Liza Cobo... an AMAZING Guest Designer Spotlight

Greetings AMAZING Crafters! Today we have a fun questionnaire that we posed to our Guest Designer Liza Cobo! Have fun getting to know her a little better and enjoy her totally adorable shabby chic eye candy. Enjoy :) Sb

A little bit about Liza...

My name is Liza, I come to you from the golden state of California. I have been crafting for over 12 years and started out scrapbooking when I was pregnant with my son. I am a Christian, a wife, and love creating with different media. I started working with Amazing Casting Products when I was introduced to the Amazing Casting Resin and Amazing Mold Putty. It has changed my crafting life.

Have you seen Liza's adorable shabby chic oven?! She used the Eileen Hull Sizzix ScoreBoards XL 3-D Oven die to construct the oven and used Amazing Casting Resin to create the outside frame for the door... and inside the oven she is "baking" resin macarons! CLICK HERE to see more details!

Some fun questions for the inquiring minds...

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What did you want to be when you grew up?

"An Accountant."

Coke or Pepsi???

"Neither... I prefer water."

What inspires you?

"Other artists like me."

What is the TOP thing to do on your "Bucket LIST"?


"Go to Greece."

If you could print any phrase

on a T-shirt, what would it say?

"Live, Love, and Craft"

If you could mold ANYTHING with

Amazing Mold Putty, what would it be?

"My cell phone."

What style of music gets your creative juices going?

"Disco."

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Please comment below and give our AMAZING Guest Creative Liza Cobo some love. Be sure to stop back for a visit on Friday for more from Liza. Please visit her blog, "LizasPaperPassion" to see more of her work. Follow Liza on her YouTube Channel at lizaspaperpassion | on Instagram at tateeg | on her Facebook Page lizaspaperpassion.

Have a fabulous day! :) Sb

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#Cre8time for an Amazing Birthday... #DIY Puffin Doll by Sandra Strait

My husband has been bugging me to make a resin puffin for quite a while, so I decided it would make a good birthday present for him.

Supplies: Amazing Mold Rubber and Amazing Casting Resin, Delight™ air dry modeling compound, styrofoam egg, googly eyes, pipe cleaner, foam pad, acrylic paint, Aleene's Tacky Glue, mold spray release.

To start with, I molded the Delight™ around the styrofoam egg until I had a puffin-like object. I let it set for 3 days, so the compound could cure all the way through. Turns out that wasn't long enough, but more about that later.

I used duct tape to create a mold just slightly larger than the puffin.

I sprayed my puffin with mold release, stuck him in the duct tape mold, and poured in the Amazing Mold Rubber.

It took an entire tub of Amazing Mold Rubber, so I didn't need to measure amounts. I just poured the catalyst into the mold rubber tub and mixed until it was all pink. For complete instructions on mixing, please visit the Amazing Casting Products website.

The next day I tore off the duct tape.

What's this? Did my mold come out diseased? LOL! No. One tube wasn't quite enough to cover my puffin, so I cut up some of my old Amazing Mold Putty molds that I knew I wouldn't use again and used the pieces instead of mixing up more Amazing Mold Rubber.

To get my puffin free, I had to cut the mold rubber in half with scissors.

Remember, I said that I didn't let my Delight™ puffin sit long enough? Even though I used a mold release, I hadn't let my puffin cure long enough, and it was still soft and moist on the inside. I think next time, I'll let it sit about two weeks!

Fortunately, it was just a matter of scraping away the compound with a spoon, so it didn't ruin the mold, and only added 15 minutes or so of time to the project.

I used rubber bands to hold the two halves of the mold together and poured Amazing Casting Resin into it. Rather than mixing up a huge batch of resin, I mixed several small batches, letting each cure (about 3-5 minutes) before pouring in the next batch {CLICK HERE to view mixing/preparation}. This helped prevent bubbles.

After the last batch of Amazing Casting Resin cured, I removed the mold, and went over the resin piece with sandpaper to remove any rough edges.

The pipe cleaners were shaped into feet, and glued to pieces of foam that I had cut to feet shape. After the puffin was painted, I used Aleene's Tacky Glue to stick on the eyes and feet.

My husband always watches the morning news, before leaving for work. The morning of his birthday, I sat the puffin on top of his other gift and placed both on his chair where he'd find them.

What Cre8time characters will you bring
to life using Amazing Casting Products?

Please upload and share your creations to the

User GALLERY on the Amazing Mold Putty Website.

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

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#Cre8time for #RESIN Painting... Mixed Media Abstract Art with Melissa Johnson

Hello everyone! Today I would like to share with you how I created these gorgeous, easy abstract mixed media pieces for my art gallery wall.

To begin, I collected a few pieces of vintage papers from my stash. These papers are pretty fragile, so you can't just go to work on them right away without some type of prep. I chose to cover my papers in clear, silicone caulk. I just put some caulk on the paper and then spread it around with an old credit card until it was completely covered.

When the caulk dries, it makes the paper very pliable. Almost plastic-y. You can do a lot with papers like this, sew them together, paint them, etc. It makes them very durable.

The next thing I did was mix up a batch of the Amazing Clear Cast Resin. For the first layer of the painting I added some of the Alumilite Dye in Red. I mixed that into some of the resin and began to slowly pour it all over the paper, moving the paper around to get the resin flowing.

I continued to add more layers of resin and dye on top. When they move together you can get some pretty neat effects! I also "helped" mine along a bit with my resin mixing stick and a palette knife.

And more layers of Amazing Clear Cast Resin and Alumilite Dyes... (I used Red, Fluorescent "FLO"Orange, White, and Violet). I also dropped in a bit of Gold Alumidust.

Once I had the colors blended in a way I liked, I set the pages out to dry overnight. When they were done I bought a two opening frame from World Market and framed them with a mat. I really wanted to find a frame I could upcycle, but couldn't find anything good.

 

Here is the final finished product:

Make something that makes you happy :) ~ Melissa Johnson

Please visit my BLOG to see more of my mixed media creations.

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