Amazing Casting Products: Magnets

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Friday, November 13

In All Things Give #Cre8time Thanks... Organic Leaf Magnets by Aimée Wheaton

I had grand ideas for this little project of mine,

except today had other ideas.

OK – so I wanted to create some pretty organic Fall leaves and petals and use them as magnets on my epic magnetic chalk board in my front hall. This is the story of how I created them, accidents and all.

I started by taking this mound of Sculpey clay and smoothed and flattened it all out. Then started creating the leaves and petals. Sculpey is awesome because you can bake it for 15 minutes and it's done!

I used various items to give it texture.

Texture plates, vintage buttons and a lace doily :)

Love this one!

Lace texture

Next I cut out the shapes using clay tools

and made the veins in the leaves.

This is what I ended up with.

Fun textures!

I preheated the oven to 275º and put the clay

in a pie plate. Bake for 15 minutes.

When the leaves were cool to the touch I grabbed my Amazing Mold Putty and created molds for each one. You take equal parts of Part "A" and Part "B" and knead together with your hands, then form around the objects you want to mold.

Next time I'm making individual molds.

You can see it picked up all the texture.

My favorite part was painting in these gorgeous

Alumidust powders in the Autumn colors.

They were so pretty and glistening and I knew

they would turn out amazing!!

So pretty!!

...and then THIS HAPPENED! I'm going to use this a lesson, yes accidents happen and they happen to me a lot but you fix it and move on...

OK – so I had just poured Part "A" of Amazing Casting Resin into that little cup you see on the left. I was attempting to drop in some yellow Alumilite dye. It wasn't coming out so I squeezed harder and the entire cap blew off the top spilling yellow die and resin all over me, the wall and my supplies. :( All that gorgeous painting of the Alumidust ruined, I had to back track and clean it all up. Parts of the molds that got stuff spilled on it were messed up so some of the finer details disappeared. I was so upset but I moved on quickly. Thank God for baby wipes!!! I showed all of this to say that you should use a pin or something to make the hole a bit bigger if you're using the dye, I wouldn't want this to happen to you. Crafting is messy!! OK... moving on.

After I cleaned up my mess, I repainted the molds with the Alumidust, I poured more resin, poked a bigger hole in the red dye and mixed up Part "A" of Amazing Casting Resin, then mixed it into Part "B". CLICK HERE to view mixing/preparation.

Poured resin into the molds ... let it cure.

Taken out of the molds. It wasn't as bright as I had hoped because of the accident above, so I pulled out some acrylic craft paints and made it pop a bit more letting some of the shimmer still show from the dust.

After painting.

Next I took this StazOn ink pad and rubbed the leaves

onto it to help bring out the texture a bit more.

Makes some fun patterns.

I added on sticky back magnets which I will be taking off.

I need to glue a stronger magnet on for these.

I figured this saying was appropriate for the kind of day I'd been having. This chalkboard is about 8 ft. tall and in my foyer. See the leaves on there?

They are super pretty! All in all I'm pretty

happy with the way they turned out.

What are you thankful for?

I'm thankful I got all the yellow dye off of me!! :)

Let's see what you can mold using clay

and Amazing Casting Resin.

Feel free to stop by my FB page to see the latest with me.

To see more of my work please visit my new blog "Life Glitter Makeup"

and also at the Aimée Wheaton Art and Design website.

Till next time! Xoxo Aimée

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Wednesday, February 25

Amazing Magnetic #Cre8time Decor by Aimée Wheaton

I LOVE magnets! I collect them in the places we travel to or have good memories of, I like looking at pretty things on my refrigerator, to me it's another kind of art to look at. I wasn't quite sure what I was going to create for my how-to post but was inspired when I saw a shape of a certain magnet at the store. It was just a square and I kind of liked the magnet so I thought I'd give it a whirl. While creating this project I was constantly getting new ideas and inspiration so I tried to make a bunch of variations to give you some ideas as well. This could also be an embellishment for a frame, some mixed media art or whatever you want it to be. You could make your own coasters if it was a bigger size, that is all up to you and whatever the size of the object is that you mold.

I first started with the standard mixed media paper collage look with an inspirational word, I really loved making these and was kicking myself for not making more than one mold of the original magnet, I will be making more soon.

