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Thank you for joining us here Beadaholique.com. Today we have a very fun instructional video. We are going
to make a resin bangle bracelet with embedded objects in it. Just to add a little bit more
fun I'm going to add some glitter as well.
So I have my two part resin all ready mixed
and what I'm going to do is I'm going to take some glitter
and just sprinkle some
into the actual resin itself
and stir it up.
You can add as much glitter as you like or as little or if you don't want any at all. Totally
up to you.
Once that's fairly stirred up,
I'm going to take my stir stick out.
Now I'm using a little plastic cup you can actually go to a restaurant and just get a little to go container
for salad dressing or salsa.
That will work great as well.
I'm going to pinch the corner.
What I'm doing is creating a pour spout.
Now I have my bangle bracelet mold and I actually already used some mold release on it so it's conditioned.
It's real important to be able to get your
bangle out once it's poured
and cured.
I'm just going to carefully
drip some resin into the mold.
I don't wanna fill it all the way up.
I wanna fill it to about
a third.
I'm going to tap a little bit. Let it even out.
Then I'm going to take my object
which I want to embed.
I have some lovely little cabochons.
I'm going to drop it right into the mold
Now for this particular bangle you actually want to have
my cabochon staggered in height
and that's why I only filled with the mold
about a third full
because I'll go back and
do another layer
once this has dried.
It's been twenty-four hours and I'm going to now go ahead and
make the second layer of my embeded
object bangle bracelet.
I want to show you what this looks like at this point. This is solid. It's not going to anywhere.
I filled it up about a third full and what my goal is I want to go ahead
and insert another object.
And by having laid that first layer already, my second object is gonna be at a little bit
of a higher level than my first object. It'll just add a little bit interest.
So I've already blown on my mold to try to get out any dust that might have settled in the last twenty
four hours.
I've also
gone ahead and pre-mixed my part a and part b resin
and now I'm going to add a little bit of glitter
just like we did before.
I'm going to try to eye ball it. I get hopefully about the same amount of glitter as before.
I've already
crimped my corner.
I did that before hand because I knew I was going to have a lot of resin here.
I'm going to try to just delicately
pour into my mold.
When you come almost to the top. Not quiet about a third of an inch to the top.
I'm going to pull back.
Grab my tweezers or your fingers whichever you're more comfortable with.
Drop in my
object. I'm just going to
help them go down a little bit.
When you're happy with their placement
take your resin cup again
and resume filling your bracelet.
You'll probably noticed that I got a little bit of a glob on the edge there.
I can go ahead and sand that off later with a diamond file.
Now that I'm happy with the level of my resin I'm going to let this cure for a full three days before
I try to pop it out of the mold and stand it.
Welcome back it's been several days and now we're ready to see what we've created. I'm sure you're quite
anxious. I know I'm always
chomping at the bit after few days of waiting for my resin to fully cure.
As you can see it's hard and dry within the mold.
Now we want to pop it out of the mold. This could be a difficult tasks so be patient and just keep working
at it. To begin with
gently pull at the sides and
in the middle as well and I wanna show you why I'm doing this.
It's a little bit hard to tell
but you're trying to get some air
into the mold.
Trying to just loosen it up. Get that resin to pull away from the edges.
So with most molds what you are going to want to do is go ahead and push
on the bottom while
holding the top of the mold flat
and that will release it. Unfortunately with the bangle
it's a little bit more difficult.
So we're just gonna
try to not hurt the mold at all
gently pry it away.
This is going to be some pushing.
I know it's really hard to see on camera but we're actually creating it where
a little bit of air is getting down in there and there's a line right now about right here
where our mold is
pulled away from the resin piece and that's what we're gonna try to do. Just keep
working our way around until we get it so that we can pop it out.
Once you start to get to where you have a lip which is coming out of the mold you can actually
start to grab it at this point.
If you're not familiar with working with
resin molds, trust me they're usually not this difficult to get out tut bangle is
really one of the hardest
pieces to release from the mold just because of the shape and how you have so much area
which is sunken down into that
mold of the resin.
There we go.
After all that hard work you now have a bangle bracelet.
Now before we sign off I want to show you one quick thing.
We now have this a little bit of an edge. Most of the time you're not going
to get it so perfectly where you can avoid having a little bit of a rough edge.
To take care that we're lust going to sand it down with a diamond file.
What you want to do first off you want to make sure you have a mask on because you don't want
to breathe in any of the resin dust.
You're just going to
carefully go along the edge.
Depending on how much of a lip you have
depends on how much have to sand
but it will just take it right off.
You can actually see it flaking right there.
Make sure you do wear a mask. Youu don't really want to breathe any of this in.
Have fun wearing your new embedded object resin bangle bracelet.
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