If you ever find yourself with creative block, here's what works for me. Get yourself a tablet of NewsPrint.

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It will be hard to resist those empty pages. Last night I wanted to try some techniques I had been intimidated by. There is this product called magic Mold. Its a block of foam that, when heated, will hold the shape of anything you mold on it. I wanted to create my own background textures. My first attempt was to mold that bubble packaging and see what kind of background I would get...I loved it.

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Next I wanted to see what result I would get, molding a cool piece of jewelry depicting a ship...Ohh La La....I was in creative heaven.

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I wanted to create textures for the Sorority cutouts. Here's the result for three.

crumbled tissue paper with black soot stamping pad

bracelet and chain with faded blue jeans stamping pad

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All and all I had great fun and my creative juices were jump started. Now I am fired up and ready to get the site up and come up with still more creative ideas and videos and share techniques as I stumble across them. I also tried image transfers with gel medium. I will share my result next time.

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