Crunchy Wax substitutes...

Helen is challenging us with Paperartsy's Crunchy (waxed kraft paper) and has come up with so many fabulous ways to use it.... there is just one problem - I only have Tim's Kraft Glassine which is similar, but from what I've seen, works slightly differently.... still, I gave it a go... and I've used other Paperartsy products so hope I'll be allowed to enter!!

I started by painting a piece of the glassine with Mermaid Fresco leaving a torn border.  I dripped a small blob of South Pacific at the top of the Mermaid paint, and dragged the side of my paintbrush down through the SP to spread it lightly.  I wanted it to stay streaky.

I die cut a tag from some black cardstock, and painted it with the same two colours, then dabbing it with a paper towel to remove some of the paint before drying it.

I took the leafy edge of one of Dyan's Dylusion stencils and my white Portfolio oil pastel, to make a border on the tag.  Heated it to melt and blend the pastel.

I stamped the bubbles (SM15 mini) stamp with archival black, on both the tag and the piece of glassine, by rolling the stamp so I only got part of the image.

I took another piece of glassine and another of Helen's techniques - scrunched it up, then scribbled Portfolio pastels on it, heating to soften the pastel.  Added some more of the white pastel on the high points of the paper.

Fixed the pieces to the tag with my Tim's tiny attacher, added some copper wire for a bit of contrast/texture, and the central stamped image (from HP1009) using Cobalt archival ink, on Paperartsy smoothy paper.