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I have a challenge for you. A customer recently requested a class teaching various techniques using the Stampin' Pastels. I can think of only two ways to use them, popping pastels (Versamark & sponge daubers), and coloring in with the Blender Pens. Does anyone have other ideas? I would like to learn of a couple more techniques to offer in a class devoted to the pastels. Thanks in advance for your help.
Wow! that's a tough one. Those are the two ways I use my pastels a majority of the time. I also use them with a q-tip or cotton ball to shade the edges of my paper. It's not a great idea but it's the only one I got (at least this early in the morning :lol: )
Good luck and I'd love to hear other ideas (I had my pastels for about a year before I knew you could used them with blender pens--I was kicking myself because it's so easy and beautiful!)
i have used the pastels with a q-tip. gives a softer look. You can also use them to shade areas or edges of cards/pages. Just a few i can think of. HTH
At convention, they talk about rubbing them on a dark piece of card stock, then stamping your stamp with VersaMark. Stamp it on to the pastels you rubbed on the paper. It is supposed to lift off the pastels in the image of the stamp. I haven't tried it, but it was neat when they demonstrated it. I think they did it on black paper. Hope this helps.
you can scratch the top of 1-3 colors and sprinkle into a shallow pan of water. Swirl the pastel dust around in the water to make a design. Drop card stock into water. Pull out and let dry. You should have a beautiful background pattern. Stamp image over when dry.
You can use the sponge daubers to make a soft look (are those still in the catty?) Also, I use a regular sponge in brown chalk to "age" the edges of my paper..I'm not so good with the ink, and the chalk is more forgiving.
I've used the pastels to do tiles. You can use a tissue rubbed into the pastels to work into the tiles and you can use the provided applicators to apply them. I'll post two tonight that were done completely with StazOn and Pastels.
I have done the "Lifting" technique that nnadaway was speaking of. It is very pretty. Good to show since it is so different from the other techniques. Try black cardstock, and with a sponge or cotton ball, do some rows of banana, pretty in pink and maybe lavender lace. Light colors work best. Blend them into each other. Then Versamark a single image, like the butterfly or dragonfly. It will "Lift" the pastels off the black cardstock.
I have also done the "Lifting" technique, but it doesn't always have to be light pastel colors you use. I did a card using navy pastels on black CS, and then used petal prints to pull off the pastels. The finished product was beautiful. I also experimented with lighter paper, and although the pastels didn't pull off the paper like they do with dark paper, they made beautiful "watermark" impressions on the swirled pastel background.
Pastels are also awesome when used with classy brass embossing templates. Put the template over your cardstock and use a sponge dauber or q-tip to color in the image with chalk like a stencil (as opposed to embossing the images). It looks great.
You can also use the pastels to color in an image on shrinky dinks (I can't think of the technical name right now!) Stamp your image in staz on black, let dry a little. Use your pastels to color in the image (I still love the old stipple butterfly for this!), then heat and shrink it and the colors intensify! Don't forget to put a hole in it first if you want to string it on some ribbon or cord. I have tried every other kind of coloring that I own and only the pastels work well! Good luck!
When you used the pastels on the tiles did you seal the tile or bake it?
I seal them. I don't bake my tiles at all. Just too cheap to use the electricity? No, it's 90 degrees here lately and I don't want to turn the oven on for anything. I'd been doing tiles for a year before I even heard about baking them.
I purchase those teeny-tiny pom-poms for less than a $1 a bag at Michael's. Then I use my backward tweezer (it's in the new tool kit) and I pick up a pom-pom. Then I rub it into my Stampin' Pastels and then onto my image to color it. I find this technique to be so much more accurate than using a Q-tip and you can use the pom-poms over and over. In fact, I don't think they ever wear out!
Try using some of those plastic templates that all of us scrapbookers have laying around. Use a sponge dauber and pastels to shade in a shape from the template. The scallope edge of a template works great to shade with a blue, move it and shade again and repeat - you get a soft clouds background.
Use another edge to shade a hillside background.
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