Using oil pastels to colour on parchment is an alternative to colouring with blendable pencils. The colour is spread with a blending agent such as Zest-It, small amounts of white spirit or even essential oils. Usually this is done on the reverse of the parchment. The aim is to achieve colour without streaks.
Designed by Judith Maslen
You will need
Your basic tool kit plus:
Pergamano Semi-circle perforating tool and mat Bold Diagonal Grid Bold perforating tool Pink and blue wax crayons Blending medium Cotton buds Blue, pink and white card 4 small white brads
Shallow perforate
• Attach the parchment over the pattern and trace the whole design with white pencil.
• Use the Semi-circle tool around the inner and outer frames.
Emboss
• Turn the parchment to work on the reverse and with a Small embossing tool, emboss the straight lines which make up the inner and outer frames, plus the decorative lines within the perforations.
CHERRY BLOSSOMS
• Still working on the reverse, emboss the blossoms with large and medium tools. The outlines are NOT embossed (step 1).
• On the reverse, using the pastel directly onto the parchment, add small dabs of colour (step 2).
• Moisten a cotton bud with the medium and spread out the colour (step 3).
• Still working on the reverse, add more colour (step 4).
• Smooth out the colour as before (step 5).
• Showing the front of the parchment.
• Turn the parchment to work on the reverse and emboss to give shape to the blossoms.
• Turn to the front and erase the pencil outline (step 6).
• Embossing shown from the front.
• Turn the parchment to work on the reverse and with a tissue, add a small amount of the blending medium in each corner where you want the blue pastel. Usi
