Craft your days away - Favourite things

My favourite thing at the moment has got to be my new Hot Plate I've wanted one forever and just received mine on Friday and have been playing with it a lot since

My background is created by putting my card on to my plate and drawing with encaustic wax. I then did my main image - heated the beswax up on my plate in a little tin foil dish - I then painted my image with it finally scraping off hwre I wanted the face and word to show. I then stamped my wording, inked with distress inks then added it with little squares to raise it up a little bit

Beeswax

I just love the smell and the texture of beeswax. For this hanger I inked my background with distress inks added some beeswax and then my doily. I added more ink I then stamped my image (my new stamp isn't she gorgeous) with stazon cut it out with my circle punch and inked it. I added a little more beswax scraping it away from her face, My quote is a velum one that I inked and added with brads. The corners were added by heating the beeswax a little then pressing them in. I finished off by adding some wire as a hanger

beeswax

you will need some beeswax and a means of heating it - if you don't have a melt pot an oil burner with a nightlight will work perfectly ok. I keep a pan for my melt pot especially for beeswax. I also use a brush kept again just for beeswax




A photo and some cardstock





Paint the beeswax on - gradually bulding up the layers until you can hardly see the photo



I scraped the wax away from the faces then soften the wax with my heat gun and stamped all around with swirl image.

Gorgeous smell in my craft room - I'll probably use this piece on the front of one of my books