How to Halloween Necklace with Amazing Casting

The leafs are changing colors here and have started to fall.  It is my favorite time of year.  Soon Halloween will be upon us, and it is one of my most favorite holidays!  Every year we decorate with lots of pumpkins around the house inside and out.  For this year I will have a Pumpkin Necklace to wear.

For October Amazing Casting Products by Alumilite Corporation challenged the makers of the Designer Crafts Connection to create some "Spooktacular" jewelry!

We were given Amazing Clear Cast Resin to mark the NEW release of the 8oz size, AND the Alumilite Dye (mine in Orange) and Alumidust colorants (mine in Pewter and Pearl). Information about these products is available through these links:

http://www.moldputty.com/store/p/1023-Amazing-Clear-Cast.aspx http://www.moldputty.com/store/p/1082-AlumiAlumidust-clone.aspx http://www.moldputty.com/store/p/1012-Alumilite-Dye.aspx

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How I made the Pumpkin Necklace:

1.  Using equal amounts of Tub A with Tub B of molding Putty, and kneading for a few minutes until the two colors become one.

2.  Mold around a pumpkin embellishment.  Let mold set.

3.  Mix equal amounts of the two liquids from Amazing Casting. I added a couple of drops of Orange Dye.  Pour Resin into the mold and let set overnight.  Remove new Resin Pumpkin from Mold.

4. Glue some gems for the eyes and nose.  Add some Pewter Alumidust to define the Pumpkin's indentations.

5. Using a 1" circle paper punch make a circle from cardstock, cover it with some Washi paper.  Adhere into a Bottle cap pendant.  Glue pumpkin in a cap.  Add some bright glue to set everything.  Attach to a chain.  Glue on a small ribbon bow.

                                                         Happy Halloween!

But, first Happy Hopping to the other Designers' Blogs to see their "Spooktacular"  projects.

Ann Strecko Koeman (That's me!)

Erin Reed

Steph Ackerman

Susie Bentz

Michelle Frae Cummings

Tracy Alden

Isabel Villarreal
Lyn Gill
Kristie Taylor
Candy Rosenberg
Maria Soto
Susan M Brown
Brenda Burfeind
Cat Kerr

Amazing Casting Products Designer Blog Hop

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Be Amazed by what the Designers of the Designer Crafts Connection have scavenged to mold and transform! (http://designercraftsconnection.blogspot.ca)
Today, I am sharing my own adventures with Amazing Casting Products (www.moldputty.com).

I scavenged through my studio and found a lot of objects and bits of ephemera to make molds off and to alter.  I love the idea of making more of some of the special items I have collected over the years and always find too precious to use.  Now I can make multiples of these loved pieces in my Mixed Media Art.  Here is one of the projects I completed just in time for Halloween.

To begin I used Amazing Mold Putty to make molds of a selection of items I gathered from my studio.  Some of my favorite items I wanted to replicate include vintage buttons I have collected over the years, an angel ornament from years ago, an old brass drawer handle, old jewelry passed down to me, a light bulb, and the cutest little owl button I already had in my stash.

To make molds using Amazing Mold Putty is so easy and fun.  If you go this site you can view a video that explains so much better than I can:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEs...

In addition to collecting various precious objects to mold, I also collected some pieces of ephemera and even a funky little branch that I wanted to try using the Amazing Resin on. (www.moldputty.com)

In the tray in the photo above you can see the pieces, I coated with the Amazing Clear Cast Resin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdk...) And the objects I made with the Amazing Mold Putty AND the Amazing Resin.  Note that I even colored some of the resin with pigment powders to make the colored pieces, including the owl.

I gathered some craft supplies I already had in my stash to make the project shown at the beginning.

To adhere the papers to the wood plaque and also to adhere the resin pieces I used Gel Mat Medium.

Before any gluing was done I used a file to smooth any uneven edges.

I used small scissors to trim off bits of resin.  To make this guy/gal I added a pinch of iridescent blue pigment powder into the resin during the stirring stage.  I poured just a bit of resin into the mold, and I added two tiny beads for his eyes before I completely filled the mold with the resin.

Here is the project all glued down waiting for a tree to hold the branch. LOL!

To complete the piece I used some vellum with a sticky back, ink, stamps, and glitter to make the speech bubble.

Here are the supplies I used to make Hooty!

Amazing Mold Putty

Amazing Clear Cast Resin 

From:

Amazing Casting Products blog: http://amazingmoldputty.blogspot.com

Other supplies: Wood plaque (Dollar Tree)

Scrapbook papers (from my stash)

Jute trim (Dollarama)

Ribbon (my stash)

Gel Mat Medium (Omer DeSerres)

Double sided tape (my stash)

Ink pad (Ranger)

Alphabet Stamps (Various in my stash)

Glitter glue (My stash)

Pigment powders (ColourArte)

Beads (my stash)

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