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Hi this is Becky Nunn of Nunn Design
and I'm the guest designer today for Beadaholique.com. We're going to be doing
this great project
using the transfer sheets and UV resin to create fun charms that you can put on
bangle bracelets
or just about anywhere you can think that you'd like to adorn. For this project
you'll need
1.8 millimeter hole punch
this is going to be for punching a hole into the metals
where ever you like to have it positioned, a pair scissors
I use a lighter like this just so that I can get
out any bubbles that might occur when I use the Gel Du Soleil
if you have matches that's great too, Gel Du Soleil
which is a single part
UV resin, I have a head pin
I have a Q-tip, I have a couple a findings from Nunn Design, our crest tag and
a jump ring
I have paper towel, a dish of water
transfer sheets and a little card that I can transfer
the project to the UV lamp very easily with
and then I also have a UV lamp
the first step is going to involve putting
a hole into the crest tag
one of the reasons that we designed these crest tags
without a hole is we had a lot of requests from people who are metal
stamping
they wanted to be able to add their holes were ever they'd like
them to be, so whether they're over on the side making a
connector in the middle or on the bottom
so they can link them together, it just allows you to have a lot more freedom
so the first step is to punch the hole
and at first I just go in and look for where that center mark is going to be
and I'm not pressing down firmly. I'm just pressing down very very slightly
and that is just to give me a little imprint of where the real
hole is going to be. I often have
challenges with the part of the punch
ring around my whole creating a ring
so I used a little business card to create
a little bit of a barrier between that
metal part and my metal. So once
I have that impression I can then go back inand
line it up and then press
full and now I have a hole into the metal
if you have a little bit of a burr go ahead and
just punch again until you have a nice clean hole
so the next step will be
selecting a word that you would like to use or maybe even one of the designs
from the transfer sheet. The Nunn Design transfer sheets
have the instructions written on the back for step-by-step
how to do it. The transfer sheets are printed on a film
front and has a paperback. I've already trimmed
out the word art and I double checked to make sure that it'll fit nicely
on my tag. When I drop
the transfer sheet into a small bowl of
water it will have
about thirty seconds, maybe less
before the film starts to separate from the paperback
on a larger piece it would curl up like a little potato chip
and then I'll start to flatten back down when you see it start to flatten back
down you know that your
film front is pretty much separated from the back
so it's been about 30 seconds, go ahead and reach in
and see how we're doing here
and if you can see that you can see that the film is
separating from the paperback I usually always have a paper towel
right when I'm getting done with that because I'm just wiping off that excess
water that's
on my fingers from reaching in and you're gonna want to keep that paper
backing
on just to protect it from getting your fingerprints
and then you're just gonna slide it
onto your metal and slide away that paperback. You don't need to be
too worried about it being just in the right position because you can move it
around just slightly
this film is incredibly
fragile so you want to be very gentle with it when you're moving it around
so now that I have the word art
onto my piece I'll put it down onto the flat surface
and with my Q-tip I'll start
by pressing very firmly in the center and just kinda
burnishing it
down. I'm kinda padding it and burnishing it because it's a very small little piece and I
don't want to
rip the film at all
in the next step we will be pouring the Gel Du Soleil
onto the flat tag and the Gel Du Soleil is
a single curing resin so it will cure when it's exposed to sunlight
or it will cure when you expose it to UV light
and we have a UV light right here. If you didn't have a UV light and you lived in a
sunny
area you could put it on your window ceil with a little glass dish
similar to our water dish over it to prevent it from getting any dust
and it will cure directly in the sunlight
I usually take the Gel Du Soleil
and I pop off the top with a pair of needle nose pliers
I do this because I often get bubbles
when I squeeze it out so I just like to pop that top of
I'm also working with a head pin because I'm gonna be moving
the resin around and I also
have a little card that I'm doing this on, so it will make it super easy for me
to transport it
from when I'm done with it into the UV lamp
so take a
small tiny couple of drops and just put it right
onto the surface and the UV
is a self doming resin so it will want to know where the sides are
but then it'll start to wipe itself back up and pull into the center as you're
seeing there
in this case we're just gonna scooch it over to the sides
where that black line is and I'm using the end of my head pin
to do so
when I get up to the top part where that
hole punch is I'm just gonna use my head pin to manipulate
around that hole and not fill the hole
if I saw any kind of bubbles inside the resin
I could use my lighter that I talked about earlier
and just gently lightly place it over
not touching but just over-the-top a bit and it'll make the
air expand and the bubbles will pop
go ahead and turn on my UV light and gently
place it into the UV light
the UV takes about 20 minutes for it to cure
fully and so after 20 minutes
you can take your piece out and gently
touch it on the side edges to see if it's still sticky, if it's sticky
it is not cured and you want to put it back for more exposure
this piece is completely done. Doesn't that look cool
for the final step we're going to use
two pairs of pliers
to attach a jump ring and then to attach it
onto our bangle bracelets to give it
even or more gene gene factor, ok
and there you go adding yet another fabulous charm
onto our bracelet. This is Becky Nunn
I hope you've been very inspired and feel
safe and confidence to use UV resin on a flat tag.
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