Faber Castell and Creative Imaginations Blog Hop!!

Creative Imaginations and Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft designers have teamed up for a fabulous blog hop from August 27-31^st!  Hop with us all week for craft ideas, inspiration and tutorials!  

Don’t forget to leave a comment on each blog for a chance to win!  Creative Imaginations and Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft will each be giving away a $50 prize pack!

The blog hop will end at midnight on August 31^st.  The two winners will be announced on the companies’ blogs on September 4^th.     

Ready to be inspired?

Start hopping!!

START AT:  Faber Castell       

Tanisha Long       

Rita Barakat     

Shelley Hamilton

Jill Foster       

Lynne Forsythe  

Tiffany Johnson  

Alicia Giess     

Jen Matott    

Donna Bryant        

Colleen McGinty     

Lynn Kopas     

Mou Saha    

Jules Eickmeier    

END AT: Creative Imaginations      

Our first project reveal is by Design Team Member, Lynn Kopas!

The DT here at Creative Imaginations squealed when we heard about teaming up with Faber-Castell! Faber-Castell products are so versatile and the creative possibilities are endless. I decided to create art journal pages combining tons of products from both companies. The background for my pages was created combining a few Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mists and water ...

I then grabbed my Butterfly CI Existencil and placed it on the background - before I heat set the mists - and spritzed water over the stencil. This gave the background another subtle layer ...(this technique shows up more with darker colored mists) ...

I planned on creating an outdoor scene so I started with a dimensional tree on the left page. I used the tree stencil from the Nature CI Existencil Kit and mixed Primary Elements in Dragonfly with modeling paste and dabbed the mixture over the stencil ...

Then, it was time to bring on Faber-Castell's Gelatos - one of my FAV products!! Gelatos have so many uses and add color and depth to your projects. I cut out some leaves from CI Paint It Paper, wet the leaves and crumpled them up. Once dry I "painted" them with a gorgeous Lime green Gelato. To paint with Gelatos, rub the gelato on a craft sheet, add water and blend together - then paint on any surface ...

My scene needed a sun, so I mixed glass beads with Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist and applied the mixture to the opposite page with bubble wrap (for texture). I cut small strips of Paint It papers for sun "rays" and added Luminarte Twinkling H20's for shimmery color. I added stamped images with permanent inks and gesso for more background detail. The grass was created with Faber-Castell Art Grip Aquarelles which are AMAZING watercolor pencils ...

Next, a house was needed for my outdoors scene! I hand cut a house and roof from CI Paint It Paper and then used the oh so fabulous Faber-Castell Art Grip Aquarelle water color pencils. These are so easy to use - I scribbled various colors on the house - you don't have to color in the whole area - just enough to add color, and then blend with water and a paint brush. This gives a lovely painterly, watercolor effect ...

The birdie was created the same way and then outlined with Faber-Castell Artist Pen in black ...

What's an outdoor scene without flowers ... so the gelaots came back out! I used the same technique as I did to create the leaves. I used the tip of my rub-on tool dipped in gesso to create the flower centers. The stems were drawn on with another of my FAV Faber-Castell products - Pitt Pens!!!

The Big Brush Pens are great for shading, outlining, adding color anywhere. I used them to outline the leaves and to add color to the stenciled tree. Another fun use of the Pitt Pens is to apply them directly to a stamp, lightly spritz with water and stamp as I did here ...

This technique adds a lovely watercolor effect. The amount of water you use makes a difference, so often the second generation stamp is clearer.

After outlining and doodling with the Pitt Artist Pen in black and flicking more Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist on the background and going around the edges with a dark green Big Brush Pitt Pen I was finally satisfied! Here's the end result ...

I hope this tutorial gave you some ideas on how to use the amazing Faber-Castell products! This was so much fun and stay tuned all week for more projects from the team here at CI and the Faber-Castell team!!

Lynn Kopas:)

 

Creative Imaginations Products Used:

Luminarte:

• Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist - #29523 Bashful Blue
• Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist - #29524 Sour Lemon
• Luminarte Petite Twinkling H20 - #26352 Lemondrop
• Luminarte Primary Elements - Dragonfly

Existencils:

• #28589 - Butterfly Romance Stencil 6 x 6
• #28380 - Nature Stencil Kit 12 x 12

Paint It!:

• Marah Johnson Monarch Define Paper

 

Faber-Castel Products Used:

PITT Artist Pens - Big Brush:

• Orange Glaze - 113
• Cadmium Yellow - 107
• Permanent Olive Green - 167

PITT Artist Pens:

• Permanent Olive Green - 167
• Raw Umber - 180
• Orange Glaze - 113
• Leaf Green - 112
• Black - 199

Art Grip Aquarelles:

• Yellow - 107
• Orange - 115
• Red - 121
• Olive Green - 167
• Green - 166

Gelatos:

• Red Cherry
• Lime

Other:

• Studio Multi-Medium Matte
• Studio Gesso
• Liquitex Light Modeling Paste
• Liquitex Glass Beads
• Adirondack Dabber - Snow Cap

Thanks for stopping by and remember to hop over to all the blogs for more inspiration from all of our designers using the fabulous Faber-Castell and Luminarte Products!!

Comments

[Jean A Marmo]

Just gorgeous!!!

[Jules Eickmeier]

OOOOH Be still my heart...simply lovely!

[Donna Bryant]

well, now that I've picked my jaw up off the floor............this is amazing lynn. just beautiful.

[Lori Batronis]

So fun!!! Amazing job Lynn!! Loved the blog hop. A huge amount of inspiration. Looks like two ladies have not posted yet. Looking forward to seeing their projects too. Wonderful job by EVERYONE!!

[Sherry]

Ooooo...LOVE it!!

[Miriam Prantner]

Beautiful project! What a sweet scene and I love the texture from that tree and all the items you made using the CI paint it paper!

[LynneF]

AMAZING project Lynn......thanks for the fabulous tutorial!!!

[BarbT]

Thanks for the great tutorial. I have been really curious about these products. I love that there have been such great tutorials so people like I can actually use these fun tools with a bit of knowledge.

[Sue D]

It was a fabulous blog hop with lots of creative ideas. I like all the text paper used on Lynn's project today.

[Andrea]

super cool, love it!!

[Joy H]

What a great tutorial and lots of ideas how to use the products - my wish list gets longer!

[Shelley Hamilton]

This was so wonderful! You did such an awesome job, and the colors are beautiful!!

[Lynda Kay]

Love the misting on the base layer. Thanks for the details.

[Larissa Heskett =)]

I LOVE your BEAUTIFUL project!! THANKS for sharing and for the chance to win!! Have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)

[frogquilter]

Great projects but the verification was not working properly and I was not able to comment on the Jules post---I tried 16 times and just gave up!!!!

[Sandi Smith]

This is gorgeous...love the texture!

[Candy]

Really fun! Just inspirational. Thank you.

[Terry]

all of the projects were amazing!

[Debbie Rybolt]

Beautiful work on all of the blogs, thanks for sharing your work ladies, Thanks for allowing me to hop with you guys, so much inspiration here.... Gorgeous!!!

[Barb King]

Lots of great ideas here!

[Marilyn Nimmo]

thanks for sharing such wonderful techniques! MUST try!

[Anita Bownds]

wow this is awesome.love that yellow just makes it pop..hugs Anita..xx

[Carol B]

Fun and inspiring projects! Thanks for the ideas!

Carol B
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[Debbie Jones]

Love all the techniques. Thanks
Debbie Jones

[barbara lassiter]

Oh My! This is so much fun. I love to see what everyone creates and these journal pages are fabulous! It's so wonderful to have all these great products available to help in the creative process!