Celebrating the 4th with AMAZING "Patriotic" Inspiration... by Brenda Lee Burfeind

Good day, Brenda here again. I hope you all have a wonderful and safe 4th of July. I'm so excited to be here today because the 4th of July is my all time favorite holiday for a few of reasons in no particular order.

1. I love Fireworks (and where we live we can blow them off from the 26th of June through the 7th of July)!

2. I love my husband and he was born on the 4th of July... what a lucky guy!

3. I love Patriotic Jewelry, and I own a ton of it!

So what better way to celebrate the 4th of July

and the good ole USA than with a new pin.

I love the look of the domino, but frankly I find them a bit heavy. So... Amazing Crafting Products to the rescue! I molded a domino with Amazing Mold Putty, then casted using Amazing Casting Resin, and created this:

The resin is so light weight and is a perfect canvas for Sharpies... yes, did you know you can write on your resin pieces with Sharpies? Yup, you sure can! I stamped the firework image for the background first with a Stazon inkpad which dries instantly. I also filled in color with my sharpies and painted the USA directly over that and again using my black sharpie I outlined that.

So I hope I've inspired you to get out your Amazing Crafting Products and your Sharpies and create something beautiful.

Thanks for stopping by to check out my inspiration and I'd love for you to stop by and see me at my blog "Creativity is a State of Mind". ~ Brenda Lee Burfeind

Thanks for stopping by and have a Fabulous 4th of July!

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Celebrating #Cre8time Freedom with American "Fries"... AMAZING Inspiration by Brenda Burfeind

Happy 4th of July!!! Brenda here today to share what's become a tradition here on the Amazing Casting Products Blog that started back in 2013 with this patriotic pin. Last summer I created these dangling sparkling stars to wear... and today I am adorned with new earrings just in time for the celebration!

Today is my favorite day of the year! It's better than Christmas and my Birthday rolled into one! Today is America's birthday and my husband's birthday also. I've always been very patriotic and today I am here to inspire you with my American "Fries" earrings. You will totally understand in a minute.

My grandkids have recently come to live with us and therefore we have all sorts of toys laying around the house. The crafter in me is always looking at their toys wondering what I could mold or create with using Amazing Casting Products. 

Today is no exception! Recently we were playing kitchen and I saw these amazing French Fries in their mixture of play food...

Oh how the wheels started to spin!

I just had to make a mold with those cute play fries. I poured them with some Amazing Casting Resin after making a mold with the Amazing Mold Putty and let them cure for about 5 minutes.

Using regular acrylic paints, I painted some red stripes and a small section in blue on top of the white Amazing Casting Resin. E6000® and some rhinestones for some bling and drilling a hole to attach some jump rings and earring wires I now I have the perfect earrings for the 4th of July!

I totally thought how the shape of those French fries reminded me of a waving flag... and I brought that vision to life! AMAZING!!!

I hope I've inspired you to use something out of your kids'

or grandkids' stash and create something fun!

How do you Celebrate your Cre8time Freedom?

Thanks for stopping and until next time, Brenda from Creativity is a State of Mind wishing you a safe 4th of July!

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#Cre8time Celebrations... DIY Patriotic Planter by Brenda Burfeind

Happy 4th of July! Brenda from Creativity is a State of Mind to share what has become my annual 4th of July project. It's not just Independence Day, it's my husband's birthday also – and every year on the 4th, we have a big party and celebrate with lots of games, good food and of course fireworks. 

I try to decorate as much as possible, but this year time got a little away from me... but I did manage to make some planters representing my love for the red, white and blue. Last year I created an amazing Patriotic wind chime using Amazing Clear Cast Resin – you can see it by CLICKING HERE. 

Using the same method as last year's resin paper stars, I created these stars. When cured, I layered one of each color on top of a coordinating piece of ribbon to embellish some simple silver vases. 

How do you show your Cre8time colors?

