ahhh… it feels good to back at the blog. I just getting over a yucky cold and just in time because my technique night was last night. We were playing with pastel chalks and between my cold and my half-cleaned craft room, I got a bit of a late start preparing for it. However, I’m happy to report that I’ve made huge progress on my craft room (you can now fit chairs at the table and the table is cleaned off for the first time since moving here last fall :))! Of course, in the process of prepping for the class last night, my craft table is a mess… so I get that straightened up and share it with you.
But in the meantime, I thought I’d share what I whipped up as samples for some different techniques. This was actually my first time in a long time that I had used my chalks and I discovered they are a lot more fun than I remembered. And the girls did some awesome work with them – I just need to remember to take pictures of what they create!
The techniques we focused on were popping pastels (the cupcake and the butterflies), coloring an embossed image (the blue scalloped flower), coloring ribbon (the blue ribbon), chalkboard technique (the red flower), and using chalks directly on the stamp to color a stamped image (some of the background flowers on the heartfelt card).
The flower started out as clear embossing powder over versamark on whisper white paper. After you have embossed your flower, you can take a sponge to your chalk to pick up some color and then rub the sponge over the embossed image to color it. I recommend using brighter colors though because my first attempt with a light blue barely showed up. This card was made using the brilliant blue chalk. And with chalks it is very easy to layer colors. One person, used orange as a base color and then used rose red to color the edges.
And yes, this is a white ribbon! Use the same sponge to apply color to your ribbon by rubbing along the white ribbon. You can use sealent afterwards to keep it from rubbing off on your hands but it doesn’t rub off much if you don’t.
This card used the chalkboard technique where you stamp with white craft ink on a dark paper and then pick up the chalk color using a q-tip or applicator. Once you have the color, you want to tap your stamped image to apply the chalk. Don’t rub or you will have a lovely smear of white and chalk in places you may not want. 🙂 Once you have applied your colors. I tapped off excess power and then use a paper towel to lightly wipe off the excess color. It turns out with a very lovely effect.
Well, I’ll be back later with hopefully some new goodies to show you (my occasions mini preorder is supposed to arrive today!) Have a happy wednesday!
7 responses to “Playing with Pastels”
Hi Jennifer, so glad you are feeling better. Love your chalk technique. I have not done that one in a while. may have to
try to break them out this weekend.
Hi Jennifer! Very nice work. I like this technique! Very soft result. Have a great weekend!
Rose
Hi jennifer! very nice work! I hope your having a nice wknd. so far. = )
These are great Jennifer. I’ve completely forgotten about my chalks! I think they are in a drawer somewhere. lol Thanks for the inspiration to pull them out and use them.
Hey Jennifer, so glad you are feeling better. I love using my chalks and usually use those more than I do markers. You did a great job on all these. Have a great afternoon.
ooh good job with the technique! my faves are the butterflies.
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