Glitter , Glamour and The LadyBug

Part 2 of my handmade jewelry.

Ruby glitter ring


Gold ring


LadyBug ring


Sapphire glitter necklace


These are all available at my shop

Another lovely resin creation

I love creating resin items and buy antique or copper and brass atributes for them.
Doesn't this ladybug just look lovely ? :)

Rework

I've worked on some new pendants last night. I created a couple of black rings made out of resin some time ago and filled those up with 1 layer of colored resin, some attributes and a final layer of clear resin.

I was thinking about listing those in Etsy but i've changed my mind because ...

I hate airbubbles and there are a lot in the pendant with the dog in inside. There is some lint cured in the pendant with the cat inside .... ... and I haven't sanded these black resin rings enough now I see them at daylight. Now I'm thinking of wooden rings instead of resin rings. They are cheap and it's less work (!). If I list an item on Etsy, it has to be perfect. But soon there will be a new listing coming up with pendants like these.

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My latest creations

I've worked on 3 dried flowers in resin , dried moss in pink resin and my ladybug cabochon. They are finally sanded and ready to place in an open pendant. It took me 2 hours to sand them :/ Sanding is the worst part of making resin jewels.

My little ladybug

This one is still in progress. A ladybug shaped drawing pin placed on some potpourri leaves and domed in clear resin. I love this one the most. Its so beautiful ! I cut of the pin ofcourse or it would become a painfull pendant. But I still need to sand it first. It's too big for my 25mm round pendant setting.

I use polyester resin for all my pieces. It stinks but with measuring the hardener and the resin its less difficult than epoxy resin and it gives all of the pieces a real glasslike and very shiny look. Epoxy resin has a mat finishing look, its less shiny.

And in the end I polish the piece with polishing wax and the smell goes away.

You can find your own resin kit here.