#Cre8time Memories by the Sea... by Guest Designer Bridget Cordero

Greetings! We proudly welcome back our Guest Creative, Bridget Cordero who has joined us this month on the Amazing Casting Products blog... and today she's sharing some very TIME-ly AMAZING inspiration.

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I've always enjoyed taking things apart and altering them. I was excited to find this old clock at a rummage sale. I took the clock apart so I could gesso and paint it.

While the clock was drying, I started making resin pieces to embellish this project. I used Amazing Casting Resin to make more sea pieces from molds cast in Amazing Mold Putty.

I wanted the globe over the clock mechanism to look like an underwater picture, so I used the Amazing Clear Cast Resin to create this beautiful scene. I added a variety of resin pieces, some pearls and even welcomed the bubbles the clear resin created to give it an underwater look and feel.

I put the clock back together. Using cheesecloth, corrugated cardboard, various flowers, wood pieces, scrapbook papers and of course resin pieces – I created this one-of-a-kind working clock.

I think it came out beautiful! If you would like to see a start-to-finish video of my process, please visit my YouTube channel "BsAlteredDesigns" and this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oVwNjSFaIs.

Thanks to Susan and Amazing Casting Products for inviting me as a guest designer. I have really enjoyed creating with these amazing products. ~ Bridget

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What will you alter in your Cre8time?

We want to say thanks to our AMAZING Guest Creative Bridget Cordero for joining us and sharing her amazing creativity using Amazing Casting Products. Please leave a comment below to show Bridget some love and to share your altered creations.

If you have molded/cast your own creations using Amazing Casting Products, please share them on our website in the User Gallery or on social media with #AmazingCastingProducts.

Please visit "BsAlteredDesigns" to see more of Bridget's work on her

YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/BsAlteredDesigns

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It's an AMAZING Time for #Cre8time!!! Altered Clock Tutorial by DeeDee Catron

Hey folks! DeeDee here today bringing you a How-To during our awesome partnership with Frog Dog Studio. I was really excited to get my kit and pull out all things to play... so let's jump right in!

I started by gathering supplies.. my April Frog Dog Studio Mixed Media Kit and the April Add-On Kit that includes Amazing Casting Resin, Amazing Mold Putty, Mixing Cups, and Stir Sticks. I also snuck in some products from a previous Frog Dog Studio kit including a blank Tim Holtz clock and some rusting powder {Dusty Attic Rusting Powder is still available at Frog Dog Studio store}.

I took a leaf from Susan's book and molded some hardware which allowed me to color them as I chose and not add much weight to my piece. The screw heads were molded with Amazing Mold Putty, cast in Amazing Casting Resin and dusted with Silver Metallic Powder. They were then glued to the top bells of the clock.

I layered the clock with gesso, crackle paint, distress stain,

rusting powder and a  mix of distress stain and gel medium.

The final result looks like this. Now I have an old rusty clock to play with!

I knew I wanted to fill the clock with something a little more soft and feminine, so I  gathered some supplies to make flowers. I die-cut the Canvas Corp. Mini Canvas Circles from the April Kit.

And painted the tips with the iZink gold (also from kit).

I wanted a bit of  BAM for the flowers, so fished out an older floral type mold and filled 'er up with equal parts "A" and "B" of Amazing Casting Resin.

I allowed it to cure, and adhered it to the middle of my flower – 

repeating to make three of these.

I compiled a few premade flowers on the inside of my clock...

a few I layered up, and the three I made myself.

As one more final bit o' goodness, I watered down some of the iZink and washed over a couple scrap pieces of resist ephemera from Heidi Swapp that I had in my stash.

Here's my final piece which ended up as a home for this sweet girl from Viva Las VegaStamps!.

A closeup of the handmade flower and Amazing Casting Resin center.

 

Here you can see the molded screw heads really well.

Thank so much for visiting me here at the Amazing Crafting Products Blog. I hope you'll keep visiting (well, really forever) but also because there are some amazing things coming up with this Frog Dog Studio and Amazing Crafting Products partnership!

