Painted Sunday

Sunday is the loneliest day of the week for me, so I try to keep myself occupied with lots of things to do since I don't wanna venture out into traffic, as that's a change-over day for the Cape area.  I had such a day a couple weeks ago, when I decorated the flip flops, tie dyed the canvas shoes and got some painting projects done.  The paint had been sitting out for awhile, so it was time to tackle the project ideas I'd had in mind.

So I spread out all the paint supplies on the stove.   As you can see, this was taken prior to doing the tie dyed sneakers.  The white styrofoam cone was painted blue and then coated with glitter paint, for another project to be posted later.  I spent the better part of 2 or 3 hours alternating between projects; as one dried, I moved onto the next one.

I found more rocks in the box with the paint supplies so I decided to do them too.

I'm obviously keeping the one in the bottom right corner!

Then it was time to attempt a few more shaving cream cards.

Another swirly paint shot.

I think part of my problem is the paper I'm using for the cards.  It's just not heavy enough.  I am planning on cropping out the best parts of these for use.

Shaving Cream Cards

Being the Craft Ho "I'll try anything once" person that I am, I found another project to try: Making swirly painted cards with the use of shaving cream!  This is a pretty messy project, I must say, and I'm glad I thought to cover the stove top with a towel.  Also, I thought I could get away with doing this without a squeegee.  I found out that it's an integral part of making the cards come out nice.  I didn't have one when I made these and used a piece of cardstock instead.  Yeah, not so much.  

Needed:  Shaving cream (the foam kind, not the one that comes out as gel first), acrylic paints, squeegee, pan for the cream/paint and pan for the squeegee'ing, heavy cardstock paper, something to swirl the paint into the cream (chopstick, knife, spoon, etc).  I used the back end of a large paintbrush.  Lots of papertowels.

Spray the shaving cream into the bottom of one pan, and dribble with paint.  Next time I will use more paint than seen here.  My green and purple paints were kind of globby and hard to pour.

Run the chopstick/spoon/knife/whatever through the paint in the cream to create a swirly, marbelized effect.

Pretty swirly shaving cream on the end of the brush.

Press the card into the paint/cream for a few seconds.  Make sure the corners are tapped down into it as I noticed my first couple of attempts were weak in the corner areas.

Pull the card straight up and out of the cream and set face up into the second pan.  Let sit for about a minute, then squeegee the shaving cream completely off the card. The marbelized paint design will remain on the card.

Here are the 6 cards, standing up and drying.

This is kind of pretty too, like an impressionist painting.  I ran out of shaving cream but next time I will  refresh the paint/cream so that the later cards don't look so messy.

The finished product.  Please note that it's pretty hard to keep additional cream/paint from the back and inside edges of the card.  Next time I may just paint one sheet and then fold it into the card, rather than use pre-folded cards.