Dracula takes a Quick #Cre8time Bite of Halloween by Tracy Alden

Hello! Tracy here with another Amazing Casting Products tutorial! This year I am going with a vampire food theme for Halloween treats and needed to decorate cupcakes in a fast and fun way. While it would have been okay to just put plastic vampire fangs on each cupcake, I wanted to make the fangs an edible candy treat!

Supplies: 

• Amazing Mold Putty
• Plastic Children's size Vampire Fangs 
• Wilton Candy Melts
• Wilton Blood Red Sparkle Gel Icing
• Red Velvet Cake Mix 
• Black Cupcake tin liners 
• White icing tinted blue-grey 
• Toothpicks 
• Sandwich baggies 
• Butter knife 

I cleaned two child sized vampire fangs, with soap and water to prepare them for molding. I placed them on a black dinner plate so I had a smooth and contrasting surface to work on.

I mixed up some Amazing Mold Putty{CLICK HERE to view mixing/preparation}, and molded it around the front portions of the vampire fangs. I was careful to press the Mold Putty up against the fangs to make sure I got a good molding of the fangs.

Once the Mold Putty was cured I removed the plastic fangs. To close up the grove created by the gum portion of the vampire fangs I mixed up and pressed tiny little wads of Mold Putty into the open portion of the mold as seen in the above photo. By doing this I would be able to place melted candy into the molds with no worry of the candy leaking out the back of the fang mold.

To keep the molds upright I placed a small teacup plate inside the large dinner plate and placed the molds snug inside the dinner plate and against the teacup plate. This will keep the molds in place while the candy is piped into the molds.

Following the manufacturer instructions, I carefully melted the Wilton Candy Melts in a sandwich bag in the microwave. Once the candy was melted I snipped the end off a corner of the sandwich baggie and pipped the candy into the molds. 

**A TIP** Make sure the candy is completely cooled before removing from the mold to make sure you don't break off a fang. A quick trip in the refrigerator is a sure way to help your candy along!

I made up a batch of Red Velvet cupcakes, applied blue-grey tinted icing, dribbled some Wilton Blood Red Glitter Gel Icing and carefully placed a set of candy fangs on each cupcake.

I had so much fun making the candy fangs, I made more than I needed for the cupcakes – the extra fangs made a fun addition to cranberry cocktails! 

What amazing Halloween
crafts can you create?

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Until next time, safe travels! ~ Tracy

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#Stamping meets Amazing Remelt for #Cre8time Travel Treats...

Hello Amazing Crafters! What do you do with all of those maps, tickets, postcards and other ephemera that you collect on your travels? Today we are sharing some Cre8time inspiration from the When Creativity Knocks All-Star Designers Summer Series – and this project has a unique coordinating addition using Amazing Remelt.

From July 5 thru August 23 you can find Amazing Casting Products {a.k.a. Alumilite} and more when you watch the When Creativity Knocks All-Star Designers Summer Series. A new episode airs every week that is available for viewing 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week.

Here's a sneak peek of Judi Watanabe and her clever wallet to hold special keepsakes from your summer travels with an AMAZING sweet surprise too!

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this week's episode.

Thanks for stopping by! Keep a lookout for Amazing Casting Products on When Creativity Knocks this summer and be sure to pop over to their website to enter to win the All-Star Designers Summer Series prize package giveaway.

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Take a #Cre8time Picnic with #PolymerClay... by Tracy Alden

Hello! Tracy here with another Amazing Casting Products inspiration post! With Summer now upon us (in my area 105º Fahrenheit and above) I have been looking to keep cool indoors with crafts. One of my favorite pastimes is to create miniatures. With the help of Amazing Mold Putty I was able to create the majority the miniatures you see in the above photo (see the penny on the bottom left for scale) out of polymer clay. Amazing Mold Putty can be an indispensable tool to create textures, details, shapes and elements in miniature. One quick and simple miniature project is to create plate molds!

To create the look of the miniature plates, I look to the bottoms of small bottles. The shape and indents were perfect to be molded to create a base mold for rustic plates.

