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Painting With Crayons Visit DIY's Craft Lab to learn some fun techniques for painting with crayons. From "Craft Lab" episode DCLB-202

Guest Traci Bautista joins host Jennifer Perkins and shares different techniques for painting with crayons.

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Guest Traci Bautista created this eye-popping design with unique crayon-painting techniques.

Painting with Crayons

Project Designed by Traci Bautista.

Materials:

metallic crayons
regular crayons
glitter
mica flakes
glass shards
foil muffin tins
toaster oven
mirror
book pages
ledger paper
clover mini-quilting iron
travel iron
Aleene's Tacky Glue Brush-on
instant decoupage and sealer
iron-on crystals by Tulip
sequins/jewels
dimensional acrylic paint (slick) in white
Tulip glitter paint
parchment paper
canvas paper
colored paper
hot plate
various stickers
paint brushes
tweezers
scissors
circle punch
mini-squeeze bottle with 7mm tip for paint accents
thumbtack
textured wallpaper
sequin waste
combs
rubber stamps
heat gun
mirror
book page covered in crayon

	Figure A
	Figure B

Prepping the Crayons

• Unwrap crayons and break into pieces and fill the bottom of a muffin tin.

• Sprinkle in glitter, mica, glass shards, etc.

• Place the contents into a 250-degree oven and melt (figure A). Turn the oven off.

• Wait 15 minutes for drying, and you're done.

Using an Iron to Create Cool Designs

• Smear the melted crayon onto canvas paper.

• Add designs with melted metallic crayons with a travel iron.

• Use a mini-quilting iron (figure B) to melt additional crayons to add contrast. Make sure that the crayon layers aren't too thick, this could cause the crayon to crack off the paper.

Colored Paper

• Place stickers on colored paper in a random fashion.

• Heat wax in a muffin tin on a hot plate.

• Brush on wax using a paint brush. If the wax is too thick you can use a mini-quilting iron to smooth out areas that are too thick.

• Remove stickers with nails or tac.

Adding Texture to Crayon Paintings

• Start with a book page covered in crayon.

• Coat stamp with castaway stamp pad ink. (This will help the stamp to not stick too
  the crayon).

• Use a heat gun to re-melt the crayons on the paper and blow it around to thin it out.

• Rotate the paper in different directions to move melted crayon.

• While the crayon wax is hot, stamp into it with the coated stamp.

• Coat textured wallpaper with castaway stamp pad ink.

• While the crayon wax is hot, stamp into it with the textured wallpaper.

Create Ledger Paper

• Heat up wax with heat gun.

• Add confetti pieces.

• Press a piece of sequin waste into hot wax as a variation.

• Use a comb to create designs into hot wax.

Attaching Crayon Paintings to a Mirror

• Cut or punch out shapes from crayon paintings.

• Adhere shapes to frame with instant decoupage and sealer.

• Adhere a variety of embellishments such as crystals, jewels and sequins, with
  tacky glue.

GUESTS :

Traci Bautista
Treic Designs, LLC
Website: www.treicdesigns.com