Toasting the New Year's Party with a Wine Themed set of Earrings and new design team!

                                

Good day friends and Happy New Year! I am so excited to tell you about a new design team I am on!  YEAH!

I've been on the design team over at Get Creative Challenge and am having a wonderful time coloring digi images.  Angie is also running the Simply Create Too blog and I am one of the newest members over there now also.  I'm really excited about designing with these fabulous ladies because I get to make whatever I want to as long as I follow the theme!  YEAH!

This month's theme is PARTY TIME challenge #100 and thus I created some wonderful earrings that I wore on New Year's Eve.  

As some of you know I work in a wine store and I get asked over and over if we have any jewelry with a Wine motif. My boss just isn't into stuff like that – so I decided I wanted a pair of earrings to wear for New Years Eve and I wanted them to have a wine motif.

So let's get started!

I started out by cutting a wine bottle and glass shape {welded with my Cricut} out of some cereal boxes! I love to upcycle. I cut the pieces 14 times because I wasn't sure how thick I wanted the glued together pieces to be.

Here are my Cricut cuts and I used 5 of them to get the desired thickness.

Then I mixed up a batch of the Amazing Mold Putty – you can view mixing preparations HERE. I sprayed some UMR Mold Release onto the mold putty before pressing the chipboard into it because I did not want the chipboard to stick to it.

The mold came out beautifully!

Next I brushed some Lt. Green Alumidust where the bottle would be and left an area open where I think the glasses would be. I then mixed up some Amazing Clear Cast Resin {and you can watch a video tutorial HERE} because I wanted the "glasses" to be see through.

So far so good... I then took a silver paint pen and highlighted around the bottle, put a stopper on the top and edged around the wine glass area.

I added some seed beads with E6000® and used

a red paint pen to add some color to the bottle.

Attached some jewelry findings with E6000® 

and I was ready for New Years Eve!

I absolutely love my new earrings created just in time for the Party!
If you are going to CHA you might even see my cuts being used!

Now I hope you've enjoyed my post and my first project for Simply Create Too!

Make sure you follow the theme and join in some fun over there.

#cre8time - Faux Geli Plate Printing with Amazing Mold Rubber

Good day friends,

today I wanted to introduce you to my very first faux geli plate printing.  I've been watching one of my creative friends make some amazing backgrounds lately.  She is a wonderful card maker and such an inspiration.  You can find Annette on instagram  @paper_pajamas or at her blog paperpajama.blogspot.com.

So anyway, she has inspired me to try this geli printing thingy without her knowledge!  Teehee.  Well, I could not see myself spending money on a geli plate because who knows if I'd like it all that much.  Believe me, I have enough crafty things to keep my busy.  However, as you also know, I belong to the Amazing Casting Products design team and our fearless leader had posted making  non geli plate a while back so I thought I'd give it a try.

Frisbee

Here is my faux geli plate using my Amazing Mold Rubber.  I just used a regular Frisbee I had in my stash as my "mold" and poured my mold rubber mixture directly into it after mixing it up (you can see a video tutorial HERE) and let it set for about 2 1/2 hours.

I really had no idea where I was going with this, but oh my, I've had a grand old time.  I just used scraps of paper from my stash and started to play.

I used texture plate, cut outs, rubber stamps and even a fork.  LOVED playing today.
Here are some examples of some of the papers I made:

my texture plates

I forget that if you use a rubber stamp it will be backwards, so I used the paint from the rubber stamp and stamped that on some paper and viola, another awesome image!

I love the texture that this piece gave!

This was some paper I had run through my cuddlebug and is textured.  Really love how this came out.

I just with the picture were better!  You can really see some awesome detail in there!

 

See the Pink ribbon in the above photo?  

Here is the result:

Love how these came out!

Here I started with the pink and blue paint again 

and dipped a styrofoam ball into some black paint and rolled it around

in the pink and blue paint.

I got messy, but wait till you see the outcome!

LOVE,LOVE,LOVE these papers!

Now I can't wait to sit down and make some cards with all my lovelies!

I hope you've enjoyed reading my post today and would love for you to leave me a comment!

As always, have a great day and God Bless!

Hope bottle

Good morning friends,

today I want to show you a project I made for a special friend of mine.  Pam was diagnosed with breast cancer 2 months ago.  I created this for her and here is what I did:

I wanted to give a little "Hope" in her life.

While garage saling this summer I found a baggie of these type setter tiles.  LOVE the price even more!