I mixed up small batches of Amazing Mold Putty to be placed on a ceramic tile and the bottles carefully pushed into the putty to create the molds. I find pushing slightly up the sides of bottles with the yet uncured putty gives a little lip to the mold that will later help retain the polymer clay.

Once the molds were fully cured I placed pea size polymer clay medallions in each mold and pushed the bottles into the clay, and back into the molds, to fill each mold completely.

With the bottles removed, I used a small rounded stylus to push the clay to the edges and to lightly indent into the clay the circular pattern of wheel thrown ceramics. I then put the tile with molds and clay into a toaster oven, per manufacturer instructions, to cure. Once the clay was cooled, the plates popped easily out of the molds. I trimmed any uneven edges on the miniature plates with emery board.

The cutting boards, veggies and plates, made from polymer clay, were all created with the help of Amazing Mold Putty molds and texture plates. With just a little imagination any number of surfaces, textures and shapes can be molded to create a miniature world of your choosing! 

What AMAZING arts and crafts can you create?

Please share them on the user GALLERY on the Amazing Crafting Products Website!

Visit my blog Art Resurrected for more craft tutorials!

Until next time, safe travels! ~ Tracy

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#Cre8time Pumpkin Favors filled with Thanksgiving Treats...

Greetings Amazing – welcome to our final day of PUMPKIN WEEK! Susan here to share some DIY treats for the Thanksgiving table settings. Not only did I mold my real mini pumpkins using Amazing Mold Rubber – I made a few molds for molding chocolates and other sweet treats using Amazing Remelt, and Amazing Mold Putty. If you missed my faux iced birthday pumpkin, CLICK HERE and to jump over to view my faux gilded pumpkins HERE.

  

Amazing Remelt and Wilton Candy Melts both melt down in minutes in the microwave making custom sweet treats like a pro quick and easy.

First I selected a tapered glass bowl deep enough to fully cover my pumpkin, then melted down a container of Amazing Remelt using the lowest setting on my microwave in thirty second increments until it was completely liquified.

**A TIP** I poured a small amount into my bowl and let cool a bit before placing pumpkin in it. ALSO, I dipped the top of the pumpkin into the liquid remelt to coat the stem and let any air bubbles release before fully covering with Amazing Remelt.

After cooling in the refrigerator for a while {it was all day since I had to go to work}, I removed the mold from the bowl. I gently cut the mold in half using a sharp Xacto knife and released the pumpkin. Now I'm ready to make some chocolate mini pumpkins.

I melt down the Wilton Candy Melts following the directions for microwave in a pourable pyrex measuring cup. I scooped the melted chocolate in the Amazing Mold Putty mini pumpkin, on both sides of mold, filling completely. I placed the top half of the mold aligned to my marks and placed in refrigerator to chill and harden. 

I repeated by filling the Amazing Remelt mold and spread chocolate to evenly coat edges and leave center open – this pumpkin I will fill with an assortment of roasted seeds/nuts and mini dark chocolate chips... a perfect edible favor for the table settings.

The chocolate hardens very quickly – then I can remove, set aside on a tray in the fridge and make another set. These are fun to make and can made well in advance of the Thanksgiving Day feast!

What will you transform
into edible art with
Amazing Casting Products??

Please leave a comment below to share! If you would like to see more of my creations, please visit my blog sbartist : painting in the dark by clicking here. ~ Susan

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#Cre8time Fun for #FOODIES - Day 3 of #PumpkinWeek #ACPthrowback

Greetings Amazing Crafters! Welcome to the day three of PUMPKIN WEEK... a week of projects and inspiration dedicated to all our favorite fall flavor! Today we are revisiting a FOODIE project from Amazing Creative Tracy Alden that is perfect for serving up at your upcoming holiday gatherings. Fresh rolls with Pumpkin spice butter anyone??!

