Happy Valentine’s Day!
I am lucky enough to be guesting on the Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft blog twice this week! See my post on Monday using Gelatos if you missed it.
For today, I thought I would use something different. I’ve never used the Pastel pencils before, so I really enjoyed playing with them on this card. They are just simply vibrant. Even when I applied a little water to smooth it out on my watercolor paper, the color did not fade. They go on kind of like chalk.
The butterfly panel is all one layer. I achieved the dimension by shadowing with the Art Grip Aquarelle pencils, which are Faber Castell’s watercolor pencils. Although you can’t see the outside of the circle very well in the photo, I used a silver watercolor pencil. It has a shimmery look to it.
Please head over to the Faber Castell Design Memory Craft blog for more details. I also included the video below. Enjoy and have a great weekend!
Supplies:
To purchase at Ellen Hutson, click the EH link. To purchase at Simon Says Stamp, click the SSS link.
 PITT Pastel Pencils, Neutrals EH|SSS |
 PITT Pastel Pencils, Blue/Green EH|SSS |
 PITT Pastel Pencils, Red/Yellow EH|SSS |
 Artist’s Butterfly EH|SSS |
 Neutral Aquarelles EH|SSS |
 Blue Aquarelles EH|SSS |
 Yellow Aquarelles EH|SSS |
 Stampin’ Up! Field Flowers |
 Aqua Painter |
 SSS Khaki Ink |
 Watercolor Paper |
 Hero Arts Black Cardstock |
 Spellbinders Circles |
 Black Beetle Twine EH|SSS |
 Glue Pen |
 Mini Glue Dots |
 White Gel Pen EH|SSS |
Sandra ltb
Darlene – thank you, I really appreciate you taking the time to walk us through this – beautiful!
Sandra ltb
Mary
Wow! What an amazing card! Love your videos, Darlene! As I was watching, I was thinking, how in the world you came up with the idea for this design! Love the Spellbinders trick!!
Richell
You are AMAZING!! Every time I try to use colored pencils it looks like my 6 year old has been making a card. How you do this just blows me away!!! Love this! I love the spellbinder trick also. I’ve got all kinds of stacked frames I could try that with. Thanks so much for showing!!!!
Carrie Davenport
you are amazing! I just can’t get enough of your cards/videos 🙂 3 this week has been awesome, thank you for taking the time to do that.. I wish we could get a new card everyday 😉 I love how you colored the butterfly.. you are so darn creative!!! I am so bad at shading, but watching your videos and trying to do it with you has helped me tremendously. thank you thank you!!! have a great Valentines Day!!
Maria A. Rodriguez
Oh Darlene, love this card, it’s right up my alley, water coloring!!! The shading is gorgeous, beautiful color palate, Spring like theme, just what the Doctor ordered, to brighten this gray, cold day!! What a surprise to find a card on a Friday!!! Yeah!! a real sweet treat for Valentine’s Day!!!!!
Happy Valentine’s Day!!!!!
Laura Norris
You are very talented Darlene!! This card has so much dimension and life to it. Thanks for sharing how you created it! Happy Valentine’s Day!
Poornima
A very cute one !! Thanks Darlene.
Carol
Thanks so much for this color technique. I just broke into my Inktense pencils, so this video was very timely! Smiles I reviewed a previous video you have on them…lovely also!
Kelly
Wow! I just love the uniqueness of this. Your cards are lovely and I your videos are a joy to watch. I was already excited since it’s Friday, of a long weekend (in Ontario, Canada) and when I saw the email come in with a new video it made today that much better!!!
Thank you for taking time to do this and show us how 🙂
Diana W.
Darlene – how do you do it? Loved this tutorial. Such lovely colors and a perfect message to go with that sweet butterfly. Thank you. Thank you!
Linda J.
Really a cool card. I am going to give it a try. You do such wonderful work Darlene. Thank you for your posts, I look forward to them. Thank you.
Danielle B
Fabulous once again Darlene!! If your pastels are chalky will they rub off at all from the card or do you need to spray it with a sealant? I also wonder if this could be done with chalk pastels that come in a tray – the little squares? I have a big set and never use them as I don’t know what to do with them. Do you have any suggestions? I didn’t see them in the video of your amazing craft room so not sure if you’ve used them in any past videos. I’m wanting to stop “collecting” new supplies and find ways to use what I have. As always I just love your videos and it’s such a treat to find these in my inbox so thank you so much for sharing them.
Darlene DeVries
Thank you Danielle! I didn’t spray the card because my pastel coverage wasn’t very thick. I’m sure if you rubbed it with a lot of pressure it might smear, but I figured no one was really going to do that. As far as the chalks that come in a tray, they are more for coloring than drawing. They are more subtle in color than I like, so I don’t use mine much. I don’t think I have any videos on them, but I will tell you that I have set in my “to use” box. 🙂
Robin in WA
Love your card. Really like the placement of the butterfly to the circles. Very clever way to do the circles! When you are watercoloring, it looks so easy that I think even I can do it! Thanks for showing us how you do stuff.
Danielle B
Ohhhh I hope that means a future video!!! Thanks so much for the reply, what a thrill to get another one. Just teasing about the video though. It would be fabulous but I get it with being a mom too and life and all that, it could percolate in that creative genius of yours for a long time in-and amongst many other demands. So, I’ll absolutely look forward to it but no pressure ok? Take care!