I was inspired to try a new project today so I went crazy with latex caulk and some cake decorating molds to make lace looking embellishments.  They aren’t dry yet, but it was extremely messy and much more labor intensive than normal texture paste.  I had more caulk on me and my trowel than I had on the project.  I’m not really sure if the consistency I had was correct.  From the information I have gathered, you can color the caulk with acrylic paints or re-inkers, just about anything.  I chose to try both paint and re-inker on separate pieces. The paint required more product than the re-inker to change the color of the caulk, so it made it runnier.  I’m not sure if this will negatively impact my end product, but I’m hoping it doesn’t.  I used a regular stencil with it and it was really hard to clean, even though I cleaned it immediately after taking it off of my cardstock.  I have to say, I was really impressed with what it looked like directly after taking off the stencil, but I’m not sure how things will change once it dries.

Every new DIY comes with it’s own unique quirks and we’ll have to wait to see what the finished product looks like.  The molds might be really terrific, but they are very shallow, and I had a lot of problems with air bubbles so I’m hoping I was able to fill the air bubbles and that they won’t impact our final result.  Time will tell.  This might be a really great video, or end up as a deleted fail much like my Perlier bead fiasco. You didn’t know about that?  That’s because it was deleted like all really huge fails.  It’s a rule of nature.  If the end result is so bad that it makes my hot glue embellishment video look good, it gets deleted.   Some things are too embarrassing to be videotaped.

 

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