Thursday 14 May 2015

Melted wax crayon technique

Good morning friends, followers and fellow bloggers, I hope your week is going well. I am taking it easy today as I had a harrowing journey into South London yesterday to see a customer. I left home at 9. 15 am and arrived at 11.30, this journey should have only taken an hour tops! The traffic was dreadful and most of that time I was at a standstill and the cause of the hold up was temporary traffic lights. It didh't help that I was unfamiliar with the route either. Needless to say I was late for my appointment but then again my customer had been caught in the traffic too and had only arrived minutes before me phew!!
Anyhoo, enough of my ramblings. Today I woukd like to share another natty little technique I learned on YouTube ( I really do watch too much on there) and it is so simple. All you need is some wax crayons and a coffee mug warmer ( I purchased mine from eBay very cheaply)

I first cut a circle to fit in the top of my mug warmer and the stamped my image.
Then I heated up the mug warmer, laid my image on top and coloured with wax crayons. The warmth from the mug warmer melts the crayons enough to colour smoothly and evenly, they will also blend easier. The warmer I have does not turn the wax to liquid as does the one in the youtube video, which gets so much hotter than mine but at least I don't risk burning myself.
To complete my image, I wiped a Versa mark ink pad over it and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. The colours really popped.

I hope you like this technique and maybe have a go yourself.  Thanks for visiting and if you do leave any comments I am really grateful. If you have any questions please be sure to ask.
Hugs for now.
Lainie xx

15 comments:

  1. I feel you're pain with the traffic issues, we're close to J28 of M1 and off a dual carriageway and we have total chaos first thing in a morning, our stretch of the motorway is very accident prone as well,
    I love your make, will have to try it out, I have some wax crayons - for an atc swap we all had to pick a Trish Bee technique, one was for crayons.... can't remember what it was though. Check her out, she is amazing, loads of techniques and inspiration. xx Amanda

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    1. Gosh that sounds horrendous, it's amazing how a bit of heavy traffic mixed with temporary traffic lights can disrupt your entire journey. Thank you for your lively comment on my waxwork.xx

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  2. So beautiful Laine!gorgeous butterfly and colours. Not seen this technique before it looks fabulous.
    Wendy xx

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  3. Hi Laine this is gorgeous. I haven't seen this technique before thank you for sharing. Hugs Jackie

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  4. Really beautiful work Laine , love the colours and butterfly, thanks for sharing this gorgeous technique
    Just to let you know i have just become a follower of your blog
    hugs Lorna x

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    1. Thank you Lorna for your lovely comment and gor becoming a follower hugs Lainie xx

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  5. lovely effect - I have never tried this technique before!

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  6. Great topper and technique. Vee xx

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  7. great technique, that Youtube really is a time sucker, but oh so good for new ideas.

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  8. this is intersting, and really pretty

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  9. It's lovely, it looks very effect.

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  10. Fabulous technique, just hoppiing by.

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  11. Gorgeous project....love the colours....Joolsx

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  12. I love this, what a brilliant idea, thank you for sharing x

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