Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft

Video Tutorial: Night Sky Card

Hello Blogosphere! It's Tiffany here today with a fun Video Tutorial! I hope all of our American friends enjoyed their 4th of July weekends! We had a huge neighborhood BBQ and had a blast! This card screams summer, so I hope you enjoy the following tutorial because it's time to use those new Gelatos® Steam Punk!

Video Tutorial:

 

 

Up Close & Personal:

So, go get those Gelatos and make your own night sky creation!

Thanks for stopping by,

Supplies:

• Faber-Castell® Design Memory Craft®- Gelatos® Steampunk, Stamper's Big Brush Pens (Black, Nougat), Metallic PITT® Artist Pen (Gold), Glaze (textural accents sampler), Collapsible Water Cup, Art GRIP® Colored Pencils (red/yellow, neutrals)
• Lawn Fawn- Love You S'More Stamp Set, brown hemp cord
• Studio Calico Sequins (stars)

Starlight Journal page with Jen Matott

Hi fellow artists!  I want to share another of my art journal pages from my Sketchbook Project 2014 book.  Every year I create a journal for the Sketchbook Project from the Brooklyn Art Library.  It's a traveling art show of art journals!   You can choose your own theme based on a variety of starting topics they give you.  Mine was based on "Borders and Lines" but I decided to title it "In Certain Circles..." This page was inspired by rays of light.

Take the Challenge with Mou, March 2014

Hi everyone, Mou here and welcome to the third 'Take the Challenge' of 2014! 

If you are new to this blog, let me fill you in about Take the Challenge. Every month, on the first Monday, 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. We will pick TWO winners randomly from among the readers who participated in that month's challenge. And the winners will get a prize from Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft®.

 

We are in the last month of the first quarter of 2014...already! I'm already starting to re-evaluate some of the things that I planned for this year -- what to keep, what to set aside for now, what to drop, etc. And one core theme that's guiding my thought process significantly is satisfaction -- that of doing a job well, living up to my own expectations, meeting standards, etc. and above all feeling fulfilled in what I do, how I do it, who I do it with and for, and why I do it. When those pieces fit, I stay motivated, curious, and creative. I find that the greatest everyday motivator for me is loving what I do and wanting to do more of it. So, my motto is "Do what you love, love what you do." 

 

What's your motto? Show us any project that captures the essence of your motto.

Video Tutorial: Chalkboard Entertaining, Part 1

Hello Everyone!!! It's Tiffany here and I've started a fun series of Video Tutorials featuring our new Textural Accent medium, Chalkboard Paint! The series, Chalkboard Entertaining, shows various ways a clever crafter like yourself can apply chalkboard paint to the art of entertaining and decorating! It's amazing how all of the other Faber-Castell® Design Memory Craft® mediums work with this trendy paint!

First up, I'll be showing you how to jazz up your drinkware:

The project uses PITT® Pastel Pencils, Art GRIP® Color Pencils, Metallic PITT Pens, and Paper Crafters™ Crayons with the dry Chalkboard Paint Textural Accent!

 

I hope you enjoyed this week's installment of Chalkboard Entertaining! Stay tuned for more episodes in February!

-Tiffany

Mixed media winter girl

Hey sweet creatives how goes things?

Rita Barakat here and  I was finally able to carve a little creative time

into my schedule this weekend- OK not really, but I did it anyways! 

The weather around here this week has been chilly (mornings in the 30's) so I was inspired

to make this mixed media winter girl painting. Of course today it was 87! But that's Texas!

She is one of four weather girls collection I have created.
Here are some pictures in progress...

A Watercolor Pencil Winter Penguin

Hello friends! Lisa here with you today to bring you a fun and easy card using the Art GRIP­® Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils. These pencils are my babies (haha!!). I love them and can't recomend them enough.  The colors are just luscious and so true. There is no learning curve to using them, either. Just color and wet to blend. Easy peasy!

Here's the cutie card I made for you today to show off (I hope) how great these pencils are.

No line colouring!

Hi there crafty friends!

I thought I'd try a technique that seems to be trending quite a bit recently,  it's called No Line Colouring.

Basically you stamp an image in very pale ink, then colour it in. When you've finished colouring, you can barely (or not at all) see the the stamping, so it looks like you've hand-drawn the image!

Coloring with Art Grip pencils

 Hello! Tatiana Yemelyanenko is here and today I would like to share my new tutorial using Art Grip pencils, Stamer's Big Brush Pens, Glaze and Mint Metallic Gelato.

Here's a video of the process

 

Hope this video will inspire you to create your own project with Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft^® products.

Tatiana

Creating Backgound for Cards using Gelatos & Paper Crafter Crayons

Hello there! Sharm here today to share how I created a background for my card using Gelatos® & Paper Crafter Crayons Blue Green. This is a fun alternative to using patterned papers for your card background. It is fairly simple and super fun since there's some stamping too!!

 Here's how I put my card together

Mixed Media Canvas

Hi, everyone. Mieko here today to share a canvas project made with Faber- Castell Design Memory Craft® MIX & MATCH products. MIX&MATCH makes designing with Color simple.