The Beauty of a #Cre8time Sunset... by Lyn Gill

 

Hi it's Lyn again – here today with a super fun and Oh so beautiful project for you. First let me tell you a little about my inspiration... I dream of warm Summer nights... LOL! I'm not a big fan of Winter, but I can at least dream of Summer Sunsets.

 

First of all I made a mold with Amazing Mold Rubber of a couple of small flat glass stones, then filled it with Amazing Clear Cast Resin and let it cure overnight. For more detailed mixing/preparation for Amazing Mold Rubber CLICK HERE and Amazing Clear Cast Resin, please CLICK HERE.

 

After I removed the resin pieces from the mold, I used an alcohol marker and drew an image on the back side of the resin casting. Be aware that your image will be reversed so draw accordingly. Be sure to let this part dry completely before proceeding.

 

I added a bit of color with alcohol markers, careful to avoid the black outline. Let this layer dry. Then add a coat of clear sealer to the image side, careful to use as few strokes as you can so as not to smear the image.

Ahhhh... now we're starting to feel the warmth! At this point I was inspired by some vintage artwork hanging in my home. Foil Etched Artwork which is something you should really see in person to get the full effect. So I decided to add some gold metallic leaf to the back side with another layer of sealer as a glue. Since the alcohol marker inks are transparent it allows the foil to show through to the front side of the resin.

It's really pretty at this point but the metallic leafing on the back will need to either be sealed or... placed into a bezel out of polymer clay (my specialty... LOL). I chose a large tree to complete the look and feel of a warm Texas summer sunset. 

So What's Your Favorite Season?

I want to thank you all once again for joining me here today... Till Next Time!

You can find me on my blog my blog LynCraftz,

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A Charming #Cre8time at the "SEA"... by Maria Soto

Hi there! Today I want to share a project that was inspired by a charm swap. I took part in a "Mermaid" swap... and can hardly wait to get my box and see what everyone has made. I have painted so many mermaids, that I had to do a special pendant to go along with this theme.

I'm sharing two pendants I made. On one I stamped a mermaid image on a piece of metal, and the other has a photo copy of the mermaid from the first photo below.

First I will share a couple of the mermaid paintings I've done. Once I'm done with one, another one starts right after... and it seems I'm hooked on this theme!

I have several more that I've finished and a couple

in the works. These are 6" x 3 3/4". 

These are the materials used to make the metal mermaid heart. 

Using ImpressArt® Metal Stamps, I stamped the word "Sea", then using the hammer
I added texture to represent waves and added some blue coloring to the edges. 

On this pendant I added a metal stamped mermaid, then used Amazing Clear Cast Resin to glue the mermaid to the metal. Once dried, I added resin over the entire heart and carefully placed the tiny shells over the resin and left it cure over night. The resin gives the pendant a glass like look. 

This pendant was a bit quicker to finish. For this charm I used a color copy of the first mermaid I painted (see above). After all the stamping was done, I added the resin to the metal heart, then placed the mermaid image and the shells... and left it alone to cure till the next morning.

I love using Amazing Clear Cast Resin as a sealer on my jewelry making, it is pretty hard to get a very good photo of the resin itself, but trust me it looks just like glass. I love how this charm swap has inspired me, I can hardly wait to get my box full of goodies. I think I might get more inspiration and this might go on for a while. 

What you have you done,

that has inspired you to create?

I can't wait to use resin on my art pieces, have quite a few ideas in the works. 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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Having Amazing #Cre8time Travels... Custom #Watercolor Palette by Sandra Strait

Hello! Sandra here to share how I made a custom watercolor palette for myself – using items I had on hand and Amazing Casting Resin.

Supplies:

• Amazing Casting Resin
• Qor Watercolor sampler tin (approx. 8.5 in x 6 in)
• 14 full-size watercolor pans
• 8 half-size watercolor pans
• Sharpie marker
• Two-sided Miracle tape

Unlike Acrylics and Oil paints, watercolor can be squeezed into palette wells and allowed to dry out. You can keep them indefinitely this way and it makes them fantastic for carrying around when you paint Plein Air (on site). 

Truly, the palette itself is probably one of the least important items in your painting kit. You need something with wells (indentations) to hold the seperate colors, an area to mix colors, and a leakproof lid, if you're going to be traveling.

For a long time, I've wanted a wheel palette, one with wells in a circle that allows you to lay your paints out in ways that help you match certain colors easily. But I have a 1000 palettes of different kinds and the wheel ones cost more than I felt I should spend. But...

Last year, I scored some Qor watercolor tins, that when opened had one side for mixing and side for holding watercolor tubes. I also had several empty watercolor pans. Perfect for turning into my own custom watercolor wheel palette!

Often when you buy a watercolor set, the paint comes in pans, little wells that can be removed so you can change the colors in your set. I had lots of empty ones that I kept for just such an occasion as this. In this case, I wanted a palette where the pans would NOT be removable.

