DIY Planner - Confessions of a Gel Pen Addict - Comments

First link...

btrgrnmal — Wed, 5 Jan 2011 09:27:36 -0500

...is the one. My daughter cuts the underwear models out of old clothing catalogs, pastes them in a scrapbook and uses them as forms on which to design clothing, mostly red carpet worthy formals. This means some heavy duty ink layout coloring in all the complicated designs. Her first set held up for about 2 years before significant numbers of them were running dry.

Do you mean ...

ygor — Tue, 4 Jan 2011 13:16:33 -0500

this Fiskars 12-27457097 Gel Pen, 48-Piece Value Set for $18.25 ?
How about this Gel Pen Canister 48/Pkg-Glitter, Metallic, Pastel & Bright for $13.94 ?
Or if you Google like THIS, you get lots of links to look through
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btrgrnmal — Tue, 4 Jan 2011 09:42:45 -0500

Fiskars gel pens 48 to a pack. Got a pack for my daughter for Christmas.

people that understand my pain! lol

lindsayautumn — Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:54:45 -0500

I live in California, and I bought a pack of 100 gel pens for like 20 bucks from costco or sams club, that came with a statioum that held them they came with the glitter, mettilac, pastel, neon, and regular. they are gel writers, the best gel pens ever! they write great on black and white paper. I get the big fuzzy art posters and me and my friends have soo much fun I get grown men coloring lol. and these pens lasted for over a year!! now all of my good colors ran out. :( and I can't find any gel pens that come with more then 10 in a pack anywhere!! I have searched all over and online for weeks! there all out of stock, and are not getting anymore :( I have only found one site that has 88 gel pens and they say its for a classroom so the color variety might not even be that great and its 55 dollars!! eff that!! Im going thro a gelly withdrawll and a 10 diff color variety for 15 dollars Is a terrible methadone. please!!! help!!! haha

Thanks for all the suggestions!

fairydustwings — Mon, 5 Jul 2010 00:41:53 -0400

I've only tried the Uniball Signo 207 out of the ones you've suggested. I can't wait to pick up the others to try out. I too love pens!I love my journal to be colorful! Thanks again!

I am a huge fan of Uniball

Sara — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:03:03 -0400

I am a huge fan of Uniball Signo 207 pens and Pentel Energel pens. For sparkle or glitter I like Pentel Sunburst pens, Starlightz (from Walmart) and Gel Bursts (from Target) all are consistent and non skipping! Pentel Sliccis are fun for fine lines and color...

oh pens how i love thee!

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Love that you brought this old thread up

fairydustwings — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:43:54 -0400

What is everyones favorite gel pen now? Has it changed since this thread started? I'm surprised to find my favorites our BICs new gel pens, they are cheap, I got them clearance at our grocery store and they flow so nicely. Sadly at my store they only offered them in black and blue hopefully they will start offering more colors as they flow so nicely.

I am an absolute pen

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:17:27 -0400

I am an absolute pen addict.... and eraser as well. I love it when they have Japanese writing on the pens as well.. (it's so cool!!). I really want to order the Zebra Pticolon Scented Gel Pen set... or it's something like that. Anyone have any suggestions for other pens I should get?:)

free gel pen

Anonymous — Wed, 5 Aug 2009 08:23:52 -0400

I tried everything, tip remained frozen. After nothing worked I put the twelve year old pen in the microwave for two seconds.
The pen now works like new. Pen is a Pentel k106 Milkey Gel Roller if that means anything.

Purple pens

Katrina — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:07:26 -0400

Try smiggle.com

They sell individual scented pens relatively cheaply

where do I find glitter scented purple gel pen sets?

Nanine Castleberry — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:03:23 -0400

Im looking for glitter scented dark purple gel pens that I can buy 10 or more instead of buying a pack of different colors and just using the purple? :)

gel pens

John Gray — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:43:19 -0500

I invented a solution to gel pens not working.
Get 2 feet of ruber tubing that will slip over the top of the pen..and blow as needed. Really!! don't blow too hard or the end will fly off the gel pen and go everywhere!!!total cost is around a dollar. try it and let me know what you think.

John Gray Canton oklahoma 73724

What I've had luck with

SusanBeth — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:18:52 -0400

Take one of those cotton 'pads' they sell for applying lotions and such, and wet it well with alcohol. Lay it down on a safe surface and try 'writing' on it with the pen.

