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Thursday, February 18

It's #ACPthrowback Thursday... SUPERSIZED Edition #TBT #AmazingCastingProducts

Hello Amazing Crafters!! It's time for another edition of #AmazingCastingProduct's Throwback Thursday – this time it's SUPERSIZED... combining two months in ONE!! And we have some awesome things to share!!

Every third Thursday of the month, we share links and projects that YOU share on line! There is no need for these projects to be NEW, because this is all about the throwback, so share some throwbacks from YOUR studios and workspaces! We want to see what YOU create. We hope you'll take the time to visit the links shared here, and enjoy all the awesome projects out there!

Revisit our posts from JANUARY 2014

See them all by clicking HERE.

Revisit our posts from FEBRUARY 2014
See them all by clicking HERE.

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Now on to some of our AMAZING
finds from around the web!

Resin jewelry shared by Nikki Killinger using Amazing Clear Cast Resin.

FACEBOOK

Andrew Thornton shared a sneak peek from his upcoming episode of Beads Baubles and Jewels using Amazing Mold Putty and Amazing Casting Resin!!
Hitomi shared a collage of some fab pix she caught at the Amazing Casting Products booth at Winter CHA during our Charity Wings Live from CHA taping. CLICK HERE to view the Live from CHA footage.
Lara Hjorthoy our Amazing Featured Artist from January has a new amazing creature and has her little monsters available in her new Etsy shop Your Toy Creations.
Tina shared an amazing mixed media mini shrine chock full of resin cast goodness!
See what we've been up to on facebook, and share your projects with us on our page!

INSTAGRAM

There are some really COOL things hash tagged on INSTAGRAM!
Annette shared her floral embellishments made using Amazing Mold Putty and Amazing Casting Resin!
Stefani is molding up a boneyard full of handmade parts to use in her amazing fantasy creatures.
Ashlee shared some hand sculpted items cast in Amazing Mold Rubber!
iwasphoebe shared her handmade pendants using Amazing Clear Cast Resin!
Are you into Cosplay?? Check out xAvacynx who shares some pieces mold/cast to embellish a Vincent Valentine Cloak!
Niara Cakes shared a mold of real lemon leaves to impress fondant leaves for a lemon tree embellished cake!
Carole gets a "head start" on her arting by making molds with Amazing Mold Putty!

TUMBLR.

Check out some cool stuff being molded using Amazing Mold Putty!

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Have any projects you want
to share for the next

#ACPthrowback Third Thursday
on March 17, 2016?

Post them to our Facebook page, Pinterest, and on Twitter! We'll be on the hunt for your projects with the hashtag #ACPThrowBack, (you can even go back into your past pins and add this pin to help us find you!) and share ALL your projects using the hashtag #AmazingCastingProducts!!

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Wednesday, February 17

When #Cre8time Goes Dimensional... Whimsical Owl Canvas by Bridget Cordero

Hi everyone! I decided for this project to go back to the basics and how you can use your resin pieces. I started with a 12" x 12" canvas and I painted it – once this was dry I used a stencil from my stash and stenciled the background. The tree of life started off a lot smaller then pictured. I used my paint and brush to extend the branches from the stenciled tree.

While this was drying, I used an owl mold I had previously molded from a bracelet and Amazing Mold Putty to make up my owls.

I mixed up small amounts at a time of the Amazing Casting Resin with the red and cotton candy Alumidust and poured into my molds. Some of the resin owl pieces I painted with acrylic paints.

If you would like to see

more details of my process,

please click HERE to view video.

Once the owls were all painted I added a few dress up pieces to them, glasses on some and a hat on the other and glued the owls on the branches. I hope you find inspiration to use your resin pieces on your canvases.

How do you add dimension and whimsy
to your mixed media creations??

Thank you everyone for stopping by and I hope I have inspired you.

If you’d like to see more of my creations,
please stop by my YouTube Channel

at https://www.youtube.com/user/BsAlteredDesigns

Happy crafting! ~ Bridget

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Monday, February 15

#Cre8time Globe Trekking... DIY Altered Travel Collage Frame by Tanya Ruffin

Going through some old things I came across a frame that I thought I would try to re-purpose... so today I'm going to show you how to re-purpose a frame into a travel collage frame with Amazing Mold Rubber and some other Amazing Casting Products.

I just returned from a trip to Italy, so I decided to make a frame commemorating that experience. The biggest task was making a mold of part of Michelangelo's Pieta. I had a small statue to use. The tricky part was just casting the top. Between Christ's body and that of the Virgin, there is an open space and there would be no way to pull the statue from the mold, so best to avoid that all together. I would even need to omit the hand of the Virgin since it was too low.

Michelangelo's Pieta

I found a storage container that the statue would fit in and used duct tape to block off half of the container. The area where Christ's body is will be completely open and I will have to use some creative devices to seal that up before I pour resin.

I filled the area with Amazing Mold Rubber. This took 2 full containers!

After removing the statue from the rubber, you can see that one completely open side (which is in the top of the photo). I taped up the side with some real sticky flashing tape (any real sticky tape will work). FYI – Flashing tape can be purchased at your hardware store and I use it a lot!

Tape doesn't stick well to the rubber so you need to have enough tape so that you can tape it to itself. Put about two layers of tape. As you can see from the photo above, I wrapped tape around the bottom too. I placed the mold inside another container in case it leaked.

IT LEAKED, but not too bad. You can clean up the edges with a craft knife and a fingernail file.

I mixed some Alumilite Pearlescent Metallic Powder to the Amazing Casting Resin and poured into my new mold. I LOVE this!!! The rough spot in the front is where the taped edge was. That is OK... I have an embellishment to place over that area.

OTHER EMBELLISHMENTS

I made a mold of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Mold of some Euros that had Italian symbols.

Mold of the plastic letters I, T, A, L and Y.

These came from an alphabet set from Dollar Tree.

To cover the lion head on the frame I glued a book page that I had coated with purple marbled resin.

I also had a lot of miscellaneous pieces I had cast before that include skeleton keys (papal keys), a Coliseum cast, a frame with a photo of Santa Croce (where Michelangelo is buried in Florence), a cast of the head of Botticelli's Venus, a cast of the San Damiano Cross (St. Francis of Assisi), sacred heart cast (a previous project), a title frame with the towns recently visited, and metal key and key hole. All these would embellish my frame.