Texture is the name of today’s game as I explore the ins and outs of Nuvo Expanding Mousse. This interesting and unique product is formulated to react when heat it applied, allowing you to form layers of pebbly texture. Thick layers react more than thin ones. Having texture in the Mousse before adding heat changes the results too.
I think you’ll find this product very useful to have in your studio. Expanding Mousse is a game changing product and quite unique. With it you can create all kinds of interesting textural effects.
Supplies For This Video:
Dina Wakley Palette Knife (don’t use your fingers to remove the product form the jar. You’re liable to introduce mold)
Surfaces include our Joggles Watercolor Disc Bound Journals, Joggles Watercolor Tags
Yep, the Mousse is perfect with stencils! Joggles 9″ x 12″ Stencils, Joggles 6″ x 9″ Stencils (on sale at 30% off), Crafter’s Workshop Stencils (on sale at 20% off)
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THANK YOU for your comment about not using fingers to transfer contents from a jar! I have lost count of my pleas to cosmetic companies to stop packaging products in jars, or to include label directions to not put fingers in the products. I prefer such products in tubes or squeeze bottles. Many if not most such products are good media for bacterial or yeast growth. Anyone who ever took high school biology would know that, yet transference of such knowledge doesn’t seem to happen. I keep a supply of popsickle sticks next to any such jar when I like a product so much that I am willing to accept it in a jar. The very idea of putting contaminated cream on my skin gives me the creeps.
Ha! After watching the “expanding mousse” tutorial my hubby and I were getting quite the chuckle on applying this stuff on a guy card (because they are so hard to come up with ideas for). So I said yeah, you could swipe a swath of it down the card heat it up, and bingo there you have a cool guy card. They all love that kind of nondescript kind of creation. So yes this will be s big hit in my artroom creations for guys!! Thanks for the demo and the tip about keeping the bacteria out of it by not sticking our fingers in it like we are sooo prone to do!
Would it be possible to hold the finished piece up closer to the camera for a better visual. Thanks
Interesting product indeed! Question: how flexible/elastic is it? I’m wondering if it is going to crack and fall off if used on a thinner substrate that is bendable. Thank you for always having cool new things to introduce and making these videos!
It’s flexible before it’s textured and after. I meant to mention that in the video and forgot, sorry!
I used this product for the first time. Fab results. One thing that happened to me is that some places started to lift off the paper. maybe it’s because I sprayed the paper first with a glimmer product and it wasn’t quite dry? It wasn’t a huge problem, the pieces settled down and i could put a dab of glue on the back if necessary. Maybe I overheated.