Amazing Casting Products: CHA 2014

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Friday, January 24

Join US for an AMAZING Recap from #CHA2014

Greetings Everyone! Susan dropping by today to bring you all an roundup of the happenings at the Amazing Crafting Products Booth from Winter CHA in Anaheim, CA and our Amazing Creatives that joined us in sharing their creative talents at CHA. If you missed the previous recap... CLICK HERE.

Our team began to arrive in sunny California very early Friday AM {more like really late Thursday} and merged on the Anaheim Convention Center for setup day.

The weather couldn't have been more beautiful

as most of the country has been buried in snow and ice.

Our booth began as this...

and was completely transformed by the end of the day!

After setting up all day, then presenting our Amazing products at a sneak peek event, it was time to enjoy the Friday Night Block Party event outside with live music and food trucks. The band was fantastic... they could have kept the party going all night!

DeeDee Catron, Carolyn Daly, Mike Faupel and myself {Susan},

enjoying a little down-time before the 4 convention days ahead.

Bright and early Saturday Morning we put the finishing touches on the display and set out all of our AMAZING Creatives work for the world to see and enjoy! A complete transformation... showcasing an array of works of various application and creative styles. Guests who visited our booth truly enjoyed all the work to be seen and trying out Amazing Crafting Products for themselves.

The real attention grabbers were these four giant banners – one for each product: Amazing Mold Putty, Amazing Mold Rubber, Amazing Casting Resin, and Amazing Clear Cast Resin paired with colorful boxes of each product stacked little tables... total EYE CANDY. The show attendees that visited our booth enjoyed seeing many of the pieces from the banners in person. This was my third time attending this show as part of this booth and I was amazed by how all the fabulous work we had on display captured every creatives delight!

Tanya Ruffin shows how to create personalized pendants for mold-making.

I showed how to turn a variety of vintage buttons into a box of AMAZING chocolates...

and had a little midnite crafting madness
with Amazing Clear Cast Resin back in the hotel room!

DeeDee Catron working her creative magic while demonstrating.

Jessica Baker's hot white stunning jewels
complimented Carolyn Daly's ensemble perfectly!

Tracy Alden inspired and showed attendees how to create
fun cast resin pieces from items in your crafty stash...

pinning stunning art to decorate your badge holder!

Tanya Ruffin demos making a faux red wine glass using Amazing Clear Cast Resin like her Vlad Dracula candle holder project... this made for some fun conversation.

With another CHA Winter in the books – we off on another creative adventure! :) Sb

Thanks for stopping by and have a great evening!

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Sunday, January 19

Creative Play at CHA 2014 Leads to AMAZING Discoveries... by Susan M. Brown {sbartist}

Happy Sunday Everyone! Susan dropping by today. The past week and a half have flown by from traveling coast-to-coast to attend the Winter CHA in Anaheim, CA. Going from east to west leaves you feeling like a superhero with a rush of adrenaline... and then the whiplash of jetlag catches you on the return flight. I think I slept for three days when I got home. I will share more recaps throughout this week of our Amazing Creatives that joined us in sharing their creative talents at CHA.

If you took photos at the Amazing Crafting Products/Alumilite booth... we'd love for you to share!!! Please email to amazingcrafting at yahoo dot com and we will share them here -OR- if you are on Instagram post them with #AmazingCraftingProducts and they will feed to our slideshow on the right sidebar.

I brought with me a few of my Amazing DIY No-Gelatin Printing Plates and some paint for demoing. I was pleasantly surprised how many people visited to see how the monoprinting technique works. I totally want to cover my table in Amazing Mold Rubber now. It's the perfect non-stick surface to work on with resin... and a wonderful work surface for painting, too!

I applied layers of Liquitex Acrylic paints and pressed in resin cast buttons, shapes and various samples we had made throughout the day. I stamped circles using our mixing cups and bottle lids.

Quick and easy mixed media art with a handful of supplies and in a matter of minutes I had about a dozen painted monoprints {on the back of our sales sheets – LOL}.

I added Alumilite Metallic Powders and Ranger Perfect Pearls while acrylic paint layers are drying.

I'm so excited because I came up with a totally "BRILLIANT" idea – a brand new technique!

Since I had quite a buildup of paint and color on my Amazing DIY No-Gelatin Printing Plate... I could have easily added more wet paint and pulled off onto paper or by using strips of clear packing tape. But I had an IDEA! I wanted to get it off in one pull... fused together with Amazing Casting Resin – giving me a painted resin sheet.

Detail of the first layer of Amazing Casting Resin beginning to cure. It was taking a bit longer than expected because it was such a thin pour {to be expected}, and the Amazing Mold Rubber slab stays quite cool... so we improvised on the fly!

I gently separated the two-plys of a paper towel and placed one into the uncured resin. This immediately helped accelerate the curing as it thickened the layer. As it cured I prepared another batch of Amazing Casting Resin and poured on top, then added the remaining ply of paper towel. This did the trick in getting it to harden faster. It was near the end of the day and we had quite a few gathered to watch – all very excited to see the results so waiting until the next morning wasn't going to do.

The "LIVE" reveal!!!

Presenting the first ever Amazing Casting Resin Monoprint pulled from the Amazing DIY No-Gelatin Printing Plate! This has only been tested on a faux gelatin plate made of Amazing Mold Rubber. **PLEASE NOTE** I do not know what the results of this technique would be on an official gelli plate.

Detail of first Amazing Casting Resin monoprint! The Alumilite Gold and Silver Metallic Powders look like silver and gold leafing pressed between the layers of paint! I did experiment the next day with another one on my larger plate... and I toyed around with pouring a thicker layer of Amazing Casting Resin, eliminating the need for the paper towel. Stay tuned for upcoming posts to see what I've done with these resin monoprints!

Special thanks to my new creative pal Keri Sallee for capturing all these photos and video while I was getting messy and enjoying my Cre8time!

What do you think of this AMAZING Discovery??

If you would like to see more of my creations, please visit my blog

sbartist : painting in the dark by clicking here. ~ Susan

Thanks for stopping by and have a great evening!

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Saturday, January 11

Step Right Up to Meet our Amazing CAST of Creatives at Winter #CHA2014...

The annual Winter CHA begins today Jan. 11th and goes through Jan. 14th... which will be the official introduction of our newest addition, Amazing Mold Rubber!

Your favorite creations from our entire creative team are on display showcased for you to see in all their AMAZING glory. If you or your LSS are attending... please come and drop by the Amazing Crafting Products / Alumilite Corp. Booth #408.

Several of our Creative Team

will be on-site demonstrating

throughout the CHA Convention.

On Saturday, Sunday and Monday you can meet and learn techniques from...