How Was Your Day?

Upscale Ideas for a Conscious Casual Life

  • Home
  • Beauty & Fashion
    • Beauty
    • Fashion
  • DIY
  • Home & Garden
    • Home Decor
    • Gardening
    • Organizing
  • Food
  • Travel
  • Love & Money
    • Love
    • Money
  • 2019 Holiday Gift Guide
  • About How Was Your Day
  • Disclosure/Privacy Policy
  • Media PR Kit
  • Favorite Things
You are here: Home / Home & Garden / Home Decor / When to Paint with Foam

When to Paint with Foam

October 22, 2014 By Greta Brinkley

Sharing is caring!

0 shares
  • Share
  • Tweet

when-to-paint-with-foam

Whether you’re painting a landscape, a dresser, or your basement, you need the right tools to get the end result you want. The right paints, the right brushes, the right surfaces, and so on. Most of the time, traditional materials are all we need to get the job done. Sometimes, though, you need to think outside the box to get the results you want, and one of the more creativity-inspiring materials for painting is foam. Here are three ways foam is a fantastic product to be used in any kind of painting, and when to paint with foam.

When to Paint with Foam

Tight Spaces: When painting rooms, tight corners and hard to reach places often end up being frustrating for people, and sometimes are left unpainted for the sake of sanity. But with open-cell foam, you can trim a piece of foam into any size you need to reach an area, and just paint with foam instead of a brush. Where longer brushes might be an issue, tiny, fingertip-sized pieces of foam can apply paint and give you coverage. Being compressible, it can get into hard to reach spots too.

painting-with-foam-stamps

Wall Stamps: With the many different pre-cut shapes and designs craft stores stock in open-cell foam, you can use foam to decorate a space with innumerable designs. Children’s bedrooms are popular places for foam stamp painting, as they often carry themes. Whether it’s the stars and moon, undersea creatures, or sports, foam cutouts exist that can be dipped in paint and give you simple and fun designs.

 

Printing: For small-scale, precise stamping, closed-cell foam can simulate rubber stamps. Easy to carve, you can design stamps that are great for greeting cards, arts and crafts, or any other type of activity! Thin sheets can be cut with scissors as well, helping children get in on the fun as well.

 

photo credit: Teitelbaum UnitedSoybeanBoard

Share this:

  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)

Related

Filed Under: Home Decor

About Greta Brinkley

Greta is originally from the West Coast. Now living in the Midwest, she loves hockey, sparkles, nail polish, and bright colors. She also cannot resist anything that has peanut butter and chocolate together. And she hates filling out bios. Yep.

« Must Have Backpacking Essentials for Your Adventures
Pre Wedding Beauty Checklist »

Trackbacks

  1. Making your New House into a Home says:
    February 3, 2015 at 11:17 am
    […] your children like is almost certainly going to help them settle in. Sometimes it’s a good a to paint with foam, but that’s up to you. You should also look towards getting some posters or pictures of their […]
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

About Me

Hi! I’m Greta, a Lifestyle and DIY expert. I’m originally from the west coast, and currently living in the Midwest. We’re mad about DIY and travel, lover of fashion and food, and slightly obsessed with trivia. And you can never go wrong with glitter, nail polish or hockey. Did I mention we were named one of the top DIY blogs?

"Want to work together, or just say hi? Drop me a line! WhyHelloGreta@gmail.com

As Seen On

Our Most Popular Posts

20 More Must Have Camping Essentials

How to Make Glitter Wine Glasses

Easy 10 Minute Hair Updo Tutorial

Custom Mudroom bench Ikea Hack

A Trip on the Grand Canyon Railroad

Newsletter

subscribe for email updates!

Copyright © 2022 · Foodie Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

0 shares
 

Loading Comments...