Make Foam Look Like Carved Granite!

Step 5 Complete your Sign

After spraying as many times as you think necessary, sign is ready to finish. Choices include leaving the resist paper on and painting perhaps, or removing the paper for a more "chiseled" look. Take your pick. See samples for various results. The possibilities for making signs is endless: think tombstones, house numbers/plaques, garden markers,direction signs, and so on.

Comments

[somebody demon]

great   i will try it   thanks a lot

[Creaturiste]

Hey, this is very cool! A combination of concepts I knew separately, brought together by you, for an efficient effect! Thanks! Now, how do we protect our foam sign from wear and tear? Foam is easy to bump and chip off. I'm a paper mache specialist, so I know two layers of paper towels and diluted glue will hold on quite well, but that would hage the texture quite a bit. Any good idea with common materials? I know about Rosco Foamcoat, and even Sculpt or Coat, but I'd prefer a finish that isn't palstic-like...

[robsrad]

i saw this instructable and automatically thought of creativemans other instructable about making letters in concrete. So to make it more durable i was thinking of putting the letters on backwards then useing that as a form to pour colored concrete over. I will definitly be trying this out as a christmas present. Nice job creativeman.

[Quiff]

Very nice. Is there an easy method of removal of the masking so the underneath (masked) part stays smooth? Have you tried 77 spray glue on the masking rather than white glue and if so, did it remove cleanly?

[jontjack]

77 spray glue will desolve the foam as well, that has been my experience. I bought 'special foam glue' once and it was just white glue. White glue worked very well for a project of mine that stacked 10 layers of foam to form a block.

[lawdog323]

what is resist paper Creativeman?? I love this idea. Very simple yet an awesome outcome..

[Creativeman]

Thanks LD323: Resist is a material used in sandblasting to prevent the process from removing material under the design....I use it loosely to describe the paper I use (which is simply cardstock) to do the same thing with the spray paint. Cman

[KEUrban]

Great idea... A good combination of technique and creativity!

[Creativeman]

Thanks KE. Cman