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Thanks for joining us here at Beadaholique.com This is Julie and I'm going to show you a
very fun you product that we're carrying and that is epoxy stickers.
I have a sheet here. There are twenty five on the sheet.
When you order them, it'll come like this. You'll have a row of five by five
and you can order them in lots of twenty five, fifty, hundred or two hundred.
And what you see is there is a coating on the top protecting their surface
and there is a
piece of plastic which they're actually adhere to because they are stickers.
You're not gonna wanna remove either of these sheets until you are ready to
actually use a sticker.
So this is how they're going to come. Now I'm going to show you a sheet I've been working
with.
And it's next right here.
You can see that I've been
cutting them out and the reason I want to do that I don't wanna take
them off of their backing until I'm ready to actually use them.
So I'm going to cut one.
That's going to be the one I'm going to use.
So the reason you're not going to remove that back film until you're ready to
use your
epoxy sticker is because it picks up all sorts of dust,
little hairs and anything that maybe on your fingers or work surface.
It's a little bit hard to see
but this stick-um back is now coated
in all sorts of little debris and that's going to actually
obstruct your image and make it like it doesn't look like you have a clear glassy
dome finish.
Now also I want to show you how very flexible these stickers are.
Very bendable
and you can also cut them
if you need to.
Very easily with a pair of scissors.
Now you can go about this a couple different ways.
I like to cut it like this so I can use it as a template
so I hold it over my image.
Kind of see what I might like. I have several different collage sheets here.
That way you can size it up and make sure everything's going to be within your circle.
These are one inch in diameter which is a very handy size. It makes it so that they
fit very well into not only bottle caps put a lot of different bezel settings. So
once you've chosen an image you like such as this little bird here.
You're gonna go ahead
and remove
the
top film
and you're going to remove the back.
You've going to try to not actually touch
that backside which has the adhesive on it.
Carefully
turn it over
and place it onto your image how you want it
and press it in to place.
You can go ahead if you're worried fingerprints
put that top sheet back on
and smooth it over.
You can pre-cut your image to one inch in diameter
or if you have a hole punch go ahead and prepunch it ahead of time.
Personally I don't like to do that. I like to be able to play with my image a
little bit with my sticker.
and get it positioned exactly how I want it and have that flexibility
especially if I'm using a larger image then I'm just going to be using a portion of.
Then I cut around it
very liberally.
And now what I'm going to do is I'm just going to carefully
cut around the edge of my
epoxy
sticker.
Just like that I now have
my image.
Now I'm going to take a bottle cap. I've already removed the liner. You can see how to do that
in another Beadaholique.com tutorial.
What you're going to want to do,
you'll see that this actually set right down in there.
So now you're just going to take some glue.
I'm going to use a white glue here, nunn design glue.
So I put this on my finger. You can use a paint brush.
I personally like to just be able to do things right
away and not have to clean out a paint brush but
everyone is different.
Just put it on the back. Make sure you don't touch the front.
Set it down into your bottle cap
and press into place.
All you need to do after that to make this into a magnet would be to
put a magnet on the back.
I have one right here.
What I would do is wait for this to dry.
I'd use a little bit of E6000
and put it right on the back. This is a rare earth magnet. They're very nice. They're very
powerful
and very sleek. So they give you a very nice
low-profile for you magnet when it's
on the fridge.
So here are some examples of projects which haves use the epoxy stickers.
I have a bottle cap necklace right here hanging on the ball chain
here's a nice magnet. You can see on the back it's got a three and a
quarter inch craft magnet.
Here is a pendant in progress.
What's nice is that
the epoxy stickers have
enough space when you put them into a bottle cap that you can actually do a little collage
setting on top of them if you want
or have something set
like this here where I have a little bird floating in it.
I also have a pair of earrings here.
Real simple, I'm going to show you how to do these in other Beadaholique.com tutorial.
A bottle cap
earring set with a paris scene and then I have another little pendant right here
with a little birdie flying in it.
So these are just a few examples of things you can do with the epoxy stickers.
Really let your mind go, the possibilities are really limitless.
And that is all there is to using epoxy stickers.
Have fun.
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