Advent Earrings

(11/24)

For Donna

Laser cut and engraved acrylic sheet, epoxy filled.

Supplies:

GlassCast 10 Clear Epoxy Casting Resin - 500g
https://www.glasscastresin.com/culr-epoxy-pigments-starter-set
Mixing sticks
1ml syringes - you'll get through three of these for each mix - from ebay
Blunt-tip needles for syringes - one per mix - from ebay, I got a big mixed box
Something to mix in, I used disposable paint pallettes
Wet and dry paper for rubbing back - 240 / 400 / 800 / 1200 grit
Some kind of plastic polish - I used G3 on a bit of cloth
Earring findings from Cookson (and suitable scrolls

Process:

Use separate syringes to put 1ml of resin and 0.5ml of hardener into a palette
Squeeze drops of the colours you want to use onto the side of the palette
Use a cocktail stick to move tiny amounts of colour into the resin
Mix it up, see how you like the colour, add more as required
Put a bit of white in if you want a more opaque colour
Fit a tip to a new syringe and suck up some of the coloured resin
Dispense it into the piece, overfilling it a bit. Pop any bubbles.
Wait for it to go properly hard
Put a little water on some wet&dry and sand it flat, going to finer grits to get it smooth
Polish if you want it shiny
Glue a pin on