I am very excited to show you the Pan Pastels!! The Pan Pastels are highly pigmented pastels that come in a pan, instead of a stick and can be blended together, similar to paints. The Pastels are available in 80 colours that is comprised of 17 core colours plus a tint, shade and extra dark shade of each colour, plus grey’s, white and black. As well, you can get the Sofft tools to apply the pastels. These tools come in Knives w/ various Sofft covers such as Round, Flat, Oval and Point; Shaper and Covers with a flat end; Applicators with replaceable heads; and Art sponges. My favorite Sofft Tools are the Knife with the Round cover and the Big Oval Sponge!
I started by blending the colours together. You can see how beautiful the colours look when they overlap one another!! I stamped over the pastels using a Hero Arts stamp and Archival Ink from Ranger.
Now you may know some Pastel techniques for stamping, but because these pastels are so pigmented, none of those previous techniques work. However, through my testing I found a variation on a technique. I stamped my image from Donna Downey using VersaMark ink and then applied the Pastels over it. Where the VersaMark was applied, the pastels showed up darker than the rest of the paper!!
I tested it with all the colours I had. How easy it is to make tags to add to gifts!!
Here I applied the Yellow pastel to the base of my card. Then I took a Crafter’s Workshop Template and sprayed Glimmer Mist over the Pastel! The two mediums mixed perfectly with each other!
Now I wanted to play with the blending some more. I keep randomly adding colour and blending the pastels together! They made beautiful backgrounds and reminded me of the look of Distress Inks!
I sprayed all my Pastel Backgrounds using Krylon Workable Fixatif. The Pastels do stay on your work, but since I was making cards and projects people would be touching, I decided to use the spray.
Then I decided to experiment in my Inspiration Journal. The first picture of the post was the first page I made. After blending the background I used Tim Holtz stamps and Archival ink. Then I cut the Butterfly out of Grungepaper and used the Pastels directly on it, and you can see what a beautiful, rich colour I got!!
Here is a little page I did! I used Crafter’s Workshop Templates to make the texture on the background. I am planning on showing you how to do this on another episode! Then I stamped using stamps from Stamping Bella.
Here is another page I made. I was copying the colours from the page beside it that I had done originally with watercolours. The splots are glimmer mist and the stamps are from Stamping Bella.
And one final page I made. I used the Pastels on the Doily as well as the background. The grid pattern on the side and top was the pastels over Drywall tape. I applied the Pastels over the Tim Holtz Tissue Tape, then I took off a piece of tape to reveal the area it was in. I stamped a bit up the side then added in the K & Company Butterflies. The big butterfly is from Prima. And the little letters are Jenni Bowlin.
I hope I have inspired you to try out Pan Pastels!! This is only a sampling of how you can use these products in Paper Crafting! If you have used Pan Pastels please leave me a link to check out your projects! I have a couple more technique episodes planned using the Pastels, so keep watching!!
Here are some links to where you can find the Pan Pastels (I do not have affiliate programs with either of these companies):
Canadians can buy them online at Curry’s Art Supplies! They are currently on sale and you get Free Shipping with a $75 purchase!!
For my American Friends you can buy Pan Pastels at DickBlick.com!!
And of course, be sure to visit the Pan Pastel website to find out more about this fabulous product!!
Scrap Time – Ep. 536 – Pan Pastels from Mark Giles on Vimeo.
On the next episode I am showing you the Copic 72 piece wallet and swatch book!
Thanks for watching!
