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...

Susan M. Brown {sbartist}

Creative Team Leader

Tracy Alden of Art Resurrected

DeeDee Catron of UmWowStudio

Tanya K. Ruffin of Create Studios

and

 

Cheryl Boglioli
Mixed Media Artist and Educator
www.cherylswindow.com

Please come and drop by the Amazing Crafting Products / Alumilite Corp. Booth #408 and try your hand at AMAZING Crafting Products!

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Yes, I’ve lost my Marbles playing with Amazing Mold Putty!!! AMAZING Tag Art by Cheryl Boglioli

Hello, AMAZING friends. Cheryl Boglioli here again today to share another fun project playing with Amazing Mold Putty and Amazing Clear Cast Resin. Warning…this is a little picture heavy!

It started with a tiny jar. This is one of those car fresheners from Yankee Candle.

It’s just too cute, don’t you think?

Following directions as on packaging, I mixed equal parts

of Amazing Mold Putty and rolled into oblong ball.

I pressed the small jar into the Amazing Mold Putty and rolled the sides up to the halfway point on the plastic jar. This was quite easy since the jar has slits to let the fragrance out at the half-way point.

After a few minutes, the mold was set and the jar came right out. Love the detail of the jar lid.

I wanted to create a antique canning jar, so I wanted to make a pretty green jar using Amazing Clear Cast Resin and Alumilite Dye. I mixed one small drop of Yellow Alumilite Dye and one small drop of Blue Alumilite Dye.

It came out much darker than I wanted. It was deep emerald to almost black. Lost much of the transparency this way. I still poured this into my molds and used it. I’ll find something to do with it later.

After the first attempt, I mixed another batch. This time, I mixed one whole drop of Yellow Alumilite Dye and a teeny tiny drop of Blue Alumilite Dye using a skewer and picking up one dot with the top of the skewer. Seriously, this stuff is so AMAZINGly concentrated, that it only takes a tiny bit. And voila! a light translucent blue/green color jar !

I poured my mixed resin into my mold. I still had some left over (I’ve since learned how to mix the right amount by pouring water into my mold and measuring how much water the mold will hold), so I poured the extra into other molds. Not going to let any go to waste. I even cheated and used another mold I had lying around the house. See the blue stripes in the butterfly? I used the tip of my skewer and the extra Blue Alumilite Dye that was on my nonstick craft mat to draw designs into my butterfly.

You can see the difference between the two colors I was able to achieve here. Look at the edges of the dark cameo and you can see more of the green. Where the pieces are thick, it looks almost black.

You’ll notice a haze on your pieces of cured Amazing Clear Cast Resin when using Amazing Mold Putty. All I had to do was mix a tiny amount of Amazing Clear Cast Resin again and paint over the pieces to bring the glass shine back. I didn’t paint over the clear cameo piece this time. I liked the haze on the cameo.

After it was all dry, I created my tag using Dylusions Ink Sprays and Dylusions stencils and stamps. I also used a stamp set, Friendship Jar Fillers, from Papertrey Ink for the marbles inside (under) the jar and for the Marbles sentiment. I used Helmar Gemstone glue to adhere the jar to the stamped tag. Once dry, it is completely clear.

I loved the quote when combining the two sentiments. For anyone who knows me, you will know how fitting this is to sit in my studio! Yes, sometimes people think I have lost my marbles when they see my studio.

I hope you found some inspiration from my post and will stay in touch with me and see more of my work at Cheryl’s Window. Thanks for inviting me to be an Amazing Featured Artist. I love playing with these AMAZING products.



   Cheryl Boglioli
   Mixed Media Artist and Educator
   www.cherylswindow.com

Cheryl Boglioli... an AMAZING Featured Artist Spotlight

Greetings AMAZING Crafters! Today we have a fun Q&A with our Featured Artist Cheryl Boglioli to know her a little better! Have fun getting a peek inside her window.
Enjoy :) Sb

Some fun questions for the inquiring minds...

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What did you want to be when you grew up?

