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Cleaning Your Dove Blender Tip
Diane Miller
Instead of wiping the excess
color off on scrap paper, or a baby wipe, when I am cleaning
my dove blender tip or switching colors, I fold a paper towel
in half and then in half again. I put a few drops of the dove
blender refill solution onto the paper towel, and when I want
to clean off the color, I run my Dove blender onto the area of
the paper towel that has the dove blender refill solution on
it. It not only cleans your Dove blender, but it replenished
it at the same time! Works like a charm!
Blender Pen Re-Fill Solution Recipe -
For 1 ounce bottle fill
1/3 Glycerine
2/3 Distilled water
1/4 teaspoon alcohol
Put in dropper bottle
Sandy Lemons - http://www.powderedpearls.com
Actually, you can make any pen a blender. Take an empty, dried
up pen of your choice, Tombow or Marvy LePlume, preferably a
light color like yellow or a pale tan. Gently take it apart and
immerse the long felt like core into a glass of warm water..and
wait. Change the water several times a day unto no more leeches
out. Don't forget to do the tip, too. I really dislike the size
and shape of the replacement tips available. I love the long
thin tips of the LePlumes. Then squeeze out the excess water
and let it dry a couple of days, then soak...lightly..the core
with blending fluid and reassemble. Or you can reassemble, then
drop the fluid in that way. Be sure to soak the tip to get the
thing jump started. Yes, you can get refill blending fluid. I
have some. I'm *personally* convinced that it's nothing more
than watered down glycerine. It feels like, tastes like, acts
like glycerine. I would guess it's about 50/50. I used distilled
or boiled water to mix with some pure glycerine I had and it
worked perfectly.
Try it, these suggestions cost you nothing except a little bit
of time and you could discover something really useful. I suggest
you have a little bottle of glycerine on hand anyway to give
a little extra life to your
stamping pads. I use it straight almost exclusively for embossing
fluid.
rubberchickenlady@juno.com
(Betsy McLoughlin)
Here's a method I tried recently and really love the look:
Stamp your image using the Printworks outliner pads or other
pads that will not bleed. Use an artist's palette and scribble
your color in there with a marvy or tombow pen. Then with a small
amount of
water, mix the color and water, then paint image on. No lines
and a beautiful effect.
The Dove blender works wonderfully - but not on all types of
paper - you need to experiment papers. The dove blender is a
great replacement for a paintbrush. You can also use the dove
blender to do the above method. Give it a try and have fun!
"Barbie Boop"
barbieboop1@JUNO.COM
See more of Barb's tips
Blender tips and ideas
Trace around the inside of your
stamped images with WC pencils or crayons! Then using your blender
"pull" the color in towards the center of the image..
it looks painted and shading is perfect! Simple.
Use them with your ink pads.. esp vivid!
Use your watercolor markers as a palette! Just tap your blender
pen gently onto your chalks and color your stamped images in…
real soft and pastel look! Delicate. Spray with fixative/hair
spray if you like!
Cheri
Use water color pencils, chalks,
etc. and you use these blender pens to blend the colors to make
it have a water color effect look.
Mary Ann
To shadow and shade. Once in
a class, the instructor said rather than try to match light and
dark colors, as on flowers, just start with the dark and pull
out the color to make it lighter. I have also used this technique
to make "faded" jeans hanging on a clothes line. I
generally use with Tombow markers. My silly sissy uses hers with
chalks and says you don't need to spray them with a fixative
then. I especially use my blender for House Mouse images.
If you want a real light look, you can just rub the blender on
the marker and then color. Or smear the marker on a glass table
top and pick up the color from their on your blender. I am sure
a lot of other things will serve as a palate, but when I was
doing it I had the glass table top under me.
Blending Pens
Lori Hable
If you use your blender pen to apply Pearl-Ex you don't need
to use a sealer. Just pick up a little bit of the powder with
your blender pen and apply to the paper. I emboss butterflies
with black ink on black card stock and then just sit and color
them using this method. They look like real butterflies!!!
Betty Goetz
I don't have the patience to 'blend' watercolor markers or water
soluble pencils etc with the Dove blender BUT I do enjoy using
them with Pearl Ex and other dry pigments. The 'wet' in the blender
has something which BINDS the dry pigment to the paper. I typically
emboss something on black text weight paper, dip the tip of the
blender in the jar of dry pigment and start coloring in. Just
smoosh the tip on a paper towel to remove one color before moving
on to the next. This is one of the things we do in my Pearl Ex
class.
