An abundance of dried flowers from my garden

Now that some of my dried flowers are ready, I thought I would make a few jewellery dishes, T-light holders and soap dishes.

Dried pansies and daisies set into a resin dish

 

White rose petals and ivy set into a resin dish

Bougainvillea leaves set into a resin soap dish

Cyclamen flowers set into resin tee-light holders

And lastly a Cyclamen resin soap dish

Pansie filled Jewellery Dishes, Soap Holders and Bangles

It was really sunny out in the garden this morning so I thought I would go out and pick a few of the lovely purple pansies flowering in my hanging baskets.

Colourful shades of purple pansies picked from my garden

Getting the pansies ready for my flower press

Soon these will be dry enough then I can set them into resin to make my jewellery dishes, soap holders and bangles

Flower filled dishes, tee-lights, and bracelets

I recently purchased a large sized flower press from a charity shop. Upon taking it home and opening it up, I found an abundance of dried flowers inside the drying pages - what a lovely surprise that was.

I decided to take some flowers from my own garden and press these in the flower press, so I have an abundance of flowers ready for some winter projects.

Really pleased with how these came out, dishes, tee-lights, bracelets here we come.

Pop back soon to see how these came out!

New Resin Collection in my Etsy Shop 

Its been a while since I last posted, so I thought I would show a few of my new makes I have recently been working on.

I purchased a few different size ring molds and had great fun filling these with colour and various gold, silver and varigated red guilding flakes.

I have been drying flowers too from my garden and experimenting putting these into plates, business card holders, tee-lights and soon resin rings and bracelets.

Resin rings with guilding flakes

Sapphire blue with silver flakes

Clear resin with red varigated flakes

Various glitter and sequin rings

Real dried rose petal in a small dish

 Various dried leaves for a business card holder

Dishes and tee-light holders with dried leaves

You can view more of my latest work here in my Etsy shop.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/464796956/sapphire-blue-resin-ring-with-silver?ref=shop_home_active_3

Rainbow Resin Glitter Rings

I thought I would try and make a few different size rainbow rings for my Etsy shop and future craft fairs.

Iv'e had tubes of glitter sitting on my craft shelf for ages so today seems a good time to use it!

First I sorted out which molds would suit these rings, I went for a curved ring mold shape.

I picked the coloured glitters I wanted in the rings and mixed up the resin. I poured the resin in first, then put in the glitter.

Putting the glitter into the molds and swirling it around was a bit tricky because the molds are quite small and you end up getting glitter all around the edge,but I got there in the end!

I let the resin cure in the molds for 2 days then take them out. 

All my resin work goes through a process of 9 different grades of sand paper before a final polish.

This takes quite a few hours of elbow grease, but it's worth it for the end results.

 

Really pleased with how these turned out, I may try a bracelet to go with it next.