Art Journaling with Pan Pastels (Stencil Tutorial)

Thanks so much for the incredible response to my guest spot at Sizzix... I really appreciate all of your comments and emails about that!  For today's post, I've used Pan Pastels to color this art journal page.  Kim is going to be stocking Pan Pastels over the weekend at Eclectic Paperie, and I will be teaching an online class using them early in February.

Today I'm linking to Art Journal Every Day, Frilly and Funkie, and the Wendy Vecchi yahoo group. Frilly & Funkie has a Follow Your Muse theme, and the Wendy challenge calls for at least one of Wendy's stamps and stencils. I used her large alpha background stamp all over the page, inking it randomly, then applied Pan Pastels for color.

I used the negative (frame) part of Wendy's heart stencil, and laid another stencil on top to give my heart texture. I forgot to take a picture at this stage, but here's one I took of an earlier attempt, just so you see what I mean about combining stencils:

I found that particular stencil pattern to be too large for the heart, so I saved that page for scrap and did another one using the small houndstooth pattern.  Then I cut a Sizzix Movers & Shapers heart from the scrap page, and rather than use it, I traced around the negative space of it and made a thin hollowed heart frame.  I placed it down on the bottom right and used black gelato to trace around it, and put the original piece between the left and right hearts.

Thanks so much for visiting today.  I hope you'll follow my blog and sign up for the Eclectic Paperie blog - you can subscribe by email to both to get alerts when there's new blog content.  

Class content and photos for my class will be up within the next few weeks, and I promise you, you will love what you can do with the Pan Pastels, no matter what your personal style may be!

Marjie 

Comments

[Godelieve]

Wow! Love the text background and your sponging! Gorgeous!

[Valerie-Jael]

Lovely colours and stamps, very vibrant pages! Valerie

[Julie Tucker-Wolek]

Wowwwwwwwww! You never cease to amaze me!!! This is GORGEOUS!! I loveeeeeeeeeeee the colors and the hearts!!!

[Mary Walker]

I've heard a lot of good things about pan pastels I have to try them some time. This looks fun and easy.

[Jessica Sporn]

Beautiful page and love all that layering! Loving all those berry colors with the hints of black. Yum.

[Janet]

Great Texture! I love that alphabet stamp background. Thanks for sharing!

[Claudine C]

Wowzers, this is an amazing page Marjie!! Love the colors and the hearts are beautiful. Thanks for the tutorial, have always wanted to use pan pastels but just haven't tried my hand at them yet.

[Julie G.]

I just got my first pan pastels for Christmas so I'm looking forward to trying them out. thanks for the great tutorial!

[Julie Case]

Beautiful page, Marjie! Thanks for the tut! I've had three pots of PP for a long time, thanks for the inspiration to break them open :)

[Corrine]

Love this multilayered page with the various stencils and lush colors.....got to dig out the pan pastels and get making......xox

[Silvia]

A great page, love the coloring and all the details.

[Willy]

Geat page with that small houndstooth pattern in the heart, Marjie!

[butterfly]

Can't believe I missed the Sizzix, but have just been over there and OMG!! I absolutely love your flip-album pages... amazing! Same goes for this - sensational colours and I love the double stencil effect - luscious piece. So looking forward to the PP tutorial (though I'm determined not to buy any yet)...
Alison xx

[Vivian Keh]

How great that you are teaching an online class - I'm very curious about Pan Pastels! You should teach another class on your distress techniques, too! It was great to see your work at Sizzix - LOVE THEM!

[Linda K]

what a gorgeous page!!!Love the depth you got from the stencilling and colors!Thanks for sharing at AJED!

[Anita Houston]

An online class!!! COOL! I'm so there teach! I need a PP lesson! Fabulous page...super color, but the double stencil is bril!!!!

[Alie Hoogenboezem-de Vries]

Great page Marjie...what a good use of the different colours...your template is amazing as well as your heart. Was the typewriting already on the paper? It looks so nice as a background.

Greetings, Alie :-)

[Wanda Hentges]

This is fabulous, Marjie!!! Love how you did the hearts!!!

[Alison/craftytrog]

Fantastic page Marjie, great use of the stencils! x

[Erika N]

Colors and texture really pop on this piece. Caught my eye right away.

[kathy/NorthCarolina]

I have 2 stencils...I won them as blog candy. I finally broke one in this week. I have to confess, while I love this kind of art, it's very far out of my comfort zone. Having said that, I love the way you used that black stamp/stencil to anchor the piece. It adds so much. And I like that some hearts are filled, while others are evacuated. Creates real visual interest. The colors are great...the purples and red oranges create so much energy. You never cease to amaze me.

[Redanne]

Your page is wonderful Marjie, love the colours, the double stencilling and of course the PPs, looking forward to your class already, I have some PPs but need to learn a lot more about them and what better way than with you! Hugs, Anne x

[Sandra]

Stunning page! I so love your talent for using colors like you do! This deep blueish purple is no exception! Hugs, Sandra

[Marjie Kemper]

Thanks so much, ladies! Alie - the typewriting is a Wendy Vecchi background stamp of lower case letters - I just stamped it repeatedly.

[Judy Shea]

Marjie.. the deepness in the colors is just beautiful.