Gail
My newest favorite thing is
using my blender with chalks. I can't imagine using anything
else. Haven't mastered using it with markers yet. :)
Mary Ann
If you want a real light look,
you can just rub the blender on the marker and then color. Or
smear the marker on a glass table top and pick up the color from
their on your blender. I am sure a lot of other things will serve
as a palate, but when I was doing it I had the glass table top
under me. LOL
Sundaystamper
My favorite technique for Dove blender was taught by Judith of
Stamps by Judith for a local stamp store. She used a foam meat
tray, I use a small piece of plexiglass, and she rubbed markers
on them to create a "palette". Then using the Dove
blender she "picked up" the color from the palette
to paint the image. It gives the greatest watercolor effect!
Karen aka iamscraphappy@hotmail.com
Just thought I'd share some
of my tips for blender pens. When working on glossy paper, "color"
with your clean blender pen first then go back and add color.
It will be easier to blend this way. Also you can pick up color
from markers (in addition to ink pads). I rub off some of the
marker ink onto plastic (usually the marker case) and then pick
up the color with the blender pen. This is a way to get a more
subtle effect than by using the marker directly.
Tombow Blending Tips/techs
tntrilling@juno.com
(Tonya L. Rilling)
Supplies:
Watercolor/Blending Paper
Tombow Markers
Tombow Blending Pen N00
Open Fine line stamp
Base card
Embossing Powder
1.Cut base card paper, fold and measure.
2.Cut Watercolor paper to a size that will fit on the base card
with a 1/4" border of base card showing around the watercolor
paper.
3.Stamp your image on the watercolor paper and emboss.
4.Take the tombow marker of your choice and begin working in
a small area, draw lines with the marker where you want darker
highlights.
5.Take the blender pen and in a circular motion blend out from
the highlight marker and pull color to surrounding areas. Continue
with that color highlighting and blending until all the areas
with that color are
completed.
6.Clean the blender by coloring on a scrap piece of paper to
remove last color before using on the next color.
*For
creating new colors or just for a more watercolor look you can
highlight one area with several coordinating colors before blending.
*Before
mixing colors in an area try them on a scrap piece of paper.
*Blending
pens run out of ink more quickly than colored pens because of
the large amounts of space you use them on while blending.
*You
can use a lighter color of the same shade to blend colors then
go over the area with the blender pen when complete to blend
any lines and shade.
KRSCardsNGifts@AOL.COM
I have used blender pens in a variety of ways...in addition to
dipping them into an ink pad (I actually use the lid of the ink
pad as to not get too much ink on my pen), I dip them into a
corner of my chalk to get a really nice chalking effect on my
image. I also use the blender pen to take some color off my colored
pencils and apply to my stamped image. Blender pens can also
be used to remove color from your stamped image for a lighter
color effect. I am still experimenting.....
Jan Hoyt
I haven't really worked with my new blenders pens much yet BUT
the other day I was playing around with my friends and one of
them dipped her blender pen onto the ink pad and picked up color
to use on her image. Very nice effect and what could be easier????
WBean05495@aol.com
The idea of a blender pen is not to blend the color AFTER it
is on the paper, but before. Take a marker in one hand and your
blender in the hand you write with. Touch the blender to the
tip of the marker and then "draw" on a piece of scrap
paper until you see the color you want. This is a way to get
"shades" of the same color on paper. It's sort of like
water coloring with a pen. It's fun and easy and you get some
varied results. You can also do the same method with Water Color
Pencils and regular colored pencils. When you are ready to switch
colors, just draw on your scrap paper until there is no color.
Now the blender is clean and ready for a new color. Have
fun, and hope this helps !!!
ConnieKo@aol.com
You will find the Tombow blender a wonderful tool for achieving
soft, watercolor-like effects. The best way to use it, in my
opinion, is to do your blending of color ON THE TIP of the pen,
not on paper.
Touch the blender onto your water based marker, then apply this
lightened color to your work.
If I'm coloring a leaf, I'll touch the tip of the marker to a
yellow marker and then touch a green marker tip. This gives me
a light green. With this color on the blender tip, I can apply
the color where I want it. I can then take my marker and add
darker bits here and there. It dries pretty quickly. I
then go back into the area for fine line detail. I've
had less success in blending colors that have already been applied
to a card surface. You might try it for yourself. I think it
would work best on a gloss card stock that would slow absorption. The
softer papers will just suck up the liquid like a sponge. The
Dove blender works very well, too, and has a different composition,
so it's juicier. You can also buy a pack of replacement tips
to freshen the point as it wears down over time. There is also a
replacement fluid, so the Dove pen can last forever.
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