Pan Pastels - Oh My

Hello everyone, thanks for stopping by on this weekend. 

Last month I won some pan pastels from a drawing on the wonderful Marjie Kemper's blog and I was so excited. I haven't been able to really sit down and use them until the other day. I was thrilled to pieces to have won them because I have wanted to try pan pastels for a very long time. They are a little pricey so I put it off. 

I decided that I wanted to work in my Dyan Reaveley art journal and do a two page spread. Since I have never used them before I decided that I better go online and research them a bit prior to using them.

The first thing I did was cover some of my journal pages with Tim Holtz tissue paper and tissue tape. 

Then I wanted something to give my page some dimension so I used Liquitex modeling paste and a stencil.

I started with some make-up sponges and covered my page with a few of the pan pastels colors. These go on so smooth and the color is amazing

I then added some red color to the modeling paste stencil area and also added some stenciling here and there by using versamark ink and dabbing on more of the same colors

Lastly I added some black stenciling and some Dina Wakley and Donna Downey journaling words and some tissue tape

I also added a bit of white paint and went around the entire edge with red pan pastel

I'm not sure if this page is quite done yet but this is where I stopped for now. I really love the way it looks but I almost feel like it needs something more. Maybe something will come to me eventually, sometimes these pages just need to "sit" for awhile and I revisit them later

No Worries, Just Play......

I Had some friends over today and we went crazy with the gelli plates. There was paint and paper flying all around the room and "oh," so fun!!
None of us were worried about what we created, we just let it flow and it was really nice not having to "think" about things for awhile. It's always nice getting together with friends too.

Check out all the yummy goodness I made:

It's like playing a game of eye spy. 

I decided that today I wanted to use some patterned paper. I have so much paper in my stash and I thought it would be cool to play with paper that already had something on it. 

One of my friends was so sweet and brought me a belated birthday gift and she got me some Dina Wakley stencils and a Donna Downy template. I just had to break out my Dina Wakley stencil and use it on this page. When I first made this background I didn't really like it but my friends insisted that it was wonderful. After I looked at it for awhile I decided that I wanted to use it for a journal page. I cut up my orange background page in a few circles and glued them on the right side and added a dot of green and white paint to them. Outlined them in black to make them pop. I added the saying that I did because that is exactly what we did today, no worry, just played.  I love how this page came out and I'm so glad my friends loved this background because I really love it too.