Many of you know I love molding objects, giving discarded figurines, dolls and items a new life, a facelift into the modern age, the way I see them to be. So you can imagine the joy and excitement I felt when I saw Clearsnap's Magic Stamp Moldable Foam Stamp Set, just heat and press a texture or object, well the possibilities are endless, make your own stamps, textures or small molds, perfect for any project from scrapbooking to assemblage and jewelry, I'm in pure heaven.
Today I'm going to show you how to make a deep impression mold, which requires longer heating and gives you a thicker mold. I'll then use one of my molded creations in an up-cycled atc project using left over scrapbook paper, velvet scraps, a parasol cocktail umbrella and clearsnap inks.
Materials for Molding
-Magic
Stamp Moldable Foam Stamp Set, Clearsnap
-Figurine to mold
-Air dry clay
-Heat gun
Materials
for Up-cycled ATC
-Chipboard
sized 3 ½ by 2 ½ inches
-Scrapbook paper (scraps are perfect for ATCs)
-Vintage image, Lisa Kettell Designs Storybook Collage CD
-Velvet scraps
-Parasol cocktail umbrella
-Floral Wire
-Mixed media ink, honey, schoolhouse red, vintage, peridot, Clearsnap
-Fluid chalk ink pad, ice jade, Clearsnap
-German glass glitter
-Glue: tacky glue, glue stick, hot glue
-Tools: scissors, hot glue gun, thin paint brush
-Other: millinery, floral wire
Directions for Deep Impression Molding
1. Select an object to mold and a piece of magic stamp
moldable foam.
2. Turn on heat gun and begin rotating the heat from the gun
all over the magic stamp moldable foam, making sure you heat all sides of the
foam where you will be pressing your object to mold. Heat the foam about 2
minutes. 
3. Quickly press your object into the heated magic stamp
moldable foam and hold for 25 seconds, release and you will have a deep
impression mold.
4. Next press air dry clay or clay of choice into the mold,
let dry, usually air dry clays take 24 hours to dry and cure.
5. Once dry paint your piece using mixed media
ink pads.
Directions for Up-cycled ATC
1. Place a piece of scrapbook paper onto the cut 3 ½ by 2 ½
piece of chipboard, adhere in place with a glue stick.
2. Layer a vintage image onto chipboard, adhere in place
with a glue stick, cut out, set aside.
3. Begin antiquing your scrapbook lined chipboard ATC using
honey and vintage mixed media ink pads, rubbing into place using your fingers,
dip paint brush into water and swirl around the applied inks to lighten the
ink, next using schoolhouse mixed media ink, edge up the sides of the scrapbook
lined chipboard ATC.
4. Next layer the chipboard backed vintage image onto the
center of the scrapbook lined chipboard ATC using tacky glue.
5. Now embellish your vintage image with a parasol cocktail
umbrella, detach the parasol part from the wood base, then cut the parasol part
in half with scissors, fold in half and attach to the vintage image using hot
glue.
6. Attach a hat to the top of the vintage image by cutting a
triangle shape from velvet scraps, hot glue onto head of the vintage image,
distress the velvet triangle shape with honey mixed media ink.
7. Cut min triangle shapes from various pieces of scrapbook
paper to form a mini garland, glue to a strip of floral wire, then position
this onto the ATC, glue in place with hot glue.
8. Attach a molded 3-D owl shape to the left of the vintage
image, glue in place with tacky glue, let dry. Now color in your 3-D owl shape
with peridot and vintage mixed media ink pad colors. Add some small features
using some white and black paint.
9. Finish decorating your ATC with the rest of the parasol
cocktail umbrella, chipboard shapes, millinery, and German glass glitter.
Tips/Tricks:
-If you aren’t a hot glue person, use a nice tacky glue or
the adhesive of your choice.
-If you don’t have glass glitter, Clearsnap has an array of
beautiful glitters to use.
-Parasol cocktail umbrella’s make great rosettes and various
other uses.
Hope you enjoyed the technique and the project!
xoxo
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