Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft

Art Journal

Hello everyone,

Swarup here with a new project for you all.  Am so glad my previous post-Sketchbooks -Gelatos inspired quite a few of you all to give the medium a try. I can assure you it's totally fun and no attempt can be a failure. Just keep at it!

As my term as Guest designer draws to a close , I realised that I had not shared a single page from my art journal with you all. Ever since I have been on this team,I have, almost exclusively been using Faber Castell products on my pages. here is a look at one of those..

Here are some pictures showing you the process of art journalling..

April 'Take the Challenge' with Mou

Hi everyone, Mou here and welcome to the fourth 'Take the Challenge' of 2013!

I feel that creative challenges help us experiment and learn new things. Challenges can help us get unstuck from creative ruts. They can also inspire us to create in ways we would not have thought of otherwise. So, I decided to take a few creative challenges myself and thought you might like to play along.

Every month, on the first Monday (April turns out to be an exception as we had a blog hop starting on 4/1 and so, challenge starts today April 8th), I'll post a challenge and my take on it. You'll have 12 days to take this on. Leave a comment to the challenge post with a link to your creation based on that challenge. The following Monday, we will pick TWO winners randomly from among the readers who participated in that week's challenge. And the winners will get a prize from Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft®.

Today I have a challenge and an announcement for you. Let's start with the challenge.

Today's challenge is about making something new from something used or old. 

 April is Earth month and I feel that upcycling something creatively might show a little bit of our love for our beautiful planet.

So here's my take: a journal spread using an old book and some security envelopes we got in the mail, and of course, some of my favorite Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft products.

Textiles ~ making art journal covers

Hey bloggers Rita Barakat here! I love altering book - especially compostion books, they really come in handy for notes and such. And if I am going to carry a note book it needs to look cool so
I must alter it, I'm just saying.

Here is the front cover. First I covered the entire surface(front and back) with gesso. The books have a glossy finish, gesso changes that and covers some of the black. Once it was dry I used  a thick layer of modeling paste, I then closed the book backwards (the two covers touching each other) and that's how I got the back ground texture.

Liberating Compositions

Hello, friends!  Vivian here to share an art journaling page I just completed that was very much inspired by all the work I've been doing in a rather large plot of dirt that I'm slowly nurturing into a garden. 

My favorite part of spring is going through the gardening catalogs, choosing which plants I'd like to try out, and starting those plants from seed.  Watching the little babies pop out of their casings is pure joy.  And while the seedlings generally require a lot of attention until they've fully stretched their roots into the soil, there is such satisfaction in being able to create such a bounty of food and beauty from a bit of tender loving care and a truly minimal financial investment.  I'm talkin' just a few bucks!

Some patterns created using some of my well loved dies.  A detail of an area where shapes and lines concentrate... 

Randomly placed on the page, and unified by employing a few really easy techniques.

I have a video tutorial which shows how this page came together and introduces some liberating methods for creating interesting, abstract compositions.  It's so much fun!

  

Hope you'll take a break from your day to check it out.  If you are interested, a full supply list is available in the description box under the video.

 

Vivian Keh  is a papercrafter, mixed media artist, enthusiastic student of watercolor, and produced writer.  Outside of these passions, she enjoys just hangin' with her husband, frolicking with her dogs, and all things which keep her present, including occasional pretty drinks.  You can find her at several locales in the ether - her blog, youtube, facebook, twitter, and pinterest.

 

Messy Outside Inside: Mixed Media

Hi everyone!

Today I had an absolute blast on this project!

I'd like to say that I spend hours thinking up what I'm going to do and planning every creative touch intensely but the truth is most times I just sit down, get out my products and just follow where the creative bit of my brain takes me, I cannot lie! I find very often when I'm teaching that many students struggle with the composition of what they're making or the colours and my only advice to them is always to just 'go with the flow' because anything else tends to restrict your mind and creativity. If you REALLY struggle with letting go I can highly recommend using sketches, and very often even a simple card sketch can be turned into a great journal page or a decor item, it's all down to interpretation. And you can't go wrong with great products of course, I honestly have yet to be disappointed with anything I've made using Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft products because the quality is supreme! 