"For the longest time, I wanted to run off on adventures and be Pippi Longstocking! I When I realized I had to be me, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was always sketching and doodling as a kid. I’d get in trouble for drawing instead of doing my homework. I doodle when I’m thinking too. I never could concentrate in class unless I was seriously taking notes or doodling as I was listening. I didn’t do many crafts as a child. I didn’t start doing crafty projects until I was pregnant with my daughter and the nesting hormones kicked in. I taught myself to crochet by making her first baby blanket with matching booties and bonnet. Then it was a needlepoint of Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit, scrapbooking those baby photos, and it just grew from there. Now I’m a Professional CHA Designer member and create many craft projects, but I am starting to pursue my original dream of an artist and creating more art pieces as well. I'm working on finding the balance of having a foot in both industries. It is becoming easier as the two meld together in many ways."

Coke or Pepsi???

"Pepsi!"

What inspires you?

"Nature. I love the majestic world we live in and am always inspired by the smell of pine trees, the sound of the ocean, the view of a mountain ridge, and the quiet peace of a fresh snowfall."

What is the TOP thing to do on your "Bucket LIST"?


"I have ALWAYS wanted to visit Paris. It might be a little cliché,
but still a major bucket list item."

Photo from wikipedia.com

If you could print any phrase

on a T-shirt, what would it say?

"Seriously???"

If you could mold ANYTHING with

Amazing Mold Putty, what would it be?

"A lizard! They are everywhere in my backyard and I keep saying it would be so cool to mold one, but I can’t get one to hold still long enough and I don’t want to kill it."

What style of music gets your creative juices going?

"My style of music is quite eclectic, much like my art. I’m still a country girl at heart, but most don’t know that. Yes, I use to line dance and I can two-step. When driving by myself, it is hairband rock as loud as I can play it -- I’m still an 80’s girl. I also really like Urban Alternative music like Gavin Degraw and Mumford & Sons. When I’m jamming in the studio, you may hear any of these music types blaring out from my speakers!"

Thanks for stopping by today! We hope you enjoyed this peek inside Cheryl's Window. To see check out more of her amazing creative work, please visit www.cherylswindow.com/.

   Cheryl Boglioli

   Mixed Media Artist and Educator

   www.cherylswindow.com

Remember to BRANCH OUT... Mold an AMAZING Stamp from a Stencil with Cheryl Boglioli

I’m so excited to be playing with Amazing Crafting Products and join you as the Featured Artist this month. My name is Cheryl Boglioli from Cheryl’s Window.  I am a mixed media, very eclectic artist and one thing I love playing with is stencils. I use them with most all my mediums. Nevertheless, sometimes I wish my stenciled image was a stamp, especially when I want to work with Ranger Archival Inks over PanPastels or water based mediums i.e. Tattered Angels mists, and Dylusions Ink Sprays.

I figured that Amazing Mold Rubber would make a great cling stamp, so I set out to try and make one (and I’ll admit I had an epic fail my first time, but I was ‘branching’ out, right?). I decided to work with one of my favorite stencils by The Crafter’s Workshop. It is Julie Balzer’s TCW229 Rain stencil. My first attempt with just laying the stencil flat, which allowed the Amazing Mold Rubber to leak under the stencil. 

Here is a pic of my first attempt with stencil placed directly on my nonstick craft mat. You can see where the stencil is not flush with the mat, but I had thought the weight of the rubber would weight that specific area down enough and didn’t think it would float. It was not flush enough. I used folded wide masking tape to make my containment mold. If I was going to do it again, I would use this method again. That part did work great, but I kept experimenting. 

 

This was how the first stamp came out. See how the rain drops are not defined on the one edge? I could have cut the stamp down at this point and just used a smaller stamp. Maybe I’ll keep this piece and do just that, but I wanted a larger surface stamp for backgrounds. Continue onto take 2.

After some thought, I decided to tape my selected stencil from The Crafter’s Workshop to a acrylic board I have on hand. (don’t pay attention to my stained stencils) I am sure you could use a large, smooth tile, but make sure it does not have any texture or dimples. You could use any flat surface as long as you are not going to move it, but make sure it is smooth and FLAT!!! I prefer to use my board so I can put it on my bread tray caddy while curing and get things off my desk. I would bet we could even use a re-positionable adhesive and tack down the stencil as long as you brayered the stencil down to make sure it was completely flat on your working surface.

