A #Cre8time Game of Horseshoe... AMAZING Inspiration from Brenda Burfeind

Good day Crafties! Brenda here from Creativity is a State of Mind and today I want to share some inspiration... another project I've made using a mold I created a while back! 

As you may remember... this "lucky" sign that I created

from molding/casting a real horseshoe.

Or my first horseshoe make – this red, white and blue star?

If you missed them, you can view these projects HERE.

There is a little history as to why I molded this particular horseshoe. When we bought our house we found this horseshoe among some flowers in a flower bed. My husband said, "this was going to be our LUCKY horseshoe and it needed to stay in the yard". It's very old and rusty, but it's been with us ever since (now 16 years).

I've used the same horseshoe mold filled with Amazing Casting Resin and a bit of Alumilite Dye. I rubbed the resin cast horseshoe with some paint to age and distress, then wrapped with some colored twine to create a faux twine-wrapped horseshoe to hang in my home. Now I can enjoy this "lucky" charm every day.

What I love best about Amazing Casting Resin is that once it's cured it is almost weightless. Imagine if you hung a real horseshoe on a wall in your home and it wasn't hung properly. If it would fall it could hurt someone or break something... but made with Amazing Casting Resin it is featherlight! 

You can also paint plain white resin castings to create very different variations! Wouldn't this make a wonderful rustic gift topper?!

  

Oh and by the way, my horseshoe sign made it on the new packaging for Amazing Casting Resin! I love seeing my creations on their product. You can find it at Michael's, Hobby Lobby and of course online at MoldPutty.com!

I hope I've inspired you to use the Amazing Casting Products to create your own custom home decor that is very lightweight and so easy to recreate! I've used this mold a several times now and it is still as strong and detailed as the original!

What items would you mold 
to accent your home decor?

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will come back often to see what the other designers have created!

Until next time, Happy Crafting! ~ Brenda

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to see all that I've been making. 

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A #Cre8time Lucky Charm... AMAZING Inspiration by Brenda Burfeind

Good day friends! Brenda here with Creativity is a State of Mind and I'm hoping to inspire you with a mold I used a very long time ago. Do you remember this post I did last year?

You can see that post HERE.

The great thing about molds is they can be used over and over...

This time I created the horseshoe for this sign.

 

Doesn't it look so real???

I used the horseshoe to represent the "U" in LUCKY and since horseshoes are considered lucky this was just fitting! The best part of this sign though is the fact that the Amazing Casting Resin horseshoe is SOOOO much lighter than a real horseshoe and makes this sign so much more appealing!

If I have intrigued you,

please head over to my blog

HERE 

and see the full tutorial.

Until next time, have a wonderful day and thank you

so much for stopping to see me! ~ Brenda

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Having a LUCKY Streak when it's #Cre8time! AMAZING Inspiration from Brenda Burfeind

Hello everyone, Brenda here again to share a little "GOOD LUCK" Tag. I was on a creative roll when creating my St. Patrick's Day jewelry ensemble {if you missed it, CLICK HERE}. I love using my Amazing Crafting Products – once I get started the ideas start multiplying... so I also mold/cast the lucky green horse-shoe embellishment for this tag. Yes - I used my Cricut, too!

With my Cricut I cut 5 pieces of the horse-shoe out of chipboard and layered them together to give me a thicker piece and created a mold using Amazing Mold Putty. This time I used my Amazing Clear Cast Resin with the Alumilite Fluorescent "Flo" Green Dye to get the perfect shamrock glowing green. When my horse-shoe was cured I stamped on some coordinating alcohol inks {same as tag background} and added some gold brads for added detail and dimension.

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Creativity is a State of Mind. ~ Brenda

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My Little Cowboy

Our road trip this summer took us to South Dakota where we visited Deadwood. That was July and I am still finishing up our journal/scrapbook of that trip. This is one of the pages I wanted to make some charms to go on the page but the only ones I had were silver, plus, with all the cowboy pictures I have of my son, I knew I would use these again and again in different ways. Soooooo . . . I made my own using Amazing Mold Putty and Amazing Casting Resin and added some Alumilite Dye and Alumilite Metallic Powder to complete the look.

These were the original metal charms:

Next I mixed my Amazing Mold Putty mixing a 1:1 ratio of "A" and "B" (click on the link at the end of this post to go to their website for a tutorial).

Then I made a mold of my charms and brushed the inside with metallic powder (link above). As I said in my last post, this stuff goes a long way - you really don't have to use much at all to cover the entire surface of what you are molding.

After trying the dyes on my last project and liking the way it looked, I mixed a couple of drops (and I mean just drops) of the African American dye and then added a little of the metallic powder to side "A" before mixing the resin on a second set and this is what it looked like in the mold:

This is what each set looked like fresh out of the mold with nothing added on the surface. As you can see, if you didn't want to play with them you could absolutely leave them as-is and have a great look. Or you could take it a step further like I did and paint, daub, brush and rub to get them the way I wanted. That's what I did with the top set. The bottom set I left alone except to rub just a bit of the metallic powder on the raised areas to highlight it just a bit.

After playing with these products, I have found that I love the dyes and powders almost as well as the putty and the resin (not quite because I love, love, love the putty and resin).

One tip I have for making charms or anything with a bail on it, is to pull it out of the mold before it is rock hard and use a paper piercing tool to open the bail and then put a toothpick or skewer in the hole to hold it open while it dries. If you try to re-open the hold once the piece hardens, you will break it. Doing this before it hardens and having it ready to go can save the major meltdown that might happen if you break it later (this would be me waiting until the last minute to make a gift and then the piece breaks when I don't have time to start over - lol). Below is an example:

Here is one last look at my finished project:

Thanks for joining me - Make sure to leave a comment and let me know what you think! Also, don't forget to check out the Amazing Mold Putty website for these and more Amazing products.

~ Make Today Count

Wendy
www.scrappinwendysway.blogspot.com