Lucky Horseshoe #Reclaimedbarnwood

Happy Sunday to you all!

Today I wanted to show you something I am super proud of.  I've been creating a lot of reclaimed barnwood signs as of late.  I'm hoping to show some of my signs off in the upcoming weeks.  But today I wanted to share this one with you. Remember when I made my horseshoe wreath of sorts?

You can view that post HERE

Well I wanted to use the horseshoe mold again for this project.

I haven't used this mold for about 8 months, but it's still as pliable as the day I created it.

Love the Amazing Mold Putty!

First I "painted" the mold with the Alumilite powders.

Just dip your dry paintbrush in the powder and dust the mold.

I also used my Amazing Casting Resin mixed with the 

Alumilite Silver Metalic Powders for the base of the horseshoe

I made it look old and rusty.

The resin piece is super lightweight and it was easy to screw into my board.

I also painted the screws over so that they didn't look "new".

You can hardly even see them! 

I just love how grungy this looks.

And here is my L U CKY sign, painted and ready for it's forever home.  

Now had I used a real horseshoe this sign would also have been very heavy.

I hope you've enjoyed this quick and simple tutorial and would love if you left me a comment.

As always, have a great day and God Bless.

Keychain with Amazing Casting Products

Good day

I was gifted this lovely key chain a couple days ago and while I absolutely love it it's a bit heavy to put on my keyring.  You do know that too many things on your key ring is not good for your ignition right?  When your keys are heavy it weighs down on the ignition.  I really wanted to use this key chain, but don't want to wreck my ignition, so of course what do I do?  Yup Amazing Casting Products to the rescue because the resin piece will be super light weight!

First I mixed up equal parts of the Amazing Mold Putty and you can view mixing instructions HERE

After my mold was set which took less than 10 minutes

I mixed up equal parts of the Amazing Casting Resin with some 

Silver Alumilite Metalic Powder and you can view 

the preparations for mixing HERE.

That set up within 10 minutes also.

I did run a little bit of Rub n Buff over the resin and

added some rhinestones. 

I love how this turned out and now I can proudly hang my 

car keys on it and not worry about wrecking my ignition.

Harley Davidson Keychain with Amazing Casting Products

Good Morning crafters,

I wanted to show you a keychain I made a while back for a friend of mine.  It was her birthday and she is a huge Harley Davidson enthusiast.  I had this awesome pin that I had gotten many years ago and she has always commented how much she loves my pin.  I, however, was not about to give it away, but I knew I could duplicate it for her.

I started with my Amazing Casting Products and the Amazing Mold Rubber and created my mold.  I then poured the mold with the Orange Dye mixed with the Amazing Casting Resin.  It was ready in about 5 minutes

Then I added some of the Alumilite Silver Metallic Powder.

If you get some in areas you don't want, you can always use a q-tip and some rubbing alcohol to get it off!

I drilled a small hole with my dremel and added a jump ring and keychain and voila!

She LOVED it!

I hope you've enjoyed my quicky keychain.

As always, have a great day and God Bless.

Anything But a Card challenge #45 "Green with Envy"

Good morning and happy Sunday to you.  It's the third Sunday of the month and you know what that means. Yup, another Anything But a Card Challenge #45 and this month our challenge is using GREEN!  I knew exactly what I wanted to do since St. Patty's day is just around the corner.  What a coincidence that this month's theme is wrapped in GREEN, lol!  So let's get started:

A couple of years ago I made a mold using my Amazing Casting Products of a horseshoe I cut out in chipboard using my cricut a couple of times and glued them together.  It's so easy when you don't have the exact item to create.

I glued 3 pieces together to give it some thickness.

And pierced holes on either side of the horseshoe.

Then I mixed up my Amazing Mold Putty (you can go HERE and see how to mix it up) 

and pushed my chipboard horseshoe into it.

I like to use up any space to mold something else too.  NO wasting that precious mold putty. 

I used my Amazing Casting Resin with the Alumilite Silver Metallic powder to create this beauty.  

You can view a tutorial HERE on how to prepare it.

Then I glued some silver rhinestones onto it with my E6000

Love it, but now you are wondering where the GREEN comes in?

Well, this was a necklace I made a couple of years ago and ...

this is what I made for this challenge using some of the steps above.  Since I already had the mold (love how they hold up for years) I just casted it in the Amazing Casting Resin which when it cures dries WHITE, but I added the green rhinestones and not as many as the original piece.  Using the Amazing Clear Cast I  painted that over the entire piece making sure those rhinestones would not pop off and also to give it a nice shine.  

I then added a gold chain and now I am ready to make some luck on St. Patty's Day!

Thanks for stopping over and checking out my "GREEN" challenge at Anything but a Card and I hope you will play along.  Remember, the rules are simple

1.  Create ANYTHING BUT  A CARD

2.  Show off your GREEN

3.  Have FUN!

Until next time, have a great day and God Bless.

South Dakota Bullet keychain

Good day friends,

I was recently asked to make a keychain for a client who wanted to commemorate his hunting in South Dakota.  I wasn't too sure if I could pull that off, but of course I would try.  After creating the keychain I was told I didn't use the right bullet, lol.  That just goes to show how little I know about guns and bullets.  Oh well, I'll try again...but here is how I did make the original.

I started out with a bullet and hot glued it to the bottom of a 2 oz measuring cup.  The bullet was just a bit higher than the cup so ...

... I added some painters tape around the cup and poured my Amazing Mold Rubber.  Amazing Mold Rubber is a two part silicon that when mixed together creates a fabulous pliable mold that can be used over and over again.  You can view a "how to" video HERE.

