Resin and Polymer Clay Tips

I did not take a picture of this, I will,and post it tomorrow.

It took me three tries of resin with hardner, before i finally figured out what I was doing wrong. I live in a humid area, and now it's warm enough to use resin. But, why in the world did my resin coating on the polymer clay, feel sticky? It's because it was humid air, where it dried. Actually, the resin never did dry, so I threw away what I had sealed with it. The first try was a sticky gooey mess. The second try was a tacky glob.It was tiny food,and I can always make more.

So,I read up a bit on resin. If you blast a peice of polymer clay with a blow drier, before you coat it with the first pour of resin, it does the clay peice wonders in humid atmosphere. Some resin takes heat to cure it. So,I blasted my two clay peices with a blow drier, and carefully mixed the resin. Only, I used a very thin coating to the back of the clay. It did very well. I thought the mixture yesterday was too sticky.

Today, when I mixed it, I added a tiny bit more hardner. It immediately gelled. Taht is exactly what I wanted. I was able to coat the top, very well, thick,and smooth, and the sides, and also had enough to make soem fun things in the molds. The mold will have to dry longer. I reinforced the eye pins as well. I did make a mistake,and wash out the measuring cups in the kitchen sink. After several coatings of commet later, and Clorox Clean up,with a scouring pad, it came up. My paint brush is a bit sticky, and I'll only use it for resin from here on out.

When I made my tiny fruit today, which I might not coat in resin, cause I like the matte finish, I used an extra Omni-grid as the acryllic roller.I knew the exact measurement,and the grid works for sizing tiny leaves and such.