Hello and welcome!
It’s InspireINK blog hop day today, and this time we’re getting ready for Easter.
I’ve been playing with one of my old favourite techniques, shaving-foam marbling, so I decided to use some fresh spring-flower-like colours and marble some boxes that just might hold some choccy eggs (as brought by the Easter Bunny) – or something else…
This technique is so easy, and it’s one of my
favourites. Back in my teaching days we used it a lot in
art lessons with small children. It’s “clean
messy” - you get to splodge ink about but the shaving foam helps in the clean
up!
If you’ve never tried this before, you need a shallow
container big enough to fit your item to be marbled into, some shaving foam
(the cheaper the better!) and some water-soluble colours. I used re-inkers and Brushos.
Spread a layer of shaving foam into your container,
and swirl them around a bit.
Then press your item onto the foam,
take it out again and scrape/wipe away the excess. Job done!
Spread a layer of shaving foam into your container,
drop or spray the colours onto the foam
and swirl them around a bit.
take it out again and scrape/wipe away the excess. Job done!
I marbled the pizza box directly but for the treat container
I marbled a sheet of card and then cut it to fit. I used a template (see here for A4 paper and
here for 8 ½ x 11 ) so I din’t have to sacrifice one of my containers to use as
a pattern. Then I embellished my treat
container and mini pizza box with some stamped daffodils from the You're Inspiring set (love these!) coloured in with
watercolour pencils for a delicate effect.
I’m really pleased with the way
it turned out.
(If you want to see the whole project, I will be posting a
tutorial on my YouTube channel in the near future.)
I hope you're enjoying the hop! Thanks for dropping in, and do come again soon!
Keep crafting,
Keren
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Keren
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These are great Karen, not tried this technique before x
ReplyDeleteApologies Keren for calling you Karen x
ReplyDeleteBeautiful project Keren and thanks for reminding me of this technique. It is so easy to forget things we have used in the past. Christine xx
ReplyDeleteThanks for reminding me about this technic, I love it, will be definitely giving it a go x
ReplyDeleteyes Keren i also have a childcare background and often forget to use these simple fun techniques that give beautiful results - thanks for sharing x
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