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Hi. This is Julie with Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you how to customize
a purse hanger.
First off you're need the hardware itself which is this collapsable purse hanger
you're right here.
The way it works
is you put this flat side
on the table itself and you hang your purse from the hook
and prevents your purse from becoming dirty and having to sit on the floor.
What's nice about this because is it has a well which you could fill with a
decorative embellishment.
So it's both decorative and functional.
I choose an image from collage sheet of butterflies
which I'm going to use. I'm going to cut out this one right here. So you're going to need an image.
The other supplies you're gonna need are
resin. I'm going to use Gel Du Soleil which is a one part resin. I also have a
UV lamp right here. If you're in a sunny climate, you can just go ahead and
put it out the sunshine and it will cure on it's own.
You're going to need a paintbrush.
You're going to need a glue for the image to adhere to the hardware itself.
You're gonna need a sealant to coat the image after you've glued it.
You can also use Mod Podge or a sealant. It's up to you.
You're going to need a pair of scissors to out the image
and we need a pad of paper to put you
glue and your sealant on.
So to begin with
let's go ahead and cut out the image.
I actually have a sheet here that I aready used a couple images from.
Carefully cut a round
the exterior of the image.
Once you've cut the image out
check to make sure it's going to fit into your
bezel setting.
If you need to trim it down at all go ahead and do so now.
Now that we have our image cut out
we wanna check it's orientation with the alignment
at the purse hanger.
So since it's going to hang on a table like this I want my butterfly
to be placed in it like so.
I'm going to take some glue and put it on a scrap piece of paper.
Now you can either use a paintbrush to paint it on the back, the glue
or you can be like what I do. I just actually take a little bit on my finger
spread out on the back of the image going all the way to the edge
making sure I get each
corner.
I then flip it over
place it into your
setting.
Smooth it out making sure you press down along all the edges.
Now we're going to let that dry for about fifteen to twenty minutes. After our glue has dried
we're going to go ahead and coat
the image in a sealant. I'm going to pour a little bit onto my
piece of scrap paper.
Taking a paint brush
I'm going to paint along the edges first making sure that they're
fully coated.
Then coat the interior
of the image making sure you get all of it.
What I'm going to do now is I'm going to let this dry
for again another fifteen to twenty minutes
and then I'm actually going to come back paint not
one more coat but two more coats for a total of three coats of sealant.
before I go on to my next step.
It's been several hours and we've painted three layers of sealant on top of her
image letting them dry between each layer. Now I want to go in and put
the resin into my pendant.
I'm going to be using Gel Du Soleil. Gel Du Soleil actually comes in two different sizes. You have a
large four ounce bottle
which is quite a lot of product
and then you have a small little one which is point three ounces. I actually
really like the small one
because you'll notice the applicator tip comes to a nice point
as opposed to the large bottle which has
a little flip
lid like this.
What I do is I actually
refill the little bottle
every time it runs out with the contents of the big bottle. I just found that it's
little bit easier for me to work with.
But you can do whatever is easier for you.
Because of the depth of the setting itself I'm actually going to do several
layers of the Gel Du Soleil instead of one layer.
So we're just going to go ahead
and fill our pendant
with the resin.
What's nice about Gel Du Soleil is you have a lot of time to work with it because it
won't cure until you actually put it in the sunlight or into UV lamp.
So I'm going to carefully
tilt the purse hanger so that the Gel Du Soleil gets in all the corners.
Because I'm not filling this all the way full
I actually have that flexibility to
gently tilt it.
I want to fill it about half full and I've done that at this point
and now I'm actually going to let it rest for just a few minutes to see if any bubbles come to
the surface. If they do
I'm just gonna pop them with a straight pin.
We were lucky and no bubbles came to the surface. So I'm gonna take my
purse hanger and very carefully holding it even
I'm gonna put it into my UV curing light.
If you're in a sunny climate you can actually put this on a window sill and it will
cure
with the natural sunlight as well. The Uv lamp is very convenient because I only
to put in here for about fifteen to twenty minutes.
So I'm going to let that sit and i will come back to it in
about twenty minutes.
Our second layer UV resin is now fully cured and your purse hanger
is absolutely lovely at this point.
It's completely durable and solid. The layer went right to the top. So at
this point we could actually be done. You're gonna have a great looking piece.
Now if you do you want to go and add one extra step and have a slight domed
appearance to your purse hanger I'm going to show you how to do that but definitely
feel free to stop right now. You can actually be done and your piece will
be absolutely lovely.
If you do you want to create a slightly dome effect
what you're going to do is do a third layer of the UV resin.
The way we're gonna do this
is we are gonna
start in the middle
and very slowly and carefully
add the third layer.
We have to be careful with this one. That we do not go over at the edge.
We're going to want the surface tension of the rim itself hold the resin in place.
You'll notice I'm actually not applying their resin to the edge.
I'm keeping it in the middle
and that's because I want to have the surface tension work with me versus
working against me.
Now what I'm going to do is take the
tip of my applicator of my bottle itself and gently
push
the resin
towards the edge.
I need to add a little more so I'm adding it to the middle
and I'm going to push.
You might want to get down on your knees and look at this from a side view
so you see how the resin is doing and if it's doming properly.
I'm going to take a step back and look at it from a side view.
I actually want it to be a little bit more domed
so I'm actually going to add another drop or two to to the middle.
You'll probably notice that I have two pretty large bubbles
on the top of my resin. I'm just going to take a beading needle or any needle will do
and I'm going to pop them.
I'm not really pressing that hard. I'm just tapping them lightly
and they're going to disappear.
I'm going to wait a couple minutes and see if any more bubbles appear. If they do
I'm just going to that same process of just
tapping them lightly
with my needle. You've waited a couple minutes. You've removed any bubbles
with that needle if you had anything. Now
very very very carefully you're going to keep this completely level
and transfer it to your UV light.
And we'll be back in twenty minutes to show our final product.
That was a quick twenty minutes and we're ready to pull our purse hanger out from under
the UV light and see our final product.
Here you have a lovely purse hanger custom made by you.
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