Mixed Media Soars with Dimension... AMAZING Inspiration from Lea Cioci and Frog Dog Studio

Today brings another collaborative project from our partner "in crafting", Frog Dog Studio and Designer Lea Cioci. She has created a gorgeous mixed media art journal page using items from the February Frog Dog Studio Kit and Amazing Crafting Products.

Lea Cioci has painted and stamped a collaged background using the February Frog Dog Studio Kit – topped of with a molded/cast wing embellishment created with Amazing Mold Putty and Amazing Casting Resin, then painted with a blue pearl paint.

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to see the full project.

Check back a little later for another post from Maria Soto. 

Have a fabulously creative day!  Sb :)

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Having a Jolly Good #Cre8time with Amazing Crafting Products... by Tracy Alden

Hello! Tracy here with another Amazing Crafting Products tutorial! This week I was inspired by my love for old literature, sayings and our odd cat. A common old English term, Jolly Good, is a favorite of mine, generally is a  used to express approval of something that is said or done. I wanted to use the saying to make a card for a congratulations or party invitation while adding some embellishment silliness. With the help of Amazing Crafting Products I was able to create both card embellishments and hidden gift that all neatly tied together.

Supplies: 

• Amazing Mold Putty
• Amazing Casting Resin
• Alumilite Metallic Powders Copper and Gunmetal
• Soft bristle brush 
• Wire 
• 16 inch chain necklace
• Round nose pliers
• Letter or Saying stamps
• Craft Knife
• Polymer Clay
• StazOn Ink Brown and Black
• Acrylic Paint in Black and Linen
• Card and Envelope
• Adhesive Foam Squares
• Adhesive Moveable Dots 

Starting with polymer clay, I stamp, cut and form the base of my card embellishments. I created a simple speech bubble with the words Jolly Good stamped into it, a top hat and a mustache shape.

After I bake the polymer clay, I lightly sand and trim the edges
of the pieces with a craft knife and an emery board.

Once the polymer pieces are cleaned of dust,
I used Amazing Mold Putty to make molds the pieces.

Before pouring any Amazing Casting Resin into the molds I used a soft bristle brush to dust the inside of a molds with Alumilite Metallic Powders. I used the Copper powder for the mustache and Gunmetal for the Top Hat. I did not dust the Speech Bubble mold as I wanted it to stay plain.

Using the round nose pliers I curled the edges of the wire to make two small loops for the back of the mustache piece. This made the mustache into a jewelry piece and not just an embellishment! I placed the curled edges on to a toothpick, and gently placed it on top of the mustache mold. The toothpick prevented the wire loops from falling into the Amazing Casting Resin.

Once the Amazing Casting Resin was cured and the piece popped out of the mold, I mixed the acrylic paint with some water to make a color wash and applied it with a paint brush. I used a paper towel to remove the excess.

For the front of the card I created a silly picture of my cat and printed it to size. You can use you favorite stamp or image. I applied StazOn ink across the card front and the cat image to give it the look of age.

Using foam squares I attached the hat and speech bubble embellishments to the photo. I then used the foam squares to attach the photo to the front of the card.

I strung the chain through the loops on the back of the mustache resin piece, making sure to pull the chain all the way through the loops until the clasp is up against one of the loops.

Using a craft knife I careful pushed through both the photo and front of the card next to the hand drawn monocle. I wiggled the knife back and forth to widen the hole to make it big enough to push the chain through.

Carefully I threaded the chain through the card front, leaving a few inches of chain to dangle in the front of the card. Using moveable adhesive dots I placed the resin mustache on the cat's face.

I placed a adhesive dot on the inside of the card to place a small
zip baggie to hold the extra chain dangling inside the card.

Place a sentiment or invite inside the card and instructions
on how to remove the mustache necklace.

  With this simple design you can easily change out images
or use your favorite stamps to create a fun and unique invitation gift card!

What AMAZING arts and crafts
are you inspired to create???

Please share them on the User GALLERY on the Amazing Mold Putty Website!

Visit my blog Art Resurrected for more craft tutorials!

Until next time, safe travels! ~ Tracy

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Fill the Void in an Amazing Mold with a Niche... by Brenda Burfeind

 

Brenda dropping by again to show you an experimental post. I hardly ever know what I am going to make until I make it. Oh, I definitely think about future projects, but I hardly ever think them out. I like to just go with it most of the time. Even when I do run it through my head, it hardly ever turns out the way I imagined it; therefore I love to experiment. Sometimes it fails, but most of the time I have success. Remember, there is nothing wrong with experimenting and failure isn't always a bad thing. Sometimes new and fun things come about using my "failures".

So here we go... I wondered how I could create a hole

within a molded piece and came up with this idea.

I rolled out a bit of the Amazing Mold Putty about 1/4" thick and using those metal cookie cutters, I cut out the shapes. You do not have to use the metal kind, but those were the smallest ones I had. I needed them to be small enough to fit into my domino molds I made here and here.

I then just placed my "heart shape" into my domino mold and poured my Amazing Casting Resin into the mold tinted with the Alumilite Black Dye. Do not over pour and cover your "heart shape" though. 

After it cured for about 10 minutes I de-molded it and used my X-acto knife to clean up the edges a bit and now you have a perfect hole in the shape of a heart. 

I wanted to add something to the bottom of the domino piece and thought about darts.

I Love Darts!!

Or a music note... You Make my Heart Sing! 

Or maybe a key... You Hold the Key to my Heart! 

I opted for the latter and added a bit of Rub 'n Buff® – this is the finished piece. 

I hope you've enjoyed my piece today and hope I've inspired you to "void" a mold.

What would you use as a "void"

in a molded piece?

Thanks for stopping by to check out my inspiration and I'd love for you to stop by and see me at my blog "Creativity is a State of Mind". ~ Brenda Lee Burfeind

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