Tag: resin

Snow and Flowers

Today I glued in place the three panels I worked on laying out yesterday. Now to wait for the glue to dry so I can pour the resin. I have one more empty panel I want to add to this group – need to come up with some ideas to round out the set! The spring flowers remind me of Grape Hyacinth more than Delphinium.

Next step – coat with resin!

More than Four Seasons

Some friends and family opined that my Seahorse panel for this set was more summer-y than spring-y, so I set out to make some other options to round out the seasons. Today I started a sunflower, a snowman, and spring flower panels. I still have to decide what the flowers themselves will look like for the spring flowers panel.

  • Grinding the petals
  • Laying them out
Making the sunflower panel
Sunflower laid out

I had some snowman parts already made, so it was easy to lay out the parts.

Laying out the snowman pieces
Spring flower stems and leaves cut and laid out.

I might use the small blue glass globs in the top right of the photo for the flowers. I think it would be nice to make it look like Delphinium!

Not my image – grabbed it from Pinterest.

Seasons poured

I poured the resin on the other three seasons panels today – will be fun to take off the masking tape in the next day or two and see how they turn out! My son says the Seahorse isn’t “spring-y” enough and that I should make a panel with a flower, so stay tuned for a sunflower panel for this project next!

  • Wreath
  • Pumpkin
  • Seahorse

Up to Four Seasons

Today was the day for starting my fourth season panel, autumn, and it had to be a pumpkin! I spent the afternoon cutting / grinding the pieces for the pumpkin, stem and leaves. I may even include some floral wire tendrils, but the more I think about it, the less likely I will include them. They’re too likely to be squashed and lose their shape over time.

Pumpkin
Pumpkin (Autumn)
  • Seahorse (Spring)
  • Wreath (Winter)

I still have to pour the resin on Spring, Winter and Autumn, but I am going to wait until the glue dries on the pumpkin panel to do that. I also want to put some masking tape on the backs of these panels before I pour the resin, as it is a big help in keeping the back side of the glass panel clean.

Fireworks (Summer)

The resin I poured on the Fireworks panel the other day has cured and it turned out better than I expected. In person, it has a lot of sparkle and it looks pretty cute in the display stand!

More Seasons

I got to the point where I needed to pour some resin today. However it’s been quite a while since I’ve used this resin and I wanted to make sure it hasn’t gone bad, so I decided to test it out on a couple of beach themed ornaments I’ve had sitting around partially completed for awhile. I mixed 100ml of resin and poured it and it looked ok, so I went ahead and covered the fireworks panel for the “Seasons” project since I’m not that happy with this particular panel anyhow. I won’t cry if the resin doesn’t cure properly for this piece.

  • Heart Starfish
  • Circle Starfish
  • Fireworks
Hopefully the resin hasn’t gone bad!

I also prepped the wreath and seahorse panels so they are ready to pour if the resin passes today’s test. If not, I will need to order some more resin!

  • Wreath
  • Seahorse

Progress on the Seasons

I’m working on this changeable display for various holidays / seasons. Still just the beginning stages, but I’m making progress! There is a sparkly stained glass wreath, a seahorse, and some fireworks in the works so far. I plan to make at least four panels (hopefully more like 6-8). It really helps me to take pictures and look at the pieces on my computer so I can see areas I want to enhance in later steps.

  • Beach / Seahorse
  • Wreath
  • Fireworks