Amazing Casting Products: shark week

Friday, July 10

Whoa!!! Brave the #Cre8time Seas for #SharkWeek #ACPThrowback

Hello Amazing Crafters! This being Shark Week we thought this would be the perfect time to share some #ACPthrowback inspiration... a Steampunkified shark brooch, perfect for the Shark Week formal or anytime you want to fashionably bite back!

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details on Tanya's shark brooch.

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It's week six of the Make Things! Craft Challenge. Our AMAZING creative friend Katie Smith of Punk Projects is hosting a fun craft challenge for the summer and Amazing Casting Products is proud to be one of the sponsors. Play along for your chance to win weekly prizes and a grand prize at the end! There is still one day left to squeeze in some Cre8time and enter this week's challenge.

This week's "Make Things!" theme is... FOLLOW A TUTORIAL! What a fun challenge! We hope you are inspired to go make someTHING and link-up :) We'd love to see what you create using the loads of tutorials found here on the Amazing Casting Products Inspiration Blog.

Tuesday, February 25

For the LOVE of SHARKS!!! Steampunkified Shark Brooch by Tanya Ruffin

I know we still have a little ways to go, but this project would be great for Shark Week. For those interested - there's even a countdown for Shark Week! I think it is a just a groovy steampunky pin. The process was easy and I love the end results.

Materials:

Plastic shark

Plastic heart frame

Amazing Mold Putty

Amazing Casting Resin

Alumilite Black Dye

Lace Ribbon

E-6000® glue
Rub 'n Buff®

Pin back

Directions:

I already had a heart shaped frame cast and wanted to use in a unconventional design. So I purchased a plastic shark with the idea to cast the head. Check out your discount store toy aisles and...

Let your mind go!

I made a mold of the head, just up to the side fin and then cast the mold.

After I removed it from the mold, I didn't like how it sat on the frame so I took out my handy dandy file and took some off the side.

I used some copper, silver and ebony Rub 'n Buff® on the shark and the heart frame. I then glued the lace ribbon around the back to give it that Victorian look.