Halloween Blog Hop!!

The Amazing Mold Putty and Creative Paperclay design teams are hosting a blog hop!! If you have come here from either of the host blogs, WELCOME!! For my project, I made an art doll. You can click on any of the pictures here to view them larger!
Mr. Skell E. Tonne is, as his mustache would indicate, a French Missūre.

 

His base is a wooden candle stick that a friend gave me. His head, coat collar and top hat are all hand sculpted out of Creative Paperclay. The key and gears on his top hat are made from molds using Amazing Mold Putty and Casting Resin!!

I used the vintage doorplate I created using resin for Amazing Mold Putty's DT as the chest plate for Skell. (tutorial located HERE)

At the base of the candle stick, I added Creative Paperclay, and used the mold I made out of Amazing Mold Putty and Vintage Lace to impress a lace pattern into the clay. (tutorial located HERE)

Base "lace" closeup made with Creative Paperclay

So here's how the blog hop works.
If you came to my blog first, you should go to the Creative Paperclay Blog and start hopping through the Designer's Blogs from there, ending up at the Amazing Mold Putty Blog. The links are below.
If you're in the middle of the hop, click HERE to go to the next blog in line!!

When you're finished visiting the designers and their blogs, leave a comment on the Amazing Mold Putty Blog saying Rachel Whetzel which of the designers created your favorite piece! When you do, you will be entered to win a prize!! There will be three winners picked from the comments, so get to hopping!! Also, the designer with the most votes will win some goodies... (on top of being able to say they were the favorite!)

Disclosure: As a member of Amazing Mold Putty's design team, I receive product at no cost to myself.

Crater Lake

Visited Crater Lake today with Macs' school day. In other news: my hair is getting long!  Also. Testing the Blogger app.

Remembering.

I remember where I was when the news came on over the show I was watching...
I remember wondering about the families and people I never knew that lost their lives and loved ones.
A few years after that day, I found a project online.
Project 2996
And I signed up.
In honor of the fathers, sons, brothers, uncles, nephews, mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts and grandmothers whose faces and names suddenly became numbers on a list, I blog.
Every year, I remember. I remove that number and remember Jerry Devito.

May he never return to just being a part of the list.

Halloween and Lace

How do card making, Amazing Mold Putty and Creative Paperclay fit together? GO HERE TO FIND OUT!
As posted on the AMP blog:
"I love Vintage lace.
I love Amazing Mold Putty.
I love Creative Paperclay.
So this month, I decided to create something using those three things.
I made a texture plate for two projects. One of them is a Halloween card I made! To start, I mixed equal parts A and B Amazing Mold Putty and rolled it out into a uniformly thin piece. Then I pressed some of my favorite vintage lace into it. I left the lace in the putty until it was cured. 

 

Once the mold was set, I removed the lace. Be sure you use lace you don't plan to use again, because small bits of the mold remain in the lace when you pull it out of a set mold.

Once my mold was ready, rolled Creative Paperclay onto butcher paper very thinly.

By putting the clay onto butcher paper, I can roll it much thinner than I could simply rolling it onto a counter. Then I can let the clay dry on the paper, and peel it off once the clay is dry. Once I had it rolled out, pressed my texture plate into the clay, and then used a cup to "cut" the clay into a circle.

Once that was dry, I painted the circle in the color I wanted my "lace" to be. I let that coat dry. Then I brought out the texture of the piece using a darker stain, and wiping that off of the piece, leaving the stain in the crevices of the texture and bringing out the lace effect.

Here's the final project!! Happy Halloween mail!! The paperclay piece is thin enough to go through the mail, and light enough to keep mailing costs low!!

As I mentioned, I have created two projects using the texture plate I made to show you here!! The other project will be ready in time for the Paperclay and Mold Putty Design teams blog hop coming up Sept. 29th!! I also put my new DOORPLATE to use!!
Be sure to share any projects you make using ideas like this on the Amazing Mold Putty® Facebook Page!!

This is my last post for the team here!! I have had such an Amazing time!! (C'mon... you can't possible think I'd pass up THAT chance to use the pun...) I can't say enough about Amazing Mold Putty. It has honestly become part of my art arsenal now. I can't imagine creating without it anymore. I hope you stay in touch with me at "my house"!! I have some new creative endeavors coming up... teaching on line art and such. "


Disclosure: As a member of Amazing Mold Putty's design team, I receive product at no cost to myself.