Toasting the New Year's Party with a Wine Themed set of Earrings and new design team!

                                

Good day friends and Happy New Year! I am so excited to tell you about a new design team I am on!  YEAH!

I've been on the design team over at Get Creative Challenge and am having a wonderful time coloring digi images.  Angie is also running the Simply Create Too blog and I am one of the newest members over there now also.  I'm really excited about designing with these fabulous ladies because I get to make whatever I want to as long as I follow the theme!  YEAH!

This month's theme is PARTY TIME challenge #100 and thus I created some wonderful earrings that I wore on New Year's Eve.  

As some of you know I work in a wine store and I get asked over and over if we have any jewelry with a Wine motif. My boss just isn't into stuff like that – so I decided I wanted a pair of earrings to wear for New Years Eve and I wanted them to have a wine motif.

So let's get started!

I started out by cutting a wine bottle and glass shape {welded with my Cricut} out of some cereal boxes! I love to upcycle. I cut the pieces 14 times because I wasn't sure how thick I wanted the glued together pieces to be.

Here are my Cricut cuts and I used 5 of them to get the desired thickness.

Then I mixed up a batch of the Amazing Mold Putty – you can view mixing preparations HERE. I sprayed some UMR Mold Release onto the mold putty before pressing the chipboard into it because I did not want the chipboard to stick to it.

The mold came out beautifully!

Next I brushed some Lt. Green Alumidust where the bottle would be and left an area open where I think the glasses would be. I then mixed up some Amazing Clear Cast Resin {and you can watch a video tutorial HERE} because I wanted the "glasses" to be see through.

So far so good... I then took a silver paint pen and highlighted around the bottle, put a stopper on the top and edged around the wine glass area.

I added some seed beads with E6000® and used

a red paint pen to add some color to the bottle.

Attached some jewelry findings with E6000® 

and I was ready for New Years Eve!

I absolutely love my new earrings created just in time for the Party!
If you are going to CHA you might even see my cuts being used!

Now I hope you've enjoyed my post and my first project for Simply Create Too!

Make sure you follow the theme and join in some fun over there.

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.  

Head over to ACP to grab your own mold putty and create any embellishment for a fraction of the cost; plus, right now they are offering a 20% off coupon.  

Use this COUPON to shop at the Amazing Mold Putty

website HERE and receive 20% OFF your purchase.

Please use coupon code " shamrock " {no quotations}.

Coupon expires March 31, 2014.

As always, have a great day and God Bless.