This card uses Soft Pastels and Silhouettes along with Stampin’ Up’s Heron Habitat Bundle to create a moonlit card.

The theme of this month’s Stampin’ Dreams blog hop is Throwback Thursday, so I looked through my blog posts from a year ago for inspiration.

I have used this project from August 2021 as my inspiration.

My Soft Pastels and Silhouettes Project

A card using soft pastels and silhouettes and the Heron Habitat bundle from Stampin' Up!

I used the dies from the Heron Habitat Bundle to create the silhouette images of the heron, grasses and bulrushes. The wavy piece at the bottom of the card was also created with a die from the bundle.

The background to the card was created by drawing around the inside of a circle die and then adding colour with Soft Pastels and blending the colour out with my finger. If you don’t like getting messy hands you can use sponge daubers or blending brushes instead. This blended mat was backed with Basic Black card.

The sentiment was stamped onto some Basic White card, backed with Basic Black card.

Embossed details on the grasses on this moonlit card using the soft pastels and the Heron Habitat bundle from Stampin' Up!

The card was finished with some Black & White Gingham ribbon and some Basic Rhinestones.

The card front was then attached to a Thick Basic White card base.

Let’s Hop

I hope you have enjoyed my project. Do leave a comment if you can, because it certainly makes my day. Then it is time to hop around all the other projects

How Can I Help?

I don’t use my Soft Pastels nearly enough, so I hope I have encouraged you to use yours, or if you haven’t treated yourself to them, yet, that you’ll pop them in your basket.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch if I can help with your purchases, or if you have a crafty question.

Meanwhile stay safe and stay well

Helen xx

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Product List
Heron Habitat Bundle (English)
£45.00
Soft Pastels Assortment
£8.50
Basic White A4 Thick Cardstock
£8.25
Basic Black A4 Card Stock
£8.75
Basic White A4 Cardstock
£9.75
Black & White 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Gingham Ribbon
£6.75
Rhinestone Basic Jewels
£5.75
Layering Circles Dies
£33.00