AMAZING #Cre8time Dressup for #ACPthrowback Thursday #TBT

Hello Everyone! Today we are sharing another #ACPthrowback post – revisiting a tutorial from Tracy Alden... creating AMAZING doll shoes using Amazing Mold Rubber, Amazing Casting Resin and Alumilite Dyes and Metallic Powders.

Make custom shoes for your doll's wardrobe and fabulous colorful feet to display them on using Amazing Casting Products.

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Mini Shoes made for Walking with the help of Amazing Mold Rubber by Tracy Alden

Hello! Tracy here with a project using Amazing Mold Rubber. I have collected miniatures since a young age and love finding new ways to create new custom pieces. One of my favorite miniature crafts to do is to customize toys of all sizes and shapes. Accessories and (as in this case) shoes can be a perfect element to any custom piece.

I wanted to use polymer clay to create the shoes for doll costumes but I didn't want to have to deal with a complete doll while sculpting the shoes, that could possibly get ruined by the uncured polymer clay. So my idea was to mold the doll feet with Amazing Mold Rubber, then pour Amazing Casting Resin casts of the feet to use while creating the shoes in polymer clay. 

Supplies:

• Amazing Mold Putty
• Amazing Casting Resin
• Alumilite Dye Violet 
• Alumilite Metallic Powders
• Acrylic Paint 
• Needle Nose Pliers 
• Paper Clips 
• Clean Deli Cup 
• Polymer clay 
• Liquitex Gloss Varnish 
• Craft Glue 
• Ribbon and sticker gems 

I started off by picking three different sized dolls to make molds of their feet. I covered their upper bodies with clear plastic wrap to protect them from any spills. Using a medium deli cup I placed the wrapped dolls in a circle with their feet in the cup, held in place by small stands. The stands prevent the dolls from shifting while the Mold Rubber cures. Carefully following the instructions I mixed up the Amazing Mold Rubber and slowly poured it into the deli cup, making sure to get around the doll legs. 

As you can see from this photo the mold holes for the feet are small and go several inches down into the Amazing Mold Rubber. I needed a way to easily take out the resin pieces while not damaging the mold.

I created wire hooks with old paper clips as my handles to place in the resin, making them easier to remove. I left one loop on top and made a tight loop on the bottom to be placed in the mold.

I mixed up a batch of Amazing Casting Resin mixed with some Alumilite Violet Dye (the dye helps highlight details you would otherwise miss when making the shoes) and poured the resin into the mold. I placed the tight loop end of the paper clips into the resin before the it cured. Once the resin was fully cured I could use the embedded paperclip as a hook to help pull out the resin feet. 

I made as many feet casts as I needed but once I no longer needed the mold I cut up the mold with a pair of sharp scissors into little slivers and chunks. I place these in a jar to use in future molds as filler. You can do the same for any cured drips or spills of Amazing Mold Rubber.

Now to start on the shoes! I rolled out polymer clay stacking it up several layers and cut the stacks a bit bigger than each resin foot. Using the heel of each foot as measurement I knew how high to stack the clay. 

Once I got the stacks of clay to the desired height, I carefully pressed

each foot into the clay and started to trim the excess. 

Once I trimmed enough polymer clay to put the stacks upright I placed each resin foot on the clay and pressed lightly down making an impression and giving me a guide to trim the clay into the shape of wedge shoes.

Once the shoes were completely trimmed I smoothed out the clay

and baked them as per manufacturer's instructions.

After I baked the polymer clay, I lightly sanded and trimmed

the edges of the pieces with a craft knife and an emery board.

I rinsed off all the dust, used acrylic paint to decorate the clay

shoes and sealed them using Liquitex Gloss Varnish.

I added ribbon and stickers to finish the look. Now I have cute and trendy miniature shoes for my custom doll work! Taking it a step further you could even make molds of your finished shoes to recreate them for other craft projects!

What AMAZING arts and crafts can you create???

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Visit my blog Art Resurrected for more craft tutorials!

Until next time, safe travels! ~ Tracy

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You're Invited to Afternoon Tea... AMAZING inspiration by Rachel Whetzel

Hello, AMAZING lovers!! Rachel Whetzel, here again to show you what my latest inspiration is! I am a HUGE Alice in Wonderland fan... A large portion of the dolls I have made have had an Alice theme, and I'm always dreaming up new ideas for more projects in Wonderland theme. My latest had a bit to do with TEA.

Amazing Clear Cast Resin TEA 

Most people have thought of using Amazing Clear Cast Resin to create faux water in artificial flower arrangements, but I decided to try using it, and Alumilite Brown Dye to create tea in a teacup! The result was a perfect base for setting the Mad Hatter's top hat in. 

I really love the way that the tea came out! Now I'm trying to decide if I want to go with a Steampunk theme on the Hatter's hat, or if I want to go full on Alice in Wonderland with the decor... 

What food or drink have YOU used

Amazing Crafting Products to recreate? 

Please share your projects in the comments below! If you create something inspired by my idea, please leave a comment with a link here, so I can come and visit to see! I would love for you to visit me at my "house" too!! Thank you so much for reading!! ~ rachel

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AMAZING Altered Art by Rachel Whetzel

Hello AMAZING fans!! Rachel Whetzel here!! I'm here again, to show you how I most recently used Amazing Mold Putty and Amazing Clear Cast Resin to create a piece of art work! This month, I created a piece using an old, crusty, cracked doll's arm that a friend gave to me. I was so excited about using this arm, that I shared it in my INSPIRATION POST last month! One of my favorite things about Amazing Mold Putty, is that things I haven't used because I only have one, can be USED in my art now!

To create your piece like this, you'll need the following:
An old doll arm or body part
Craft Paint (I prefer Folk Art Acrylic)
A wooden canvas. (I have plywood cut at Lowe's and use those) This piece is 6X6 inches.
Creative Paperclay®
Dictionary pages
Crafter's Pick the Ultimate Glue
Amazing Mold Putty
Amazing Clear Cast Resin
Bubble Wrap in various sizes for stamping with paint
Old tubes from spent tape, etc. for stamping with paint

Here is the original arm piece.

To start, I made a mold of the arm. One thing I did learn when I made this piece, is that you should be prepared that your mold *MIGHT* turn out looking a bit, well... something a bit racy. Because of this, you might also not want to share photos of it on line!

CLICK HERE for video showing you how to make your mold, and mix your putty.

I made the mold and didn't enclose the whole arm in the putty, because I wanted a flat back to the arm when I was finished. Once the mold was made, I had to level it so that unset resin would not run out of the sides. To do this, prepared a small batch of Amazing Mold Putty once my arm mold was set up and the arm was out. Then I quickly poured water into the mold, and while keeping the water where I wanted the resin to stay later, I added new putty to the end that needed to be propped up, and molded it into a "stand" before it set. I also had a tear hear the wrist area of my arm in the mold, so I thickened my mold by adding fresh putty to that end. I really liked figuring out that I could test my molds with water before pouring resin into them! Handy, HANDY, information.

•  Once my mold was ready for resin, I poured Amazing Clear Cast Resin into the mold.

•  I sanded and prepped my canvas, and glued dictionary pages to it. 

•  I also finished off the edges of the plywood using Creative Paperclay®.

• When the Clear Cast Resin was set, I used stain to bring out the cracks and blemishes of the original arm piece.

Stained arm and a shot of my canvas edge.

Next, I got to work on the background and canvas. I stained the edges with paint, and stamped circles and bubble wrap using paints onto the canvas.

Once that was done, I added more bubble wrap stamps, and some paint drops, and glued my arm into place. The glue starts out white, and then dries clear. It's not dry in the picture below.

When the piece is finished, I paint the sides and back of the wood black.

Close up of the arm with the glue dried, and the background showing through.

Have you ever created a using
Amazing Clear Cast Resin
with the intent to allow
a background show through?

If you create something inspired by my project, please leave a comment with a link here, so I can come and visit to see! I would love for you to visit me at my "house" too!! Thank you so much for reading!! ~ rachel

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Totally and AMAZINGLY Inspired... by Rachel Whetzel

Hello everyone - Rachel here today... and I have been AMAZINGLY INSPIRED!!! The idea that I can take one of my "One-of-a-Kind" vintage items that I keep NOT using in my art work, (because it's ONE-OF-A-KIND) and create MORE of them, BLOWS MY MIND!!

This month, I am SO excited about this One-of-a-Kind vintage doll arm, that I'm sharing it with you BEFORE I create with it. I'm always finding pieces that are old, and a bit "loved". I also NEVER used to use them because once I had, that was IT! 

