Melted Crayon Art

Finished Products from Joni and her sister.

 

 

 

 

Melted Crayon art was the first Pinterest project Joni and Eileen tried together. Eileen saw it and showed it to Joni who immediately agreed it was the most awesome idea she'd ever heard of. Ok, so maybe that's not how it went, but it sounds good. We searched Google images for ideas and then gathered supplies. Supplies you will need:

• Canvas (we used flat but stretched works great too!)
• LOTS of crayons. You can see the ginormous boxes in the picture below.
• Hot glue gun (with glue of course) 
• Hair dryer
• Masking tape (or painters tape) stickers (those with 3d qualities ten to work best)

In the beginning....

Step one: Decide on your design and choose colors. Please note that colors will run together (so yellow and blue still make green) so choose them accordingly. We found that staying with the same color family worked best. Place crayons on canvas in desired design (we had to break crayons in some designs). When you have your design finalized, hot glue crayons to canvas. We found that leaving the crayons in the paper helped the crayons stay on the canvas better. When the crayons melt they tend to slide off the canvas. (See Eileen's design below. After gluing on crayons, add stickers. In the picture below. We made the music notes out of masking tape and placed them on. The "Mrs. Stephenson" is made of puffy scrapbooking stickers.

Crayons lined up and ready to go!

Step two: Blow dry!!! Well, technically it should be line your floor or work area with newspaper or something else to catch the drips and splatters. THEN blow dry! We blow dried on low setting with hot heat. With the heart, we blow dried one section at a time so the inside of the heart stayed white. We manipulated where the crayon flowed by changing the direction of the dryer so that all of the canvas and the stickers were covered. With the flower picture (from the first picture) an embossing heat gun was used in order to get the stems. This is not recommended for other projects! The heat from the embossing gun melted the stickers off, so a blow dryer really is best for most projects. 

Eileen's Rain and Ben's Shine.

Step three: Remove stickers. We found that pulling the stickers off while the wax is still slightly soft is best. If the stickers or tape are not on well, the wax will seep underneath. This happened with Eileen's rain, but she found the back side (non sharp) of an exacto knife removed the unwanted wax quite well. 

TADA!!! 

This is a PIN WILL do this again.