Tell me about Brush Markers

[piratesmate]

Please

I had to run out to Wal-Mart yesterday to pick up some things for DH & DD. I ran (well, limped) back to the Craft section since Sweet Maxine had told me that her store had a bunch of stuff on clearance. Sadly, most of the things she'd told me about were not marked down at my store.

However, I did pick up a set of brush markers that was marked down. I was very excited as I'd seen them used to color rubber stamps instead of using ink pads, which I thought was a really cool idea. Unfortunately, the set is almost completely dried out & will have to go back. But now that I've had a set in my hot little hands I really, really want some!

For those that have them.....

What brand/s do you like?

What brand/s aren't worth the money?

Do you use them in other ways (how?) or just on stamps?

 

[FantasticDisFamily]

Are you talking about the markers that has a tip that is more like a soft brush? If so I have several sets of Zig markers that have the brush tip on one end and a regular tip on the other. I don't use them for stamping at all but for lettering, etc. If I am just writing/journalling I use the regular point but if I have used stencils for a title, or some other larger decoration I use the brush end to "paint" in the item.

Deb

 

[sweet maxine]

Sorry for the enabling.......especially since you didn't have good luck with it.

I don't know why different WM's have different prices for things like that. I guess there's just not many people who scrap where I live, so they're really trying to clear out their stock of certain things. I do know I'm going back today to get more of those eyelets on clearance. They're working great since I've solved my eyelet setting issues. I bought that MM tool set at Michael's this weekend with my coupon (DD found one where she lives ), and it works the best!

I'd love to hear about the brush markers too.

 

[Limmer]

I love the Zig brush markers as well (only ones I have used so far). I have used them to do thick writing on cards etc and I have used them to fill in Creating keepsakes alphabets if I like the marker colour better than the fill colour, or to just add accents here and there.

 

[Twigs]

I have a brush marker set from rubber stampede. I haven't used any others so I can't compare them, but I do like them. I use them only on rubber stamps. I'm afraid if I used them for other things I would ruin the tip of the brush. There are a lot of times I use the tip for coloring in a very small details on the stamp.

 

[sweet maxine]

Deb, is there something to "rehydrate" the markers with to make them work better? I may just try a set out from my WM, as they're marked down quite a bit here.