Tim Holtz Distress Foundry Wax

I just can't get over how innovative and amazing the new Distress Foundry Waxes are from Tim Holtz and Ranger Ink. I love that I can add just a little bit or a lot of metallic guilding to so many different surfaces. If you missed the live Youtube reveal and demo from Tim, I urge you to stop reading right now and go over an watch it on his Youtube channel. This wax is not like any other on the market and when you heat it, the magic happens!

I made my own short video tutorial on this project, but mainly focused on how I made (or more accurately attempted to make) the faux mercury glass vase.

For this project I worked with the Sterling and Statue Foundry Waxes. I pounced them onto the Etcetera Tag washer for a little sparkle at the top.

Then pounced them with my finger onto the Adornments Stars.

I thought the Statue wax would make great metallic centers for the Bouqet flowers and I love how they turned out.

Then of course the Faux Mercury Glass technique that I show in my video tutorial. I am still perfecting this but it has been really fun to experiment with this technique.

To make the Vignette Frame look like an old wooden guilded frame, I first stained it with Pumice Stone and Weathered Wood Distress Spray stains. Once it was completely dry, I put some Foundry Wax in Sterline and Statue on the raised areas of the frame, and then heated it. I love how it looks so weathered.

I only used a tiny bit of the Statue but that is all I really needed. I colored the Snapshots photo with Distress Crayons before framing it.

Another set of Star Adornments in the bottom corner.

Lastly I added a little guilding to the Numeric date at the bottom.
 

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Tami

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