How to Make a Resin Bangle Bracelet Using a Block Mold

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Hi this is Juile for Beadaholique.com and today I want to show you how to use a mold which we made using Easy Mold Silicone Rubber. In a previous video we went ahead and we actually created this mold from this plastic bangle. Now I want to reproduce this bangle but I'd like to do this in a different color. I want to do it using Ice Resin. So to begin with we're going to need to mix up some resin. I'm going to estimate that I need about two ounces for this. So I've got my mixing cup here with measurements along the side. So I'm going to pour one ounce of part A. When you're using Ice Resin you need to mix equal parts of part A and part B. So I'm going to pour one ounce of part B which is the hardener. I'm going to mix these together for a full two minutes until they're fully blended together. My resins fully mixed and now I want to add some color. You can mix colors so I've got two transparent colors right here. I have a green and yellow. I'm going to do two drops of green. My yellow for some reason has lost its topper. I'm just going to do a drop of yellow. I've got more than a drop in there. It should be ok there. I can already tell that I want a little bit more green. I'll add another drop of green. I think I'll do two. You notice I've put down some protective sheeting over my table. You always to do that when you're working with resin and pigments. I'm scraping the sides of my container as I go. I want to make sure this is fully blended. When all striations are gone and all the colors are completely blended, I'm going to let it sit for about five minutes. you have to work pretty quickly with the resin. Don't let it sit for too long but I do want to let some of those bubbles come to the surface and pop on their own especially since I'm going to be pouring it into this mold. We've been patient. We waited for five minutes. Some of the bubbles are gone. Not all of them are. I've actually don a glove because I feel this will get a little bit messy. Now if you've seen my other resin videos you know what I usually recommend is that you take the resin onto the stir stick and you dribble it into the mold. It's a little bit hard in a case like this so we're actually going to pour the resin and it is going to get onto that top area as well. That's ok we're going to be able to peel that away later. So what I want to do right now is I want to remove my stick. I'm going to pull back the edge of my mold. See how flexible this is. This mold does not require any mold release. I'm going to push the side to make a little spout. I'm going to pour my resin into my mold/ I'm pausing. It might be hard to see in the video but what the resin is doing now is it is seeking along the edges and filling in the cracks. I'm going to help it along a little bit. Pour some more. What I'm doing is I want it to go up to the edge. I want to go over too much. It's okay if it goes over the edge. I'll just crackle off when you try to pull this out. I want to make sure it it's filled fully. I know when I made this particular mold I had a little bit of a clay rim around it to adhere the bangle itself to the container which I made the mold in and so that actually gave it a little bit of a lip to my bangle bracelet when I poured it and so I know I'm going to sand that down anyways. So I'm up to the top. I know I'm totally fine for the actual shape of the bangle. So I'm going to let that cure fully for three days. Normally you can go ahead and start working with some resin after about twenty four hours it's harden but because of the nature of this mold the fact that I'm going to really have to pry the bangle out, it's going to come out but I'm guessing on past experience it's going to give me a little bit of a challenge getting the bangle itself out of the mald just because of the rounded shape to it where it comes to a tapered point up at the top. So I want to wait three full days before I attempt to pull this one out. Just to make sure it's fully cured and I don't do any damage to the bangle itself and then I know I can apply some good forced to it. So we're going to be patient and wait and then we're going to comeback in three days. we've waited three days and now it's time to release to bangle from the mold. To do so first off any type of resin that you have which spilled over the sides should just be able to be picked and cracked off. You might have a little you might have a lot. Just to try to remove as much as you can Now we're gonna loosen the sides of the mold. To do that just depress on the edge and work your way all the way around. We're going to do that on the inside as well. See if we could pull it away. We're just allowing air to get in there. That's going to help us to be able to pull the bangle out of the mold itself. The mold we made is completely reusable so don't worry about it. you're not going to stretch it too much. It's rubber it goes back into place. Now we're going to try to grab it out. To do so I'm going to pull down the side. I'm going to try to get my fingers under it. I'm going to work my way around the edge trying to pull it out. It's going to be a little easier if you have a ring. Bangles are a little bit more challenging because it does have so much of the mold in the middle that you're trying to release it from. And there we go. Now I'll show you real quick you are gonna have the smooth edge which is where the bangle was put down into the mold as such because of course that was molded perfectly with the original object. And you're going to have a rough edge. What you're going to want to do with this rough edge is take a file and sand it down. I would suggest wearing a mask when you do this. you don't want any of the resin to get into your lungs. You don't want to breath that in. You're going to carfully go along the edge and remove the rough edge. It took me about fifteen to twenty minutes of sanding but I was finally able to get that rough edge all smooth down. As you can see it's now flush. So we have the complete bangle. It's really nice and smooth. I made sure that I actually sanded within the interior edge as well so that when you put the bangle onto your wrist. It's smooth. There are no sharp edges. As you can see we now have an exact duplicate of our original bangle bracelet which we molded out of resin. Go to Beadaholique.com for all of your beading supply needs!