Mixed Media Cupcake {Faber Castell}

Are you ready to make a super-textured mixed media cupcake? Come on, get your supplies out! Let’s play!

Here's what I used:

6x6 inch wood box or canvas

Patterned Paper Scraps: Grey, Orchid, Pink, Purple, Teal, Brown.

Texture Paste (*Faber Castell Whipped Spackle, when it comes out!)

White Craft Paint

Faber Castell Gel Medium

Big Brush Art Pens:

White 101

Warm Grey III 272

Warm Grey IV 273

Walnut Brown 177

Crimson 134

Pink Madder Lake 129

Purple Violet 136

Light Cobalt Turquoise 154

 

Faber Castell PITT artist pen Black XS

Small flat paint brush

Water

Heat tool

1.      Cut it: Starting with your PP, layer four sheets together and cut out the bottom half of the cupcake. Make four horizontal cuts, making the colored layers of the cupcake holder. Cut a scalloped edge from the Turquoise paper for the top of the cupcake holder. Cut a thin strip of Brown paper, 6 inches long, this will be your table. For the cupcake, cut a semi-circle out of scrap paper. Cut a small circle for the cherry and punch out 9 small Orchid and Purple circles using a hole punch.

2.  Adhere it: Using the Gel Medium, adhere all of your layers (minus the 9 circles), beginning with the table strip. Let Dry.

 

  3.      Frost it: To make the frosting, mix a small amount of paint with the texture paste. (About a 1:3 ratio- it should be thick). For the background and sides use about a 2:3 ratio, this should be thinner so that the frosting pops out more than the rest. Using a wooden tongue depressor or popsicle stick, slowly spread the texture paste around the cupcake and all four sides of your canvas. Use small stokes, or your finger to make a rougher texture. (Long strokes will give you a smoother texture). Let dry.

4.      Color it: Starting with your darker Grey, scribble in one direction all over the background. Scribble in the opposite direction using the lighter Grey. Wet your paintbrush with water and blend your Greys to make a really beautiful stucco-type finish. Add layers of Grey to make it darker, letting it dry completely in between layers. Do this for the sides, as well.

 

(The right side is the “scribbled” side and the left is what it will look like once you blend it with your paintbrush and water).

 

5.      Seal it: Scoop out a small amount of Gel Medium into a dish and mix it with 3-4 drops of white paint. Smooth this over the top of the dry texture paste and the very thinly over the cupcake holder. This will give you an opaque look.  Let dry.

 

6.      Color it: Color your PP with the coordinating Big Brush Pens, smoothing the color around with your finger. Add a layer of just the Gel Medium all over. Add your small circles to the frosting for sprinkles. Let dry and add color with the markers. Using the darker Grey, loosely outline each color, smoothing with your finger as you go. Do the same with your White marker, making even smaller, looser outline. (If you find that your white is mixing too much with the Grey, just seal the Grey with Gel Medium, let dry and then add your white). Let Dry.

 

(Here you can see the difference between the colored areas and the non-colored areas, teal and bottom gray).

 

7. Outline it: Using the XS Black Artist Pen, outline as though you were sketching and soften the color with your fingers as you go. Add a final layer of Gel Medium to the entire piece and you are all finished!  

Go ahead; enjoy a cupcake (they’re calorie-free!)