Amazing Casting Products: cherub

Thursday, March 3

Cherish a #Cre8time Love Story... by Maria Soto

Hi, there! It's Maria again and today I want to share a fun project I've been wanting to make for quite a while. See I got this cute candle that had a cherub for a lid, very cute with wings. It was not painted at all, it was made using plaster or something similar. I wanted to make a mold of the entire cherub and debated for a while on what product to use to make the mold, so I decided to use the Amazing Mold Putty.

I made molds of different parts of the cherub at first and noticed the molds came off pretty easy using the mold putty – so I made a mold of the entire cherub with it. Well, sadly... I have to admit I didn't realize that the wings were too fragile and as I tried to remove the cherub from my mold, the wings broke off. I guess sometimes you learn from accidents – next time I will use my Amazing Mold Rubber when making molds from fragile pieces and cut the mold if needed to remove fragile pieces.

I loved how my cherub plaque came out, not sure if I'll keep it at home or at my office, but for now, it will stay home.

Here you can see all the Amazing Mold Putty molds I made from this one item filled with Amazing Casting Resin that cures in just minutes. I decided to work with the full mold of the cherub for today's project.

Here you can see the mold and the resin piece. A blank small canvas will be the perfect base for this little cherub. Time to have fun with paints... it's my favorite part after making my molds.

I first painted the entire piece with white paint. Then I just added color to it and rubbed it off... then added more and again removed as much as I could. The result I was trying to get to, was looking at my cherub as if it was rusted and aged. You can see there's a little bit of gold that comes through. I didn't paint it all gold, I just dabbed a little bit of gold on some areas. I spent quite a few days after work, painting and removing paint until I liked the end result. The canvas was painted all in blue, then I decided to add a faux pair of wings using DecoArt's crackle paint. Finished up by adding a little bit of bling, some flowers, beads and a message to my little canvas.

Trying to find a message for this piece was not easy.
All I knew is it had to be about "love".

I thought the wings needed a little bit of gold, so I used

some Alumilite Gold Metallic powder to give some color.

Here is the final piece – I really like how this little cherub turned out. It was a lot of work, but I really love how it turned out. I hope you like it as much as I do.

Materials used for this project:

Alumilite Gold Metallic Powder
Amazing Mold Putty
Amazing Casting Resin
Mixing cups and wood sticks
DecoArt Media: Crackle paint; acrylic paints in blue, black and white colors
Liquitex: Flexible modeling paste
Golden: Coarse molding paste; acrylic glazing liquid (satin)
Ranger: Patina in Verdisgris
Pebeo: Buttercup (gold)
Mini Canvas
Recycled material (from a bag of potatoes)
Paper flowers
Beads
White lace

What cherished item will you mold for arting?

Please do share your ideas with us by leaving a comment below.

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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Friday, January 31

I Heart YOU with a Valentine Message Board... Tutorial by Isabel Villarreal

Valentine's Day is just around the corner and I found the perfect way to leave words of love, for my love. This cork board is perfect for pinning notes, cards and random messages of cuteness.

I have an old mirror with a metal cherub embellishment and I've been dying to mold it and the upcoming holiday was the perfect opportunity! I carefully removed the embellishment and pulled out my trusty jars of Amazing Mold Putty. I found a nice flat surface to work on and separated equal parts of "A" and "B" in preparation {click here to view mixing instructions}. After mixing the two parts until they were an even yellow color I pressed the mixture into the metal surface, being sure to cover the entire piece. Once it was covered, I flipped it over to cure.

The finished mold looked perfect. Using small soft brushes I painted the mold with Alumilite Metallic Gold, Bronze and Pearlescent Powders – blending the colors for a soft look. After painting the mold, I was ready to cast my own cherub. I decided on Amazing Clear Cast Resin because I knew it would result in a slight transparency when painted and also because I was trying to give the piece a frosted glass look and feel. This piece was thick in some places especially around the cherub face so I did two layers. The first pouring was about 1/8" thick and about 3 hours later I poured the second layer to the rim {click here to view prep/mixing of clear cast resin}.

The Amazing Clear Cast Resin will take about 12-24 hours to set fully so I figured I would work on creating the message board that my angel would be decorating. For the board I cut three hearts: one 9" heart from 1/4" thick cork, one 11" heart from printed cotton twill and one 13" heart from red felt. The twill and felt hearts were cut using pinking shears to give them a nicer edge and also to keep the fabric from fraying. The cork heart was edged with pink twill binding and I used craft glue to layer them. I cut a 6" piece of binding and made a cute bow and attached it to the cork heart with hot glue. A couple of heart gems give the bow some glitz.

And the moment finally arrived...my cherub was completely cured after about 14 hours and the Alumilite Metallic Powders gave me the finish I was trying for. Yay! I love it when things turn out well the way I want.

I used an epoxy adhesive to attach my adorable cherub to the cork board. Grommets and a ribbon gave it a nice finishing touch. I even added a few gemstones to the cherub casting. This message board is now ready to be hung on a wall or it can be hung on the fridge using a magnetic hook.

Love notes never looked so good!

I can't wait to use this cork board to leave my honey bun sweet messages daily!

What special DIY projects are you

creating for Valentine's Day?

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.