{"id":81,"date":"2012-06-27T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/?p=81"},"modified":"2014-01-31T02:44:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T07:44:47","slug":"rubber-stamping-with-encaustic-wax-on-cardstock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/rubber-stamping-with-encaustic-wax-on-cardstock\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubber Stamping with Encaustic Wax on Cardstock"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I received an Encaustic Paint starter set for the Holidays, this year and I have been experimenting with it. What gorgeous backgrounds the wax makes!! I have used Beeswax as a finishing coat, and to make thin paper translucent, and to adhere items, but I had always used plain beeswax. The encaustic kit included colored encaustic paints in a few really nice colors. I also ordered a few paints in metallic colors, since I love to add glitz to everything I work on. To me, the glimmer from the metallics would look really nice with the matte colors of the wax.<\/p>\n

NOTE- encaustic painting requires some reading up on safety measures. I HIGHLY <\/strong>recommend taking a class, or getting a book, finding a YouTube video on what you should and shouldn’t do when working with Encaustic. I decided, since I was just going to be dabbling in it, to buy pre-mixed paints and mediums since some of the dangers come in mixing. I also decided to go fo a warming tray rather than a griddle that can get too hot- there are more dangerous fumes when the wax gets over heated.<\/p>\n

Most encaustic painters use stiffer substrates than card-stock, but I wanted to play a bit before I invested too much in the encaustic boards etc. And of course since I am a stamper, I was dying to see what I could do with the two together. I just used very thin coats of the encaustic paints, so that the flexible card stock did not crack the wax once it was cooled.<\/p>\n

NOTE. that when you are using heat directly on stamps, you need to use red rubber stamps- not the clear polymer stamps. Those will melt! Here was my first experiment with Encaustic paints and Rubber Stamps…<\/p>\n

I first melted encaustic paints on my plate- dark blue, white and then a mix of the two…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Then I dipped my Rubber stamp in the melted wax…<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

and stamped onto the card stock that was warming on the plate…<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Here is the result…<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

In this example, I started with melted dark blue wax on the card stock…<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Then I dipped my Rubber stamp into white melted encaustic paint…<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

I stamped on the card stock and viola! I loved this look!!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

I loved the texture, and depth the encaustic paints lend to the backgrounds I created. If you are going to try this, and want to make a card with the backgrounds, the best adhesive to use is glue. Tapes didn’t seem to be strong enough to hold the waxy card stock to the card base.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Enjoy!!<\/p>\n

\n

<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I received an Encaustic Paint starter set for the Holidays, this year and I have been experimenting with it. What…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mixed-media-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}