For my first resin project, I wisely blew my entire bottle of resin in one sitting so I couldn’t learn from any mistakes I made the first time around! You might remember my green slime mold resin fail from a few weeks ago. Well, contained in that same tray of hearts were these embedded coffee bean hearts. I mean, how cute would those necklaces be for coffee lovers? I heart coffee so much, I wear beans around my neck!
I still want to make these hearts, but here’s the low down on the fail:
If I had done any resin research before pouring, I might have found this out. Alas, experience is the best — and saddest — teacher.
1. It just flat-out doesn’t work. The resin really doesn’t release from the mold.
2. When you do finally get the resin out of the mold (by cutting it or otherwise coaxing it violently), the spray leaves a mottled pattern on the resin that totally obscures anything you’ve embedded.
After a 24 hour curing time, I tried to pop the resin out of the rigid plastic candy mold. None of them wanted to come out, so I tried to cut the coffee bean resin out of the mold.
It took several minutes, but I finally got it out of the mold. It turned out
The coffee bean resin was released from the mold, but unfortunately very sticky, and completely unusable.
Aww, a broken resin heart.
do not lose faith! i use silicone molds for all my resin projects. just know you can’t use them for food afterwards!
I’d chalk up the candy resin and cooking spray to just one mistake, you were in a cooking mindset so the two ideas came hand in hand. Maybe you can paint a coat of something over the hearts to salvage them?
This is a brilliant idea! I love coffee, I’d wear it around my neck, too. Resin and I are no longer friends – the smell, the bubbles, the disasters… although I’m tempted to try the ‘ice’ kind I’ve seen online – but I will research first!
I’ve made that same mistake – only mine was a flower shaped candy mold that I tried to embed coffee beans into. It ended just as badly! The horror.
I’ve used EasyCast semi-successfully for awhile now, but I recommend using the new Super Clear resin. It cures much faster and harder, and doesn’t have nearly the troubles with bubbles – and no icky smell: http://bit.ly/odO4OF
This my second go at resin and I decided what would happen if I use the plastic fronts that when u buy stuff that has the hard plastic, well it didn’t work resin pieces will not come out LOL I was trying to be cheap. so now I’m cutting around the plastic with the stuck forever resin pieces, I will use them somehow, I hate wasting, leason learned I think LOL. Will be making silocone molds now.