Take a #Cre8time BITE... by Susan M. Brown {sbartist}

"Dip the apple in the brew,

let the Sleeping Death seep through..."

Hello everyone! Susan here to share my latest handmade creations... some very Witch-worthy jewels! This queen of mold putty would normally break out the magic yellow stuff but I wanted to make multiples so I decided on using Amazing Remelt and it certainly did the trick!

Amazing Remelt is a Non Toxic, one-part reusable mold making material for room temperature or low exotherm materials. Amazing Remelt softens at 120˚F and becomes liquid at 135˚-140˚F. It can be remelted and reused to make new molds time and time again. This is ideal for making molds for smaller items such as jewelry, embellishments, and chocolate molds. YES, this stuff is FOOD-SAFE and it works great with chocolate and fondant!!

I have loads of items in a "TO MOLD" box – a collection of found objects, junque and things that I have collected or purchased at thrift stores. One of these items is an old apple pin that is a nice size that would make a nice pendant for a necklace made in resin... and with Halloween just around the corner, how about a POISON apple??! 

I need to do a little prep work to this piece before making a series of molds. The first thing being adding some tape to the backside so the molding material won't flow through the hole where the stem touches the apple. 

I cris-crossed some recycled coffee stir sticks through the pin back so that I can suspend this over a small silicone bowl that I will be using as a mold box.

Now to prepare the Amazing Remelt molding material. This is easy-to-use but you need to be patient and heat to melt in the microwave LOW and SLOW {CLICK HERE to view preparation}. I have melted it in the container it comes in, but for molding small items, I prefer using this cup fashioned with Amazing Mold Putty {molded around the outside of a shot glass}. I like this cup because it can be baked up to 375º F and it helps keep the melted material from cooling too fast.

These photos are showing the mold-making process from the altered "poison" apple. The process is exactly the same for all the molds. I placed the mounted apple over the top of a small silicone bowl then poured the melted Amazing Remelt over the top, completely covering surface of item. I let this set for a minute to cool and begin to harden, then repeated with a second layer. This forms a skin layer and helps prevent air bubbles from getting trapped.

I fill the bowl and flipped the mounted pin over and placed face down into the liquid Amazing Remelt. After leveling it on the bowl, I poured in more remelt to fill up to edge of suspended apple pin. At this point it looks like a mess... but it works! I set this in the refrigerator for about a 1/2 hour to cool and harden.

Now I can pop this AMAZING little apple mold out of the bowl and demold.

Look at the mold... it's fantastic! Amazing Remelt gives you the detail quality of Amazing Mold Rubber – but it's reuseable!! 

I can use these molds, then melt them down to mold something else. I don't have the molds cluttering up my shelves and I saved my Mold Rubber for another day. I am going to have to make a few more molds for FOOD ONLY and make some poison apple Halloween treats with chocolate melts.

With all of my molds made I am ready to fill with Amazing Clear Cast Resin. I am coloring the resin with Alumilite Fluorescent Green Dye and Alumilite Phosphorescent Powder {an additive that glows in the dark}. CLICK HERE to view mixing and preparation.

  

I mix up the resin and set aside to rest so it the resin can cool and the air bubbles can escape. The phosphorescent powder will make magic in the dark.

I spent the most time of making this project on mold preparation. I made 16 molds which took me a a couple hours one morning plus a whole entire day. The time consuming part is melting the Amazing Remelt slowly and then waiting for it to reharden to demold the original. I sort of felt like Willy Wonka with my assembly line of candy apples in progress LOL!

Before I pour resin, I gently cut a slice in each mold where I suspend a headpin with two glass beads which will be embedded in the resin. I will use this to form a loop at the top to affix beads and a jump ring for hanging on a chain. With a tiny brush, I added a bit of color to the leaf and stem using Alumidust.

I gently poured the resin with a stir stick, and filled each mold just so. Then I covered the tray and set aside to cure overnight. **A TIP** get two metal cookie sheets from the dollar store – use one to place the items on, use the other to turn over and place on top upside down to protect resin while curing. I clipped the edges with a few binder clips.

In the morning... my Halloween goodies have hatched and are ready to embellish!

I envisioned having them painted with purple drips to look like the poison apples. My first attempt was painting on my favorite purple nail polish in a real drippy fashion. This looked great while it was wet. I set it aside to dry and when I came back hours later was disappointed at how the nail polish flattened out, even though I had painted on several layers. It looked pretty, but screamed dollar store. 

After much trial and error of a handful of different products, Ranger Perfect Pearls was the one that helped me get in the direction I desired. I painted this dimensional glaze and traced right over my failed nail polish drips. PROGRESS!!! When this completely dried I smoothed and evened out the surface by pressing on a layer polymer clay and baking to cure and harden the clay. I watched this very closely when baking because I was concerned about the dimensional glaze burning.

When cooled completely I prepped this new "poison" apple as I did with the original and made a new mold with Amazing Remelt {see mold-making photo above}.

Voila! My new mold colored with Alumidust and ready with a beaded headpin awaiting resin. I'm so excited to see the end result this time!

After a bit of fussing about with wirewrapping some beaded danglies and forming a hanger from the embedded headpin, I add my gorgeous poison jeweled apple to a ready made chain.

For the good little ghouls... a pretty glowing green goddess apple!

And for those a little bad and BATTY... the glorious poisoned variety!

I love how these turned out and I have made loads for a charm swap! I'm off making more "POISON" apples in different color combinations... and I'm having such evil Cre8time fun!!

What would you mold and transform
into handmade jeweled treasures?

