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DIY Resin Animal Crackers

I’ve been on a little bit of a resin kick lately- I made this arrowhead necklace, I created resin gummy bears, I reviewed the new ReMelt mold, and I was even featured on the Amazing Mold Putty blog.

Needless to say, I’m loving making little resin objects.

After making the resin gummy bears, I started thinking about what other cute foods I could turn make molds from and animal crackers are one of the things that came to mind!

Supplies: Amazing Mold Putty (or other mold making supply, but I LOVE the mold putty), Animal Crackers, Amazing Casting Resin, Popsicle Stick, Resin Dye, Seed Beads, Adhesive, Thumb Tacks.

1. Start by mixing together your mold putty, following the manufacturers instructions. Smoosh your animal crackers down into your mold putty.

Make sure the mold putty is good and squished around the sides of the crackers and let the molds cure for about 30 minutes (or whatever your brand of mold making material requires).

2. Once the molds are cured, remove the crackers.

3. Next you need to mix up some pink resin for frosting. I used a drop of red dye and a drop of white dye, mixing it into the resin.

I didn’t take pictures of the mixing process because casting resin starts curing withing just a few minutes and I have to work fast. Follow the manufacturers directions for mixing resin.

You just want to put a little bit of resin in each mold, not filling it all the way up.

-NOTE- Do not remove your pink frosting from the mold before pouring in the 2nd color of resin. If you break the seal between the pink resin and the mold, the 2nd color and seep under the pink frosting and it will look like this:

4. Once your pink resin has cured, mix up a cream/cracker color of resin and pour it in, filling up the cracker mold.
Let that cure.

5. Pull your crackers out of the molds! If you want, you can glue on seed beads as sprinkles.

As you can kinda tell in the picture, I had put seed beads in my mold before pouring the pink resin. But pink seed beads in pink resin don’t show up well. So I glued on a few more.

6. Flip your resin crackers over and place a drop of E6000 (or other strong glue) on the back side and place a thumb tack on each one, letting them dry.

These look sooooo cute on my bulletin board!

Easy, lightweight, and so many things you could do with them! They’re even gluten free! (Not funny? Okay, sorry/not sorry…)

What would you make with resin animal crackers?

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DIY Resin Arrowhead Necklace

Hey everyone! Happy Friday!

I wanted to let you know that I am up on the Amazing Mold Putty blog with my last post as their featured artist for the month. If you want to read the full tutorial, hop on over there.

For this project I decided to use some arrowheads that I got at a rock shop while I was up in Oklahoma early this month. But this is a resin post, so of course the necklace isn’t made from real arrowheads…

I used Amazing Mold Putty to make a mold of my real arrowheads and then used Amazing Casting Resin in that mold to make resin arrowheads. Then I used those arrowheads to make this necklace.

You can see in the photo below the real arrowheads (on the left) and the resin arrowheads (on the right. I could have made them black, like the real obsidian arrowheads, but I like color…

Hop on over to the Amazing Mold Putty blog for the full tutorial.

If you’re looking for some good quality resin or mold making materials, their products are fantastic!

Have you worked with resin or made your own molds?

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Amazing Resin Inspiration

Hey guys, today is my second post on the Amazing Mold Putty blog this month. If you missed my announcement last week- I’m the Amazing Casting Products featured artist of the month! Woot woot! 😉

I shared the tutorial for making a mold from gummy bears on my blog at the beginning of January. Today is my “inspiration” post on the Amazing Mold Putty blog, so I am sharing them again over there.

If you want to be inspired and see how I made resin gummy bears, hop over to the Amazing Mold Putty blog!

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Featured at Amazing Casting Products

Hey everyone, I have some exciting news! I am the featured artist over at Amazing Casting Products this month!

That basically means that I will have 4 posts over on the Amazing Mold Putty blog this month, starting today- You can check out my intro post here.

Amazing Casting Products is known for a variety of things- casting resin, clear cast, mold putty, etc. I actually reviewed their new Amazing Remelt Mold last week, so if you want to know more about that, click here.

I hope you get a chance to stop by the ACP blog and check out my posts this month!

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Product Review- Amazing Remelt

Today’s product review is the Amazing Remelt mold by Alumilite. I saw this mold in their booth at CHA earlier this month and thought it was really.. Amazing! I chatted with the folks at the Alumilite booth and they decided to send me a mold to review, so here it is! 🙂

I actually reviewed this on the Indie Crafts blog over at Craft Gossip, but I wanted to share it here for you guys as well.

For my first test project using the remelt mold, I chose a few buttons, tiny embroidery scissors and a mini spool. I took the remelt material out of it’s container, cut it up into little squares (It looks a lot like Jello when you do this!) and microwaved for about 15 seconds at a time until it was a liquid.

Amazing Remelt comes in multiple sizes, but I’m using the .625lbs mold for this project.

I put the items I wanted to make a mold of from inside the container that the mold came in and poured the liquid mold over top of them.

It did take quite a while to cool off and harden (I’m not very patient), so don’t get in a hurry. Once it became solid again My buttons and scissors came out nicely!

My “mini” spool was actually a little too tall for my mold so it didn’t turn out right. Oh well.

To try out my new mold, I dusted the inside with a little bit of Alumilite metallic powders and then poured in some Amazing Clear Cast, which also took a while to completely cure. You can see my completed resin buttons and scissors below. They came out quite nicely, I think!

Overall thoughts- I think this mold is fantastic! Personally, I only most molds a few times before I get tired of that shape, so I love that I can just remelt this mold making material and shape it into a new mold whenever I feel like it. It’s completely reusable! If you like doing Resin crafts, or maybe need a chocolate or fondant mold, definitely check out the Remelt! It is…. Amazing!

Thanks, Alumilite, for sending me a free Amazing Remelt mold to review!