With a Sharpie marker, I drew lines in my tin to help show where each pan would go, and then used two-sided tape to hold them down.

I mixed up a batch of Amazing Casting Resin and poured it into the tin, taking care not to get any inside the wells. It took two batches to get the resin to the depth that I wanted. Deep enough to hold the pans securely, but not to overflow the pans.

Easy peasy! The cured Amazing Casting Resin is white, which is good, because you want to see the true color of the paints. Clean up is easy. A wet cloth or paper towel picks the paint right up without stain (though I may get staining with some colors eventually... that always happens). I've got exactly the number of wells I want in a tin that shuts securely for traveling – I'm a happy camper...er... painter!

How would you customize

your Cre8time tools using

Amazing Casting Products?

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User GALLERY on the Amazing Mold Putty Website.

For more of my work in Amazing Mold Putty, zentangle-inspired art, and daily links to tangles, tutorials, and giveaways please visit my "Life Imitates Doodles" blog. ~ Sandra Strait

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Bird Stamps, Bicycle Chains and Watercolor Paintings... Taking a New SPIN on Mixed Media with Sandra Strait

Good Morning... it's Sandra! What do postage stamps with birds, bicycle chains and watercolor paintings have in common? Nothing – unless you have some Amazing Mold Putty and Amazing Clear Cast Resin!

While shopping at a local thrift store I found a small 2x2 inch frame made from bicycle chain. I snapped it up. Wasn't sure what I'd do with it, but I knew I'd do something! 

On a seemingly unrelated note, I had a watercolor painting of roses that I had done a while back. I wasn't really happy with it, but I knew I'd do something with it some day. 

On another seemingly unrelated subject, I received a package from Hong Kong with cool postage stamps. Yup. Knew I'd find some way to use them.

When Amazing Crafting Products came out with their new fluorescent dyes, I decided that I wanted a fluorescent green bicycle chain frame, and everything fell into place.

Supplies:

• Amazing Mold Putty
• Amazing Clear Cast Resin
• Alumilite Dye - Fluorescent (Flo) Green 
• Watercolor Painting on Arches watercolor board 
• Re-Inkers-Palette Metallic Violet Varnish; Distress Dried Marigold & Picked Raspberry 
• E6000 glue 
• 12x12 7Dots Scrapbook paper 
• 12x12 Shadowbox 
• Paint sample chip 

I mixed the two parts of the Amazing Mold Putty until it was a solid yellow. I flattened it out to roughly the dimensions of the frame, and pushed the frame into the putty. Within a few moments, the putty had set and I was able to remove the frame.

The second step was to mix up the the Amazing Clear Cast Resin. 

Of the two parts, the "A" side is thicker and a bit harder to control when pouring. The Alumilite Fluorescent (Flo) Green Dye is added to this measuring cup. You want equal amounts of liquid for both "A" and "B", so, if you add enough dye to change the volume, it's easier to adjust the "B" side. 

I wanted a lighter color, so I only used a couple of drops. This photo of the dye on a toothpick is larger than life, lol! You don't need very much of this stuff!

After mixing the two sides, and letting the Amazing Clear Cast Resin cure overnight, I ended up with a beautiful bright frame. When I started, I still hadn't decided what I was going to do with it. After I had poured the resin though, I was cutting out those cool postage stamps to set aside as ephemera.

The next day I was looking for something (as I often do), and I came across my watercolor painting. What immediately struck me was how the colors resembled the green of my frame and the light purples and violets of my stamps. Ah hah! I knew what I could do to cover up that big ole rotten punched hole (and I apologize. I meant to photograph the painting at this point, and just plain forgot to do it).

I decided that I would embed the stamps inside the frame, and glue the whole thing to the painting, covering the tear.

I cut a paint sample chip I had to size and glued it to the back of the frame for a base. Then I loosely glued down one of the postage stamps. I mixed up a small amount of Amazing Clear Cast Resin, poured it inside the frame and let it set overnight.

I repeated this another two times embedding one of the other stamps each time so that there was some distrance between them.

My painting wasn't large enough to fill the shadowbox I had, so I took a piece of 12 x 12 scrapbook paper from 7Dots that I felt complimented my painting. I crumpled up the paper, and drizzled re-inkers (ink used to refill inkpads--they come with eyedroppers) down the crevices. Then I flattened the paper back out, glued down my painting, and glued down my bird stamp piece.

I put the whole thing into a shadow box. The Amazing Clear Cast Resin resembles encaustic, and even though you can't make out the birds from distance, the piece beckons you to come over and look closer. Who'd have thought bicycle chains and bird stamps would bring new life to a damaged painting?

For more complete instructions and videos on how to use Amazing Crafting Products, please visit their Information page.

For more of my work in Amazing Mold Putty, Zentangle®-Inspired art,

and daily links to tangles, tutorials, and giveaways please visit my

"Life Imitates Doodles" blog.  ~ Sandra Strait

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous weekend!

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