Formica was created in 1913 at the Westinghouse Company as an electric insulator but quickly became useful in other ways. In it's heydays during the 1930s it was used in diners to cover just about every surface! Your grandma probably had a kitchen table covered with it!
My mini collages have a base of a sample of Formica from Lowe's. I got the idea from an article about an artist who uses the samples in the same way in the Somerset Studio Magazine last year. This necklace is two sided..... Mr. Summer Crab on one side and .........
Seaside Sailor Boy on the other side!
Ok, here the skinny on how to make them......... get a Formica sample chip from Lowe's. They are about 1.5 inches by 2 inches.
Spread a liberal amount of gel medium on the back of the sample with a brush...
place it glue side down on a piece of cardstock....
Let it dry and then cut around it. Do the same thing to the other side of it.
Here are some Formica samples I covered and now they are ready for collaging!
Getting back to my obsession with grilled dough....I did grilled pizzas again the other night and had an extra piece of grilled dough so I saved it and used it as a base for strawberries. The berrie were drizzledd with a vanilla glaze (1TB. of french vanilla coffee creamer added to 1/2 cup of powdered sugar) and then drizzled with bittersweet chocolate. It was DE-LISH!
Here are some Formica samples I covered and now they are ready for collaging!Getting back to my obsession with grilled dough....I did grilled pizzas again the other night and had an extra piece of grilled dough so I saved it and used it as a base for strawberries. The berrie were drizzledd with a vanilla glaze (1TB. of french vanilla coffee creamer added to 1/2 cup of powdered sugar) and then drizzled with bittersweet chocolate. It was DE-LISH!
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