How to Make and then Use a Silicone Rubber Mold!

Let's get back to my mold making project from last week.

If you follow the blog, last week I had a mold making craftastrophy.

Then I had a huge mold making surprise turnabout.

Then I made a mold the correct way.

Whew.

This is the long awaited for bangle mold!

When you make a mold, it is a good idea to make your first project in it a simple experiment.

In other words, don't plan to make something you need to wear to a special event tomorrow!

A new mold may have some dirt or paint chips from the the object you molded stuck to it...which will transfer to a fresh project. Sometimes I trim my mold and a few of those pieces do (and did) fall into the mold and you don't notice them.

So in order to test the mold, I poured in any left over resin from other projects I had on the go last week.

Here is me pushing the resin molded bangle out for the first time. My molded piece is super curvy. It is a little awkward to push out so I do this carefully so I don't damage my silicone mold.

Tada...almost out of the mold!

As you can see, I dropped layers of red, white and clear resin into the mold. You can also see some of the blue silicone I trimmed...which did accidentally get into the resin.