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Hi this is Julie with Beadaholique.com and today I want to show you how to use Lillypilly
stamping blanks. I've got some here that are twenty five-millimeter, so an inch
I have smaller ones as well
so how do you use these in conjunction with the epoxy stickers,
glass domes and resin
so it's really a great way of altering these
components to use in your various jewelry design projects
I'm going to start with what the easiest technique is and that is a epoxy sticker
so I have one that has already been applied
this is what it looks like
it's fairly easy to do
I have a sheet here of very conveniently one inch epoxy stickers
so I'm going to peel it off. I'm going to be really careful to only touch the sides
not touch the stick um
and pull this
directly
onto my Lillypilly blank
you will notice the Lillypilly blanks are just ever so slightly larger than the
glass domes and the epoxy stickers
just make sure that
the stickers are centered when you put it down
You're only going to get one try at this because you don't want to
pull up that stick um once you've applied it
there we go
it's on
press it down with our fingers and pressing from both sides
all the way around
and that sticker is on there very good and here's one that I did a while
back
You see
it's not coming off so they apply really well
what's very nice about the stickers is you can actually hole punch right
through them
if you're familiar with this, this is actually a hole punch that works really
well on metal. So we have aluminum here that we need to punch through
so you're not going to want to go through this way because it's actually going to mar
the sticker. We want to
turn our pliers upside down
decide where you want to punch
and squeeze
just release it a little
you see a little bit of the sticker stick up
you actually have a hole now both the the sticker and the aluminum blank which
it's very handy and there's a little bit of extra sticker in there
I'm going to take a head pin
push that through
and there you have the hole
so that's the easiest method
and that's what that looks like. Now the second method I want to show you is using a glass
dome. So with glass domes you'll often have the choice
of your height. You can see this one has the lowest profile, medium and highest
so depending upon which one you choose is how magnified your images will be
this one will probably be pretty dramatic
so here's with the lower profile one
here is with
the medium
see how that image just got a lot bigger
and here's the high profile
I want to show you with one more color just so you can see again
so low profile
medium profile
and high profile
so I'm going to go with the low profile one
and to apply that I've got my Diamond Glaze
I'm just going to put a dab in the middle
you don't need a lot
I'm
flip this over
and press it onto place
on top of
your Lillypilly blank and press it down so that Diamond Glaze runs out
all over
you're just going to leave that undisturbed
while it dries and then it's going to dry. It's going to be like this
and you'll see that this is not going anywhere
and that is a glass dome on top of the Lillypilly. I'm just not going to touch that one
I'm going to let it dry
and then a third way you can alter these
blanks and create a domed appearance is with resin and I've done that with this
one. I actually ahead of time colored
the Lillypilly blank with permanent sharpie markers and now we have another
video on Beadaholique.com showing you how to do that
and you can use any type of resin for this. For the purpose of the video I'm using
UV resin. This is Lisa Pavelka UV Magic-Glos and it cures with a
UV light
or direct sunlight actually. I have a UV lamp right here I'm going to be using
you could do this very easily with two part resin as well
and I might actually recommend that just because we need doming it and then we
actually have to pick it up
and put it into the UV light whereas if you've just got two part resin and you
don't have to move it so every time you move it you do risk
it
spilling over
so I've taken a little posted note, I folded it in half and it's going to be my tray
I want to put my Lillypilly
on top of my post it
I've got my
resin and I'm dripping it in the middle
try not to do too much all at once
I have
head pin here that I'm using
you could use a toothpick as well
I'm going to use it to spread
the resin to the edges
and surface tension is actually what keeps it
from spilling over, actually creating an nice little dome shape
be patient don't go too quickly with this
because you don't want to break that surface tension
now actually feel like I can get a little higher dome on this one
put another drop in the middle
another two
I'm happy with that
now I have a couple little air bubbles so what I'm going to do
is I have a micro torch
I'm going to remove my fingers so they don't get in the way here. I'm just going to hit it really
quick with the micro torch
you saw how quickly that was. You don't want your work surface to burn up
so now I'm going to turn on my UV light
and I'm just going to go ahead
and stick it
in there
and that looks pretty flat to me. If yours doesn't look flat. If your surface here
is a little wobbled but I can actually see that the Lillypilly itself is flat
if it's not flat try to make it so or try to very carefully use your fingernail
without touching the resin and scoot the Lillypilly around
so thats
completely leveled otherwise you'll have a dip in your resin
I'm going to put this in the light fifteen minutes
and it's going to come out and it's going to be solid like this one
so there's three different options for you on using the Lillypilly aluminum
blanks
and using them in conjunction the epoxy sticker which is very quick an easy
the
glass tiles which is very easy as well and then a little bit more work is the
resin but it has a really nice
effect and finish to it
So let your creativity flow and have fun with these various mixed media
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