I am always jealous of those people who can pick up a marker and draw something phenomenal. I’ve never had that talent. Even my stick people look oddly fat and not quite right. I roam through the halls at my son’s high school and look at the art work done by the students and I am in awe of their talent. The only thing I use Sharpies for is to permanently mark items I don’t want to lose.
Over the years, Sharpie has developed a number of different marking pens that I’ve found several household uses for. But when Office Depot asked me to try Sharpies new line of Sharpie STAINED Markers that where designed for those people who are looking for a permanent marker that is easy to use, bright in colors and dependable (like we all know Sharpie is), I knew better than to tackle this review alone. I called in re-enforcements, and Kris’s son Bob came to my rescue.
Bob is an artist, and a really good one at that! His ultimate goal is to design the artwork for the NASCAR Circuit and I have no doubt that he will one day do just that. Bob is able to draw free hand like no one else I’ve ever met, so I knew that giving him the Sharpie STAINED Markers and a few blank canvases would be the perfect way to showcase how well they work.
Bob grabbed the Sharpie Canvas Bag full of goodies out of his mother’s hands so fast she almost got pulled down the basement stairs with him. According to Bob, there really aren’t any good stained markers on the market for fabric so he was eager to try them and tell me what he thought. Kris had told me that Bob had spent a fortune on regular Sharpie Markers for fabric designs. The typical Sharpie markers worked, but not as well as a real artist would hope. The new Sharpie STAINED Markers should solve those problems.
First up was the T-shirt for his mother. Kris races a go-kart every year in a powder puff race in Indiana (you may remember my story about Team Chicken Holler last fall). Bob decided that his mother, and current 1st place title holder, needed a shirt for this year’s race season. He designed the perfect shirt with the go-kart on the front and the words “You Race Like a Girl” on the back. Sharpie STAINED Markers made it through every line without running or smearing or drying up. The shirt looks great!
Now, as much as I loved the T-shirt Bob designed for his mother, I was like “Hello, what about me”. So in honor of the “girls getaway” trip that Kris and I take each fall, Bob made me a pillow case to take on our trip to New Orleans this Halloween. Kris and I are heading down to the Big Easy to be a part of their Voodoo Festival. Because we are crazy, and gluttons for punishment, we are spending a night at the famous Myrtles Plantation, which is supposedly the most haunted place in America.
I was not disappointed in the quality of the Sharpie name that I have grown to love over the years. I washed the pillow case and the Sharpie STAINED Markers did not run. I drooled on it in my sleep and I did not have the faint outline of a voodoo doll on my face in the morning. Sharpie has done it again!
Bob really liked the Sharpie STAINED Marker set and told me with confidence that any one, be it artist or novice like me will be happier with them than any other fabric markers on the market today. You can find the Sharpie STAINED Markers in sets of 4 or 8 at your local Office Depot Store for $9.99 and 14.99, respectively. Go to http://www.officedepot.com/ for more information or to order on line.
On behalf of Office Depot, I am offering 3 lucky readers a pack of the Sharpie STAINED Markers.
To Enter (worth one mandatory entry) tell me how you would like to add a little color to your summer with Sharpie:
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I would add a little color to my summer with sharpie by making some cool shoes. I would love to design some canvas shoes.
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I would love to make matching summer shirts for my kids.
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I’m not sure yet, but those Sharpies look pretty darn cool.
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I love making homemade cards so that’s what I’d use them for
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I would love to make my son a shirt for the summer, although the tennis shoe idea is pretty cool too!
I’d love to add a bit of color to my summer by making cool shirts we my daughter. We love doing crafts during the summer and these markers would be GREAT!
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To collect some autographs on my favorite shirt!
use them to do crafts with my cousin dawn
Our daughter loves to use Sharpies for homeschooling art projects.
I’d decorate my sneakers – they need to be a little more unique
I would like to buy shirts or backpacks for my daughter’s birthday party for each girl and let all the girls sign their names on the tshirts as party favors.
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Id make some great garage sale signs.
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color shirts with my 3 children
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I do home daycare so I would use these to make the kiddos some hats with their names on them.
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we are doing a pirate night with the kids and one of the things is for them to make their own pirate flags these would be perfect for it
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I would use the sharpies on shirts, skirts and bags.
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I would add some splash of color to my summer by creating personalized placemats for my guests at my summer bbq’s that I have outside on the picnic table.
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I would use them to make a welcome home baby sign for our new arrival coming in July.
I give My Nieces lots of coloring books and craft sets and this would add a lot of fun to the projects!
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i’d use it to dress up our outdoor placemats and lights to match
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I would use these on a canvas beach tote!
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i would let me grandkids make shirts for everyone. they love doing that
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I would love to add color to my summer school notebooks with Sharpie!
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I think it’s a fun way for people to label their drink cups at gatherings with lots of people. They can even decorate them!
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I would turn my daughter loose on some t-shirts!
I would like to help my students create tennis shoe designs for an auction that we will be having at the end of our summer camp for CASA pet rescue. Dig the pillow case btw.
I would use them to make crafts with my granddaughter.
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I’d use them to draw comic characters or color.
I would like my husband to draw some tees for my daughter.
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I’d use them to decorate music CDs of great summer songs
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My husband/soulmate and I have been planning to get tattoos together for quite some time (11+ years). We both know from experience that the design is permanent and we want to be completely satisfied for eternity. We have practiced with pens and markers to test our designs, but of course, once you get near water or start to perspire, poof it’s gone! We started using Sharpie markers due to that very reason. We were so excited to see the Stained Sharpies on the market!! We know that this will truly be the summer that we finally get our marks!!!
My best friend has always wanted a pair of Converse with a certain design on it that she’s never been able to find. Her birthday is coming up and it would be awesome if I used sharpies to make them for her!
id brighten my summer by use these to draw on a pair of white converse
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Make some of my older T shirts like new with designs
I was thinking of decorating some new t-shirts
I would like to add some color to my daughters life. She practices to be a artist when she grows up and would like these.
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My kids are getting into drawing their own anime and comics- that’s what we’d color this summer.
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I’d love to color a birdhouse with my son.
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We make a lot of crafts over the summer and the Sharpies would fit right in for adding color by giving us something that offered a permanent option. I think we’d use them to decorate t-shirts.
love sharpies and they would be great for poster and crafts
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These would be fun to decorate plain canvas shoes.
i would add color by doing art projects with my kids
i would like to add some color to our summer with the sharpie stained markers by making some welcome signs for my sister
We’re planning a yard sale so Sharpies would really come in handy to make signs!
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We’d have fun making personalized bags and shirts with these neat markers!
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