#Cre8time to Try Something New... Make it Artsy Episode 107 - Industrial

Hello Amazing Crafters!! Have you heard about Make It Artsy?? It's a brand new TV show for makers and crafters – featuring tips, techniques and projects for makers, crafters and artists... AND... in this week's episode you can see Joe Rotella create a dimensional keepsake tray using Amazing Casting Products.

It's time for a new episode of Make It Artsy!

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Series 100, Episode 107 - Industrial 

Look toward the gritty, industrial world for inspiration. Using industrial materials and AMAZING Clear Cast Resin, Joe Rotella creates an artsy tray. Illustrator Jenn Mason designs contemporary earrings, then hardens them with heat. Joe Rotella revs up his micro lathe to carve a keepsake pen. Finally, take a road trip to the Columbus Idea Foundry, a center for the growing Maker Movement.

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Make It Artsy launched on September 29th on Public Television stations across the country! Look for it on your local PBS channel. If you can't find it on your local programming, you can view Series 100, Episode 107 – Industrial online from November 25th - December 2nd.

Make It Artsy is a new series that celebrates that maker spirit in everyone. From mixed-media to metalsmithing, using tools from saws to sewing machines, today's most creative "makers" join host Julie Fei Fan Balzer to unleash a new look for crafting with a touch of industrial style.

Amazing Casting Products by Alumilite Corp. is proud to be one of these fabulous group of companies partnering with Make it Artsy. Stay tuned for episodes with projects featuring some of our AMAZING products! Don't worry... we'll be posting here when each new episode is available so you can tune in.

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#Cre8time Recycling... Serving Tray REDUX by Melissa Johnson

Hi everyone! Melissa here and today I would like to share a fun Mardi Gras style serving tray featuring Amazing Clear Cast Resin.

SUPPLIES NEEDED:

• Serving Tray
• Plastic Bead Necklaces (found in bulk at Hobby Lobby, but I later found them at Dollar Tree!) 
• Tacky Glue (I used Aleene's® Original Tacky Glue®)
• Amazing Clear Cast Resin

 

As I'm sure I have mentioned before, I LOVE repurposing items and thrifting. It's so much fun to transform things into art pieces! For this project I picked up this really well made serving tray at Goodwill for $4.00.

I spread the tacky glue all over the serving tray with a credit card and laid out my bead necklaces to be within easy reach. Then I started cutting the bead strings and laying out circular designs into the glue.

I continued on with this method until the entire tray was full of color.

When the tray was complete, I mixed up Amazing Clear Cast Resin and poured a few layers over the top – allowing each layer to dry before pouring the next {CLICK HERE to view mixing and preparation}.

 

This took about a week to fully complete. I found that if I pour too thick of a layer of resin at once, it takes longer to cure.

And here is my finished tray, all ready to laissez les bons temps rouler!

How do you transform your thrift store finds?

Make something that makes you happy :) ~ Melissa Johnson

For more of my mixed media projects, please visit my blog.

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Serving Up Family Memories... #12DaysofHomeDecor #ACPthrowback

Hello Amazing Crafters! For day four of our 12 Days of Amazing Home Decor we revisit an #ACPthrowback project by creative Jess B. Time goes by so fast and the children are growing so quickly... what a better way to capture the good times – by embedding them in a decorative tray transformed into some Tres Chic Home Decor!

Combine your favorite photos with some feathers, beads, ephemera and found objects in a wooden tray... cover with a layer of Amazing Clear Cast Resin and you have some AMAZING home decor.

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Jess B.'s full how-to.

Want to see more of what Jess B. is up to?

Follow her on her blog "That'z Uneek"!

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Share your creations using Amazing Casting Products for
our next #ACPthrowback Third Thursday on December 17.

Post them to our Facebook page, or tag us on Instagram, Pinterest, and on Twitter to be featured here on our blog. We'll be looking for your projects with the hashtag #AmazingCastingProducts.

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Have some Wine with a Little #Cre8time #DIY... AMAZING Inspiration by Melissa Johnson

Hello everyone! Melissa here today with a fun and easy project for all of you fellow wine cork hoarders! I love wine. I also love collecting wine corks. I have so many now that I have collected and that have been given to me by friends and family, so I decided to finally do something with some of them.

 

Originally I wanted to find an old tray at Goodwill to repurpose for this project, but had no luck (kind of sad, I've been very unlucky with my thrifting lately). Instead, I found this awesome long and narrow rustic style tray at Hobby Lobby for 50% off!!

My house is done in a modern rustic style, so I knew this was going to fit right in! I collected my corks, hot glued them in, and then covered the entire thing in lots of Amazing Clear Cast Resin. It took quite a bit, as the tray is narrow, but fairly deep and I did have a few fat corks in there.

And here is the final product. There was a lot of resin, so it took a few days to cure completely. I can't wait to decorate with this on my coffee table. I want to also DIY some cute votives and put tea lights in them to set on top!

 

What home decor will you transform
with Amazing Clear Cast Resin?

For more of my mixed media projects, please visit my blog.

Make something that makes you happy :) ~ Melissa Johnson

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AMAZING Inspiration from DeeDee Catron...

Hello everyone!! DeeDee here today, back in a familiar place and super stoked to share my molded goodies with you again ;) --- ok ok not THOSE goodies, besides.. they're all real! But my molded ITEMS :D

One of my favorite things is finding vintage figurines and replicas to mold and cast for use during my crafting. To date my favorite FOUND object to mold has been a super old nautical themed frame. It came complete with pier pieces, two pelicans, a net, shells, an anchor and more! You bet your sweet self I molded each piece separately and again in combinations with each other. Now when I'm working on a nautical themed piece I always get out my molds to see if I can work them in! Here are THREE different projects I've used my lovely pelicans on!

(All three were molded with Amazing Mold Putty and cast in Amazing Casting Resin which dries white!)

The first is a WOODEN SPOON that I altered for the lovely Susan M. Brown - she held a spoon altering blog hop and it was SO FUN.

The shells on this are actual shells from the beach, accompanied by May Arts ribbon, cheese cloth, and some Tattered Angels glimmer glaze.

The 2nd project is a LAYOUT that was featured in the SPRING 2013 issue of Somerset Memories! Here's a corner shot of the resin piece :)

Along with the resin bits I've used half pearls, cheese cloth, Tattered Angels glimmer glaze, MME paper, and Viva Las VegaStamps! images.

And finally here is an altered tray:

This tray was featured on the CropChocolate blog last month, and is currently featured for the "April Showers" at Anything But A Card Challenge this week! It has Teresa Collins papers, tape and enamel dots, Thickers, Viva Las VegaStamps! stamps, cheese cloth, ranger ink and more.

What are some of your favorite vintage finds to mold?? How many times have you used them? Over and Over?! that's ME! :) :)

Visit me at my blog for more molding goodness, details on some of these pieces, and some fabulous inspiration!