The Skinny on Darbi

Sticker shop, hand-letterer & planner

Using lettering, planning, stickers, puns and art to create FUNkorative spreads and other creations to bring color & balance to running two businesses and momming

Letter It with Darbi

My fave hand-lettering tools & supplies

These are items that I continually use on my own lettering journey. If it’s an Amazon link, I may receive a small commission if you order, and I truly am grateful for the support as it helps encourage me to spend my free time with this amazing community!

writech brush pen

My new faves! Great for beginners.

Basic colors Pentel Sign Brush (small/MED)

These are probably my most used brush pens. They come in a variety of colors — and the full pack is so worth it! This is for the basic set of 12.

Pentel Sign Brush Pastel (set of 12)

I have to have this set as well. In combination with the basic color set, you are well-covered!

TOMBOW FUDENOSUKE 2-pack (hard & soft)

These are my most used basic black pens! Used a ton in the bujo world. I liked the soft tip while learning and now I like the hard tip better!

LE pen FLEX

Fine to small medium — great if need help differentiating between thick and thin. Available in pastels as well.

SAILOR BRUSH PEN

these are great for medium to large words!

ZEBRA DUAL TIP brush pens

I prefer these over regular highlighters because you can use them as highlighters, and you can use them as brush pens. Plus on the other side they have regular felt tip markers. They will only work as brush pens if you use them so the tips do not fray. And that means you write with them and highlight with them from the side. 

ZIG COCOIRO BRUSH LETTER PEN (barrel only)

Cocoiro Letter Pens have a flexible tip unlike ordinary felt-tip pens and ballpoint pens, . I love these for brush lettering that has to be finer / smaller. This product is a pen body only. The pen tip and ink are not included. See next item in my list.

I own five barrels because I have six or seven of the colors and I just swap them out as needed. When you get them make sure you keep all the cops and so forth because when the ink is left out it will dry up

ZIG COCOIRO INK REFILL

This is one of the 12 colors available. Amazon does not carry all the colors all the time so if you are looking for a specific color, head to jet pens.com as they carry everything. See my previous listing for the barrel. On Amazon you can also purchase both together. Do you want to leave all caps in place because if you leave the ink uncapped, it will dry out. To remedy, you can put the nib under a tiny tiny tiny stream of water upright so the water will stream into the ink barrel and loosen it up. Do not do too much water or will water down ink too much .

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