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Hi this is Becky Nunn from Nunn Design, guest designer for Beadaholique.com
Today we're going to be working on creating a piece
using opaque pigments and
a two-part epoxy resin. This allows you to
add colorants. In this case the opaque
pigments and create fun vibrant colors within flat tags
and bezels. What you need for this project
are some bezels and flat tags. Whatever you want to fill
or cover, a stir stick. I actually have a couple of other little stir sticks I just
picked up
at my local coffee shop and cut them in half and that's for
mixing the pigments. Some toothpicks,
I have already poured a one to one ratio of
the two-part epoxy resin ready for us to go
you'll need to have some cups
and some color pigment. I also have some business cards
I'll be using this to transfer my images around
easily, some sort of way in which to time yourself
a pile of wet wipes
Always nice to have those handy and also some gloves
when working with two-part resin you're gonna want to look carefully
at the manufacturer's instructions. Some basics are
making sure your work surface is covered. I laid down
a garbage bag. You also want to make sure that you have
gloves that you doing on your hands and
work in a well-ventilated area I also use
glasses when I'm working with the resin just to prevent
any kind of chemicals possibly getting into my eyes
First I went ahead and poured
equal quantities. I did half a fluid ounce
of part A and half a fluid ounce of part B
in my cup. You can watch other Beadaholique.com videos
showing how to mix your resin. The first
two minutes which I have timed myself on
my cell phone, I set my alarm there for two minutes
will be mixing the resin. My cup is very full because I have one full fluid ounce
and I'm just going ahead and scraping the sides
and blending the two parts together. You want to do this for a full two minutes
Once your alarm has gone off and you've mixed it
for 2 minutes and you're scraping the sides
thoroughly, you're going to want to
scrape off the sides and then I had
a light right here and I'm going to go ahead
and turn it on and place it under the light and like it sit
for another five minutes timing that on my cell phone. Once your resin has set
for a full 5 minutes and you've let all the air bubbles
come to the surface and pop, you want to transfer
the mixed resin
into smaller size cups. If you're working with a lot of different
colors
you can pour multiple cups
I'm just gonna work with red and the
white pigments. As you can see
I've put a piece of parchment down onto a cookie sheet
and I've laid some business cards and then put my
embellishments on top of there. One of the reasons I did that is this allows me to
move my parts and pieces around
easily once I have them set up
because I'm not gonna want to bump them or move them about too much because the
resin could spill off the edges
also I typically work on a fairly small work surface
so this allows me to put them aside someplace while I'm working on other
projects
Once I have my mixed resin inside of the cups
just go ahead and you can choose which of the colors you want. I'm going to start with
the white
I just gonna add a little bit the pigment
into the resin and then using one of my
stir sticks and stir it fully
and depending on how opaque you want
the pigments to be. You can add more or less
the pigments into the resin
then I'm going to just drizzle the resin
right into the bezels
I've had great luck with using the two-part
resin and colorants in regards to bubbles
very few bubbles, so depending on how
full you want your piece to be you can add it
just to the surface or you can add more
and dome it up. This is a natural
doming resin. So once it gets to the side edges
it just wants to know where that side edge is and then it'll automatically stop
and start to dome itself by wicking
up. See how I'm just adding a couple extra drops
onto the top surface to move to the sides
and stop we're gonna want to make sure we don't bump it too much
as we're gonna go about this. I'm actually going to flip this one over. I want
that flat surface on these ones because I want that flat surface there
and drizzle it
along the edges. If you feel more comfortable you can use
a toothpick
instead of this stir stick. Pretty cool huh?
it's just sitting right on those edges
and in some areas where you want to make sure that you have less
such as around where I'm gonna be pouring near the
loop right here, I want to make sure that I don't get the resin in the loop
I might want to switch over and work with my toothpick
to move the resin
into place
that way I won't get the resin up inside there
if you get too much in one area you can just pull it
and move it to where you want
you might want to start with easier surfaces
and then try a round surface like that later once you get the hang of
it
but it's great just for pouring right into
a bezel.
Once you have your resin poured inside the bezels that you have completed
you'll want to go ahead and put a little plastic cup
over-the-top of your pieces
this allows for any kind of dust
from getting into there. This one might be a little bit of a challenge
Now my pieces are kitty cat hair free
and dust free. This is the portion of the video where it's the Becky Nunn dog and pony
show
and this is where I show examples of other pieces that I
make using this technique. This one you saw in the
opening and that flat tag that we did like this, I just dropped it inside
of a bezel, then in here it would be like a little
mini tag that we worked on. Here's what the colorants would look like
when mixing with copper and
I do a lot of pieces on that flat tag and drop it into the different sizes
that the bezels fit and
you can also start to get creative in your color combinations of
how to mix different colors with the different pigments
like mixing the white and the Red together to create a pink
and you can also just pour
some over. This is a flat tag and an embellishment, this brass and just poured
some of the color
over-the-top of that to create a look like this and you can finish it off just by
adding on a simple cord and just a single piece to make
something like this. This is Becky Nunn
for Beadaholique.com and I hope you've enjoyed learning how to use
pigments with two part resin.
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