Magic Mushrooms - PaperArtsy - Topic 3 - Wax

Encaustic art and wax techniques are completely out of my comfort zone. I read and re read the wax challenge post to get a real understanding what it was all about and I surprised myself thinking 'I think I can do that'! Not half as good but will give it ago. 

I really wanted to melt wax crayons but I didn't have any. But I do have beeswax pellets and a melt pot. I really don’t like using my melt pot I am too accident prone and would more than likely burn myself. So I settled for my heat gun. 

Firstly I found a grey board tag from my stash, it already had some colour on it. 

I sprinkled bees wax all over the tag and melted it with a heat gun, some did fly away but not many as I was using a large brush to 'tame' the wax to where I wanted it. 

Then layed a circles die cut vertically along the left edge of tag.  

Re melted wax and applied tissue with text and dragonflies stamped using fresco paint. 

Melted wax on top of the tissue. 

Stamped blobby flowers on tissue and coloured, cut them out and stuck them to the tag with wax. 

Stamped and embossed mushrooms and caterpillar on white card. Coloured with Lyra wax crayons and clear sparkle pen. 

Sprinkled some wax at the bottom of the tag and placed Jade beads on the puddles of wax, they actually stayed where I put them! I didn't need any glue. 

Remelted the wax and stuck the mushrooms and caterpillar to the tag. 

Scribbled a sun with Lyra crayons. 

I got the inspiration for this wax technique from Lin Brown 

For the craft stamper challenge you can just about see the text on the background. 

 Materials used; 

PaperArtsy-Fresco paint, JOFY-37,HP1006 

Lyra Wax Aquacolor 

Cosmic Shimmer beeswax 

Crafters Companion clear sparkle pen 

Distress Ink 

Embossing powder  

Challenges entered; 

PaperArtsy 

Craft Stamper magazine 

Two Faced - IndigoBlu Challenge - Anything Goes

Sunflower clock 

Prepared MDF using Slap It On, once dry applied another layer of Slap It On and stuck the sunflower paper onto the clock face. 

Trimmed paper. 

Applied a wash of gold paint. 

With the clock number stencil I placed it on the clock face and applied glitter paste. Carefully Lifting the stencil and leaving it to dry. 

I then applied glossy accents to the sunflowers. 

When dry I assembled the clock fingers. 

The clock is a late Christmas present for my sister so I kept it simply and clean the way she will like it. 

Script clock 

Prepared and applied paper same as the sunflower clock. 

Applied a wash of silver. 

Stamped on the clock face. 

Used the same stencil and glitter paste for the numbers. 

On a piece of white card applied a wash of silver paint then stamped the saying, cut it up and stuck it to the clock face. 

Assembled the clock fingers. 

This clock is for my sisters other half and I've been told he has silver and black colour scheme at home so I hope he likes it. 

Materials used; 

IndigoBlu - Paint-gold finger, vodka martini. Slap It On. Stamps-Itsy Bitsy Backgrounds, Live Laugh Love. Papers-Floral Vignettes, Fontastic Ephemera. Stencil-clock face numbers. 

Viva Décor-glitter paste. 

Glossy Accents. 

Challenge entered; 

IndigoBlu