Cardboard, glue, and foil...simple enough for kids, but fun for adults, too!

So here is another creation inspired by a Pinterest post. You seemed to enjoy the last one on Baby Wipe Painting! This one comes from a blog called Make It...a Wonderful Life. Our Artist Way group chose this project to work on to help us get creative though different mediums. It was a two step process. The first step was to create a basic design using glue onto a piece of cardboard. From our experience, chip board works better than corragated because the corragated pattern comes through on the completed product. I also found that the "basic design" is all relative because even small details come through in the end.  I used a toothpick to feather some of my glue lines. Sorry I didn't take a picture of the completed first step.

After the glue has dried completely, cover the cardboard with foil. Either the shiny or matte side works. For my project I used the matte side of the foil. Tape the back to keep the foil from moving around. Using your fingers or cotton swabs, rub the foil until the design from the glue comes through on the foil. Then you can add in more details with a pointed object like a pencil (Not too sharp as to puncture the foil though). This will add in some texture that wasn't possible with the glue.

Last, we put shoe polish on and rubbed it around to give it an antique look. It was hard  to work with the shoe polish and it didn't move around as well as I wanted it too, but it does help accentuate some of the details.

Photograghing this piece was a challenge because of the reflective surface, but you can get an idea of the detail  work as well as the areas left smooth.