On her blog, Belinda created some gorgeous wax paper resist backgrounds using only regular card stock, not glossy card stock. Since I don't have any glossy, I've never tried this technique, but Belinda gave me the courage to do so when she experimented with plain old regular card stock (cs).What you do is sandwich crumpled wax paper between two sheets of cs, then sandwich this assembly between two heat resistant craft sheets and iron. What could be more simple, right? Well, as you can see on Belinda's blog, she got lovely spidery effects with hers and I got practically NOTHING.
I'm hoping someone who reads my blog will have an answer as to why Belinda's technique worked and mine failed. I didn't press and leave my iron, but kept it moving slowly over the piece. My iron was set on "cotton." When I removed the waxed paper, I could see the little spiders on both sides of the paper, so I know I got good coverage. However, when I colored them, they didn't show any spidery effects, just little "blobs." I used pigment ink to color my pieces. I used the direct to paper technique and swiped the pigment ink over the paper, attempting to blend as I changed ink pads.
Possible reasons for failure include:1) I ironed too long
2) I didn't iron long enough
3) My iron was too hot
4) Pigment ink doesn't work
5) Something totally different I haven't considered
Please let me know if you have tried this technique and what I did wrong. Belinda suggested it might be because I used pigment instead of dye ink.
this may have been a "failed" experiment
ReplyDeletebut
they are not unusable
still they are beautiful backgrounds
after you iron out (couldn't resist oh no another one)
anyway
after you do get it all figured out
it will just be another technique...
in the meantime
something useful will come along for this piece too
my guess is
the inks...perhaps it needs to be along the "dye' family