This is a fun and slightly messy technique to create interesting backgrounds for card.

Start with a thin layer of shaving foam. I used the cheapest I could find and I spread it out on a large piece of tin foil. Use three different colour re inkers from Stampin’ Up! and drop in several drops of each colour. Use a tooth pick to swirl the colours. Don’t mix too much. Then lay your basic white card piece into the foam. Lift it off and scrap away the excess foam with a plastic knife. Pat the card dry on a paper towel and set aside to dry completely. (It doesn’t take long, maybe 10 minutes). Then repeat.

Each time you drop the card into the shaving foam, you will get a different pattern or result. Sometimes the colours become very muddy as the excess foam that has been scrapped back in has mixed all up together. You can always add fresh drops of ink when this happens and keep going. One lot of shaving foam spread out on tinfoil will make many card fronts.

I used my card front as a background for these Sunflowers.

Here are my original pieces. First card doesn’t have much mixing of the colours. The second go I did, looks different as the ink colours have mixed together more. No two pieces will be the same and that’s part of the fun of it.

I hope I have inspired you to give it a try.