DIY do it your self crafting: Faber-Castell

Hello! How's summer going? It's been kind of lazy for me but I did craft! And I actually made something to enter into a challenge. It's been a long while since I joined in on TGF's Farm Fresh Friday so I thought I'd do the current one Make Your Own Background.

I have been playing around with Faber-Castell's Gelatos to make some backgrounds. These are so easy to use and can be less messy. I was going to just rub some gelatos around on a piece of water color cardstock but then I noticed I still had this blank canvas I bought a while ago on sale. So thought I'd use that to make something pretty and hang around my crafty desk or somewhere.

I used a 5x7 canvas and rubbed some pink, purple, blue and gold Gelatos on it. Then I took the brush the Gelatos come with and added some water to blend the colors together. I had to wait until everything was dry before I could glue stuff onto the canvas. I used TGF's Splotchy and Blush Heart in the background. Those were heat embossed in white. It's kind of hard to stamp nicely on canvas but I didn't need for it to look perfect. The sentiment was also heat embossed and is from TGF's Spotlight Kit. Then my main image is an oldie but a cutie, Flutter Anya. She is one of my favorites. I used my white gel pen around her. Then I added some cheese cloth, flowers, rhinestone sprays and stars to complete the look.

A different view. I left the sides clean but maybe I should've added Gelatos there too?

While I was crafting I noticed that my craft table is pretty big. I should have lots of room to craft so why is my actual work area so small?

I have too much stuff on my table! See the little space on my mat? That's the space I have to make stuff. No wonder I feel so squished sometimes.

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Hello! Perfect Paper Crafting and Faber-Castell have teamed up for a blog hop! Perfect Paper Crafting will be giving away a deluxe 3 pack of our Perfect Layers rulers and a Perfect Square ($45). Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft will be giving away $50 in prizes. Make sure you visit each blog and leave a comment on every blog to be entered in our give-a-aways. Hope you enjoy all of these talented artists' creations!

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You have until midnight EST on April 5th to complete the hop.
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I had never tried Faber-Castell products before so this was completely new and different for me. I started out by just playing around with the products and ended up making 3 different cards!

This is my first card. I used Faber-Castell's gelatos in a couple of different ways for this card. I heat embossed the flowers (Papertrey Ink's Delightful Dahlia) in white and die cut them out. I rubbed the gelatos directly onto the paper and then used a tissue to blend the colors together. You could use your finger too but I am not too into getting messy. This was such an easy way to color in the flowers! Easier than using Copics at least. I also rubbed the gelato onto watercolor paper and wet it a bit with a brush for the mat behind the flowers. I used the Stamper's Big Brush Pens in various shades of green for the leaves. The sentiment is also from Papertrey Ink. And of course all the varying size mats were made using my Perfect Layers rulers.

This is my second card. I used Faber-Castell's Stamper's Big Brush Pens to stamp my image. I colored directly onto my stamp and used a watercolor brush to add just a bit of water to get a watercolor effect. The sentiment was also stamped with a Big Brush Pen. I have to say this is my favorite card. I added a thin black mat using Perfect Layers rulers. The stamps are from Papertrey Ink's Botanical Silhouettes.

This is my third and last card. Hope you're still with me! And I know I am super early for Halloween! I just had to share one other way to use the gelatos. I embossed the web using my Tim Holtz embossing folder and rubbed on a metallic silver gelato. I love how the silver looks on black cardstock. All the mats (on the banners too) were created with Perfect Layers rulers. The cute digi image is from CC Designs and the sentiments from Paper Smooches.

Here is a list of the Blog Hop participants!

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Perfect Paper Crafting
Faber-CastellDesign Memory Craft

Eva Uyeunten (ME!)
Colleen McGinty