Great News!!! I'm still an AMPrincess of Amazing Mold Putty!!!

Today the new Design Team has been announced for Amazing Mold Putty!!!

The new team will be showing off their projects starting on April 1st. Please stop by each of their blogs and give them a big welcome. 

I'm so excited to be selected for a second term on this team and I have so many great things to share!

Terri Sproul

Team Leader

Michelle Cummings

Molly Jo Walsh

Kelly Donvan

Barbara Moore

DeeDee Calton

Amanda Marks

Susan Brown

{Yippee...it's me!!!}

Edie Cournoyer

Rachel Whetzel

Lee Brehon 

Happy Crafting! I hope you have a great weekend...

I'm off on yet another Amazing Mold Putty adventure...Sb

Fantastic FRIDAY!!

This is a test to see if you are paying attention! ARE YOU READY for a FANTASTIC FRIDAY???

I certainly am! So let's do this thing....have a great day!!!

: ) Sb

"WHO" Made Another Christmas Card??? Unscripted Sketches #151 Reveal

I have been creating Christmas cards for the past thirteen weeks for my projects for the Unscripted Sketches Design Team. Here is my creation for this week - Sketch-It Saturday with Unscripted Sketches #151! This Grinch Paper pack is just so much fun and it's devilishly delightful to play with it. 

Did you hear?? Unscripted Sketches has opened a Design Team Call - CLICK HERE for info.

This week's sketch has a grid with four rectangles. So I tipped the sketch on end and placed these cute die cut framed characters in a cluster popped up on different levels with 3-D pop dots. This background is a piece of Grinch patterned paper scrap. I used some Miracle Tape to adhere some eyelet lace for the border. I wrapped edges around the patterned paper before adhering to a green card base for nice, clean edges. Are you keeping Count??? This is card number 13! 

What is Sketch it Saturdays at Unscripted Sketches? Every Saturday morning a new sketch is posted for the week. Flip the sketch, rotate it… create a card, a scrapbook page, a wall hanging, digital, paper, fabric, paint, anything your imagination comes up with! There is no right or wrong way, as long as you are using the Unscripted sketch as the inspiration for your creation! And everyone is invited to join in the fun...and post your creation on their page for all the world to see!

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This weekend is the BIG ODD DUCK BAZAAR Indie Craft Show. If you are in Ft. Lauderdale Area...please come check it out. : ) Sb

MY "MESSY WORK TABLE" A Photo Collaboration

I hereby declare and post "MY MESSY WORK TABLE". I am not afraid nor ashamed to share this with the world. I have so many works in progress in preparation for the largest Indie Craft Show of the Year, "The Odd Duck Bazaar" on March 31st - so this has been my creative work in progress lately. I guess when I finally complete all these projects and I can see through the glass top of my table, I will be free to move on to a new artistic adventure! Sb

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Festive Friday #6 Combined with a Creation Using Unscripted Sketches #150

Welcome to the sixth installment of Terri Sproul's 2012 Festive Friday Bloghop! Can you believe March is almost over already??? You should have arrived here from Amanda's Page. To get back to the beginning of the bloghop CLICK HERE.

I have been creating Christmas cards for the past twelve weeks for my projects for the Unscripted Sketches Design Team. Here is my creation for this week - Sketch-It Saturday with Unscripted Sketches #150! I'm still in full GRINCH mode because this Grinch Paper pack is just so much fun - I can't put it down! This week's sketch also had an additional piggyback challenge of using "SOMETHING GREEN" - this was so easy since I'm daydreaming in "WHO-ville".

All the Who's are singing down in Who-ville! This card came together very easily with a festive green card base, a scrap of tree patterned paper and several punched out borders and shapes from my "Grinch" 12x12 paper crafting kit. Using some Miracle Tape and some 3-D pop dots...a super cute "Merry Christmas" greeting has come to life. If you are keeping count with me...this is card number 12! 

What is Sketch it Saturdays at Unscripted Sketches? Every Saturday morning a new sketch is posted for the week. Flip the sketch, rotate it… create a card, a scrapbook page, a wall hanging, digital, paper, fabric, paint, anything your imagination comes up with! There is no right or wrong way, as long as you are using the Unscripted sketch as the inspiration for your creation! And everyone is invited to join in the fun...and post your creation on their page for all the world to see!

I have this one last crafty weekend ahead in preparation for the Odd Duck Craft Bazaar on March 31st. Tomorrow night I will having a booth at the Midnight Handikraft Market at the  Green Room Night Club in Fort Lauderdale. This is always fun...and I'll be debuting my "Devilish Heart" resin pieces. Have a great weekend!  : ) Sb

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The next stop on the Festive Friday Bloghop

is Laura at Scrappin' Daphne - CLICK HERE.

