A Collaged Christmas Clipboard

Hello - Carole here! As a member of the Amazing Mold Putty design team, I've been having a blast molding and casting a variety of items. If it's not movin', it just might get covered with putty! :) 

This month I've molded rubber stamps, fancy brads, and metal pieces to create embellishments to decorate my clipboard.

After mixing equal parts of "A" and "B" putty, I molded my snowflake and "Joy" rubber stamps. I found that when mold stamps, it is important to be sure the putty make contact with the mounting block all around the stamp. This ensures that you have a nice deep reservoir for the casting resin.

I started with one of those ordinary brown, hardboard clipboards. I covered the clipboard with a paper napkin using Susan Pickering Rothamel’s napkin collage technique. This is one of those OMG-that-looks-fabulous techniques that is so, so easy. To watch a video of Susan demonstrating this technique, click here.

I used several different techniques to glam up the cast pieces. For the bird I dusted the mold with with Alumilite's Metallic Pearlescent Powder before pouring the Amazing Casting Resin. After I unmolded the bird, I heated it with my heat gun enough to make it flexible and gently repositioned the wings to look more three dimensional.

The snowflakes were painted with acrylic paints. While the paint was still wet, I sprinkled the pieces with ultrafine crystal glitter.

For the Joy embellishment I began by coating the casting with Duo Adhesive. This adhesive is milky white when wet. It dries to a clear, tacky finish that is perfect for adhering mica powders, glitters, foiling, or gilding. In this case gold glitter!! My key learning here: words mold backwards. So, the back side of the casting becomes the display side.

 

The white poinsettia was dusted with mica powder with a drop of gold acrylic paint for the center. The red poinsettia is covered with Stickles with a gold Stickles center. 

   

I used Scotch Quick-Dry Adhesive to glue my “Amazing” embellishments on the clipboard. I accented the red and white berries on the napkins with Stickles and completed the piece with a variety of ribbons tied onto the clamp.

This clipboard gives me a beautiful place to keep my holiday lists and reminders. Maybe it will help me be more organized over the holidays

You can see more projects at my Create & Craft blog.   ~ Carole

A Very Bright Idea Using Amazing Mold Putty® !

I’m just really happy about this project today! Since I received my first kit of Amazing Mold Putty®, I’m continually looking for something to make a mold of and asking my husband if he can think of anything to make a mold out of. Well the other day my husband said “ You know how you’re always pulling the wrong chain on the ceiling fan? Wouldn’t it be neat to have a fan pull that looked like a light? Then you wouldn’t have a problem anymore.” I thought that was such a neat idea that the next time I had to run errands I purchased a couple of packages of Christmas lights in two sizes and made a couple of bulbs with chains for the ceiling fans! To start with :

I collected my mold putty, the light bulbs, the chain and the resin.
These two balls are approximately the same size, because you eyeball equal amounts of Part A and Part B of the putty and I roll it into a ball to compare. When you get your two parts rolled up you quickly knead them together. You have a minute here to do that. Once you have the putty kneaded together until it’s all yellow you work rather quickly to get the putty shaped around the object that you are molding. You have around three minutes to do this. Once the putty is around the piece you are molding it will set up rather quickly. When it is completely set up and it is a piece you have put the putty all around, you can cut a split in the side of the mold to pop your piece out that you have been molding:
Easy Peasy!
Once this was complete, I wrapped tape around the mold to hold the split closed so that no resin would leak out and placed it inside a glass. I surrounded the mold with cotton balls to hold it upright without smashing it. I then mixed up some Amazing Casting Resin®:

Same thing here, equal parts of Part A and Part B which you must measure out exactly. (It comes with measuring cups and stirrers. You quickly stir the resin to mix it and pour it into your mold:

At this point you can either insert your chain before it sets up, or drill a small hole in the top after it sets up and glue the chain in. The casting resin sets up very quickly and you can watch the white bloom as it sets up. Once it set, I removed the tape and popped it right out of the mold.

This one looks lit doesn’t it? Anyway now all you might want to do is paint it and seal it and hang it on your ceiling fan. You’ll never have to worry about which chain pull is the light!! I hope this post shows you just how easy it is to make a mold and create something out of that mold.So easy to use and easy to find to purchase. I have personally checked and you can purchase these products at Michaels, Hobby Lobby or online through the Alumilite Corporation. Great stuff!

I wasn’t able to get my light bulbs painted before I had to take my husband to the hospital for back surgery. I thought we would be back home in time to do the painting but there were some complications and at this printing have not made it back home, six days later.

On another note: If you haven’t signed up for the great giveaway that I’m doing, look back a couple of posts and sign up while there’s still time.

I’m so happy to see new followers here on the blog! Maybe you will be the winner of the giveaway!

Barbara

An Altered 1800's Dictionary

Hello Amazing Mold Putty fans!  Jan here with an 1800's Dictionary...altered, of course :)  The pages in the book have become very brittle and tear easily so I thought if I'd glue several together, it would make it a little more sturdy.  I guess if I were over a hundred years old, I'd be brittle, too!  The sweet vintage images are Crafty Secrets and I made a mold of a mini door plate and knob. Amazing Mold Putty really is amazing!! Added lots of Glimmer Glam and Glimmer Mist.  I've added some Basically Bare and Prima shapes.

The fancy swirls has been molded and cast with Amazing Mold Putty.

Knob and Door Plate molded and cast with Amazing Mold Putty.