Vintage Inspired Santa Claus Ornaments

 Hi everyone,
     I hope you are having a wonderful Holiday with friends and family! If you still have the energy in you to create a extra ornament or two, you might like to try this Vintage inspired Santa Claus ornament!
To get started, you will a need a old Christmas candy mold, I found this one at a antique flea market.
Clean the top of the mold with a damp cloth to remove any dirt and grime.

     

 Next mix equal amounts of white and yellow Amazing Mold Putty until you have a uniform color of yellow.

 Place the putty over the top of the candy mold, pressing into each detailed grove of the design. When you are sure you have covered every part of the mold, flip it over onto a non stick mat to set.
While waiting for your mold to set, gather 1 1/2" pieces of floral wire and wrap them as shown around the handle of a paint brush. Twist the wire and slip off.

 It usually takes 10-20 minutes for the putty to set but since it was particularly cool where I was working, I went over the putty with a heat gun to help speed up the setting of the mold.  You know it is set when you can touch it with out leaving any prints.

 Mix equal amounts of part "A" and part "B"  the Amazing Casting Resin.
I measured using the cups provided and mixed in a dixie cup.
I preheated my mold with the heat gun before pouring in the resin. I waited until the resin began to half way set, (see the white?), before placing the wire loop at the top.

 

As with the mold, the resin took longer than 10 minutes to set due to winter coolness of my home, so by warming the undersides of the mold with a heat gun, I was able to speed up the set process. 

 The resin is set when its hard to touch and not sticky. Pop it out of the mold and trim off any drips.
You can add a touch of color to the cheeks with a alcohol pen.
To add the glitter detail, add some clear glue to parts of Santa's costume. Then sprinkle with fine glitter and set to dry. Remove any extra glitter with a dry paint brush.

 For a overall vintage appeal, use you finger to spread the glue all over the Santa, working it into little crevices. Sprinkle with ample amounts of glitter and set to dry for about...3 minutes, Then take a baby wipe or damp paper towel and gently wipe off the glitter/glue, leaving it in the crevices of the ornament. Prior to decorating this Santa, I colored him a light grey with a alcohol pen.

 If you have a collection of those vintage candy molds, you now have a practical use for them as they probably are not good for actual candy making these days.

 Use these to hang on a tree or attach to a gift.
Happy Holidays!

Cookie Cutter Resin Ornaments

 Cookie Cutter Resin Ornaments

 

Tis the season to be jolly.....

 

 

This was an experiment that I wanted to try and I have to say I love the results. Who would have thought my metal & plastic cookie cutters could produce such beautiful results. Now my ornaments aren't perfect, they do have one minor flaw design, OK two, the first flaw is that you can't eat them. The second flaw I will explain a little further down, its very minor as you will see.

 

 

Lets get cookin!

 

What you will need

metal or plastic cookie cutters

duct tape, tuck tape, green painters tape

The Amazing 5 minute Casting Resin

Alumilite Dye

bling/ribbon

 

Step 1

- tape the bottom of your cookie cutter with tape.

 

Step 2

- Pour equal parts of The Amazing Casting Resin into two separate containers

- you should have Part A in one container and Part B in the other container.

- mix dye into part A of The Amazing Casting Resin.

 

Step 3

- Mix part A into part B of The Amazing Casting Resin and stir for about one minute.

Step 4

- Pour resin into the cookie cutter. Apply pressure to the top of the metal cookie cutter.

 

The reason you want to put a little pressure on your metal cookie cutter for the first few minutes is to avoid leakage out the botton (pictured above).

Step 5

- let your resin harden, about 5 minutes.

 

Step 6

- Remove resin from the cookie cutter and/or remove tape.

- punch a hole through your resin with a crop-o-dile.

- decorate your resin shape

 

Now as mentioned above, there is a slight flaw to this design. The tape will leave residue on the back of your ornament. This can be removed with a little elbow grease. I steamed my residue off. If you don't want to do that, cover it with paper or tinfoil for a cool effect.

 

 

 

Now some of you are probably wondering why I didn't just use my mold putty for this project. Well first off I wanted to see if this would work, secondly, if you are on a budget and can ONLY afford to buy one alumilite product this time around, then purchase the resin. There are SO MANY THINGS you can use around the house to create molds, but the resin you can't live without!!

You can purchase it HERE

 

I will be sharing the Cookie Cutter technique Live on February 9th from 11-12 am HERE

Join me on this date and I will show you how to take this simple idea and turn it into an item worthy of LOVE!

 



Medieval Barter - School Project

Medieval Barter - School Project

Well I found out how great Amazing Mold Putty is for school projects this past week.
And will be using it again this weekend for another one.
I find so many uses that I never thought of before especially now that I have their silver powder.

My son was studying medieval times in his 6th grade Social Studies class.
They had to come up with 3 items to barter with and he had good ideas but was having trouble putting them into place such as how to make the items and such.
He even picked up premade items and the whole assignment was they had to be handmade.
I emailed asking if we could use molds and resin and she said that even though resin may have not been during that time she is sure they made molds out of soap and candles so we went to work.

Since it was his project I had him help out as much as possible.

He decided on two keys and a horse shoe.
I had two keys from my scrapbook stuff so I decided he could make a mold of them even though I had done it myself before. I wanted to show him how to do it all himself and how easy it was. And I bought a cheap set of "cowboy" ornaments that had a mini horseshoe that we used for the third item/mold.

Supplies:
Amazing Mold Putty
1. He mixed equal amounts of the yellow with the white putty and then pressed the shapes into them.
2. Then let the molds sit for about 30 minutes and dusted the molds with silver metallic allumilite powder. He used a really cheap paint brush to do that.

(I thought he did a pretty good job!)

Amazing Casting Resin
This part I mixed for him since my first time I was sloppy and made messes on surfaces that are messed up forever. Totally my fault.
I mixed equal parts of A and B.
But first I took part A and put some of the metallic powder and mixed it in so the resin would also be metallic colored throughout it and mixed well, then poured both parts into a paper cup.
After that I showed him how to as neatly as possible pour into the actual molds.
Then we waited a while since we had a mess to clean and a few other things to do.

Here is a picture of the original horseshoe with the new one.

They look VERY close, don't they?
The left one was the one made with the mold and the right one was the original!

This weekend we plan on making some Disney themed molds after I find all my Disney trinkets for his next project!

Thanks for visiting!

Also the main product page has a video that also shows you how to use the product!
Jamie
http://www.jamielindstromdesigns.com