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Foam to Leather (Tutorial)

colorfulcheshire:

madragingven:

midnight-visitor:

Things you’ll need:

  • Brown craft foam
  • Aluminum foil
  • Clothes iron
  • Ironing board
  • Black paint
  • Brown paint (lighter than your foam)
  • Paint brush
  • Paper towel

Grab some aluminum foil and crumble it into a ball. Not too tight of a ball though! The next step is almost impossible if you do. 

Next, un-crumple the ball. Flatten it out into one layer. It’s fine if there are a few holes.

Place it on top of your foam.

Take your iron and firmly press it on the foam and aluminum. My iron was set to 3 (polyester) but the correct temperature may be different for other irons. Just remember not to use steam! Before doing this on a large piece, be sure to experiment and figure out what the best temperature and what the best pressure is. On larger pieces, you’ll have to move the aluminum around a lot. It’s not a quick process.

Now you’ve got this crinkly affect on the foam. Next is painting!

Grab you’re brush, black paint, and a dish with some water. The idea is to dilute the black paint enough so that when you apply it the paint will seep into the divets the aluminum created. 

Once the watery paint is applied, wipe it off with a paper towel. Continue to do this for your whole piece of foam.

Now here’s an optional step (of which I haven’t done myself but I’ve known others who have):

Grab the light brown paint and, without diluting it, paint it on. It’s best to use a coarse brush in this case and to try to keep it out of the divets. Wipe some of the paint off. 

Remember, imperfections are always good! Uneven paint isn’t necessarily bad so just experiment with it. 

Here’s an example of a bracer I did with this method. The first two pictures are an example of the foam I began with and the rest show the end result. I hope this helps you guys out!

Cosplay, reference

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

slavicafire:

see, the thing is that you can be edgy and dramatic and an absolutely dark macabre-loving bones-hoarding bastard and not be an asshole

nothing’s stopping you from being all that and a caring person overflowing with love

people who think that you have to apathetic and cynical and downward fucking mean to fit the aesthetic are just boring

being an asshole is neither an aesthetic nor a personality

vstheworld:

takuahijackedthetardis:

scaliefox:

furlockhound:

lizzyangelic:

“You’re too old for that.”

Is really a shitty concept. You’re too old for everything. Cartoons, sleepovers, candy, etc. Basically, you’re too old for fun. You shouldn’t be too old for fun ever in your life. If you want to watch cartoons, do it! If you want to have sleepovers, do it! 

CS Lewis famously said that the intrusive desire to appear grown up all costs was in of itself a childish trait that secure adults should’ve grown out of it.

He worded it that “When I was young I hid my love of fairy tails for fear of ridicule, now that I’m 50 I read them openly”

All this is true.

The intrusive desire to appear “mature” is a major insecurity in and of itself and the sooner we learn hobbies have no age limit that get’s you thrown out for hitting it, the better.

You’re an adult, do whatever tf makes you happy, who cares what other people think.

of all mammals, the human is the only one to abandon play in adulthood entirely.

PSA TO APPLE USERS

i-got-personality:

booksbroadwayandbagels:

space-minivan:

sanders-trash-4ever:

space-minivan:

sanders-trash-4ever:

anxietywithclare:

mmk i’ve got v few followers but i’m hoping this helps at least one person so here I go.

Apple is coming out with something called ““Apple screentime” which will basically allow your parents to see what apps you use when and set restrictions and shit for when you can use what apps. If you are in a situation where you have apps or social media’s or really anything you don’t/can’t have your parents know about DELETE THAT SHIT before September 1st when this comes out. This works through the ““family sharing” shit on your iCloud account so if you can either leave your “family” or use a different Apple ID  or something. 

If you can’t do that, I personally access Tumblr and discord and YouTube and everything else through my laptop and the Pinterest web browser (yes that’s a thing) so if that’s an option for any of you out there join me. 

This may sound hella dumb to some people but like my parents would LOSE THEIR SHIT and ground me if they knew I had tumblr or really anything and that’s the only thing keeping me alive tbh so just be safe out there kiddos. 

I just googled this and it’s true holy shit

Oh my fucking god. Oh my god. I can’t let my parents find out about that shit or see my shit. I’d be outed immediately bhhbbbjdjd

The same for me.. I’m going to have to delete the mobile app and just use my computer because I don’t trust them to not limit me using Pinterest to get on here

My laptop is utterly useless so I have n o clue what I’m gonna do sjfjdjfjd

Guys, please, I don’t want you getting into trouble

I love you all STAY SAFE

I have some very important news!

I decided to find out more, and it is possible to hide apps from Family Sharing without deleting them! Apple themselves said how to do it, here you go:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201322

Hide apps for your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac

Stay safe you guys.

Just throwing it out there

create-a-positive-mind:

xekstrin:

If you’re the kind of person with “unfollowing anxiety” I want you to know it’s okay to unfollow me

 I don’t care if we’re mutuals, friends in real life, family, whatever

You aren’t obligated to follow me, I don’t keep track of followers/unfollowers, I don’t “do inventory” and see if my mutuals are still following me, and I definitely don’t ever “call out” someone for unfollowing me

Please know this is okay! As much as I love being able to reach each and every one of you, I never want anyone to feel pressured to continue to follow me if it’s no longer what they want to see on their dash board.