Whenever I am working with Resin I always have extra molds out in case I mixed up to much...that way I am able to use up every late little drop...last week I had mixed up a small batch of EasyCast for a project and had some left over so I added some gold ultra fine glitter to it and poured it into some molds....
I left them to dry overnight and in the morning I realized what went wrong....They were still WET....
Truth be told it is December and I live in Minnesota....While I made sure the house temperature was turned up to 70 degrees, which is required for success....My house does not heat evenly and my studio has 5 windows....it was a windy and blustery night so my studio actuality was was cooler then 70 degrees....
So my first reaction was to empty the resin out of the molds....
Now if I would have left the resin in the molds and moved the molds into my living room
where it was warmer they would have still set up, but I did not know that at the time....
So I removed the resin and inside my molds I had left over glittered resin in all the details of the molds. Then it occurred to me, that if I poured another color of resin over this it might give me some great results....so...
I mixed up a small batch of
EasyCast by measuring out equal amounts of the resin and hardener,
mixing them together for 2 minutes and the pouring that into a second cup and mixing for another minute. Then I added some ultra fine glitter in blue and poured that on top of the molds....
I waited 24 hours to remove the pieces and the results....
Were absolutely stunning....while I know that I can put glitter right into a mold before adding resin, it is hard to get it exactly where I want it....with this mishap, the glittered gold resin was in all the right places and after pouring the second layer...
The results were Awesome.....
So I am thinking this can be done easily without a mishap...by pouring a small amount of one color into your molds just to go into the all the tiny spaces...letting it dry for a couple hours and then coming back with a second color....
What do you think? I just love the results of this mishap!!
Labels: Ann Butler, EasyCast, Glitter
