Using Pan Pastels on Papermilldirect Cardstock.

Posted on 27th January 2015 by Barbara Daines
Filed under All Papercraft Tutorials, Design Team

Hi everyone, Barbara here with a little comparison for using Pan Pastels on Papermilldirect hammered, linen and smooth cardstock - you can find all this cardstock in their Essentials Range.

If you've never used Pan Pastels before, they are small blocks of amazing, intensely coloured chalk. Quick to use and give fabulous coverage on large pieces of card, or small intricate images....they can even be used as paints, when mixed with water.

I have chosen to use them on white hammered, white linen and white smooth cardstock, (and a scrap of 'buff', ) to show the effect on each.

These two colours are my favourites....Dairylide Yellow and Permanent Red, I use them quite a lot!

Using the pastels on hammered card, (below) gives a lovely mottled effect....you can add colour to make it more dense, or take colour away with an ordinary eraser

Used on linen card, it gives the appearance of canvas.

Lastly I tried the white,super-smooth and buff coloured card....the right-hand pic is the white super-smooth, the left-hand has been done on 'Buff' cardstock, so obviously is a little darker, but the pastels still cover beautifully.

This is a finished card, using the pastels on smooth white.....see how the colours have blended beautifully....the same two colours as my trial above. I have also used a cutting file from Silhouette Studio, for the trees and deer, cut in Papermilldirect black card (cuts beautifully in the Silhouette Portrait)

Well I hope this post has tempted you to try some Pan Pastels, my students used them recently in one of my workshops and loved them.....no doubt the sales have rocketed since then

Bye for now, Barbara.

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