Day 3: Blog Hop with Cornish Heritage Farms

 

Two lucky winners will win a $50 prize pack. 

Here’s Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft’s prize:

Cornish Heritage Farms Rubber Stamp's prize:

Here’s how you can win!

1.  You have until midnight EST on February 28^th to complete the hop. 

2.  Cornish Heritage Farms Rubber Stamps and Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft will have a new craft to share with you every day.  Visit their  blogs and leave a comment on each post.  This way, we’ll know you were there. 

Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft

Cornish Heritage Farms Rubber Stamps

3.  Have fun!  We look forward to seeing your comments. 

4.      Want an extra chance to win a prize?  Follow and tweet us about the hop at                        @DesignMemCraft!   Winners will be announced daily.  

 

Winners will be announced on the companies’ blogs on February 29^th. 

 

Mou here!  Here are two pages from my art journal created using products from both companies, such as

Cornish Heritage Farms Backgrounders rubber stamp Chicken Wire

Cornish Heritage Farms Backgrounders rubber stamp Spanish Script

Cornish Heritage Farms Backgrounders rubber stamp Toile

Cornish Heritage Farms Rummage Bin rubber stamp Shared Wonder

Faber Castell Design Memory Craft Gelatos®: Raspberry, Blueberry, Lemon, and Cotton Candy

Faber Castell Design Memory Craft Stamper's Big Brush pen: Black, Cobalt Green, and Magenta

Faber Castell Design Memory Craft Essential PITT Artist pens: Black

Faber Castell Design Memory Craft Art GRIP^® Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils # 117

Happy hopping and good luck!

Don't forget to stop by Cornish Heritage Farms too.  

1950's diner on an art journal page

Hey bloggers Rita Barakat  here! Today I am sharing a page out of my art journal
using 1950's Diner Gelatos®!

Zendoodle

In the mood to doodle today?

....if not..... pretty soon you will be..because there is nothing more relaxing and calming then taking a pen and just repeating patterns. I am sure each one of you  have done that at some point or the other..in a classroom bored by a lecture, at meetings, chatting away on the phone...in fact most of my notebooks used to have some form of doodling on the last page and I would go home and show "that" to my mom instead of  showing her actual school work!

Doodling ..so common, so natural  is now regarded as an art form, yes..you can find  books  with tangle patterns , kits sold to get you started and of course, it has an official name too-Zentangle! Since I still do what I have been doing all these years and not really following a pattern, I prefer to call my work -Zendoodle.

I especially love to Zendoodle since it requires very few basic supplies to get started..pen and paper..that's all !.....unless of course you want to get to the next level and color in or sell or gift it, where you would then want to use archival ink to keep your artwork from any fading or damage.

This is the reason I use Faber Castell Pitt Artist pens , they contain waterproof India Ink  which is just perfect if you want to color over them, as I have done on my sample today. Having used other pens before which seem  to overwhelm me  with their strong smell, I have come to really appreciate  these odorless pens, and of course most important,they don't bleed or fade!

Here is my piece of work for today, hopefully by the time you reach the end of this post , you would have reached for a pen too!

I did two versions ..one the traditional black and white and another all color..

A step by step tutorial.......

Mixed media journal page

Hey there! It’s Yvonne here! I recently started art journaling in old books. They are perfect for letting me go crazy trying out new mediums + help me scrap a gazillion phone photos of my niece and nephews.

Wax Monoprints: Paper Crafter Crayons

I am always looking for new ways to use our products and since I've been dabbling with Encaustics, I decided to try monoprinting with the Paper Crafter's Crayons.  I bought an aluminum plate to use on a hot plate for monoprinting wax. 

Here's the printing plate from Encaustikos... It's small and perfect to work on a hot surface with.