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Tuesday, September 24

It's Never Too Early to put the HOLIDAYS in LIGHTS!!! Holiday Cake Decor by the AMAZING Sandra Strait

Good Morning... it's Sandra! I'm sad to say this is my last Design Team post for Amazing Crafting Products. It's been a blast, and I hope you'll enjoy this last project of mine. It's a little early for the Holidays... what am I saying? It's never too early for the Holidays!

Now I Know My ABC's...

While shopping at the grocery store (I do a lot of shopping, don't I?) I spied a candy alphabet in the baking section. Aha! I literally said Aha! I took those darling delectables home, and stuck them onto a stamping block with two-sided miracle tape.

Amazing Mold Putty comes in two parts, "A" and "B", which set into a flexible but solid form when mixed together. You have about 3-5 minutes to mix the two parts together until they both turn solid yellow. I mixed enough putty so that I could fit the stamping block in. This left me a ridge to help control overflow.

But then I thought – if I cast the whole alphabet, I'll never use all the letters, and often I'll want more than one of each. Why not make molds for common sentiments like "Happy Birthday", and "Thank You" and... "Happy Holidays". I did this, but the one I'm using for this project is "Happy Holidays", so that's the one I'll talk about here.

I followed the same procedure as above with just the letters for Happy Holidays. I didn't mold the entire block this time, but did leave a ridge around the sides and bottom.

Like the Amazing Mold Putty, Amazing Casting Resin comes in two parts. I added some Alumilite Fluorescent {Flo} Red Dye to Part "A", blended completely, mixed it with Part "B" and poured it into my mold.

When I poured the resin, I left enough overflow so that

the two words would all come out together as one piece.

I used a silver leaf pen and high-lighted the decorative part of each character.

Rudolph, the Ring-Nose Reindeer

My reindeer happened because of two things – a failed try at creating a mold with aluminum foil and an unexpected party.

In my last project, I made a mold by twisting together some aluminum foil into the shape of a man. I tried to do the same thing for a horse.

I thought it looked pretty good, so I made the mold. This time I used Amazing Clear Cast Resin and brown Alumilite Dye.

But, alas! I was unhappy with the result.

Strangely, though, one of the resin spills came out like this. Sure looked like a reindeer's head to me! So I decided I'd turn my horse into a reindeer.

Then the second thing happened. My mother lives in an Assisted Living home, and they threw a party, giving everyone these cool rings that had LED lights inside.

My reindeer now had a big glowing nose! A really BIG glowing nose! I trimmed the ring so the bulb portion would lie flat, and glued it onto Rudolph. I painted his eye, and scumbled on a little white/flesh mixture of acrylic paint for the underside of the tail and along the neck.

This Project Takes the Cake!

I took an artist's panel and glued down transparent ribbon, using some extra-heavy gel medium. The idea was to add a little texture and tinting that would mostly be covered up.

I then glued down strips of lace. I trimmed off the sides (saving the trim for use in other projects). At this point, I took my "Happy Holidays" and "Rudolph" and played around with the layout until I decided where each would go. I decided I needed a third element for balance, so I choose three chipboard cloud figures for the corner.

The idea was to make this look like a cake, so I mixed up some coarse molding paste with blue acrylic paint and began layering it on, as though it was icing. I kept adding more molding paste so that it I was eventually layering on white paste.

Though, I used the molding paste to adhere the chipboard clouds, I left the center mostly bare, and the right corner very thinly covered, so that my resin pieces would lie flat. I sanded the dried paste a bit in those areas, and glued the resin on with E6000®.

So now I have a faux Christmas Cake for the Holidays!

Supplies:

Amazing Mold Putty
Amazing Clear Cast Resin
Amazing Casting Resin
Alumilite Dye - Fluorescent (Flo) Red, Brown
Candy Alphabet for Cake Decorating
Acrylic Paint - White, Sky Blue, Flesh
Soft plastic ring with LED light inside
E6000® glue
Golden's Coarse Molding Paste
Golden Extra Heavy Gel Medium
UmWow Studio - layered chipboard Clouds
Lace ribbon
Baroque Artist Panel
Acrylic Stamping Block
Two-sided tape
Aluminum Foil
Silver-leafing pen

For more complete instructions and videos on how to use Amazing Crafting Products, please visit their Information page.

For more of my work in Amazing Mold Putty, Zentangle®-Inspired art,

and daily links to tangles, tutorials, and giveaways please visit my

"Life Imitates Doodles" blog. ~ Sandra Strait

Thanks for stopping by and have a fantastic day!

