Category: resin

arts and crafts, brooch, craft, earrings, necklace, resin

Arts and Crafts

christinahopgood
At the end of June I sold some jewellery in my church Arts and Crafts show. I made a bunch of money, which was nice, and here’s some photos of my displays. Not super professional, but whatever. I was under SO much pressure that week, it was RIDICULOUS. Exams, arts and crafts, birthday, music stuff, church strife, guests… it was crazy times. So I’m amazed I got anything in the show at all!

I used some empty picture frames to display my stuff, with fabric-covered cardboard to stick the pins in. It worked pretty well!

As well as selling earrings, necklaces and brooches, I made and sold hair bows. I made quite a few sets. They’re actually really difficult to make, plus I kept getting fond of them. I made about 7 sets, but ended up keeping 3. They work well on bags and cardigans as well as on hair! I’m really getting into these kinds of accessories.





craft, pendants, resin

New resin jewellery

christinahopgood

So I’ve been making more jewellery for my church Arts and Crafts show.

My old resin jewellery was made in beer bottle caps. This year I thought that was a bit tacky, so I actually bought some pendant backs to use. Plus, this time I wasn’t drunk while making them.
I bought my supplies off etsy.com. It’s such a good place to buy supplies! I bought three sets of pendant backs from them. 20 square ones with a loop, 10 thin round ones and 10 thin oval ones. I also bought “one container of watch innards”, which looked big in the picture on etsy but is actually microscopic. Charles said I should’ve bought huge clock parts. Anyhow, they work well.

These ones are made with pictures from old storybooks and other bits of paper. Don’t worry, I didn’t use storybooks that were any good to anyone.
The ones with clock parts. The background paper is just coffee-stained printer paper. I tried to arrange the clock parts in an aesthetically pleasing manner, but they are so SMALL! It was really hard to get them in the right place without sticking to my hands.


A mixture for you. I like duckies. Next project is to make necklaces for these. I’m not sure whether to have plain chains or interesting necklaces. I’ve seen some pretty nice ones on etsy. How much should I charge for these bad boys?

pendants, resin

Day 18

christinahopgood

Pendants!  Look at them shine!


I started making these pendants about a week ago, and they’re only just set.  Resin takes ages sometimes.
It’s a multi-step process, so I guess it’s no wonder it took me so long.  First I’ve got to drink ALL THAT BEER.  I had no choice but to do it all in one night.  22 bottles*!
Then I have to find/print pictures to embed.  They need to be coated with glue-type stuff so that the resin doesn’t leak into the paper.  When that happens, it looks like the paper got wet and soggy.
The pictures have to be cut to size and glued into the bottletop.  Then the glue must be dry before any resin pouring happens.  If the glue isn’t dry, it forms clouds in the resin.
The resin is really sticky and there’s no chance of getting it off anything.  So gloves and newspaper are a must!  Luckily it’s not smelly.  Sometimes I like to stick my nose in and sniff**.
I like the pendants to have a domed top, which is best achieved with two separate pours, a few hours apart.  This time I only did one pour, so some of them spilled over a little.  Couldn’t handle the (surface) tension.  They turned out good though.
The second picture is pendants with security envelope patterns inside.  Have you ever noticed how intricate and pretty they are?  I thought about having a scrapbook with them in, but then I remembered that I hate scrapbooking. How dare they invent a verb!
Oh and I’m selling pendants on Etsy.  Check them out. 
* Not really!  If I had to drink that much, I would have at least invited you!
** Not really!  Gosh don’t you get sarcasm?!