FINISHED.  No MORE.

All gone... 

There wouldn't BE another piece unless I seriously lucked out at the thrift store or a garage sale. I wasn't taking the risk. Then along came Amazing Crafting Products, and their beautiful Amazing Mold Putty, and their Amazing Resins.

Which brings me to today. I've been inspired by the use of Frozen Charlotte dolls in art work. I started collecting doll bits here and there with the idea I might use them similarly. The other day, I got to thinking about creating some of this paritcular doll arm, and experimenting with some of the dies and resins.

Now I'm totally inspired, and excited about the ideas in my head! I can't wait to get them out into the world!! Feels like an avalanche of ideas over this one piece!!

What about you? Do you have a special One-of-a-Kind
piece you have been holding onto instead of using?

Please share your projects in the comments below! 

If you create something inspired by my idea, please leave a comment with a link here, so I can come and visit to see! I would love for you to visit me at my "house" too!! Thank you so much for reading!! ~ rachel

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Resin Faerie Windows

 I have this fascination for smaller than life items, loving the mystery of what dwells beyond little doors.
I have been wanting my own faerie door for sometime, so I made one, just the way I envisioned, like something from The Hobbit. But then I realized my door needed windows, to make the bottom of our stairs look like some secret home.

 I crafted the frame of my windows from paper clay. It was a bit flimsy to work with so I recommend you do make yours from some other air dry or oven baked clay.
Mix equal amounts of yellow and white Amazing Mold Putty until one solid color of yellow.
Make a oval/window shape of the putty and carefully push the clay piece in, making sure to bring the sides of the putty up. Let set, about 15 minutes until putty id firm.

Then measure equal amounts of "A" and "B" of Amazing Casting Resin using the cups provided. Pour into a small paper cup and mix thoroughly until resin is clear. Fill your window mold carefully. Have extra molds nearby in case you have leftover resin.  The above photo shows the clay window in the lower left and the resin window in the lower right.
Let resin set about 15 minutes, then carefully push out of the mold.

Trim off any abnormalities with small nonstick scissors. Do this before your pieces fully cures and is still soft and pliable. Then with a dauber, ink up your windows a bit with some brown color. Next spread some clear dimensional glaze over every nook and cranny of your window.
Tap a little bit of Copper Alumilite into it's lid then using a old small paintbrush, spread the copper powder onto the window frame. You will be picking up some of the glaze to the point of painting the window frame with a 'copper glaze'. This is a good thing. Touch up the frames with some Gold Alumilite as well.
By combining the Alumilite powder with the glaze, you have a built in finish.

 Cut to shape and glue 2 layers of iridescent cellophane to the backs of the windows.

 Adhere double stick tape to the windows and place them in a 'low' secretive place for your faerie folk to enjoy!

Happy Crafting!

Charlotte

Hi everybody, it's Edie,


A few weeks ago I found an little, armless, vintage doll at a yard sale. I brought her home and stuck her in my box of ephemera to await her chance to be molded. I had never made a two part mold before and to be honest, I was kind of intimidated by the whole idea. I was worried about it leaking, not lining up properly and just not turning out right in general. Thank goodness Amazing Mold Putty has fantastic tutorials on their website, because my first two part mold turned out FANTASTIC! I followed the instructions I had seen on the site and it was sooooo simple! You can view the full (time lapse) video tutorial below or you can view the full (real time) Ustream episode full of tips and viewer questions and answers.



 I made the first half of my mold, covered the front side of my doll, making sure to stop at the seam line. While it was still moldable, I used the end of a paint brush to create markers on the outside edge. This will help to ensure my mold lines up properly every time. I let the first half set completely before moving on. I gave the seam line and all of the nooks and crannies a coat of Vaseline, but you can use what ever mold release you like. It is extremely important to cover ALL of the areas the Amazing Mold Putty might connect because it will adhere to it's self. I mixed up the second half of my mold and covered the back side of my doll, making sure to push the Putty into all of the earlier mentioned nooks and crannies ;) Once my mold was completely set, I removed my original doll and started preparing my mold for casting. I knew I would be using this mold with Amazing Casting Resin and the Amazing Clear cast, so I cut some little vents in the bottom to allow air bubbles escape. I wrapped a rubber band around the mold, put it upside down in a cup and added paper around the bottom to hold the mold upright. Next, I mixed up some Amazing Casting Resin, poured it into my little air holes and let it set. Even though it is not technically a 'Frozen Charlotte" doll, that is what my cast doll reminded me of and I ♪♫LOVE♪♫ it! I trimmed away the excess resin (do this BEFORE the item is completely set) and sanded her in a few spots. Amazing casting Resin is basically a hard, shiny plastic, so I gessoed my cast doll before I painted her. I mixed some gum arabic into my PearlEx powder for a binder and added water to create my base paint, then I used Iridescent Pearl craft paint on her face, belly and legs for highlight.




