You&#;ve gone down the rabbit hole of resin jewelry making, and you ended up here. (Sounds like you&#;ve got good karma.) You&#;re ready to give this a try, but it looks hard. And now you&#;re not sure you want to give this a try.
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Let me go ahead and confirm your suspicions.
Resin is hard &#; but only if you go into this unprepared.
Hi, I&#;m Katherine. Consider me your Janet of the &#;The Resin Good Place&#; as you start your time making resin jewelry.
Here&#;s one&#;
I&#;ve got this idea for a resin ring I was hoping you could help me with. I want to do it in many colors. I&#;m not sure exactly what the ring will look like, but how do I make a mold for it? And what kind of resin should I use for the ring? Oh, and by the way, I have never made anything with resin before. Do you have any tips you can share? Thanks in advance for your help.
My Janet brain is on overload now and asking for a reboot.
I love the ambition and big-picture ideas here. But this is a train wreck ready to plow into your creative time. Resin can be such a fussy beast for even the most experienced jewelry-making artist. This project would take several days to develop and several more days to finish. (And that&#;s assuming everything goes perfectly)
Imagine your cousin has announced she&#;s cooking Thanksgiving dinner. And she has never so much as boiled water for an egg.
I think you get my concern here.
But here&#;s how I really know that starting your resin jewelry making time like this is a problem&#;
Because I did the SAME THING when I learned lost wax casting. On the first day of class, I showed a picture to the teacher of what I wanted to make. She smiled and remarked on my ambition. I wish she had smacked me in the head and demanded I make a simple project first. (I don&#;t condone violence, but I can be like a dog with a rawhide when I&#;ve got an idea.)
I struggled and failed. If I hadn&#;t seen what you could do with lost wax casting, I would have convinced myself it was stupid and didn&#;t work.
Which is what I hear from those who&#;ve tried resin, and it &#;didn&#;t work.&#;
Yeah, those free YouTube videos aren&#;t as good at teaching you as you might think.
Start with simple projects to gain skills before trying something Instagram makes look easy. Becoming a gifted resin jewelry maker is possible, but it&#;s not going to happen in a hot minute.
If you&#;re a novice or have tried it only to think, &#;This was a waste of a good afternoon,&#; let&#;s try again. The difference this time is that I&#;m your resin jewelry making guide. And I&#;ve got a roadmap just for you.
I&#;ve got FOUR goals and FOUR projects to get you to resin jewelry making wizard.
You must be able to mix resin and know it will cure hard, clear and unsticky &#; every time. For this step, we&#;re simply going to focus on the resin.
&#; Start with an epoxy resin.
Why? Epoxies are the easiest to work with. I&#;ve tried them all with my seventeen years as a resin artist. You can trust me on this. They are the most forgiving of mistakes, and the pot time is long enough to use it before it starts to gel.
Extra credit for a test that won&#;t be given: Learn the resin vocabulary terms and what they mean.
&#; Get the right resin tools and supplies.
I can&#;t stress how important it is to ACCURATELY measure your resin kit liquids. It&#;s why I use resin mixing cups EVERY TIME I use resin.
&#; Understand the epoxy resin you&#;re using.
Resins don&#;t all behave the same way.
If you&#;re still thinking, &#;resin doesn&#;t work&#;, I&#;m betting you aren&#;t one who likes reading directions. Which, in all honesty, describes me too sometimes. But let&#;s just say that in all my years of helping artists worldwide with making resin jewelry, when things go sideways, it&#;s operator error 95% of the time.
Make something where the resin is the only variable for your first project.
Why? If something goes wrong, there&#;s only one place to look for the reason.
To do this, make something that you pour the resin into that doesn&#;t need demolding. Jewelry bezels are perfect for this. Mix your resin and pour it into the reservoir. You don&#;t have to worry about demolding, and you&#;ll know how you did the next day.
And the perfect project to try this with is using resin as a glue to make a ring.
Resin is begging you to add things like resin pigment, papers, glitters, and more. But, you must seal anything porous first before adding it to the resin. Otherwise, you&#;ll end up with something that looks like the paper at the bottom of a buffalo wings basket.
How do you know if it&#;s porous? Ask yourself whether getting the item wet will stain it. If the answer is yes, then you will need to seal it.
Goto Duote to know more.
And because there are a few different ways you can do that, I&#;ve written an article devoted to how to seal paper for resin.
Once you&#;re good at project #1, tempt your resin with a chance to go wrong. Yep. If you don&#;t push yourself to fail, you&#;ll never get good at making resin jewelry.
Resin hates moisture, so learn what it&#;s like to add moisture, like colors or items that need sealing. It&#;s another variable that can cause problems, but something else to push yourself through. Try this project: Recycle greeting cards into resin pendants
When I was jewelry making beginner, I remember the first time I poured resin into a mold. Whoa. Now it can stay a permanent shape? Pouring it into an epoxy mold is the way to make this happen, but it also adds an extra level of skill. You need to be sure you&#;re using a resin mold release and resin for molds.
Let&#;s give silicone molds a try. Here&#;s a project to try: How to make colorful resin pendants.
Certain resins have the property of being thick enough to dome onto a surface. This means you don&#;t need sides to keep the resin in a raised finish. I&#;ve saved this goal for last because it&#;s important that you have a feel for how much resin you can pour into a space. It can be a bit of a Jenga game to do this step. You drip on enough resin to create the dome, but not so much that it runs over the side of the bezel. It takes practice and patience to get good at this.
Choose your favorite scrapbook paper, and add it to a wood jewelry base. Seal the paper and finish with a dome of epoxy resin.
We&#;ve got a great tutorial on making resin earrings that shows you exactly how.
No dear padawan. (Whoops. Blip from another universe.)
No dear resin jewelry making novice soon to be amazing resin artist. No.
In fact, there&#;s ONE BIG THING that I didn&#;t cover.
Your success also depends on using the best epoxy resin for what you want to make.
That last part is pretty important. Because there is no one resin that will beautifully make everything YOU want to make.
&#; You can get a free copy of my resin buying guide. It details all the resins we sell and what you should use them for. Yes, we sell the BEST resin supplies in addition to sharing tons of practical advice. (And don&#;t worry, if it&#;s something I won&#;t use, we don&#;t sell it.)
&#; I&#;ve got another article that details the best jewelry epoxy so you can dial it in even further to make some amazing resin bling.
&#; But, if you&#;re like me and want something to print out (yes, I&#;m old school that way), then you&#;ll want my PDF ebook, Resin Fundamentals. I share all the essentials beginners need to know about making resin jewelry in a book you can read in a couple of hours. It&#;s the book I WISH I had when I started making resin jewelry 17 years ago. Buy now and get an download link in minutes.
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A backlit sign is typically one that is placed in front of a light source. The sign itself will be semi-translucent to allow the light to shine through and illuminate whatever may be printed on the sign.
The most common setup is a light box that consists of a light source within a structure that in some way accommodates a rigid piece of material to be placed or slid into it. You often see these roadside advertising small businesses. The sign itself can either be printed onto a milky white rigid material or a vinyl overlay that is applied to the light box or setup.
Our backlit sign uses the vinyl overlay or decal approach. This means that your sign will be printed onto a piece of adhesive vinyl and can be applied to a translucent rigid material for a light box, window or other surface that has a light source behind it. The material itself is called FLEXcon LITEcal and is a durable material that provides light diffusion and ultimately gorgeous signs.
All of the FAQ on this page will deal with the backlit film we offer and not the alternative solution of printing on a translucent rigid sign or a similar signage solution.
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