Create a #Cre8time Rainbow... Make it Artsy Episode 106 - Color

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.

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

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Series 100, Episode 106 - Color

Color adds impact to your designs. Host Julie Fei Fan Balzer adds color to dark backgrounds. Color explodes from collaged bags from crafty chica Kathy Cano-Murillo. Designer Mou Saha transforms a coloring book page into a watercolor painting. In the tip, mixed media artist Dina Wakley pours onto her journal pages.

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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 this episode, Series 100, Episode 106 - Color online from November 18 - November 25.

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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Chasing #Cre8time Rainbows... AMAZING Inspiration from Lara Hjorthoy

Hi Friends! I'm gonna share a little Rainbow inspiration with you folks today! I decided to make some new wings for a Monster of mine, Pedi...

But for this round I wanted to play with the Alumilite Dyes, and see just what they will do... so I mixed up a small batch of the Amazing Clear Cast Resin and poured into my shiny mold (created with Amazing Mold Rubber). Then using suuuuuper tiny amounts of rainbow colors, on the tip of popsicle sticks, I swirled them into the resin, and let it cure. I'm super thrilled with the results and can't wait to make a new Pedi to match! 

However, now that it's been done, I'm thinking these lovely wings could be drilled for earrings or maybe hooked together for a necklace!!!! I have soooo many ideas now for this process! These dyes are so versatile!!! 

What wonderful creations

can you make

with this swirly effect???

Hope all your summers are great!

Stay Inspired ~ Lara

Check out my website at www.larahjorthoy.com and YourToyCreation.etsy.com. You can follow my day to day creations at Facebook and Instagram, look for YourToy Creations!

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Inspiration: Cre8time Ink stained resin tie dye.

 
Cool Discovery!
 

Simply spritz ink misters on the white Amazing Casting Resin castings (I'm sure it works on Amazing Clear Cast Resin pieces too, but I have been playing with the white), and let dry.

I just love the look of these! Simply spritz and paper towel off excess and let dry. Don't worry, if you spray too much you can blot it off before it dries.

This project used a print pulled from a Gel Press plate and the ink misters were Dylusions Ink Spray and Memories Mist Ink Spray. The canvas flower is from Canvas Corp and made at a make and take at the 2016 Craft and Hobby Association show. It too was spritzed with misters.

How do you colorize your resin castings?

Craft Your Own Way!

~ Tanya

Please visit my site to see more of my inspiring creations at www.tanyaRuffin.com

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#Cre8time Valentine's for One... by Maria Soto

Hi there! This is Maria and today I want to share a special project. I got a new paint kit and had been waiting for a project I could create using my favorite resin and these new paints. I previously shared how I took a frame mold I made in Amazing Mold Rubber and used the back to either create sheets of resin or to use as a resin work area instead of non-stick mat. 

For this project I used Amazing Clear Cast Resin and the Mixed Media Discovery Set by Pébéo. I received these paints in a Charity Wings Live in 4D Ultimate Sample Box for winter CHA. 

Though I have the Alumilite Dyes and Metallic Powders – it is wonderful how versatile Amazing Clear Cast Resin is in accepting a wide variety of media for coloring... as long as it's not water-based. These paints are solvent-based, so I knew they would be OK to try with the resin.

Have you heard there is a new Live from CHA event coming up on March 6th... Live in 4D from NAMTA/CAMEX and there is an Ultimate Sample Box to correspond with this event. CLICK HERE for all the details. We hope you join us... Amazing Casting Products will be just one of the amazing companies featured.

   

First step was pouring into a plastic cup 1 oz. of each parts "A" & part "B" of Amazing Clear Cast Resin, making sure to mix well – then let the resin rest for a few minutes before adding into my mold slab {CLICK HERE to view mixing/preparation}. 

   

I added drops of paint onto the resin using a wood stick. I think I added a bit too much, it was fun to see how this paint reacts in the resin... but even more fun when you add other colors, into the mixture – so I added some gold too.

I loved how the paints were mixing together all on their own, but I decided to just mix them up using the wood stick. The results were very pretty, however, one thing I learned in this process is that until the resin is totally set, the paints continued to mix. I ended up with a very overpowering red, yet the gold came through very pretty.

I let the resin cure over night. I did get up very early the next day, to make sure the resin was not completely hardened, because I wanted to cut up some resin hearts to use in this Valentine project. Lucky me, it was still flexible, so I was able to cut the resin sheets using my Westcott scissors. 

