew on my schoolwork as a kid. Thankfully I was homeschooled and my Mom didn’t mind), so obviously my planner is going to be filled with random sketches too, right. I know you would expect nothing less. 😉 Tombow partnered with Bloom Planners to supply those of us on the design team

Katie Smith

3 Ways to Use the Tombow XL Blending Palette

This post contains affiliate links, which help pay for this site. That being said, I never promote anything I don’t love! If you purchase using them, I might get a small commission at no additional cost to you. Today I wanted to do a little product feature of Tombow’s new XL Blending Palette and show you some of the ways that you can use it! The concept of the blending palette isn’t a new one, they’ve been selling their original Blending Palette for quite a while, but they’v

Katie Smith

How to Swatch your Watercolor Pan Set

Hey everyone, I recently made a swatch of some of my watercolors and wanted to show you the process, in case you’re curious about doing it for your own pan sets. Today’s post is also a bit of a product review, because I just bought this watercolor tin palette, and since I’ve gotten some questions about it on instagram, I’m doing a review! Let’s start with the swatching: Step 1: Start by cutting down a piece of watercolor paper to fit into the lid of your palette. Step 2: use

Katie Smith

DIY Galaxy Themed Dot Grid Journal

(*This post includes affiliate links: By purchasing through these links I may receive compensation at no additional cost to you. These links help support my art, and I only ever promote products that I use and love. Hey friends, it’s a new week and time to share a new project for Tombow USA! I had so much fun with this one. This week Tombow partnered with Archer and Olive to send us all some of their Dot Grid Notebooks. Despite my love for notebooks, I’d never working in a d

Katie Smith

DIY Wedding Couple Portrait

Hey guys, I have a new project up on the Tombow USA blog today that I wanted to share with y’all! Wedding season is coming up, and if you’re headed to any this summer, you might need a gift, and that’s where this project comes in. I’m sharing how to create a fun wedding couple doodle, that will make a really cute gift for your friends! In the tutorial I share some tips for sketching out each character to customize them to the wedding couple, as well as how to color them in us

Katie Smith

Tombow Techniques Online Class + GIVEAWAY

Hey everyone, I wanted to let y’all know that I have a brand new online class out on Big Picture Classes, called Tombow Techniques! This will be my third class taught with Big Picture Classes and I absolutely love working with them to bring you some really fun techniques. What’s the new class? Tombow Techniques! What’s it about? Exactly as the title suggests, this course is all about using Tombow products. I’ve been on the Tombow design team and ambassador team for 3 years no

Katie Smith

Watercolor Double Exposure Nature Art with Tombow Dual Brush Pens

This post contains affiliate links. which help pay for this site. That being said, I never promote anything I don’t love! If you purchase using them, I might get a small commission at no additional cost to you. Hey guys, today I have another fun project to share with you that I created for Tombow USA! What is it? Double Exposure Art! I really love creating paintings inspired by double exposure photography so I thought I’d show you an easy way to do that too! A double exposu

Katie Smith

How to Draw Maps in Your Travel Journal

Hey friends! I wanted to let you know about a new tutorial I have on the Tombow USA blog! This week we partnered with Webster’s Pages who sent me some of their products to try out, including this lovely Travelers Notebook! For my tutorial I am showing y’all how to include maps into your journals. Find the full tutorial on the Tombow blog. #artjournal #tombow #tutorial

Katie Smith

How to: Faux Watercolor Stamping

This post contains affiliate links. which help pay for this site. That being said, I never promote anything I don’t love! If you purchase using them, I might get a small commission at no additional cost to you. Hey guys, I recently did some watercolor stamping in my journal and after being asked about it a couple of times, I thought I’d show y’all how you can achieve a watercolor effect using stamps and water based markers! For today’s project I’ll be using Tombow Dual Brus

Katie Smith

Easy Colored Pencil Hedgehog Art

*This post contains affiliate links. which help pay for this site. That being said, I never promote anything I don’t love! If you purchase using them, I might get a small commission at no additional cost to you. This year, 2018, is the 30th anniversary of the Irojiten Color Dictionaries, Vol 1 was introduced in April of 1988! wow. Yesterday I took over the Tombow USA instagram account, showing how to use Irojiten colored pencils to color in this cute little Hedgehog doodle,

Katie Smith

DIY Fall Travelers Notebook Inserts

I’ve recently stumbled onto the world of Travelers Notebook’s, and I think they’re pretty neat! Today I am up on the Tombow blog sharing a tutorial on how to make your own TN inserts! More specifically, Fall themed inserts! Grab the full tutorial over on the Tombow USA Blog here. #tombow #tutorial

Katie Smith

DIY No-Sew Perfect Binding Journal

*I received products as compensation for this post and this post contains affiliate links. If you purchase using them, I might get a small commission at no additional cost to you. However all opinions are my own and I love Tombow products. Today I am excited to show y’all how to do a really cool book binding technique called “Perfect Binding”. Perfect Binding is actually a term for a type of binding, I promise that I’m not bragging that this journal is PERFECT, although it

Katie Smith

Galaxy Color Combos with Dual Brush Pens

Hey everyone! I’ve got a new post up on the Tombow USA blog! Tombow just released 2 brand new Dual Brush Pen sets- a Galaxy (!!!) set and a Pastel set. I put together 10 color combinations you can make with these sets to create 10 different galaxies! Hop over to the Tombow blog to see them all and to learn how to make a galaxy with Dual Brush Pens! #tombow #tutorial

Katie Smith

Painting Galaxies Online Course

I have some exciting news to share! I have an online course with Get Messy Art Journal launching today! I have been secretly working on this course for the past few months so I am thrilled to finally have it out in the world. What is it about? Painting Galaxies! It is a technique based coursed, showing you all of my secrets on how to create stunning starry scenes. I use multiple mediums including watercolors and acrylics and in the 7 lessons I show you how to use them as well

Katie Smith

DIY Glue and Ink Resist Mixed Media Technique

As I was browsing through pinterest recently I saw a kids craft that involved squirting white glue into wet watercolors, and I immediately wanted to try it as a mixed media technique! Instead of white glue and watercolors, I grabbed Tombow Dual Brush Pens and MONO Aqua Liquid Glue. The MONO Aqua Liquid Glue works great as a resist (once dry), but this is the first time I’ve used it in wet ink. Here’s what you’ll need: Tombow Dual Brush Pens (I used their new galaxy set) Tombo

Katie Smith

DIY Mini Album You Can Mail

Hey guys, I am up on the Tombow blog today sharing a new tutorial! I created a mini album scrapbook built into an envelope so that you can easily toss it into the mail to a friend! Grab the full tutorial on the Tombow USA blog here. #scrapbooking #tombow #tutorial

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