#Cre8time Celebrations... Dia De Los Muertos Sugar Skull Earrings by Maria Soto

Hi there, this is Maria and today I bring you a fun and creative project. I love to be as original as possible with everything I do – and since I love, LOVE making molds I try and make my own original pieces when possible, then create molds of these using the Amazing Mold Putty. This is my favorite product because it cures in about 10 to 15 minutes.

Earlier this year I went a bit crazy creating pieces out of two-part jewelry clay and also paper clay... from which I made so many different things and then made lots and lots of molds to help me make some fun and interesting pieces. Today I am sharing one of the items I made.

Here you see my hand sculpted skulls, different shapes and sizes. 

  

I decided to make one big Amazing Mold Putty mold grouping all of these – since they are small enough and its easier to keep them all together. 

Most of what I create is using Amazing Casting Resin – simply because it cures in minutes and it allows me to go from molding right into embellishing my pieces right away. Do you see my Cherub on the new packaging??!

Creating the resin skulls:

1. Mix the Amazing Mold Putty as directed. CLICK HERE to view mixing/preparation.

2. Place the skull over the putty and press down, then wait about 15 minutes to remove the skull.

3. Mix the Amazing Casting Resin as directed, and pour into the mold, wait about 15 minutes to remove the resin skull. CLICK HERE to view mixing/preparation.

Creating the earrings:

1. Paint the entire skull with white acrylic paint (since the cured resin is white I skip this step).

2. Since the details of the skull are already there, all I have to do is take paint to make them stand out. I use black acrylic paint to highlight the uni-brow, nose and mouth.

3. For the eyes instead of painting them and to add more dimension, I opted to use red sequins and clear crystals.

4. Paint tiny heart with red acrylic paint.

5. I drilled a tiny hole on each skull right under the heart and added a headpin to assemble the earrings.

This turned out to be a very simple project. I love the light-weightedness of these earrings, you simply forget you are wearing them.  That's one thing I love about using this resin, it is so light, even on bigger pieces, you don't get that heavy feeling... which is one thing I dislike when it comes to jewelry, especially earrings. 

It really helps to have molds ready for creating... and spending time sculpting items to create different types of molds ahead of time to have on hand for later has worked wonderfully for me.  

Materials used:

• Amazing Mold Putty
• Amazing Casting Resin
• Wood Sticks
• Measuring cups
• Acrylic paints - white, black, red
• Earring wires
• Metal butterflies
• Head Pins
• Paint brushes
• Red sequins
• Clear crystals

What would you imagine creating

using these Amazing products? 

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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Dia De Los Muertos - Amor de Familia... a #Cre8time Keepsake by Maria Soto

Hi There! Maria here today and I wanted to share how I came about this project... a Family Shrine for the "Day of the Dead" celebration. 

Many years ago I went to Mexico for my grandmother's funeral. My Grandfather had passed away many years before her. When we arrived at the cemetery, they opened her coffin, and added human remains inside her coffin. I asked my Dad what that was about and he said that was my Grandfather, and he would be with her now for eternity.

Until that day I never knew you could do this. So I decided to make a coffin shrine for my project – you will see more than one skeleton on the inside, and also many skulls on the top... representing all of the other family members that have passed on.

Products used:

Amazing Mold Putty

Amazing Casting Resin

Measuring cups

Mixing sticks

Alumilite Black Dye

Acrylic paints and various colors

Paint brushes

Recycled bag

Kleenex tissues

Flowers

Cheese cloth

I had a handful of plastic skulls and also some little tiny ones that are actually double-sided. I used Amazing Mold Putty to make this multi-skull mold. I need a lot of skulls for this project, and making one single mold was not a good idea – so I made this big one with many instead.

First make sure to follow the simple instructions on how to mix Amazing Mold Putty {CLICK HERE to view mixing/preparation}. It's pretty easy – it comes it two parts, Part "A" and Part "B"; and you take equal amounts of each (one part is white the other is yellow) and you mix these two until you no longer see any white, only a uniform yellow putty.

  

I used a plastic bowl to place the putty inside and then quickly pressed down all the skulls, trying to use as much of the putty's surface as possible. You have to move fast because this sets pretty fast once mixed together. I was able to make 10 large skulls and 7 tiny skulls from this one mold.

  

Now since I was going to paint all these skulls for Day of the Dead, I needed to use the Amazing Casting Resin. This resin not only cures in about 10 minutes... but it cures a nice opaque white as you can see in photos – and you can also add color to the resin is you want. I just left them white because I knew I would be hand painting each differently. I had extra resin leftover so I poured into a bigger skull mold (I'll use this later in another project). CLICK HERE to view how to mix and prepare Amazing Casting Resin. 

  

I made this little heart with wings out of Creative Paperclay. I did make a mold of this piece, but at the end I decided to use the one made from paperclay instead of the resin, same goes for a little skull I used on the inside of the coffin.

Here is the wood coffin I purchased from Michael's. I painted it first, then played around with how to add the skulls, add texture and embellishments, etc.

I love to use recycle items in my projects. In this project I used this empty potato bag. I painted the inside of the coffin purple, and this mesh was perfect because it matched the inside color. 

Here is the coffin, all painted with acrylic paints... 

black on the outside and the inside is purple.

So now I'm ready to add the skulls to the outside of the coffin. First I added some Amazing Casting Resin to the top of the coffin – a little bit at a time. Since this resin cures really fast, I had to make sure to work in small amounts, waiting for each pour to cure. It took me a few hours to get the top completely done.

Each resin pour over the coffin meant I would add a few skulls. As you can see I did color some of the skulls black, and then I stopped because I remembered I needed them to be all white. Adding the skulls at first was easy, but then I really had plan where to place them first before adding more resin – because I needed to fill the entire top of the coffin, making sure not to cover up the bottom skulls. This took a while, but I think it turned out perfect. The tiny little skulls were the perfect size for use as fillers.

