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This is Becky Nunn from Nunn Design, guest designer for Beadaholique.com
In this video I'd like to show you how you can embed
organic matter into an open back bezel
to create fun places such as this. What you'll need
is an Nunn Design open-back bezel, some two-part resin
I've already pre mixed this and let it sit for 5 minutes so I'm ready to go
you'll want a couple of extra stir cups, some items
to use such as a tongue depressor
this is a coffee stir stick that I cut up and
a toothpick, your organic matter
two pieces that I just found in the woods, a pair of scissors,
tape, I have some business cards
and two little pieces of wax paper, To apply the tape
onto the back of the pendant, I'm choosing to use
very thick type of shipping tape
this is your Uline tape but it's a very very thick
tape. I've found that a different lighter weights might leave a little bit more
of a weight
and cut off a piece, make sure that I very carefully did not leave any of my
fingerprints
anywhere on the surface where the bezel is going to go
take your bezel, press it down on there
and then I just scoot it around like this
to burnish it onto place making sure that it has the right
even contact on all parts on
the bezel to make sure that the resin doesn't pour out the sides
once I start to do the pour the resin in. The next step is
to start to prepare my organics that are going to fit inside of
my bezel. Before I put them emerged
into my open back bezel, I wanna go ahead
and treat them with the resin themselves
so my resin is already have been premixed
I have laid down on the table
some wax paper and I also put some wax paper
underneath the business cards I like to do that just so it makes it easy for me to
transport
the items around and not touch them once they're wet
I don't know about you guys but I have a very small work surface and so I
often need to move things around in order to clear space. So I'm just going
about the whole surface
to treat your organic
what I have found is if I do this it
helps prevent there to be air bubbles in the resin once I
embed it inside of the piece
you definitely want to be not doing as I do
you want to wear a pair of gloves when you're implying this resin
onto the pieces and handling the pieces
that have resin on them. Just drizzling the resin
right onto the pieces and I'm not worrying about the fact that it's going
to
spill over onto the paper
that's why I have the wax paper and I'll be
constantly checking it so that it doesn't stick
to the paper itself and I'm also making sure that I don't get a lot of the
organics onto my stir stick and then contaminating my resin
We're going to be using the upper part. So you just let that sit there
and I come back about every
five minutes or so and I double check
by picking it up and I might move it to another place
so it'll pool onto a different area
I have a bigger work surface over here
so I might move it over here and then when I'm done I'll bring it
back over to my portable surface. Once my organics
have dried you'll have a nice piece like this
I went ahead and trimmed off the
bottom end because I'm want to put it right inside
of the pendant inside here. What I've found is it's helpful
to place it inside of the bezel
attach it onto the tape
so that it doesn't rise and float on the surface
so I'm just pressing it down gently and adhering it onto
the tape. Now I'm ready
to pour in my resin by
drizzling it into the bezel
and I'm going slow just to cover and fill in all of those
areas around where the
organics are so that I can make sure that the resin
is pressed down inside of there and that will help me
prevent from the air bubbles
surfacing
take your time
fill the bezel. I'm not pressing too hard
I don't want my organics to chip or
fray
and then just keep on drizzling until your bezel is full
and pay attention to the little air bubbles that are
surfacing and bringing them over on the side and dissipate
on their own. So the thing about
two-part resin and embedding things
is this is something that you're gonna want to commit some time to
you gonna wanna not do it in a hurry. You're going to want to make sure that you have
designated some time to
really babysit your piece because
bubbles well and can surface
to the surface and you're just gonna want to keep on watching for them
so that you can pop them either by
putting your toothpick in there and moving them over to the side and
popping them. I'm not gonna fill
my piece really really full
I'm under filling and if I wanted to have
a nice dome I would first
let this piece dry
babysitting it and having plenty of room to go in there
into address any bubbles that might be happening
with my toothpick but if I feel it too high
if I stick my toothpick in there, then I will
overflow the side edges. You just
under fill it and then you're going to spend some time
paying attention to what's happening
with the piece whether you're having some air bubble surface or not
and by curing the piece of organic
first you're preventing a lot of the air bubbles that would come up
so it takes
depending on where you are it depends
on the time that it's going to take to cure this but you wanna look at your
manufacturer's directions. It could take up to 72 hours to cure
what I do is just take a little plastic
cup and place it over the top of your piece
and you wanna set the timer so that you can come back like every 15 minutes
and just double check that you don't have any air bubbles
forming on your piece. You want to be careful not press it down to hard too
on the tape there
just coming back and taking a look if you have any air bubbles
and place it down until it's hardened
After your piece is finished
you'll just take off the tape from the backside and
you'll have a finished piece that you can
add all kinds of fun charms and fibers and make a
nice necklace. This piece was created by Nunn Design
Innovation team member Sharon Borsavage
I love this piece. I just think it's so pretty. She's so talented.
This is Becky Nunn from Nunn Design. I hope you've enjoyed learning how to
embed organics into our open back bezels using
two part resin.
Go to www.beadaholique.com to purchase beading supplies and to get design ideas!