Anything But a Card challenge #48 Faux Glass leaf bracelet

Welcome to another post for Anything but a Card.  This month's challenge #48 is all about the OUTDOORS.  I so love creating for this blog, but sometimes time gets away from me.  I am here today to show you something I created a LONG time ago for another design team I am on.  I've been with Amazing Casting Products for 3 years now and love using all the products they have.  If you haven't heard about it, go HERE and see all the great things this group of designers have made.  I love creating jewelry and today's post is all about taking Out and About with you!

First start by mixing your Alumilite Violet Dye to part "A" of the Amazing Clear Cast Resin. Make sure to mix it up well and then mix that with your part "B" of the Amazing Clear Cast Resin again, stirring well to get it all mixed together well.

Then I used a piece of packing foam (recycled) as my sponge and "painted" it onto the ribbon coating both sides on top of a garbage bag. Leave your ribbon on the garbage bag to dry and it will just lift right off when it has dried. Once it's dry it becomes hard but yet still pliable. 

I made a leaf using the Amazing Clear Cast Resin with Alumilite (Flo) Green Dye. Doesn't it look like glass? I used a brown sharpie to add the veins on the leaf and then "painted" another coat of Amazing Clear Cast Resin over the top of that to shine up the "sharpie".

I attached the leaf with some E6000® and there I have an amazing fall bracelet. 

I also used my Crop-A-Dile™ to attach some eyelets to the "ribbon" and added a clasp.

I hope I've inspired you to make something for Anything but a Card and can't wait to see what you come up with.  There are only 3 simple rules to participate in this challenge.

1.  Use the Outdoors as your inspiration.
2.  Make ANYTHING BUT A CARD
3.  Have Fun

Thanks for looking and see you soon!

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.

Buttons to Charm bracelet ABAC Challenge 41, OPEN

Good day Friends

I am here to show you another idea that I came up with for making a charm bracelet for Week 3 over at Anything But a Card Challenge 41 OPEN.  So, now we will take a quick walk through of my bracelet...

It all started with my daughter giving my some buttons to make something for her.  She wants to be a mermaid for Halloween (she never did get to be a mermaid) and bought these cute sea inspired buttons.  "Mom, I want something, anything!", is the only direction she gave me.  Instead I made something for myself.  Hehehe.  I figure if she likes the bracelet, she can wear it also.

So I created my mold using the Amazing Mold Putty and you can go here to see how to prepare it...

Then I painted my mold with the Alumidusts.  I just love the rich color they bring to a piece.

I mixed my Amazing Casting Resin with a drop of Alumilite Flo Green Dye and poured my molds and you can see mixing instructions here.

This is the bracelet kit I was going to use.  Thrift shopping I came across a bag of these leather straps of about 50 of them for $1.  Nope, couldn't pass it up but didn't know what I was going to do with it either.  Now I do...

Using ordinary scrapbook snaps.  Make sure you use the kind that do 

NOT have the hole in the center though.

I placed them in the resin right before it was almost completely cured, 

which in turn becomes one piece. 

And here is my finished bracelet.  Since I craft either late at night or during the day when no one is home it's hard for me to take pictures of some of the things I do, but you actually use your brad setter and just hammer your snaps into the holes provided and it holds very well.

I added a clasp and now I can let my daughter "use" the bracelet if she so chooses.

Now I hope I've inspired you to create something for this week's challenge at Anything But a Card and remember it's an OPEN theme, so seriously, ANYTHING goes.  Also please mention us in your post and link back to our page.  I can't wait to see your projects.

As always, have a great day and God Bless.

Golf bracelett

Good morning, I'm here again to inspire you to use something you have and turn it into something it wasn't intended for.  Can you guess what I used?

Right now I should be somewhere in Florida.  My husband and son are avid golfers and we went to see the John Deere Classic in Iowa last year.  While we were there we found out that The Players would be happening over Mother's Day weekend in May of this year and that is my Mother's Day present, a whole week in Florida!  Now, I do not play golf, although I will be taking lessons when we get home, but I love the game.  I love watching my "boys" play and love driving the cart, hehehe.  I also love the clothing, I know I'm weird!  Now with the clothing I needed to accessorize and with that this idea was born.

