Answers!

Thank you kindly for the wonderful comments! To answer your questions.... (since it won't let me do it on those posts....)

#1) Beeswax is awesome! I took the little pellets... natural yellow ones... and kind of pressed them down a little onto the paper so it would stay. They are sticky so it works well. This holds them down if you are using a heat gun. (you can also use a craft iron, but you can't watch it as easily) Once you have squished em', turn on your heat gun and keep it about 3 inches from the wax. Make sure you have your project on something to protect your work surface. The wax goes where it wants! You can try to direct it by tipping the card up and aiming the heat down. If you don't have enough wax, stick some more on and repeat. It takes a bit to get used to it. The piece under "Paris" is my first one. Travel was the second. Just experiment away and see what results you get~! I'm gonna try adding crayon wax shavings next! I'll post that when I do.

#2) The clock face is vellum. I bought it in a pack of assorted clock faces from Walmart. I wish they still had them.... I'd buy more! As soon as I get Challenge #4,I will post the next stage of my card.

If you haven't seen the book "ATC Workshop", I highly recommend it! This book has sooooo many ideas! Anyone interested in mixed media, altered art, or ATC's will LOVE it! It can be applied to almost anything! I finally really dove into it and can't put it down.

Weekly Uniquely!

So I got my Travel 4x4 done for the WU in my Yahoo Group - MMN. It came out so much better than I thought it would! It looks a little blurry in this photo but the color really comes through. I got to use some of my vintage metal buttons too. I agree with Tami, this one is going to be hard to mail away! But I think I am glad to send it off to someone in this group. I wouldn't have created it without them and this is a thank you for getting me back to my creative zone. I haven't been there in soooo long!

I looked at some of the other 4x4's people have posted and I got ideas for more. I think I will try them later after the supply run. I am starting a sketch book to write down my ideas when I can't get to them immediately.

I think I am officially addicted to using beeswax in my collage/ATC's. It a pain in the butt to get right but it smells like heaven to work with. And it ends up giving this wonderful aged look that ink doesn't quite reach. And the combo of the two is amazing. Plus look at the detail it brought out in the Paris ATC? The old book page I used is enhanced and protected from further aging. I think that's another thing I like about beeswax. It's acid free and archival. Just got to keep it out of the heat. ;)

Paris playtime

I decided to experiment with a little bit of wax and some old book pages. I came up with a couple of neat looking ATC's. Although one is really oversized.