Hasta casting and molding friends - DeeDee

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#Cre8time is PEEP-time... when Amazing Crafting Products meet Frog Dog Studio

Good Day Amazing Crafters! Susan here to share another project that combines Amazing Crafting Products with Frog Dog Studio – our new Partner "In-Crafting". Included in the March Frog Dog Studio kit are some metal tin boxes, corrugated sheets, Tim Holtz Salvage Stickers, Lindy's Stamp Gang Moon Shadow Mists and loads of other crafty goodness. I knew exactly what to create and was on the hunt through my stash for all things rusty. Wasn't Sandra's project the Frog Dog Studio March Kit totally dreamy {if you missed it, please click here}?!! Again I have taken a green-crafted spin on things and made something a bit more FUN-ctional... and totally SWEET!!!

We hope you are enjoying our combined forces with projects from the Amazing Designers from the Frog Dog Studio Design Team and Amazing Crafting Products creatives.

Of course most projects of mine have something special that is handmade and this project is no exception! Using Amazing Mold Putty, Amazing Casting Resin and Alumilite Metallic Powders, I have created a whimsical Steampunk Cuckoo Clock! Sorry for being a project tease – you can see the fully completed project today over at Frog Dog Studio...

CLICK HERE to jump over

to see full How-TO.

To see more of my work, please visit my blog sbartist : painting in the dark.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fantastic day!  Sb :)

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We are excited to announce Frog Dog Studio – our partner "in crafting". This new creative collaboration opens the door WIDE open to many new and exciting projects utilizing both Amazing Crafting Products products and the great supplies found at FrogDogStudio.com including their monthly mixed media kits. Our goal is to inspire you to create with us... as we all have FUN "in the making!"

My Altered Journey Clock... by Guest Designer Jess B.

Hello Everyone! Jess B. here today with a fun and "TIMELY" project to share.

In my young adult age I was called "Touch-n-Go". I'd traveled constantly visiting friends and exploring their states when possible. I knew how to turn 2 weeks of vacation to 6 travels a year. I've traveled from Florida to California to Europe. 

Today I'm sharing an altered clock I purchased at the neighborhood thrift shop for $2.00. I used a mini hexagon ice mold from Outset and Unity Stamp Co - Life is a journey.

I prepared Amazing Casting Resin®. I put 3 drops of Alumilite Yellow and Black Dyes® into my mixing/pouring cup, pour in Part "A" with Popsicle stick provided and then added Part "B" and started to mix until there were no more swirls.

I poured the yellow resin into the flexible ice mold and I poured the black resin on top of the rubber stamp (sorry that I did not take a picture of this process). I wasn't sure if was going to be a failure or not but it came out beautiful. I removed the resin when cured and trimmed edges with scissors while it's still a little pliable.

When I do this again, I will mask off the edges of the stamp

with painter's tape to make a clean edge.

I used patterned paper from American Crafts - Travel

and arranged my resin pieces with E-6000 adhesive.

I reassembled the clock popped in a new battery

and it now hangs on my wall in my craft room.

This fun clock will always put a smile on my face

and inspire my children to travel the world.

Where do you want to travel?

I would love to hear what your answer is and what you would LOVE to create with Amazing Mold Putty... please leave a comment and your link below!

To see more of my work, please CLICK HERE to visit my blog "thatzuneek".

Thanks for stopping by! 

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Happy New Year!

                                                                 

 Wishing everyone a very happy 2012!







These are clock works that I found out my local craft store and thought they'd be the perfect way to ring in the new year with a little fun from Amazing Mold Putty.

The first thing I did was to mix Parts A & B of the Amazing Mold Putty and pressed the clock pieces into the putty and let it harden. 

This is what it will look like once the pieces are removed from the mold.

I mixed equal parts of the White Casting Resin and poured it into the mold.  I let it sit according to the package directions (approximately 10 minutes) to harden.  Then, I removed it from the mold and allowed it to finish harding the rest of the way. 

 I used acrylic paing to paint the pieces.  After allowing it to dry completely, I added a color stone to the center of the the clock hand with a little glue.  The last thing I did was to add this fun new embellishment to the papers. 

Happy New Year Everyone!