Wednesday Women ~ Waxed Mix Frame Tutorial

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June MacFarlane 

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June Macfarlane lives in North East England with her large family. She is a mixed media artist and crafter and also a digital designer.
I have been creating art for around 15 years now but more so since early retirement due to illness. I am never happier than when I am covered in ink, paint or glue but mostly I enjoy discovering new techniques through trial and error. You will often find me creating odd pieces with odd techniques; for example I have worked using broken eggshells, paint and crackle medium to create an unusual frame. I once also made a frame from Pasta which I hang in my hallway of my home.
I love smaller pieces of art and rarely work on large canvasses.
Blogging is another love of mine and you can tell that as I have three main blogs. Dezinaworld ( my main digital design blog) Dezinaworld collage sheets ( the sister blog where my collage sheets can be found and they are FREE )
and my personal art blog for some of my art work is called Arty Retreat.

 "Waxed Mix Frame"

Supplies:
2 pieces of ATC size plain card stock
Embossing folder
Machine to emboss
Cut-out image
Text background from old book
Glue
Distress ink or other inks
Glossy Accents
Crayola or other wax crayons
Travel iron or encaustic iron
Dark pen or marker
Kitchen roll

Instructions:

1. Take two identical plain piece of card stock (I chose ATC size but other sizes will work.) One is for the base and one is for your frame.

2. Emboss one of the pieces of card stock for a nice texture. I used one of the texture fades from Sizzix.

3.When the frame is embossed, fold it exactly in half and tear a hole carefully from the center, unfold and reveal a torn edge frame. Put this aside for now.

4. Next, you will need to build the base for your ATC. Colour the book text or other background you choose using some distress inks or chalks.

5. Then take a pre-cut image (mine is from my own Desinaworld images) and check the arrangement of your background image, placing the torn frame over the top to see how it will work and for positioning.

6. Glue the background to the base and then the image to that. Do not glue the frame.

7. Now, for the messy wax part.

8. Heat up an old travel iron or encaustic iron (use an iron that can no longer be used as a home iron for clothing)
9. Take the colour or combination of colours you want for your frame from a a box of crayons.

10. Cut small pieces and put to one side ready to use.

11. Lay the frame down on a protected surface ( I used newspaper but would not recommend it as it can pick up ink from the print) Kitchen paper or scrap paper would work much better.

12. Now, lay pieces of the wax down onto your frame lightly over the top, wait a few seconds and the wax will melt and your iron will lay flat to the surface.

13. Lift the iron and wipe clean if using a different colour next. Keep on repeating the process until all gaps are filled and wax merges.

To Finish:

You need to adhere the frame to the base ATC. Wax is greasy and makes this difficult so you need a strong very sticky glue. I use glossy accents for this, it works really well and bonds the two perfectly. Once you have done this, trim anything at the edges. Then if you wish to define the torn edge in the center just take a marker pen and carefully draw around the torn edging to finish.

View June's beautiful Artwork on these blogs:

http://dezinaworld.blogspot.com/

http://dezinaworld-junesartyretreat.blogspot.com/