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!