I used my Amazing Mold Rubber from the Amazing Casting Products line and recreated the entire alphabet.

You can view a video HERE to see how to use this Amazing product.

Then I used my Alumidust also by Amazing Casting Products and 

a fine paintbrush and highlighted the letters and the edging.

Then I mixed some of the Caucasian Dye with the Amazing Casting resin and poured my molds.

You can view a video HERE on this mixing preparation.

Here are my tiles!  Beautiful!

I had these wonderful glittery pink ribbons in my stash and glued one onto a chopstick.

Then I used my E6000 and glued my tiles onto the ribbon from top to bottom.

Love the look.

I added some flowers after I wrapped the bottle with a gray and pink variegated yarn.

She says she has it on her nightstand and when she wakes in the morning she says it gives her "HOPE"!

I hope you've enjoyed my project for today and as always have a great day and God Bless!

Wine stoppers Throw back Mold Rubber Monday

Good day all! welcome to a Throw back Monday on Mold Rubber Monday to show you an AMAZING (picture heavy) tutorial.

If you know me, you know I am a wine connoisseur. I love going to wineries and taking tours especially the taste testing, LOL. I have collected a lot of wine corks to some day make something magnificent with – but until I figure out exactly what I want to do with them, I decided to use one to make multiple bottle stoppers. I kinda ran with this before really thinking it out so let's experiment together.

If you have ever tried to put a cork in an opened bottle you know it's somewhat difficult. That's why they make these super cute "winestoppers" that can also be pretty expensive. Therefore, why not make your own? I started with a cork and cut it to make sort of a chisel point.

Then using my Creative Paperclay® I wrapped it around the chiseled part and made it into a nice rounded point and let it dry. Paperclay takes about 24 hours to dry.

Once it was dry I sanded it smooth.

I added some Amazing Clear Cast Resin to it to make it smooth and non porous so that I could use my Amazing Mold Rubber to create a mold that I could use over and over and over again. You definitely need to have a non porous item...

Once the Amazing Clear Cast Resin set up (about 24 hours), I hot glued it to the bottom of a yogurt container. It was just the right size for my "winestopper" with a little bit of room at the top so that the Amazing Mold Rubber covered it completely.

I mixed and poured the Amazing Mold Rubber and let it set up overnight.

Please CLICK HERE to watch how to mix/prepare Amazing Mold Rubber.

I wanted to be positive it set up completely –

being a thick mold and also it's the middle of winter.

Now here is where the tricky part came. I could not get my "winestopper" out.

I wound up cutting my mold in half. 

This picture shows a well used mold, I've used it

about 20 times so far... looks like it, doesn't it?

Once I put the pieces together I wrap a bit of painters tape around the mold to keep any leakage from happening, but honestly the mold really stays well together.

Here is an example of the two pieces separated with a molded piece. 

I just used my Exacto knife to cut away the little bit of overflow. The top of the "winestopper" looks like a well used cork where the bottom is nice and smooth.

I wanted to somehow incorporate a way to add items to my "winestoppers" and remembered I had these cute little forks and thought they might do the trick. 

After you pour your Amazing Casting Resin let it set up a minute or until you see it start to turn white and insert your fork piece and hold it steady until it sets up all the way. Another couple of minutes and you can let go. Let that set up a little longer to make sure it is completely set up. (See the strip of tape around the mold?) That's just to make sure the mold doesn't leak through.

Here is another "fork" going into the mold using the Alumilite Dye

in Brown to give it more of that "cork" color.

And that is how I attach all my "molded" pieces to my "winestoppers".

You can use E6000®, which is my favorite glue for all of my resin pieces.

Topped with a Chalkboard Heart.

A Butterfly (which got sold at the Winter Bazaar I was at last week).

I even used wire and curled it and inserted it into the mold 

while it was setting up to make a table marker that holds a card.

I even made a"winestopper" with an elephant using Amazing Clear Cast Resin.

 

Ready for some football?

And of course, my all time favorite, my elephant.

All the pieces for my "winestoppers" are also made with Amazing Mold Putty, Amazing Casting Resin, Amazing Clear Cast Resin and various Alumilte Dyes, Alumilite Metallic Powders or painted. ALL the items are sealed with Amazing Clear Cast Resin. The possibilities are endless and I think I've made about 20 different "winestoppers" so far. 

So, when you want a variety of the same item, make it yourself!

What would you LOVE to mold over and over again?

Thanks for stopping by and as always have a great day and God Bless!