64 crayons

I have a box of Crayola 64 crayons that I had never used. For this project, I finally opened them. I've heard that many people enjoy coloring as it brings them back to their childhood. For me, I found that I enjoy the coloring process, whether it's with paint, pencils or crayons. Copic markers have been a big thing in the crafting world lately. I had the opportunity to try a friend's copic markers and I would one day love to have my own. But crayons did the trick quite nicely, even it they didn't have quite the same effect.

I started with the weekly digi stamp from Designed2Delight digital stamps. I kept thinking back to the crafts we used to make in kindergarten with crayon shavings, where we would iron waxed paper over the crayon shavings and create a design. Or rather, the teacher would do the ironing over the design we had placed on a sheet of paper.

In Photoshop I shrunk it down to ATC size, and printed it out. Then I colored them in with the 64 crayons. Well, some of the 64 crayons. I think the ATC size is too small for shavings, but I might try that at some point. The end result didn't have quite the melted look I was hoping for.

I next took a plastic sandwich baggie, and ironed it onto the card. (The card and baggie were sandwiched between my silicone ironing sheet and a piece of parchment paper.) The result was the colored card with a laminated covering. Ok, but kind of blah. It needed something else.

I noticed a package of blue glitter that I had lying on my desk, and sprinkled some of that on the next card, and then ironed the plastic on. That was the missing touch that it needed. Here is the final result: