Faber Castell: Design Memory Craft

Day 7 with Brenda Pinnick!

For those of you who have been participating in my daily card making, giveaway week, today it your last chance to make sure you've posted on EACH DAY, on BOTH BLOGS in order to be eligible to win the 

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From Design Memory Craft-  Red, Yellow, Green and Blue Mixed Media Samplers, Red/Yellow & Blue/Green Gelatos, Red/Yellow & Blue/Green Writing Sets. In other words, THE WHOLE ENCILLADA! What a terrific prize from the genius minds of the Faber Castell team! 

And from me, a place to put all that amazing product to work - The winner will receive a full admission into my upcoming webinar workshop series, beginning in January, 2012! I've decided to finally, after being asked over and over, to create on-line workshops for my BRENDA PINNICK COLOR U, so 2012 is the beginning of my on-line teaching program! If you are the winner, you will be mailed a certificate with your admission information. 

The first workshop series is a combination of color exploration and learning done in mixed media format, using a variety of both art and craft materials. The series will be done in 8 sessions, available for viewing at your convenience! These lessons are both fun and educational and you will NEVER LOOK AT COLOR IN THE SAME WAY AGAIN - I promise! With my fine art and design education and years of professional experience, I am ready to share techniques and knowledge you can't get just anywhere AND, I make it FUN! Yes, you could buy tons of books, spend hours reading and practicing and, even take college level classes to gain the knowledge I'm ready to share, but wouldn't you rather enjoy learning while having fun creating? 

If you didn't win and would like to know more about this exciting series debut, please join my mailing list and everything you need to know will be in your in-box soon or, simply email me at brenda@brendapinnick.com

Thank you for joining us over the last week and tomorrow morning, before noon est., the grand prize winner will be announced. So- if you haven't already done so, go back into each day's post, on both blogs and leave your comments, answering the question posed for that day.

See you tomorrow!

 

Stamped Pumpkins!

Hi Everyone!
Colleen here with a fabulous way to add some glitz and glam to your Halloween Pumpkins  Using Brenda Pinnick’s new stamps and Stampers Big Brush Pens I made these Holiday Themed Pumpkins!

Here's what you'll need:    

Black #199

Chrome Green #174

Metallic PITT® artist pen: Silver #251

Ribbons & lace

Rhinestones

After loading the color onto the stamp I laid the pumpkin in the palm of my hand and cupped my hand around the pumpkin to stamp the design. Heat set the ink, then add rhinestones, ribbons and lace.  These pumkins will look great either on your party table or front porch!

 

 

 

 

 

More Wearable Art!!!

 
 
 
 Colleen has outdone herself once again with this mixed media bracelet! 

 
Want to create a bracelet like Colleen's?  Here's what you'll need:

Stamper's Big Brush 

Metallic Pitt artist pen in Gold

Swirl rubber stamp

Small buttons, brown

Large button, brown

Beaded found object, gold

Rhinestone trim, browns

Metal leaf charms, browns

Needle and thread

Measure and cut to size 2 pieces raw canvas to fit around your wrist.  Sew around the edge, add cotton ribbon to either end for fastening. Make a loop for a button at one end. Measure against your wrist; sew a button on the other end.

 
Stamp with the PITT Big Brush pen and the rubber stamp.  Add gold PITT pen highlights.  Sew on the found elements, rhinestone trim, buttons and metal leaf charms.

 
 
Wrap & fasten around your wrist, wear with style!

 
Here's to a safe and happy holiday weekend!  Get out there and do something fun.  We'll be back on Tuesday with a new technique from Jill Foster.

 

 

Nature's Beauty

Hi!  Alyssa McGrew here, back to share a little bit about a layout I created a few months ago. I had such a great time working with Design Memory Craft supplies on this page.

I started by creating the background using Art GRIP® Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils in blues, greens, and yellows. Then I used gesso to stamp on the blue background cardstock and layered the watercolored background over it.

I then created the tree branch by sketching it, cutting it out, and then adding layers of detail and texture with Gelato Sticks, PITT® Artist Pens, and a Big Brush Pen. I loved how I could create shades and layers of using the Gelato by just brushing more on, or taking some off, with my fingers.

I colored the canvas bird with Art GRIP® Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils after stamping the pattern with StazOn ink.  

Then I added lots of hand-cut bits of patterned paper and shaded in around them using the Art GRIP® Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils again.  

This was the final result:

Thanks for coming by and checking out my project.  I hope that you have some Design Memory Craft products of your own, and that you can use a few of my tips to create your own masterpiece!

~Alyssa~

www.alyssasscraps.blogspot.com

Mixed Media - You are amazing!

