Day 1: Taylored Expressions and Faber-Castell Blog Hop

Happy Thursday!

I hope you are enjoying the  Taylored Expressions and Faber-Castell Blog Hop thus far. As a team of designers we came together to share with you some AWESOME, crafty  projects. Together, we have left no crafting stone unturned, creating cards, home decor projects and much more. For your creative enjoyment, I designed a home decor project.

I am enjoying the subway art trend and really wanted to give it a try. I loved creating this 12x12 home decor canvas to showcase the wonderful products from both Taylored Expressions and Faber-Castell. I used Taylored Expressions "Welcome Home" stamp set and "Build A House" die set along with several mixed media mediums from Faber-Castell.  Using mixed media products was so much fun and easy to use. I applied gel medium to decoupage pages from a used book as the base for my project and then  used gelatos to add a pop of color to the base. I had fun stamping cute little houses over the canvas once it was dry. Lastly, I applied the chalkboard paint in random swipes across the canvas and wrote out my quote. Creating the "Smith Family Home" was a great way to use all those random pieces of scrap paper I just couldn't part with and create a wonderful home accent piece in the process. 

A few pictures of the process:

(using gel medium to decoupage book pages to the canvas)

(adding gelatos for a pop of color)

(stamping my cute little houses)

Thank you for stopping by; however, this is not the end. As part of the Blog Hop, Taylored Expressions and Faber-Castell, is awarding awesome prizes to TWO lucky winners. Detail are as follows:

Giveaway Details

Simply comment on any (or all!) of our Blog Hop posts from April 24-April 25. For each comment, you will be entered into a drawing to win one of two fabulous prizes: One lucky winner will receive a $75 Faber-Castell prize pack of Gesso, Glaze, Gel Medium, and 10 new Gelatos Double Scoops and one lucky winner will receive a Taylored Expressions stamp set and die of choice! Comments close Sunday, April 27 at 8pm PST. 

Ok, now let's hop to it...

Faber-Castell

Sankari Wegman

Mou Shaha

Cassie Track

Rita Barakat

Keia---------------> You Are Here

Taylored Expressions

Project Details:

Project Size: 12x12 Canvas

Paper: MME (Lime Twist), Echo Park (Paradise Beach), Bazzill (cream card stock), Crate Paper (The Pier), Basic Grey (Serendipity), Studio Calico (Take Note)

Taylored Expressions: : Welcome Home (stamp set), Build A House (die set), Cloud Duo (die set), Sunshiny Day (stamp set)

Faber-Castell: gel medium, glaze, chalkboard paint, Stamper's Big Brush Pens (yellow family), gelatos (yellow family)

Other: Michaels (12x12 canvas), thrift store (used book), 3M adhesive, Craftsmarts (chalkboard marker)

Thank you for stopping by,

Keia