Showing posts with label eggs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eggs. Show all posts

Friday, March 30

There are no "BAD" Eggs... Amazing Inspiration by Tracy Krueger


I'm baaaack! It's Tracy here and I'm going to share a couple of "bad" eggs... ideas that were in my mind, though didn't necessarily come to fruition. Believe me when I say, I will keep on trying these until they work out just how I want them – LOL!


My first egg was trying to get Amazing Casting Resin to look like a cracked egg. First I used Amazing Mold Rubber to mold a plastic egg. Then I mixed up equal parts of Amazing Casting Resin and gently poured it into the mold. As it was curing, I "rolled" the mold back and forth to get it to coat just the sides and bottom.


Even though it didn't quite turn out like I imagined – I wanted to decorate it somehow.  So I mixed up a couple of small batches of Amazing Clear Cast Resin colored them with blue and violet Alumilite Dye. I turned the faux cracked egg upside down and drizzled the resin over the egg.


After everything cured, it created an interesting piece.


My second and third try was to create a clear egg with swirls of color. I used the same egg mold that I created, mixed equal parts of Amazing Clear Cast Resin and poured it into the mold. I then mixed up a couple of smaller batches of Amazing Clear Cast again and colored them with blue and violet Alumilite Dye.

In one of the tries: I poured a little of the colored resin on the top and took a popsicle stick and gently swirled the color around (trying not to "mix" it up).


Since this didn't give me the effect I was going for... I gave it another try – this time I mixed up Amazing Clear Cast Resin, and only filled the mold 1/2 way. Then I added and swirled in the colored resin, then filled it up with more clear resin. It still didn't give me what I was looking for, but it is pretty.

I'll keep trying! Where there is a will, there is a way....

What kind of resin projects
are you working on?

Have fun creating! ~ Tracy

You can find more of my work on my Blog:
http://tracykrueger-nine.blogspot.com/2017/

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Monday, March 26

#Cre8time Egg Decorating... AMAZING Easter Ornaments by Tracy Krueger

Hello, it's Tracy here! Being that Easter is right around the corner, I was trying to think of a quick and fun Egg decorating project. My kids are grown so we don't decorate real eggs anymore.


Then the simplest idea came to me! I have a mold that I had made out of a cut piece of brass (to make a Christmas ornament) and it has an Egg shape. I first mixed two equal parts of Amazing Casting Resin and poured it into my mold to give it a "egg base". I just love watching the Casting Resin cure... don't you :-)


After this base egg cured (I gave it about 15 minutes), I gathered three of my Alumilite Dyes that would be good for Easter – Blue, Purple and Yellow. I poured out very small equal portions of Amazing Casting Resin and squeezed out a tiny drop of each color into part "A" of the resin, then stirred color completely before adding part "B". CLICK HERE to view mixing/preparation.


The first color I mixed up was the yellow, and poured
random lines on top of my white cured resin.


As the yellow was curing, I was thinking "there has to be a better way to have more control over the colored resin". Awhile back I bought a bunch of disposable pipettes, so after the yellow cured, I mixed up the blue dyed resin and used the pipette to draw where I wanted my colored resin to go. It worked beautifully! I just love how I got some green where the blue was over the yellow.


Now I just had purple left. I mixed it up and used another pipette to squeeze the purple where I wanted. As always I kept a spare mold around to pour the extra resin in.


Once I was done applying the three resin colors, I let the whole thing cure for a couple of hours to make sure everything was set totally.


I took it out of the mold and trimmed the back a little, then drilled a hole in the top. I grabbed my sari ribbons and cut a small piece of a greenish/blue colored one.


I really like how this turned out.
It has kind of a watercolor look about it.


Isn't it fun that you can mix up your Holidays and make decorations for both?! I had quite a few more ideas, but have had a hard time getting them to come to fruition. I'll be back soon to share a few of my bad EGGS. 

How are you decorating for Easter?

