' ' ' 'Crafty Endeavours: Waxing lyrical

Saturday 20 February 2016

Waxing lyrical

Paper Artsy is running a Wax theme and I was inspired by Darcy's use of supplies (see her post here). I don't have wax pellets, or a melting pot, or even Portfolio pastels, so I loved her approach of taking the kids' crayons and cheese left overs!


Here's what I used for wax:

I didn't even use a brush on account that I forgot to buy a cheap one at the weekend, so the application of the wax relied on my heat gun and moving the wax by tipping the cardboard base this way and that.

I used 2 pieces of foiled cardstock, a heart and an hexagon that were lying around and added stamped tissue paper (Paper Artsy Hot Pick 1008).







Since the lighting isn't great I took these snippets in the sun  for a truer colour rendition.

The highlight of this project is my experiment with mica powders as after brushing it over wax it turned beautifully liquid with the melted wax without sinking.









Not a great result but it had to be tried!
Thanks for coming by,

Also entering the We Love to Create and Tando Creative challenges

9 comments:

  1. Oh I love the effect you have managed to achieve, great colours also, such an effective way to use what you had on hand!!. I really like the idea of using mica powders on this way, must give that a try...

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  2. This looks like real fun Christine and with great effects.

    Hope your weekend is a good one.

    B x

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  3. Terrific effects and great ideas to get them

    Love Chrissiexx

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  4. Super essais en tout cas!!!! Et moi vu d'ici en tout cas, le résultat paraît très beau... Bravo, moi je n'ai pas eu le temps d'essayer... Je note le lien sur le projet de Darcy, je lirai tout ça dès que possible ! Le thème me plaisait beaucoup mais je n'ai vraiment pas eu le temps de m'y atteler... Bises, bonne semaine !

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  5. Looks a great result to me Christine and as you say we have to try these things.

    Warm crafty hugs from Shirl x x x
    ShirlsCards.

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  6. lovely piece - thank you for sharing with us at Tando Creative.

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  7. Kudos to you for diving in! I really wanted to find time to play with wax for the Paper Artsy challenge, but it just didn't work out. I think this looks great and you should give it another go or two. Such a neat concept and you'll get more comfortable each time. Hugs, Autumn

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