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Thanks for joining us again at Beadaholique.com Today I want to show you how to
prepare images in your bezel settings which you will then fill with resin.
You have a wide array
of various bezel shapes available to you on the market. A lot of them are very
fun shapes like hearts
and bottle caps and you also have more traditional shapes like rectangles,
squares.
Some are one sided,
stays flat on the other side
and some are actually
two sided.
Once you've chosen your bezel setting you know will need to find an image to
put into it.
There's a lot of wonderful
collage sheets available for you and what's nice is if you are using a Patera finding
such as this one
it is actually
specifically sized
collage images to fit exactly into your bezel shape.
They're actually gone one step further and there's a hole punch which
is the exact size
to punch out that image which will then fit into your setting.
So you can go that route or you can go ahead and print something off the
computer, use an old photograph.
Really the sky's the limit. Any paper good is gonna work
to fit into your setting.
So what I want to do is I want to use this little bottle cap.
A little trick with bottle caps is that the interior diameter
is almost the size of the United States quarter.
So that's a really great
guideline. So I actually just trace this quarter.
So I'm mistake a collage sheet
and you can tell there's actually not an image that is the exact same size of my bottle cap.
I'm going to take this little lady right here
and cut her out.
Set aside the rest of my sheet.
You can tell she is not a circle shape.
I'm going to cut the top
so I have a guideline to work with.
Then I'm going to line,
it's a little hard to see this on camera but I can
faintly see through
the paper.
I want her head centered.
I'm going to put my quarter on there.
Now take a pencil. It's very important to use a pencil. I'll show you in a moment why.
I'm just going to cut it out.
Now I'm going to see how it fits into my setting.
It fits just about perfect.
So now you're going to need to glue her into place. I have Nunn Design glue right here. You can
use any thyme of whit glue that you want.
A good white glue is what you're looking for.
Now you can use a paintbrush
or you can use your fingers. Personally I like using my fingers. So I've got
a pad of paper right here.
Flip her over
and what's important when you're coating the backside with glue is you really want to
make sure you go to all the edges and that's really why I like use my finger.
I just feel like I have a little bit more control
but you can use a paint brush.
Just wash it out after you've used it. You can reuse is again.
I'm just going to set her down.
I'm gonna go around the edge with my finger
and press her into place.
I'm trying to get out any air bubbles. I'm also trying to just make sure that
she's
tightly bonded
with the setting.
I'm going to let her dry for about ten minutes. I just want to make sure that the glue
totally dry before going to the next step.
My setting is now dry. Now I need to do a top coat.
So I have a couple of choices. I can use a sealant.
Now Nunn Design Sealant is a great option because it works well with
inkjet printers.
So it won't cause your ink to run. I'm sure you've had experiences where you've
put a sealer on top of a printed
piece of paper off of your printer and the colors have bled
and runs. So this is going to actually prevent that from happening. So this is a
really good option if you're going to ahead and use something that you've printed
yourself at home.
Another option you have is Mod Podge. This is a really good option as well for
a top coat.
For this particular project I'm going to go ahead and use Mod Podge.
I'm going to poor a little bit on my paper.
This time I am going to use a paint brush and I'm going to show you why.
So when you're gonna coat your image you want to go a round the edges. You
wanna make sure
that those edges are sealed because otherwise your resin is going to seep
underneath your paper and cause discoloration.
So I always go around the edges first
and then into the middle.
If you do a little bit a cross pattern,
it'll help to reduce
the amounts streaks you have.
I actually feel like I have a little too much on my paint brush there so I just wiped it off.
So I'm going to let that dry and I'll come back
and I'm gonna do a second coat and perhaps even a third coat and I'll show you why.
So over here
I have some examples
of resin filled
bottle cap settings have already done.
With a little girl here, this is a Renoir painting. It was just printed
off of a computer. You can tell it's rather thin paper
and you can see how bright she is to begin with in her original form.
In this first one I actually didn't put a sealant on top. So I glued the
paper into the
bottle cap and then I put the resin directly on top of it. There was not
another layer like Mod Podge or sealant.
Look at how dark she became. Now she is perfectly even
in her coloration which is really important. So that is one option to you.
Now remember I said you want to go ahead and use a pencil.
If you look closely around her edge you can tell that I actually used a pen to
trace the quarter
and then that blue pen I used actually seeped through to the top. So
that's why you wanna use a pencil.
Now in the second one
I put one layer of sealant
over and look how muddled she is. You can tell the her face is kinda
blotchy.
So when you are going to use a sealant or Mod Podge you want to do at least two perhaps
even three coats.
So here's another example.
Here is an image from the paris
collage sheet.
You can tell that is quite a bit darker than the original image.
You can see the colorization
has dark in quite a bit. You can also see the blue pen coming through
but it's very even. So this is a great antiqued look. So it is an option. It's not
something you just discredit right away and think oh I'm always going to seal it
because it's kinda nice sometimes to have that real vintage look.
Now here I used one coat of Mod Podge and
you can tell it is blotchy
and on this one I actually used two coats. This is a much more even finish.
There's still one little spot where the resin darkened
the paper. So I would actually recommend doing three coats.
Here's a couple other examples. Here was
an image I did and I sealed with sealant.
You can you see that it did streak through a little bit. It works with this particular
collage that i did
but
it's not ideal
and that was one coat.
Now here's a little lady
that's very similar to the one we just cut out and did
and she was actually coated with two coats.
You can tell one tiny tiny little spot
but overall it is pretty even.
Here's another example
of two coats and there's no spotting at all.
Before we conclude I want to just give you one more tip.
Never fill your bezels with resin till your sealants, your Mod Podge glue
is totally dry.
You see how there's a little white film
and that's of course because my Mod Podge is not dry yet.
If I was to put resin on top of this right now and that would actually be
sealed in there and would remain permanently white.
It might even cloud the resin. So you want to make sure it's completely dry.
Be patient. You'll be a lot happier with the results in the end.
We do show you in another Beadaholique.com instructional video
how to mix your resin,
pour it
and finish it.
Thanks for joining us.
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