Autumn leaves

I really enjoyed making this using my cuttlebug dies and lovely paper from DCWV textured stack. Thank For Looking!

Anniversary

I made this for my boyfriends parents they've been married for 31 years at the end of the month. I tried to use colours that would suit both of them. Thanks for looking!

Summer Birthday

This is for my Aunty in Ireland, she loves summer! I made the sandals myself from shrink plastic I will put the tutorial on soon!

Thanks for looking I know it's been a while I have lots more to upload keep watching!

Birthday Card Gift Set

This was a little gift set of greeting cards I made for my sister. Half are for Birthday and Half are for Thank you. They were created using my cuttlebug dies, I also made the gift box to put them in.

Thanks for looking!

View Master Time

This was a great View Master challenge on SCS and it also covers the challenge on DCM

DCM: Hi there, It's me, Kathy, here to dare you this week;
OK, Absolutely anything goes this week as long as it's on the theme of TIME."It's About Time" So you can use clocks, calendars, quotes, sayings, pictures, nursery rhymes, or altered art-type stuff, whatever takes your fancy - just take some time out to play and have some fun; remember, time flies when you're having fun!

This is a fun card and I had a great time making it. It is for a friend who's a real joker He should love it!

Thanks for looking!

It's been a while

Hi I realise I haven't posted for a week now and it seems so much longer.

I've been very busy and have quite a lot to upload. I wanted to start with the melted wax tutorial because I've had a few questions about it. I hope it covers everything and if you have any more questions I will try and answer them the best I can. This is my first tutorial so if you have any feedback or constructive comments it would be much appreciated.

Thanks for looking and check back later for more posts.

Tutorial - Melted Wax

Stamped Melted Wax

This is what I used for the melted wax technique:

Iron
Foil
Conte Wax Crayons (or other wax crayons)
Card stock
Rubber Stamp
Greaseproof paper
Baby wipes

First of all cover your iron with the foil and then turn on to medium heat to warm up (you can adjust the temperature to the best for melting your wax crayons).

Test your crayon directly on the foil to see if it melts.

Apply onto your paper don't rub too much or the wax will disappear. I have scrap paper underneath to save worktop.

Apply the next colour no need to clean between colours

Keep applying colour


You can move the wax with the heat and get different textures experiment on scrap till you get desired effect.
I've layered my wax quite thick so I get a deeper impression

Lay your wax-covered paper directly on the rubber stamp


Then the scary bit.... put your iron on top and smooth over. Don't leave your iron too long so as not to melt rubber.

The stamped wax image

You can see the deep impressions from the stamp better in this pic.
Your stamp will now be covered in wax, which I found easy enough to remove by placing greaseproof paper over and heating again with the iron the wax will transfer to greaseproof.

Then use your baby wipes to remove excess, my stamp is now wax free.

Finished Card.

Thank you for looking and have lots of fun having a go. Why not try and experiment with other wax crayons and waxes to see if they melt this is just a guide and I just wanted to show you what I did to achieve this effect.