A quick pan pastels tutorial

It's a new challenge over at Love to Create and I thought I'd share a quick project with you using pan pastels ...

Happy Birthday Today

 

Using the bricks stencil, run through your die cutting machine and emboss. Leave the stencil in place and colour starting with the darkest colour, raw umber pan pastel and place a the bottom of each brick. Next add yellow ochre and finally pearlescent orange pan pastel. Blend them together with colourless blender.

 

Using perfect medium stamp the roses, leaves and buds on to the same colour card. Colour roses with pearlescent yellow (in centre) and pearlescent orange on outer edges blending out with the colourless blender. Highlight petals using a rubber which takes away excess pan pastel. Cut out all flowers.

Colour leaves with pearlescent green, bright yellow green and permanent green shade. Again blend with colourless blender and cut out. Use pearlescent orange pan pastel to colour buds and pearlescent green, bright yellow green and permanent green shade for the leaves/stem. Blend with colourless blender and cut out.

Using the same colour card, cut a die cut frame and a smaller inner panel. Stamp the sentiment on to the inner panel and colour the edges with pearlescent red pan pastel. Place the frame and sentiment panel centrally on to the brick background. Begin adding the stamped images around your frame, layering at different heights. Finish the flowers with gold pearl Liquid pearls adding some wooden hearts as embellishments, coloured with pearlescent red pan pastel.

Apologies for the poor photos but I lent my camera to my son for a media project and I think he has fiddled with the settings although he swears he hasn't .... uuummm, was taking great shoots before it's outing with him!

Hoping to give my car a long overdue wash and clean today, if the rain stays away, as unfortunately it is looking very sorry for itself. Hope your day is a little more exciting than mine,

Lou
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Products and links:

Pan Pastel pearlescent yellow	Yellow Ochre Pan Pastel	Raw Umber PanPastel	Pan Pastel pearlescent orange	Orange Pan Pastel
Pan Pastel pearlescent green	Perm Green Pan Pastel	Bright Yellow Green Pan Pastel	Perm Red Pan Pastel	Pan Pastel Colourless Blender
PanPastel - Sofft Tools Kit	Dutch Doobadoo A5 brick stencil	Premium Art Brands Roses stamp set

Challenges:
Allsorts - the colours of autumn
Crafty Friends - one for the girls
Suzy B's - use a diecut
Creative Fingers - anything goes
Daring Cardmakers - something stencilled