#Cre8time Stamping and Embellishments is fun with Amazing Mold Rubber... by Maria Soto

Hello there, this is Maria and today I bring you a post about the Amazing Mold Rubber. It's a great product and so easy to use... and it is great at capturing every little detail from what ever items you use to make molds. I wanted to try something different, I wanted to make a mold I could use to stamp with and also to mold with. I decided to use some of my sketches – a rose and a heart with a little paw and I figured I could use these to create a couple of stamps.

    

So in order to create my images for molding I taped the copies of my sketches to the bottom of the plastic container. I would have used hot glue like I've done before, but I was afraid the heat would melt my plastic container – so I used my dimensional black paint to transfer the designs on the plastic container.

  

Since I had room for another image, I made a heart with the word MOM inside the heart... perfect to create something for Mother's Day. Once the paint dried I went over each image again, just to make sure I had enough dimension for my molds.

Amazing Mold Rubber is so easy to use. It cures in about 2-4 hours depending on the temperature and humidity. CLICK HERE to view mixing/preparation. I mixed up the entire Amazing Mold Rubber kit for this mold, because of the size of my box.

  

Now that everything is mixed, it's time to pour everything into my plastic container and wait for the rubber to set. It was late so I just left it alone until the next day.

      

Now the time to reveal my molds! I was worried I wouldn't have enough dimension on my molds for what I wanted to do and I was happy to see the final results. I love the details and now the fun begins!

I had a couple of projects in mind, but first I wanted to try these out as stamps. So I took out a canvas that had a bit of color added.

I used some Colorbox ink pads to color my stamps with and see how it would show on the canvas. I also took some pink tissue paper to test them on. 

Rose stamped on canvas.

Rose stamped on pink tissue paper.

I loved how the image of the rose came out,

it was exactly what I was looking for!

Next it was time to use some resin to see if I could create some embellishments with these molds. I added some color to the mold using Alumidust and Alumilite Metallic Powders, and poured some Amazing Casting Resin for my first try. I liked how they came out. I used pink and green Alumidust on the rose and the metallic powders on the two hearts.

Here I've prepared some Amazing Casting Resin. I took a bit of the light pink Alumidust and added it to part "A", mixed it well and then added part "B" of the resin. Since this resin sets fast, I had to mix and pour before it began to feel warm – once the resin feels warm it's a sign that the resin is ready to cure. CLICK HERE to view mixing/preparation.

In the rose, you can see the resin going from clear to opaque. The heart in the center is a second pour... the first one set faster than the other two, so I mixed a little bit of resin with no color so I could make a plain casting.

Here are my resin pieces – they are pretty thin, but that is what I was going for, and these are just what I wanted. Next is to trim off the excess resin around each piece and they are ready to be used. While the resin is still soft it can be trimmed easily with scissors.

I'm really happy with my new molds! I will be able to stamp with them and use resin on them too, so these will get used a lot. 

I've used my mold to stamp on canvas, tissue paper

and to cast some resin embellishments.

   

I made a simple Mother's Day card using the stamped pink tissue paper and the "MoM" heart resin piece. I used some tacky glue to add the stamped tissue paper to the card stock and to glue the heart on the card as well.

Here is my finished card – adding a little bit of glitter paint to finish it up.

The canvas I had used to test the rose stamp, well I decided to use the stamps and the rest of the tissue paper I had stamped on before, I figure I could use these to finish a background to my canvas. 

What designs would you create

stamps using Amazing Mold Rubber?

Making your own molds is fun, but I love using my own designs to create molds that can have more than one use. I will be cutting this mold into three pieces – it will be a lot easier to use and store.

I recommend these products, give them a try if you haven't already... you will be hooked like me. Make sure to share your creations with us, we love to see what others create with these #AmazingCastingProducts.

Thanks for visiting! I invite you to stop over to my blog "What is Creativity"

at http://chuy-creativity.blogspot.com to see more of my creations. ~ Maria Soto

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#Handmade Gifts for MOM... AMAZING Tea Light Candle Holder by Isabel Villarreal

It all started when I was working in my yard and I noticed all of the new flower growth that started with the new season. I knew that Mother's Day was just around the corner so I figured I'd make a gift for my mom. Knowing that she really loves candles made it an easy decision to create this brilliant floral tea light candle holder using Amazing Crafting Products.

I remembered that I stashed away a pewter floral piece that used to decorate a glass perfume bottle. Of course I had stowed away it with the hope that some day I would have a reason to mold it. I thought this slice of tree branch would make a nice base for for the candle holder. I really wanted to capture the textures of the flowers and the tree bark so I knew I'd need to make a mold with Amazing Mold Rubber in order to get the rich detailing in the finished piece.

Amazing Mold Rubber is a silicone product and it's used in a 1:10 ratio, but I usually just mix the entire container since I always have tons of stuff waiting to be molded. It has to be poured into a container so I used the box from the Mold Rubber packaging for the tree slice. I cut down the box and lined it with packing tape to make sure the silicone didn't stick to the paper. For the pewter piece I used the lid from the container as a base and added height by taping a paper strip to the lid and taping it in place. Hot glue was used to hold the wood and pewter pieces in place and I poured enough silicone to completely cover each piece.

And the waiting is over! The silicone was completely set within about 2 hours. Setting time varies depending on temperature and humidity {it's pretty humid here in South Florida}. The wood slice and floral pewter base were removed from the mold and I cleaned the molds with alcohol and Q-tips to make sure I got any loose fragments out of the molds before using them.

The silcone molds were ready to use, so I grabbed some Alumidust powders in Bronze, Gold, Copper, Bright Blue and Lt. Green and, using a small brush, I painted alternating sections of color along the walls of the woodslice  mold. I also used the same colors to paint the inside my floral mold. Now time to pour some resin! I mixed up some Amazing Clear Cast Resin using a 1:1 ratio of parts "A" & "B" and stirred until it was clear. Once it was ready I added a dash of Blue & Green Alumidust and poured a thin layer into the wood slice mold.

I had some clear resin left over so I pulled out a butterfly mold I made for a previous project and painted the mold with Alumilite Metallic Powder in Copper, Gold, and Pearlescent then poured the extra Amazing Clear Cast Resin into the mold.

Since my layer of Amazing Clear Cast Resin was thin, it dried to the touch in about an hour. I will be filling the rest of the mold with Amazing Casting Resin. Casting resin sets in about 10 minutes and is a solid white color when it dries. I didn't want the candle base to be solid white so out came the Alumidust once again  and using a scrap of fabric, I rubbed the color onto the surface an added a few drops of Izink Gold Pigment ink, also rubbing that onto the surface with a fabric scrap. I re-coated the side wall of the piece with Alumilite Metallic Gold and then filled the mold to the top with Amazing Casting Resin. You can see that some of the gold powder came loose and settled on random spots at the top. 

                   

VOILA!! My three cast pieces were now finished and ready to be put together.

Using an epoxy adhesive, I attached the floral holder to the base. The final touch was to attach the resin butterfly to a piece of smooth glass and glue it onto the base. I dropped a tea light candle into the holder and it's ready to wrap up and be gifted.'

What project will you make

with Amazing Mold Rubber?

I'd love to see what you create! Please upload and share your creations to the

User GALLERY on the Amazing Mold Putty Website for all the world to see.

~ Isabel Villarreal

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