Beth's Paper Cuts: Color and Contour

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Monday, May 17, 2021

Painting with Soft Pastels

Hi everyone! As you can see I am still using my Soft Pastels. I am trying out different techniques to see what works. Today I used my Water Painters to paint with the pastels. This worked really well and makes the colors very vibrant when used on Basic Black Cardstock.

I made a little swatch card to see what each of the colors would look like on the black background.

At the top of the card I swatched the pastels directly on the cardstock. Underneath I painted the color on with water. Finally, the last row show the pastels when applied with a q-tip. As you can see, the Purple shows up the least.

I used the technique with the Color and Contour stamp set. For this first card I used the Daffodil Delight and Granny Apple Green pastels. I first stamped with Versamark on Black Cardstock, then used White Embossing powder. The card base is Bumblebee. I added some Designer Series Paper from the Pansy petals Designer Series Paper. I LOVE the Bumblebee Gingham Ribbon, so I had to use that!

The Color and Contour Dies are Amazing and I think I am going to be using these A LOT! Here they frame the main image and are used for the sentiment.

The second card uses the Color and Contour bundle as well. This time I used Coastal Cabana and Misty Moonlight cardstock.

I painted the embossed flower images with the Coastal Cabana, Daffodil Delight and Navy Soft Pastels.

I needed some birthday cards so I went outside of the set for the sentiments. These sentiments are from the In Bloom stamp set. They are embossed in Black.

I hope you'll give this technique a try. And be sure to check out the Color and Contour bundle!

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Product List

Color & Contour Bundle (English)

[158356]

$50.25

Soft Pastels Assortment

[154585]

$9.00

Water Painters

[151298]

$12.00

Basics Embossing Powders

[155554]

$18.00

Heat Tool (Us And Canada)

[129053]

$30.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$9.50

Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[121045]

$8.75

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[159276]

$9.75

Bumblebee 8-1/2X11 Cardstock

[153077]

$8.75

Coastal Cabana 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[131297]

$8.75

Misty Moonlight 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[153081]

$8.75

1/4" Bumblebee Gingham Trim

[153658]

$7.00

Whisper White 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon

[151326]

$7.50

Saturday, May 15, 2021

Old School Poppin' Pastels technique with the new Soft Pastels from Stampin' Up!

Do you remember the Poppin' Pastels technique? Is so, you've been stamping for quite a while. If not, you are in for some new fun!

In the latest Annual Catalog, Stampin' Up! added Soft Pastels to the line up of coloring mediums. I love when new things are added and this was a throw back to when I first started stamping. In the past, the pastels were in a different form, small squares in a pallet of all the colors. This time the pastels are in stick form,but we can still do similar things with them. I knew I needed to try the Poppin' Pastels technique, and in particular, with trees!

Do you remember the Lovely as a Tree stamp set? I did a card with Poppin' Pastels and Lovely as a Tree at one of my very first Stamping events! This card reminds me of the card from that event.

The Poppin' Pastels technique has you add an image in Versamark, which is a clear but sticky pad that we normally use for Embossing Powder. With the pastels, when you add the chalk powder to the image stamped in Versamark, the powder sticks to the Versamark and the image will appear. The video below shows how to do this step by step.

I added the pastels to the trees for a nice fall leave look. I also added some gold embossing for some glitz.

The background Designer Series Paper is from the In Good Taste paper. I used Fine Art Ribbon with it's flecks of gold to add even more fancy to my card.