Well hello there! I am so grateful that a few weeks ago, at Crop on the Cape, I took a class with the wonderful Cheiron in which we got to experience these new Tim Holtz Distress Foundry Wax products. I don't know about you, but even after I read all of the descriptions about this intriguing new product, I had no idea what it actually was like or how it worked. Spoiler: it's very cool, and also -- sorry -- kind of indescribable. It has the same magical transformation as embossing powder when you set it with a heat tool, but... different. If you're curious, just try them for yourself.
Anyway, so I got home from Crop on the Cape and reserved a set of the Foundry Waxes from Simon Says Stamp! and when they arrived, I opened the packages and contemplated just what to do with them. I tried applying them to card stock embossed with an embossing folder, but I couldn't find the right embossing folder to get what I was after. Then I looked through my (ever-growing) stencil collection and found this Waves stencil from Newton's Nook Design Co. and got to it.
The card stock is nothing fancy; it's Paper Source's black offering in cover weight. With each of the four colors of the wax, I poured a small amount onto a craft sheet and used a dry paintbrush to paint the product onto the stencil.
Once that was done I turned on my embossing gun and watched as each of these four colors just melted and transformed in the most amazing way. I mean, woah.
I cropped the paper to 4" x 5.25", mounted onto a card base, and used foam adhesive to mount one of the amazing Tim Holtz Idea-ology Quote Chips. (I had the hardest time choosing one. The options in this pack are incredible.)
Boom. So cool!
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