How-to: Craft DIY Wax Seals Using Crayons and Stamps

Our poor old crayons have a hard life with us. Just this week alone my daughters made recycled crayons in skull and LEGO silicone molds for a birthday gift, got out the power tools to experiment with drilling on some big crayons, and used up all the candles in the house making encaustic art with crayons.

As the three of us sat at our big living room table, the kiddos melting crayons all over artist’s canvas, me working on an altered book for an anniversary present for my husband, I took a second look at their pools of molten wax and my little clay stamps, and all of a sudden I had another recycled embellishment for my book.

Whether you’d like to use a wax seal on a letter, a gift, or your own altered art, this candle + stamp method is just as quick and easy as using traditional sealing wax supplies–and it’s cheaper!

If you’ve ever used my encaustic crayon art tutorial, the beginning of this project will look familiar. Take an unbroken crayon (it’s longer, so that your fingers can grip it better away from the flame), remove the wrapper using an X-acto knife to slice the paper, and light a candle.

Hold the flame to the tip of the crayon just above the point where you’d like your wax seal, and allow several drops of melted crayon to puddle on that spot.

Next >>

Pages: 1 2

View the original article here

Review: Stockmar wax crayons

Development of a green world authors are backed by a sharing agreement revenue with the company that operates the preparation of a green world, important media. Of course, it is never enough to earn a living real (would have heard about this problem, yes?), so if you want to make sure that this author continues to do great information is available, consider a suggestion for them through Paypal donation.

Let me just be honest with you: we use a lot of crayons based on oil in our House. We really do. We draw them, break them, merge them into other crayons, grate them to melt them some more, keep candles and drip them on canvas stretched (apparently, we love fire) - the Crayola company gets a lot of play here.

But now I've been a crafter green for a while, it has only been fairly recent that I started to look really greening art my sons supplies. It has always been my excuse, well, use too many pencils of crayons/color/pieces of clay to afford the luxury of very high quality brands. But then, in an attack by the Organization, took a hard look around our Studio shared space and thought…hmmm. Do two children really need a full gallon jug for the top with crayons half used?

Do if on the other hand, possessed a beautiful package, high-quality crayons would be perhaps treated these crayons so well that they simply do not need more?

It is difficult for me, because as a mother of teaching and an indulgent, boot, I often have the need to give my children a bounty of supplies, which is why any artistic or intellectual impulse that they feel they have the tools to bring to fruition.

Goodness, that seems silly. And so, as you may have noted from recent reviews, I've been on a quest regularly spend my earned money not in a large amount of supplies of cheap for my children this year art, but a small selection by…I can not escape from it…expensive sources.

These Stockmar wax crayons, for example, that they are my most recent acquisition, they are not cheap. The set of sixteen crayon I bought the girls ran, I am not kidding, almost 25 bucks. They consider that last month, threw a 24 packages of half a dozen of pencils Crayola cart destination and paid a quarter a piece for them and give notice that update our crayons is no joke!

Bucks 25 these crayons Stockmar bees wax should be the best crayons I've seen in my life, and are. They are highly pigmented color well to our Strathmore drawing paper, are not so soft that they look to be too soon, and smell to glory be-they like honey!

These beeswax crayons are now our "special" pencils, which we use when we're feeling artistic, with those based oil crayons, relegated to the millions of other craft uses that also make up our days. If he had had babies again, however, do everything differently, and would be the only such crayons tater tots would have. Crayons Stockmar seem about as toxic as it can be a source of commercially manufactured art. It seems to report materials extensive testing, so if your child has some kind of chemical sensitivity, can be an informed consumer if you read his stuff. And unless you're a vegetarian (in which case must prove soybean crayons), then beeswax is as benign and natural a material basis as you will be able to muster.

As our art "special" supply shelf-the Stockmar crayons, Prismacolor markers and crayons, the Strathmore papers-becomes the most well-stocked artist, is my hope that eventually replaced in quality, not quantity, the six shelves or less cheap supplies or art that currently govern our study, allowing us to less clutter, less consumerism, and even better access to the way of making art.

View the original article here