April's Review	Andrea's Review	Randi's Review	Catherine's Review	Stephanie's Review

Review by April

Jacquard has been producing phenomenal design and art products for over 25 years. They have quite an extensive line of colors, and are constantly providing designers, artists, and crafters, with new and exciting products. Stunning high quality paints, inks, dyes, and ink jet fabrics are just a few of the fantastic products Jacquard currently has available. Their website gallery is truly amazing and contains a large variety of projects and how to's complete with supply lists and instructions. Recently, Jacquard introduced a cool new product line called Tee Juice "Really Juicy" Fabric Markers. The Tee Juice markers are high performance fabric markers, that can be used to decorate a variety of fabrics. Since I will pretty much jump at the chance to review any product by Jacquard, I thought it would be wonderful to review these markers. I have long been a fan of their products and since this review would provide me with a chance to try out a new art medium and explore an area that I would definitely consider to be out of my box, I was anxious to get started!

For this review, I received two boxes of Tee Juice broad line fabric markers, one box contained 4 classic colors, and the other had 4 bright colors. I also received eight individually packaged Tee Juice Fineliners that coordinated with the broad line colors. The classic colors consisted of a golden yellow, red, blue, and black. The bright colors came in chocolate brown, orange, purple, and emerald green. All of the broad line markers had large, slightly domed tips that allowed the juice inside to flow easily and provide great coverage. The broad line markers are non-toxic, easy to hold, and as Jacquard puts it, contain enough ink to light up a billboard! You can lay them down for storage or stand them up, and they each have a tight fitting cap that prevents leakage. Each broad line marker has a large label attached that shows the marker color, name, and provides directions for use. All you have to do to start using them is simply twist open the cap, give a little squeeze, and start creating.

Each of the Fineliner pens are acid-free, have a .08 tip size, and come out just a little darker than their matching broad liners, however they are just as gorgeous. You can quickly identify the Fineliner color by simply looking at the cap or bottom of the pen. With a small tip, you are offered greater control and able to accomplish extremely fine detail.

All of the markers can be used to decorate t-shirts, jeans, handbags, canvas, furniture, and more...really anything that's fabric! If you want to wash your creations, you can heat set the color of all the markers by ironing it on a cotton setting for 2-3 minutes. There is an entire website devoted to Tee Juice designs if you are searching for ideas or inspiration. TeeJuice.com offers a complete gallery filled with projects created using Tee Juice markers and even offers a weekly and quarterly contest where you can win up to 1,000 dollars just for posting your creations!

Although I was a little intimidated about drawing on a t-shirt, I knew I wanted to try it. So I decided my first project would be a shirt for my daughter. I placed a butterfly mask on one side of the shirt and went over the top of it with the red broad line tee juice marker. The marker worked great with the mask and even helped it stick a little better after I got going. When I pulled up the mask, I didn't have to worry about the color transferring onto the white letters because it had already soaked in and didn't move. I repeated the masking process to create the word "Imagine" and then used the red fineliner pen to add stitching accents around the neck, sleeves, and bottom of the shirt. I doodled on the butterflies with the purple fineliner and then added some glitter glue to make it sparkle.

Title: Imagine T-Shirt
Products used:
Fabric Markers (Jacquard Tee Juice Broad Line Marker & Fineliners)
T-shirt (Hanes)
Masks (Heidi Swapp)
Glitter Glue (Ranger Stickles)

I decorated a plain white visor for my second project. I used the blue broad line Tee Juice marker with an alphabet mask to make the word "Create". Afterwards, I went back an outlined each letter with the blue Fineliner. This really made the letters pop! I also colored the edges of the visor and journaled along the rim with the blue Fineliner. To complete the visor, I added a flower and jeweled brad.