Wishing everyone a happy and safe 4th of July. I hope you enjoy your 4th and thank you for stopping by. I hope you've enjoyed my project for today! I invite you to stop over to my blog, Creativity is a State of Mind to see all that I've been making. 

Until next time, Happy Crafting! ~ Brenda

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#Cre8time to Remember our Veterans... by Brenda Burfeind

Good day crafters! Brenda here and today I want to share a little thank you card I put together for Veteran's Day... in my favorite "patriotic" theme. Do you recognize a little something?! I created the embellishments for this using the resin paper I made for my 4th of July windchime {in case you missed it, CLICK HERE to pop over and take a peek}.

Using Amazing Clear Cast Resin, I turned a paper table cloth into resin paper – then used Art-C dies to cut out the shapes. I added a bit of ribbon, cardstock and a matching napkin for the background! Easy-peasy!

Thank you to all those who have served

or are still serving! God Bless America

Please leave me a comment with your ideas and also head over

to Creativity is a State of Mind to see what else I am up to.

Until next time... ~ Brenda wishing you a great day!

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Why PURPLE and LIME are the new Orange and Black! AMAZING Inspiration from Brenda Lee Burfeind

Good day all. Brenda with Creativity is a State of Mind here again to share a quick and simple pendant. With Halloween fast approaching, I thought I would create a simple pendant using the Amazing Mold Putty, the Amazing Clear Cast Resin, Amazing Casting Resin and of course the brand new Alumilite dyes. I just love, love, love the colors. Purple and green go very well together!

I have an existing domino mold in Amazing Mold Putty from my Patriotic 4th of July pin I made {CLICK HERE to jump to this project}. My domino mold has come in handy for this festive jewelry project, too! The domino was made using the Amazing Clear Cast Resin with the Fluorescent {Flo} Green Dye.

I love the neon effect!

I also used a sharpie to add a bit of doodling to the domino, just because. The skull was cast from one of those Halloween rings and I molded it using the Alumilite Violet Dye. I added some rhinestones in for the skulls eyes. I just love how the colors pick up so well. I still think the purple is my favorite, but I love the neon green with the Amazing Clear Cast Resin. Say goodbye to the traditional orange and black... vibrant PURPLE and LIME are IN!

I had some of the purple resin left over and I never let anything go to waste, so I dripped "drops" onto wax paper and made some tiny circles. I added rhinestones to them for the "dots" of the domino and then I sealed the entire piece with some more of the clear cast resin and viola... a Halloween pendant is born!

I hope I've inspired you to use some of the new dyes and either the Amazing Casting Resin or Amazing Clear Cast Resin and create some of your own Halloween jewelry. thanks for joining me today. If you would like to see more of my creations, please hop over to Creativity is a State of Mind. Until next time, have a great day! ~ Brenda Lee Burfeind

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When Inspiration takes a #Cre8time Trip to the Beach... by Brenda Burfeind

Good day friends! Brenda here from Creativity is a State of Mind with a miniature pallet project. Our fearless leader Susan is always encouraging this fabulous Creative Team and a while ago she sent me a picture of an altered pallet that she thought I would love. I had painted a pallet awhile back to look like an American Flag. If you at all follow me and my blog you will know I am very patriotic. Here is a picture of the flag pllet I painted:

I absolutely love the way it turned out and after posting my pictures to facebook I got 3 orders to make them for friends and friends of friends. Crafting pays off!!!

Anyway, this is the pallet inspiration that Susan sent me:

I love the way it looked but really had no need to create another LARGE pallet. So instead... I started out with my Amazing Mold Putty and a starfish from my sand collection (you'll see what I mean later in the post) and molded it. You can view a video HERE on how to prepare your mold putty.

  

Be very careful demolding something as delicate as the starfish. I actually sprayed my starfish with some UMR mold release {or you could use cooking spray also} before pressing it into the Amazing Mold Putty.

I poured my mold with some Amazing Casting Resin (you can view a video HERE to see how to prepare that as well) and let that set up.

