Craft Barn Calendar Challenge #7

I'm still running one week behind with my Craft Barn Callendar Challenge entries. Challenge #7 asks us to use the theme of candles. I thought and thought about this but just couldn't come up with a piece using candles in the literal sense. When I looked at the challenge wording again, it said you could use the theme in any way you choose. That changed my thinking and I decided to use wax from a candle on my project as demonstrated by Gio who is a member of the Craft Barn DT - you can see the technique she used here.

I started by melting candle wax onto a scrap of card and brushing Perfect Pearls in a green shade over the wax when it had set. The wax was then re-melted and a stamp (coated with versamark ink) was pushed into the molten wax. When the wax had once more set, some gold paste was applied to bring out the texture.

Here's my latest calendar page:

Not a candle in sight but white candle wax was used for the green and gold textured 'tile'. 

The top and bottom of the page was embossed in a folder. After inking, the embossed areas were highlighted with gold paste.
The red background was created with distress inks in two shades. It includes random stamping and some stencil work to add depth. The black compass stamping was done with archival ink.

The textured 'tile' looks far greener in real life but I hope you get the idea of the technique used (explained in first part of the post). The candle wax lends a lovely translucent finish to this technique.

The 'tile' is further embellished with some jute thread which appears to hold it in place. Two red wooden beads were added for further interest.

The calendar piece was edged with Tim tape, stitched around the edge and inked lightly on the edges with distress ink.
You can see the spots created with some random stencil work and in the background some stamping of the compass image in distress ink - hopefully! Water was also flicked at the background so the white areas aren't bits I've missed!!

I hope this entry counts, even if there aren't any candle images. Having already completed my December page, I didn't really want to use a candle image for another month - I know using the wax is a tenuous link but it suited my style better - fingers crossed!

Thanks for looking and if you like the page do leave a comment and I'll get back to you.