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CI/Faber Castell Blog Hop by Shelley Hamilton

Hi, Shelley here with my CI/Faber Castell Blog Hop Project!

For my project, I made a "Summer Vacation Journal"!  Art Journals are very popular right now.  This journal isn't purely for art, as I decided to put some of our vacation pictures in it.  However, I was a bit more free with this album than I usually am.  I did a lot of artsy stuff, a lot more writing, and was as informal as I wanted to be.  It was a blast!  I plan to let each one of my kids do one, as well.  They love coloring, drawing, and pics of summer vacation!

 

 
I started with a plain journal, and piece of Bazaar Noir Chintz Foil Paper.

 

I knew that I wanted to use the new Faber-Castell Pastel Pencils in Blue/Green.

 

So, I began "coloring" the paper.  One cool thing about these new pastels is that they come in sharpened pencil form, so you have a lot of control, and can color with great detail.  Another nice thing is that they are easily sharpened.  I used a common hand-held sharpener as these became dull.

  The colors are amazing.  I chose to color-in most of my paper pretty darkly.

 

There were a couple of areas, however, where I colored in very lightly, then rubbed them with my finger to make the color pale and even.

 

After I had chosen the colors I was going to use, and had colored for a little while, I began to look for papers to coordinate with the front of my journal.  I found several pieces of Samantha Walker's "Tea Party" line that were perfect for what I wanted!  After I finished using the pastel pencils, I used a spray sealer to make the page permanent(no smearing of the colors).  Faber Castell also mentions the fact that you can use hair spray.

 

Another new product by Faber Castell are the Gelatos.  This particular set has blues and purples.  Beautiful!

 

Before adhering the colored paper to my journal, I used the Cotton Candy Gelato from this set, on the edges of the journal.  The Gelatos come in what looks like a chapstick container.  I just applied the Gelato directly on the journal edges.   After doing this, I got a paintbrush(this set comes with one) a little bit wet with water, and went over the already painted edges.  This helps smooth the color out.

 

To finish out the front of the album, I added small silk Eye Candy in several different places.  These Swarovski crystals make all the difference!

 

 

I used the Cotton Candy and Gold Metallic Gelatos on this page.

 

To get this effect, I rubbed the Gelatos on a wooden stamp--blue on the top, gold on the bottom.  I then put a little water on the paintbrush, and brushed the stamp with it.  Then, I stamped it on the page.  I repeated this process each time I stamped.  I enjoyed the process and the outcome!

 

On this page, I used a trimmed piece from the front/back of my album, and used it on the bottom of the page.  I used the Cotton Candy Gelato on a white paper flower, then blended it lightly with water and a paintbrush. 

 

After the flower had completely dried, I went back in and added steaks of the deep yellow pastel pencil.  The outcome was pretty, and I was assured that my flower would match the paper(Blue Pansies from Tea Party) that I had already picked out, as well as the cover of my album.  After doing this, I sprayed the flower with Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist Luminarte in Pearl Lilac.  This gave it a nice shimmering look.  To further embellish this page, I made small dots on the paper with Viva Colour Brand by CI's Paint Pen in Sunny Yellow.

 

On this page, I used a kraft envelope that I edged with the dark blue pastel pencil and painted with the Cotton Candy Gelato.  I also used the Viva Colour by CI Paint Pen again.  The yellow flower sticker is from the Tea Party line.

 

On this page, I used the Gelatos to edge the banner pieces and the paper mat.

 

Here are some of the items I used the Cotton Candy Gelato on.  Remember that after you rub the Gelato directly on the object, that it is a good idea to use a paintbrush and a little water to spread the color about.

 

Before I glued the glitter on the letters for the banner, I first colored the letters with one of the pastel pencils.  I just wanted a bit of color under the glitter so the chipboard color wouldn't show through.  I also wanted to glitter right away, without letting anything dry, so I chose the pastel pencils instead of the gelato.  Otherwise, the the letters might have been a bit wet, and the liquid glue for the glitter wouldn't have stuck to the letter.

 

I hope you have enjoyed seeing my project!  I have enjoyed sharing it with you!!

