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SHAVING foam that is!
Hi all! Becky here today to share a little fun my daughter, Maggie, & I had the other day playing with our Splash Inks & some shaving cream!
The idea is to create your own paper backgrounds with paints or inks in the foam...very similar to a mono-print (or Gelli plate), but a whole lot-a-messy & much more fun!

Here's how to do it...
1. spread plain, cheap shaving cream over the back of a plastic plate. (I didn't have plastic plates, so I covered 2 large oval paper plates with some Press-n-Seal plastic wrap.)
2. Drop some paints or inks onto the shaving cream & spread it around.
3. Turn the plate over onto a piece of paper.
4. Gently lift the paper away from the plate & the scrape the excess shaving cream away.
Here are just a couple more she did...
Here's a couple of mine...
 
Doesn't this one look like a face?
The ones below are the same, just in two different directions...
I love how very different they look just by turning it upside down & it looks like the paint is jumping off the page!

You can find the Splash Inks at Altered Pages, here! Although I used inexpensive mixed media paper, if I had had some Lutrador on hand, I would have played with that!

I hope you enjoyed our little experiment!
Cheers!




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  1. DIYDesignStudioMonday, April 01, 2013

    Love the technique AND the fun! good job Maggie!

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  2. Anjas-ArtefaktotumMonday, April 01, 2013

    Great colorful works, love the shaving technique too.

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  3. ddazzled71Tuesday, April 02, 2013

    This is one of my favorite, lets get messy techniques Bekky. I particularly love your green yellow and blue one and will now have to try this with the Splash Inks. xx

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