Resin Fun and a few Instructions

Here is an amazing product that I recently got to use for a project. The best part about this resin is that there is no measuring involved. When you press down on the plunger, the right amounts go into your container and you mix for a minute. If you've used resin before, you usually have complicated measurements and it takes more than a minute to mix.

Once you're done, with the mixing, just pour onto your object and the product is self levelling so it will just run to the edges and stop. If your surface is not level, you may get a bit of overflow but this is easy to clean up.

These next images show the product when it was freshly poured. It is very clear and there are now bubbles.

After 10 - 12 hours of curing, the items are dry to the touch and can be handled without destruction. At this time they are still malleable and can be re-shaped to suit your needs. I taped the butterfly wings below to my desired shape and waited until it was fully cured.

For me this is a great way to use up any stickers or layered stickers. I'm not much of a sticker user so this is the perfect solution for me. I love how the sticker glasses below turned out.

Here is my acetate butterfly after shaping.

 I used one of the smaller circles of my 'Perfect Squares' to shape my die cut bottle.

 Here si what it looks like when it is completely cured.

Here is the card that I made for Scrapbooker's Paradise Blog.......for tomorrow's post.......

 "Father's Day is only a week away!!!"

 You have to give this stuff a try. It's so easy to use and the results are amazing!

Storage Idea share-sies!!!

A huge part of scrapbooking and card-making is coming up with great storage solutions. The first twelve mini inks arrived a few months ago and I was never happy with the way that I had them stored. I just had them in three stacks of four and I always had to take them apart to see which color was underneath. Inevitably, every time that I picked up a pile, they would fall apart and I had to find the right lid for the right ink.

I knew then that no matter how I stored my inks, I was going to have to label them but first here is my new storage idea.

Each of these containers will fit 15 mini inks and best of all, they only cost $1.00 each.

In one of the containers, I can get 9 ink pads in it and the two mini ink 1" round blending tools.

Here si the second container with 15 inks and they are all labelled. I use a thin smudge proof photo paper for this kind of labeling so that even the longest names fit on a small area. I just use Scor-Tape to adhere them to the ink part of the containers. 

I wanted to be able to shake my box and know that my inks will not be displaced so I just adhered a layer of packing foam to the inside covers.

There is a piece of foam on the underside of each ink container and it stays in place on its own.

The best part about these containers is the ability to remove an ink without having all of the others fall over. The ridges on the inside help keep everything in place. This is all 24 inks in a convenient easy to move box. I think that I will go out and buy a couple more of these now so that I'm ready for the next releases.

I hope that you enjoyed my little tip.