When you make flavored butter why just have it sitting in a bowl in a lump when you can create fun and festive molds for butter pats... chocolates or fondant for decorating cakes and cookies. Tracy created some festive fall shapes for molding her DIY butters using fresh herbs and spices from her garden and some help from Amazing Remelt - YES... it's FOOD SAFE :)

CLICK HERE to jump over
to see Tracy's full tutorial 
and a little extra bonus treat!

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I'm Melting... I'm Melting!!! #DIY Wicked Witch Cookies by Tanya Ruffin

I am gearing up for Halloween craft classes at my studio in Baton Rouge and thought of something fun to do using a Wicked Witch from the Wizard of Oz doll! This involved making two molds – the first mold was made using Amazing Mold Putty and the second used Amazing Remelt!

Step one was mold the head of the witch with Amazing Mold Putty.

I then cast 4 heads with Amazing Casting Resin. They are dyed black because I am going to re-purpose the heads later in another project. Using a hot glue gun, I glued the heads to a small tray. Next, I microwaved the Remelt (follow the directions on the lid - CLICK HERE to view). Then I poured melted material over the resin heads making sure to completely cover. Now you wait... I placed mine in the freezer for a few minutes to quickly set up.

This is what my food safe mold looks like!!

Now melt your candy melts (following the

directions on the bag), and pour into the mold.

Slap this puppy in the freezer for a few minutes

to harden the candy and then pop out!

I spooned some melted candy on the cookies first to glue the heads in place. I thought that without painted eyes it was hard to tell this was the wicked witch front – so on two cookies I tilted her head sideways and placed in the microwave to "melt" it a little more.

The profile REALLY looks like her!!!

These were so much fun. I am going to have to make

a stash of green candy heads to save for Halloween!

They look very lovely on a Halloween platter!

Now to figure out what to make a realistic edible broom out of??

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 BUNNY for your Thoughts... with AMAZING Guest Designer Bridget Cordero

Greetings! Today we are excited to welcome a Guest Creative joining us this month here on the Amazing Casting Products blog... Bridget Cordero – a mixed-media artist and YouTuber who loves all things altered and who is also addicted to Amazing Mold Putty.

Please take some time to get to know Bridget. She is one of the Amazing Creatives who submitted to our Creative Team Call and is sharing a video of her adorable sweet treats cast in Amazing Remelt {our latest Amazing molding product that is FOOD SAFE and reusable}.

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Hi, My name is Bridget and I love to alter anything I can get my hands on. I own an at-home craft business, B's Altered Designs where I create wonderful gifts, mixed media art and altered projects. I have a passion for sewing and working with wood and various power tools. I'm an avid YouTuber. My favorite style is Steampunk and have been published in Just Steampunk Magazine. Come see my wonderful creations on my YouTube channel – https://www.youtube.com/user/BsAlteredDesigns.

Today I'm going to show you how I made these adorable gummy bunnies. I love anything cinnamon and it's been very hard finding cinnamon gummies here in upstate New York lately... so I thought let's try and make them. I just love the way they turned out and they are so good.

Please sit back and enjoy my tutorial using a bunny mold I created with Amazing Remelt. ~ Bridget

Trouble viewing the video???

Please CLICK HERE to jump and view on YouTube.

I made another batch that was raspberry/watermelon flavored... YUM!

What kind of tasty shaped treats

will you create with Amazing Remelt?

Please comment below and give our AMAZING Guest Creative Bridget Cordero some love. If you have molded your own treats using Amazing Remelt, please share them on our website in the User Gallery or on social media with #AmazingCastingProducts.

Please visit "BsAlteredDesigns" to see more of Bridget's work on her

YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/BsAlteredDesigns

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Will you be my Speculaas Valentine? Amazing Cast COOKIES by Tracy Alden

Hello! Tracy here with another Amazing Casting Products inspired project! Once again I got to thinking about the many food applications of Amazing Remelt. I wanted to create a edible Valentine, a cookie but not something with icing but with a sentiment molded into the cookie. I started searching for cookie recipes that could be molded and retain a molded imprint even after baking. I found Speculaas cookies would be my best choice for molded cookies. 