Title: Creative Visor
Products used:
Fabric Markers (Jacquard Tee Juice Broad Line Marker & Fineliners)
Visor (Merona)
Flower (Heidi Swapp)
Brad (Karen Foster)

We are going to take a family vacation to Disney World soon and since it's a huge park, I wanted to create something my daughter could wear for instant identification. She loves rainbows, so I decided to make her some rainbow shoe laces. I used all of the Tee Juice broad line markers to color the laces, except for the black and brown markers. I ended each color with a small line drawn with the matching Fineliner marker. To dress them up a little I also added dots of glitter. I loved how fast and easy it was to create these colorful shoe laces. When I started out coloring the laces, I wasn't really worried about getting the marker juice on my hands until I realized it stayed wet on my skin for awhile and sometimes would transfer on to another color if I wasn't careful. The cool thing was, that I was able to go back over the colors again to cover up mistakes. I also found out that a simple baby wipe would take the colors off my hands and the markers didn't leave stains on my fingers!

Title: Colorful Shoelaces
Products used:
Fabric Markers (Jacquard Tee Juice Broad Line Marker & Fineliners)
Shoe Laces (Adcor)
Glitter Glue (Ranger Stickles)

The small bag below is actually the first project I made using the Tee Juice Markers. I wanted to try out the markers with a mask just to make sure it would work, and also to see the effect of the markers. I used the purple broad line marker with the butterfly mask, and then colored the orange thread with the purple Fineliner. It was so easy, and came out super cute! I bought this bag for the embellishments it contained inside, however after decorating the bag, I think this would be a terrific little gift bag. I have a ton of small fabric bags that I have collected through the years and now that I have the Tee Juice fabric markers, I can easily dress the up and put them to good use!

Title: Trinket Bag
Products used:
Fabric Markers (Jacquard Tee Juice Broad Line Marker & Fineliners)
Mask (Heidi Swapp)
Bag (7gypsies)
Brad (Karen Foster)

The last time I tried making my own t-shirt or hat was years ago in my arts and crafts classes. I always felt like I didn't have enough control and my designs would come out looking tacky or childish. I was very impressed with these markers and absolutely loved the Fineliners! I felt confident drawing and doodling with the Fineliners just as if I had been drawing on paper. I realize my daughter may not want to wear a t-shirt that mommy has made when she gets older, but for now she adores the one I made for her while completing this review and I think it's way cool that she has something on that's totally unique. I ended up liking her shirt so much that I think I will be making myself one very soon. The only thing I would have liked to have seen is a bigger color selection. I'm hoping they will continue to create new colors in various shades like pink, lavender, lime green, and teal. I thought the classic and bright colors were quite lovely and would be awesome for a variety of projects, however for me personally, it's just like my crayons or paint...I want them in every color possible!

Soon after I started the first project, I started thinking about all sorts of cool fabric items I would love to decorate. I will be adding Tee Juice decorating to my list of favorite crafty activities for sure. You should definitely give these terrific markers a try, even if you have never even considered making your own t-shirt before. I would recommend these to anyone looking to have a little fun dressing up fabric.

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Review by Andrea

Markers come in all shapes and sizes with Jacquard's Tee Juice Fabric Markers being no exception! Talk about fun right out of the box! Actually, the box IS part of the fun - it is brightly colored showing off the marker colors and full of fun graphic art. Known for their high quality art materials, I couldn't wait to start coloring fabric, anything fabric that I could find in my house and scrapping area.

The Tee Juice Markers are available in 2 applicator sizes, broad line and fine line. Both sizes come in 4 classic colors (golden yellow, red, blue and black) and 4 bright colors (chocolate brown, orange, purple and emerald green). They are acid-free, archival, lightfast, washable, dry-cleanable and can be heatset with an iron. The broad line markers are very similar to a bingo dauber in size and even have a cloth domed top where the color comes out. They have screw on caps to protect the surroundings during storage or travel. The Fineliners are an ultra-fine tip marker for full control during use. They have a pop-off cap for storage. All of the markers are clearly labeled with the color for easy visual identification.

We received one of each individually packaged Fineliner and 2 packages of broad line markers, one each of the classic and bright colors. By taking the caps off, the markers were ready to use. The broad liners required a quick squeeze to get the color flowing which was simple enough.

Starting with a simple project to get the juices flowing, pun intended, the following layout shows how easy the markers work. The felt border is a solid brown, but when colored with the broad line red, it turns a nice warm red color. Foam stamps were "painted" with the same marker then used to make part of the title. The color is solid and mostly opaque. The resulting color acts like an ink versus a full coverage paint and stays where you put it. The foam stamps were easily cleaned with a stamp cleaner and no staining. The color dried very quickly with no smearing or wicking. The green broad liner was used to touch up the leaves on the felt border a little and the yellow was swiped along the bottom green cardstock piece for a distressed look. The photo mat was edged using the black broad liner. I found the broad tip a bit hard to control exactly where I was putting the color, but I feel this comes with practice.

