 Hey guys, how are you today? Alright, so this month as you already know we're talking about crayons markers and pens yes crayons and At least for the first part of my week. We're going to talk about cheap crayons. Just Crayola I do have one keynote crayon that I picked up at one of the casinos last time I was in Las Vegas The rest of these are Crayola mostly metallics and glitter Most of them are from the days when I still had daycare Yeah, because I had a lot of crayons and I actually got rid of some so this isn't even all of what I had But anyway, so I'm going to talk about making some embellishments with your crayons and a pen Any of you who have done any coloring before with your kids or whatever Know that once you put the crayon on there, you know, it's waxy. It's like an oil pastel once it's on there It has to be like the last layer because it's really difficult to do because of the wax and a crayon to do any writing or anything Over the top of it. I'm going to show you how to solve that problem. So here are just some a little I'm going to just call it mono printing with crayons On a paper. This is just plain cheap inexpensive dollar store drawing paper And then once I did what I'm going to show you then I was able to go over the top and doodle over When I use this drawing paper, this is also a sheet of Thin paper sort of the same weight as a phone book page This is from my financial statement catalog that we got in the mail for one of our Things, I don't know. I don't know. I just say hey, can I have that to my husband? He says sure All right, so the first there's a couple of different ways you can do this The first one you're going to need some kind of heat resistant mat. This is These are a couple of small Ranger craft mats one of them is Ranger one of them is a different brand. I think but they're both heat resistant You could use a mini heat resistant baking sheet or cutting mat But some one of these thin Most of you probably already have one of these thin craft mats in your art room You really want to do this on some sort of heat resistant slick non-absorbent surface. There you go All right, and it involves coloring directly on here So we are going to take just grab a crayon and I'm going to just doodle I Don't know today. I'm in a circle mood make it a little darker than you normally would This is a blue Metallic crayon steel blue. Isn't it a pretty color? I had interesting mixed success with the keynote crayon I'm not actually sure it's Like a normal crayon, but we're going to try it again on camera. Let me zoom in just a little bit for y'all. There we go Okay, let's try the keynote now The crayons except the keynote crayon doesn't do this, but the crayola is all kind of get crumbly and there's like Crayon shavings on here after I color because you want it pretty dark I'm pushing pretty hard if though you don't want those you can brush them off into the trash can before you do the next step I don't mind them. So I'm going to leave them then take a piece of thin paper like just cheap drawing paper and This is a craft iron It is one that I have just for the craft room. I would not recommend doing this with the one you're going to iron clothes with This is not for little kids to do. It's going to get hot keep your fingers out of the way please take all precautions and Melt that crayon get it hot through the paper with your iron So I'm calling this monopin monoprinting with crayons And you can see before I even lift it Where are those little shavings of crayon where where the darker spots are? Now some of this when you do it this way is going to stay on the craft mat I don't really mind that and I'll show you how easy it is to get off so then you're you get something like this and It is smooth So you're left with this on the craft mat, and I've tried a few times to do like a second pull And you kind of you sometimes get a faint Most of the waxes and the color though is gone in the first print Still icky from that bronchitis thing I had can you tell my asthma is all kicked up So you get a like a faint ghost image, but most of this is just gone You just take a baby wipe to it. It wipes right off Okay, so once you have this print Then you can go back and you can doodle on this write words on it Color color some of the images in if you want with a different kind of pen And because this is smooth and there's no wax left on the surface if you took one of these crayons and You just colored on the page, and I will just do a swatch here so I can show you guys Okay, even if you dump the shavings off you take the same black pen. I just used over here, right? This is the same pen see it doesn't write nearly as nice as it does over here because you've melted off all the crayon now the other way that you can do this is Paper to paper so let's Do paper to paper So again doodle a design with your crayons push kind of hard, you know push kind of hard get a good coverage of wax Now most of the wax is going to stay on the paper that you color it on but some will transfer to the other piece of paper Okay, and it doesn't seem to matter if your paper has a little bit of acrylic paint on it Like this one does I did the transfer on here first and it worked out actually just great The problem with doing it on a paper with some acrylic paint on it is that you can't see Through the when the wax transfers through the paper because it's just transferring to the painted surface and not And I like soak through And I'll show you what I mean about most of it staying on the paper that you drew it on Okay, so here are our dots what they are after the wax is all melted and Here is the print from the other paper you get a faint like a ghost image on here And it doesn't seem to matter if this paper is painted or not. You still don't get a great image On that paper you get something but not a lot now the other thing now now that this is in here And it's melted into the paper. You can of course go over it with Just a plain black pen, but you can use your color pencils your paint markers. You can use anything I'm going to make a few more of these Abelishments and I'm going to be back with you in the next video where we're going to be selling setting up my April inserts for my journal and Don't forget to Join me in that video like share and subscribe if you will if you're not a member of the my year 2017 Facebook group which was is what this video was created for our week over there And you want to be a member or you want to send me happy mail Or you want to join my other Facebook group. I do have another Facebook group Maybe you want to shop in my Etsy shop to support my channel Which I would appreciate all the links for all of those things are in the description below check it Don't forget to check it out because there's a lot of information in there And the most important thing of course is to go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it like maybe make yourself some crayon embellishments All right, I'll be back. I'll see you later. Bye guys