distress crayons on clearly for art...

clearly for art  (CFA) 

is a cool inexpensive product

 that can be used many ways...

the clear and white work really well

 with alcohol inks...

the black CFA looks great 

with embossing pastes added thru stencils...

I especially like the metallics...

and I have a cool technique coming soon, using the clearly for art blackout with 

weathered white embossing powder...

as you know, 

I love the clear (CFA) covered with 

newsprint paper...

that way you get the benefits of the strong, moldable CFA...

but you can add inks to a paper surface & see the true beautiful ink colors...

so when I got the distress crayons, 

I was hoping that they would be 

another product to use with CFA...

and it works...

IF you use plan B!

ok...I started with 

these 3 distress crayon colors...

and I scribbled them over a 5 or 6 inch square piece of the clear...CFA...

and blended them with my fingers...

next, I placed the new "lots of dots" stencil over the crayons and wiped thru the stencil with a baby wipe, to remove the crayons...

tim demoed this at CHA & I LOVE IT!

the CFA is shiny & the distress crayons give it an amazing sort of a cloudy/chalky finish, but the shine is showing thru the dots for contrast...

I die cut some flowers...

and I wanted to show you that if you did want shiny flowers, mold them so the shiny side is up & the distress crayons are on the bottom...

either way works...

shiny on the right...

crayon side on the 2 on the left...

HERE'S WHERE I WENT WRONG...

I didn't put a base down on the CFA and if you really rubbed the flowers, the crayons did rub off...

PLAN B...

this works perfectly...

I started again with the CFA, but this time I painted on a thin layer of the 

new collage medium & let that dry...

I followed the same steps...

I scribbled the crayons & blended them, used the "lots of dots" stencil again & now the colors don't get rubbed off...

so it is very important to use

the collage medium as a base layer 

BEFORE adding the distress crayons, 

if you want to add them to CFA...

next...

I was wondering if the heat from the heat tool

 (I used to shape the flower, ) 

would affect the crayons...

it doesn't bother the crayons at all...

they remained stable...

so here's the page from 

the new "fat little book"...

the base is the new (love it) garden patina, blended with the new (gorgeous) archival sunflower...

LOVE this color combo!

if you enlarge the photo, those subtle vertical  lines are from the old wood floor stamp...

I misted rubbing alcohol onto my craft sheet, stamped into it & stamped over the page to bleach out the background archival inks...

see those dots right above "observation"?

 same thing...

I used the lots of dots stencil to remove some ink & create bleached dots...

this time I used the rubbing alcohol on 

the mini blending tool...

make sure it's just moist...

NOT dripping wet/saturated...

the sentiment and 

borders (simply stripes background) 

were stamped with jet black archival...

I LOVE adding the lace border to accent lots of other borders...

for me...

the more detail...

the better...

the leaves/stem were stamped with leaf green...

those little leaves peeking out at the bottom are a small part of this stamp...

I added some remnant rubs to reinforce 

my sentiment...

LOVE is from the new "just say it" background & it's sitting on a mat mini button...

a black mat mini heart accents the flower center...

here's the 4 ½ inch square page...

interesting things to note ...

yes, the CFA color on the flower is stable...

rubbing doesn't remove the color, because I added the base of the collage medium...

water misted over the flower doesn't bother the crayons either...

BUT...

if you mist with water & rub over the crayons,

all the color is removed!

these crayons are really 

a very unique product...

one other thing is that the crayons allowed me to add an adhesive tape strip under the flower to add it to the page & it does not show thru...

I think that's another big benefit...

ok...remember that GIVEAWAY?

CONGRATS TO the WINNER of 

BLOOMING ART...

 Lisa said...

I would love, love for this stamp set to come live at my house!! I'm off to listen to the podcast!! Have a great evening !! Big hugs :)

Lisa
A Mermaid's Crafts

February 2, 2016 at 5:38 PM

 

please email me, with your shipping info...

the crayons are lots of fun!

I hope you'll try them on CFA, 

when YOU

make art!

wendy