Mee too pretty please...........:love:
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Mee too pretty please...........:love:
PM's sent girls :)
Me too please
Me too please, pretty please with a cherry on top :lol:
I was trying to resist, but can't any longer, so me too please??????
Thank you.
OK I have done a bit of a tester. I went out and bought 4 pastel pencils and some Sansodor.
Firstly I tried the pastels with the sansodor using stumps - result brilliant!! Much easier to blend as has been said.
Secondly I tried the Prismas with the sansodor - much better than the Gamsol - tried both also with cotton buds - useless as they absorb too much spirit.:nono:
Thirdly I tried the above on different cardstock and found the best by far is the Paper Mill card - the one I have is slightly hammered but it blends beautifully with the pastels and the Prismas with Sansodor. Gamsol doesn't blend as easily. I tried it also on some smooth white heavier cardstock and that was fine. Thin cardstock shows the spirit marks too much.
Conclusion - Sansodor is brill, the right cardstock makes all the difference and I am definitely building my collection of pastel pencils up!!! Prismas are still fine and I will continue to use them. Just got to find some Derwent stumps now!!!
Kim I agree totally with you, I think the pastel pencils look better than the prismas when blended and they blend easier too..... but I also need to find the derwent paper stumps...
It was you who first suggested it Linda which is why I went and got 4 to try and now I am hooked!! Wish I had found out before I bought my Prismas!!! If I find the Derwent stumps Linda I will let you know.
I think if I had discovered the pastels first before I ordered the prismas I would have stuck with them, but the sansador and blending stumps turned up before the prismas and I had a few pastel pencils in the draw and just had to use the sansador on something, that was when I discovered how good they were, the prismas turned up a few days later....
and I have a grand child on the way too..... but not until May!!
I had a play with some pastel pencils today in hobbycraft and must say I can't wait till payday! that is unless someone knows where i can get some good quality ones from somewhere that takes paypal?
Do the pastel pencils need "fixed" once blended?
I have never had to "fix" them as the sansador blending spirit seems to do that for you, they are quite fixed once you have finished blending them.
I use the Derwent Pastels, I do have a tin of 24 Daler Rowney that I bought for a different reason ages ago and never used them, but a local shop was closing down and I managed to get extra Derwent ones for 60p each which worked out slightly less than buying a tin of them. Now I have 46 of them. But both kinds are really good, I think I like the Derwent ones slightly better but both blend well...
I picked up 4 in Hobbycraft for £1.40 each made by Conte and they are lovely. I will get some more maybe a tin of Derwent ones. I am off on a search tomorrow for stumps!!
Has anyone got any images that they can show me which have used the pastel pencils, sounds like I need them!