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Hi this is Juile for Beadaholique.com and today I want to show you
how to use a mold which we made using Easy Mold Silicone Rubber. In a
previous video we went ahead and we actually created this mold
from this plastic bangle.
Now I want to reproduce this bangle but I'd like to do this in a different color. I want to
do it using Ice Resin.
So to begin with we're going to need to mix up some resin.
I'm going to estimate that I need about two ounces for this.
So I've got my mixing cup here with measurements along the side.
So I'm going to pour one ounce of part A.
When you're using Ice Resin you need to mix equal parts of part A and part B.
So I'm going to pour one ounce of part B which is the hardener.
I'm going to mix these together
for a full two minutes until they're fully blended together.
My resins fully mixed and now I want to add some color.
You can mix colors so I've got two transparent colors right here. I have a green
and yellow.
I'm going to do two drops of green.
My yellow for some reason has lost its topper.
I'm just going to do a drop of yellow.
I've got more than a drop in there. It should be ok there.
I can already tell that I want a little bit more green.
I'll add another drop of green.
I think I'll do two.
You notice I've put down some protective sheeting over my table. You always to do that
when you're working with resin and pigments.
I'm scraping the sides
of my container as I go. I want to make sure this is fully blended.
When all striations are gone and all the colors are completely blended, I'm going to let it
sit for about five minutes.
you have to work pretty quickly with the resin. Don't let it sit for too long but I
do want to let some of those bubbles come to the surface and pop on their own especially
since I'm going to be pouring it into this mold.
We've been patient. We waited for five minutes. Some of the bubbles are gone. Not all
of them are.
I've actually don a glove because I feel this will get a little bit messy.
Now if you've seen my other resin videos you know what I usually recommend is that you
take the resin
onto the stir stick and you dribble it into the mold.
It's a little bit hard in a case like this so we're actually going to pour the resin
and it is going to
get onto that top area as well. That's ok we're going to be able to peel that away later.
So what I want to do right now is I want to remove my stick.
I'm going to pull back
the edge of my mold. See how flexible this is.
This mold does not require any mold release.
I'm going to push the side to make a little spout.
I'm going to pour my resin into my mold/
I'm pausing. It might be hard to see in the video but what the resin is doing now
is it is seeking along the edges and filling in
the cracks. I'm going to help it along a little bit.
Pour some more.
What I'm doing is I want it to go up to the edge. I want to go over too much. It's okay
if it goes over the edge. I'll just crackle off when you
try to pull this out.
I want to make sure it it's filled fully.
I know when I made this particular mold I had a little bit of a clay rim
around it to adhere the
bangle itself to the container which I made the mold in and so that actually
gave it a little bit of a lip
to my bangle bracelet when I poured it and so I know I'm going to sand that down anyways.
So I'm up to the top. I know I'm totally fine
for the actual shape of the bangle.
So I'm going to let that cure fully for three days. Normally you can
go ahead and start working with some resin
after about twenty four hours it's harden but because of the nature of this mold
the fact that I'm going to really have to pry
the bangle out, it's going to come out but
I'm guessing on past experience it's going to give me a little bit of a challenge getting
the bangle itself out of the mald
just because of the rounded shape to it where it comes to a tapered
point up at the top.
So I want to wait three full days before I attempt to pull this one out.
Just to make sure it's fully cured and I don't do any damage to the bangle itself and
then I know I can apply
some good forced to it.
So we're going to be patient and wait and then we're
going to comeback in three days.
we've waited three days and now it's time to release to bangle from the mold.
To do so first off any type of resin that you have which spilled over the
sides
should just be able to be
picked and cracked off.
You might have a little you might have a lot. Just to try to remove as much as you can
Now we're gonna loosen the sides of the mold. To do that just depress on the
edge
and work your way all the way around.
We're going to do that on the inside as well. See if we could pull it away.
We're just allowing air to get in there. That's going to help us to be able to
pull the bangle out of the mold itself.
The mold we made is completely reusable so don't worry about it.
you're not going to stretch it too much. It's rubber it goes back into place.
Now we're going to try to grab it out.
To do so I'm going to pull down the side. I'm going to try to get my fingers
under it.
I'm going to work my way around the edge
trying to pull it out.
It's going to be a little easier if you have a ring. Bangles are a little bit more challenging
because it does have so much
of the mold in the middle that you're trying to release it from.
And there we go.
Now I'll show you real quick you are gonna have
the smooth edge which is where the
bangle was put down into the mold as such because of course that was molded
perfectly with the original object.
And you're going to have a rough edge.
What you're going to want to do with this rough edge is take a file
and sand it down.
I would suggest wearing a mask when you do this. you don't want any of the resin to get into
your lungs. You don't want to breath that in.
You're going to carfully go along the edge and remove the rough edge.
It took me about fifteen to twenty minutes of sanding but I was finally able to get that
rough edge all smooth down. As you can see it's now flush. So we have the complete
bangle.
It's really nice and smooth. I made sure that I actually sanded within
the interior edge as well so that when you put the bangle onto your wrist.
It's smooth. There are no sharp edges.
As you can see we now have an exact
duplicate of our original bangle bracelet
which we molded out of resin.
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