#Resin Rocks! AMAZING #DIY Jewelry by Featured Artist Katie Smith

I'm the Indie Crafts editor over at CraftGossip which means I'm always looking at new stylish tutorials to feature and keeping up with the trends. One of the trends that is pretty popular right now is tribal themed items. I decided to make a necklace inspired by that trend.

While I was up in Oklahoma earlier this month, we stopped at a tiny rock shop and I picked up a few of these 50 cent arrowheads. I decided to try making a mold using them, so that I could make some resin arrowheads!

I started by mixing up a bit of Amazing Mold Putty and mashing my real arrowheads down into it. I let it cure for 20ish minutes before pulling them out {CLICK HERE to view mixing/preparation}.

I love how quickly you can make molds with this stuff!

To make my resin arrowheads I first brushed a tiny bit

of Alumilite Copper Metallic Powder into my mold.

Then I whipped up a batch of Amazing Casting Resin and added a little bit of Alumilite Dye into it and poured it into my mold {CLICK HERE to view mixing/preparation}. 

**TIP** I always have an extra small mold on hand as well in case I have any extra resin, I'll pour it in to there.

While the resin was still liquidy, I placed some jewelry eye pins into my arrowheads so that I could use them on a necklace (without drilling holes or gluing eye pins to them).

The Amazing Casting Resin cures pretty quick, so I pulled these 3 arrowheads out and made a half a dozen more in other colors.

You can see the original arrowheads on the left, and my resin arrowheads on the right. I love that I can make them in different colors!

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Katie Smith is a 22 year old artist currently living in Dallas/Fort Worth. She does a little bit of everything crafty – scrapbooking, card making, drawing, mixed media and art journaling, sewing, quilting, basket making, general DIY’s and painting canvas shoes that she sells in her etsy shop! She also is the indie crafts columnist for CraftGossip.com where she has a review of the new Amazing Remelt {CLICK HERE to jump over and check it out}. Katie is also a published artist in multiple magazines including Creating Keepsakes, Stitch Craft Create as well as a few craft books. You can see more of Katie's art on her blog: www.punkprojects.com.

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Thanks for stopping by today! We hope you enjoyed this tutorial from Katie Smith. We want to say THANKS to Katie for joining us as our Featured Artist for February... and we hope that she'll come join us again in the future. Please take time to visit her blog punkprojects.com to see more of her fabulous work. Don't forget to drop CraftGossip.com and check out her Indie Crafts column.

Have a fabulous day!

 

Katie Smith... an Amazing Featured Artist Spotlight

  

Greetings AMAZING Crafters! Today we have a fun questionnaire that we posed to our Featured Artist Katie Smith! Have fun getting to know her a little better and enjoy the eye candy, too! :) Sb

A little bit about Katie...

Katie is a 22 year old artist currently living in Dallas/Fort Worth. She does a little bit of everything crafty – scrapbooking, card making, drawing, mixed media and art journaling, sewing, quilting, basket making, general DIY’s and painting canvas shoes that she sells in her etsy shop! She also is the indie crafts columnist for CraftGossip.com where she has a review of the new Amazing Remelt {CLICK HERE to jump over and check it out}.

Katie is also a published artist in multiple magazines including Creating Keepsakes, Stitch Craft Create as well as a few craft books. You can see more of Katie's art on her blog: www.punkprojects.com.

  

Some fun questions for the inquiring minds...

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What did you want to be when you grew up?

"An artist! I never really had any big plans, I just wanted to make art. Now I have my own blog, design for multiple companies, been published, and have my own etsy shop! It's a great life! Although at one point I did consider both a scuba diver and a flight attendant. ;)"

Coke or Pepsi???

"Well, I don't actually drink cokes, I'm a tea drinker!
But, I'm from Texas, so I call them all *Cokes*."

What inspires you?

"Colors are my main inspiration, as well as pinterest, books, other artists and nature. I could stare up at the stars all the time and be inspired."

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


Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska — The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, shines above Bear Lake.
Photo from Wikipedia HERE - a United States Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joshua Strang.

"Visit Alaska! This is something I've wanted to do since I was a kid and hopefully it will happen sooner rather than later. I also want to see the Northern Lights."

If you could print any phrase

on a T-shirt, what would it say?

"Wow, so many options! You don't actually want me to choose, do you??  I'm a total nerd though, so it would probably be a reference to Star Trek or some other geeky thing. Although I don't have any "crafting" themed shirts so I guess I could do an art themed shirt."

If you could mold ANYTHING with

Amazing Mold Putty, what would it be?

"As I mentioned before, I'm a tea drinker!
It might be neat to make little tea cups!"

What style of music gets your creative juices going?

