Welcome to the Inspiration Blog for Amazing Casting Products from the Alumilite Corporation. Here we share and explore projects and ideas using Amazing Mold Putty, Amazing Mold Rubber, Amazing Remelt, Amazing Casting Resin and Amazing Clear Cast Resin. We will have you sculpting, molding, and casting your own crafting ideas in no time. Celebrate your creative freedom with Amazing Casting Products!
Hello Amazing Makers! Are you up to your ears in your collection of papers? Join mixed-media artist Cat Kerr for some Cre8time play with Amazing Clear Cast Resin and PAPER.
Grab yourself a cuppa and sit back and enjoy these
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Thank you so much for watching!! If you love these resin techniques and would like to learn more... please check out Cat Kerr's "3 Resin and Wire Project Ideas" video by clicking HERE.
What would you create with resin and your stash of paper?
To see more of Cat's work, we encourage you to take time to visit CatKerr.com or her blog and see what other amazing things she is up to.
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Happy 4th of July! Brenda from Creativity is a State of Mind to share what has become my annual 4th of July project. It's not just Independence Day, it's my husband's birthday also – and every year on the 4th, we have a big party and celebrate with lots of games, good food and of course fireworks.
I try to decorate as much as possible, but this year time got a little away from me... but I did manage to make some planters representing my love for the red, white and blue. Last year I created an amazing Patriotic wind chime using Amazing Clear Cast Resin – you can see it by CLICKING HERE.
Using the same method as last year's resin paper stars, I created these stars. When cured, I layered one of each color on top of a coordinating piece of ribbon to embellish some simple silver vases.
Wishing everyone a happy and safe 4th of July. I hope you enjoy your 4th and thank you for stopping by. I hope you've enjoyed my project for today! I invite you to stop over to my blog, Creativity is a State of Mind to see all that I've been making.
Good day crafters! Brenda here and today I want to share a little thank you card I put together for Veteran's Day... in my favorite "patriotic" theme. Do you recognize a little something?! I created the embellishments for this using the resin paper I made for my 4th of July windchime {in case you missed it, CLICK HERE to pop over and take a peek}.
Using Amazing Clear Cast Resin, I turned a paper table cloth into resin paper – then used Art-C dies to cut out the shapes. I added a bit of ribbon, cardstock and a matching napkin for the background! Easy-peasy!
Thank you to all those who have served
or are still serving! God Bless America
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Happy 4th of JULY everyone! Brenda here from Creativity is a State of Mind and I'm so excited for my post today. If you have been following us here at Amazing Casting Products, you will know that I've been crafting with them for many, many years and the 4th of July has always been my day to post projects. Why? Because it's my hubby's birthday and I am super patriotic, especially on this fine day!
So let's dive right in...
I started out with a paper table cloth I bought at Walmart. It's that crepe-paper style that tears the minute you get it out of the package! This is where the creativity comes in!
You will need a plastic bag, baking/freezer paper
or a teflon sheet to lay your paper on.
I mixed up some Amazing Clear Cast Resin to make my resin paper. All you need to do is mix up the resin and you find view the easy mixing instructions HERE! Make sure you wear gloves and coat both sides of your paper evenly and leave it alone for a couple of hours. I think my paper set up in about 4 hours.
Here is a short video on how the resin
"paper" looks and feels after it's dried.
Please CLICK HERE if you are unable to view video.
Now onto step 2 ...
With my Cricut I cut three stars out of chipboard, "recycled cereal box" to be exact. With some left over Amazing Clear Cast Resin from the previous step, I covered the stars and "glued" my crepe-paper table cloth onto it and cut around the excess.
I got this "bottle dryer" at a thrift store and knew I was going to use this for my doming. This has been an amazing find for me. It's made out of a rubbery material and the resin comes right off of it. FABULOUS!!
I laid my stars on top and slowly poured my Amazing Clear Cast Resin over the top. Make sure you spread it to all the edges and tips of the stars. Also make sure you have this placed on a LEVEL table. You do not want your stars to have more resin on one side or the other.
This set up in about 12 hours. It might have been less but I left it alone for that long.
Here the stars as they are drying.
By using the "recycled cereal box" it
gave the stars an aged look. LOVE IT!
So after my resin paper had dried I took an embroidery hoop and cut out a circle. Again mixing up a tiny bit of Amazing Clear Cast Resin, I applied that to the edge of the embroidery hoop. I could have used another glue, but I wanted to make sure it looked even. SURE – use your clear cast as glue!!!
Since the paper was already covered with resin it didn't "bleed" through and I was able to use my homemade clamps (clothespins made with my crepe-paper table cloth) to keep it taught.
This set up in about 20 minutes. GORGEOUS!
I drilled holes into the embroidery hoop and the tips of the stars. Using fishing line I attached the stars with bells to the embroidery hoop and VIOLA, my Patriotic Wind Chime was created.
It was so hard to catch a still photo so here is a very short video on what it looks like swinging in the breeze. AMAZING!!!
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How do you decorate for the 4th of July?
Thanks for joining me today! I hope I've given you a few ideas on how to use Amazing Casting Products and that you have an Amazing 4th of July. Please leave me a comment with your ideas and also head over to Creativity is a State of Mind to see what else I am up to.
Good day! Brenda here from Creativity is a State of Mind with a tutorial how to use your resin paper to create a butterfly hairclip. The paper I am going to use today was created by accident, literally!
My box of resin paper.
