Diy: Clear Casting Resin Paperweights

This posted over at Resin Blog Crafts a duet months ago.

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DIY: Resin Paperweights
I had some things that I wanted to conk along but needed a cool means to display them...

Resin paperweights are a perfect solution. They are a cracking means to brand something personal, a cracking gift idea. You tin flame embed simply close anything inward resin.

You volition need:

Clear Polyester Casting Resin

Casting Molds

Items to embed

(examples: dandelion, succulent, fossils as well as wasp paper)

Read the resin instructions.

Make certain you lot convey everything you lot involve ready to go.

Read the instructions again.

Then mix the resin according to the parcel directions.

Pour close 1/4 inch inward each mold as well as allow it laid until it reaches a gel similar consistency.

(took me close an hr or 2)

Then gently laid the exceptional inward the gelled resin human face upwardly down.

You volition notice that the fresh vegetation (ie: succulent as well as dandelion) discolor afterward hardening.

Let the resin sit down some other duet hours. Then mix upwardly some to a greater extent than resin as well as pour it over the top to make total the mold. Let it cure for a calendar week or so.

Then popular it out as well as savor your paperweights! You'll run into the greenish color of the succulent has reduced. But it's nevertheless actually cool!

At this signal you lot volition survive looking all over your identify trying to detect novel things to pose inward resin!
It's THAT fun.

Next I did the same technique alongside a total dandelion bloom. Just gently laid it inward the gelled resin...and allow it sit down for a while.

Then make total the mold alongside to a greater extent than resin to encase the residuum of the dandelion.

The dandelion held perfectly, simply pour the resin inward on the side as well as allow it make total inward the spaces or therefore the wisps.

It is therefore amazing! I dearest that it is a consummate blossom of seeds inward there!

I used some wasp paper. It has the coolest "zebra-striped" patterns.

I filled the mold alongside close a one-half inch of resin. Slipped a slice of wasp newspaper correct on top as well as and therefore gently pushed alongside a stick to larn the newspaper inward one-half way.

Let it dry out as well as popular it out!

The final i are these cool fossils. They are called Crinoids...they await similar lilliputian screws as well as motorcar parts, but they are primitive animal, similar to a bounding main star. I simply dropped them inward afterward the resin laid to a gel consistency. See how they are simply floating on the resin? Perfect.

I filled it up. These lilliputian tiny fossils are therefore fragile that it would survive slow for them to break, therefore this is a cracking solution to savor them.

After a duet hours, I poured to a greater extent than resin on them to encompass them completely.

Let them harden completely. A expert means to know if they are difficult is that they volition non odour similar resin at all. And trust me, this materials smells. Work inward the garage or good ventilated area.

Now savor your paperweights! Give them every bit gifts, encase things that are of import to keep. Maybe larn crazy as well as encase infant teeth, your get-go identify key, fifty-fifty candy!

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