"Better Bricks for 25mm to 35mm" Topic

I have the Fiskars rectangluar hole punch and have tried card stock and thin solid cardboard with varying degrees of happy outcome look, but thats all behind me since finding Foamies 2mm spongy foam sheets.

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This new material will save me sooo much time and effort at getting rubble piles looking right with out the Endless paintbrush reaching in to hit the white edges I missed the 27 times I rotated the piece….

Now that's useful! Thanks

Wow, that does look very good! I wonder if you were to take the brown foam sheet and paint some white (or light gray) in splotches on each side before you punched out the bricks, would it look like some of the bricks had bits of mortar still clinging to them? Rubble bricks should not be pristine :)

And where do you get that rectangular hole punch?

Is this it? link

The link KatieL has provided is indeed the Fiskars hole punch that I use! And applying paint to the surface of the material would give you a nice mix of random colors appearing in the rubble piles.

Cool. That's what you were talking about. Now I get what you were saying.

I might splash out on one of these and give it a go then…

Great tip, thank you.

Hmmm figured out a slight change for punching the foam bricks, on the Fiskars Punch the Catcher piece can easily be poped off. Seems the foam gets a bit of static charge when being punched that makes the bricks cling to the inside of the punch catcher… So now I punch away over a cookie pan sheet in my lap and do not have the build up in the catcher … that doesn't want to drop out problem :)