Decorative Foil Seals
These decorative seals use a simple sgraffito technique, similar to that used to make paste paper. They’re really easy to make and offer lots of opportunities for variations on a theme. If you make a batch up, they’re useful to keep on one side so that you can create simple emergency gift tags, cards, envelope/bag seals or embellishments for gifts at any time of year. Used in combination with scraps of ribbon, you won’t even need any decorated gift wrap – a plain brown wrapping paper or even newsprint will look equally effective. Kids can have a go at making them too. All you need to make these…
Exploring Wax Crayons
It’s been a little while since I started this series off with Canvas, and I thought it was about time I continued it. This time I’m going to look at that staple tool of any self-respecting budding artist – wax crayons. Traditional, cheap, practical, easy to use, these are so ubiquitous that their creative potential is perhaps sometimes a little overlooked. Personally I have found that all wax crayons are not alike. They differ amazingly – you can get short fat stubby, chunky crayons, or long, thin ones. Some are hard and plasticky, others (perhaps unsurprisingly) soft and waxy. Some will produce a dense, bright colour, others a pale washed-out…