 

Products Used:

CI Products:

Bazaar Noir Chintz Foil Paper

Tea Party Die Cut Shapes

Small silk Eye Candy(Swarovski crystals)

Blue Pansies paper from Tea Party line

Tea Party Sticker Sheet

Tea Blossom paper from Tea Party line

Label from Art as Life ATC Pack

Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist Luminarte in Pearl Lilac 

Tea Service paper from Tea Party line

 

Faber-Castell Products:

Pastel Pencils in Blue/Green

Gelatos-Blue

Metallic Gelatos

 

Mixed Media!!

Hello scrappers, Donna here, thrilled to be sharing some projects using a mix of Luminarte and Faber-Castell products!  The pairing of the two creates endless possibilities…………. 

I created with the Faber Castell Mixed Media & Collage kit, a little box of big creative heaven containing some of everything you need to create mixed media style.  The kit contains various pieces of chipboard, papers, gesso, gel medium, glaze, craft glue, metallic gelato, colored pencils and artist brush pens, among other things, including twelve fabulous idea cards.

 

In my first project, “Happiness”, I began by first covering my chipboard with gesso.   Next, I layered several of the collage papers included in the kit, afterward, toning the color down with another, thin layer of gesso.  When the papers were dry, I applied some Ginger Peach and Sunburst mist over all.  Once the mist was dray, I layered and adhered more bits of paper, a piece of screening (in the kit!!), buttons and more.  I next applied some Sunburst mist to the piece of lace and adhered it to the piece.  I applied ink to my rubber stamp using a Nougat Big Brush Pen and arbitrarily stamped on the edges.  I outlined the numbers with some gelato and, using the black detail pen in the kit, outlined the words.  As a last step, I applied a thin layer of glaze over all.

 

 

 

Products Used: 

Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist Sunburst 

Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist Ginger Peach                                                

Creative Imaginations Rubber Stamp Salal Branch 

Faber Castell Mixed Media & Collage Kit

Faber Castell Big Brush Artist Pen Nougat

Faber Castell Big Brush Artist Pen Black

 For my next project, I used a smaller piece of chipboard, this time, to ultimately use as an embellishment on a note card.    After applying a thin layer of gesso to the chipboard, I adhered then glazed over my various papers and then used a Radiant Rain Color Concentrate dauber to color the edges to create a sort of “frame”.  Once the paint dried, I applied some metallic gelato smudged it with a tad of water on my fingertips over the paint to get a sort of aged look.   I next used a cool piece of that screening in the as a mask and applied gel medium to add some dimension to the piece.  I lastly applied a layer of glaze over the entire piece and stapled a piece of cotton trim at the bottom.  Love how the glaze made this look like a real photograph even though it was just a regular piece of scrappy paper in the kit.  After adhering the piece to the note card base, I misted all with Butternut mist.

 

Products Used:

Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist Butternut

Luminarte Radiant Rain Color Concentrate Dauber Cinnamon

Faber Castell Mixed Media & Collage Kit

 For my last project, I used one of the smaller pieces of chipboard, only this time, I covered it with a piece of canvas.  I then adhered bits of papers on to the canvas and when they dried, applied glaze to the paper and outlined it with the Stampers Big Brush Pen.  Next, I stamped over everying (the fun flower stamp is in the Mixed Media & Colllage Kit too) and then colored in the canvas using a red colored pencil.  I painted the edges last, using the Cinnamon Dauber.

 

Luminarte Radiant Rain Color Concentrate Dauber Cinnamon

Faber Castell Mixed Media & Collage Kit

Faber Castell Big Brush Artist Pen Black

Altered Canvas

Welcome to the Creative Imaginations-Faber-Castell Blog Hop!!  Our teams have joined up to bring you a ton of craft ideas, inspiration and tutorials. 

I created an inspirational canvas.  Check it out:

 
I colored this canvas with Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils (blue) then spritzed with water and blended the colors with my fingers.  I used the Stamper's Big Brush from the Mix & Match Mixed Media Sampler to color a script stamp and stamped on the background.  After heat embossing the white circles, I used the Neutral Gelato to add another layer of color to the canvas (I blended with my fingers). I traced the large words and butterflies (adhered to the canvas using Gel medium) with blue water colors and used a wet paint brush to blend into the background.  I used Mix & Match Art Grip Color Pencils to add definition to the journaling.

