Opening Your Mind to AMAZING Embellishments... the Making of a Halloween Bracelet by Tanya Ruffin

Halloween is my favorite time of the year. When this season rolls around I look at all the goodies with a wide open mind. Suddenly a skull toothpick becomes an awesome pendant or even better... Halloween skull and bones candy become little beads and embellishments.

First – Rid your mind of any preconceived notions of what you are looking for. Let what you find design the project. I look in the cheap Halloween candy section, a.k.a. the dollar store.

Find some fun Halloween candy and cast a mold using Amazing Mold Putty.

I found a bag of skull and bones candy, a plastic spider, bat and skull rings, a tombstone box of candy and at Michael's, I found some awesome plastic skull and crossbones toothpicks. 

Well first of all – I make a mold of everything!

Anything in the way of the cast, I break off, like the toothpick stem.

Cast a lot too. Why would you cast a mold of just one

bone candy when you can cast the whole bag?

Then after all your embellishments are cast and poured start thinking about what to make. I love Rub 'n Buff® so I immediately add some silver! Wow, it really brings it to life!

I have to say, the plastic bat ring made an awesome resin piece! 

Whodathunk a cheap hunk of plastic would look so cool?!

I wanted to make a bracelet with the bones in it. BUT my bracelet mold was too thin for the bones to fit inside. So rather than drive back to the craft store... I thought, "I would cast my own mold." 

To do this I grab something the width that I wanted... a large fingernail file. It was a little too long, but no problem, I just snipped it off with some scissors. I had a cuff bracelet handy (it already had stuff glued to it or I would as used it as my mold), so I just rolled it along the top of the file to get the right length.

FYI, The file was only 1/2 inch too long!

So I cast a mold of the file – when it was ready to use I mixed up my resin (added a little Alumilite Black Dye) and poured a thin layer in the mold. I then placed inside my bones and tiny skulls and then filled it up some more with resin. I was using the Amazing Casting Resin not the Amazing Clear Cast Resin so I didn't cover all the way over the embellishments. 

I don't seem to have a lot of patience for Amazing Clear Cast Resin. I did attempt one bracelet and I like the look, so I may try another. I just love the immediate gratification of the Amazing Casting Resin. 

After letting the Amazing Casting Resin set for about 30 minutes, I removed from the mold and curve it into the cuff shape. You want to do this before it completely sets up.

Using painters tape, I secure the bracelet so it can set up further in this shape. 

Finally, I add some Rub 'n Buff® to the bracelet and it is ready to go! 

I also store the bracelet inside a glass for the first few days, as it will continue to harden and just to make sure that it will keep the shape until it's completely set up. 

P.S. Here is how the Amazing Clear Cast Resin looked.

What will you see when you look at Holiday candy?

Please leave a comment below - I'd love to hear what you are inspired
to create with Amazing Crafting Products!

Please visit my site to see more of my inspiring creations. Thanks for visiting! ~ Tanya

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Make an AMAZING Stamped Resin Bracelet... by Brenda Lee Burfeind

Good day all. Brenda here again with a super easy and exciting tutorial on how to make your own bezel pieces. As most of you know I am in love with making jewelry. I make all kinds of fun things and just can't get enough of trying new ideas, especially since I've found the Amazing Casting Products. I just can't believe I've lived without this stuff for all these years. 

A while back I found this awesome bracelet. I picked it up and figured eventually I'd make something... well, eventually is NOW! I've been watching my team mates use up their "spilled" resin to make some awesome things. Well, that got me to thinking...how about I spill some on purpose.

So let's get started:

First off, I mixed up my Amazing Casting Resin and poured it out on some baker's paper. I don't own a Teflon sheet and this worked just as well. You could even use the glossy side of freezer paper. Try to let it set up on a even flat surface. It created some air pockets, but that's OK - I worked around that.

See how thin it got? Perfect! 

I found the thinnest area of the resin sheet and then I stamped the image

directly onto it with my StazOn® inkpad. Of course it had to be purple!!!

Using my circular punch which was exactly the size for the bezel bracelet,

I punched out random areas of the image... 

... and here are all my circles. 

I placed them into the bracelet with a teeny tiny bit of the Amazing Clear Cast Resin

to keep them from floating to the top because I didn't need to glue them

in place since the disks were made of Amazing Casting Resin.

I then filled the entire well with more Amazing Clear Cast Resin,

repeated for the rest, and let it set up for about 24 hours.

The Amazing Clear Cast Resin is self-doming and leaves a beautiful gloss finish.

And here you have a perfect

One-of-A-Kind bracelet. 

What stamped image would you use

to make your own One-of-A-Kind bracelet?

