Pastel Colored Stamped Images

 

Yesterday I decided to pull out my pastels.  This is a color medium I love to work with.  There are so many things you can do with them.  I love to use them for creating marbled paper for my projects.  See a few examples of that

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Today, I have used them with images stamped in Versamark embossing ink.

 

 

For this first card I wanted to create a rainbow starting from the top left moving down to the bottom.  I stamped 5 butterflies in Versamark ink onto white cardstock. Starting with red, I used my craft knife to shave color from the pastel onto my project, specifically over the stamped butterfly.  Since my next color was orange, I added just a touch of orange to the red butterfly before moving onto the second.  The second butterfly got mostly orange and a bit of yellow since the next color in the rainbow is yellow and so on... 

 

 

Once all of the color had been added, I used my finger to lightly pat the pastel into the Versamark butterflies.  Using a small towel, I swiped the color from each butterfly in opposite directions to create a trail of color.  I love how it came out!

 

 

I applied color to this second project in a slightly different way.  After stamping my butterflies in Versamark I decided to add color, still in rainbow order, from the inside out.  As you can see in the picture above I shaved red in the center, orange around that, yellow outside of that, and so on...

 

 

Again, I used my finger to press the pastel into the ink and  used the towel to swipe the color.  These butterflies have a completely different look. 

 

Thanks for visiting. 

 I hope you experiment and have fun! 

 If you do, let me know. I'd love to come by and see!

 

SSS: Lady/Girly

 

 

 

Cardstock: PTI White, Simply Chartreuse, Harvest Gold, Vellum
Stamps: PTI Butterfly Dreams, Over Under Easy Sentiments
Ink: Versamark Ink
Dies: SSS Stitched Rectangle Dies
Other: Pastels, Filigree White Embossing Powder