CraftWorld Magazine Exclusive Pentel Christmas Giveaway

It’s never too early to start getting together your ideas for personalised Christmas cards, decorations and gifts.
For many of us the process begins with a mood board of colours and themes to give you inspiration. Whether you want to create something entirely different to last year or reuse a favourite idea from a few years ago it’s fun to start thinking about how you want to style this Christmas.

Get Your Sparkle On

One thing that never goes out of fashion at Christmas is sparkle, and Pentel has the most appealing array of twinkling, iridescent shades to make your creations really stand out from the crowd.

If you’ve never tried Hybrid DualMetallic gel pens before you’re in for a treat. These unique rollerball pens have been designed to give words, images and patterns an extra special touch of shimmer and sparkle. They really have the ‘wow’ factor, and ability to put a smile on your face as soon as you pick them up.

The combination of pigment glitter and dye ink creates brilliant, rich metallic colours that work beautifully on dark or light-coloured paper. Available in 15 different combinations Hybrid DualMetallic pens reveal another colour when you turn the paper to a different angle. The most recently introduced ‘fantasy’ shades have not one, but two, combinations of pigment glitter in the dye ink. Imagine a place name for your Christmas table written in gorgeous light violet with metallic red and blue ink, or a card designed with a combination of silver with metallic copper and green accents.

You can even use Hybrid DualMetallic gel pens on smooth, unvarnished wood surfaces, so if you fancy creating your own wood slice coasters for a table setting with a difference this year why not try them out!
Available from many independent and high street retailers, or from Pentel, Hybrid DualMetallic gel pens are sold individually or in sets of two, three or eight.

Mattehop Makes the Difference

Until now, writing on glossy or coated paper with a gel pen – or any kind of pen except for a permanent marker – has been difficult or impossible. The ink tends to ‘bead’ or sit on the surface of the paper and wipes off on hands or smudges on the paper. It’s an experience most of us have encountered at one time or another. It’s frustrating, messy and inconvenient.

Mattehop gel roller is a unique product from Pentel that makes it possible for you to write on greeting cards, gift tags and other coated paper using your favourite colour of gel ink. With highly opaque ink that has a matt plastic-looking finish when dry Mattehop has brilliant, rich colour that writes beautifully on dark or light-coloured paper. So, whether your theme this Christmas is traditional green and red, or subtle silver and blue you can write your cards safe in the knowledge that with Mattehop your Christmas wishes will be legible to loved ones.

Why not make a Christmas scrapbook to record special memories this season? Old school ‘Polaroid’-style cameras are popular once again (especially with those who missed them first time around). What could be more fun that taking snaps of family and friends this Christmas and putting them in a journal or scrapbook to look back on later? And, to add an extra element of personalisation you can even write on your photos using Pentel’s Mattehop gel pen. Forgot to buy the dog a set of reindeer antlers? Don’t worry, you can draw them on the photo!

Mattehop is available individually or in two different sets of seven or a set of all 14 colours from all good stationery retailers or from Pentel.

Pentel Giveaway

Fancy getting your hands on Pentel’s Hybrid DualMetallic and Mattehop gel pens? Pentel is giving 10 lucky CraftWorld Magazine readers the chance to win a set of 4 Hybrid DualMetallic and 4 Mattehop gel pens worth over £21.00.