Working With EVA Foam
By Victoria Lohman
Costume Mask
Victoria made this EVA Foam mask using several of our products. The mask was cut from 1/16 inch EVA/Polyethylene Craft Foam. She used the 3-Inch Hot Knife to cut slits in the eyes of the mask for the Scroll Table Wire Terminal to slide through. She then cut the eye holes out using the Original Scroll Table with the #007 Precision Scroll Table Wire. The Pro Wire does not make a clean cut through this type of foam.
The surface stamping was done with the Freehand Router. It is important to get the heat just right using the adjustment slide or dial on the Pro Power Station. She heated the foam with an embossing heat gun to form the shape of the mask. She quickly put the heated foam on hard plastic full face mask.
The same process was used for the small roses on the mask. The entire mask was then painted with a thin layer of Bounce. Once it was dry, she painted on the base color, then using highlight paints and pigments as well as liquid paint pens, she did all of the final detail touches.
Before gluing on the final embellishments, she painted the tubular receptacle for the feathers with Bounce. As soon as it was tacky to the touch, she applied pieces of leafing flake onto the area and used a very soft blush applicator brush. This simple method gets the leafing flake to lay smooth and stay on without any sealer. She used Styrogoo to adhere the feathers and glass crystals to the mask.
Suggested tools/materials for this project:
Original Scroll Table • StyroGoo
• Bounce Rubberizer • 2-In-1 Pro Tool Kit
Crypt Door
Victoria made this incredibly detailed crypt door at HauntCon 2020 for a haunt display. The cross design is made out of EVA foam.
She cut the design out with the Original Scroll Table, using a 3-Inch Hot Knife to cut a hole to slip the scroll wire through.
She applied a protective layer of bounce, and once that dried, she used the same technique she used on the mask to give it a bronze finish.
She applied the same technique to the rest of the door and set it up for display.
The beautiful doorknob piece was donated by Drop Dead Design Studios.
Victoria’s daughter, Denise Lohman, painted it and added foam screws to cover the screw holes that she cut out with the Original Scroll Table.
