I recently used Royal Artist Pastels to make fun background patterns for greeting cards. Below are just a few of the patterns I mad e. I'm Betsy Skagen of PaperCalliope and I alread y gave the birthday card above to someone special. Tutorial to make the pastel & embossing ink greeting card Step One: Use a palette knife to lightly scrape across the surface of a dark-colored pastel and cover parts of a 3 3/4" x 5" piece of white cardstock with chalk dust. Repeat with a second dark color. Step Two: Use your finger to work the chalk dust into the card. Be careful not to leave any white areas. Step Three: Position your stencil over the card. I used a length of paper lace. Press an embossing pad over the stencil, making sure you get fairly heavy coverage. I got carried away making my card and forgot to take a picture of this stage, but here's a picture of another card, where I used the same process. Step Four: While the...
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