Adding Non Crafting Products for Pendant making

Good Morning friends

Today I want to show you a simple way to embellish a pendant after creating it with the Amazing Mold Rubber and Amazing Casting Products.

I started out with this pendant I had received a while back.  I recreated it with my Amazing Mold Rubber and you can see HERE how you mix that up.  I also used my Amazing Casting Resin with the Flo Green Dye to create the pendant and HERE are the instructions for mixing that up.

I purchased these fingernail decals at my Dollar Tree for crafting.  I just loved the design and knew I could use them for some sort of crafting project.  2 full sheets for a dollar, oh yeah!  I created a template and cut out the decal and placed it inside the middle of the pendant.

I also wanted to add some bling to the pendant.  I pop dotted a few silver rhinestones to some vinyl backing and colored them with a black sharpie.  I glued them to the front of the pendant with some E6000.

I knew I needed a finding for the back of the pendant, but didn't have any on hand.  

I did however have these beauties and with some pliers ... 

I was able to straighten and flatten them.

Using some E6000 I glued the finding to the back of the pendant.

I also added some Amazing Clear Cast resin to the inside of the pendant keeping the

 nail decal in place and here you have an awesome pendant.

I hope you enjoyed my pendant today.  I love comments, so please let me know what you think and do tell me what non crafting product you use in your crafts.

As always, have a great day and God Bless!

Oil Pastels to coloring Resin

Good morning friends,

If you were here yesterday looking for the second post to my Frog Dog Studio post from a week ago I apologize.  I know I had said the 2nd of June but in my head I had the 3rd in mind.  SORRY!  But I'm here today to with you another fun project using Frog Dog Studio's May kit.  LOVE IT!

here is the kit, now again, like I had stated in the previous post I am not a painter, drawer so I wasn't sure what I would do with the oil pastels that come with this kit.  But if you know me, I need to experiment like always and this is what I created.

and this

Now I am sure you want to know how I did this?  

Well be aware this is a heavy picture post.

Let's start with the leaf...

I created a mold using my Amazing Mold Putty.  You can go here to see how a mold is made. 

I then mixed up my Amazing Casting Resin with some Alumilite Black dye and poured my mold. 

and here is my leaf ready to be played with. 

I pulled out the Oil Pastels that came with the kit 

and colored over my leaf.  Not being careful at all and just coloring 

here and there mixing both the yellow and red randomly. 

Then the magic begins...I heat set the oil pastels...they melt and intertwine beautifully 

Look at that...it's AMAZING!  I think I will turn this into a broach for fall.

Now let's see how I created my necklace...

I started with a mold of an old lock and only poured the main part with my Amazing Casting Resin and black alumilite dye.  I did have to cut a bit away as I only wanted the ROUND part.  I just used my exacto knife to trim around the edges.

I started out with the same concept of coloring certain areas with the oil pastels and heat set 

them also, but this time I chiseled off some of the green oil pastels and

 flaked them here and there onto the piece...and heat set. 

then I also colored a matching key with the oil pastels and heat set. 

and here it is... 

Please tell me what you think as I just love experimenting and when it works I'm on cloud nine.  

This has got to be one of my favorite experiments right now.  

I did plan on sealing these pieces with Amazing Clear Cast Resin 

to make them all shiny but I ran out of time to show you here.  

Until next time, have a great day and God Bless.

Purple and Lime the new Black and Orange

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 have an existing domino mold in Amazing Mold Putty from my Patriotic 4th of July pin I made {CLICK HERE to jump to this project}. My domino mold has come in handy for this festive jewelry project, too! The domino was made using the Amazing Clear Cast Resin with the Fluorescent {Flo} Green Dye.

I love the neon effect!

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.

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CHA

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

Craft It Forward Gift received

Good morning friends

Remember I told you about the Craft it Forward project I am participating in?  If not, go here and check it out, I am still looking for 3 people to sign up.

Well, Audrey over at Cute and Some was to craft it forward to me and this is what I got:

She knows how much I love jewelry, so so made me a 

Pin/Pendant and a notebook.

She added a leather cord to wear it as a necklace

or also a pin backing.  LOVE IT

Does this look familiar?

She took my signature off of my blog and 

copied it off 3 times and popdotted it in layers.

Then she took stickles and highlighted around it.

What a fabulous idea!!!

LOVE IT

Look at all the bling, she also knows me way too well on this.

She did a great job and I am so thrilled with both my gifts.

THANK YOU AUDREY!!!

Here is the notebook opened.  It's so cute I don't want to use it.

Now, if you'd like a gift from me, please add a comment under the original post here and I will get it out to you as soon as possible.  Thanks so much for joining me today.

Design Team Entry for Sakura and Day 2 of BWCA

Good day friends,

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

so this is my good night picture.

See you in the morning.