Iron Orchid Designs - Vintage Brooches Decor Mould

Introducing Vintage Brooches, a mould that celebrates the rich history of brooches as ornate and bougie status symbols. Vintage Brooches features delicate details like ruffly bows, intricate beading, and vinework framing pillowed centers. These centers are an open invitation for a lovely paint inlay, blooms from the Catharina transfer, or even personalized messages with the letters from the Insignia Stamp.

Use them to embellish a vintage keepsake box, and frame them with gilded accents from Si Belle for a timeless look. Vintage Brooches is a darling addition to small décor, wedding decor, or the obvious… handmade jewelry. 

Project Suggestions: 

• Small Decor: Personalize a frame with Vintage Brooches and the new Insignia Stamp, keepsake box, or repurposed books.
• Wall Art: Dimensional shadowbox wall art.
• Craft: Craft storage labels 
• Jewelry: Handmade wearable brooches.

Pair With: 

• Catharina Transfer and Wilde Bloemen Transfer
• Letters from Insignia Stamp and Apothecary Labels Stamp

The IOD Décor Moulds are made from food-safe materials (do not use the same set for food and crafts) and can be used to transform and create baked goods, furniture, soaps, jewellery, and just about anything you can think up in that creative brain of yours.

Product Information:

IOD Décor Moulds can be used with many different mediums. We will cover the two most common here. Every medium has its own characteristics, challenges, and virtues.

Air dry clay, or paper clay: 

IOD paper clay is an air dry medium, and one of our favourites. Like most paper pulp based air dry clays, some shrinking, warping, and cracking is inherent. We like these qualities for a distressed, authentically vintage look. Our favourite way to apply moulded pieces is to remove them from the mould while still moist and adhere to the surface with the appropriate glue so it conforms well. For vertical surfaces, use a piece of low tack tape to hold it in place so it doesn’t slide.

Casting resins: 

There are some great pourable resins available. These have completely different qualities than the paper clay. There is no shrinking or warping, and the castings are more consistent. Depending on the project, these qualities can be helpful. If you need to conform them to a curved surface, this can be done if removed from the mould before it’s completely hardened.

Releasing your casting:

We find that most of the time a release is not necessary and the casting will come out without the use of a release, however, if you are having trouble with the material sticking (more common with clays than resins), a light dusting of simple cornstarch or arrowroot is a great choice.

Measurement: 6″ x 10″