"My music tastes are a bit all over the place. My *favorite* music to listen to while I create would have to be film scores, like the sound tracks for epic movies like Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, etc. However I also love 60's, 80's, Classical, Techno, Musicals, etc. Like I said, I like a bit of everything, except maybe country."

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Thanks so much for dropping by! Check back next Friday for more from our Featured Artist Katie Smith... you don't want to miss it! CLICK HERE to visit her blog punkprojects.com and see more of her fabulous work. Don't forget to drop CraftGossip.com and check out her Indie Crafts column.

Have a fabulous day! :) Sb

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Gummy Bears are the KEY to #Cre8time... AMAZING Inspiration by Featured Artist Katie Smith

For my inspiration post, I wanted to share these key chains I made and shared on my blog at the beginning of the year.

I was inspired to bust out my resin supplies when I had the idea to make resin gummy bears. I mean, What's cooler than resin gummy bears?? Maybe resin gummy bear key chains! I'm thrilled with how they turned out, they look just like the real thing to me!

I took pictures of how I made the mold, so if you want

to make your own faux gummy bears, here's how:

Supplies: Amazing Mold Putty, Amazing Clear Cast Resin, Alumilite Dye, Gummy Bears, keyrings and a few jumprings and eyehooks.

Note - when picking out your gummy bears to use for the mold make sure not to get any defective bears! You don't want one that's missing a leg.

1. Start by mixing equal amounts of the mold putty together, until they're one color.

 

2. Next form your mold into a strip that's about 1.5"-2" tall and wide enough for a few gummies. Don't spread your putty out too thin though, you want it sturdy.

3. Place however many gummy bears will fit into your mold, pressing them in firmly. Make sure the Amazing Mold Putty squeezes in around them.

4. Let your Amazing Mold Putty completely dry, following the instructions on the container and then remove your gummy bears {CLICK HERE to view mixing/preparation}.

5. Now you can mix up some Amazing Clear Cast Resin and pour it in to your mold to make faux gummy bears! I used clear resin, mixing in a little bit of Alumilite dye into it to create the color of the gummy bears {CLICK HERE to view mixing/preparation}.

I turned my gummy bears into keychains, just using

a keyring and a few jumprings and eyehooks.

What would you do with resin gummy bears? 

You can see more of my art on my blog: www.punkprojects.com.  ~ Katie

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Thanks so much for dropping by! Check back next Friday for more from our Featured Artist Katie Smith... you don't want to miss it! CLICK HERE to visit her blog punkprojects.com and see more of her fabulous work. Don't forget to drop CraftGossip.com and check out her Indie Crafts column, too. Have a fabulous day!

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Introducing our AMAZING Featured Artist for February... Katie Smith

  

Happy Friday! Today we continue our "Featured Artist" series here at the Amazing Casting Products blog. Each month we feature one artist who will share a special project and some inspiration using Amazing Casting Products. We are proud to have Katie Smith join us as our Featured Artist for February and join us for some Cre8time fun! 

Our featured artist this month is an artist who became introduced to us here at Amazing Casting Products last year when participating in our "For the Love Of..." Crafting Contest... and was our prize winner. Meanwhile Katie is a maker, an avid blogger and designer who dabbles in so many areas of arts and crafts at her blog www.punkprojects.com. Her range of work is fun and inspiring and I personally enjoy receiving her posts via email... I especially love her hand-painted shoes! She also is the indie crafts columnist for CraftGossip.com.

I had the pleasure of meeting Katie in person at the Winter CHA where she was there working for CraftGossip.com getting the scoop on all the hot new products. She even did a review of the new Amazing Remelt {CLICK HERE to jump over and check it out}.

A little bit about Katie...

I'm Katie, a 22 yr old artist currently living in Dallas/Fort Worth. I do a little bit of everything crafty – scrapbooking, card making, drawing, mixed media and art journaling, sewing, quilting, basket making, general DIY’s and painting canvas shoes that I sell in my etsy shop!

I'm a published artist in multiple magazines including Creating Keepsakes, Stitch Craft Create as well as a few craft books.

I received some resin making supplies for my birthday a couple of years ago and since then I’ve experimented with it a little here and a little there but recently I’m getting more and more into it. It has taken a bit of practice but I’m figuring it out and loving playing with resin!

You can see more of my art on my blog: www.punkprojects.com.

  

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Thanks so much for dropping by! Check back next Friday for more from our Featured Artist Katie Smith... you don't want to miss it! CLICK HERE to visit her blog punkprojects.com and see more of her fabulous work. Don't forget to drop CraftGossip.com and check out her Indie Crafts column.

Have a fabulous day! :) Sb

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