To keep the Amazing Mold Rubber contained, I taped down a small disposable plastic bowl with the bottom cut off. Hey, use what you have, right? I then mixed the Amazing Mold Rubber according to directions and slowly poured into my mold. I put the tile on my tray and set it away to cure overnight.  Directions say a few hours, but I am inpatient and would keep touching it if I didn’t put it away.

 

After curing, I removed the bowl and tape. 

Yes, the Amazing Mold Rubber leaked under my bowl, but that is OK.

  

Just use a pair of scissors and trim away and excess rubber. It cuts very easy.

Don’t forget to trim any extra lipping around the edges.

These will prevent your stamp from laying flat on your stamping block. 

This was the perfect size to fit one of my larger T!m Holtz stamping blocks. I usually work on larger surfaces, so I wanted a larger stamp. You could personalize this for your desired size and shape. I also didn’t care that it wasn’t a perfectly shaped stamp as I am very textural and layer a lot of images with a lot of mediums in most of my works.

  

I think this stamp will make an awesome background for canvases, cards, or die cut pieces. I decided to use it and play in my art journal mixing the stamp with the original stencil, some PanPastel colors, Dylusions Ink Sprays, gesso, collage from my stash box using stamped images on scrap papers, tags, and PITT Artist Pens.  

I started with a basic background in PanPastel colors. 

Layered Dylusions Ink Sprays with the original stencil and another Dylusions stencil and then began adding various other layers and gesso. I then stamped the raindrop stamp made with Amazing Mold Rubber using Ranger Archival Inks and added my own journaling and doodling. 

I don’t know about you, but I’m looking at my stencils in a new light and look forward to making some other stamps to play with. 

Thanks for checking out my project today. I hope you are inspired to play with Amazing Crafting Products and try some Amazing Mold Rubber if you haven’t already. You can see more of my works at Cheryl’s Window.  

   Cheryl Boglioli
   Mixed Media Artist and Educator
   www.cherylswindow.com

Introducing our AMAZING Featured Artist for November... Cheryl Boglioli

Happy Friday! Today we continue our "Featured Artist" series here at the Amazing Crafting Products blog. Each month we feature one artist who will share a special project and some inspiration using Amazing Crafting Products.

Our featured artist this month is a new friend to us and Amazing Crafting Products, and have become fast friends! We are proud to have Cheryl Boglioli join us as our Featured Artist for November. We are excited to welcome Cheryl and to take a peek into her window as she plays with Amazing Crafting Products.

A little bit about Cheryl...

Cheryl Boglioli is a Florida native, a wife, and a mother of one beautiful daughter. Her areas of concentration are as a Mixed Media Artist, Educator and Professional Craft Designer, with a love of learning. Cheryl is on the leading edge of new products and techniques within the various disciplines of the ever growing market of mixed media, craft design, and art. She has a background in graphic design and is continually taking classes to build her art resume and learn new techniques.

Cheryl has delved into and immersed herself in the growing power of social media and is excited to be so prominently featured in emerging internet communities. In 2011, she achieved CHA Professional Designer Member status and in 2012 became a full-time Designer and Educator, traveling and teaching workshops at independent stores and events.

"I like using cameos in my mixed media canvases
as well as on cards and I love the detail
that Amazing Mold Putty captures.
The cameos were then created with clay."

Cheryl currently works with several manufacturers as a recognized educator and designer in the arts and crafts & hobby industries. Her current passion is Encaustics and PanPastels and finding ways to bring these mediums into her mixed media works.

Thanks so much for dropping by! Check back next Friday for some AMAZING Inspiration by our Featured Artist Cheryl Boglioli... you don't want to miss it! CLICK HERE to head on over to Cheryl's site "Cheryl's Window" and see more of her fabulous work.

Have a fabulous day! :) Sb