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This is Becky Nunn with Nunn Design, guest designer
for Beadaholique.com In this video I want to show you how to
use two part resin with
a translucent pigment to create curved
bangles such as these. You'll want to have watched the video
but I did on How to Texturize Crystal Clay with Rubber Stamps and Make a Bracelet
you also want to have a good knowledge on
how to mix two-part resin and there's quite a few videos
that you can see on Beadaholique.com about that. You'll also need
a transparent resin die some big cups
and some stir sticks. I've already mixed
my two-part resin in a larger size container and then poured a small amount
into this container. I'm going to add
just a few drops of the transparent resin dye
to the resin and fully mix. You want to do this
when the resin is nice and fresh
and then you're set it aside for some time
until it starts to get fairly solid. You have to just keep on coming back
and see how solid it is
by lifting up your stir stick and getting a gauge
I have continued to come back and check my resin
overtime and this is the consistency that I'm looking for.
it's starting to get quite settled
and very thick and now I'm ready to drizzle it
onto my bangle. You want to take a small amount
on your stir stick, place it down
and you start to apply it onto your bangle
you might want to start with a thinner bangle
like I showed you in the samples. It'll be much
easier to do but I'm just taking my
resin and I'm applying it to my curved surface
bringing it over to the edges
I'll probably go back in on those very
tight areas with a toothpick
just to make sure that I don't get the resin on the sides
and then you're gonna be rotating
the bangle
with your fingers and applying the resin. I'm ready for some more
and you want to make sure that you've allow a lot of time for this project
this is a intermediate project, it's not a beginner's project and it does take a
lot of time
because you'll be needing to babysit it throughout the process
when I mean babysitting
we're allowing it to turn
and as you can see it's starting to drip
and by rotating it continually
you're allowing it to not pool up
into a ball. I'm coming back in
and bringing it over to the side here
and continuing to rotate
and if you start to have it pool up
don't freak out
when you turn it, it'll start to pool the other direction
but this is why it's really important to spend time
dedicated just to this project. If you get any on the side edge
you can go over with a wet wipe and clean it up
so I'm rotating it back and around as it starts to pool
there are resins that are designed to work on a curved surface
and we're actually not using that right now. We're just using the resin that most
people
have readily available, a two-part resin that's typically used for a flat surface
but you can do nicely with
but instead of having to buy a second type a resin
you're able to use the resins that you already have
see how that ones running that's why we're gonna be
constantly rotating it and making sure that we
catch those pools. I'm going to switchback
overs See how we're doing over here
doing good. That happens
I had my finger there, it's a good idea to make sure that your fingers
are on the bracelet at all times
finger check. Then I'm going to rotate it
and continue on and
any given time when you need more resin you just pour a little bit more on
you might want to start with a thinner size bezel first because this one's
very
wide and It'll take a lot longer to complete
drizzling on and moving about
my resin is actually a little more thicker than I think I would
on like to have but I'm making it work
so when you're working on this project
and it's not as easy as I'm making it look
you've got to give yourself some time to figure out how to do this
and it's not like I've made a ton of them but you'll get better with time
so I made a full circle there and I'm just pulling my resin
you saw I had an extra large
clump of it and I'm just pulling it forward. I'm just going through and make
sure that I have all my
edges covered and
that I don't have a lot of excess because I want to make sure that the pattern is
still
showing up. If you have a lot to access you can remove it
the same way we put it on, just put it back into the cup
I actually like it
when it has different quantities. It just
to me it makes it look like it's more handmade. There's just no way you can
make this look on a machine
and I think that that gives it a lot of interesting
that glaze makes it really interesting
so now you know when I said that
you're going to want to babysit this and not be too busy while your
doing this project is because I'll let it sit
like this and I'll comeback like every five
minutes or so and then just kinda rotate it around
a little bit more to make sure that
I don't have a big glob
of resin starting to form at the bottom part
and what that would look like is right here Yto can see that I got distracted I
think I
answered the phone or whatever, I just didn't realize that it wasn't yet
completely done with that globing faze
and so I left it and even though it has that glob on there
I really that's cool
this is a unique piece. While we're letting that last piece cure, it'll
take up to 24 hours before
it's finally cured and your able to wear your fun little bangle
and that is how you are able to put
two-part resin with a translucent
pigment over epoxy clay
This is Becky Nunn for Beadaholique.com
I hope you enjoyed.
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