Historically I have had some epic fails when trying almost all the crayon techniques Lydia proposed as possibilities for yesterday's MIX65 Back to Kindergarten challenge. In fact, just on Thursday I had a total fail at using white crayon to act as a resist.
So I thought I would really go back to Kindergarten with this - crayons scribbled on card and painted over with black paint. But instead of scratching my design into the black paint, I embossed the card with a Paisley ef and sanded it.
I took my paisley design and (under all the black!!) my colour palette of pink, yellow and orange from this wrist wallet for today's IC challenge.
After making my base piece, I used the crayons again on some white card and stamped the sentiment and paisley with StazOn. Looking in my diecut box for a punched flower I thought would go, I found this butterfly, so I added a body made from wire and gems.
I like the way the resist technique works with the sentiment - under all that black paint is colour if we just dig down to find it, and in the end that's why I thought the butterfly would work even better, with more symbolic meaning, than a flower. So thanks for getting me to scratch the surface a little with this challenge, Lydia.
Date: Saturday, April 26, 2014 GMT Views: 1341
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Thu, May 01, 2014 @ 1:35 PM
Great flash of inspiration and it turned out really well - love the effect you got with the "scratch back" technique! (Did that have a name when we did it as kids? If it did, I'm old enough I don't remember one!)
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Fri, May 02, 2014 @ 5:05 AM
Absolutely AMAZING. The tie in with your sentiment is a heartstopper too - incredible, as usual.
I'm amazed at the technique you used too - I need to try it - I wouldn't have thought the color would have stood up to the sanding and it's spectacularly beautiful!