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! Grab some stars, shells and your favorite found objects and join us as we celebrate our creative freedom with mold-making and casting. With Independence Day upon us many of us love to use our Cre8time showing our patriotic colors.
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
Please leave me a comment with your ideas and also head over
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!!!
Please CLICK HERE if you are unable to view video.
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.
Happy 4th of July!!! Brenda here today to share what's become a tradition here on the Amazing Casting Products Blog that started back in 2013 with this patriotic pin. Last summer I created these dangling sparkling stars to wear... and today I am adorned with new earrings just in time for the celebration!
Today is my favorite day of the year! It's better than Christmas and my Birthday rolled into one! Today is America's birthday and my husband's birthday also. I've always been very patriotic and today I am here to inspire you with my American "Fries" earrings. You will totally understand in a minute.
My grandkids have recently come to live with us and therefore we have all sorts of toys laying around the house. The crafter in me is always looking at their toys wondering what I could mold or create with using Amazing Casting Products.
Today is no exception! Recently we were playing kitchen and I saw these amazing French Fries in their mixture of play food...
Oh how the wheels started to spin!
I just had to make a mold with those cute play fries. I poured them with some Amazing Casting Resin after making a mold with the Amazing Mold Putty and let them cure for about 5 minutes.
Using regular acrylic paints, I painted some red stripes and a small section in blue on top of the white Amazing Casting Resin. E6000® and some rhinestones for some bling and drilling a hole to attach some jump rings and earring wires I now I have the perfect earrings for the 4th of July!
I totally thought how the shape of those French fries reminded me of a waving flag... and I brought that vision to life! AMAZING!!!
I hope I've inspired you to use something out of your kids'
Hello Amazing Crafters! As you are well aware you can create anything you can imagine with Amazing Casting Products... and also customize them in any color you desire. Today we are sharing some #ACPthrowback creations to inspire you for the official start of summer – the 4th of July!
July 16 is our next THIRD THURSDAY... this is your chance to be featured. Post your creations to our Facebook page, Pinterest, and on Twitter! We'll be on the hunt for your projects with the hashtag #ACPThrowBack, (you can even go back into your past pins and add this pin to help us find you!) and share ALL your projects using the hashtag #AmazingCastingProducts!!
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Our AMAZING creative friend Katie Smith, of Punk Projects is hosting a fun craft challenge for the summer and ACP is proud to be one of the sponsors. Play along for your chance to win weekly prizes and a grand prize at the end! Today is the last day of this fourth challenge - did you MAKE someTHING??!