Meanwhile, I built my pallet sign using ordinary popsicle sticks.

  

I glued it all together with E6000® and let that

set up while I continued making more starfish.

  

and rubbed the starfish with a little bit of

gold Alumidust just enough to give it some color.

  

and then glued them onto my shredding (see below) with more E6000®.

The hoarder that I am – I found some of this shredding I had saved from some packaging I had. I decided this would be perfect to give my pallet some color.

Not at all what the original picture was, but love it just the same!

and this is what I created.

It sits nicely among my bottles of sand I collect from all over the world. Every time I have friends travel to different places, I ask them to bring me sand – then I bottle it and display it in my bathroom as it is beach themed. My most favorite, exotic sand is from Egypt!

I hope I've given you some inspiration – and remember, when you recreate a project... it doesn't have to be identical.

What would you recreate to look different?

Thanks for joining me again this week and I look forward to your comments.

Sailing on till next time, Brenda

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Show Your #Cre8time Colors... wearing Red, White and Blue Stars by Brenda Burfeind

Good day all! Brenda here again from Creativity is a State of Mind sharing an amazing embossing technique. Now those of you that follow me know that my favorite color is purple, I make all kinds of jewelry, I LOVE elephants and my favorite holiday is ... 4th of July. My husband was born on the 4th and where we live in South Dakota it is legal to blow off fireworks from the 1st thru the 5th of July. Hubby has turned our youngest son into a pyro also. They build all kinds of contraptions and fuse things together to make the biggest and best fireworks display. It's gotten to the point that we don't even go see the "free" show at the park. We have a big party at our house and have lots of lots of friends and family come join out festivities. We set up a bean bag tournament and fun and games for the kids. We have a big cookout with everyone bringing something to pass and then at dusk we enjoy a massive fireworks display. It's so much fun...

So now let's get to why I am are here today. My project today is another jewelry one, but this time with an added twist. I wanted to create a necklace for the 4th displaying some stars. I have plenty of star buttons and such that I could have molded but I wanted some detail. All my stars are just plain and boring. I do however own the "Stars" Cuttlebug embossing folder. Hmmm, could I emboss a star and mold it? Let's try...

I took some plastic from packaging that I hoard... 'er – I mean I save it for projects like this one. Once I ran the piece through my Cuttlebug I carefully cut two of the stars shapes out. 

I mixed up equal parts of Amazing Mold Putty parts "A" and "B" together (Click HERE to get specific instructions on how to do this) and pressed the embossed plastic stars into it. I set aside to cure for about 15 minutes and it's time for the big reveal!

Check out the detail it gave! LOVE IT!!!

I mixed up some Amazing Casting Resin and dusted my mold with Blue and Red Alumidust. I also poured one mold with just the Amazing Casting Resin as it cures white. After they had cured, I used some rub n buff in red, white and blue to highlight each stars embossing and VOILA ... 

A fabulous necklace to show off on the 4th of July.

Now, I hope I've inspired you to use some of your embossing folders and Amazing Crafting Products and create your own one of a kind piece of jewelry, card embellishment or whatever your heart desires.

What would you emboss and how would you use it?

     

These are a couple of my other patriotic projects using Amazing Crafting Products. CLICK HERE to jump to see how I made my Red, White and Blue Rose and CLICK HERE to see how I made my USA Domino Pin.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful 4th of July holiday!

I'd love for you to come check out my more of my work at my blog here.

~ Brenda at Creativity is a State of Mind

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#Cre8time Celebrations... Windchime American Style by Brenda Burfeind

Happy 4th of JULY everyone! Brenda here from Creativity is a State of Mind and I'm so excited for my post today. If you have been following us here at Amazing Casting Products, you will know that I've been crafting with them for many, many years and the 4th of July has always been my day to post projects. Why? Because it's my hubby's birthday and I am super patriotic, especially on this fine day!

So let's dive right in...

I started out with a paper table cloth I bought at Walmart. It's that crepe-paper style that tears the minute you get it out of the package! This is where the creativity comes in!

