Splitcoaststampers.com - the world's #1 papercrafting community
You're currently viewing Splitcoaststampers as a GUEST. We pride ourselves on being great hosts, but guests have limited access to some of our incredible artwork, our lively forums and other super cool features of the site! You can join our incredible papercrafting community at NO COST. So what are you waiting for?
I did a crayon resist card at a workshop this past Sunday & it turned out great! Everyone loved it. When I got home, I decided to do the same layout with a different stamp set. It didn't work. :( The crayon held the ink instead of resisting it. Anyone else have this happen or have any ideas why? It was the same cardstock & crayon, just a different stamp set. Guess I am just glad it didn't happen at the workshop!
Hmmm...are you using tissue to wipe off the crayon? I found that when I just tried to scrape off the crayon off it didn't work as well as wiping it off with tissue or paper towel....? Just a thought, maybe I'm the only one that tried to shortcut the directions... :lol: :lol: :lol:
Hmmm...are you using tissue to wipe off the crayon? I found that when I just tried to scrape off the crayon off it didn't work as well as wiping it off with tissue or paper towel....? Just a thought, maybe I'm the only one that tried to shortcut the directions... :lol: :lol: :lol:
Wipe the crayon off?? I have ever done that..........
If you're dabbing on the color - you need to wipe it off with a tissue. I always rub the color on with a sponge. This automatically does what the tissue would do.
__________________ Kelly Acheson - Stampin' Up! Demonstrator My Email My Blog
I tought you were SUPPOSED to wipe the crayon off! That's what I do and it always works. Same concept as the rubber cement, it has to be removed to see the resist. Also, I use glossy white cardstock.
I always remove the crayon otherwise it shows on the image lines that there's a layer of white over it.... If I use tissue to do that with the crayon AND the ink that was on it are both removed and leave a nice clean white area. I've been using US White paper to do this on.
I guess everyone does these "techniques" a little differently!
After sponging the ink on I wipe over the crayon with a tissue. Not to eliminate the actual crayon, but just to wipe off the excess ink that is sitting on top of where I used the crayon.
Mu biggest issue was when I was being cheap and bought dollar store crayons! I could never get much of a resist as the coverage wasn't as complete. Now that I have a good ol' Crayola, all is well.
I dab the ink off the crayon but never tried to get it all off. Hmm will see how easy that is next time.
The only time I have had the same problem is when there is like a film or a smooth surface on the crayon causing the crayon wax or whatever it is not to totally transfer onto the paper and then there is no resist...it's usually because it's a cheap crayon...It hasn't happened to me since I started using only crayola crayons.
I thought it was weird too. I even tried it a second time & the same thing happened.
Sheryl
I took a class where we did this too and it was a great card. I was playing around with some Christmas cards and did it USING THE SAME 2 colors and mine did it too, soaked the ink in.