Thanks for visiting! If you would like to see more of my creations,

please visit my blog sbartist : painting in the dark by clicking here. ~ Susan

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#Cre8time Jewels for all the Little Ghouls... by Brenda Burfeind

Good day all! Brenda here from Creativity is a State of Mind and today we are hopping along with the artists from the Designer Crafts Connection who have taken on the challenge of creating with Amazing Casting Products.

You won't believe I came up with for our bloghop...

Now of course you may want to start with your mold (you can create your own molds quick and easy using the Amazing Mold Putty), but if by chance you don't have a mold you can find things that you could use as such. 

For today's project I used these pill packets that I got at a flea market. They have perfect little cavities for creating bezels.

First I sprayed some mold release into each cavity and let that dry (this is a VERY IMPORTANT STEP). If I don't use a mold release, the resin may become fused to the plastic packaging and not able to be removed. 

I added my fabulous array of colors of the Alumidust with a paintbrush and just sorta scattered the color in. Then I added a little bit of glitter here and there in some of the cavities.

I mixed up some of the Amazing Clear Cast Resin (you can see mixing instructions HERE) and stirred in some Alumilite Phosphorescent Powder (this additive glows in the dark).

I let this mixture set for about 3-5 minutes to get rid of any air bubbles, then I gently poured the resin mixture straight from my cup – and by letting it drip out so as to not overfill the cavities.

You will want to put this in a level place and let them cure for about 12 to 24 hours depending on your climate. Mine actually cured in about 8 hours, but it varies at times.

After they cured, I popped them out of the cavities and viola...
perfect resin bezels.

And they GLOW!!!

Now, I know you are thinking... "but what did she do with them"? Well, I used my Silhouette and cut out some little pumpkin faces from vinyl and adhered them to the bezels. 

Then I added some jewelry findings to make THESE...

Using my Dremel, I drilled a tiny hole through the top at an angle through the resin – just large enough to add a jump rings to attach earring findings... and just like that I now have some awesome halloween earrings!

LOVE THEM!

They look sooooo creepy in the dark. The glitter really helps with that. 

I hope you've enjoyed my tutorial today and can't wait to see what the other designers make. Thanks for hopping along with us and please make sure to visit all the stops along the way.

Until next time, Happy Crafting! ~ Brenda

I invite you to stop over to my blog, Creativity is a State of Mind to see all that I've been making. 

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#Cre8time to Light Up the Night... by Lara Hjorthoy #FlowerPower

Good Morning Artists! With the weather up here in Canada proving to be remarkably warm for May, Hubbs and I have been fixing up the deck for summer use! I noticed our patio was a bit dark and dreary at night and wanted to create some outdoor decor that would also work as mood lighting!

Since May is Flowers as inspiration – I made flowers! Using the Amazing Mold Putty allowed me to make this a quick and easy process, and Alumilite Metallic Powders in Bronze and Silver added a tarnished bronze metallic shine. 

Glow in the dark powder mixed in with Amazing Casting Resin

produced a strong glow for the middles! 

Who knew it could be so easy to make outdoor lighting for your deck!

What would you make for your deck?

Hope you enjoyed the May inspirations and hey... WELCOME June!

See you soon, Lara!

Check out my website at www.larahjorthoy.com and YourToyCreation.etsy.com. You can follow my day to day creations at Facebook and Instagram, look for YourToy Creations!

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The AMAZING Case of a Glowing Bangle... by Brenda Burfeind

Welcome to Mold Rubber Monday with me, Brenda from Creativity is a State of Mind. I'm so excited to show you today's project! Now you've probably seen some variations of bangles the different designers have made. Just type bangle or bracelet in the search bar on the top of the page and you can look back on ALL the awesome projects the designers have made. Well, today I am showing off my special bangle.

I started out with an ordinary plastic bangle and molded it using Amazing Mold Rubber. You can go HERE and watch a video on mixing and preparation. Depending on the climate/humidity where you live the set up process may vary. It's super cold in my craft room and with this mold rubber project it only took about 4 hours to set up.

After I demolded the silver bangle, I mixed up some Amazing Clear Cast Resin because I will be embedding some fun stuff in the bangle. You can go HERE and see the mixing process for the resin. I did not let my resin sit long enough for all the bubbles to dissipate. I wanted a bubbly effect. If you want your bracelet to be TOTALLY clear, let your resin sit for a while and then you can even use a heat gun to POP the bubbles.

Only filling the mold half full with the Amazing Clear Cast Resin, I let that set up for about an hour. Since I will be embedding some things into the bangle I do not want them to sink or float. By letting the resin set up for a bit it allows you to place beads or rhinestones (in my case, both) nicely into your bangle.

After I placed the Airsoft bbs (these are round bbs for an airsoft gun – you will see why I used these later in the tutorial) and rhinestones into the mold I added some more Amazing Clear Cast Resin and filled it to the top. I let this cure for 12 hours.

Once it was totally cured I demolded the bangle and it looked like this.

You can see the tiny bubbles which just gives it a different effect.

Then I sanded the bottom edge of the bangle with some ordinary sand paper and applied another coat of Amazing Clear Cast Resin.

The rhinestones did shift a bit, but I'm okay with that. I do totally love this look.

Here is the picture of the bracelet with the bbs I used.. But wait ... remember I told you I used Airsoft bbs and you probably asked yourself, WHY? Well these are special bbs and now for the reveal!

They GLOW IN THE DARK! I know – I'm obsessed with glow in the dark things. I couldn't get enough light to photograph just the bangle with the bbs, but you can see here that they glow! 

Next time I think I'll add more bbs and not any rhinestones!

I hope you've enjoyed my tutorial using Amazing Mold Rubber! Please leave me a comment and tell me what you would embed in your special bangle!

Until next time, Brenda signing off!

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