Since the resin was still flexible and not fully cured, when I applied the resin sheets onto the glass, the resin served as glue. I pressed them into place and left it alone then went to work. When I got back home after work, the resin hearts were completely cured and glued onto the glass. I had cut a very thin resin strip that I wrapped on the stem of the glass – I thought it looked pretty so I left it alone.

I have to be honest it needed something else... so I figured why not do some etching on the glass. I cut up some hearts making sure these were big enough so that the resin heart would sit in the center and I would be able to etch around the resin hearts. 

   

I used masking tape to protect the rest of the glass from getting any of the etching cream, as I only wanted the etching to be done around the resin hearts.

I decided to use the little hearts on the bottom of the glass as you can see below, I added some etchall resist gel around the hearts and I added etching cream around the strip of resin on the stem... figured why not, so I did.

   

After the 15 minutes were up, I removed and rinsed off the etching cream under running water in my bathroom sink, then removed all the tape and the hearts. I was left with a pretty etched glass, but I didn't like the hearts on the bottom of the glass – they looked very distorted. I was also not happy with the resin strip on the stem... I didn't like how it felt when I held the stem so I removed it. Since it was never glued onto the glass, it was loosely wrapped which made it easy to remove.

I painted over the hearts at the bottom of the glass with the red Pebeo paint and I also added a few red dots over the etched hearts.

I decided to mix a little bit more Amazing Clear Cast Resin. I took a few drops of the resin and added this to the painted hearts on the bottom of the glass. I really liked the red hearts at the bottom, the addition of resin was enough to bring out the painted hearts. I love it!

This is my Valentine glass for one... I had my chocolate hearts, a few candies and a little bit of wine after I got home from taking my kids out for pizza on Valentine's day. A perfect way to end my day with my very own one-of-a-kind Valentine's glass.

   

How will you customize your wine glasses?

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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#Cre8time Experimentation with Alumidust... AMAZING Inspiration from Isabel Villarreal

Hi there! Isabel here to share some discoveries I made while playing with color and resin. I got some Alumilite Alumidust Powders in really cool colors and I'd been dying to try them out. I finally got a chance to use them and I have to say I'm absolutely in love with these powders.

I used a mold I made for previous project since I was really just playing around to see what I could do with the powders. For my first try I used a brush to paint the dry Alumidust Powders onto the mold before pouring the resin, this technique allows you to "paint" areas in as many colors as you want and you can also blend them. The photo on the left shows the powders used with Amazing Clear Cast Resin. The colors were soft with a really nice sheen and the pendants were transparent. The photo on the right shows the powders used with Amazing Casting Resin. This resin cures in a solid white color so the white base makes the colors much more vibrant with crisper edges where two colors meet. Same technique, two different looks depending on the type of resin you use.

For my next trick I mixed some Amazing Clear Cast Resin and added a little Alumidust to the mixture before pouring into the mold. The color and transparency change when you add more or less powder. The blue popsicle in the photo above has a very small amount added. You get a richer color to the resin but still retain the transparency. For the pink popsicle, I doubled the amount of powder in the mixture and the end result was a really nice solid color with a slight iridescent sheen. 

On this round, I used an acrylic gloss medium and mixed in some Alumidust to use it as paint. With a small brush I painted the mixture onto the surface of the resin. Here I used Amazing Casting Resin for it's solid white base color. Still looks great, just the colors a tiny bit softer. This technique gives the pieces more of a crafty hand painted look and you can easily layer colors.

These pics really illustrate the difference in technique and this is only the beginning of what's possible with Alumidust Powders. I'm really loving the versatility!

How will you use your Alumidust Powders?

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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Get a Taste of some Hot Fun this Summer with Amazing Crafting Products...

The creative sugar rush from the Summer Craft and Hobby Association's {CHA} Create n' Connect Conference and Trade Show in Las Vegas has come and gone... but we are still having some HOT fun this summer at Amazing Crafting Products. It's a brand new month and August will be AMAZING!!!

We have some exciting things on the horizon - 

Here's a taste of things to come...

Presenting the New Alumilite Fluorescent Dyes for use with Amazing Casting Resin and Amazing Clear Cast Resins. Our team of amazing creatives will be sharing projects throughout the month using these fabulous eye-popping colors. These are so bright you gotta wear shades!

