How to make your own 3D model for impression mat

This post is a continuation of impression mat post made for December Soap Challenge Club.

I was inspired by my bath Moroccan tiles for this challenge. And as they are completely even, I had to do my own 3D model which has to be 1mm thin and flat. I took me very little time to make the pattern but it took me a few days to find suitable material to make the model itself.

As I had no experience with polymeric clay and have no time to teach how to work with it, I send my almost husband to hobby store and he turned back with 1 mm thin linoleum. I’m grateful for his excellent idea, as linoleum turned to be almost undamageable, easy to work with, cheap and is selling in many many shops (not as a pourable silicon).

There are  some pictures of how I made it.

Soap Challenge Club (December 2015 entry)

Hello friends,

This is my first time at Soap Challenge Club and (I counted) my first time:
As for month technique:

• using soap impression mats
• doing my own silicon soap impression mats
• doing my own 3D model for soap silicon mat
• working with pourable silicon
• working with dry mica as well as “lace soap” technique

As for soap making in common:

• using  frangipani and litsea cubeba essential oils in CP soap
• using layers soap technique (I absolutely didn’t know how to do it and has no time to read and watch… BIG mistake)))))
• using slab mold and cutting slabmolded soap
• doing the soap with the smallest amount of oils (100 g)
• doing one soap for two days
• experimenting with discount water technique trying to avoid soda ash

Well, kind of a soap virgin)))))))))


Inspiration

I was inspired by my own bath Moroccan tiles and when I first read Mrs. Clara Lindberg’s post at her blog I was thinking about my tiles which I adore.. as many Moroccan things.. it was in November and I thought that may be.... someday... I would do it. Then I found out about Soap Challenge Club and as a beginner I decided to take part in next one whatever it would be and have kind of a soap school. The task was… Impression Mats, so I smiled and just take it and started to think how to do it.

My Moroccan tiles: