 Hey guys, welcome to episode two of playing with our art foamy's and we are going to explore making greeting cards actually with our art foamy's now There's a million ways you can do this. I'm just going to show you what I'm doing currently right now That's sort of sucking up all of my attention with our foamy's So this is a piece of what they call their stamp buddy They sell scrap packs of these and then they sell the bigger pieces It's a piece of foam Attached to a plastic e corrugated base And to be honest with you, I don't remember what you're supposed to do with it. I think it's supposed to be for ink. I discovered that It is a really good base for watercolor paint and I know KP has shown how to use these things before I Have the attention span of a nat so I don't remember what she did completely honest here All right, so this is got some dried watercolor paint on it from the other day Now if it starts to get too muddy if you whatever you have on here that you're using on this Is water soluble? Then you can just wash it off And I would probably recommend that you do only use water soluble things on here So that you can wash it and that you don't kill the foam in the pad This is all watercolor paint so I can just spray it to reactivate things I'm not super worried about it getting muddy too much I grabbed a lot of stamp pads to do this with initially and then ended up just using my Neon palette, which I haven't used in a while. So that was kind of nice Let me grab a rag here And what I did to begin with and though my water is like mostly off cameras. You can't really see it, but it is gross is I just went into a few of the colors and Put them on my pad You can of course paint the colors onto your art foamy this way you can do that that works It gives you a different look. I kind of liked the idea of putting them on the stamp buddy I was really enjoying that process and that unexpected Situation that happened seemed to happen these are all different brands of Neon paint by the way from different places Kramer, Lumie and Daniel Smith before somebody asks I've had this palette kind of for a while And I'm just going to build some color up on my pad Okay, I'm gonna give it another spritz of water. Now this is water with some Ox-gall liquid in it to aid in the flow and Wetness of the and finish of the watercolor paint I always do that. Okay, then I'm gonna take whatever art foamy I'm using This happens to be one of my art foamies and it is name of it is simply leafy pattern and I'm going to Use this just like you would an ink pad once you have Your medium on there in this case watercolor paint And it really does a good job of inking up that art foamy just push hold it for a minute and Then lift up and then if you need to you can push some of the colors around if I had used More pigment it would have come out darker. I'll show you some other ones But I'm not mad at it. It's a little bit lighter colored than I was anticipating That would be because I've got a lot of paint on that stamp buddy and it's starting to get muddy And it's probably time to rinse it off But I was going to do that when I was done with this video so There you go. So that's cute. So then just before you do anything else just let it dry So these are some other ones. I did the same way. I did these all the same way Now this is these are two of k-piece stamps. The rest of these are all my art foamies The girl is called Ohm and then these are her whimsy wings If I can remember to I will try to link everything including the stamp buddy down below or scrap buddy if all they have are the scrap pieces and Yeah, I'll try to do that if I forget somebody remind me um And I'm gonna refer back to this in just a minute. I do really like that Ohm girl. These are the ones I haven't folded yet But you can see where they started to get a little bit muddy, I'm not mad at it I like the unexpected flavor that happens with these So these are all dry. These are very very dry So before you do anything else you do want to do that now I have a habit of We go back to that Ohm girl. I have a habit of Stamping off whatever is on my stamp and or trying to use up what's in the stamp buddy by stamping off onto some scrap paper and Sometimes like okay like that. That's unexpectedly interesting and would make interesting collage paper So sometimes what happens is you're working on a primary project and this happens with lots of things in the Artroom as many of you probably know Sometimes I'm more fascinated by the unexpected thing that happened than I am by the planned one these are just thin pieces of drawing paper out of one of My moleskin journals. This is the leftover at the end of the month The end of the pages are always perforated. So I always tear the blank pages out and use them For scrap paper just like this So I do this and I'll do the same thing and let them dry And sometimes I'll just leave them and these will probably just leave this is interesting paper Sometimes I'll doodle over it after it dries It just depends and you don't of course have to do this But it is very interesting and I really enjoy using my own DIY collage paper Along with some very select purchased ones scrapbooking and collage papers But I'm really attracted to the DIY thing have been for a long time sometimes however What happens is wholly unexpected and wholly? Fabulous as is this one So I was using the home girl and I decided to stamp her off and then she still had paint on her So I just turned her a bit stamped or stamped or stamped her and I got this image that Is screaming at me to be used in a journal page? So it will be I went ahead and traced her in all of her different positions. She's kind of reminding me of a Person trying really hard to be at peace and to be calm and to be At one with their surroundings but at the same time they're being pulled in five million different directions like that's what I'm seeing there So she's really fascinated. I do think I want to use the wings also. So that's why I went ahead and traced the wings But yeah, that's going to be something I'm going to probably use in a page coming up soon So once your things are dry Then these this is card stock. This is pre What do you call it? creased card stock And so I'm going to fold it in half and then I'm going to grab a pen Rob a bully Don't want to use black. Maybe I want to use black. I got to pick a color. Don't I jeez? You know, sometimes that's the hardest thing to pick the color I'm going to just pick this muji pen Which I don't think they make anymore, but it's a fine liner ish black pen and Then what I'm going to do is I'm just going to trace around the shapes and Add some more you could doodle around them You could just trace around what's here You could add words Didn't do a very good job there, but that's okay so I often for repeat customers in the Etsy store and Or patreon members patrons and supporters send them When they order something especially from the Etsy store I send them one of these little cards in the mail that I've created and I'm getting ready to send them my You know once or twice a year bundle of stuff In this case what I'm going to do on this is I'm going to do some of these This particular art foamy started out as one of my mid-century modern inspired designs and you can just leave it at that that's cute and create your own line of greeting cards using your art foamies How cool is that and they're blank inside so they could be for anything they could be for birthdays They could be for thank yous. They could be for anything so anyway I hope that gives you some idea of what you can do with your art foamies I will say one more thing so This is watercolor paint so you can just rinse this under the tap and then lay it out somewhere to dry This also can be rinsed under the tap laid out somewhere to dry you can also set the whole thing on to a cookie sheet and Okay, I'm almost out of battery so you can also just set the whole thing on a cookie sheet and put a damp towel on the sheet and in between stamps Put it paint side down on the damp towel that'll prevent if you are using acrylic paint It should prevent a lot of it from drying on to the art foamy so that you don't mess up your art foamy If you're doing a big batch of stuff like the greeting cards and you're not using something water soluble that you can just rinse off in the sink Then you want to maybe put them down on a tray or a cookie sheet with a damp paper towel or something in it So that the paint doesn't dry so there you go I hope that gives you some ideas of what you can do with your art foamies. 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