Once I was done adding the skulls to the top of the coffin, I painted all of them white. Since some of the skulls were black tinted resin, it took a couple of coats to completely paint them all white.

Once they were all white the fun could begin... going back in and adding all the little details of color to each. This took a while but I really liked the end result!

I also added some color to the resin that spilled over the coffin – I wanted it to look as if the bodies had melted away, and all you had left were the skulls.

Here you can see how I added the recycled bag on one side, and then added the heart with wings and the skull made from paperclay. Had to add some flowers... they were orange, but I wanted to distress them. So I painted them all black, then I added back some red, orange and black. The heart as you can see was painted black, then I added some red and white and the word "amor" which means "Love". The tiny skull was painted all white, then detailed with bright colors. 

This close up shows the final look on the inside of the coffin, You can see the three bodies I added on the right side of the coffin. I used two kleenex tissues to cover the bodies and then added Amazing Casting Resin colored with Black Dye with a piece of cheese cloth over the cured resin. I painted over these materials to give them more dimension.

Here are more detail views of the finished inside of my coffin shrine.

This project took me about three days to start and finish. Once I was happy with everything, I took it to my office and created a little setting to celebrate my loved ones that have moved on... then brought it back home for the traditional celebration including food and lighted candles with my family. 

I've shared my take on how I used these products to celebrate a special day with my family. CLICK HERE to view some other Sugar Skulls and a Mini Shrine I created last year for this occasion.

How would you celebrate

a special holiday using

these Amazing products? 

Please share your ideas with us. We have the winter season and Christmas coming up, let's see what amazing creations we can all come up with! We love to see what others do with these awesome products.

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 Decorating for the Season... DIY Sugar Skull Wreath by Tanya Ruffin

This project was so much fun. It all started after seeing some amazing Halloween and seasonal wreaths in a store. I though it could replicate much much cheaper than the $35.00 price tag.

Dollar tree (DT) was my friend! You can find everything you need for seasonal decorating.

Supplies I used:

• (DT) skull ice cube tray
• 3 bunches of flowers (DT), yellow, pink and purple
• (DT) wire flower wreath
• (DT) pink mesh ribbon
• (DT) rhinestones
• Floral glitter spray paint
• Glue Gun {or tacky glue}
• Amazing Casting Resin
• Red Dye for Resin
• Extras - I used a sugar skull cookie cutter for the center piece.

Your visit to Dollar Tree will cost you about 6 bucks!

First thing I did was mix up some Amazing Casting Resin and pour into the ice cube tray. For these I mixed a tiny bit of red dye into the white resin. It came out more flesh color, but that was OK.

After those cured, I painted each with acrylic paint and embellished with rhinestones and handmade resin flowers from a previous project. The large skull was from a sugar skull cookie cutter.

Wrap the pink mesh ribbon around the wire wreath.

Use a glue gun or tacky glue to secure.

Glue flowers around the wreath.

Then the fun part... adding the sugar skulls onto the wreath! The finishing touch – spraying the wreath with glitter spray paint. Change up the colors, florals and seasonal embellishments for endless possibilities!

Tada!

How would you decorate your wreath?

Go Craft Your Own Way!

~ Tanya

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

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A #Cre8time Celebration of Color... Dia De Los Muertos Shrine by Krisite Taylor

Hello all of you Amazing Casting lovers! Kristie Taylor here with a little Dia De Los Muertos inspiration for you! I love the Mexican holiday celebrated between October 31st and November 2nd. This multi-day holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family who have died. This celebration is believed to help support their spiritual journey. Some of the traditions associated with this holiday are honoring the departed with favorite foods and beverages, bringing marigolds and offerings to the grave site as well as building shrines to honor them.

Photo via L.A. Times / Shutterstock/AGCuesta

The shrines can be simple like this one...

Photo via Flicker / eklektick

Or quite elaborate like this one which was created to honor multiple people.

Photo via diffen.com

I love the bright vivid colors of this holiday which is mixed with a sort of macabre tradition of using skulls and skull like face paint to represent and honor the dead. 

So after browsing the internet and enjoying reading about the traditions of this elaborate celebration – I was inspired!

Photo via skullspiration.com

And I used all of these bright colors and vivid imagery to create this piece...

I used lots of goodies from Retro Cafe Art Gallery, 

and of course... Amazing Mold Putty!

  

I used Amazing Casting Resin to make these two

small frames which I transformed with colorful paints.

CLICK HERE for more photos over on my Blog, The Scrapinater!

I hope you will use your Amazing Casting Products to create your own homage to this beautiful Mexican holiday that Celebrates the dead and the living.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! ~ Kristie

To see more of my work, please visit my blog, "The Scrapinater", 

over on my YouTube Channel or on Instagram.

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#Cre8time Death Becomes Her... by Lyn Gill

Hi everyone! Lyn Gill here... Wanting to welcome you to "Day of the Dead" Celebration here on the Amazing Casting Products blog.

I have created a little inspiration for you... a pendant! Surprised?

Well, what can I say it's what I do... LOL.

  

I used some previous molds that I had made for other projects using Amazing Mold Putty. Using Amazing Casting Resin mixed with Alumilite Silver Metallic Powder and Alumilite Dye, I created the resin casts for the base. I layered these pieces togther and with some acrylic paint, I created this fun, festive pendant for the Día De Los Muertos celebration. Super fun and quick!

"Death Becomes Her..." 

What Celebrations do you create for?

Well, I'll say farewell for now...

Till Next Time! ~ Lyn

You can also find my work on my own blog LynzCraftz, 

or on YouTube LynzCraftz , or my Facebook page LynzCraftz.

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