Traditionally made for the Feast of St. Nicholas, Speculaas cookies are often molded into all kinds of shapes and patterns. While there is some debate on where the name comes from, some feel it might come from the Latin word speculum, which translates as mirror and refers to the delicate molds carved in mirrored bas-relief that are used to embellish the cookies. Many wonderful vintage molds can be found and many bakers collect and display them when not using them to make cookies. Speculaas cookies have gained popularity as Dutch Windmill cookies and as the most common cookie used to create Cookie Butter. Speculaas cookies are crisp, buttery, have a wonderful warm spice flavor and are a great compliment to tea and coffee.

In the process of searching for the perfect Speculaas cookie recipe I stumbled on a wonderful blog called The Dutch Baker's Daughter by Cathy Wiechert. I had tried other recipes but Cathy Wiechert's Speculaas Recipe worked perfect in the molds I created, had the best flavor and made my house smell delicious while baking!

To create the molds I wasn't about to carve them out of wood as traditionally done since I am not much of a wood carver, nor did I have the time, so Amazing Remelt was my answer. I needed to create originals to mold a mirror image but I didn't think fondant was going to get the detail I wanted so I did something somewhat unorthodox. I used chipboard scraps and cut outs, raw pieces I had never coated or treated with crafting materials. Carefully I glued them together with water based non-toxic glue. 

I sealed each chipboard pieces with a non-toxic water based sealer {I could have also coated them with a layer of Amazing Clear Cast Resin that is also food safe}, and lightly glued them to the inside of a reused plastic salad food tray to act as mold box. I then liberally sprayed them with cooking spray to act as a mold release and blotted the excess with a paper towel.

I heated up the Amazing Remelt in my microwave and from a 12 -15 inch distance I poured the Amazing Remelt in the mold box, directly in the middle of each chipboard piece {CLICK HERE to view preparation}. The distance gives the Remelt a chance to release more bubbles before cooling and by pouring directly onto the pieces, the more Remelt you pour the more it will drag air bubbles away from the detailed surface. I used a small toothpick to drag bubbles caught in the chipboard swirls and words before the Amazing Remelt cooled to make sure I get a clean casting. 

Once the Amazing Remelt was cooled, no longer warm or sticky to the touch, I was able to carefully remove the chipboard pieces. While some of the cooking spray seeped into the chipboard pieces I was able to dry them out and reuse them for more molds.

Since the cooking spray always seems to leave the Amazing Remelt a bit gooey, I had to gently clean the molds with cold water to remove oil left from the casting process and left to air dry on a cutting board. 

*Careful not to keep the Amazing Remelt mold in the water too long as water will eventually start to dissolve the mold.

Before molding the cookies the cookie dough must rest overnight in the fridge, giving it time to let the spices fully flavor the dough. The Amazing Remelt molds must be dusted with flour EACH time you want to mold a cookie so the dough will not stick to the mold. I rolled out the chilled dough and cut pieces close to the size of each molded design.

I placed the dough into the molds, carefully pressing the dough into the mold tightly to ensure I was catching all of the detail. I gently rolled a lightly floured rolling pin back and forth over the mold to smooth the dough and even out the shape.

I then carefully placed the mold, with the cookie dough still inside, face down on a chilled marble cutting board. I then peeled back the mold and the cookie will generally stick to the cold marble. If there is any dough still inside the mold carefully remove it with a tooth pick and place it on the cookie. With my hands lightly floured I was able to place each cookie about an inch apart on a non-stick cookie sheet and I then repeated this process until I had several dozen cookies on cookie trays. 

I then placed each tray into the refrigerator to chill for about an hour before baking them to help retain the molded details. Once cooled the cookies can be wrapped up and given as Valentine treats!

What AMAZING arts and crafts can you create?

Please share them on the user GALLERY on the Amazing Crafting Products Website!

Visit my blog Art Resurrected for more craft tutorials!

Until next time, safe travels! ~ Tracy

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