Give it a Try!

Are you ready for some products that are going to knock your socks off? Well, I've been playing with the Amazing Mold Putty and the Amazing Clear Cast. I thought for today, I would start out showing a relatively easy project, that I hope you will want to try out. These products are so fun - and really simple to use. I've used several different techniques on my card, and I think you will start to see how you NEED these products in your studio!





First, let me explain that the mold putty is a 2 part putty - that activates once you mix the two together. You are going to want to roll a ball of the two parts together (make it a little bigger than what you are molding). Mix it until the color is consistent - and not marbled.


Next you will place your object into the ball, and shape it to come up over the edges. Don't make the outside walls of your mold too thin. I used an old earring that was nothing special, but had really nice texture, that I thought would make great flower centers.

Here you can see the finished mold and the original earring. Making the mold did not damage my earring at all. Now at this point, you could mold all kinds of things - Creative Paperclay, Polymer Clay, wax, PMC, sugar...you get the idea. But I love the Amazing Clear Cast! This is a clear resin (again a 2 part mixture). I decided to color my mixed resin using the Alumilite Dyes. You just need a tiny, tiny amount. Actually, I just dipped a skewer in the dyes, and mixed it in. I also thought it would be fun to add a little bit of glass glitter, so that got stirred into the mix as well.


Although, I thought I was only mixing up a little bit of the resin, it made quite a bit - so I started filling up other molds as well! I had a plastic leaf candy mold, and filled that up to make the leaf for my flower. I added some Gold Smooch to my veins after everything was set. The Smooch adhered great to the resin. So, I painted several colors of the Smooch on my flower center too, to give it some variation.

I stamped my flower petals with a small medallion from Inspired by Stamping's French Boutique. I think it's really fun to create flowers with something that wasn't meant for that purpose. The center of the flower (below my rope earring resin), was stamped from another Inspired by Stamping set - Delicate Doilies. Don't you love that dimensional leaf peaking out from the showy flower?

I hope I've inspired you to give these products a try! Once you start looking around your house, you won't believe how many things you will want to mold!

How To Make a Dice Bracelet with Resin

By Amanda Marks

Please keep in mind children under 13 should not use resin so the pouring of the resin is not a family friendly project.  If you pour the items, let them cure and have them decorate them it would be fine.


Materials:
Mold - or Amazing Mold Putty (you will also need a dice to mold, I recommend the 1 side up)
Amazing Casting Resin (Part A and Part B)
Empty Plastic or Paper Cup
Craft Stick
Tulip® Slick Black Puffy Paint
Beading Elastic
Beads
Bic® Mark it™ Markers


I created the mold using Amazing Mold Putty - for an introduction on how to use Amazing Mold Putty this is a tutorial on how to create a mold (I made an acorn in this video):

Once you have a mold created you now need to mix you resin I used 1/8 tsp of Part A and 1/8 tsp of Part B - in a plastic or paper cup stir well with a craft stick (this will give enough to make 1 dice and a flat mold about the size of a quarter).


Pour slowly into mold to reduce air bubbles.  Most air bubbles will come to the surface but to be on the safe side pour slowly.


 It is starting to change from clear to white (I call this the FRINGE Effect).


 Look we have the FRINGE Effect


Once the resin has set for at least 3 minutes for this particular mold I would recommend 5 - 10 (I got a little impatient on one) un-mold the dice.  The dice will me slightly warm to the touch - I personally find this to be very cool and could not stop playing with it.


I took a needle tool and poked through the dice, while it was still warm to the touch.  I was able to get a Eye Hook through them.  I took my Tulip® Slick Black Puffy Paint to do my dots.






My daughter then informed me that she wanted a stretchy bracelet not a hook bracelet.  I had to make the hole bigger to get the elastic through.  I scrapped the hole out with a sculpting tool (I believe a bead reamer would have worked - I don't have one).


I also didn't have elastic or other beads so I took an old wooden bead bracelet of my daughters.  Took it apart colored the red beads, black and the pink hearts, red with a Bic® Mark it™ pens.  I threaded the elastic through the beads and tied it together.  My daughter thought it turned out fantastic and loves it so much that she didn't want to lose it at school.

Finished bracelet on my daughter's wrist.

Steampunkery with Amazing Mold Putty

Hello - Susan here today sharing a little project I created in Steampunk. Let me start off with saying, I have never created anything in the "Steampunk" style previously and it was a fun challenge - and I am addicted. I have tons of neat things in my crafty stash of junk and this silver shield pin was what I decided to use. I wanted to mount it to chipboard wings, except it had a huge pin clasp on the back and it was soldered on pretty good. So I had a "LIGHTBULB" moment...make another cast with Amazing Mold Putty. 

So here it goes. I am sharing with you some of my trials and tribulations as I am playing with these AMAZING products. I mixed up my mold putty according to directions, and as it turned out, I made quite a lot in relation to the size of the piece I was casting. After pressing it into the mold putty I decided I had too much extra so I carved some away to try and use for casting something else....it was already too late, it was already curing and no longer moldable. NOTE TO SELF - this sets-up real quick - quicker than I can change my mind. So I let the mold sit and finish curing for about 20 minutes since it was a little thick and prepared my resin.

So I made up some quick set Amazing Casting Resin and poured the mold. Because I had carved some of the mold edges away, some of the resin ran out the side. As a result, one side of my cast piece was a lot thinner than the other. I used the piece anyway - I didn't want to waste it and it wasn't at all noticable from the front. I want to make another, so I will modify my mold by adding some "gutters" to the original casted mold, so I can prevent the runoff. 

On the left, the original pin - on the right, my AMAZING decorated casted pin. I really like how the casted resin piece looks much more aged and weathered than the original.

I painted the cured resin shield with a variety of things and building up color was a layering process. I began with colored with alcohol inks in a dabbing fashion. I found out relatively quick that the blending fluid removes color. I then used the metallic color alcohol inks - these are great. Then added back in some rust and soot colors. After the alcohol inks dried, I dry brushed in some acrylic black and gold acrylic paints to really bring out the patina and details. The wings are hammered chipboard that I embossed with gold embossing powder, then added depth in color with alcohol inks and acrylic paint. I finished it off with suspending some beads, pearls and an old key and also some adhesive gems for a little bling. The finishing touch a pin back hot glued to the back.

I can't wait to wear this at my upcoming craft shows this weekend : )

 

 

 

This really came out pretty fantastic. I'm not one who makes jewelry - but I have a new found passion! Thanks for dropping by! I will be back later in the month with my next AMAZING Mold Putty adventure to share with you.