Title: Jill's Getaway
Products used: Patterned Paper (Dream Street Oceanside)
Rub-ons (Scenic Route)
Tee Juice Markers (Jacquard)
Felt Flowers (Queen & Co.)
Letter Stamps (Stampabilities)
Adhesive (Adhesive Tech, Permanent Bond Glue Runner)

Recently I had worked with canvas and blending solvent ink pads, so I wanted to try the same blending technique with the broad line markers. The canvas was colored in different areas using 3 different colors and no overlapping. While the color was still mostly wet, a paper towel came in handy to blend the edges and blur the hard lines. The color moved very easily on the canvas and blended quite well. I reapplied color in areas that needed more definition. As you can see, the color is nice and vivid! Multiple images were stamped over the blended colors using StazOn ink for permanency. The "ART" area was masked to keep the background clear in that section. The Grungeboard took the color from the broad line purple really well. The dauber top made it easy to get down into the pattern of the Grungeboard.

For the flourishes, I stamped then went over the design with the black Fineliner. I got about 1/2 way done when the tip stopped working. I worked on just a sheet of paper for a minute and the color came back into the tip enabling me to continue coloring the design. I believe that the deep texture of the canvas soaks the color up so well that the fine tip runs out of ink until it has time to rest a little. I did turn to a Sharpie white paint pen for the added detail, so maybe Jacquard should be thinking about adding white as their next color!

Title: Art Canvas
Products used: Canvas (Fredrix)
Tee Juice Markers (Jacquard)
Sharpie Markers (Black & White)
Stamps (Starving Artistamps and Fancy Pants)
Ink (Tsukineko StazOn)
Grungeboard (Ideology Tim Holtz)
Stickles (Ranger)

For the last project, I thought fabric markers would be a perfect match for "prettying-up" a cloth album cover. I was right! The chef was stamped with brown ink and traced with a black Fineliner. His pants were colored in with the black Fineliner leaving room for cherries as a pattern on the pants. Unfortunately the texture of the album cover was too large for such fine detail to be easily seen. The title came out well using the red Fineliner. The outer red squares were created by a single swipe of the broad tip marker. You can see the difference in the tip widths very clearly here. A red Fineliner was used to clean up the edges of the red swipes to give more definition.

Title: State Recipes Cookbook Cover
Products used: Mini Album (Pioneer)
Tee Juice Markers (Jacquard)
Stamp (Stampin' Up!)
Ribbon (Michael's)

After completing these projects, a LOT more jumped into my head for possibilities - fabric covered brads, twill, lace, flowers, trim, hats, sneakers and maybe even foam! The colors are vivid, strong and beautiful. I would like to see a fine tip in between the broad and ultra-fine styles. I did find that after the canvas project, the cloth dauber tip cover on the purple marker basically disintegrated and fell off. Underneath was a foam tip that seemed to work fine, but I'll be more gentle on my next projects using the broad tip markers to avoid that happening with other colors.

Tee Juice is pure fun! The couple minor problems that I encountered were exactly that, minor. The product performed beautifully and I am thrilled with the results. It's nice to have another coloring option for fabric since it's difficult finding something that really works. Tee Juice DOES! Get "juiced" today with your favorite colors!

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Review by Randi

Being a long time fan of Jacquard products, I jump at the chance to review any new releases from them. This time I received fabric markers with the name of Tee Juice. These "juicy" markers are available in two tip sizes, a "Fineliner" and broad point. Each of the tip sizes are available in your choice of eight colors: Golden Yellow, Orange, Red, Purple, Blue, Green, Brown, and Black. The fine line markers arrived packaged separately. I found them online retailing for $2.99 each. The broad point markers arrived packaged four colors to a box. I found them available online at $14.99 per box or for $3.99 individually.

The Tee Juice markers are recommended for use on tee shirts, jeans, canvas and cotton. They are non-toxic and made permanent by ironing for two to three minutes before washing.

