Card Crafting
Card Crafting Your Own Thank You Wow! Have you seen the price of greeting cards in the stores? Card Crafting 25 of your own cards would pay for all of your supplies to do wax painting. Making your own art wax painting cards is also a lot of fun and it lets you send out your own original thank you notes. These are always well received. Instead of selling my original card sized encaustic paintings, I now go to the print shop and use their color copier and make reprints. At 600 DPI they look really sharp.
To make them for resale I get some 4 x 6 inch photo insert cards for the A6 card size I paint. I put them in a clear plastic envelope along with some information about myself and the wax medium. Now I have a nice crafted sales piece to place in coffee shops or galleries.
The 4 x 6 card size is the best size to learn on as it is so close to the size of your iron. Once you have made some this size you will want to move on to a larger format. I have not taught one person who wasn't delighted when I took one of their first cards and mounted in one of these photo cards. You can also take the card and put it in a frame as the photo card acts as a mat.
At first your cards will be all abstracts and so many people will just love the effects that are created. I have students all the time come back to me and tell me how astonished they are at what appears like magic on the surface of their cards. And that is so true. You will see images of all kinds within the designs of the melted wax as it is drawn into shapes when the liquid wax is lifted up by the surface of the iron.
It won't be long before you get the knack of turning those patterns into realistic scenes of mountains and valleys, deserts and oceans. You can add in fine details with the stylus tool. This is a great family pastime. Below is a card with an abstract pattern of women in shawls, shoulder to shoulder looking at the moon.
An alternative to the photo insert card stock is to take a wide black felt tip pen and draw a nice border around your painting. You can mount your painting on some colored card stock. It will look very professional.
Visit the gallery for card crafting ideas.
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