Hi everyone -- Rita here with a mixed media wall hanging I made for my girls to remind them of how special they are!

 

I will hang it in their bathroom to remind them they are amazing just the way they are! (Note that I made the girl with the same coloring as my girls.)

Supplies: American Crafts pattern papers, Scrap FX Chipboard,  Melissa Frances frame, Shimmerz Spritz in Ruby, Pop Art Pink & Barn Door, Prima bling & flowers, Tim Holtz tissue tape, We R Memory Keepers Sew Easy floss, Faber-Castell Gesso, Faber-Castell Gelatos, Faber-Castell PITT® Metallic Artist Pens

Want to make one too? Here is a how to slide show!

 

You can learn more about my inspiration for this piece back on my blog here. 

Learn more about Gelatos here; Learn more about the PITT Metallic Pen here; Learn more about the gesso, available in the Textural Accents Sampler here. 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Canvas tags, Gelatos & Metallic PITT® Pens!

Hi all Rita Barakat here with a quick and easy project to get your creative juices flowing! I love doing small quick projects whenever I feel like I might be in a rut ... A perfect remedy for creative block :)

Canvas Tag

Using a small canvas tag, I draw directly on it with Gelatos (two shades of blue) and then sprayed it directly with water, making it really wet. I then used a paint brush to blend.

Once dry I used my Faber-Castell metallic PITT® pen to draw stars and doodles. I cut out the vintage image(Crafty Secrets) and used the gold PITT® pen on the edges, attatched it to the canvas with a tape runner. And finally, I used some blue and green wire to hang my little tag! 

Like I said, quick & easy! 

The Story of an Apron, Mixed-Media Project

Hi Everyone! Rita Barakat here ready to show you the apron I made for the Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft booth at CHA Winter 2011.

Apparently, this silly little apron got TONS of compliments from everyone at the show .... little did they know the "back story" on how I was able to create this project!

 
 

See the wrinkles? This was the picture of the apron before I shipped it off to Faber-Castell... Why so wrinkly?  I did this in the middle of a whole-house move. Literally!

Here's how it went down: I had movers in my house, packing up my entire family for a move taking us across several states when all of suddent I got a last minute email from Susan at Faber-Castell. She needed a few more projects for the booth at CHA!

The movers were packing up my scrapbook room, so on a break I ran down there to see what I could scrounge up! I grabbed what was left - a few odds and ends, ribbon, flowers, metal pieces, a stencil, a canvas tag, a white peice of cardstock and an apron. (You did not seriously think I let them pack up my Faber-Castell pens, pencils and Gelatos did you? Nope I had already left those out! LOL!)

First I decided where I wanted everything to go. Then I used a Prima Stencil and traced it onto the pocket of the apron with a PITT® Artist pen in Cobalt Green. You get a great color and you know it's not going to bleed when you get it wet because it's India Ink- it stays put!

Then I used  the Art GRIP® Aquarelle pencils in greens and blues and colored in between the stencil. I took a small wet paint brush to blend the colors. The great thing about these markers, pencils and Gelatos are that they are meant to go together so they blend beautifully.

Toward the bottom and the the top of the picture you can see what it looked like before I used the water to blend the colors. I used Gelatos as I got into the bigger areas of the apron. Since the colors blend, you can't event tell where I used the pencils versus where I used the Gelatos- how cool is that? 

                                      

After the apron was dry I went back with my PITT® Artist Pen in Cobalt Green to write the quote and in Deep Scarlett Red to fill in the bird. (I outlined the bird in black.) I also used the Cobalt Green PITT® Artist Pen to outline the wave on the bottom of the apron and add a few doodles (x's and o's). I used Aleenes Tacky glue to adhere the ribbon and flowers. I even used the metallic PITT® pens on the project to add even more to the project. 

This turned out to be a very quick and easy project. I loved doing it ... and I hope you'll try it! Next time, maybe I'll show you the tag & scrapbook page I threw together during that same, last-minute creating spree :)
     

                                          

A Metallic Star is Born! {Metallic Pens Sneak Peek!}

Look who we've noticed using our new Design Memory Craft PITT Artist Metallic Pens for several projects during her December Daily this month? None other than Ali Edwards! Very exciting! Here are a few photos of projects that she used, along with links....

 

Sneak Peek Alert!! Ali used our not-yet-released Ruby Metallic PITT Artist Pen on the above photo in her December Daily day 4. 

 

 

Ali used our metallic PITT Artist pen for the silver line and one of our black journaling PITT Artist pens for the words on her December Daily Number 13.

 

Thanks, Ali! We're excited to be a part of your December Daily this year on a total of four different days so far .... and the month is just barely half-way over!