Good Sunday Morning!!! Welcome to week two of the current Anything But a Card Challenge... Challenge Number 12 - "SHARE the LOVE". Are you ready to CREATE and play along? I'm here to share a LOVELY project... that's sure to start a creative spark!
REMEMBER this challenge blog is ANYTHING and EVERYTHING... except for Cards. ATC's aren't greeting cards...so please link up your ATC's, too!!!
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But a Card Challenge number 12 - "SHARE the LOVE". You Can Make Anything Your "HEART" Desires with Amazing Mold Putty!!! Today I am sharing my love for these AMAZING products and an original sbartist creation using Amazing Crafting Products by Alumilite Corp.
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. 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. Anything your "HEART DESIRES!" The possibilities are endless.
This "DEVILISH" Heart is an original piece of art that I created from a sketch, and brought to life with polymer clay. For several altered arts projects I currently have in the works of a similar theme, I made a mold of my original in Amazing Mold Putty and then cast it in a colored mixture of Amazing Casting Resin accented with an alcohol ink patina.
I'm participating in an altered book round robin project that is "Fairie" themed. This piece I'm creating is just part of the whole devilish fairy I have dreamt up. It all began with a sketch...
I'm participating in an altered book round robin project that is "Fairie" themed. This piece I'm creating is just part of the whole devilish fairy I have dreamt up. 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.
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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 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 heart piece to accept and dangle a beaded wire tail.
Perfectly purple "Devilish Heart".
I'm loving this piece so much...I think I'm going to mount it to a necklace or a pinback. For my altered book project - I almost completely forgot! 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!!
Happy Creating!!!
Are you looking for creative playtime and inspiration on Saturdays? NEXT Saturday I will be playing with AMAZING MOLD PUTTY and AMAZING CASTING RESIN. Please join me live at 4:00pm EST {1pm PST} in the Daylight Musings room at the Saturday Crafts Fair on Linqto! I am demonstrating there every Saturday where I share my projects, how-to's, tips, and more. The weekly event starts at 2pm EST with three hours of fun - I hope to see your there. : ) Sb
Wow- this is so cool! I love it! The purple color really looks neat and the texture adds so much too! Great project!
ReplyDeleteI Love Molding Putty and Polymer clay they are my specialties. Yet have never used them with wire and beads and I have of have alot of also. thanks for the great Idea.
ReplyDeletegreat lines and style of your heart, I love the horns. Tutorial is fab as well.
ReplyDeleteThat is devilishly clever Susan!
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