Aaaaaahhh

I bought some beautiful ring bezel blanks last week and wanted to test 1 new potpourri flowers resin creation in it. And now it's stuck , I cant get it out :|
Could putting the ring in a glass of water help ?



1 hour later
finally , I popped it out with a knife , no scratching :D

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 first treasury item

Yoehoeee, one of my items made it to a treasury page :)
Thk u RGRocks.

In the third row, second photo , thats my pendant:D

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.

My latest creation

I love this resin masterpiece. I bought some cheap potpourri from a shop in Holland. There were tons of little flowers and leaves in the bag and I picked two different colored flowers, white and orange, placed it in an 1 inch sized cabochon mould and put some clear resin in it. After the first layer had cured into jelly, I placed a layer of black colored resin onto it.

And finally this is the result, It took a while before the silver plated pendants arrived in Holland. They came all the way from the states, unfortunatelly Holland doesn't have such nice and simple jewelry supplies. :(

You can find it in my etsy shop.

You can find your own resin kit here.