The alcohol will dissolve any dried ink, and the pressure of writing on the pad gets the ball to roll so as to help the alcohol get to the clog.

Usually it only took ten-fifteen seconds or so to get the ink flowing. With a few it didn't seem to work, so I set those pens aside and did the rest. Then I gave the stubborn ones one last try on the alcohol pad, and all but one came back to life.

If you don't happen to have the cotton pad thingies, I'd guess a small stack of kleenex or even a piece of cloth you don't care about would serve to hold the alcohol and give a bit of friction against the pen's ball.

restart

gill_smoke — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:13:27 -0400

If you can get to the ink tube gently blow into the back, if you can't try a little heat at the ball point. What's happened is a little ink dried behind the the ball so it no longer flows. Once you get it moving you should have no problems.

Gel Pen Advice

Elle — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:38:35 -0500

Hi, I was wondering if you could tell me how to get my gel pens to flow. I currently have a set of 60 "Color Essentials by Aurora" and the majority of them do not flow well. Maybe 10 of them do. They still show the clear gel at the end and it isn't as if I used them all up....however, I have had the set for a long time (over 3 years). Is there a way to gain some use out of my pen set? Thanks!

Confessions of a Gel Pen Addict

innowen — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 05:00:32 -0400

All my writing books, creativity books and journalling books start off the same, "Get yourself a blank book and good pen that makes you happy and WANT to write." The idea behind this is that if you get a book and pen you like, that you'll be compelled to write often with the item you purchased. While it seems a bit capitalistic, I have to agree. As a matter of fact, I am making a public confession. I am addicted to gel pens. Gel pens are my ultimate writer's tool.

It's a horrible addiction I tell you. I write on black paper, with shiny colored pens. My favorite colors include blue and purple and green. The brighter the color, the more neon it can be, the better the ink shows up on the black paper. I'm such a color snob that I remove all the reds and pinks and take those into work. I write notes with those and annoy my coworkers with them as they get stunningly bright, on the white paper, under the fluorescent lights.

I even like gel pens with glitter. Which goes against my Gothy nature. And actually glittered pens work better sometimes. But, the type of gel pen that I love most isn't dependent on glitter or color or packaging. It all boils down to just one thing, the brand. Every trip to the grocery store, every trip to Craft Warehouse or Office Max, is not complete unless I can track down new sources of pens. It's been my quest, for several years now, to find the best, quality and price, set of pens. So far the best pens I have in my collection are Yasutomo Gel Xtreme brand. Stores that sell them make me the happiest girl ever. And I buy the packs in bulk, sometimes decimating the stock in seconds. If they don't, I scowl and am forced to look at the alternative offerings. They work awesome on both white and black paper and they seem to last the longest. The worst of the bunch, so far, are the Metallic Gel Ink pens by Pentel. They hardly show up on black paper and when they do, the color is all washy and you can barely read what is written.

Flying Colors came out with a pack they claim could be used as crayons for coloring in wide spaces. Even though I had already spent $20 on a case of 40 pens made by Geddes (picked up at Fred Meyers) I had to get them. What if they were the best and I didn't get them before they decided to discontinue the brand? As soon as I returned home, I ripped open the fancy plastic lid and started playing with them. They're okay. But they've got the great Crayola tradition of having fun names for all the colors. Colors with fun names like, "electric orange" and "glitter copper" or "plum".

I took the pens with me to one of the weekend artist play days I occasionally go to. The coloring gels were a hit. Everyone wanted to use them. They'd look at the name of the color and then try and explain why they chose it or how the color represented the mood they were in for the day.

The idea of playing with the pens and making them a part of my writing ritual and daily moods, lead me to start switching between colors in writing in my journals. It also gave me the freedom to play with the pens. Playing with colored words then lead me to draw abstract pictures that then became my first attempts at making art journals where I'd draw out an entry, rather than use words to describe what I was doing or how I was feeling. This has expanded my ability to write and draw and be more creative.

While playing with the Flying Colors brand were fun and the ink best suited for coloring in large spaces, they really cannot top my Gel Xtreme pens. I hope that Yasutomo never stops making this line. They've been a part of my writing ritual for years now. Without my pens, things wouldn't be the same and I'd probably be writing less. So, heed the wise words of the writing books and go out and explore what pens turn on your flair for the dramatic and artistic.

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