Another use for packing foam and kitchen cutting sheets

Besides making your own mounting panels with packing foam, you can also cut a circle or teardrop shape and use it to sponge color onto a background.

Packing foam. You can see it's not styrofoam.

I wanted to sponge Mediterranean Blue Brilliance ink into a white sky I had embossed with a Sissix stars and swirls embossing folder.

The sky needed to be a night sky, as a background for a little shepherd boy Christmas card, so Mediterranean Blue was geographically correct.

I didn't want to ruin my nice natural sponges. There's nothing natural about packing foam, so it's a perfect delivery system. And free.

And the cheap kitchen cutting "boards" that are so thin you can roll them up, the ones I've been using to extend the life of my Cuttlebug cutting plates? They also make great palettes. I squeezed out some Brilliance from the reinker bottle, spread it around on the cutting "board" with the foam circle, dabbed a little off on a piece of scrap and began applying to the embossed card stock.

Here's the palette with my packing foam applicator:

Here's how the card turned out:

The star, btw, was trimmed from the Sue Wilson Festive Collection Noel Star. I learned you can't really use dies to cut the Cricut sparkle paper that comes on vinyl rolls, but you can easily cut it with scissors to back a die shape, in this case the star.

The circle is from her Frames and Tags Madeleine set, backed by blue printed scrapbook paper.

Behind that is the Hamilton die from the New Zealand collection.

Here are the dies: