Frog Dog Studio Last Day

Good day crafters,

today I am coming full circle and showing you what I had created to the start of this week's projects .  All week long I've been showing you items I used from the April kit from Frog Dog Studios.

In your kit you would receive this:

The Frog Dog Studio April Mixed Media Kit includes:

(1) **Alumidust Powder - Red Plum; (1) StazOn Midi Ink pad - Claret; (1) StazOn Midi Ink pad - Blue Hawaii; (1) iZink Pigment Ink bottle - Gold; (1) Stampendous Mica Fragments Jar, Pearlized; (1) Dusty Attic Chipboard set - Birds; (1) Stampendous Mini Clipboard Canvas pack; (1) Set Canvas Mini's - Canvas Corp; (3) Sheets of Decopatch Tissue Paper; and (16) Tim Holtz Clear Fragments (random sizes/shapes). ** Alumidust is one of the many additives from the Alumilite Corporation. Valued at over $45.

And of course you would want to purchase the add-on kit! 

The Frog Dog Studio  April Add-On Kit includes:

(1) Amazing Clear Cast Resin – 16 Fluid Oz Box; (1) Amazing Mold Putty – 2/3 lb Box; (25) 1 oz Measuring Cups; and (50) Wooden Stir Sticks. Valued at over $47.

I love getting new fun things to play with.

LOVE this paper.  It's so thin, almost transparent and the colors are beautiful.  When I was growing up in Germany we had this sort of paper for gift wrapping.  I totally forgot all about it until I held this paper in my hands.  Oh the memories holding that paper just brought back.

So now I had to figure out what to make.  I knew I was going to mold that Bird of Paradise using my Amazing Mold Putty, but what was I going to do with her?  

You can find directions for proper mixing here by typing "how to make a mold" in the search bar on the top or you can watch a video here.

It only takes about 10 minutes tops to cure

Look how lovely she came out

Then I prepared my Amazing Casting Resin.  This product is incredible as it has no odor and sets up within minutes.  Just make sure you mix equal parts of A & B and stir until it isn't cloudy anymore.  Don't stir too long as it does set up within minutes.

Whenever I make a mold I try to fill all the voided spaces with other doodads.  In this month's kit you will receive some acrylic tags in various sizes, so I created a duplicate of those.  Also, when I mix my resin, I tend to make more than I need, so therefore I fill other molds to have on hand for future projects.

Once I've poured my mold, I actually take a paper towel and kinda run around the edges of the item to avoid extra resin around the edges.  This picture shows what the resin does shortly after pouring.  You can see how the resin is starting to set up in the small circular tag.

Almost completely set up, still a bit of clear milky color in the corners of the Bird of Paradise.

Completely cured, hard as a rock

Now when I demold things, I start from the outer edges.  The Amazing Mold Putty mold is flexible and therefore you can bend your items out instead of just trying to pull them up.  In demolding it this way you avoid pulling those fine or thin areas, like these feathers, off..

and there your have a duplicate of the chipboard Bird of Paradise.  

I used my exacto knife to clean a bit around the edges and this process from molding to pouring to cured to cleaning up edges took all about 15 minutes.

Now I had recently made a trip to my Dollar Store after getting my Frog Dog Studio kit, when I found this awesome mirror set.  Immediately I had an idea of how I could use some of the pieces from this kit to embellish this up.  I thought the color scheme was identical too.

I took the existing packaging and traced as close to the mirror as possible with a pencil.

Then I cut it out with a pair of scissors and

laid that transparency directly onto the gorgeous paper to find the exact area that I wanted to use.

Maybe you can see the edge here?

Then cut that out a bit larger than the original to fit my handheld mirror perfectly.

Now if you look at the mirror and the paper, you will see that it was not a perfect color fit.  The paper has more green and the mirror is more steel blue.  I wasn't sure how I was going to fix this, but where there is a will there is always a way!

I used Mod Podge to cover the backside of the mirror, going in one direction first and then crossways again.

Once I laid the paper onto the mirror I burnished the edge a little with my thumbnail to give it that extra seam.

See how nice that laid down?  You can even see a little bit of the pattern from the handheld mirror.

Now while that was drying I went back to my Bird of Paradise to finish her off.  I used the Claret Stazon ink that came with my kit and directly pounced it onto my bird.  So, remember me showing you that the color wasn't a perfect fit with the paper and the mirror.

Therefore I also added some of the Blue Hawaii Stazon, mixed in a bit of the Lt. Green Alumidust and golded the bird with the Pigment Izink (gold) all which came in my kit.  I think she turned out gorgeous.

I had 3 silk leaves in my over flowing stash of silk flowers and 

knew these would work perfectly to embellish my mirror.

I sponged the Claret Stazon directly onto the leaves also.  Even though this technique worked, it didn't give it enough color.  I pulled out my Deep Red Alumidust that came with the kit and mixed it up with some of Alene's PaperGlaze and painted the middle of those leaves.  I wasn't really being careful since no leaf is exact in coloring anyway (and I can't even paint by numbers).

Hot gluing the embellishments onto the mirror gave it that perfect touch.

I do believe my Bird of Paradise completed this mirror perfectly in color balance.

Wouldn't this make a beautiful gift for someone's dressing table?

I hope you've liked my one example of this beautiful kit from Frog Dog Studio 

and all the projects I've showed you this week.  If you have missed any, just head back through my blog and you will see the entire week of Frog Dog Studio inspiration. 

As always, have a great day and God Bless.