Beeswax Collage

It's been a long time since I've worked with beeswax and last week I had a chance to break it out again to play a bit.  I love working with beeswax - smells wonderful too.

I've been wanting to do a small collage of this photo of myself and my best friend (almost since birth) when we were about five years old.  Her father managed a summer lodge on the top of the mountain and their family stayed there during the summer. Every summer I went up there to stay with them for about a week and it was always cold. I love this photo because I am wearing pants - notice the front-crossed straps!  My mother never put me in pants when I was young except when I went to visit this friend!

This is a small 6" square canvas. I applied several different brown chalk inks to age the background, adhered pieces of sewing pattern tissue and then sanded, especially along the edges of the canvas.  I transferred a copy of the photo using a gel medium transfer and then applied a piece of napkin and the stamped title and lace and buttons with beeswax.  Not sure if I like the lace under beeswax - I might go back and remove it and then reapply a strip of lace over the beeswax.  What do you think?

May Inspiration Mingle

My online group, AAWA, has a monthly mingle where we take inspiration from a given photo and make a project to send to our mingle partner. This month the above photo of a polka dot bedding ensemble was the inspiration. Below is the canvas I made using the blue polka dots. This is a 5x5" canvas which I painted with two different green acrylics, then added the polka dots stamped with acrylic also. The flowers are punches, the house is cut from various papers, the words from a book page and the image is from Lisa's Altered Art. The little girl has the sweetest face. I hope Jeri will like it. (The scan is a little skewed and looks rectangular but it really is square!)