Hello, welcome to Steve McDonald's arts and crafts.
And today I'm going to be doing, is doing something a little bit
different with my molds.
Now, I love this heart mold, and it gives some great effects,
and I want to be able to get a little heart in between it.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to fill this up with
resin, and then I'm going to place this mold on here
and let these bottom bits, which aren't at all shiny, sit into
some of these areas.
I've got my resin mixed up.
And now what I'm doing is I'm pouring it into the heart, but
I'm also decanting some off.
I just like to say a quick thank you to all my members
whose names are coming up now.
And if you'd like to become a member and benefit from all the
perks of the membership, then the join button is at the top,
or the link is in the description below.
Great little community.
So
Now I've decanted some off, what I can do is add some
transparent liquids to them.
And these liquids are really good.
I haven't made them too dark, because want to make sure that
when I do put the additional bits in later on that they can still be seen.
Filling these hearts up, I make sure that I don't feel them
right to the top, because there will be a little bit of
displacement that will happen when you do the next stage.
So popping this mold on the top, try and cover as many of these as possible.
But as you can see, there is one where it just doesn't get
any coverage at all.
But I will put a little heart inside that one.
Now, when you're doing this, making sure that you've got
good contact between the mold that you just put on the top
and the resin underneath, because that way you will get
the effect that you're looking for.
And if you haven't got that contact, just add a tiny little
bit more resin into the mold, and then let this cure up completely.
Well, this is all cured up nicely now.
And when you take that mold off, what you get left with is you
get left with some nice little indents here of where the hearts were.
The first thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to use some
silver mica powder on this one.
and just fill in that heart.
I'm not taking them out the molds as yet, because I want
them to stay in there when I dome them with the final resin.
So I'm just using a makeup brush here to smooth that all out
because the makeup brush is nice and soft.
So that's that bit done, and knocking off all the spare,
just blowing it off, because
I don't want that to be around there.
And now, the other thing that I'm going to use is the
JDiction UV resin on this,
and I'll show you what I'm going to do with that.
So I'm just going to fill that in that heart there.
And that little bit there don't need much.
This is why it's useful to have some UV resin in your resin studio.
So that's enough.
And then what I'm going to do is just sprinkle a tiny bit of
this blue glitter over the top of that.
Let that soak in for a moment and then blow off all the excess.
And if you've got any little bits that you really don't want
to be there, all you need to do is take a little bit of tape
and just take off any that you don't want in a particular area.
Now I'm just going to cure that up as well.
Well, so I don't knock that around, and I'm just going to
go over that and shine the light through it both sides
and that'll help keep that Glitter all nice and stuck in there.
The next one is I'm going to use some gold leaf on this one.
So I want to pop a little bit of gold leaf glue down on it.
So that will shine through.
So I'll put a bit there.
I'll spread that all around wherever I want, the gold leaf.
I'm going to do one with gold leaf and one with silver leaf
and let that glue dry.
And then once is dry, I can then put the gold and silver leaf on it.
And you've got a nice little rim where that mold attaches into
the resin so you can go right up to that little rim.
I put the gold and silver leaf in as you can see so gold
leaf in here and silver leaf in these ones and some more mica powder.
And why did what here was?
I mixed up a little bit of the JDiction, white pigment liquid
in with some UV resin, and just popped it in there and then
then just quickly cured it up.
All I'm doing is really doming these over.
And what that will do is that will protect everything that
you've added to this little casting.
I just want to say a quick thank you.
If you'd like to buy me a coffee, just to say thank you
for any of my videos and help support this Channel and get
your name on my coffee board.
The link for that is in the description below.
So make sure that you've got no bubbles on this and then let it cure up.
Well, these are all cured up nicely now.
So it's just case of demolding them and taking them out.
I did let have a little bit of an over pour on that one.
So I just need to trim that off, and they've come out really really pretty.
I think I love the silver leaf ones and the gold leaf ones.
I mean, silver leaf and gold leaf one is always one of my favorite things.
The ones with the mica powder, they didn't come out as
prominent as I had hoped, but that is probably because I
didn't use a clear resin to make the actual heart with I
used a colored resin, but you can still actually see in there a little bit.
And I think that is quite subtle.
The one with the UV resin that has come out nice, and they are
obviously because they've been domed on the back.
You can wear them either way round, but I actually quite
like them that way round.
It's really easy to convert these into pendants so that you
can hang them up, or you can convert them into things that
hang on tree or as a wedding favor little decorations.
All you need is a drill.
I'm going to be using the great rotary tool that I've got from
TILSWALL and I will link these in the description below
because they're so cheap.
I think they're about 39-
40 dollars. Really really cheap but they're great.
And they're so useful come with lots of different attachments
that you can use for polishing your resin, drilling your resin
and all sorts of things that you also come with this flexi
shaft as well, which I like to use, because I feel it's a
little bit more manageable.
So I'm going to do is drill through these where I want them to hang.
Now, I like my heart's to hang kind of off-center, so I don't
really want to hang them from the middle you can and you can
drill down into the heart and then put a little hook in there.
But I like them to hang off center.
So I'm just going to drill through there.
Look how wonderful that TILSWALL tool. Just glides through there.
And then all I do is I take a micro brush like this, and you
can just clean up the little hole.
Now, these are all cleaned up it is fairly easy to do whatever
you want to do with them with the holes in.
I'm going to put a couple of these little key ring bits in
and turn them into keyrings.
And these ones, I'm just going to turn into pendants, and I'm
going to be using these push bails that I've got for this.
I'm going to be using fairly plain one
and quite a nice filigree one.
And all you need to do with these is you pull them apart like that
you get the little posts either side of the holes that you've
made push them together,
and then they'll sit on there like that as pendants.
And then you've got a nice pendant as well.
So nice and simple, easy to do, but gives a really great, I
think, effect that is actually difficult to achieve any other way.
And they look lovely both sides as well.
If you've enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up.
It really does help my videos to get out there.
And let me know what you think of this technique in the comments below.
I really, would be interested to know what you think.
Check out the video that's coming up next.
And that's on another jewelry Advanced Techniques that are
actually quite simple to do everything that I've used today.
I've listed in the description below.
Take care.
Enjoy your resin, Bye.