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Ink stamp with Versamark. Stamp on cardstock (white works well). Rub a cotton ball over your chalks (aka pastels) and then over your stamped image. That's it. If you have questions, post them!
When you rub the pastels-loaded cotton ball over the versamark you will get a "halo effect". It's part of the technique. Here's a poppin pastels example from the splitcoast gallery.
I don't have a clue as to what this technique is or how to do it, but I am hosting my first WS next weekend and would like to possibly demo it. Would someone please explain this to me
Very easy. Stamp in Versamark ink and rub or dust pastel chalks over it. The image appears to "pop" out when you apply the chalks. I recommend using those tiny pompoms found in craft stores and an alligator clip (a clamp-like thing). You can have one pompom for every color. I store mine in with the pastels.
Wow! I bet that works so much better than the make-up qtips I use and throw away. So how do you store them with the pastels? And do you get the clips in a hardware store? Dh is asleep or I'd ask him! :lol:
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Emilysuesue, I just put the pompoms in the pastel holder on top of each color. I have the older pastels and my pompoms stay in place just fine when I turn the case upside down and sideways. You can keep the clips (I'd get several) in the little compartment with the eraser. Occasionally, you'll need to replace the pompoms because they harden over time from picking up some of the Versamark ink each time.
Yes, you can get the alligator clips at a hardware store. Feel free to print out the pic I shared and take it with you to help the store employee if you can't find them yourself. I forgot where I found them, but I did find them! ;)
I've mostly done it or seen it on lighter colors. You can do the same thing with Pearl Ex instead of pastels, but the PE looks more dramatic on darker colors. To go even further, try stamping in gold metallic ink and then brushing Pearl Ex over it (use an embossing buddy first to avoid strays when doing it with PE.). If you do a Google search of poppin' pastels you'll see lots of sites with samples come up.
I love this site!!!! Everytime I log on I find more wonderful tips...this one is great!! I can't wait to get to the craft store to buy pom poms....and I'm sure I saw an alligator clamp somewhere around the house--and had no clue what it was for....LOL Thanks everyone for your great ideas!
Actually, I like make up applicators (not the q-tip kind, but the eye make up kind) for this technique. I feel I get better results than I've seen with those tiny pom poms, because you can pick up a lot of pastel with the broad side of a make up applicator and you can cover a lot of territory with it too!
And after they get too grungy I can toss them. Gotta love it!
I tried the makeup applicators and felt the pompoms applied the chalk easier. I felt like I was scraping the chalk on the cardstock with the makeup applicators I had, but with the pompoms it just seemed to come off easier. Mine were the really small pompoms. That might make a difference. Just my experience. YMMV. Maybe you have better makeup applicators than I did. I think I found mine at WalMart.
I've tried it all and my opinion is that the finger tip daubers that SU sells are really the best for this technique. You can use a lighter touch too and get just the image colored and not a halo around the image(blow off access powder). If you want a halo'd effect than apply more pressure or rub the dauber over the image.
we used vanilla craft ink on vanilla cardstock on our make and takes from convention for poppin pastels. this worked better for me than versamark. i use sponge daubers too.
apply the pastels while the ink is still wet so that the chalk will stick.
I was browsing through the Petal Prints gallery and quite a few cards were made with the technique "poppin pastels". I was wondering how to do this? Thanks, Audrey
Hi!
1. Stamp your image with white craft or VersaMark.
2. Use sponge daubers or Q-tips to apply pastels over the image you stamped. Be sure not to rub back and forth or it will smear your image. Just tap it up and down.
3. You can use multiple colors on the same stamped image.
Stamp you image with versamark, then take the pastels and apply the color you want over the versamark. Your image show through in whatever color pastel you applied. Hope this helps.
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I just learned how to do this- love it! As a matter of fact, I think it is so much better than using Pastels on their own! The colors are so much more intensed (hence, "Poppin' Pastels").
I tried this technique tonight and stamped for 4 hours I bet! You will love it!
Yes, it works better on light cardstock. And, the only stupid questions are the ones you don't ask. If you have a question, ask away, that's what this site is for!!! Anita
Thanks, Anita! I was telling a friend of mine at one of my stamp camps about this technique, and I said, I'm pretty sure it's for dark cardstock, so I picked some up and did it, and were like ... just sitting there, looking at it, scratching our heads and wondering what the big deal is!
In other words ... it didn't look too good. :P
Thanks for the help! Now I'm going to have to try this on white US cardstock!
I started ordering the daubers because I liked the look you get with them. When I use one with a color, I label it, and eventually hope to have 48 daubers with colors on them.
Pearl Ex is nice on dark cardstock.....
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Thanks for the help on this technique. I tried it out and love it. After seeing the peciture of the card on dark card stock, I am going to try that next.
Poppin pastels technique; how? *merged*