Making Image Transfers: A Tutorial using Sakura Crystal Lacquer

YES!!!

YOU CAN YOU MAKE AN IMAGE TRANSFER

using CRYSTAL LACQUER!!!

Today I have step-by-step tutorial over at the Sakura Hobby Craft Design Blog on how to make an image transfer using Sakura Hobby Crafts Crystal Lacquer!

 I learned to paint at a very young age...my first paint being Chocolate Cake!

Completed tag using Crystal Lacquer image transfer,

painted papers using Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul Mixers,

stamped images and Caran D'Ache Water Crayons.

I hope you give this technique a try. Also, while you are there, browse around through the projects from the other Sakura Hobby Craft Design Team members for some great tips and ideas! See you next month with my next Sakura Hobby Craft creation on April 3rd, 2012.

Have a wonderful Wednesday!  Sb : )

Some Great NEWS from UNSCRIPTED SKETCHES and a Christmas Card...too

NEW DESIGNERS WANTED for the UNSCRIPTED SKETCHES DESIGN TEAM! All invited to apply for this fantastic design team!

Unscripted Sketches is looking for new designers! Requirements are high quality work, a personal blog and desire to be part of the best DT on the web! Here is a brief description of what it would involve. We’re a low-key team and are very flexible.

Unscripted is a weekly sketch blog, with a theme of “Sketch it Saturday”. To keep with the theme of being an ‘Unscripted Artist’ we hope that the Unscripted Designers will shake up the weekly sketch and go outside the box as often as they can. Flip the sketch around, add paint, mixed media, ephemera etc. Not in the mood to create your usual? Want to create an altered item, wall art, a mini album, a scrapbook page instead? Great! The more variety and the more unscripted the better!

We like to have a wide variety of talent, so if you’ve applied before, please apply again! We’re not always looking for the same thing each time we have a call.

 CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE DETAILS!!!

All are invited to apply - I'm hoping you all will!

Playing a little catchup here with posts. Ta-da!!! The eleventh Christmas Card! I don't know how I missed sharing this one with you. This "Merry Grinchma" special is using Unscripted Sketches #149. Please drop by this Friday for my the debut of my project using sketch #150 on Festive Friday : )

What is Sketch it Saturdays at Unscripted Sketches? Every Saturday morning a new sketch is posted for the week. Flip the sketch, rotate it… create a card, a scrapbook page, a wall hanging, digital, paper, fabric, paint, anything your imagination comes up with! There is no right or wrong way, as long as you are using the Unscripted sketch as the inspiration for your creation! And everyone is invited to join in the fun...and post your creation on their page for all the world to see!

Only two weeks to go until Odd Duck Craft Bazaar at the end of the month and I am in full creative panic mode since I have so much stuff to create and finish. Happy Tuesday! : ) Sb

It's so AMAZING!! I Molded My Own "Devilish" Heart

I have always enjoyed creating my own original artwork. And recently, I have been working on making my own pieces for use in altered art and jewelry. Today's project I'm sharing is one of these. This "DEVILISH" Heart is an original piece of art that I created from a sketch, and brought to life with polymer clay. For multiple altered arts projects I have in the works of a similar theme, I made a mold of the original in Amazing Mold Putty and then cast it in a colored mixture of Amazing Casting Resin accented with an alcohol ink patina. 

I have to tell you these two products are truly "AMAZING" for molding and casting anything from household items, to vintage jewelry to your own original artwork. The possibilities are endless!

This is a piece that I will be using in an altered book round robin project that is "Fairie" themed. This is just part of the whole fairy I am creating. It all began with a sketch...

To create this piece I made a polymer clay original. As I was kneading the polymer clay to soften and condition it, I decided to think about future use of this heart. I decided I wanted it with and without the devilish horns. So I actually created two mold putty castings of this heart art. One with just heart as it is  pictured below. I cast the plain heart and when mold curing was completed, I went back to the original piece and added more polymer clay for the devilish horns. I baked again to harden/cure polymer. Then I mixed up a second batch of Amazing Mold Putty to make a second mold putty casting of one a heart with the devilish horns. So now I have two sets of molds of my original work to use for my every creative desire. I have only photographed one set for the how-to below.

Please see accompanying image number to go along with written instruction/description.