Please leave a comment and leave your answer - I would love to hear what you are working on. We would love to see what you've created, so come and share with us on our Facebook page.

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

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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.

Bracelet Blanks with Amazing Mold Putty

I can't tell you how many times I have wanted to make a bracelet and haven't had a blank here for me to use. I have an empty cardboard tape roll that I use in my mixed media and it fits my wrist with a bit of room so I thought hmmmmmmmm....I can make as many blanks as I want out of AMAZING MOLD PUTTY!!!!!! So here is what I did. I took my AMP and mixed quite a bit of it. I then pushed my empty cardboard roll in it and let it set. It literally takes 10 minutes. You can see when I mixed my resin I used a silver colorant and poured a bunch of molds so I had a choice of what I wanted on my bracelet. Now you can wrap the bracelet with whatever you want to and as many different textures or colors but I used eyelash yarn in rust. As I wrapped it I use hot glue to tack every 10 wraps or so just for extra security. I then decided what piece I wanted to use as the main focus on the bracelet.I decided the Victorian woman would be the choice for this one. I hot glued her on and then used perfect pearls to colorize her and highlight her to match the yarn. Now you can paint the cast or whatever you want. Its hard to get the best picture with the lights on the shining face but in person it is so beautiful! I can make so many different kinds now and wear with my outfits and use whatever theme I want! Your imagination is the only thing that can stop you with this great product!

Turning Valentine's Day Candy into AMAZING Wearable Fun! A Tutorial by Tracy Alden

Hello! Tracy here with another Amazing Crafting Products tutorial! This week's tutorial I was inspired by some little goodies Susan M. Brown {sbartist}, our Amazing Crafting Products Creative Team Leader, gave me when we met at the Craft and Hobby Association show last week! She had found some fun things while in California, perfect to try molding and turning into art. One of the items was a little box of Valentine's Day candy hearts. I knew they could be turned into something fun with the help of Amazing Mold Putty!

Supplies:

• Amazing Mold Putty
• Amazing Casting Resin
• Alumilite Dyes in Red and Violet
• Jumprings 5mm
• Jewelry eyepins
• 6mm clear glass beads
• Jewelry clasp
• Two mini flat nose and One round nose pliers
• Small hand drill
• Box of candy hearts
• Sticker Gems
• Glu6 - Adhesive for Non-Porous surfaces
• Earring posts

While I love the look of the candy hearts, coating them with sealer or resin would still not last for long if used as jewelry. So the next best thing was to mold their shape and texture to cast in Amazing Casting Resin. I started by picking the best looking candies from the box.

I mixed up some Amazing Mold Putty and squished the putty around the candies. Making sure to not leave any gaps or air bubbles. With just a few of the candies I was able to make several molds with Amazing Mold Putty.

Once the molds were fully cured I poured Amazing Casting Resin. At first I poured the resin without any dye, creating the white candies. Then by adding very tiny drops of Alumilite Dyes in Red and Violet to Amazing Casting Resin I was able to create the look of the other candy colors.

Once the Amazing Casting Resin candy hearts were fully cured, I very carefully drilled a hole through the top of each heart, going all the way through, to make them into beads.

* I left a few resin hearts undrilled, these I will turn into earrings later.

Then using a sanding drill bit I sanded the back and odd edges to make all the sides of each bead appear matte, like the candy. Dust was easily rinsed off and the pieces dried.

Using the Glu6 Glue intended for non-porous surfaces I glued on sticker gems to the front of each heart. While not necessary I felt the sticker gems added a nice touch of sparkle to the beads. 

Using the Glu6 Glue once again I attached earring posts to the backs of Amazing Casting Resin hearts without holes drilled into them. I let the glue dry overnight to ensure a good bond with the resin.

I threaded on a heart bead onto a jewelry eyepin. Carefully I snipped off the excess wire, and using round nose pliers I rolled the end of the wire into a loop. I repeated this with all of the drilled resin beads.

Threading 4 glass beads onto a eyepin again I carefully I snipped off the excess wire, and using round nose pliers I rolled the end of the wire into a loop. I repeated this with a second eyepin. These pieces became the ends of the bracelet.

I opened up a 5mm jumpring with the flat nose pliers and put the jumpring through two of the resin links. When I closed the jumpring with the pliers I created a two part link. I repeated this for the rest of the bead links and added a jewelry clasp at the end to finish off the bracelet.

With the glue dry and the bracelet finished –
I now have a festive Valentine's Day earring and bracelet set.

I found out these little resin hearts looked so nice I even made a fabric bracelet by gluing the resin hearts to a ribbon and once again attaching resin hearts to earring posts. With so many candies to mold, the possibilities of resin candy art or jewelry is endless!

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

Please share them on the NEW 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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