How Do I Make A Hand Made Card?…
Why not try making your own cards? My friends love it when they receive my home made cards. So lets get to work on making wax resist cards. Yes, I mean it, get creative!
First of all, what will you need? A selection of items, namely some gold or silver ink, scissors, 2H pencil, glue stick, something like Pritt for instance, childrens wax crayons, watercolour paints, some pieces of card which are of A5 size and a brush No 6.
Now, as for the type of card to be used, a slightly textured one would be good with a chalk type surface. Wax crayons would work well on this. It has to be stiff though, as you need to be able to fold it in half.
If you are lucky, you can sometimes purchase ready made blank greeting cards, but this is not always possible, so this is an alternative method. Your local printer will sometimes sell and cut down A3 paper to A5 for you and this may work out to be a cheaper option.
Into action now! Take a piece of your A5 card and cut a piece into two halves widthways. You then need to draw your image in the centre. Any image you make needs to be clear, so that you are then able to cut it out. Your image needs to be something whereby you can cut out segments and they have to be outlined clearly to be possible to cut them out to give you a stencil.
Now with a pair of scissors, do just that! Then you have your stencils. Continue by sticking your cut outs on your other piece of card, so that now it will appear like a raised picture. Fold a piece of your A5 in half widthways, to actually make your card. Then put the card you have glued your picture on, in the middle of it.
So, you are all set, you have a template. You now should go over your card surface by rubbing it with your crayons. Any shapes, that are in fact, raised, will catch the colour of your image beneath. It is imperative while you work that you keep the template and card really still. If you move at all, you could have disastrous results.
Presumably you have reached this point, continue with another crayon by rubbing the side of this all over your card front. It will then show up the colours that are underneath. You can make these even stronger by pressing harder.
Varying impressions will be made according to the amount of pressure you have applied with different crayons. Now you need to paint with a No 6 brush, with a fairly watered down water colour mix. It is to be recommended that you add a border of silver or gold paint round your work, like a square or a circle, so that you can then wash over your other work and fill in spaces.
Whatever you do, don`t overdo the paint on your image, it needs to be watery so that you achieve fairly transparent colours.