Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft

Mixed Media Canvas

Hi Everyone!  Today I have a mixed media canvas to share with you.  Starting with an unprimed, raw 9" x 9" canvas, I sketched a face lightly with charcoal to get the placement down. 

Let your heart sing

Hello everyone!  Nikky here.   Today I want to share this lovely project with you. I picked up this great little house (it's actually a money box but I covered the slit in the roof) along with an MDF plaque at a craft show recently for a couple of pounds (yes, bargain!) and I've been waiting to use them together with my favourite Faber products ever since!

Mini Album for Valentine's Day

Hi everyone, Anita here and today I want to share with you a super cute mini album I made for Valentine's Day. I love to make mini albums - I have a bookcase full of them and they are all over the house.

For this project I used a Maya Road Square Canvas Binder Album. I started by taking the canvas off the album so I could work with it. I really wanted a hippie feel for this, and I knew I wanted some negative space on it.

My portion of the "Hope for Change" Charity Wings canvas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As a resident of Sandy Hook, Connecticut, I was very touched to have been selected as one of the featured artists to participate in the Charity Wings fundraising for the Sandy Hook Elementary Memorial. I am one of several artists creating this 8" × 10" canvas. Throughout January and February, this canvas will make its way across the country as each artist adds to it.

The canvas has been added to by the following artists at this point:

• Pam Carriker
• Jodi Ohl
• Flor Larios
• Seth Apter

As you can see in its progress just part-way through the artists, the end product will be an amazing piece of art and an 8×10 print for you! 

For my part, I decided to add to the angel's garment with words from the Sandy Hook Promise.  The Sandy Hook Promise is a non-profit organization for which my brother, Tom Bittman, is one of the founders.

Be You... An Art Journal Page

Hi everyone!

I just love the chance to get all inky and messy for these Design Memory Crafts posts, mixed media has always always been my big love but I rarely get chance to do much of it these days so it's a real treat for me to sit and have a play - and I am so lucky that I am part of this fabulously talented team and able to use such an awesome range of products and show you what they can do! In fact I get so wrapped up in what I'm doing I go like the clappers and usually forget to take photos!

This art journal page was such a joy to make and I think I used ALL my Design Memory Craft products all in one place so I hope I didn't go too mad!

Tag Tutorial with Irit

Hello, my dear crafty friends! Irit is here again and this time I decided to make my "Same, but different" crafty project.

Lot of times we see a tutorial from one of the most popular artists over the web that is great and inspirational, but we don't feel like those "copy and paste" kind of crafters, so we just pass. I saw this tag tutorial online,  and I felt that as much as I like this tag, I hate to be a " duplicating monkey" and if I would make it, it should be done in my own and totally different way. So I made a design, even with similar shapes, but not a single product the designer used was used making this project. All I used were some stamps from Visible Image company I design for and all possible Faber Castell Design Memory Craft products.

So here we go! 

I want to be an Artist...by Nikky Hall

 

Hi everyone! As Valentine's will be here in a heartbeat, today I am sharing a perfect project for you to use with all your Faber Castell products!

I decided to alter this heart in readiness for Valentine's Day...something my hubby refuses to celebrate because he says it's a Capitalist's Dream haha! Really he's just a misery and doesnt want to spend any dosh!

Anyway, let's get on with it shall we...

 

Upcycled boots!

Hello, Colleen here. 

I upcycled an old pair of cool Dr. Martens Leather boots by embellishing them with a hand drawn flower design using Design Memory Craft Pitt Artist Pens in Metallic, and super fine black along with Big Brush Stampers Pens. I then added hot fix crystal rhinestones for “bling”. I just love that I found new life for a pair of old boots!

Holiday Blog Hop with Lawn Fawn

Before we wrap up 2012, we’re having a blog hop with Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft! Hop with us for last minute Christmas inspirations!

We’re also giving away some amazing prizes: Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft and Lawn Fawn will each be giving away $30 in product.

The hop will be open until noon (EST) on Friday, 12/21.  The winners will be announced on our blogs at 4pm on Friday, 12/21.  Here’s how you can win:

1.  Stop by Lawn Fawn’s blog and Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft’s blog through 12/17- 12/21 (each blog will release 1 post/day) and leave a comment on each.  This way, we’ll know you were there. 
2. Take your time and have fun!
3. Want an extra chance to win?  Follow and tweet us at @DesignMemCraft for a chance to enter in our daily drawing!

Tiffany Johnson Tiffany is a hard-working mother and wife whose creativity & sense of humor shine in her paper crafting projects, in her clever video tutorials, and on her blog "iheartart." Tiffany also designs for Hambly Studios, Lawn Fawn, Clear & Simple Stamps iPhone App, and CupCards To Go.

Making Christmas Goodies

In our Family we LOVE giving away homemade goodies to random people around our neighborhood at Christmas time. What has become part of that tradition is to bake some cookies and put them with a homemade craft of some sort. So I had fun using some wonderful Faber-Castell colors to do just that!