Dina Wakley stamps & Pan Pastels

I've had a little bit of a play with my new Dina Wakley stamps and Pan Pastels. My only criticism....I need more of them!!! I'm kind of in love with my Pan Pastels too, they are very easy to use so I thought I would do a little step by step, talk you through it kind of thing so you can see how I built up the layers.

I took a bunch of tags, tore up some book pages and used Claudine Hellmuth's Matt Medium to stick the pages to the tags.

Once the book pages were pasted to the tag, I brushed a small amount of the matt medium randomly over the tag, making sure to leave a few gaps as this would give some interest to my background.

Using a sponge, I started to lay down some Pan Pastels and you will see that it is slightly darker over the matt medium areas.

With a piece of Cut'n'dry foam, I sponged some Versamark ink through a stencil.

Followed by more Pan Pastels. At this point, I have only used one colour of Pan Pastels but I have achieved lots of different shades of this colour.

I then repeated the Versamark and Pan Pastels through a different stencil.

Next I stamped Dina's "Earnest" text stamp with Versmark

 I used a slightly darker colour of Pan Pastel to dust over the wet ink.

 Last but not , I used Ranger's Black Archival ink to stamp Lonely Girl.


Sample No 2

Matt medium first, followed by first colour of Pan Pastels.

I used a smaller tool to apply streaks of my second colour.

I then stamped Dina's "Script Heart" with Versamark and used my small tool to add layers of colour to the solid heart.

The last images, Grungy Silhouette and Boys Star were stamped over the Pan Pastels with Rangers Archival.

Here are the step by step pictures of the last sample, I'm guessing you're getting the feel of this by now.

So there we have it, three samples and photo overload but hopefully you'll be able to understand my excitement.

I'm going to be absent for a few days, I'm off to PaperArtsy HQ to spend a few days with Leandra working on Artsycrafts stuff.

Hope you mangage to find some time to get creative, Lin

EDIT: Silly, silly me.....forgot to say that Dina's stamps can be found on my website www.lbcrafts.com in the misc. section