Flat bone failure to Amazing Plate

Good morning friends

Remember my post from a couple of weeks back over at Amazing Mold Putty of my bone necklace.  You can view it HERE if you missed it.  Remember also how I said that the necklace was a failure because they didn't lay right since they had a flat surface?  Well, I fixed that by rebuilding.

 I started out with a skull that I purchased last year after Halloween.  It was on clearance (as if I ever pay full price for anything) because it didn't work.  But I knew I would be using these skulls for something.  Of course my Amazing Mold Putty comes in handy for this project.

I molded the skull with the mold putty

I drew a line in the mold with a a sharpie so all of my skulls would be the same height

And poured some with Amazing Casting Resin with Black Alumilite Dye

and some just white 

I glued all my cured pieces onto a charger with E6000 and I wanted to make the center of the plate a chalkboard 

I also rubbed some vaseline here and there which will allow my to rub off the paint in certain areas easily 

After the pieces were all glued down and cured I proceeded to paint the charger with the chalkboard paint.

Believe it or not, I added at LEAST 8 coats of the chalkboard paint and it still wouldn't take the chalk on.  I'm not sure what went wrong or why it happened, but I could not get my chalk to write on the charger.  I got pretty disgusted and was about to throw in the towel, when I came up with another solution...VINYL!  Duh!!! 

Since I was giving this as a gift to my tattoo artist, I pulled up his business card, 

imported it into my SCAL and had an exact match of lettering

I love how the red strikes onto that black charger.

You can also see where the vaseline rubbed the paint off nicely.  

I even "scratched" some areas, just to rough it up a bit more!

My tattoo artist LOVES it!  In fact, even his boss liked it and took the plate from him and displayed 

it in the front of the store on a shelf and said Jason could "visit" it anytime he wanted.

So, see, even if something doesn't work out there is always a solution to recreate an idea.

I hope you liked my post today and hope to see you again real soon.

As always, have a great day and God Bless!

Chalkboard Tray

Good morning,


Today should be our last day in Boundary Waters...depending on when you are reading this, we may or may not be off the water, but we will be back to civilization today sometime.  Our first stop after returning the canoes will be the hotel for a HOT shower and some real food.  Not that we didn't have real food on our trip, but by now I want some chicken or steak, no more fish for a while.  I love fish but for 4 days of breakfast, lunch and dinner I am ready for something else.  Also maybe a glass of wine to go with my meal.  LOL


Anyway, onto my post... remember the tray I showed you for the "Christmas in July" blog hop last week?  Well, my dear friend had given me two trays so I decided to make a Christmas present for Miss Bella and this is what I made...

I just love these trays because they have legs.

Make sure you sand the tray a bit first so the paint will adhere best.

Then I painted the tray with black chalkboard paint.
I used the Krylon paint and it is so awesome.

It's very glossy right now, but that will change.

I cut all the letters and flowers with my E-craft out of vinyl
and added some rhinestones to the centers of the flowers.
Then I taped off the center...

and added a sealer to the rim of the tray.  This way she won't
be able to "pick" off the vinyl or the bling.

You must condition the tray with chalk before you can use it.
Just rub chalk over the entire surface in both directions.
Isn't this just the coolest project?
Since the tray is metal I am going to either make or buy
her some magnetic alphabets also.  I think she will love this!!!

I am also linking this up over at AllThingsFee  I love this site because there is such a variety of projects.  So much imagination and brilliance going on over there.

Kristal's  NEWEST Stamp PREORDERS--for a limited time, you can get them at a discount 

and reserve yours before they sell out!!! 

Coffee & Tea Mix & Match  

Sympathetic Sayings (Larger set)

Winged Things: Mix & Match

(Bonus frame & images)