Now that you’ve made some incredible epoxy charms, you might want to use them to make resin jewelry.
You can make resin jewelry easily with jewelry findings.
Option 1: Drill a hole
You can use a pin vise and a small drill bit to make a hole in your piece. Or you can also use a small electric drill like a Dremel tool. Drill the resin on top of a piece of styrofoam recycled from packaging to ensure you don’t accidentally drill into your table.
Drilling holes in resin is pretty straightforward. Set the tip of the drill bit where you want the hole. Then, turn the vise continuously to the right.
Keep turning the pin vise until the drill bit comes out on the other side. Brush away the resin bits from the drilling and add an oversized jump ring as a bail. This type of pendant bail finding is excellent when you like both sides of the resin piece. You can wear either as the front.
Simply add a jump ring to the resin charm to make it wearable.
Option 2: Glue on a bail
The other option for finishing resin charms is to use a glue-on bail. A glue-on bail and pendant loop is great when you have a definite front side of your piece.
Apply enough strong adhesive, like E-6000, to the flat part of the bail and then stick it on the back of the resin piece. Allow at least 24 hours for the glue to dry and permanently bond.
By the way, if you don’t want to make resin jewelry with your charms, you can include them in mixed media art projects or other home décor.
This is a masque I cast when using a cookie cutter as a resin mold. I recently combined it with canvas and various die-cut or embossed paper pieces, peacock herls, and other embellishments.
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Originally written by Kate Ledum
Unpublished Blog Posts of Resin Obsession, LLC © 2023 Resin Obsession, LLC
where can I get a mask cookie cutter? I haven’t seen one anywhere! I want one for a Mardi Gras project.
Donde consigo es pequeño taladro manual? soy de Lima Peru….. gracias
I don’t know.
Hi I’m a resin pendants designer and jewelry designer have been making pendants and jewelry for many years. I would definitely not recommend to anyone to use E6000 to attach a bail or anything that hangs on necklace or earrings etc……. with e6000 the bail can easily be pulled right off unless you want alot of customer complaints I would steer clear of e6000 I use a solvent called hot stuff special t and even with a pilers trying to yank a bail off a pendant it won’t come off the bail will actually break before coming off yr pendant !!!! Just thought I would let you know as I’ve had alot of time to test this out.
That’s fascinating! I’ve used E6000 for my pendants and bails for 7 years and have never had a problem. Glad to hear you found something that works for you.