Thank you so much for the tutorial. I had been struggling with resin m work and had to scrap a lot of my work because of it. I followed your instructions and for the first time I got the results I wanted. Thanks so much.........a fan!
Thank you. That was really useful. I was having a problem resining translucent clay and I think my issue was not enough resin. I tried one after watching your video and it worked fine. On to the rest!
Very helpful tutorial. I love your work. Your pendants are beautiful. I have never had luck with resin, my pieces always come out tacky and stay that way. I have gone to using other glazes, but I like the lovely shine resin gives.
Thank you so very much, Ms. Katie, for your wonderful tutorials demonstrating polymer clay craft techniques! I just love all your videos! I am reasonably new to polymer clay! I used to try to do beads in the 1990's but was less than thrilled back then because I did not have the advantage of having a computer with You-Tube and all the current tutorials! I never knew back then what people did to polish or buff the clay pieces, and I bought a clay fish pin that was very exquisite where one of the tail fins on the piece cracked off. I was so frustrated that I gave up, thinking that all polymer clay for any jewelry would easily crack or break! Hopefully, by using a better polymer clay than Sculpey II or III and cooking the pieces longer will help eliminate the chances of that happening now! I am hoping that, almost 25 years after that earlier experience, the quality of clay and the techniques used have evolved to be better over the meantime. I used to make some unpolished beads to use with some mixed media macramé arts and crafts on a small scale despairing that jewelry with polymer would never work for me. I am so thankful that you and others have taken their personal expense and time to so very patiently teach people like me, who am not a talented fine artist, to succeed in making gifts for others and for my own personal use! I would like to wish you a truly awesome Valentine's Day 2023 and hope you will be happy and well for Spring and Summer of 2023 !!! 🤩💓💜🐢🦀🌈🌟
I swear, RU-vid is a gift straight from God. I also learned a lot of pc techniques on Facebook, and Pinterest. But this is a new technique for me. Very interesting!!!
Hi Katie. I'm somewhat new to resins, both UV and the standard 2 part epoxy. I tried the Limino brand UV resin but it left an oily residue, but then I tried the DecorRom and it works perfectly and cured to a nice smooth hard finish, so thank you for the recommendation. I love how your tutorials are down to earth. You "tell it like it is", and I really appreciate and respect you for that. Keep up the great work.
This is priceless information. I have about 10 bottle of up resin and each time I use it, I screw it up. I’m writing as I’m listening. Yes, I get the warp and it always ends up dripping down the sides. So frustrating. I’ll try the tape. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I needed this vid so bad🙌 I just started making polymer clay jewelry and it’s a lot of fun. Do you have a video on polishing!? Because idk why but after sanding down the resin edges I can’t seem to get it to really shine again when polishing. Which which sucks because I’m also no where near good enough to make anything without needing to sand something off. Part of that I just learned from your vid is because of the mat I use when curing. It is totally flat and creates flat patched on the bottoms whatever I’m working on, so I just went to Amazon and found the type of mat you mentioned which is so much better
I'm a new member of your group! after seeing your survey post about someone critique of your video I had to check you out for myself I love the tone of your voice and for me i have only started just conditioning and practice getting the thickness and shapes.. I need a real time video I find that you give many experiences along the way so hope I can learn by your example
Solid it's the green one I made a tutorial using purple on the translucent side but the other side is the watercolor technique which various artist have videos on
Another great video. I should've watched this one first! 😁 You have a great video presence and teaching style, and I think you come across as a natural on You Tube. I've watched a lot of poly clay videos and avidly follow a few You Tubers; I shall be adding your channel to my list of faves. More gorgeous beads and lots of techniques there; I'd love to know how you did them. Thanks again for all the useful tips!! 🤗😊
YES!! You should ALWAYS wear gloves, have a respirator that is used for vapors/gas fumes, and be in a well-ventilated area. Most resin states it's non-toxic but it's a chemical reaction so it gives off fumes.
No I use the torch so it's rare when I get large bubbles I would say keep the layers thin and if u have a bubble just do another thin coat try that first
Thanks for the tutorial, it’s much needed. Sometimes the resin pours over the edge of my pendants and inevitably messes up the bottom of it. (I’m guessing I might be using too much resin at a time. What can I do to avoid this from happening? I’d also like to know what is the best mat to left the pendant on so, if it the resin runs it won’t go under the pendant. Thanks so much….
I have watched many artists use a torch gun on resin. I understand that it is highly flammable. Have you ever had one light up? What advice would you give to beginners about it? Thank you for all of your sharing.😊🌈👍🌼🌺
That's a baking mat. It's called a pyramid mat...and it's upside down! The pyramids should be face up, so you can use it as a doming mat. It's much easier to pick off spilled resin, as well.