For my son's birthday he received Golf-Opoly; just like Monopoly and the game pieces were of course golf themed.

I hijacked those pieces while he wasn't looking and created my molds,

mixed and poured my resin with the Alumilite Silver Metallic powder and created my bracelet pieces.

 Stringing them with some white pearls makes for a classy (lightweight) Golf bracelet. 

 I hope I've inspired you to create something that wasn't it's original purpose.

 

Make sure to head over to the Amazing Mold Putty Blog and check out all the fun stuff everyone over there is making.  On May 24th I will be featuring another project using pieces from the Frog Dog Studio May Kit for a very sad and sentimental project, so make sure to save the date!

Until next time, as always, have a great day and God Bless!

Amazing Bracelet with sheets of resin

Good day all.  Today I am here to show you 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.

and this is how I 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. 

Amazing isn't it?  

Now the best part of this whole tutorial is that I was featured on a blog elsewhere.  I got an email from Susan and told me I had been featured over at ... wait for it...Craftgossip!!!  Can you believe that?  The icing on the cake (as Susan put it) is that the editor raved about my bracelet.  What an honor and if you would like to read all about it go here.

Now stay close because I have some more news coming soon...


but wait, there's more


I cannot wait to show you all about this stuff.  In the meantime, don't forget to check out the amazing talent over at Amazing Mold Putty.  These ladies are fabulous...

As always, have a great day and God Bless.

Resin Bracelet and Sakura DT call

Good Morning and welcome to my blog.  There is a design team call over at Sakura Hobby Craft.  I just love their products.  My favorite is the 3d lacquer and of course Terri Sproul's mixers.  It's kinda ironic, but last year for Valentine's Day, my hubby bought the entire mixer set for me and today (one Valentine's day) I am going to show you how to create this with them.

You all know how much I love making jewelry and I wear alot of it to work.  Recently one of my customers asked if I could make her a custom bracelet piece.  I so love a challenge.  The only direction she gave me was that it had to have a PEACE sign.  Oye, I know I didn't have one, so I decided to create one. 

So off to my trusty SCAL program and I cut a peace symbol out of scrap cardstock 5 times and glued them all together. 

This was the perfect thickness for what I wanted. 

Being on the Amazing Mold Putty design team has me addicted to that stuff.  I had to recently purchase some more (since I am no longer on the design team and don't get it for free :(  I knew Michaels carried it so off with my 50% coupon and purchased the last package.  My Michaels discontinued it.  Thank goodness that I can still order it online, because I cannot live without this stuff. 

I added a bit of silver metallic powder to my mold and poured the amazing cast resin into it.  It cured in about 10 minutes.  I guess when I created the mold itself, I didn't let that cure long enough and the resin piece became somewhat bumpy.  BUT, unfortunate mistakes sometimes turn into better projects and soon you will see what I mean. 

I then painted the symbol with a bunch of different colors of the Terri Sproul Mixers.  I used 4 or 5 different colors and combinations and even added some silver alcohol inks.  I kept mixing, adding, mixing, adding until I got exactly what I wanted.  I will tell you, if I make this bracelet again, it will for sure not be the same.  Similar but the colors won't be able to duplicate...lol.  This was so much fun to make.

See all the mixers and 3d lacquer on my fingers?  I love messy projects and this one is a favorite.  See what I mean about the bumpyness?  But it gave it some awesome character.

Below is a pictures of everything I used to create my bracelet focal peace symbol. 

I was extremely happy with the way it turned out and my customer LOVED it.  Thanks again Karen!!!  Even if I do not make the design team, I will still be using these products for more jewelry tutorials.  Remember, the mixers can be used on almost any surface, paper, resin, clay, tile, glass., etc.  Go check the products out at Sakura, I know you will love them.