You will need a plastic bag, baking/freezer paper

or a teflon sheet to lay your paper on.

I mixed up some Amazing Clear Cast Resin to make my resin paper. All you need to do is mix up the resin and you find view the easy mixing instructions HERE! Make sure you wear gloves and coat both sides of your paper evenly and leave it alone for a couple of hours. I think my paper set up in about 4 hours.

Here is a short video on how the resin

"paper" looks and feels after it's dried.

Please CLICK HERE if you are unable to view video.

Now onto step 2 ...

With my Cricut I cut three stars out of chipboard, "recycled cereal box" to be exact. With some left over Amazing Clear Cast Resin from the previous step, I covered the stars and "glued" my crepe-paper table cloth onto it and cut around the excess.

I got this "bottle dryer" at a thrift store and knew I was going to use this for my doming. This has been an amazing find for me. It's made out of a rubbery material and the resin comes right off of it. FABULOUS!!

I laid my stars on top and slowly poured my Amazing Clear Cast Resin over the top. Make sure you spread it to all the edges and tips of the stars. Also make sure you have this placed on a LEVEL table. You do not want your stars to have more resin on one side or the other. 

This set up in about 12 hours. It might have been less but I left it alone for that long.

Here the stars as they are drying.

By using the "recycled cereal box" it

gave the stars an aged look. LOVE IT!

So after my resin paper had dried I took an embroidery hoop and cut out a circle. Again mixing up a tiny bit of Amazing Clear Cast Resin, I applied that to the edge of the embroidery hoop. I could have used another glue, but I wanted to make sure it looked even. SURE – use your clear cast as glue!!!

Since the paper was already covered with resin it didn't "bleed" through and I was able to use my homemade clamps (clothespins made with my crepe-paper table cloth) to keep it taught. 

This set up in about 20 minutes. GORGEOUS!

I drilled holes into the embroidery hoop and the tips of the stars. Using fishing line I attached the stars with bells to the embroidery hoop and VIOLA, my Patriotic Wind Chime was created.

It was so hard to catch a still photo so here is a very short video on what it looks like swinging in the breeze. AMAZING!!!

Please CLICK HERE if you are unable to view video.

How do you decorate 
for the 4th of July?

Thanks for joining me today! I hope I've given you a few ideas on how to use Amazing Casting Products and that you have an Amazing 4th of July. Please leave me a comment with your ideas and also head over to Creativity is a State of Mind to see what else I am up to.

Until next time... ~ Brenda

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#ACPthrowback Third Throwback Thursday... July Edition #TBT #Cre8time

Hey gang!! Rachel Whetzel here, and it's time for #AmazingCastingProduct's Third Throwback Thursday!! Every third Thursday of the month, (but this month we moved to the fourth! You're not crazy). I share links and projects that YOU share on line! There is no need for these projects to be NEW, because this is all about the throwback, so share some throwbacks from YOUR studios and workspaces! We want to see that you create. I hope you'll take the time to visit the links we've shared here, and enjoy all the awesome projects out there!

Revisit our posts from THIS MONTH, in 2012

See them all by clicking HERE.

FACEBOOK

• Brenda had some fun creating some lucky patriotic goodness! 

TWITTER

• Janet Hall tweeted her newbie post using Amazing Mold Putty! 

INSTAGRAM 

• There are some really FUN things hash tagged on INSTAGRAM! 
• n2cre8n shared some intriguing pieces she's molding to create with plaster!
• chellezedd shared a sculpy owl she recently molded... 
• check out a_dolls_delight's post and her cutie patootie doll sized cupcakes! 

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Have any Throwback Thursday

projects you can share?

Post them to our Facebook page, Pinterest, and on Twitter! We'll be on the hunt for your projects with the hashtag #ACPThrowBack, (you can even go back into your past pins and add this pin to help us find you!) and share ALL your projects using the hashtag #AmazingCastingProducts!!

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