I found the broad tip markers to be REALLY juicy. I experienced some problems with the Fineliners, however. I decorated a canvas tote to carry my tools of the trade back and forth to the gym. After filling in the letters of the stencils I had chosen, I attempted to outline them for a finished look. I was able to outline only five of the letters with the blue marker before it refused to make any more marks! My experience with Jacquard has always been one of utmost quality in the past, so I figured it was a fluke. I went on and tried the black marker (which was also new out of its package.) That one outlined only two letters before it refused to work. I ditched the Fineliners at this point and used a Sharpie to outline -- sorry Jacquard!

Trainer Bag
Products used: Tee Juice Markers, Fineliner and Broad Tip (Jacquard)
Letter Stencils
Canvas Bag (Me & My Bag)
Black Sharpie

My second and third projects were little canvas bags for my grandsons, customized with their names and the image of a creature that they love. Its fun to see them proudly cart these bags back and forth from their home to mine, full of little boy-type treasures. Thus far the creatures pictured on their bags haven't arrived IN their bags at my house, thank goodness!

Boys Bags
Products used: Tee Juice Markers, Fineliner and Broad Tip (Jacquard)
Letter and Creature Stencils
Canvas Bags (Me & My Bag)
Black Sharpie

I couldn't keep the fun all to myself, and I had two anxious helpers all ready to give a second opinion. Tikvah designed a hat and a couple of bags then posed with her favorites. You'll find her other bag in the gallery. She had some trouble with the blue and black Fineliners, but the others worked fine on her projects.

Baseball Cap and Book Bag
Products used: Tee Juice Fineliner Markers (Jacquard)
Cotton Baseball Cap (Hobby Lobby)
Cotton Book Bag (Me & My Bag)

Curiously, Hannah had no trouble whatsoever with the Fineliners when she designed this hat a few days later.

Monster Hat
Products used: Tee Juice Fineliner Markers (Jacquard)
Cotton Baseball Cap (Hobby Lobby)

The Tee Juice Fabric Markers were fun to work with. The broad tipped markers had more "juice" than I had ever experienced in a marker, and I can enthusiastically recommend them. The Fineliner tip didn't make a good first impression on me since they just didn't work well on the bags I had chosen. I'm wondering if perhaps the canvas was too course for them. The Fineliners did appear to work much better for my daughters on the softer cotton projects.

I really appreciate the fact that these artistic products are non-toxic, and I could let my children create with them too. The pricing is very competitive with any other name brand marker. If you are looking for a fun way to spend some time decorating anything fabric, check these out.

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Review by Catherine

Jacquard Tee Juice Markers are fabric markers that are permanent and marketed as "really juicy". When I saw this product on our list for reviews, I had to grab the chance to use them, because I was honestly intrigued. The Jacquard and Tee Juice websites call these markers "High Performance, hyper-caffeinated fabric scribblers." The Tee Juice markers are for all types of fabric including natural and synthetic fabrics as well as leather. They are available in two different sized tips, Fine and Broad, and are available in eight different colors in each tip.

First off, I must say that it was definitely interesting to work in a totally new medium than one that I have been used to. Although I have decorated t-shirts in the past for different kids crafts and such, I felt a little rusty when I began working with these markers. From the moment that I opened my first broad lined marker, I could tell that the box wasn't lying when it said these markers were really juicy. I was actually a bit surprised at the amount of paint that was left on the t-shirt on the very first swipe. After the initial swipe, it came out a little slower, and I was able to squeeze the marker to adjust the flow that I needed. The first piece of advice that I would give, is to go slowly. If you try to do too large of a project at first, the squeezing the marker and moving along the fabric can get kind of painful. The second piece of advice that I would give is again plan ahead and go slowly. These markers dry a lot more slowly than I expected. If you don't want the colors to bleed into one another, you must wait for the paint to dry completely before you move on to your next color.

The Fineliner for Fabrics Tee Juice Markers are for creating fine details on your project. The tip is .08, and is great for creating lines on fabrics. As I mentioned before, these markers are available in eight colors: Golden Yellow, Red, Blue, Black, Chocolate Brown, Orange, Purple, and Emerald Green. A great palette to start creating works of art on fabric. The Fineliner pens are a little less juicy than the broad markers, which makes for more control of where one places the color.

