Simply “irresistible”!

Time for a bash at the latest Crusade challenge this month over at GPP Street Team. Michelle has shown us how to make resist backgrounds using wax crayons and acrylic paint. It’s a lot of fun and extremely messy (woohoo!) I used texture plates that I have had laying around for ages (unused, unwanted, unloved, soon to be given to my mate for her ’Headway/Scope’ group, who find crafting therapeutic!) and some wallpaper border for my wax rubbings. I had some nasty old wax crayons – blue, purple and red (which looks pink!) were the only dark colours among them – that DD had dumped in my room. I made loads of rubbings and now have fewer crayons, which is probably a good thing if the rest of them are the same!
My sheets of wax rubbings

The idea is to make the wax rubbing, brush on acrylic paint, spritz with water and rub off the paint to reveal the crayon (resist), without tearing the paper! Michelle explains it a lot better, which is why she writes great tutorials and I just take pics of what I did!! So here’s my first -black over red…

Here I tried black paint over blue and yellow paint over blue…

Now look at this red paint over blue – maybe you should use shades?? *grins*

Here you can see me removing paint with a wet wipe and I used thinner red and black acrylic paint on the same wax rubbing! Had to experiment, didn’t I?!!

And these are black paint on mauve crayon – wallpaper border, which is my favourite.

Thicker paint is messier to remove, but I got better contrast, though thinning the paint was quicker… however, there is also a difference between wet wipes and spritzing with water. The wipes are gentler over the paper (for me, anyway) and it didn’t seem as if it was going to tear. I also used slightly thicker paper, equivalent to thin card at first and then changed to thin copy paper, as Michelle recommended.

I shall use these quite happily for ATCs, cards, etc. In fact, I wonder what will happen if I spray one with glimmer mist? I’d better go try it…. *waves*