This week for our Midweek Tutorial I decided to use some of the small flowers and leaves from the Dollar Tree Floral stems I showed last week as well as the UV resin I got a while back and a large glass from one of the Blind Bags and make a vase of flowers.
I had planned to get a chance to play with the resin off camera but I never got around to it. I have to admit I was finding the entire idea of using the UV resin to be a bit intimidating. I have been looking at the bottle ever since I did the video when I showed it to you all. I just couldn’t seem to get over that fear of the unknown so I kept putting it off.
When I was looking at the flowers on those floral stems I decided it was time to bite the bullet and just do this.
Since I also have amassed a rather large collection from the blind bags of things I decided to pick something out of there to use as the vase.
To begin I cut some of the flowers and leaves free from the stems and kind of played around with them off camera to see what I thought would be the best arrangement. Once I had something I thought would work I turned on the camera so I could show what I was going to do.
I will say I am less than happy with the UV light I purchased and if I decide to really get into UV resin I will look for a different one. In the meantime this one is alright.
I decided to use the light lying on it’s side to cure the resin since I didn’t think the UV rays would be able to get through the flowers. The bottle said to cure for 2 to 4 minutes under a light. I left the light on for 4 minutes on one side of the vase then flipped it to the other side for another 2 just to be sure it was going to actually cure for me.
I am really pleased with how this turned out and now I am really excited to do more with the resin.
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