For my first project, I have had a fabric apron sitting around for a while that I use, but needed a little sprucing up. I decided to decorate it with the Tee Juice markers. I started by outlining the letters that I needed with the black Fineliner. I then filled this outline in with the orange broad line marker. Then, I added swirls and shapes with the black and purple Fineliner markers. Overall, I am pleased with the result, but I think it may need a bit more detail and color to make it complete after seeing the picture that I took of it.

Title: Create Apron
Products used: Fabric Markers (Jacquard Tee Juice Markers)
Apron (Hobby Lobby)

For my second project, I decided to decorate a t-shirt. I had an idea in mind for a large gerbera daisy look. I started backwards this time, by drawing with the Broad Lined Tee Juice Marker first and then filling in details with a Fineliner Tee Juice Marker. I found myself wishing, while I was creating this project, that Jacquard made a Tee Juice Marker in a medium tipped size for filling in spaces that are a little tedious with the Fineliner and too tight for the Broad Lined Markers.

Title: Believe Daisy Tee
Products used: Fabric Markers (Jacquard Tee Juice Markers)
T-Shirt

All in all, I have to say that I have enjoyed using the Tee Juice Markers. I do have to admit however that this is one craft that I probably won't be developing my skills at. Although I love these products, I can definitely say that I am not a t-shirt designer. My son, however, cannot wait to try his hand at creating his own t-shirt. Just because I feel a little challenged by the overall result of my foray into fabric painting does not mean that I dislike these products. If you are looking for great Fabric Markers to really spruce up your own t-shirts and other fabric projects, then the Jacquard Tee Juice Markers are what you need. These Fabrics are far and away much better than any other fabric painting product that I have tried in the past. Try them out for yourself! You never know, maybe you are the next t-shirt Picasso!

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Review by Stephanie

For this month's review I received 16 fabric markers from Jacquard, quite aptly named Tee Juice Fabric Markers. As the website states, "One's fat the other skinny." There were 2 packages of 4 fat markers and 1 package of 8 fine line markers to play with. The colors are true classic colors and they stayed true after use. The broad (fat) marker is perfect for open areas and big, bold designs. The skinny (fine) markers are good for smaller areas and add a perfect finishing touch to detail work.

When I first started to play with these markers, I was a little upset as my artwork appeared nothing like that which is shown on the Jacquard website. While those items are alive and vibrant, mine seemed dull in comparison. Well, I guess I should have read the directions before beginning to play, because the markers clearly state "squeeze for maximum flow"!!!

On Emily's hat, I chose to use the thin markers since I was working in a small area. They dried almost immediately, which is a definite plus. Once I had the name drawn, I colored it in and doodled around the edges of the letters. I also created some flowers and doodled around them.

Title: Emily's Hat
Products used: Hat (Darice)
Fabric Markers (Jacquard Tee Juice)

For my next project I decided to try creating on a white t-shirt. I don't free hand well, so I looked for a stencil. I was in the process of throwing away a negative of a 12" x 12" chipboard flourish package and thought that might make a great stencil. It worked wonderfully - sturdy enough to hold the paint in line without allowing it to flow outside the area I wanted. I then used the corresponding negative circles in the chipboard. While I used a lot of paint on these areas, it didn't take long for the paint to dry. Another plus. Once dry, I doodled with the fine line markers around the flourishes.

Title: Flourish T-shirt
Products used: T-Shirt (Hanes)
Fabric Markers (Jacquard Tee Juice)
Stencil (Fancy Pants chipboard)

I then decided to work with another T-shirt. I first sprayed the shirt with glimmer mist. Once dried, I used an enlarged stencil of a frog and free handed the butterfly. Again the circles were the negative circles from the chipboard package.

Title: Frog and Butterfly
Products used: T-Shirt (Hanes)
Fabric Markers (Jacquard Tee Juice)
Stencil (Fancy Pants chipboard)

I really enjoyed working with the Tee Juice Markers this month. I can see a number of upcoming projects on which I would love to try these out on, so stay tuned to the gallery!

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