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Hi this is Julie with beadaholique.com and today I'm gonna show you how to
fill a bezel bracelet like this. I got a lot of request saying how do you
use resin with a bracelet such as this which is pre-assembled
and I'm gonna show you actually how to do this using pearlizing powder
and also a transparent dye. Here's of couple different techniques I'm gonna
show you
so let's get started. First off I'm gonna want to mix up our resin
whenever you're doing a two-part resin you want equal parts of
part A the resin and Part B the hardener. I have a little measuring cup
right here which I'm going to measure and then stir it with my stir stick
what's great about these measuring cups it's a little hard to see in the video
but there are
measurement lines on them and so I'm just
actually kinda crouching down here in the background and looking at it at eye
level to make sure that my measurement is equal
it is important that it is 50/50
and once you've measured your resin you're just going to stir it
I've stirred this for about two minutes and all the striations are gone
There's actually quite a number of air bubbles that got in there
so I'm gonna let this sit for five minutes
before I add my transparent resin dye and
and my mother of Pearl pearlizing powder. I let this sit for about five minutes
and a lot of the bubbles are gone
I'm going to have to stir it again but I'm not gonna have to stir it as much so I don't
get quite as many bubbles
back. So now I'm going to add two things to I want to use
the mother of pearl pearlizing resin powder and I want to use
transparent green resin. I thought for spring
coming up it would be fun to have a pink and green bracelet
one word of caution, do not use too much
of either of these in this small amount of resin
I mixed up two ounces here. So I only want to add
2 drops of green, one
two. I have done this before
for myself where I've added too much of the dye and too much of
the pearlizing powder and I ended up with my pieces staying rubbery
for literally years until I just tossed them and they just never fully cured
so that's something you want to be cautious of. See how that green dye looks
in there
now I'm gonna take a clean popsicle stick
and apply some I pearlizing powder
It just almost looks like flower, it's very fine and we'll start with a little
and add more as needed
what paralyzing powder does is it gives it this wonderful pearly shimmery effect
stir that in
now
if you've ever baked a cake you know something to get clumps, you just
squish it against the side of you're mixing bowl and that's exactly what I'm
going to do here
and I'll just keep stirring until all of those little
pearlizing powder clumps are gone. I think I want to add just a little bit
more while I'm at it
scoop a little more
put it in there and I'm going to call that good
alright. All my clumps are gone. You can see I got this great pearl color going
so now I am ready to fill my bezel bracelet
now what I'm going to suggest you do because
this is just elastic, if you had a lot of patients and we're very careful
you could technically fill one let it fully cure,
rotate it, maybe put this on a bracelet mandrel,
keep a rotating but that's gonna take you well over a week
maybe two weeks to do. So it's just elastic
you can cut the elastic and I'll show you how to
restring this when you're all done. So I'm just going to take this out
and lay them flat
just like so and now I'm gonna go
I'm going to fill these like any other bezel
You can see what's happening to my green, it's actually turning gray
against the pink which is fine. Kind of a grey green
really interesting effect
you want might have a few resin molds handy
when you're doing this because as you can tell I'm not gonna be using the
full cup
resin. I'll have a lot left over that I might wanna
put into a mold or do something else with. The resin will not hold
it will start to cure so you need to use what is in your cup
or just let it hardening your cap and then just dispose of it but that a lot of
good resin you don't necessarily wanna have go to waste
I am going to let those cure for three full days before I want to restring them
You can see some little air bubbles coming up to the surface
you can either try to take a torch to those if you want but I actually kind of like
how they look. It's kind of a fun pattern in there. So I'll leave them
and now I'm probably actually going to find a mold, put this extra resin in it and make
another pair of earrings or something else that's really fun
See you in three days and we'll restring this bracelet
We've been really patient. We've let our resin fully cure
so I've got the ones which are now in the little bezels that were part of the
bracelet
and they're dry. They have that really nice pearly sheen to them
also I wanted to show you the ones that I put in the mold. This was extra resin that I had
leftover
I just poured it into a little round mold. I wanted to show you the color difference
so these actually remember were the same batch of dyed resin
with the pearlizing powder and this one looks really gray
like grey white and this is very vibrant and green sand it's all because
of the pink. The way the pink of the bezel actually changed
how that color looked of the resin. So keep that in mind when you're doing a
project like this
that will definitely come into play. Also these
cured in about 24 hours. I was able pop then out
these ones which which were thinner actually took three days to cure
so that's another thing to keep in mind is the thinner the piece is
the longer it's going to take to cure which is counterintuitive but for some reason
it's just the way it is
so now I wanna put my bracelet back together. I'll show you how to do that
I have got a big eye needle right here and that's exactly what it sounds like
it's a needle
with a really big eye and I've cut myself
two lengths of 24 inches of Opelon. You're not gonna actually need
24 inches for each length but I thought I'd err on the side of caution
here
so I'll take my Opelon which is a stretch cord
and put it through my big eye needle. Now I'm not gonna tie a knot on the end
but I am going to just go through
the holes on one side
of my bezel. Remember each bezel has two holes
I'll string all of then on one side
here we go, take my cord
out of my big eye needle. I've got them all strung
now you can do one or two things, you can either
loop them around and tie a knot right now or you can string the other one as well
I actually want to string the second piece of stretch
cord here at the same time before I tie a knot
just make it a little bit easier to tie the second knot
so I'm not having to fish around for those holes. They'll actually all be nice and lined
up for me
right now. Line them up in a row. See my needle goes through all of them
Make sure you don't pull it all the way through. You have both tails
so now I'm going to take the top one
pull it around. I'm going to tie a knot
do a double knot, through it twice
and pull
and again make sure it's very secure
loop it through once
and go back under through a second time
and pull
My other one is still in place. Find my tails
here we go. My bracelet is looking like a bracelet again
my other tails I haven't cut yet, make sure they stay out of the
way
pull, it formed a nice bracelet
This can be really tricky guys
make sure nothing tied up
again
tie a knot and you want it to be really secure so I'm going to go through
tie another knot and why not let's just tie another one
do this as many times as you want
now I can go back and trim my tails off
and I'm just going to pull
so those knots become hidden in one of the bezels
there we go
so that's it. We've reassembled our bracelet and now the bezels are filled
with dyed resin and using pearlizing powder
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