These are not made out of paper but are FOR paper crafting so I felt they belonged on the paper board.
I have tons of stencils for paper crafting - I cut them on my cricut. It’s a cheap way to get a lot of variety (if you already have a cricut)
But I don’t have a lot of stamps and what I have aren’t really generic background stamps.
So I saw some videos on making them out of fun foam sheets. it looked super easy. The videos I saw used sticker backed foam sheets but I couldn’t find any but I have all kinds of glue so bought non-stickered sheets.
Tip: I tried several glues and the best glue I found was a Scotch glue pen which is my favorite paper crafting glue.
These are not the neatest but they are just for me so I didn’t worry about it.
They take a few hours to dry. if you try to use them before that the pieces slide around. I used a brayer to get the paint on them but you could probably use a paint brush or makeup sponge.
the more paint you use, the more coverage. but I liked the distressed look esp as these will mostly be used for backgrounds, etc.
This is great. I struggle with background patterns because I like to make my own patterns, I never thought to create larger foam based patterns. Very nice!
These are really cool. They remind me of textile printing samples I’ve seen in books from the 70’s. Big, bold, curvy shapes, in muted tones. (Because the images were usually black and white in those books).
Oohh this is very clever. You’ve got me thinking of possibilities for large scale cricut cut foam, to do some fabric printing. I’m thinking of maybe nano tape to stick foam onto clear blocks for positioning.
Thanks for sharing!!!
