 So this is actually going to be a retirement gift for my mom and this picture is actually of a sand castle me and my two brothers and my mom and dad built on a family vacation maybe 20 years ago. Okay so today I'm going to be resonating a piece which I've wanted to do for a long time a photograph that's been printed on metal when you add resin to it it looks expensive and it's not that expensive to make it's pretty easy to do so I'm just walking through the steps the first step I taped off the back with just painter's tape that is so that when the resin drips over the sides if it does then the drips on the bottom will just peel off and it'll be nice and easy so once you have it taped off then you will need to make it perfectly level so that the resin doesn't flow off the side or stick around one side I have baby blocks and these are wooden shims that I just move in and out to help level and of course I have paper down as well to protect the surface I just use an app on my phone a level app looking at the level I need to raise this side a teeny bit great so that's done now the next step is to figure out how much art resin I'm going to actually need to coat this piece so it's 18 inches by 24 inches so on our resin.com at the very bottom there's a usage calculator so just type in your length and width and inches and then it will calculate how much you'll need and it'll show you the exact ball that you should buy for the best value for that size I always wear a shower cap just because it's sexy it's sexy and there's been so many times you wake the next morning you have a cat hair in it or a piece of dust and just do the foam and then nitro gloves do you match your shower cap to your shirt in your art I do match my shower card to my shirt in my art so these measuring cups I grabbed from dollar store I wiped the mode after and then I can use them and look how nice and clear that is it doesn't matter but the resin or the hardener in first what matters is that you stir well and measure accurately well I would say the other way around these stir sticks are really handy too we sell them in the accessory kit they have one corner that can really get into the corner of your mixing container you just wipe them off when you're done and you can reuse them if you use a piece of wood often you'll get flakes flaking off of your stir stick and you have all these specs in your resin which isn't cool so now three minutes of stirring how long you have to stir for three minutes there's no real science to pouring this resin just pour to your heart's content now there's a couple of methods for spreading this when it comes to your edges you can either let it all drip over the side and rub it into the side with your hand which is what I usually do or you can patiently push the resin right to the edge I like using this spreader because when you pull the resin along it leaves some behind just really helps spread quickly so beautiful the spreader helps you to be very precise Rebecca's gonna come we're doing this with me you do have about 45 minutes to work with the resin before it starts to get too sticky where you don't want to touch it anymore huh beautiful alright so we're back and we finished pushing it all the way to the edge and it looks fantastic so the next stage is applying a torch over the surface to get rid of all the bubbles I find it really helpful to have a light nearby so that you can look at the reflection of the light just to see how you're doing so torch on imagine you're ironing something and you only go over everything one time and while you're ironing you don't stop the iron any place because you'll just burn the clothing so always keep moving and just cover every spot once it's a super good analogy I don't know it's perfect look at how nice that looks my gosh that is awesome all right the turn off your torch and get out of there the last step is I always keep little toothpicks all around that's for removing things like this hair even with the shower cap it's still big gross hairs I keep lots of these boxes all these sizes all around and every time I like to blow them out compressed air because you don't want dust in it that just ruins your piece place it over top fantastic so I'm gonna let it sit overnight tomorrow I'll come take it and I'll bring it to my mom's house tomorrow okay I think that's it so that's art resin on a metal piece and I need a good sign up it's art resin on a metal piece and um