Alumilite Dyes

Alumilite Dyes allow you to color Amazing Casting Resin or Amazing Clear Cast Resin completely with a reacting dye that will never leach. A rainbow of nine basic colors {red, orange, yellow, green blue, NEW Violet, black, brown and white}, 4 NEW fluorescent colors {red, green, orange and yellow}, and three flesh tone colors. Add the dyes to the part "A" side by weight up to 5% to achieve the color you desire. Use the flesh tones according to your preference of shade {flesh tones are typically used in Amazing Casting Resin for a more natural appearance}. Dyes can be used in Amazing Casting Resin for an opaque colored casting; and with Amazing Clear Cast Resin to make a translucent colored casting. CLICK HERE to jump over to Amazing Crafting Products website.

Stay tuned for more exciting and AMAZING things to come this month. Be sure to subscribe via e-mail in the top right sidebar and never miss a post. Delivered daily to you inbox just as you see them here.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fantastic day!

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An AMAZING Touch of Color... by Marilyn Weyman

Hi, Marilyn here with another project using Amazing Crafting Products. I don't know about you, but I am drawn to color. So when I finally got my hands on some Alumilite Dyes to use with Amazing Crafting Resin, I couldn't wait to play.

My first experiment resulted in a solid color red. While it suited my purpose (see this project), I wanted to do something a little different for my next project, a miniature bust. Using Amazing Mold Putty, I made a mold for a bust from a Frozen Charlotte porcelain doll I had picked up at a vendor fair at an art retreat. I was thinking about the pretty white color of Amazing Casting Resin and how to enhance it with a little color, echoing the marble busts you see decorating museums, libraries, and other public buildings. Marble features beautiful tints of white with delicate touches of color. After a few ambitious failures (trying to use too many colors in the short timeframe before the Amazing Casting Resin solidified), I decided to simplify and use only one color. Inspired by this bit of left-overs from the bottom of a pouring cup, I had a plan.

Materials:

• molds - one for your project, one for leftover resin
• disposable gloves
• a toothpick
• a mixing tool - I use popsicle sticks
• a mixing cup - a 2 ounce disposable plastic cup
• a pouring cup - a 1 ounce, thin rimmed plastic medicine dispensing cup
• a color cup - another medicine cup
• Alumilite Dye - color of your choice, I used blue
• Amazing Casting Resin

It is important to get organized so you don't waste any precious time while the Amazing Casting Resin is still "open" or liquid enough to color. I lined up the cups I would need: a pouring cup with the toothpick I'd use to create the marble effect, a color cup with a drop of blue dye (marked with a "B" so I'd know it was the blue later), and a mixing cup with room to stir.

I also lined up a few molds I had already made from Amazing Mold Putty, two sizes of busts of Frozen Charlottes. It is important to use the right kind of mold for this technique. You want to choose one that has a large, open surface on top that gives you room to swirl the dye into the resin. A mold with a small opening would be difficult to use for this technique. Not impossible, just more advanced. You would need a bit of practice to do it. I always keep at least one empty mold nearby into which I can pour any leftover resin once I've poured my project. I always work with at least two molds at a time.

Next, get your Amazing Crafting Resin ready to mix. I pour Part "A" and Part "B" into their measuring cups, then check to make sure that everything is lined up, ready to go once it is mixed. When I know I am ready, I pour both parts into the mixing cup and start to stir with my popsicle stick, making sure to scrape the sides and bottom at least twice during the process, watching for those yellowish swirls to go away. When it is ready, I pour it all into my pouring cup. This does risk getting air bubbles into the resin but I think it is worthwhile because it gives me more control over the pour. From the pouring cup, I pour about half into the main mold I am using, quickly pour a little into the color cup, then use the toothpick to stir the color into the resin. Once it is fairly well distributed (I'm marbling so I don't care about even distribution of the pigment), I pour it into the mold. Swirl it around with the toothpick, being careful not to mix it too much.

    

The hard part is waiting for it to finish setting up, I think!
I'm always so curious to see how it will turn out.

Finally, pop the resin pieces out of the molds and see the results!

    

These weren't exactly as I'd envisioned them, so I'll try again. The next time, I think I'll try to make sure that the toothpick touches the bottom of the mold so that the color gets all the way to the face. As you can see, the blue girl has more color on the back than on the face!

I certainly cannot wait to play with more color in Amazing Casting Resin. I had so much fun mixing that purple that I want to dye the whole color wheel!

Have fun with color and Happy Crafting!

~ Marilyn Weyman for Amazing Crafting Products

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