How to make a red rose from resin tutorial.
If you want to see a timelapse tutorial of this process, I have put one on my YouTube channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxCTKT7s3Io
Now I have an allergy to resin, so I had to get my confidence up and prepare myself for some itchy, red swollen days to come after using the resin. I wore my gas mask, eye glasses, I lathered myself in barrier cream, used duct tape to hold my sleeves down to the gloves, and of course I wore gloves. All of this preparation was not in vain, the only real place the resin fumes got to was my eyes. The glasses were not full protective ones so I can't complain. So while I am looking like Quasimodo and I do not particularly want to be seen I thought I would write up the blog.
I started with a hot glue gun and some cling wrap, I drew out the shapes I wanted the petals to be and I covered them in hot glue. Hind sight being 20/20 I would do more larger petals next time.
The hot glue gun actually melted the cling wrap and made the whole process a lot easier. Especially removal of the cling wrap.
So I prepared my resin, dressed like I was an invading alien (without the anal probe though), and I missed two colours up. Pthalo green, which is very transparent, and I purposely didn't mix it thoroughly so it would be darker in some spots. I used just a basic red for the petals, I am a little disappointed with the "fake" look it gives the final product so next time I will look at different reds and not mixing it so well.
So I just pour the resin into the glue petals and I wait. It is winter here so I had to wait about 8 hours until it became as hard as I needed it to be. The leakage was my own slip up, none of the glue petals allowed for leakage, which was awesome.
So, when the resin is almost hard, not sticky at all, but still bendable, is the time to do the next step. Bending the resin petals over what ever you have to curl them. I used pencils and duct tape.
Next time I will curl more petals, I didn't this time because I wasn't too sure if it would work. The next day, about 24 hours after pouring the resin I removed them from their molds. They slipped out with no problem, even the cling wrap did not stick to it. Awesome!!
I found a piece of wire that I wanted the rose attached to, and I glued the initial bud to it.
From there I picked the best two resin petals for the middle bud, using a fast drying glue I glued them together. This part takes time, so use the best and quickest glue you can find. You just work your way around the rose, gluing the petals and holding them. I advise having a picture of a rose in front of you so you can see what it really looks like. The mind likes to trick you lol. Don't forget to glue the leaves to the wire stem, it is a little tricky but is definitely worth it.
Once all of the glue was dry I used some Krystal Kote gloss varnish from Helmar to spray the rose and add some extra glitter to it.
All in all I am happy with how it turned out. I need more larger petals, a better red and a faster drying glue lol.
Hope everyone has a wonderful week, I know I will, my kids are back at school this week!!!
So I just pour the resin into the glue petals and I wait. It is winter here so I had to wait about 8 hours until it became as hard as I needed it to be. The leakage was my own slip up, none of the glue petals allowed for leakage, which was awesome.
Next time I will curl more petals, I didn't this time because I wasn't too sure if it would work. The next day, about 24 hours after pouring the resin I removed them from their molds. They slipped out with no problem, even the cling wrap did not stick to it. Awesome!!
I found a piece of wire that I wanted the rose attached to, and I glued the initial bud to it.
From there I picked the best two resin petals for the middle bud, using a fast drying glue I glued them together. This part takes time, so use the best and quickest glue you can find. You just work your way around the rose, gluing the petals and holding them. I advise having a picture of a rose in front of you so you can see what it really looks like. The mind likes to trick you lol. Don't forget to glue the leaves to the wire stem, it is a little tricky but is definitely worth it.
Once all of the glue was dry I used some Krystal Kote gloss varnish from Helmar to spray the rose and add some extra glitter to it.
All in all I am happy with how it turned out. I need more larger petals, a better red and a faster drying glue lol.
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