Today I am showing you a quicky. On one of my recent shopping trips I came across these fun bottle cap stickers at Tuesday Mornings. I got 3 different books and a few bottle caps for $7. Nice!
This is one of the books.
I also created my own findings
Just peel off the sticker and apply within the bottle cap! Easy peasy!
I attached my findings with some E6000.
I mixed up some Amazing Clear Cast Resin from Amazing Casting Products to pour into the bottle caps covering the image. I mixed the two part Resin in a small cup and let it sit for about 10 minutes to get all the air bubbles out. See how much clearer the 2nd mixture is?
See how nice this gets?
Here are all my finished bottle caps. Now I will be making some necklaces and key chains.
Good day all. I am here again to share a quick and simple pendant. With Halloween fast approaching, I thought I would create a simple pendant using the Amazing Mold Putty, the Amazing Clear Cast Resin, Amazing Casting Resin and of course the brand new Alumilite dyes. I just love, love, love the colors. Purple and green go very well together!
I also used a sharpie to add a bit of doodling to the domino, just because. The skull was cast from one of those Halloween rings and I molded it using the Alumilite Violet Dye. I added some rhinestones in for the skulls eyes. I just love how the colors pick up so well. I still think the purple is my favorite, but I love the neon green with the Amazing Clear Cast Resin. Say goodbye to the traditional orange and black... vibrant PURPLE and LIME are IN!
I had some of the purple resin left over and I never let anything go to waste, so I dripped "drops" onto wax paper and made some tiny circles. I added rhinestones to them for the "dots" of the domino and then I sealed the entire piece with some more of the clear cast resin and viola... a Halloween pendant is born!
Please make sure you hop on over to the Amazing Mold Putty blog to see all of those wonderful things you can make with the Amazing Crafting Products. I'm sure once you get your hands on it you will be hooked forever. Who doesn't like making their own embellishments and the possibilities are endless? I've added a coupon code to the bottom of this post so that you can get your hands of this amazing product but you better hurry because the coupon is only good through September 30th. Until next time, have a great day and God Bless.
I know CHA was in January, but I wanted to show you what I made for the Amazing Mold Putty design team I am on. We were all asked to submit a project for CHA and I was pretty intimidated at first. I wanted to make something that screamed wow... My son's girlfriend had been over for dinner and she always wears the cutest jewelry. She had on a long necklace with a fairly large pendant and that's when it hit me...I could recreate something like that. Hers was a bit heavy and that made my idea even better. I used Amazing Mold Putty, Amazing Casting Resin (liquid to solid in 5 minutes), Alumilite's Silver and Gold Powder, Gold acrylic paint and Silver paint marker to complete this project.
First I made a mold of one of my favorite belt buckles
and a Fleur De Liz button
I casted the belt buckle with the Resin and Silver Metalic Powder
and the Fleur de Lis button with Gold Metalic Powder
I highlighted various spots of the pendant with the
gold metallic paint and highlighted the tops of the
Fleur De Lis with a silver painters pen
I added gold and silver chains to the pendants to create this beautiful necklace
I was pretty happy with the outcome and my son's GF was amazed. I sent my pendant off to CHA and got a lot of positive feedback from it. Even though I couldn't be there, at least a part of me was...LOL
Sakura Hobby Crafts is having a design team call here and although I do not own any 3D crystal lacquer I decided to experiment a bit with something else. You all know me, I will try anything new. I just love to create and be crafty in so many different ways. Although I am currently addicted to my scrapbooking and cardmaking, I've been a jewelry creator since I was a child. My Opa (grandpa) owned a Kiosk (store) in Germany and while I was growing up he allowed me to sell my jewelry creations in his store. I used to make bracelets, necklaces and earrings and hang them up in the window for all his customers to see. People from the neighborhood even asked for special orders. It was a great confidence booster for a kid. I really thought I would grow up to be a jewelry designer. I did design for a short period of time, but life got in the way of that.
This is what I did...
I cut out a heart shape out of white Creative Paperclay and you can find more information on it here.
Then I embedded a key into the paperclay and let it dry a bit.
Then I added the dimensional stuff that I do own and covered the entire piece. I let it run off the sides so that everything would be coated nicely. If you are going to attempt something like this, make sure you have a piece of waxpaper or something that the dimension will not stick to under your piece.
I also added some cranberry alcohol ink to the top of the dimensional and it spread like wildfire. SO COOL!!!
This is what it looks like when it pools...so fun to see. Some spots get darker in areas, but it's fun to experiment.
Then I added just a touch of glitter to the top of the dimensional to give it some glitz.
I let the piece dry overnight and added a jump ring and a chain and you have a very cool charm.
The other thing I like about using paperclay for some of my jewelry is that it is lightweight and doesn't get too heavy. Especially for earrings because they can get heavy on your earlobes and I've even seen some so stretched out it looks as if it hurts to wear big bulky earrings.
So anyway, I hope you like my little tutorial on how to create jewelry with some dimension lacquer and paperclay. I will have to get out and get me some 3d crystal lacquer. This was a lot of fun!!!
Now here are some more pictures of our vacation:
Remember at the end of my last post I had a picture
of this tree? Well I find a tree every year and I take
a night picture, morning picture, night picture, etc
so you can see the differences in weather.
It rained quit a bit last night. We had 6 storms roll
through and the lightning and thunder was awesome.
Great sleeping weather!!!
The youngest, Austyn, caught his first sunny at 7:21 a.m.
I caught my first bass at 7:38 a.m.
My nieces and sister in law crawled out of their tents around 9 a.m.
We had taken the canoe out for a short paddle and caught about
8 sunnies, 5 blue gills, Austyn caught a bass and a Northern.
Yes, I clean fish
Good ol shore lunch mixture and lots of fish.
Hubby cooking the fish
See the rope hanging right in front of Phil? We use
that to hang our food at night up in the tree so that
the bears or other critters don't get into it.
Carl's favorite place. His fishing pole actually broke
so he didn't want to use someone else's pole.
He enjoyed lounging.
Dunk bags. After dinner, you wash your own plates, cups, etc
and rinse them in the lake and put them back in your dunk bag
immediately so it's ready to be used next time.
Kim lounging after dinner of fish, white rice and beans
and some pork n beans. Nummy
There was a family of loons that lived very close to use.
I just love the sounds they make.
Here is a video of them on one of the days getting ready for flight.
Nieces relaxing after dinner.
Carl's ankle hurt a bit, so he sat on shore and fished.
See the beautiful sliver of a moon?
it's about 9:10 p.m. and the mosquitoes will be out soon
