crayon background technique ?'s
 

ok, so I tried this technique last night, and after some work I got what I thought was prety good for my first card with this new technique. however, I'm wondering if anyone out there has any tips on how to NOT burn your fingers?? and how do you all get your backgrounds to look so cool? it's like the colors are slightly mixed, but not completley. like there are still plenty of spaces where you can see the different colors. I really just ended up with all my colors totally blending together. it still looks cool, but not exactly what I was going for. oh and how much crayon does it usually take you to cover a background for a card? it sure seemed to take a lot of crayon, but maybe it's just something I was doing wrong? it took off the whole tip and then some (I used fairly new crayons that DH has has for Years, and almost never used). any and all help is appreciated. thanks
Michelle

Hello Michelle :D

When I did the crayon background, I add one color at a time. Melted the pink, layed the iron on my cardstock, melted the blue, layed the iron on the cardstock.

I did the first couple by mixing all the colors on the iron, but I didn't like the way the colors looked muddy!

I did go through lot's of crayon also. If I remember I went through one pink and one blue just to make one card.

As far as burning your fingers, just be careful, when your crayon gets to small don't use it! Ouch!

Good luck! :D

jovi,
thanks!

does anyone else have any tips? I want ALL the info I can get on this. I'm gonna be an expert one day I just know it! lol
Michelle

Michelle - I also did this last night, it took several whole sheets of CS until I got what I wanted. In the end, I used just one color on the iron (with maybe a little gold or silver), then I laid the iron on my card stock and "twisted" the iron to make a swirly pattern. Then I took my next crayon and did the same thing, maybe overlapping the first a bit, etc. Finally, I checked out what I had and if there were white spots that I didn't like, I ran the iron of that spot for a few seconds and applied my crayon directly to the paper (the paper was hot, so the crayon melted right in), and then ironed over it again (have to do this quickly before the crayon you applied as a chance to harden).

I posted a thumbnail at the link below because I needed advice about the rest of my card. As soon as I finish I will post the whole card to the gallery. This might give you a little idea about how mine looked.

HTH

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Hi Michelle,
I did a kind of reversed melted crayon and this doesn't take much crayon.
You scratch with oil pastels (I think it will do with other crayons too) on a sheet of vellum or something like white baking paper. Probably you can do this one color by one, I use several colors in one time.
Fold your paper in two, but not precisely, because you have to unfold it very quick. Iron this sheet between a sheet of newspaper on cotton. (It stinks!)Then unfold it quickly. It gives a different background than melted crayon, but maybe you like it.
Don't know how to make an attachement, but if you want to see the result of this technique, please take a look in my users gallery: HannieH,
and watch the card: Blue flowers in green.