Here is just another view of the cup.  The process of setting up takes anywhere from 4 to 12 hours depending how small or large your "vessel" is.  This set up in a little over 4 hours.

I popped the mold out of the medicine cup and pulled my bullet out.  The mold rubber doesn't leave any residue behind and you can use your "vessel" over again.

Then I decided I wanted to make my bullet two toned just like the original so I "painted some silver Alumilite Gun Metal Metallic Powder in the bottom of the mold, followed by some Gold Metallic Powder.

I also mixed up my Amazing Casting Resin with the same Alumilite Gun Metal Metallic Powder.  

The Amazing Casting Resin is also a two part mixing process

and you can view a video HERE to see how that works.

While the resin is hardening I added a piece of wire half way into the resin and held it with a clothespin while it sets up.  It takes about 15 minutes to harden when you add the powders.

Now I needed to create the State of South Dakota and using my cricut and SCAL, 

I cut 6 pieces of chipboard and hot glued them together to give them some height.

I laid the bullet over the chipboard and with a pencil, 

I drew lines on either side to give it exact width.

and carefully cut it out one layer at a time with my exacto knife 

make sure not to cut ALL the way through the chipboard..

Then I molded it with my Amazing Mold Putty.  

This again is a 2 part process and you can view the video HERE.

Here is my mold.  

Now I mixed up the Alumilite Blue Dye with the Amazing Casting Resin ... 

... and poured my mold.

I glued the bullet to the well of the resin piece with E6000.  

Adding a rhinestone for some bling (maybe to depict where he had hunted) and a chain to create a keychain!

Like I said, after I created the keychain I was told that's not the kind of bullet you use to hunt with, but you get the idea, right?  I say it still could work, lol.  I will need him to give me the "correct" bullet and try this again!  Either way, I now have a wonderful mold of the bullet and the State of South Dakota!

What original keychain would you create?  Please leave me a comment and until next time, 

have a great day and God Bless.

Remelted bracelette

Good morning crafties,

Today I am here to show you a quick tutorial using the Amazing Remelt.  I just love the remelt because if it doesn't work out the way you want you can always remelt it and try again.  No waste!  PERFECT!

I started out with a coin I had found and created a mold using the Amazing Remelt.  You can watch a quick video HERE to see what it's all about.

I usually try to make a couple of mold at one time, but today I am showing you what I did with the coin on the left side of the mold.  I also added some Alumilite Gun Powder Metal to the mold and pour a mixture of Amazing Casting Resin with Alumilite Black Dye to the mold.  Right before it is set up, I added a snap to the resin that will harden around it.  You can see another bracelet I made using this technique HERE.

Then using my punch I added the snapped resin piece to a leather strap.

and here is my bracelet.  Now, I have to admit the piece didn't turn out as well as I had hoped but I do like the odd texture it has. I rubbed some gold rub n buff over the top and am actually happy with the outcome.  Also, this is the beauty of the Amazing Remelt, if you don't like it just REMELT the mold and try again.

I hope you enjoyed my remelt tutorial today and would love for you to leave a comment telling me what you would use the remelt for.

As always, have a great day and God Bless.

Paper Punch to Resin Steampunk Necklace

Good day friends

Today I have a tutorial for you showing what imagination can create.

I started out with a punch that I borrowed and wanted to use over and over again.  I started by punching silver duct tape.  You can buy this at any hardware store.  It's sturdy and has sticky tape on the back.  I punched it once the right side and then the wrong side, thus having two pieces with sticky on opposite sides.  Then I punched some chipboard, actually a cereal box.  I then taped the three pieces together giving me close to a dime thickness.

Now here comes the preserving of this punched element.  

I used my Remelt from Amazing Crafting Products. 

I tacked the punched piece down with some repositional tack into a glass butter dish.  

Make sure you spray your item with some sort of release agent.  I used the UMR Mold Release also available from Amazing Crafting Products.

I have no use for this mold anymore so I decided to REMELT it.  

That's what I love about this product, no wasting the mold!   

I cut it into for sizable chunks and using my Amazing Mold Putty "cup" 

I remelted it in the microwave for about 20 seconds ...

and poured my mold. 

and here is the finished piece.  I carefully peeled it out of the mold and was pretty happy with the outcome.  Some of the pieces didn't have enough depth to create the "holes" the punched produced, but I can always make the original punched piece thicker and REMELT and try again.  

But for now I knew I could still use the piece for something ... 

Here is the piece after it was molded with the Amazing Clear Cast Resin and Alumilite Metallic Powder.  You can see that the punched out pieces are not defined enough,  

but rest assured, I will do this again just a bit thicker!

I received this mold as a gift and decided I was going to create a steampunk necklace.  Totally in love with the idea.  I used my Amazing Casting Resin and the Alumilite Metal Metallic Powder to create my gears, key holes and keys. 

I layed my gears onto the molded punched piece 

(you can see that those gears fit almost perfectly onto it)

to find the proper placement, added some chains and gluing 

everything down with E6000 I came up with this!
I also added some red flatback rhinestones with E6000 to glitz it up a bit!

What do you think? 

I love this necklace and cannot wait to find a reason to wear it!

Now remember, just because the original idea didn't work, doesn't mean you can't recreate it using the Remelt production or you can just go with what you have and go into a total different direction!

I'm glad you stopped by and please leave a comment and let me know what you think of my tutorial today.

As always, have a great day and God Bless!