UKATC Colour - Mixed Colours

Not having much imagination 'Mixed Colours' is not a good theme for me ... then I remembered the encaustic cards I had tried some time ago.
I had two cards left from that time so needed to make one more for this swap.
I used a pencil sharpener and wax crayons to place the sharpenings approx where they were to go.  My idea was the inevitable field of flowers under the blue sky.  I started with the 'grass', then the 'flowers' and lastly the 'sky'.  I heated each colour using my heat gun from underneath, when the wax melted I then 'stroked' it with a stirrer and left to cool.  On the third card I 'stroked' the melted wax with the crayon itself.
They looked such untidy pieces of work that I cut a frame out of two Costa Takeaway packs and one frame from some packaging.  I stroked an inkpad round the edges of the frames and across some of the ridges.

Once the backs with the info were attached, they were finished and ready to post.


UPDATED : 23.04.2014

 Lots of crayons to colour with.
Thank you Gerry.

Such tiny details on this card.

Thank you Margaret.

Shades of blues and greens with some bling.

Thank you Philippa.