I've tried it the other way and when it spills the other way I get lines where the resin sits when I just have my pendant sitting on the points and I do get a spill it does not travel along the lines into the holes so I get less covering the back. I think on my Amazon where I have this they named it as something else. But as always just my personal preference to use the mat in that direction after trying it both ways, people can def do it the proper way if they prefer
Do these resins have bad odor? I heard in review for generic uv resin has terrible smell. In India we don't have many such options available..any alternatives if there can be?
In the dental office we use so many chemicals and acrylics like the nail salon which are strong so compaird to that no. The rj crafts one has the least smell of these I showed but the cheaper decor rom does not bother me at all not like I have to open a window or anything but I also dont mind the smell of Kato and some people really do
Hi Again, this my question about UV Resin DecorRom: It’s a 4 x 3 in. Pendant I make. When I resined it with 3 coats And curing it under us light it can out sticky.
3 coats I only do one hum why did u do 3. Also make sure ur light is the correct watts 36 or higher also cure for about 30 min for a 2 to4 min resin if it's a 30 min resin I do 60 min it's like baking the clay for 60 min even tho it says 30 min also watch my newer resin video. Maybe will help.
I purchased a hildie & Jo resin craft curing lamp before watching your video and I'm not certain I purchased the correct one. It says it's 36W UV. Is that sufficient enough? I love your work!
Great tutorial. Thank you! Do you finish the sides of your pendant with anything or do you just resin the top and not do anything to the sides and back? Thx 😊
I also use Decor Rom and I cure it in the right time and if I start touching the charm way too often, it starts getting matte and greasy and even when I clean it, it doesn't get as shiny as when it comes just out of th uv light. What could I do? :(
hi Katie! i use the same uv resin for my polymer clay rings and i cured them for more than 10 min with a 36w uv lamp but they still sticky! do u recommend to buy a lamp with a higher wattage? or this one would work fine? thank you so much for your video and sorry if i made some mistakes, i’m spanish 💖
If its ever not hard like u could indent it w your finger nail its not cured all they way. Also I have a newer updated resin video I think its the same title just updated how I resin polymer clay
I cure for a long time w the tiny pandora one. The outside will always have the smear layer I've talked about in videos but if it's fully sticky then maybe bad resin try curing longer first
Do you think this method would work for pieces made with air dry type clay? I've been using the liquid stuff and often get ripples and, of course, bubbles, but they are tiny. Thanks Katie!
I watched a video about the warping using UV resin and she claims if you hold your light about a foot or two above the piece and gradually get it closer to the piece it won’t warp ? Have you tried this yet?
Beautiful!! I stopped making clay items because I could never get the same results with my items i made. I use premo clay i bake it on a tile with heavy foil covering the clay i bake it at 275 for an hour. My pieces are always brittle with no bend or flexibility to them they break very easily. I’m not making the item super thin. Ive tried baking them a little longer or a little less time. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong?? I’ve seen a tun of videos where they make very delicate clay pieces and the have a tun of flexibility. Mine would just break. Also the clay i was using was new?????? It you have any advise i would love to hear it.. but i would think that the resin would help a lot! But i really do want to know what I’m doing wrong.
Honestly it sounds like what sculpy III did to me not sculpy premo. The only other things I would say get a in oven thermometer because what your dile may say may not be what the oven is doing inside. I always bake for an hr or more I can do things super thin w premo and they are bendy make sure also u condition your clay super well to make sure all of the particles are equally mixed those r the things I can say
Katie Gordon hi!! I wanted to thank you sooooo much!!!!!!!!! I got an oven thermometer and discovered that my ovens temp is all over place! So i got a toaster oven and used the thermometer to set the temp just right and baked a piece of premo that i rolled out paper thin to see how good it would do! My piece of clay is perfect!!!!! It’s very pliable like plastic! It’s perfect!! Thank you soooo much!! Im so excited to play with my clay again!!
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I did it in a few of my videos at the end of course when I was doing the resin. I believe the one I used the ablone shells and the one I did the alcohol inks and stamps it hasa pink pendant in the pic w dandelions on it or the blue w a seahorse
amazing work !! question. I just bought the 500g decorom resin, i have a 54w uv led lamp and the rising keeps been sticky almost like it docent cure.. Any suggestions?
Thank you so much for your handy tips on uv resin. My clay pieces have wrapped as well and I couldn't figure out what went wrong. These have been my very first pieces I've done and are way too thin. What's a good thickness for pendants and earrings??
How long have you been using this decorom product? Have you been able to keep pieces and look at them a year + later? I'm wondering if these yellow over time?
After It well drill through resin but if you drill a hole in polymer clay before you resin the resin will poar through the hole so drill after the resin
In this video “How I I’ve resin” at 7:08 you show a pendant with shiny pink. I think I have watched all tutorials up to here and I did not see one for that shiny pink technique. I have not yet watched all subsequent ones. Anyway wondering how you did that one?
I did it in one of my last pendant tutorials maybe the one with the ablone chips but I'm not sure if that is the one or not I usually do the top then the sides just being careful not to touch the top but do what u prefer