Blending and Coloring With Cheap Pens

Don't want to splurge on Copics and other expensive coloring mediums? Give these affordable Stabilo pens a try – expand for full list of products.

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This card was made for Just One More Card. The blog post can be found here:

[craftygrandma]

Just love your unsquashable crab, upside down and right side up! Just beautiful!

[Rachel-JournalsReimagined]

I love love love this card and that sentiment is perfect.  What a great card to give someone you care about.  Thank you for sharing!
Rachel

[wendy]

I bought some of these pens after watching you color with them, they work really well! I'm very pleased with them and they are very affordable! I have a few of the zig clean clear brush markers which I love but just couldn't afford to buy any more at this time, but I've found that I can use the stabilo and the zigs and some copics all on the same project... so it's a win win for me.

[WiebkeKommerell]

Julia, this video made me happy! :-)

Now I don't feel lonesome any longer in using the Stabilo Pen68-Markers! :-)
I love the intense colors they have, some of the Distress and Stampin'Up Markers seem to be really pale against them!
I received some Copics below the Christmas Tree, but before I got them, I used these Stabilos most of the time (additional some of the fine tips). The one and only "negaive" point is there are no pale and really soft colors or a special blending-marker.

Your card and the blending looks great!

[jcardstock]

Super cool technique. I will have to try this with pens i have at home!

[Skooterbird]

Very cute cart and thank you for the tip are trying the

[KindaKrafty]

What a Cute Card and what a great tip.. definitely going to give it a try! :)

[yuliskartika]

Julia, I thank you SO much for your video .. I am not alone .. thank you!

[vickidowns]

Thank you for the tips using the inexpensive markers :)     

[CardsbyMaaike]

if you have the same as me, you can also use them to do watercolouring

[Conilong]

Adorable card. The velvet glitter adds a lot, but who knew you could use those cheap pens on watercolor paper and it would blend. How did you ever think of that????

[ArtisticHobo-TanyaMcAlexander]

I think you can even use water to blend those pens out, either on the paper or using a block...I am not positive if I am mixing these pens up with a different pen or not but I think they are the same ones my friend used to do a watercolor effect on a project....

[imokaart]

Such a cute card and I love the sentiment. Are those Stabilo pens the same that you used to watercolor? By the way, I purchased the stabilo aquarel pencils and they are also surpisingly good and not expensive at all.

[luciaayala]

That moment when Stabilo pens are expensive for me :/ Anyways, what a beautiful card, really stunning.