I found a piece of a lid to a styrofoam take-out box, going through my crafty trash stash, today.

I have heard you can mark on styrofoam, or styrene, and make a stamp.

There’s an old coloring book from when the grandkids were little in a cabinet of saved books. I remember seeing cute little birds.

I tucked the foam under a drawing and traced it with a dull colored pencil. I couldn’t find my ball-end stylus.

So, I colored around the bird to compress the foam.

I got out a couple of ink pads and some scrap paper. I tried the blue first.

I re-inked and tried again.s

I cleaned the stamp and re-inked with red. I could be more precise with the small ink pad.

I tried a copper Sharpie.

It barely transferred at all, but now, I can see the stamp better.

I’d only count this as a success if I only wanted a suggestion of a bird.

If I try this again, I might color inside the bird, to depress that area, and maybe produce a reverse image?

Oh well, it was fun to try.