ATC Exchange for July 2022 - Encaustic Series

ATC Exchange for July 2022 - Encaustic Series. In cleaning out an area of my workroom I came across some encaustic art I did a while back... so thought I'd cut it up for some ATC's and make use of it...

Click on image for more details etc. Enjoy

MC Nov/15 - Encaustic Poinsettia - ECD Season's Greetings - Take Time

Welcome to the Quietfire Sentiments of the Season Blog Hop! We’re celebrating the season with projects using our favourite Quietfire sentiment stamps and dies.  We have some great ideas to share with you!

 

We’re giving away a prize on each of the Sentiments of the Season blog posts.  The posts will be on Designers’ personal blogs and one on Quietfire Creations.  All you have to do is leave a comment on the Sentiments of the Season blog posts and you will be entered for a chance to win a Quietfire stamp or die from that blog.  Each designer will randomly choose the winner from their comments.

Here is our schedule:

Day 1- Monday November 23 : Teresa and Yogi (that's me BIG GRIN...)
Day 2 -Tuesday November 24: KathyJo and Judi Kauffman
Day 3 - Wednesday November 25: Wanda and Yvonne
Day 4 - Thursday November 26: Robyn and Selma
Day 5 - Friday November 27: Diana and Suzanne

If you get lost, just hop back to the Quietfire Creations blog to find all the links!

The deadline for leaving comments is Sunday November 29, 2015 at midnight PST.  Winners will be posted shortly afterwards here on Quietfire Creations.
Good luck and have fun!

I Love doing encaustic painting. It's so quick and easy to create a quick card...

The rubber stamp quote on the inside is by Quietfire Design  and the "Season's Greetings" die from Elizabeth Craft Designs also available on Quietfire Design HERE

Click on any image to enlarge or click HERE to go to my web page.

  

Use a fry pan or electric skillet. Cover the fry pan completely in tin foil.
Cut another piece of tin foil, edges folded under and folded in half to create a platform to do your encaustic painting.
Use EnKaustikos hot sticks or Crayolla wax crayons to paint with. Temperature should be lowest setting somewhere around 150º. You'll know if your wax is just swimming too quickly... PS, don't forget you will probably be getting a reverse image so place your wax design accordingly...

 Works best when put onto a thin Rice paper - I used Sumi-E Painting and Calligraphy paper. Also works with tissue paper, but you have to be a bit more careful. Experiment with different paper surfaces.
After painting on the foil, lay paper (for rice paper - smooth side down) onto hot wax image (above left image). Lightly brayer over the image to connect the wax to paper. Careful the wax is runny so don't press too hard and smear the wax. Lift paper off and the result you get is above right picture. Now this may not look so great as is... put trimmed down, adhered to contrasting or accenting cardstock and details added to the painting... PS with some papers the other side is great to use as well.

Side folded my white card (5"w x 7"h). Embossed with Couture Creations "Mini Poinsettia" embossing folder.

I created my encaustic painting of the poinsettia, trimmed down and adhered to a red cardstock. Added Liquid Pearls "Buttercup" dots in the center. Adhered to card front.

Die cut the "Season's Greetings from gold glitter paper, adhered to front.

On the inside: stamped the poinsettia (Penny Black) inking the stamp with Distress mini pads "Mustard Seed" in the center, "Fired Brick" on the petals, and the edge of the pad "Mowed Lawn" along the pine sprigs and stamped.

Stamped the quote inking with the red all over and then touching here and there with the green, stamping, and clear embossing.

MC Nov/15 - Encaustic Winter Scene - Winter Wishes

And another encaustic painting - this time a winter scene.

You can see all the details and descriptions by clicking on any card image. Enjoy

I'm using a Quietfire Design sentiment and quote stamp.

And it fits for these challenges:
4 Crafty Chicks  #272 ribbon
Crafty Ribbons Challenge  #134 xmas tree
Cute Card Thursday  #399 birds/animals
Paper Take Weekly  Xmas Critters
Southern Girls Challenge  #123 twine/tape/ribbon
Pile it On Challenge  #95 any holiday
Scribbles Designs  #35 Xmas - non traditional colors
Incy Wincy Designs  #322 critters
ABC Christmas Challenge  W for wild thing
Inky Imrpessions  #277 furry friends
Wags n Whiskers  #166 embossing

MC Nov/15 - Encaustic Poppies - Thanks & Thinking of You

 I continued to play with my Enkaustikos hot sticks and creating encaustic paintings. Having fun with them These are a couple of poppy cards.

You can see all the details and descriptions by clicking on any card image. Enjoy

I'm using Quietfire Design sentiment stamps ("Thanks - cuddlers" 7pce set) ("Thinking of You" 2 pce set)  as well as a "Thanks" die available on Quietfire Design and on Elizabeth Craft Designs HERE

And it fits for these challenges:
MMM Challenge  #213 Thanks
One Layer Simplicity  #22 gratitude
Tuesday Throwdown  #270 Thanks
Crafty Creations  #302 Thanks
Sassy Studio Designs  #307  red, gold, orange, brown or green
Fussy n Fancy  #152 thankful
Simply Create Too  #98 give thanks
Catch the Bug  Thanks
Classy Cards n Such  #111 thanks

MC Nov/15 - Encaustic Snowman - Unassembled - It's Beginning To Loo

 Well continuing on with encaustic painting... here's a snowman. Luckily we only had that one dump of snow which has since melted... I'm not anxious to see more

Click on any image to see all the details and descriptions etc. Enjoy

I'm using a couple stamp quote from Quietfire Design : ("Snowmen Fall from Heaven..."); ("It's Beginning to Look...")

And fits for these challenges:
Suzy Pants Smarty  #105 Blue & white
JW Scrapshack  #114  Anything goes
Brown Sugar Challenge  #172 no DP
Alphabet Challenge  T for tis the season
TTCRD  #1017 anything goes
Penny's Challenges  #253 use 3 of something (3 round buttons)
Sisterhood of Crafters   #44 Xmas
Art Impressions Stamps  #172 Xmas
Crimbo Crackers  #93 Xmas - Kraft or Buttons
Little Miss Muffet  #124 anything goes
Trimmies Craft Challenge  #337 Xmas

MC July/12 - Crayon Art - Connections Weave

And another crayon art background card created at my play day on Friday. I'm really liking these feathers I picked up at Michael's last week, think I'll pick up another package... I have a couple more backgrounds to use, but think I'll hold off for now. BIG GRIN

Anyway to see more details and descriptions, click on card image & enjoy.

I'm using an older quote stamp from Quietfire Design that I really like

And it fits for these challenges:
Simon Says Challenge  Tags
Stampin 4 the Weekend  #23  Tags
Marks Finest Papers  #115 Blue & Green
Southern Girls Challenge  #48 Pearls

MC July/12 - Crayon art - Quill Rocky Scene

I think this is one of my best ever crayon art pieces. It was totally serendipitous. I love the colors, the look, the whole thing... so I kept it as simple as possible for me...

To see more details and descriptions, just click on card image & enjoy

I'm using one of the tiny sentiment stamps from Quietfire Design

And it fits for these challenges:
Flourishes  #176 summertime
Cute Card Thursday  #224 garden inspired
Fashionable Stamping Challenge  #26 Nature
The Secret Crafter  #193 pastel colors
Pan Pastel UK  #26 ice cream colors

MC July/12 - Beeswax - Coffee - Love Lives Here

And this is another paper napkin mixed media beeswax collage. As I said in yesterday's post, really loving these napkins with the beeswax. And I LOVE coffee, so a pair made in heaven. The next few cards I post will be using melted crayons, so stay tuned...

I used real coffee beans on the card. BIG GRIN. Anyway to see more details and descriptions, just click on card image and enjoy.


I'm using one of the newest sentiment stamps from  Quietfire Design 

And it fits for these challenges:
Totally Stampalicious  Bow & Ribbon
Alphabet Challenge  K for kitchen - food or drink

MC July/12 - Beeswax - TofY Friend

I had a fabulous play day with a friend today and we did lots of things using beeswax and or wax crayons... I normally don't like doing beeswax things. I find it chunky and unwieldy, but I must admit after today, will be doing more of it.  Really love the look of it using paper napkins which I tore up and reassembled using the wax to adhere and coat the background. I also adhered my vellum with the wax or rather encapsulated it since I had a hard time making the vellum stick...

Stay tuned for about 5 more projects to come in the near future...

Anyway to see more details and descriptions, just click on card image and enjoy.

I'm using a  Quietfire Design   sentiment

And it fits for these challenges:
Creative Card Crew  #14  Swirls & Pearls
Tuesday Throwdown  #105 Summertime
Fresh Brewed Designs  #103 Summertime
Aud Sentiment  #58 use the word Friend
Cute Card Thursday  #224 Garden inspired
Old Back Porch  #27 Card a week