The original magnet :)

Amazing Mold Putty is a 2-part compound that you mix with your fingers and form around objects to create a mold {CLICK HERE to view mixing/preparation}. :) I LOVE this product!

I mixed up some Amazing Mold Putty and formed it around the magnet. When the mold was cured, I mixed up some Amazing Casting Resin... which is a fave of mine because it doesn't take long to cure.

This is my cured magnet cast in Amazing Casting Resin. It has some bumps in it but it is OK because I am collaging over it. It's the perfect canvas for what I'm creating.

Next I grabbed my bits of papers and ephemera to collage on with Mod Podge. I thought I was going to use the birds but decided against it this time. I'll save them for another project.

Layering up the papers.

All collaged! :) I keep my scrap art papers and they are great for little projects like this. While the mod podge was still wet I sprinkled on some glitter. Next I had to wait for the mod podge to fully dry before I could continue on to the next step.

I had so much fun I decided to make 3 more using the same papers.

Using a charcoal pencil I highlighed shapes I liked.

Then I wrote on an inspirational word. Next up the finishing touches.

Amazing Clear Cast Resin is just that – Amazing! It add such a nice high gloss to your project and really brings out the colors of your pieces when it's dry and protects it, I love using it! I mixed up a batch to coat these magnets with.

I added in some silver glitter into Part "A" of the resin and then mixed it all up.

I added it and spread it with a popsicle stick. A little goes a long way.

Look at that SHINE!

Let it dry overnight and see how it looks in the morning.

Super shimmery and pretty!!!

After these dried I decided to frame the edges with some ink.

OK, as promised,

here's another variation...

This magnet uses your own photos that you print out as well as an image transfer technique.

I had an extra printout of my girls that I used in the last project post that was perfect for this. You start with another resin squares and cut your image to fit.

Next you add a layer or gel medium to the square, coat it good.

I used a palette knife to spread mine.

Smooth it out a bit and then place your cut image face first into the gel.

Let it dry completely and when it's dry spray water onto the paper and slowly roll away the backing of the paper and you will be left with a perfect image completely sealed onto the surface. (Sorry, I forgot to grab a photo of that part).

Here is the image reversed. I filled in their sunglasses to make them darker with a journaling marker, I added some blue acrylic paint around the image as well as some white gesso to highlight the areas, added in some glitter with a little Mod Podge as well. I then used an aqua StazOn ink pad around the edges to frame it. The raised heart was a casting I found in my casting box, I hot glued it down then rubbed purple StazOn ink to the surface of it to bring out the texture. I traced around the heart with a charcoal pencil.

I then sealed this piece with some Amazing Clear Cast Resin as well and let it sit overnight. I want to do an entire collage with photos of my family and maybe mount it one wood. For now this is turned into a magnet with a little E6000 glue and a round magnet glued to the back of it.

And now the third variation ...

This is probably my favorite!! I had mixed too much resin and didn't want to waste it so I poured it into the magnet mold and let it sit overnight. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it so I just started playing around. I added a layer of aqua paint but didn't cover the whole top of it, I left some of the clear base showing for some interested. When the acrylic was dry I used a wing stencil I had and painted white gesso over the blue. I wanted more color so once that was dry I went back over with my Tombow markers and used a blending marker to blend the colors together and add some shadows. It had the perfect pop of color. Then I took my a script stamp that I had with the aqua StayOn ink and stamped over the top of it. When all that was said and done and dry I mixed up some Amazing Clear Cast Resin to coat it. While the resin was wet I dropped in a drop of acrylic ink and swirled it around in the corners. Super easy and lots of ideas with painting directly on it. When it was dry I glued on a magnet with some E6000.

Last but not least ...

This is more abstract but it's still fun. I stamped directly onto the white resin square with various stamps and StayOn ink and then coated it with Amazing Clear Cast Resin. The next step was dropping in some acrylic ink and swirling it around with a bamboo skewer, throw in some glitter and some old dried clear cast pieces for texture and it's complete. :) Glue on a magnet on the back.

Funky little fun magnet!

I had so much fun with this simple little project and it really made me fall in love with the Amazing Clear Cast Resin and working with resin in general. This could be a project you could do with your kids, give as a gift and just make a little metal area prettier!