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Hi I'm Julie with Beadaholique.com and I want to show you have to apply resin into
some unusual objects. So if you've familiar with working with resin and watching our
videos you've probably seen bus fill things like bezel pendants and
bezel earrings and
the common thread is usually just a bezel and you'll see that
a bezel here has these nice sides around it and a flat interior surface
this is a bezel button and so you might be wondering
how do I fill a bezel button because as you know if you
work with resin you need to have a flat
parallel to
the table and needs to be on an even keel
and a button is going to tilt, your resin is going to spill out
and same thing with these little discs here. I've had people say how
do you
apply resin to an object that doesn't have a bezel ring, how do you do it if it's
just flat and there's just a straight edge
I'm going to show you how to apply resin to both of these objects which I've
gotten some requests for
so let's begin
the first thing you're going to need is a box. I have a Beadaholique.com shipping box
but any box will work
go ahead
tape it up
and then don't put it this way
because
it's uneven. You wanted to go ahead and be on its side
that's a nice fairly solid
it tilt's a little bit but it's a fairly solid surface
then if you're going to do a button
you're going to take an object such as this pen
punch the surface of the box
you've created a little cavity
that you can put
your button into and suddenly
you have a nice
flat surface to pour the resin into
now for these objects that have no bezel here's a great tip from the Beadaholique.com
customer service department, actually this is Jason's tip
and what he says to do is
push the push pin
into the cardboard box
apply a little bit of Crafter's Pick glued to the top of it
then
rest your object on top and the reason you want to elevate it is because we're
going to be relying on surface tension
to keep the resin in place and keep it from spilling over the edge
you can
do this with it flat on the surface like that but I find it just works a little
bit better
when it's raised up so I prefer to do it that way
now all of my images have been prepped. I want to briefly tell you what I
did to prep the images. You can watch
one of the other videos on beadaholique.com which fully goes over prepping images
for use with resin, how to use resin and how to use other types of resin
but for the purpose of this video I'm going to tell you. So what I did
with a object like this was I just applied
Crafter's Pick
on top of the surface
flipped it over
set it down on some collage paper and let it dry
I then trimmed the collage paper
so that's right up against the edge of my stamping blank
put a little a dab of glue on top of this push pin
and set
it down like so
and then once that was done I went ahead and I coated my
paper and I did that with my buttons and with this little flat stamping
blanks as well and I used three coats of Nunn Design sealant and made sure I
coated
the edges as well. It's really important that you use three coats
let me show you how to do this techniques. I mixed up a batch
of Ice Resin
equal parts
and you'll see that I'm not going to use all of this resin in this particular
video so we do have another project
in the background to use the leftover resin for
gonna pick up some resin on my popsicle stick which was my stir stick
and I'm just going to carefully
drip it in little by little
into the center
of the button. You'll see it spreads out to the edges
you won't be able to see this time. I'm actually going to ahead and hunker down and
look at it
from this way so I'm eye level with them
to see if i need to add more
so that looks pretty even to me. I do want to create an
ever so slight dome so add a little bit more
go to the next one and do the same
if you see that it is sliding too much to one side
rotate it a little bit
without touching the resin
to make sure that it is completely level
it can take a little finessing but you'll get it
add
a little bit more
one tip if you have bezel shapes like these. These are Nunn Design buttons
and you see they're not really the size of traditional of a hole punch or anything
if you put these down
these down on a copier
like this
bezel side down, make a copy
you can then go ahead and cut out the imprint that it makes and that you can
use as a template for cutting out your shapes
now when you have an object that does not have an bezel edge
again pick up
your resin on your popsicle stick
you are going to go
very slowly dripping resin into the center of the object
spill out to the edges
to not rush this process because again you're relying on surface tension here
to hold to resin in place. If you apply too much resin too quickly
it's going to spill over
once these are fully cured you can just pop
the thumb tact off the back because they just it's just Crafter's Pick glue that was holding it in place
If you're ever unsure if you need to add anymore to this one just pause for a moment
see how it spills out take that view of that eye
level
I'm actually quite happy with that so I'm going to stop and then you
go ahead and use all this left over resin on another project because you
cannot save mixed resin
so if you want a more detail explanation of how to mix resin, how to
use resin
how to prepare your images definitely check out Beadaholique.com and all of
our videos in our mixed media section on that topic
but I hope this video helped answer some your questions on how you might fill
something like a button that doesn't have a flat back or something that
doesn't actually have a bezel edge that's just
a flat straight drop edge
so I hope you enjoy this video and that it answered some of your questions. Go to www.beadaholique.com to purchase beading supplies and to get design ideas!