Have fun! ~ Tracy

You can find more of my work on my Blog:
http://tracykrueger-nine.blogspot.com/2017/

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Thursday, March 22

#MixedMedia Easter EGG-spiration... by Michele Kosciolek

Hello fellow creatives! Michele here – with Easter right around the corner I have a little EGG-spiration for you today!!

I've decoupaged some craft eggs with tissue paper stamped with Viva Las VegaStamps!, then sprayed with Distress Sprays. Now, I have had these eggs for quite some time and have wanted to decorate them for Easter for just as long... I am so glad I finally did and took things one AWESOME step further!

I gave these eggs a coating of Amazing Clear Cast Resin – OMG – that was just what it needed to make these eggs POP!

Here they are!!


I decided to turn these into hanging eggs.


This one is hanging on May Arts silk ribbon
with a couple of hand blown glass beads.


This one is hanging on copper wire with
a couple of handmade Tibetan glass beads.


I love how these eggs shine and already have
them hanging with my Easter decorations!

How are you decorating for Easter??

Thanks for sharing part of you day with us!!!
Until next time... get creating!! Michele

For more projects and inspiration please visit my blog "Stuff by Belle"
or follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michele.kosciolek

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Monday, March 19

#Cre8time Transformations... Mixed-Media Easter Eggs with Lyn Gill


Hi everyone! Lyn here again this time with some Amazing Inspiration... Patina and Rust Easter Eggs!


These altered eggs were so fun and easy – created with some foil duct tape, texture paste and acrylic paints over plastic Easter Eggs with some Amazing Casting Resin embellishments.



What will you create using
and some plastic Easter Eggs?

Well that all for this now on the Amazing Casting Products blog – CLICK HERE to see more springtime inspiration.
Till Next Time! Lyn

You can find more of my work on my blog LynzCraftz
or on YouTube LynzCraftz, or my Facebook page LynzCraftz.




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Wednesday, March 27

Spring Wedding Trinket Box



Our family is so excited in the planning of our middle daughter's wedding this April. There will many goodies to distribute, so I made this little trinket box for "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue."



  I pulled out my faithful jars of Amazing Mold Putty A and B.
Be sure to grab equal parts of each so that the mix is correct.
Knead the 2 parts together til uniform in color.   



As you can see I made 2 perfect replicas of an egg half and antique button. 
I added tan paint to the egg and ivory to the button. 
I also applied 3D Crystal lacquer to give the button some shine.



 This is the bottom half of the box. I lightly stenciled a hexagonal
motif in warm brown ink to add interest to the box.



Although small, I think it is just the right size for presenting a tiny treasure.
The eggs are in keeping will the wedding theme birds, eggs and nests.

Amazing Mold Putty is always a constant in my craft corner. Have a Happy Easter!!!!!!!!!!! 

Joyce

Sunday, June 3

Think outside the box..

Hello bloggers and general crafty people! DeeDee here today to show you my monthly project.. 

I've decided to experiment and play around with my products more. and what I'm showing you today is a result of that.

So instead of molding an already found object.. I sort of carved my own piece.

As usual.. Mix your equal parts A and B of the molding putty. I formed mine into cylinder shape.. flat and wide. Then I used a measuring spoon to mold a large smooth half circle. While it cured I gathered the rest of my supplies. (remember.. your mold is cured completely when you can stick your fingernail in it and leave NO impression)

Here's my stirring stick, my measuring cup, my 2 part clear cast resin, some loose moss, a paintbrush and my recently cured mold. 

I mixed equal parts A and B of the clear cast resin

Then, because I have such a nice long working period with the clear resin, I put some moss into my mold and began saturating it with the clear resin. I made sure to keep pressing the resin down into the moss, dampening it as much as possible. After my new nest was nice and wet and had the shape I desired, I set the mold out in the sun and let it dry over the evening and through the next day. A full 24 hours is suggested. 

And after my resin has had the 24 hours to cure here is my nest!!! I rolled some thick wide paper beads to represent eggs and there you have it! Ready to add to any project in need of a beautiful little nest.

What do you think??? -DeeDee
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