A Queen's Dose of Vintage

Hey, Gang!! It's Rachel Whetzel again! This project took some thinking!! While I was teaching an art class for my middle son, I came across a dead bumble bee in my stash of goodies I had brought to use in class. I instantly knew it would look really awesome in some resin, and got to thinking about how I wanted to create a piece with it. Turns out I used a little bit of everything in this piece, and I'm really excited about how it turned out!!
I decided that in order to have a nice and round form, I'd have to get creative. I ended up choosing these cutters.

 

First, I used two equal parts Amazing Mold Putty and mixed them together until they were uniform. Then I rolled out the piece, and set the two larger cutters into the mold putty.

Once the putty was set, I used Amazing Clear Cast to set the bumble bee. I chose the smaller of the two forms.

It took some doing to get the resin out of the form, so next time, I would figure out how to use the cutter to create a press, and make an actual mold with the mold putty. Once I sanded down the edges, I glued some dictionary paper to the back of the pendant.

Next, I used Amazing Casting Resin and Alumilite Black Dye to create a "shell" around the outer edge of the pendant. When mixing dyes into your resin, (especially the quick setting Casting Resin) be sure to mix the dye into Part A before you combine Part A and B in order to preserve your pour/set time as long as you can. 

Once everything was mixed, I used a Q-tip to "paint" the black shell onto the outside of the pendant.

I rested the pendant on a plastic bag to keep it from sticking, and only painted the sides of the pendant.

Next, I used a large vintage spoon with it's handle cut off and bent to create a necklace setting, and poured more dyed Casting Resin. While it was still wet, I set the bee pendant, and some vintage rhinestones into the piece. A really cool tip I saw somewhere, and I can't remember where now... is to use RICE to keep rolly pieces level. That's what I did when I poured this portion of resin.

Once the resin had started to set more firmly, I pressed some smaller rhinestones into the piece as well.

I strung the piece onto a vintage strand of costume pearls, and used some "dog tag" chain to add interest to the necklace.

This piece took a while because of the clear cast resin's cure time, but I love the way it turned out!! I'll be using casting resin to set more pieces of silverware jewelry for sure.

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Think outside the box..

Hello bloggers and general crafty people! DeeDee here today to show you my monthly project.. 

I've decided to experiment and play around with my products more. and what I'm showing you today is a result of that.

So instead of molding an already found object.. I sort of carved my own piece.

As usual.. Mix your equal parts A and B of the molding putty. I formed mine into cylinder shape.. flat and wide. Then I used a measuring spoon to mold a large smooth half circle. While it cured I gathered the rest of my supplies. (remember.. your mold is cured completely when you can stick your fingernail in it and leave NO impression)

Here's my stirring stick, my measuring cup, my 2 part clear cast resin, some loose moss, a paintbrush and my recently cured mold. 

I mixed equal parts A and B of the clear cast resin. 

Then, because I have such a nice long working period with the clear resin, I put some moss into my mold and began saturating it with the clear resin. I made sure to keep pressing the resin down into the moss, dampening it as much as possible. After my new nest was nice and wet and had the shape I desired, I set the mold out in the sun and let it dry over the evening and through the next day. A full 24 hours is suggested. 

And after my resin has had the 24 hours to cure here is my nest!!! I rolled some thick wide paper beads to represent eggs and there you have it! Ready to add to any project in need of a beautiful little nest.

What do you think??? -DeeDee

Making Toppers with Mold Putty and Casting Resin

 

I’ve been working on my Gourd Art a lot lately. I’ve been to shows and have several shows coming up. I just started to work on a new gourd that I planned on putting a butterfly on the side of. I wanted a unique topper so I pulled out a couple of drawer pulls that I had in my stash box.

 As you can see one of the drawer pulls was a butterfly! So I got out my Mold Putty and mixed up equal parts of A and B.

And then molded the putty around my drawer pulls. Once the Mold Putty had set up I took the drawer pulls out and dusted the butterfly pull mold with Alumilite powder in Gold. Kind of hard to see the Gold inside the putty. Once that was done I mixed up equal parts of the Casting Resin and poured that inside the mold. When I took the resin out of the mold when it had set, it was covered with the Gold color and I placed it on top of my gourd to see how it was going to look. It’s kind of hard to see the butterfly but it’s going to work perfect for this butterfly gourd.

                      I still have quite a bit of work to do on this gourd but I don’t have to worry about a topper!

Barbara