Pan Pastels

I thought I'd just show my starter set of pan pastels which I got earlier this week.  I decided on the extra dark (warm) set along with the single light grey (top right).  The sponges were freebies included with the starter kit.  They all stack up and screw into each other, so the bottom of one becomes the top of the other and there is one lid for the stack.  The singles come with a lid of their own!!!

I played around with some of them to create some backgrounds, some of which I used on the previous atc's post.  The tag and top two green atc's already had acrylic paint and sprays on them, the other three atc's and postcard are from white cardstock.  I have some foam make up pads on the way from a friend who kindly said she would pick some up for me, so when I get them I will be able to apply more cover as the free sponges are quite small and I also found them quite hard.