Welcome to The Rubber Cafe/Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft blog hop! If you’ve just joined us today and would like to start the blog hop from the beginning, simply click on The Rubber Cafe blog to begin. If you’ve come here from Michelle Pearson’s blog, you are in the right place!
For this blog hop, we will be showcasing project ideas, inspiration, and tutorials featuring fabulous products you won’t want to miss! Hop along with us as we work with products from these great companies:
The Rubber Cafe
The Rubber Cafe is a stamp manufacturer of high quality, deeply etched stamps and other fine paper crafting tools and accessories. All of our beautiful stamps are made right here in the USA in sunny San Diego, California! Visithttp://www.therubbercafe.com today to view their complete product line!
I used the following Rubber Cafe Products: small paisley dragonfly, grass, Pugnacious Signature Paper (white), Lil’ Inkers
Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft
Faber-Castell was founded more than 240 years ago in Germany as a pencil manufacturer. Today Faber-Castell is world renowned for its high quality, innovative products. Too see Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft’s complete product line, visit http://www.designmemorycraft.com today!
Directions:
1. Stamp grass and dragonfly onto die-cut white cardstock in black Stamper’s Big Brush Marker Ink. Stamp dragonfly again on a scratch piece of white cardstock.
2. Using the Aquarelle Art Grip Watercolor Pencils, color images and then use a fine paintbrush to add water. Cut Dragonfly and adhere with foam squares.
3. On a plastic palette, color down a little ink from the Stamper’s Big Brush Markers in Cobalt Blue & Light Cobalt Turquoise. Add water to dilute and then using the foam Lil’ Inkers tool, create background. Use the Black Stippling Brush to add patches of dark blue texture. You can also paint splatter like I did!
4. Color down some pigment from the Aquarelle Art Grip Watercolor Pencils that you used onto the palette as well. Water down and flick some of the color leading up to the dragonfly.
5. Add a shadow around the dragonfly with the brush-tipped PITT Artist Pen in Cold Grey I.
6. Burnish Kaisercraft sentiment (Rubons-Friends), mat main image panel in navy, and then adhere to patterned paper card base.
For your next stop on the hop, you’ll be visiting Kristine Reynolds.
Don’t forget to leave a comment on each manufacturer and designer’s blog for a chance to win great prizes such as:
Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft will be giving away a $50 prize pack, and The Rubber Cafe will be giving away TWO $25 gift certificates!
The blog hop contest will be open until midnight June 10th and the winners will be announced on June 12th on the company’s blogs.
Thanks so much for stopping by,
Michelle Pearson
June 6, 2012 at 07:08 (3 years ago)love the background you achieved….gorgeous!
Kristine Reynolds
June 6, 2012 at 07:32 (3 years ago)Love the striped background. So cool. Such a bright fun card!
tesab
June 6, 2012 at 07:49 (3 years ago)What a wonderful card. The coloring is amazing, such a beautiful scenery!!!
Deb V in Manitoba
June 6, 2012 at 08:47 (3 years ago)the products all work together so beautifully. thanks for the ideas and chance to win
Regina aka Mrs. Ham
June 6, 2012 at 08:51 (3 years ago)Great card. Love the colors
Grace
June 6, 2012 at 09:13 (3 years ago)The sentiment is beautiful, love the background too!
Miriam Prantner
June 6, 2012 at 09:28 (3 years ago)Beautiful card! The background is so neat! Thanks for sharing your process!
Tracy
June 6, 2012 at 10:57 (3 years ago)That dragonfly is simply scrumptious!
Thanks for the inspiration,
Tracy
Melanie Corbin
June 6, 2012 at 11:45 (3 years ago)Love it – great use of splatter
Sheryl Pelletier
June 6, 2012 at 12:15 (3 years ago)To heck with the card… I really like all of your ideas. Thanks.
Vera Wirianta Yates
June 6, 2012 at 12:29 (3 years ago)What a gorgeous card, Tiff! Love the coloring on this card.
Jacquie
June 6, 2012 at 13:11 (3 years ago)the color on dragonfly is amazing!
Carol B
June 6, 2012 at 14:31 (3 years ago)Fabulous ideas on the blog hop, thanks for the inspiration! Love The Rubber Cafe and DMC!
Carol B
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Karen Osborne
June 6, 2012 at 14:31 (3 years ago)The background it so pretty, love the card!
Teresa Godines #6857
June 6, 2012 at 15:59 (3 years ago)I love the bold colors behind your soft image. Thanks for sharing.
