Life isn't about Finding Yourself, it's about Creating Yourself!
Hi there, this month our Design Team got creative with Amazing Casting Products along with products from StencilGirl Products. Make sure to visit every designer's blog to see what fun and amazing projects they created to share with you.
I decided to use these two stencils, they just looked fun and I felt I could combine both by using the Amazing Mold Putty to make a mold of the two stencils. Below you can see the two products I used to get started. Be ready to see lots of photos, this mixed media project involved so many steps and days to complete, but I really hope you like it as much as I do.
If you are not familiar with this product, Amazing Mold Putty is an FDA compliant 2 component silicone mold putty. It's very easy to use, take equal amounts of Parts A and B and mix it by hand until you have one uniform color (yellow), it takes about 20 minutes to cure, but due to climate changes it might take less or more to cure. It will give you a flexible rubber mold that will capture as much detail as your original pieces. This a a great product to make fast molds to use with resin, plaster, clay, wax, chocolate, soap and much more.
Above you see I tried to make one mold of the two stencils, one has very little detail, while the other has quite a lot and my attempt above didn't really give me much detail, the putty cured to fast for me. so I mixed a little bit more of the putty and spread it over the same area, yes the putty will adhere to itself as if it was glued together. On my second attempt I got more detail so I'm now ready to go to the next step, coloring the mold.
In my head I know what I want to try, so I really hope (crossing fingers) this comes out perfect. This is supposed to be the main piece to an empowering poster I want to make for a special young lady that just graduated from college. Is meant to empower, to show her that despite all the turmoil, the mistakes, the hard times, it's possible to accomplish your goals, your dreams with hard work and determination. That if you look hard, you will find "YOU", the strong person within.
Before adding resin to the mold I used a paint brush to add colors to the mold, focusing on the detailed areas only. I love the Alumidust colors, they are pretty and blend easy. So now that my mold is all colored up, lets move on to the final step for this part of the project.
Now that all the coloring is done, it's time to bring out the resin, for this piece I am going to use both types of resin but before adding any resin, I decided it was best to add a border of mold putty to the mold to keep the resin from running off the mold.
Follow the instruction on the box for each resin. To start I mixed equal amounts of the Amazing Clear Cast Resin and let it rest for a few minutes to get rid off the tiny bubbles.
Then I mixed the Amazing Casting Resin and poured it over the right part of the mold first, making sure not to let the resin get to the edge, I didn't want the face stencil to be covered with this resin.
This is going to be a thin covering so I'm hoping that it will cure fast, I don't really need it to cure 100%, but enough so I can easily remove it and it's tacky enough to be placed on my canvas.
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| On the photo above you can see only the right side of the mold has resin, this is the amazing casting resin that will cure in about 20 minutes. |
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| Here you can see the amazing clear cast resin was added to the left side of the mold. This resin will take about 12 - 24 hrs to cure. You can see here how the amazing casting resin is beginning to cure (the white resin). |
Next day came and here is my mold, time to remove my resin piece carefully, the edges are very thin . You can see the clear transparency of this piece, this is what I was going for.
This is the other side of the white resin piece you see above, this is the part that is going to represent the turmoil, the darkness we sometimes have to deal with, so I had to add a bit more color to help bring out more of the pattern on this piece.
Now that my resin piece is done, lets move on to the poster. I try to recycle into everything I do and for this I used a piece of cardboard, I painted it all with acrylic white paint, then added color to it to bring it to life.
I used some of the clear cast resin to decoupaged some papers to the canvas. I use this resin as glue in a lot of my work.
I have to admit I'm beginning to love how this is coming along, it might actually turn out better than I imagined.
Added some crackle to the piece in some areas, I really love this effect, so I try to always use it.
Here is the board, ready with phase one, it needs more work before adding the resin pieces.
Trying to find the right area to place this resin piece.
Adding a lot of texture to the board for dimension.
Using resin pieces I made, like this little resin heart.
Here is the final look, the poster is ready. My resin piece is finally added to the poster. I added a mirror, because when we are dealing with pain, when you feel lost, you don't look at what really matters, the mirror in this piece represents finding yourself, looking at what you've accomplished, at your bright future.
I love how these stencils helped me create this empowerment poster, they were easy to mold, and now it's time to gift this piece. I decided to use the stencils one more time.
I needed to make a simple birthday card, just a couple of color pencils to trace out the stencil and color it in, than a black pen to outline the design inside the card. It's the first time I use stencils this way, it's fun, simple and clean.
The front of the card .... You Got This!!
The inside of the card, on the edge of the page.
I hope you like my project, I had so much fun using stencils in way's I've never used them before, it's fun to play with products, you never know how fun that can be.
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PRODUCTS USED - STENCIL GIRL
Stencil portrait face mystiqueHeart Flower
PRODUCTS USED - AMAZING CASTING PRODUCTS
Amazing Mold Putty
Measuring cups
Mixing sticks
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTS
Acrylic paints
Gesso
Texture paint
Flowers
Beads
Paint brushes
Recycled Cardboard and water bottles
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