So what happened... I was going to pour a mold using Amazing Casting Resin and the Violet Alumilite Dye that I had mixed up. While picking up my measuring cup, I knocked it over instead and my resin spilled everywhere. Thank goodness I keep paper towels within arms reach when pouring molds.
I quickly wiped it up and was about to throw the paper towel away when I realized it may come in handy. I laid it out on my teflon sheet (if you don't have one you can also use a white plastic garbage bag) as flat as possible and within 10 minutes it had set up nicely. I tried to make sure that there weren't too many thick areas so that it would still be somewhat pliable and easy to cut.
Then I wondered if my new Stampin' Up butterfly die would work on it?
I located an area of the paper towel with most of the purple, cut around the butterfly and ran it through the Cuttlebug! Perfection!!!
Now the paper towel is pliable and the die cut it out AMAZINGLY! Do you see the awesome texture the paper towel gave the butterfly?
I had just enough of the purple resin area
so that I was able to cut the butterfly twice!
I glued the edges and pinched it together to create a 3D effect.
Kind of like a cage.
I also used a Sharpie to draw in the butterfly body and my E6000®
was the perfect way to attach the butterfly to the hair clip.
I love happy crafty accidents!
:)
My granddaughter has the perfect hair for this awesome butterfly clip.
What would you create
with resin paper?
Thank you for stopping by today and I would love to hear from you. Leave me a comment and tell me what you would create using your Amazing Resin paper!
Hello! Tracy with another Amazing Casting Products tutorial! The idea of coating and sealing paper with resin is an old one and I love the look. In the process of cleaning up I found a stash of paper scraps that I just couldn't throw away but wasn't too sure what to do with. Looking at the pieces I got to thinking of how pretty they would be as jewelry, with the help of Amazing Clear Cast Resin.
I first started off with the paper I wanted to use, sorted it by size and type.
Since I wanted the colors on the decorative paper to be enhanced by the resin, by coating and not soaking it in resin, I sealed the pieces with Liquitex Gloss Varnish, coating the front and back of each piece. I let each piece fully dry.
I cut the paper pieces into smaller sizes to create focal shapes. I mixed up some Amazing Clear Cast Resin, and applied it to the back of the paper pieces with a cosmetic sponge and let it fully cure, laying it on baking parchment paper {CLICK HERE to view mixing/preparation}. Once cured, I flipped over the resin coated papers and applied Amazing Clear Cast Resin to the front of the paper, again using a cosmetic sponge. I added just a bit more resin to the front of the paper and smoothed it with a stir stick to get a nice high gloss coating of resin. Any drips I cleaned up with baby wipes.
**TIP** I use reusable dish gloves whenever applying resin with a sponge, for easier clean up and to prevent resin from getting under my nails.
I let the Amazing Clear Cast Resin cure to the point it was dry to the touch but still slightly flexible, I peeled the pieces off the parchment paper and trimmed any resin drips with a sharp pair of craft scissors. I placed the resin pieces back onto the parchment paper to fully dry.
Using a jewelry punch I punched holes through the now cured
resin paper on the top corners of each piece.
I opened up a jumpring with the flat nose pliers, put the jumpring through one of the resin pieces and attached it to the next larger resin piece.
Each piece made a link creating the focal element of the necklace.
After threading several beads on to a jewelry eyepin, I used a Beadsmith 1 Step Looper Tool to cut and finish each beaded link.
Using the flat head pliers I connected all of the links
together with jumprings and chain.
The finished necklace is light weight but gives
the illusion of embossed metal!
With the addition of flat backed gems, crystals and paper embellishments there is any number of amazing paper jewelry pieces you can create!
Hey all!! This was a bit of an experiment for me as I've never actually resined papers before but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out so I'm going to try and perfect this technique as I play more. My original plan {which usually never is how it turns out} was to make some medallion-type earrings... well I got impatient and touched one before it was dry and ruined it – so I ended up with a pendant instead!
I started with some French ephemera circles I had and thought they would be fun to work with. I love vintage papers, especially from books. I also punched out little hearts from a painted paper I created and cut some strips of other painted paper.
My pile of goodies.
I took some 20 gauge wire and bent it around
the circles then glued them down together.
This is great glue for quick projects!!
Glued together.
For more interest I ripped some of my favorite Rice Paper as well and layered them how I wanted the earrings to be. I didn't glue down the strips I wanted to see how they would react with the resin.
I mixed equal parts of Amazing Clear Cast Resin and began applying to the earrings with a popsicle stick – I found out I put way too much on, this is where I'll need more practice. It started pooling around the circles and I ended up needing to trim it after it had cured. Be conservative when applying the resin. I let it dry overnight to be certain it was done curing. CLICK HERE to view mixing/preparation of Amazing Clear Cast Resin.
This is in process while it's still wet, at this phase I put a drop of white Alumilite dye and swirled it around for a milky effect as well as some green Alumidust for some shimmer.
I did the same to this one. I threw on some pink chunky glitter as well for some more shimmer and some metallic green micro beads. I wanted it to feel very organic and I think I did accomplish that effect.
Next time I'm going to do this in phases – maybe resin and papers first, let that cure and then do the dye, glitter and after bits for more control.
I do like how it turned out. When it cured fully, I did some primitive bead loops and strung it on a ball and chain necklace. Easy peasy!
Here is the finished product!
Do you make resin jewelry?
What are your favorite ways to create
organic looking resined pieces?
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