Rebecca W
June 6, 2012 at 16:35 (3 years ago)Thanks for sharing how you used the various products and your steps so clearly. Beautiful card.
laury
June 6, 2012 at 17:00 (3 years ago)I love you card especially the painting on the foreground . So beautiful! The dragonfly too!
Barb king
June 6, 2012 at 17:15 (3 years ago)I love everything about this card!
Tricia
June 6, 2012 at 17:46 (3 years ago)Thank you for your step by step instructions.
Sue D
June 6, 2012 at 17:52 (3 years ago)This is beautiful!!
Heather Mayfield (@buckeyecub)
June 6, 2012 at 18:20 (3 years ago)Thanks for all the details.
Rufus
June 6, 2012 at 20:11 (3 years ago)Lovely card, like the background and how you did the dragonfly. Have you picked a winner for the OWH Hop for the Bazzill paper?
R/
Leslie Bass
June 6, 2012 at 22:10 (3 years ago)Love to spatter! Looks great on this card. The Rubber Cafe dragonfly is do beautiful ! Like jewelry for your card!
Denny
June 7, 2012 at 00:36 (3 years ago)You did a fabulous job with the colors. I only wish you had some more close-ups. I am dying to get a better look at your dragon fly! Thank you for giving clear instructions of what you used and how you accomplished your design. TFS.
Gypsy Rose
June 7, 2012 at 03:19 (3 years ago)beautiful and restful card. tfs
scrapgirl1467
June 7, 2012 at 04:15 (3 years ago)Thanks for the complete tutorial on how you created this amazing card. I wouldn’t have thought about sponging on the ink to create the background color, and it looks fabulous! I am now following your blog and looking forward to more of what you create!
ginnye
June 7, 2012 at 06:58 (3 years ago)The background on your card is fabulous. Thanks for giving me a detailed tutorial. I am now a follower of your blog
Edra
June 7, 2012 at 08:08 (3 years ago)Thank your for sharing your ideas. Your card is beautiful.
Shelley
June 7, 2012 at 09:01 (3 years ago)Your card is great…thanks for the tutorial.
Bonnie Rabon
June 7, 2012 at 11:51 (3 years ago)Lovely card. Dragonflies are my favorite.
Lynn (toomanycrayons)
June 7, 2012 at 12:46 (3 years ago)Very pretty card – like a mini art piece
Ruza
June 7, 2012 at 17:33 (3 years ago)Gorgeous card!
kaneka410 (@kaneka410)
June 7, 2012 at 22:20 (3 years ago)Great card. I haven’t tried aquarelles but now want to try.
Kaneka
Bev W.
June 8, 2012 at 10:03 (3 years ago)So pretty!!! The colors are singing to me:) Thanks for the steps on how to create!
♥Bev
silvia haynes
June 8, 2012 at 10:49 (3 years ago)gorgeous card!!
noraparker
June 8, 2012 at 11:36 (3 years ago)Beautiful card. Inspiring!
Angela Person
June 8, 2012 at 12:46 (3 years ago)Beautiful card! I love the technique you used. Thanks for Sharing.
Bethany Becker
June 8, 2012 at 18:37 (3 years ago)Great card. I love the blues and the dragonfly!
Larissa Heskett =)
June 8, 2012 at 20:01 (3 years ago)I LOVE your Bright creation!! THANKS for sharing and for the chances to win!! Have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
S. Payan
June 9, 2012 at 08:07 (3 years ago)Your dragonfly is beautiful.
Charo Munoz
June 9, 2012 at 09:08 (3 years ago)I love your card!! Thanks.
Roberta S
June 9, 2012 at 14:29 (3 years ago)What a great card! I love the dragonfly with its brilliant colors and the unique way you created the background. I can’t wait to try out these techniques. Thank you so much for sharing!
Maya Oren-Dahan
June 9, 2012 at 18:29 (3 years ago)Beautiful! Love the vibrant colors!
Marilyn Nimmo
June 9, 2012 at 21:26 (3 years ago)Beautiful. Thanks for sharing the tutorial…great techniques!
Lynda
June 9, 2012 at 21:38 (3 years ago)Fantastic colors!!! Great project!!
Denise Baker
June 10, 2012 at 06:54 (3 years ago)Beautiful!!
Gina Howe
June 10, 2012 at 18:35 (3 years ago)The dragonfly is beautiful. Thanks for showing the uses for the sponge tools, too!
ruby s
June 11, 2012 at 23:23 (3 years ago)Your splatter technique looks great and not at all messy or uncontrolled. It makes a nice background. Good job.
Thanks
Pam H
June 18, 2012 at 07:18 (3 years ago)Just too cute! thanks for the chance to win!