Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft and Penny Black Blog Hop

Hello Everyone!! The artistry of Penny Black stamps and Creative Dies along with Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft's colorful Mix and Match mediums take the mystery out of the oh-so-trendy mixed media look! All this week the Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft Guest Design Team will be sharing projects using Penny Black stamps. Check out Penny Black crafts HERE and leave them some comment love for a chance to win three stamps from their newest release, Colorful Christmas. Also, leave a comment on the Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft Blog for a chance to win a $50 Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft prize pack!

So today, I'd like to share a project featuring few of my favorite products from Faber-Castell - Gelatos^®  and Stamper's Big Brush Pens. This fun image I used is from Penny Black as soon as my daughter saw it, she asked me to make a mermaid for her. So I tried to give a effect as if a mermaid is coming out of water....lol . Here is my mixed media Canvas and some quick steps to show you how I created it!

Here's a photo of the finished project:

This is how I created it:

  I applied Gesso to the canvas and let it dry. Now I visually marked the area to make a frame around my image.Then, I rubbed Gelatos^® all over it and blended it using my fingers.

  Once, I was happy with the effect, I just applied a bit of gesso to soften it. Apply some more Gelatos^®  where you want. Now I applied some Gelatos^® on the frame area, blended it.

I then, masked the center part and stamped the Hair part of the image repeatedly using black Big Brush Marker onto the frame.

I then stamped the images on tissue paper using Black Big Brush Marker.

 The I applied some Gel medium to the canvas and adhered the stamped images.

 Once dry, I colored in using Big Brush Markers.

  For the depth around the frame, I applied some brown Big Brush Marker and blended using my finger. These markers blend beautifully over Gelatos^®

^{Lastly to finish, I just applied a bit of Golden ink from my inkpad.}

AND!!! The finished canvas is ready to be decorated in my daughter's wall. Hope you give some of these products and techniques a try :)

For more inspiration, please hop over to Heidi's Blog

Supplies:

Gelatos® (Designer Colors-Tropical, Banana, Red Cherry, Blood orange, Mango)

Stamper’s Big Brush Pen (Black, Deep Naples Ochre, Cobalt Turquoise, Walnut Brown, Pale Geranium Lake, Scarlet Red, White)

PITT Artist Pen (Black)

Faber- Castell Design Memory Craft Gesso

Faber- Castell Design Memory Craft Gel Medium

Stamp: Penny Black (Wistful 40-193, Go With Your Heart 40-043 )