Tuesday, 30 December 2014

Getting inspiration

I often look at project on various plateform.  Be it the internet, magazines, classes various crafting kits, etc...  I don't always really do as the project is illustrated.  I like better to use projects I see as a jumping point for other projects.  Sometimes it is unrelated.

In the soap class I had taken, I remember having putting some different colored soap cubes in one of my soap.  It had a nice effect.  I done it with halloween molds (pumpkins and skull) to make soap pieces in those forms.  After that, I took those pieces and put it in a bigger differently colored soap.  It had a nice result.  Since then, I have used those soaps.  I now regret not having taken some photos then.  I may try it again in the near future.

I have found a project where I like the combination.  I had done something similar with the little skulls soaps.  I had done them with shea butter soap and I had put them in colored transparent soap.  The project is here: http://candleandsoap.about.com/od/soaprecipes/ss/xmaschunksoap.htm?nl=1
It is done with soap bases.  It is chunks of colored soap in a white "enrobing".  Seeing the result, at the end of the tutorial is quite good looking.

It also makes me think of a unrelated technique that give a similar result but in jewelry: the rhinestones with epoxy clays.  When I started, there was only white and black epoxy clays.  Now, the palette is more varied.  I am not really into the bling thing.  But I am tempted to try with the new colors available.  I have found some here: http://www.amazon.ca/Crystal-Clay-2-Part-Epoxy-Green/dp/B009LSRCPI/ref=sr_1_4?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1418844012&sr=1-4&keywords=epoxy+clay
I will take one of them if I fail to find them at my craft store.

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