![]() What makes a resin good for thick pours? It must mix watery, allowing bubbles to rise quickly to the surface. This mold needs a resin formula you can pour in a thick layer and cures crystal-clear to preserve your flowers to their best. If you’re using a method to preserve your flowers where they are flat, you don’t have to worry about resin bubbles as much. That means you might see air bubbles between the petals of your flower once the resin cures. It makes it hard for the bubbles to escape the resin. ![]() But if the blooms face down (towards the back of the mold), the bubbles move deeper between the petals. If the open bud faces up, the bubbles will rise to the surface. Once the flowers get wet with resin, bubbles form between the petals. Should I put the flowers face up or face down? You’ll take this out after the resin cures. Unique to this mold, you must insert the plug into the top center. It can leave streaks if you apply too much. □ Pro tip: Don’t use the mold release like cooking spray. These itty bitty cracks break down your mold and cause tearing when you remove your resin. This makes demolding easier plus protects your mold against micro-tears. Mist the mold with a light layer of resin mold release. You don’t waste any of the epoxy you worked so hard to mix to preserve your flowers. Have a few leftover resin projects ready to go. Of course, the amount of epoxy you use is affected by how much room the flowers take up. That means we need 7.83 ounces to fill the vase mold. The inner wall is 3.25 inches wide by 1.5 inches tall. The outer wall is 4.75 inches wide by 1.5 inches tall. Then, subtract the inner volume from the outer volume to get the amount of resin you need. It tells you how much resin you need to fill the mold to preserve your flowers.īecause the mold for this project has an open center, you need to take two measurements: the outer and inner walls. Then, once you’ve got the measurements, put them into our resin calculator. I’m using a resin vase mold to preserve the flowers. There isn’t anything specific to know here except to choose a mold that will show off your flowers. Or perhaps you want something for a square paperweight. There are oodles of types and shapes of silicone molds for resin you can choose from. You can see how I dried the roses in silica sand. I’m using roses and baby’s breath for this project. ![]() Just being the helpful resin mom, Amanda calls me. □ Pro tip: If you want to try out a flower press for the microwave, Resin Obsession bestie Amanda of uses one by microfleur. There are flower presses specifically for this purpose.Īdvantage: the fastest way to dry flowersĭisadvantage: there is a learning curve. Put fresh flowers in a sealed container with silica gel desiccant for a few days to a couple of weeks.Īdvantage: maintains the 3D shape of the flowersĭisadvantage: you will need space for containers and flower drying agent Microwave.ĭepending on the flower, you can dry them in 1 ½ to 3 minutes. Then, put the flower and paper sandwich between the pages of a heavy book.Īdvantage: you only need one big book to dry a lot of flowers at onceĭisadvantage: flowers dry flat Silica gel. Place the flowers between a folded piece of parchment paper. All you have to do is let the flowers dry down naturally in a vase or box.Īdvantage: no expensive drying agent or equipmentĭisadvantage: they will lose a lot of color Parchment paper. How do you dry flowers to preserve in resin? You can see what happened when I used fresh flowers in resin. I know because I’ve made this resin mistake. If they aren’t, they will rot and change colors. Your flowers must be dry before you include them in resin. While this is the easiest step, it will take the longest. Plus, it makes a great housewarming gift. This project combines dried flowers and epoxy resin into a vase you can use to hold even more flowers. I’m going to show you how to preserve flowers in resin. How many times have you looked at a beautiful flower bouquet and wondered if there was a way to keep them like that forever? Well, you can’t keep them exactly like that, but there is a pretty good Plan B. ![]()
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