Yes Even Food!!!

Did you know that you could use Amazing Mold Putty for food molds?   You sure can!  Today I created a butter mold.  With the holidays upon us dinner parties are all around and a great detail to your festivities are individual molded pats of butter. 

The first step is to make your mold.  You want to be sure to use something that isn't so detail and will be about the right size for an individual butter pat.  I found this great snowflake on the end of a tea ball.  You could use something like a bell, fancy shaped ornament, or anything else your heart desires. 

Once your mold has set up your ready to add your butter.  You can set your butter out on the counter an hour or so before your ready to use, or if you like me and are ready to do it ....NOW!!!! just microwave your stick of butter for 10 seconds.  Not to long you don't want to melt it just soften.  Fill  the mold with the soft butter and be sure to push it into all the detail work.  Pop it in the freezer to set up.

After 20-30 minutes it will be ready to pop out.  You can make several molds to do numerous ones at first or if you have time to do one by one, you can store the butter in a tupperware dish lined with wax paper.  Now the hard part is making the homemade bread to go with the butter, LOL. 

Have a happy holiday season.

Hugs,

Making Your Own Acyrlic Lace Embellishments with Amazing Mold Putty

I love old needlework and lace – but sometimes have a tendency to hoard the really pretty pieces, because I don't want to use them. I've found a way though, that I can use these antique pieces to make my own acrylic versions using Amazing Mold Putty and Amazing Casting Resin.

I have had this lovely needle lace flower for years - and just never had the project that I thought was worthy of using it. To make the lace ready to mold - I stiffened it using Helmar's Fabric Stiffener and Draping Liquid. I let it dry completely, and then started my mold. Although this is a very shallow mold, it still was a rather big one.

I rolled the putty flat, and pressed the flower into the putty,

being careful to press all of the areas evenly.

You can see that the mold is very shallow. I poured the Amazing Casting Resin carefully. I still had some areas that "spilled" over into areas that I didn't want the resin, but I just let it dry, and trimmed the over-fill away with scissors.

I painted my "lace" with Creative Inspirations Paint in beige, to give it an antique textile look. Now I can make the piece over and over again, and never have to worry about running out. Don't you love how much of the stitch detail you can see from the mold? It really is amazing!

How To Make a Light Bulb Necklace

By Amanda Marks

Have you ever had an insanely awesome idea and started creating it and realize there is no way you would ever finish it?  Yep meet the light bulb Necklace.  My original idea was a wreath made with resin light bulbs but I quickly realized that was NEVER going to happen because I had one and no desire to make 30 more (I blame the glitter).

Materials:

Amazing Mold Putty
Amazing Casting Resin
Old Night Light Bulb
Paper Cups
Sand Paper
Mod Podge®
Glitter (I used Red)
Silver Jewelry Wire (20 Gauge)
Round Pliers
Needle Nose Pliers
Aleene's® Jewel-It Glue®
Silver Paint Marker (Mine was PILOT®)
Red Suede Cord

1.  Create a two part mold of the light bulb - I enclosed a You Tube Video done by The Alumillite Corporation on how to create one.

 2.  Set your mold - I used rubber bands to hold my mold together, place in a paper cup.  Mix resin and pour resin into mold.

3.  Allow resin to cure and remove from mold.  Sand to remove any rough edges.

4.  Add Mod Podge® to the bulb part of the light bulb and pour glitter over the Mod Podge into paper cup.  Allow to dry.

5.  Color the top part with Silver Paint Marker and wrap with silver wire.  Glue the top part in place so it will not move.  Add cord.

5.  Color the top part with Silver Paint Marker and wrap with silver wire.  Glue the top part in place so it will not move.  Add cord.