Why not try making your own cards? My friends love it when they receive my home made cards. So lets get to work on making wax resist cards. Yes, I mean it, get creative!
First of all, what will you need? A selection of items, namely some gold or silver ink, scissors, 2H pencil, glue stick, something like Pritt for instance, childrens wax crayons, watercolour paints, some pieces of card which are of A5 size and a brush No 6.
Now, as for the type of card to be used, a slightly textured one would be good with a chalk type surface. Wax crayons would work well on this. It has to be stiff though, as you need to be able to fold it in half.
As for the card, you could try going to a printer to buy the A3, sometimes they will sell it to you and possibly cut it to A5 size for you. This can work out quite cheaply. However, depending on the area you live in, you may be able to actually buy some blank, ready made, cards.
Into action now! Take a piece of your A5 card and cut a piece into two halves widthways. You then need to draw your image in the centre. Any image you make needs to be clear, so that you are then able to cut it out. Your image needs to be something whereby you can cut out segments and they have to be outlined clearly to be possible to cut them out to give you a stencil.
Now with a pair of scissors, do just that! Then you have your stencils. Continue by sticking your cut outs on your other piece of card, so that now it will appear like a raised picture. Fold a piece of your A5 in half widthways, to actually make your card. Then put the card you have glued your picture on, in the middle of it.
With this template now in place, you can now use your crayons and rub over the surface of the card. You will then come to realise, that the shapes above, will catch the colour of the image below. Care is needed when you hold the template and the card to keep them both in a steady, tight grasp. Any slight movement can be detrimental to your work.
Presumably you have reached this point, continue with another crayon by rubbing the side of this all over your card front. It will then show up the colours that are underneath. You can make these even stronger by pressing harder.
Not all crayons will make the same marks, it really depends on how much pressure is used and where. Get your watercolours out and mix a pretty watery mix. Paint a circle or square around your work with your gold or silver paint. This then enables you to wash over your other work with a No 6 brush, filling in any spaces.
Whatever you do, don`t overdo the paint on your image, it needs to be watery so that you achieve fairly transparent colours.
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