I created the wings with a piece of transparency paper. I painted on a basic wing shape for a guide, then I cut two pieces of wire and super glued them into place. For the outline of the wings I added a line of glue and sprinkled on some blue microbeads. I painted the inside of her wings with copper acrylic craft pain and tapped the paint for texture. Once the paint was dry I stamped them with Distress Ink. I made little holes in the wings by pushing a lit incense stick thought the transparency sheet. I love how these wings turned out and I plan on using them on another project that allows them to stick out :D I got the basic idea for these wings from Terri Sproul and you can see what she did here.

 

While that was drying I worked on the background canvas. I painted an 8 X 10 canvas board with black craft paint. I then stamped it with archival ink and embossed the stamped images with black embossing powder. Lastly, I attached the wings and the doll to the canvas with E-6000 glue.

 Even though she isn't a "Frozen Charlotte", she's still Charlotte to me :)
You can view more of my work on my blog.

 

White Rabbit's Pocket Watch

One of my favorite things about Alumilite products is their versatility for use with other products. As a doll maker, I see the versatility as a window of opportunity to create things that I might not have been able to for my dolls. Talk about customized!! One of those items, is Creative Paperclay®. I use Creative Paperclay® pretty heavily in my doll making, and recently, I started work on an Alice in Wonderland White Rabbit doll.

While I was making him, I knew I wanted to create a Pocket Watch for his "costume".  I started with a watch face I got at a thrift store. It was just the face, with the hands still attached, but no backing.

Using Creative Paperclay®, I began layering paperclay to the back of my watch face.

I let the first layer dry, and then added a second layer to bring around the edges of the watch.

Once those layers were dry, I used a fine grit sand paper to bring out the edges and lines that made the "frame" of my watch. Then I added a small eye screw to the top for future hanging of the watch.

Next, I painted the clay to be metallic.

After the metalic paint was dry, I aged it by adding some black paint over the top, and wiping it all off except for the crevice areas of the watch. Once I had the watch ready and clean, I mixed equal parts of Amazing Clear Cast and poured the liquid into the watch.

Of course, I'm a sucker for details, so I Googled "tea time" and found that it's usually between 2-5pm... and since the White Rabbit is LATE... I set the watch hands to just past 5:00 before I poured the resin in. Clear Cast resin takes longer to cure than the white casting resin by Amazing Mold Putty, so I set the watch on the windowsill to cure overnight.

Once it was cured, I hung the watch just out of Rabbit's pocket!!

Be sure to share any projects you make using ideas like this on the Amazing Mold Putty® Facebook Page!!

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Rehab on Barbie's Doll House

This project showcases the diversity of Amazing Mold Putty and its companion Amazing Casting Resin. On evening not long ago when I got home from work, my two year old grand-daughter greeted me with a doll house door in hand. She excitedly told me a long story about the doll house, Barbie, and the door. The bottom line was that the door was broken and would I fix it. 

An inspection of the door showed that the lower hinge was broken off.

Luckily, the top hinge was in tact.

   

Amazing Mold Putty to the rescue!! I kneaded equal parts of "A" and parts "B" of Amazing Mold Putty together until there were no streaks. Then I molded the good hinge and upper corner of the door. When the mold was set, I poured Amazing Casting Resin into the mold and set the lower part of the door where the hinge was broken into the groove in the mold that was formed by the top of the door during the molding process.

This shows the mold and the new hinge adhered to the Barbie house door!! I was surprised that the Amazing Casting Resin actually bonded with the door – no gluing required.

Amazing Mold Putty and Amazing Casting Resin saved the day and made one little girl a very happy doll house landlord! :)

There is so much you can do with Amazing Mold Putty and Amazing Casting Resin! Check out my Create & Craft blog for more project ideas.   ~ Carole