Perfect Paper Crafting and Faber-Castell Blog Hop!

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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!

Here's how you can win:

1. You have until midnight EST on April 5th to complete the hop.
2. Just follow the links below.  Be sure to leave a comment on each post.  That way we'll know you were there.  Happy hopping!

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

Tiffany Johnson

Roxie Glaza

Rita Barakat

Wendy Ramlakhan

Jennifer Matott

Eva Uyeunten (ME!)
Colleen McGinty

Jenny Gropp

Mou Saha

Laura Lynn

Jill Foster 

Pam Sparks

Perfect Paper Crafting also has a special discount for you!  Use coupon code FC5% to get 5% off your entire order!

Thanks for stopping by!