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Post by miltonmurphy on Feb 12, 2014 20:33:47 GMT
I ordered some impression mats in wood grain, cobblestone, brick, and 1 inch squares. In this video, I show how I used the different textures to experiment on a small craft piece.
Cheers, MM
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Feb 12, 2014 22:02:10 GMT
Nicely Done MM! Thanks for sharing those!
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Post by miltonmurphy on Feb 12, 2014 22:13:25 GMT
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Post by adamantinedragon on Feb 13, 2014 0:18:37 GMT
I keep on meaning to buy some cheap single ply toilet paper just to use this technique. Excellent video guide. Thanks for putting the effort into making it.
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Post by miltonmurphy on Feb 13, 2014 0:46:12 GMT
I keep on meaning to buy some cheap single ply toilet paper just to use this technique. Excellent video guide. Thanks for putting the effort into making it. You're welcome adamantinedragon! I was surprised that it was as easy as it was. Some additional tips: I bought a large tissue (plain, no aloe or anything like that) box of Kleenex. Those sheets covered the whole impression mat. When I was gluing the cobblestone texture to the foam, I had a weight holding down the sheet. Even though the impression was dry it flattened out so if you glue it to anything use light, light weight to hold it down (in my case I used pins to pin it to the foam while it dried.) Once it's glued to something solid (like the brick walkway glued to the cardboard) bending it can crack it. I tried to bend the bowing out of the walkway and it cracked across it. In most cases it won't matter but good to know.
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Post by skunkape on Feb 13, 2014 20:29:45 GMT
They look good! Good implementation of them too!
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Post by earlteagrey on Feb 14, 2014 13:40:59 GMT
Milton, where did you buy your mats? Scotty mentioned Wal-Mart for his. I didn't have much luck on Amazon.
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Post by skunkape on Feb 14, 2014 16:13:17 GMT
Milton, where did you buy your mats? Scotty mentioned Wal-Mart for his. I didn't have much luck on Amazon. I have been having the same problem. I did end up purchasing a stone sheet package from Plastruct that I've used to make sheets using Scotty's method and they worked fairly well. I'm planning on picking up some different sheets from Plastruct, just haven't put in an order yet. I did a search for stone on their site and came up with some good looking sheets. Not completely sure how they'll work yet, that's what I'll find out after I get them in the mail! Plastruct SiteClick the Search/View/Order link in the left nav and type in stone in the Catalog Description field toward the bottom of the page. I'll let everyone know in a couple of weeks what they look at after I get them ordered and received.
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Post by miltonmurphy on Feb 15, 2014 18:59:51 GMT
Milton, where did you buy your mats? Scotty mentioned Wal-Mart for his. I didn't have much luck on Amazon. Howdy @earlteagray, I had the same problem as you and skunkape. Impression mats are actually use to mold fondant for cakes and other baked products which you probably already know but once I figured that out a whole new world opened up. I ended up ordering mine from www.cakesupplies4u.com. The wood grain, cobblestone, and brick patterns were sold separately and I bought one other set that came with 4 individual mats (two different size squares and two different sized diamonds.) It came to about 20 bucks (that's with shipping included) for 7 mats. The vendor was quick to get it in the mail too. Cheers, MM
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Post by earlteagrey on Feb 15, 2014 19:54:33 GMT
Milton, where did you buy your mats? Scotty mentioned Wal-Mart for his. I didn't have much luck on Amazon. Howdy @earlteagray, I had the same problem as you and skunkape. Impression mats are actually use to mold fondant for cakes and other baked products which you probably already know but once I figured that out a whole new world opened up. I ended up ordering mine from www.cakesupplies4u.com. The wood grain, cobblestone, and brick patterns were sold separately and I bought one other set that came with 4 individual mats (two different size squares and two different sized diamonds.) It came to about 20 bucks (that's with shipping included) for 7 mats. The vendor was quick to get it in the mail too. Cheers, MM Huge thanks! This is great.
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Post by skunkape on Feb 18, 2014 18:49:52 GMT
I ended up ordering mine from www.cakesupplies4u.com. The wood grain, cobblestone, and brick patterns were sold separately and I bought one other set that came with 4 individual mats (two different size squares and two different sized diamonds.) It came to about 20 bucks (that's with shipping included) for 7 mats. The vendor was quick to get it in the mail too. Cheers, MM Hey, thanks for posting this! Took me a while, but I finally found the mats, or at least I think I did, below is the page. Is that what you were talking about? Texture Mats
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Post by miltonmurphy on Feb 18, 2014 20:38:23 GMT
Hi skunkape, Yep. Those are them. The specific ones I ordered were CK Products Icing Impression Mat Cobblestone, CK Products Icing Impression Mat Brick, CK Products Icing Impression Mat Diamond & Square Assortment 4 pk., and CK Products Icing Impression Mat Woodgrain. Cheers, MM
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Post by grym247 on Mar 5, 2014 1:58:17 GMT
Looks Great dude, They turned out really good
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