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A guide to brush lettering. Brush lettering gives designs a handmade feel without the casual-ness of a chalkboard.

This tutorial will show you how to use permanent markers and rubbing alcohol to make your own alcohol inks for your scrapbooking and craft projects. I think you will be very happy with the finished product and with the amount of money you can save making your own inks.

How to make your own alcohol inks

Since I've been making my own Glimmer Mists for a long time, I thought I would take a crack at making my own Alcohol Ink. I do love Glimmer Mists. They provide a subtle, glimmery eyeshadow effect of color to the background of my pages. But I also want sprays that are more vibrant, colorful, and fun! Alcohol Ink was my answer :) I was first inspired by this pin that I posted on my "Smash & PL" pinboard half a year ago. The blog shows you how to make Alcohol Ink using Kool-Aid. I don't keep…

Dried out markers are the worst. They take up space, and for some reason, even though they're totally useless, most of us have at least a few lying around just for the sake of not throwing them out. Luckily, Julie Finn over at Crafting a Green World has come up with a way to repurpose them into alcohol ink, a versatile type of ink that can be used on non-porous materials like plastic, glass, and metal. This is truly a tutorial for the pack rat in all of us. First, a little primer on what you…

Tim Holtz talks about the new colors in the Ranger Alcohol ink line and gives great tips on how to color with Alcohol inks using the blending pen. CHA 2014

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Last week I found out how to refill the tombow brush pens. The reason I wanted to refill them was because the nibs on a couple of my pens were fine however they were almost out of ink. The ink I refill them with at the moment is ecoline watercolour ink as this is all I have and it works well. All you need to refill them is a tombow pen some ink (in my case I used ecoline) a pipette (something to be able to put the ink into the pen) and some tweezers but thats optional All you have to do…

Here is a quick fix for alcohol markers that have gone dry. You will need an eyedropper (or pipette or syringe) and denatured alcohol (or ethanol) to impleme...

POSCA Water-Based Paint Markers manufactured by Mitsubishi Pencil can be used on all surfaces and have countless applications. POSCA is the marker reference ...

I have a super easy tutorial that will save you some cash today! I’ll show you how to refill your waterproof Micron and Pitt artists pens with India ink in today’s video: Easy huh? Who …

How to refill Copic Markers. Jennifer Dove shows you what you need to know about refilling Copic Markers; providing useful tip and tricks. Imagination Inter...

Hey everyone, in this video I'm showing how you can recycle your used up dry Posca Paint Pens.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JosephTubbTwitter: https://t...