Challenge 26 at Artful Times

Happy Easter to you all and I hope you are seeing the same sunshine I am seeing, though I wouldn't say it was warm

We have a challenge with a twist for you over the next fortnight, so what's the challenge. Make some charms  out of any medium of your choice, what's the twist, well if you would like to swap what you have made just e-mail me for details

Keeping with the Easter theme I have made some wire nests yes I know I have a real thing for wire going on at the moment lol and some dominoes some of which have AWOL

The domino has  been coated with ice resin the glossy paper (I find the glossy paper works best with the ice resin)  has been stamped with distress ink and then over stamped with brilliance inks.

 

Neet and I look forward to having you play along with us over at ArtfulTimes

Challenge 18 Artfulful Times

Woo-hoo it's anything goes at Artful Times , so a fab excuse to make something something useful for yourself or a present for a friend of just try out something different.
So taking inspiration for the Craft stamper I stuck some die cut shapes to a block of wood and covered with crumpled tissue paper and built up the colours of acrylic paint . The flowers are made from a scalloped border punch. A domino has had an image collaged onto it and and given the resin treatment

 

Hope you will join in the fun :)

 

I'm also entering this to the following challenges

Craftroom Challenge    Punches and die cuts

The Artistic Stamper      Anything goes

Happy Daze            Brighten up the month ( ice resin)

 

Resins to be cheerful

Ok so it a bad pun but love the song  ( remember Ian Dury and the Blockheads)  and I have been happily playing with resin mostly trial and error with the help of some you tube videos mostly American where they like to make cute things agghhhh

 Dhu I did realise this photo was so out of focus. In some of the videos they used Chocolate mould with and without a realising agent (what ever that is no one ever said !) well I can tell you they stuck and I had a devil of a job getting them out and ended up recking the moulds but all is not lost because I like the heart shape so much I made my own mould :) but because the the finish of then are dull when you remove the resin it has a dull surface.These are still to be finished

 

 

The circle is UTEE topped with the resin and the cabochon my biggest failure I'd experimented colouring the resin with Pan Pastels but the result was far to opaque so used the rest in the leaf mould and it took ages to cure, the lady which looks very pretty  also didn't work to well  it's a bamboo tile which has rounded edges so one drip too many and it was straight over the edge  and made a mess might try that one again some time

 

Here I tryed adding different things , a stamped image sealed front and back with mod poge before being  stuck in and adding the resin, the pendent has pearl powders and bizantia looks nice ing the flesh, then 2 bottle tops a heart and a plastic type fabic bow that one took longer to cure as well.

 

A few of the finished and nearly finished items .

So far my favourite for colouring the resin is  perfect pearls or adding torn tissue coloured with inks but I do seem to get more bubbles when I  do that .

Sorry  I am rambling a bit so here's my finding and please feel free to email me if you want to know more I might have the answer lol



1. It takes long to cure than you think
2. Before it is fully cure you can take it out of the mould a manipulate the shape ( gonna try that with some wings when I get a mould)
3. Glossy mould equal glossy finish
4. Something lose there colour eg holographic foil and some gems
5.  You can use blister packaging but only once (unless you know what this mysterious releasing spray is)
6. Al way seal paper unless you want it to go translucent
7. BE PATIENT

Now for my finale and favourite piece which I'd like to enter into the Happy Days Challenge Steampunkery