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Monday, September 23

Come Fly Away with some Cauliflower Clouds... Amazing Canvas Trio by DeeDee Catron

Hi Folks!! DeeDee here today for your MOLD RUBBER MONDAY!

I slightly touched on this idea/technique in an inspiration post a while back and after consideration decided it'd make a great LARGER piece with instructional video!

So today I've got a "Molded Cauliflower" technique for you to see. Here's a video showcasing the prep, mold, and casting of Cauliflower bits that I use as clouds on a 3 piece canvas. Gather your brand new Amazing Mold Rubber, measuring cups, stir sticks and Amazing Casting Resin and get to watching :

I used these beautiful resin clouds on a canvas set for our living room --

sort of a final homage to the turning seasons.

The canvas is full of inks, mists and paints (Tattered Angels Glimmer and Glaze, Ranger Distress Stain and Ink, Ranger Archival, Gesso, Sakura of America Micron), UmWowStudio products (Circle confetti mask, Light bulb and ray mask, Sunflower chip, Daisy chip, Swallow chip, Bird in grass chip, Bee Flair), Viva Las VegaStamps! (Moon Circle, Writing Background, Coffee Stain, Line of Chevrons), Prima (Leaves and Gray rose), Gauche Alchemy (Washi Tape), and some other random bits like seed beads, eBeads, glitter, twine and adhesive.

I sincerely adore the DEPTH these babies have!

Have you thought about molding food or finding inspiration in other non conventional items?? What might you mold and turn into something else? IE Cauliflower into clouds? With the new Mold Rubber you can be as creative as you want!

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Friday, September 20

Welcome Your Guests to GO AWAY!!! DIY Decorative Wall Tile for the Spooky Season by Isabel Villarreal

Halloween has got to be my favorite day of the year and to celebrate the spooky season, I've made this decorative wall tile that's actually not tile at all – it's made with recycled advertising flyers and my favorite product, Amazing Casting Resin.

To begin, I chose a stack of flyers about 1/2" thick and used craft glue to cover all four edges of the stack. This will join the stack of flyers together. A clip can be used to hold the stack together while the glue dries and you can also add a dot of glue in the center between each flyer for added adhesion. Once the glue dried I had a "tile" made from paper. The glue helped give it strength and made it a nice hard surface to work with. I mixed together equal parts "A" & "B" of Amazing Casting Resin to coat the entire surface of the tile and sprinkled some Alumilite Metallic Gun Metal Powder to give it some glitz – it's easiest to pour in the center and then spread it to the edges. I then added a second coat of resin but this time I added Alumilite Green Dye and a drop of Alumilite Black Dye to part "A" of the mixture and once again coated the tile. Working quickly, I dusted some more metallic powder onto the surface and used a wooden craft stick to swirl the powder into the resin. This gave the tile a marbelized finish.

I wanted to use this detailed skeleton as part of the tile but didn't want to take it apart since I keep it as a year round decoration (yes, I display skellies all year round). This is where Amazing Mold Putty comes to the rescue...as the resin set I prepared equal parts "A" & "B" of Amazing Mold Putty and prepared to cast the skeleton parts I would need for this project, while leaving the original intact.

I made 2 molds, one for the front of the skeleton and one for the back. Making 2 separate molds allowed me to pour just a small amount of Amazing Casting Resin into each mold in order to get a thinner casting. To color the skeleton I added Alumilite Florescent {FLO} Yellow to part "A" of the Amazing Casting Resin and once the color was mixed evenly I mixed in part "B".

For the details of this project, I also cast some random bones using my skeleton molds and I prepared a silk rose by separating the bloom and leaves from the stem. I would be adding these later to give the tile more details and pizazz.

Now that all of my parts were prepared, it was time to put them all together. I added a third layer of Amazing Casting Resin to the tile and since it dries very quickly (about 10 minutes) I quickly pressed the skely parts into the center of the tile and pressed the silk rose pieces along the right edge. As the resin cured, the skelly and rose were permantly embedded into the surface of the tile. I then added adhesive foam letters to the left side of the tile.

For the final step, I added a coat of resin to the foam letters, this time using Alumilite Florescent (FLO) Red Dye and pressed my random bone pieces into the resin as it dried. I also added a little of the red resin to the some of the petals on the rose. Once all of the layers on the tile were dry I glued some hanging hardware on to the back of tile using a 2-part adhesive and it was ready to greet all of my visitors as it hangs by my front door.