LYRA Aquacolor Water Soluble Crayons

These water soluble wax crayons have an extremely smooth, creamy texture. They’re heavily pigmented, so colors are brilliant and highly lightfast. They dissolve very well when brushed with water and blend easily to allow an almost unlimited range of shades. Sets come packed in metal tins.

* Color on the stamp directly with the watercolor crayons, mist with water, then stamp. You can get several stampings with each coloring, each one being softer in color than the one before it. You may even have to mist slightly to get extra stampings from one coloring.

* Take an aqua flow water brush or Dove Blender and dab the end of the crayon. Watercolor as usual.

* Scribble crayons on scratch paper or on a slick surface to make a palette. Next use your aqua flow water brush or Dove Blender to get color from your palette. Watercolor your heart out.

* Scribble on background and go over it with a thick watercolor brush

* Make your own water color palette - Use a CD as a palette and 'color' a small area with a crayon. Then use a paint brush to mix a little water with it and paint picture. You can put several colors on the palette at the same time. You can actually make several different shades of color from the same crayon by varying the amount of water you mix with it.

* Color the outline of your image with water color crayons and drag the color in the middle with your blender pen.

* A cool background idea - take a piece of glossy cardstock and zig zag color across the page, the darker the better. Then take your aqua flow water brush (the fat tipped is best) and tap it onto the color. Pick your next color that compliments the first one you used and do the same thing with the zig zag pattern, then add a third complimentary color and then with the water brush do your tapping and blending a bit as you go. If the paper gets too wet just blot a bit with a paper towel.


EXPERIMENT and have fun!

A special thanks to Dawnmarie Abel, TAC Angel #1806, who compiled this list with the help of her stamping friends.

(revised by Diane Hershberger, TAC Angel #1484)