Uplifting pastels

Creative ideas with pastels bearing the Blue Angel ecolabel

Pastel colours boost our mood and add fun and variety to our day-to-day lives. Highlighters in pastel shades are an awesome addition to the classic highlighter colours. Not only can highlighters be used to highlight and mark whatever you fancy, they’re also ideal for drawing, illustrating and lettering. If you use a marker from the edding EcoLine range you’re also doing something good for the environment. The edding 24 highlighter is made almost exclusively from sustainable raw materials and has been awarded the Blue Angel ecolabel.

Category: School and desk
Products: Fineliners
Highlighters
Materials: Paper, carton and cardboard
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

In our example, we’ve used the edding 24 EcoLine highlighter in classic colours such as neon yellow or neon orange. They’re ideal for highlighting the key points of a brainstorming session, for example.

Step 2

The broad chisel tip allows you to produce bright, expressive lettering. Even small motifs can be coloured quickly and easily – in this case, using pastel colours.

Step 3

Large paper bags for keeping things tidy are both practical and sustainable. Highlighters in pastel shades allow you to design the bags in whatever way you choose. Our example shows all manner of different motifs for you to copy.

Step 4

A plain document wallet can be transformed into an eyecatcher in next to no time using sketchnotes. The mini motifs can be sketched using a pencil or the edding 1800 profipen and filled in using highlighters. Once again, pastel highlighters ensure a fresh look.