Crayon painting

There has been a request to view my crayon paintings a la Traci so here they are. These are my crayon experiments. I really like melting the crayons. I don't have a true encaustic iron, but I don't think that matters. My next experiment will be melting lipsticks. I know that somehow they will be able to be used in this sort of technique. After all they are made of wax and pigment.
The pictures are as follows--the 2 muted papers are wax on cardstock. I tried stamping on the surface of one but did not like how the image was not sharp. The more vivid picture is wax on glossy cardstock and the crayon her is a bit thick. There is also some true encaustic wax mixed with the crayon. The artwork that is stamped with staz-on black and the more muted one was stamped with another ink which I don't recall now what I used. This paper is glossy. I had more samples of artwork but it turns out they were given out without photographing.

Encrusted Mini Quilt

This is my first quilt project. The picture is not as good as the actual project. I will have to photograph rather than scan because the scanner bed does not take the whole image. This was so enjoyable for me. After having given up on embroidery, it was nice to take up a needle again. I got a new sewing machine and on Wednesday I will start on beginning quilt classes. I had no interest in quilts but seeing the new art quilts have inspired me to give this a go. It just seems that one art form leads to another.

Charm Swap

Well I am working on my charms for a new swap I'm in and am excited to be a participant. Hope I don't disappoint with what I'm doing, but I want to make so many good charms. By good I mean truly creative and artistic and to me very importantly well executed.
I am putting my link out there--something I have not done before. I thought I would keep my blog private but after reading other people's blogs I've changed my mind. Hopefully this will force me to keep up with the posting and journaling. I have wanted to do this.
In seeing my blog, you'd think I never did anything--I do create things. Perhaps not so prolifically but I do create. It's just that I make things then send them out without photographing or documenting. I suppose my joy comes in the making but having a record is great. This will have to be one of my new aspirations--to journal/blog.
These charms were posted on the charm swap web site--it felt so good to see them and there were complimentary remarks. That type of thing has made me feel confident enough to swap with others. I have been playing with the idea of putting a stash of stuff together and set up an etsy site. I would not consider selling anything before, but I'm thinking that in the future I may just do that.