soft pastel assortment samples and ways to use them
Stampin’ Up! has reintroduced Pastels into their coloring line-up! We have had pastels before – these however are reinvented – in a hard pressed stick form they are more compressed than the former squares of soft, crumbly pastels and stay together better.
If you have ever played with pastels before you know how much fun they can be – albeit a little messy – because of the hard packed form they are now in they are slightly less messy but the color still gets on your fingers!
The smaller sampler contains 8 sticks of chalk pastels in: Daffodil Delight, Mango Melody, Poppy Parade, Gorgeous Grape, Mossy Meadow, Coastal Cabana, Granny Apple Green and Night of Navy
Ways to use the pastels: Rubbing direct to paper – this sample I used the Night of Navy, Granny Apple Green and Coastal Cabana direct to the paper in a striped pattern.
This next sample I used the small circle image from the new Watercolor Shapes Stamp Set (#156968) in Versamark Ink (#102283) and rubbed the pastels in (you can experiment with the application device – depending on what you apply the color with will give you different looks and depths of color. I made a polka dotted background using this technique!
Using a sponge dauber and a mask made from the Basic Borders die set (#155558) I created the sentiment focal point background.
I wrote a single line of color down the center of each star fish arm and them blended the color with the small water painter.
adding color direct to paper I combined that technique with the Blender pen to create a soft sun set sky background for this card.
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Try the new Soft Pastel Assortment it is a ton of fun with endless possibilities! These are just a few examples of ways to use these fantastic new coloring tools. I hope this inspired you to try something new and go out and create your own art – one stamp at a time!
Happy Stampin’
Natalie