As a finishing touch, I painted the smaller butterflies with Egyptian Gold Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist and flicked Autumn Leaf Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist onto the background.

Creative Imaginations Products Used:
Preposterous Collection
29310 Playful
Oceanside Collection
29202 Del Mar
29207 Oceanside Stickers
26398 Autumn Leaf Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist
26402 Egyptian Gold Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist

Faber-Castell Products Used:
Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils- Blue
Art Grip Color Pencils- Neutral
Textural Accents Sampler
Mixed Media Sampler- Neutral


 

"My Cup of Tea"

Nothing could be more "my cup of tea" then the opportunity to create with Faber-Castell's wonderful products and combine then with Creative Imaginations' Tea Party line of papers by Samantha Walker and my favorites by LuminArte. 

I had been wanting to create a mini album featuring of my favorite photos of my beautiful granddaughter, Leighton Kaye, and the lovely papers by Samantha Walker provided me with the perfect medium.  I started with two of the die cut Tea Pots and placed an explandable album created out of cardstock between the two papers.  I edged the paper using Faber-Castell's Gelato in Gold Champagne and painted the sun flowers on the paper with LuminArte's Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist in Solar Gold and Faber-Castell's Mix and Match Gelatos Colors & Clear Stamp in Yellow to give them a hint of sparkle,

Thanks to a friend, I recently learned how to create porceline appearing flowers out of paper.  I die cut the flowers out of some of the Tea Party paper and dipped them into a melting pot of Ultra Thick Emobssing Powder.  While the covering was still warm, I brushed on the pigment Primary Elements by LuminArte from the 3 pack of Costa Rica using Olive Vine and Majestic.

The expandable album provides lots of opportunities for photos and embellishments.

To add interest, I created a pop up element in the middle of the album.  I used the lovely stickers from the Tea Party line to enforce the theme. 

 When the album is opened, the circle pops up and then closes smoothly back when the album is closed.  I accordian pleated two strips of paper from the Tea Party line and attached one end to each side of the circle and the other end to the base of the center of the album. I dyed the lace with Raidant Rain Shimming Mist in Solar Gold.

To enhance the color on the back of the album, I mixed Faber-Castell's Gelato in Lavendar with LuminArte's Twinkling H20 in Sugar Plum on my craft mat (thanks Lynn Kopas for the craft mat tip).  I used my finger tips to smudge this mixture onto the edge of the paper.  I used Faber-Castell's Gold Champagne Gelato to add a hint of glimmer to the outside edge of the paper as well.

The album not only opens from the front side, but from the back as well allowing for even more photos of my lovely girl. 

Using my photo program, I turned all my granddaughter's pictures into sepia and then printed them onto canvas paper.  Once the ink had set up, about 2 hours, I used the Faber-Castell Mix and Match Media Aquarelles and Ink in Blue to add the color to Leighton's eyes .  I used a variety of the watercolor pencils, the Gelatos, Radiant Rains Shimmering Mists and Twinkling H20s to color headbands, flowers and Leighton's dresses to match the colors in the papers.

 

This has been such fun creating this album.  Thank you Creative Imaginations, LuminArte, Faber-Castell and Samantha Walker for providing me with the perfect products.

Products

Creative Imaginations

Samanta Walker's Tea Party Papers and Stickers

29396 Tea Pot

29390 Blue Pansies

29391 Tea Blossom

29394 Floral Plaid Paper

29392 Purple Pansies Paper

29398 Tea Party Stickers

 

LuminArte

29532 Primary Elements Costa Rica (Olive Vine and Majestic)

26400 Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist in Solar Gold

28413 Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist Verdigris

Twinkling H20s

29030 Petite Started Kit Holiday Sparkle six pack (Sugar Plum)

20029 Petite Starter Kip Autumn Brilliance six pack (Raspberry Wine)

26400 Solar Gold

26419 No. 4 Round Paint Brush

 

Faber-Castell

77023 Mixed Media Aquarelle & Ink (Blue)

Gelatos

770156 Color Gelatos 4 count Red

770157 Color Gelatos 4 count Yellow

770151 Metallic Gelatos 2 count

 

 

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!!