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And what I've got today is some of this clear wrap now.
It's really thin.
I've got it for my cards.
I like to use it in my card making, and my other crafts on
my other channel.
What I thought I'd see is if it can go in resin, Now I'm sure other
people have put it in resin, but I haven't.
And so I thought, I'd try it, I'm going to be using these
dragonfly glazes over the top of it.
Let it dry and then put it in.
And I'm going to give it a really good crinkle first,
because I think that might and make it look nice, although it is quite thin.
So I'm not sure how well those crinkles will stay in it, but I
think that could give it a nice look, I'm going to choose from colours.
And then what I'll do is I will put these over the top.
And these are the little coaster molds cut around circling them.
And then I can add this to the resin and see what happens.
I've got my circles out now.
They should all fit nicely into these molds.
But what I'm going to do is paint these first using the dragon glaze.
Now, I have no idea how this is going to come out, whether it's
going to come out at all, or whether it's going to make any
difference whatsoever by painting them.
But we will find out.
First one I'm going to be using is the greenie gold one.
You don't need to put too much on just a little bit.
I have crinkled these up first, but I probably will crinkle them up again.
Once this is dry, it shouldn't take too long to dry.
And it does paint on there quite nicely.
I will paint it on both sides, because I want to make make
sure it can be seen from both sides.
And I also think it will thicken up this little bit of
plastic a little bit better as well.
And that's quite pretty.
I'm also going to on this one, use some of the metallic paint
and see how the metallic paint from our Arteza comes out before
I put my crinkle paper in what I want to do is create almost
like a frame or an outline around these coasters.
And that's what I love about these coaster mold.
You can do that.
So I'm thing a PU resin.
So it cures up really quick with some glittery.
Well, these are all curd now this bit in here, because I
want to have a border around it.
And so has the dragonfly glaze and the paint dried that I put
onto these little thin plastic sheets.
And all I've done is I've just screwed them up like that to
give them a little bit more of a pattern.
I don't know how well that patterns going to stay in it,
or whether this is even going to work in here.
It may just curl up.
And I did the same with all the other bits.
as well, like this.
I'm going to unwrap these.
And then these are going to go into the middle there on each one of these.
I'm not sure if the curing of the resin will heat these thin
plastic up too much and cause it to warp or bend or whatever it may do.
Who knows, but we'll find out won't we, and we'll find out together.
So I'm going to mix me resin up and then we can do a pour on those.
Well, I put a little bit of resin in the bottom of these
coasters just to cover that bottom, to allow this plastic to stick to it.
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So I'm using my tweezers to push out quite firmly any
bubbles that are trapped underneath the plastic from
when you put it in, and it will make a real big difference to
the look of the coaster.
When you de-mold it, I'm now filling it up using the resin,
right to the top.
I'll let it sit for a couple of minutes, and then I'll go go
over it with my long neck lighter to burst the bubbles.
Never a torch.
Remember on a silicon mold, you don't want to be damaging
the mold, and then I'll leave it to cure up.
These are all cured up.
Now, I'm really interested to see how they're going to come out.
They should come out of these molds really easily.
I like having the additional ring around the edge,
and that's the great thing about these coaster mold.
I mean, but if you don't want that, then you don't have to
have the different color.
I think they've come out really, really pretty.
That's the one where I painted it.
So it's definitely more opaque.
So you're not going to be able to see through that that I
think that is come out lovely.
I just feel that the rim gives it that finished frame.
Look to it.
What do you think?
The ones where I use the dragon glaze on them, and they've
still become quite translucent, because obviously, the film is
quite clear.
It's very thin, but I think that has come out.
Nice that one again, translucent, I think that you
could do them in rainbow colors.
You could do them all the same color, depending on which
technique that you want to use.
I think that is definitely a success.
Like I said, I'm probably not the first person to use this
stuff in resin, but I thought I'd give it a try as I got it.
Let me know what you think in the comments below, and which
one you like the best, whether it's the dragon glaze one, or
whether it's the painted one, let's show you two.
So you can make a decision.
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