Photo #1: I began with a conditioned ball of polymer clay. Photo #2: I flattened out and shaped the polymer clay right on top of my sketch so that I can match it up to the shape. Photo #3: Completed sculpture after much adjusting and sculpting to get my heart just right. Photo #4: Before heating to cure polymer in my toaster oven, I added some texture detailing. I made a hammered metal texture with a series of little dents made with the back end of a plastic knife. This worked wonders on masking all of my finger prints and fingernail nicks. Photo #5: Completed cured hearts - large and small ready for casting molds using Amazing Mold Putty.

Now for the FUN to BEGIN! I got out my Amazing Mold Putty!

This next series of images are describing preparation of Amazing Mold Putty,

Amazing Casting Resin, mixing of each and curing.

Photo #6: Begin by taking equal parts of Amazing Mold Putty parts "A" and "B". Photo #7: Gently mix together both parts, working quickly so that the colors are evenly mixed together with no striping. Photo #8: Place the mixed Amazing Mold Putty around the item starting gently pressing it around the item and around the sides. You have about a 5 minute open time to work with shaping before it begins to cure/harden. For larger pieces, you can build up the mold casting by working in sections. If you would like to see a more in depth how-to of mixing Amazing Mold Putty please click here. Photo #9: Before mixing up Amazing Casting Resin, I painted the inside of each mold with a mixture of Wild Plum and Silver Mixative Alcohol Inks. Photo #10: Following directions on packaging, I mixed equal parts of "A" and "B" of Amazing Casting Resin and also added some Purple Shimmer Terri Sproul Mixers pigment to add coloring. The resin is clear at first and when cured is completely opaque. This Amazing Casting Resing cures in about 10 minutes so you have to mix it up and pour it quickly. Photo #11: These are my molds with the poured resin as the curing process reaches the flash point where it changes from clear to an opaque hardened plastic.

After about 10 minutes I removed my heart pieces from the molds. They had a beautiful sparkly purple color and patina from the alcohol ink I applied to the mold. I touched up the alcohol ink colored patina and rubbed on, then immediately buffed off some black ink to bring out some of the details. Then I hammered the word "DEVILISH" into the casted resin piece with metal stamp letters. To bring out the detail, I rubbed some black ink over, then rubbed away the excess. WOW - this is turning out so much better than I expected!!!

To finish off I drilled a small hole with my dremel-like rotary tool in the bottom of the large and in the top of the small piece to accept and dangle a beaded wire tail.

I hope you like my perfectly purple "Devilish Heart".

I'm loving this piece so much...I think I'm going to mount it to a necklace to wear at my upcoming craft show. For my altered book project I guess I will be needing another one. Guess what??? I can make another one real quick and easy...because I have a mold of it! You just gotta love this stuff!!

I hope this excites you to go and create something...and maybe cast something, too! If you would like to see more great tips, techniques and creations using Amazing Mold Putty, please visit the Amazing Mold Putty Blog {CLICK HERE}.

Happy Crafting : )

Festive Friday #5 Debuting my Tenth Christmas Card Using Unscripted Sketches #148

Welcome to the fifth installment of Terri Sproul's 2012 Festive Friday Bloghop! You should have arrived here from Amanda's Page. To get back to the beginning of the bloghop CLICK HERE.

As you may know {thanks to all my loyal followers}, I have been creating Christmas cards for the past ten weeks for the Unscripted Sketches Design Team. Well, as it happens, this is my creation for this week - Sketch-It Saturday with Unscripted Sketches #148! I just hope you all laugh out loud - I know I certainly did! I guess this is what my muse is secretly telling me about these Christmas cards...she's a GRINCH!

This card came together very easily with patterened paper and punched out dies cut sheet from a "Grinch" 12x12 paper crafting kit, some Miracle Tape, grosgrain ribbon twisted thorugh each ornament and 3-D pop dots. I just love this card...I can hear the Who's singing down in Who-ville!

What is Sketch it Saturdays at Unscripted Sketches? Every Saturday morning a new sketch is posted for the week. Flip the sketch, rotate it… create a card, a scrapbook page, a wall hanging, digital, paper, fabric, paint, anything your imagination comes up with! There is no right or wrong way, as long as you are using the Unscripted sketch as the inspiration for your creation! And everyone is invited to join in the fun...and post your creation on their page for all the world to see!

I have a busy weekend ahead in preparation for the Odd Duck Craft Bazaar at the end of the month and Saturday night I will be painting live at the Green Room Night Club in Fort Lauderdale - WOW...I haven't painted in ages...I'm so excited : ) Sb

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The next stop on the Festive Friday Bloghop

is Laura at Scrappin' Daphne - CLICK HERE.