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.

Horseshoe Star

Good morning friends

Happy Labor Day!!!

Today I wanted to share something I found on Pintrest.  I am constantly pinning projects and hardly ever make them, but I do love looking at all the fun things people create.  This time I actually recreated something, but with a twist.

This is what I found on Pintrest.  Love, love, love this!

My only fear was that using real horseshoes would be #1, VERY heavy and  #2 dangerous if it fell by either breaking something or someone!  But I had the perfect solution!  So let's get started.

A little bit of background why I used this particular horseshoe.  

When we bought our house we found this horseshoe among some flowers in a flower bed.  

My husband said this was going to be our "lucky" horseshoe and it needed to stay in the yard.  

It's very old and rusty, but it's been with us ever since. (14 years)  

I started out with my Amazing Mold Putty from the Amazing Casting Products 

and created a mold of my horsehoe.

Since the mold putty sets up fairly quickly I did this in chunks.  

Adding a little bit of mold putty all the way around.

It doesn't have to be pretty, just function-able.  

Also, you want to make sure you have NO seams.

Then I used my Amazing Casting resin and filled the mold 5 times as I needed 5 horseshoes.  

When the resin sets up in about 10 minutes, depending on how big or small your mold is, it hardens white.

Now, I seem to have lost my pictures of my mold actually curing, but they turned out wonderful.  

Next I laid them out and used my painters tape and taped off the areas that would not need to be painted.

and again

and again

until I got this:

Isn't this just AMAZING?

I used my E6000 to glue the cross pieces together and let that cure for about 24 hours. 

I wanted to make triple sure this would not break apart.

Now the best part of this entire project, this weighs less than nothing.  Seriously!!!  

Could you imagine what 5 solid horseshoes would weigh?

And now it hangs in my tree for all to see!

I am completely thrilled with this piece!

I hope I've inspired you to find your project on Pintrest and follow through!

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.

Lucky "U" 7 Simon Says challenge

Good morning,


I'm here today to show you a card I made for the challenge over at Simon Says.  The Monday challenge was "Lucky".  Since Monday was St. Patty's Day they thought that would be an appropriate challenge.  I say "yes"!

I started with a green background and distressed it a wee bit with some black ink directly to paper.  Normally I like to make everything even.  Layering my paper directly in the middle, nothing off balanced but I decided to get a little funky and go a wee bit off balanced.  Not that I was off balanced on Monday, LOL!

I knew I wanted to use the clover (mold) that I created with from my "pink ladies" necklace that I created.  I used up all my clover charms and luckily I created a mold so I can duplicate that lovely clover over and over and over again.  When you create a mold with Amazing Crafting Products Mold Putty you will never have to buy another embellishment.

Here are the ribbons I made for the St. Patty's Day Parade and you can read all about how I made these here.

Here is my mold 

and here is my finished resin poured clover painted with two shades of acrylic paint and highlighted with some black ink. I also did NOT pour my clover to it's entirety so that it isn't as bulky as the original.  

 I then glued it to a "lucky" coin I found on the parade route.  

Yes, I will pick up anything interesting on the street.   

I had a few of the horseshoes that I created with Amazing Casting Resin and Alumilite silver metallic powder  on hand and you can see my original post here.  When I am pouring molds I will usually pour a few at a time so that I have embellishments on hand at all times. 

Just a couple of days ago I received my package from Amazing Crafting Products (since I'm on their design team) and recently they have partnered up with MakeLure.com.  

In my box I found 10 shades of these fabulous colors of Alumidust.

I didn't really know how to use them, but I figured I'd give it a try.  I mixed a bit of the lite green with some hairspray (later I found out they already have a binder in them so water will work just fine) and created a mist to spray on my horseshoe.  LOVE the sparkly shine!!!  I added a few green rhinestones and my lucky horseshoe was ready in about 10 minutes from casting to finished product.

I attached everything to my card front after "painting" a bit of the green acrylic paints to my accent piece.  Used some rubons of 7 and miscellaneous bursts.  I even "spilled" some left over resin onto my accent cardstock and highlighted it with some rubons, ink and more of the Alumidust mist I created.  

I had also painted my rhinestone with the acrylic paints and then just before they were completely dry I "wiped" some of the color off.  LOVE it!!! 

What I love so much about this card is that my embellishments were made with the Amazing Crafting Products and are so lightweight.  Plus, you can also make them "less bulky" by not pouring your mold to it's entire depth.

I hope you've enjoyed my card for the SimonSays Monday challenge 

and look forward to seeing you all soon again.  

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As always, have a great day and God Bless.