How To Make Faux Stained Glass With Epoxy Resin

Now that we’ve made the base for the faux stained glass, it’s time to pour resin.

The supplies for this faux stained glass DIY project:

Super Clear Resin
transluscent resin dyes
Stampendeous Fragments
Pearl Ex powder pigment
Resin Obsession stir sticks
Nitrile gloves.

Step 1:  Get ready

I covered my work area with wax paper to protect my work surface.

For small castings, such as this project, it can be helpful to have a small tray to move the project quickly. For my tray, I used recycled packaging and recycled cardboard from a paper pad for rigidity.

I slipped the cardboard into the packaging between the plastic layers.

 

 

Since resin does not stick to wax paper, I always line my tray with it to reduce the chance my tray will get ruined runover epoxy resin.

I removed the wax paper with the outliner from the plastic sheet and taped it to the tray.

Step 2:  Mix resin

Super Clear is a 2:1 epoxy resin that cures very clear. Even though I’m not using a mold, the faux stained glass base is acting like a mold. I always use 2 cups to measure the resin parts. For this project, I poured 4 drams of part A and 2 drams of part B.

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I pour part B into part A and stir slowly to mix the components.

Resin Obsession stir sticks are perfect for mixing resin.

Step 3: Time to color the resin

The first color on this project is the flesh tone. For this, I used Pink Gold Pearl Ex.

I measure out a small amount of Pearl Ex, about the size of a pea.

TIP: Using different sticks for measuring and mixing reduces the chance of putting a wet resin stick in a dry pigment container.

Add a small amount of resin to the pigment.

Stir the pigment into the resin slowly to avoid adding bubbles.

Add more resin to the colored resin until it is the desired resin color and amount.

When poured thinly, a small amount of Pearl Ex in clear resin is translucent.

Step 4:  Add the resin to the stained glass template.

Drip a small amount of resin into a skin area and spread it carefully to the edges. Our faux stained glass is coming to life!

To get into the small areas, you can use a toothpick. Try not to scratch the wax paper.

With the project on a small tray, it’s easy to turn it to get to all areas of the image without hovering your hand over wet resin.

The resin must touch all edges of the outliner for the colour area. This is because the resin will bond to the outliner where it touches.

Step 5:  Mix colors for the sky

The sky started with a drop or two of liquid blue transparent resin dye. Mix the blue dye with a small amount of resin.

To the resin and dye, I added a small amount of Pearl Ex Interference Blue.

Blue dye, Interference Blue, and resin has an intense, slightly pearlized colour.

Add a small amount of Turquoise Pearl Ex and more resin to lighten the colour. As with the Pink Gold, add more resin until it is the desired colour and amount.

Use a stir stick in the larger sky area to spread the resin. An even coat over the space is needed.

Step 6:  Mix color for the sand

The sand starts with a drop of both yellow and orange transparent dye.

You can add dry pigment to the wet before adding resin. For example, I added Interference Gold to the yellow and orange resin dye.

As with the other colors, stir with a small amount of resin, then add more until it’s the color and amount you want.

To add texture to the sand, I wanted to use Stampendeous Fragments. The fragments are pretty large, so I put a small amount of them in a coffee filter. I crushed them with the back of a paintbrush to make them smaller.

The crushed fragments are smaller and will add a nice texture appearance.

Pour the crushed fragments into the sand-colored resin. I use a Pearl Ex bottle to prop up the stir stick because the stick is heavier than the resin in the cup. This helps to keep it from tipping.

Mix the resin with the flakes.

Pour the sand like the other two areas.

Use a toothpick to spread it to all areas.

Step 7:  Create clouds in the sky

The big areas are done and could be left to cure like this. But, since the resin has started to cure and thicken, you can use it for marbling. Add it to your stained glass to add clouds.

Mix Micropearl Pearl Ex with the thick resin.

Drip the thicker white pearl resin into the sky area.

Drag a toothpick through the blobs.

The blue and white marble is a sky with thin clouds.

Step 8:  Time to let the resin cure

Cover the project while it’s curing to avoid unwanted bits, like cat hair, from becoming a part of your project.

Step 9:  Remove the faux stained glass from the wax paper.

You can peel off the wax paper when the project is cured to the point where it can be demolded. Super Clear cures to demolding in about 8 hours. Other resins can take 12 hours or longer. If you let it cure longer before peeling off the wax paper, it will just be stiffer.

If your resin project is a bit floppy when you first take the wax paper off, let it continue to cure on a flat surface.

When the project is fully cured, you can trim rough edges of the outliner with scissors.

If you have any gaps or want to make the project thicker, once it is cured, you can do an over-pour of resin as you would for any other ‘canvas .’Once fully cured, you can do a doming layer with a coating epoxy resin, such as Resin Obsession crystal doming resin.

And our faux stained glass is finished!

This is another sample with a lighter sky.

 

 

 

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Originally written by Kate Ledum

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