I want to show you today how you can do something that's a
little bit different, but makes a beautiful finish.
Now, I've got this new mold, and it's a really good quality mold.
Wasn't expensive at all. It will make a lovely little tray,
and you'll make a difference of a tray that hasn't got the
wriggly bits around the outside.
Now I'm going to be using today a combination of the quicker cure
resin by JDiction, and also the JDiction's UV resin,
which I think is the best resin on the market for UV resin.
And I love this quick cure stuff.
It just makes life so much easier.
I'm also going to be using something else that you would
be surprised that I'm using you unless you've seen a video that
I made about two years ago, then you wouldn't be surprised.
Now, when you filling your tray initially, make sure you don't
go any further than about a third of the way up, because
you will need the space above this cured resin base to be
able to finish off what you want to do know.
I've added quite a bit of mica powder to this, because I just
love the shimmeriness of it.
Make sure that you're working on a level area as well.
So it doesn't all pool into one end.
Well, this is all cured up now the base
Oh yeah, you can see, I've used a black sharpie to draw on my
picture that I want to make this into the cloisonné kind of style.
So I've got my large torch on, because I'll be using my large
torch because it spreads out the light a lot more.
And I think it's a lot more concentrated.
And all I do is tip my bottle up and let it cure as it's
coming out following around the image that I've got there, and
you don't need it to cure up perfectly.
You just need it to kind of stop it from running.
So once I've got my image there, I'll just blast that again with
a bit more torchlight.
And I do sections at a time, and I'll show you why in a second.
So that's should be really on the way to being cured.
And then all I'll do is I'll go around the top of it again
to give it a little bit more Height.
Now, you might be wondering, well, that's clear.
How is that cloisonné?
I'm going to show you how I turn that into like a cloisonné
look in a minute and that will be the bit that will be really surprising.
Well, now we've got the rough height of what I want.
So I've gone over that twice with the thicker bottle.
So now it's time to use the thinner nozzle bottle with a
black cap on that.
I filled with UV resin and what I can do now is go around there.
And that will give me a neater line on it.
I'll do this bit here.
I'll try and focus into this bit here.
And now I can go over there with thinner line like this.
all the way around.
And that should give me that nice, clear crisp top.
Well, now that's all as high as I need it.
And I'm hoping it's all of a fairly level height
I'm going to go round it now with on the top bit that I did
with my embossing pen.
Now, these are easy to get hold of, and I will link them in the
description below.
So don't worry.
So I'm just going to quickly go around it with my embossing pen
and get some embossing glue on there,
and then sprinkle a little bit of gold on to here.
And then once it's all on there, it will stick on there.
Nice.
It doesn't matter if it goes other places, because that's
not going to be seen.
And then I can tap that out onto this piece of paper that
I've got here.
And once it's all done, that is when I will go round and use my
embossing gun on it, because with resin now, I've embossed resin before.
Probably back 2 or 3 years ago.
I did a video on it so it does emboss really nicely.
But you do need to just follow a couple of really simple rules
to ensure that you're not damaging the resin and to get
it to emboss as quickly as possible.
All my embossing powder is now on there.
So what I need to do is before I go ahead and try and emboss
this, I need to heat this gun up, and I'll heat my embossing
gun up for probably about 40 or 50 seconds before I go ahead
and then emboss that.
So that should be nice and hot now, and I'm gonna start here.
Keep it away from the edges of your mold, because the last thing
you want to do is in any way burn your mold.
And this is quite hot.
This heat, this embossing gun.
And then just slowly you can see embossing now.
Just slowly follow this around until it's all embossed on there.
And then you've got your edging.
Now, I'm going to pull my mold away here, because I don't want
it to burn my mold.
I mean, it shouldn't do, but I just like to be careful with it.
Can you see how much of a difference it makes by having
it hot first?
And then I may go over this and give it another embossing
afterwards, I'll just see how it comes out.
If not, then what I'll do is I'll try to patch up any areas
that I feel need patching up.
Well, that's all finished.
Now I've heard it all up, and I do think there are a couple of
areas where it's not as high as others, but we'll see how that gets on.
I'm going to be using the JDiction's times 3 UV protection resin.
Because I really like that resin.
Great resin.
I will link that in the description below as well.
Well, I've mixed up my colors.
And what I'm going to be using is a pipette to make sure that
I get this in where I want it.
Now it doesn't matter, because this bottom bit is cured if you
drip it into the other areas, because you can always wipe it
always using a baby wipe.
And what I do is I go right up to the very edges and then kind
of fill it in, because I don't want it to overflow.
And I do the same with these
flowers as well, because I don't want those to overflow.
I want to keep this as neat and crisp as possible.
And because I'm going to put a flood coat on it at the end,
then that will help it as well.
So you don't need to fill it right up to the point where it
is going to overflow.
I'm using the pipette does make it more easy.
I love the look of the mica in this, because it kind of gives
them a really nice multi-textured look.
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So again, now this is a lighter red that I'm using or a pink.
Because I want to have the contrast between the two and
it does give you quite a nice area deep area for this resin
to go in using this method and technique.
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So again, just going through filling in all the areas,
because you want to make sure that everywhere is completely
filled in, and there's no gaps and pop any bubbles as well as
they're coming up.
Now, when I'm putting this base color in, I do all the outline
first so that I know the height that it needs to go.
And then I fill it in.
And because this resin is such a great resin, it isn't real thin runny resin.
So you are sure that where you're putting it, it is going to stay.
And again, it doesn't matter if you don't quite feel it right
to the top because of the flood coat that's going to go on it anyway.
So this is what it looks like.
I'm going to let this cure up.
This layer is all nicely cured up now, and I am absolutely
loving how it's come out.
I do think the mica powders really set it off lovely.
Now you can leave it like this, or like I'm going to do, put
a flood coat over the top of this of clear, because
I think that just finishes it off nicely and you can use it then
as a tray or something to put things on before I do that.
What I'm going to do is clean up the edges of this mold,
because I don't want these bits of blue and all that going into
any of my clear resin.
And I also don't want any of this powder from the embossing
going in my clear coat.
So all I use to do that with is some thin tape and
it's just worth taking the couple of minutes that it takes to clean
it all up nicely because you'll get a really much nicer
look and finish to it.
Now wouldn't normally show me doing a flood coat, because
it's pretty basic thing to do.
But what I thought was important and why I'd show
it this time is that when you doing the flood coat, make sure
that you go up to the highest point and above of any of these
cloisonné kind of pieces, because that way you're going to get
a much neater finish.
And again, make sure this is on a level surface.
So it doesn't all run off and pop any bubbles at this stage as well.
Because you don't want those to ruin your piece.
I let this cure overnight.
So it's really quite nice and hard now,
and I'm unveiling it on a white background for a special lady
that's asked me to do that.
And you know who you are.
So there we go.
It's all done for you,
And it's just about taking it out now.
And there we go.
I love this technique.
It is such a beautiful way to get a beautiful cloisonné finish to piece.
Now you could use this as a tray.
You could have it on the wall.
You could inset it into something.
There's a lot of things that you could do with this, but
there's also lots of ways that you can use this technique.
So please let me know in the comments if you've enjoyed this,
it's really simple.
All done just using the JDiction resins.
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