 This week we got into some recreational resin. We put our own twist on some resin things, some resin molds and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back. Do you like to do a builder to make it? So do we and we have a new project each week. This week we get to dabble in some resin. I've been waiting for resin. He has been waiting for resin. So as I look for projects to make I've been seeing it's just resin everywhere. It is so popular right now and every time I flip through Pinterest a resin project and then you see it here you see it there. So I told him I think we need to do a resin project but we want to put our own spin on it so we're gonna make it a farmhouse sign. We're gonna we've got these molds here. Yeah we found some molds on Amazon. We have a this is us they're tiny. It's not like us but yeah we're going tiny. Yes this is home. A home and a hello. So for this video we're gonna use these silicone molds although we already have plans for another video a second in this series where we're gonna make our own molds. Yeah I want to try making my own mold. But we're gonna start with these molds and put them on show you some cute ideas about adding them to a farmhouse sign. Step one we're gonna gather all of our supplies. We need some resin of course it's an epoxy resin project. We needed something to stir the resin in so we have some cups. We needed something to pour the resin in. We have some molds and we have some mold release and we want to give it some color so we have some pigments some opaque dye. Are all of these opaque? Yes. All of them are opaque. Nothing's glow in the dark? No but I did see them. I did see them and I didn't think that was the project that we were doing so I didn't pick up the glow in the dark thighs. Okay nothing's glow in the dark and something to stir it with. We got these things but these things are flimsy and floppy so we have some popsicles. Yes I have some popsicle sticks for us that I could just sit right here on our nice counter behind us and our new little set which I'm totally loving. More horizontal surfaces. Step two we're gonna give it the old mix and pour. We're gonna go 50-50 on the resin 50% A 50% B which actually gonna be like eight ounces and eight ounces. Yes. Do the old stir slow and steady ones the race I hear and then we're gonna pour it into the molds. You don't even know what that's about. I don't. I said I hear. Alright so we happen to have some of this already open this total boat. Total boat. Yes we got this on Amazon we'll leave the link below and it is just a 50-50. I don't know if I can get this open. And we've heard lots of horror stories about working with resin so we're gonna wear we're gonna wear our masks. I didn't breathe something in in my mask I just swallowed them. Obviously you don't know what it is. I don't know but in my head it was a spider. I feel like I just swallowed a spider. I'm not even sure. Well you make me not want to put this on then. I just check it for spiders. Hey friends come on out. Well not now. Don't come out now. You got it? Got it. Now for the stirring. You tried not to mix bubbles in so you don't want to whip it. You don't want to whip it when you're stirring it. You just want to gently mix it. The fewer the bubbles the better. And we're gonna put the put the resin in these small Dixie cups so that we can add the different colors. Just because the topper was stopped. Yeah it was a stopper topper. So he's adding just a little more clear on top to fill in the mold. Okay I guess we can just leave it on the table. All right which one's that? Home? Yeah it doesn't smell as bad as it doesn't smell like anything. Yeah but I saw other people wear mask borders. You may not smell like anything but it may still cause cancer. Okay. All right so for home we're gonna do this one in yellow. This is a really thick deep one so let's see how this works. Now how deep can you pour it once? Do I need to do this in two pours? No I think the thin letters I think will be fine. So we're going to let these dry. We're gonna leave this just that shallow layer filling in the what is that the inset part. And then I'm gonna give that a couple of hours and then we're gonna come back and put the clear resin to fill up the rest of the mold so it's gonna be a little bit thicker. And then we'll give it 24 hours and come back and de mold and see what happens. All right now that we got those done can you open these? I got some bowls. I want to try to make a bowl. He said he has some bowls. I'm not sure if you can hear that just in case. We we got these cute little bowl molds and I did want to see because I think they would make really cute little you know like jewelry holding jewelry and stuff like that. So it's open on the back. This one is a heart. Well are you sure you don't want to do the red now? Oh yeah let's do the red now. And then this one this one is just a round round one and then this one is a square one so. So this one's getting blue. Okay. See any bubbles? Yes. Oh right. I don't really see any bubbles. I do a little right here. All right so we don't have the what is that thing called like the little mini torches? Torch. But we do have a heat gun so we're gonna see if this works. Or maybe you need an actual flame. Do you have like a lighter? Okay so we'll keep an eye on this and we'll come back in a little bit and pop them again while they're still soft as they come to the top so. All right we'll see you in 24 hours. 24 long hours. This is the worst part of resin. The wait. Step three. Now we remove them from the molds. It's been 24 hours. I know it felt like a three second color splash to you. It was 24 hours to us. So. And I'm very anxious so I've been standing here looking at it wanting to demold them. Demold them. Yeah. It's demold time. It's like Dennis de menis de mold. Demold. Demold. I don't know if there are any tricks to this. So again. I'm just trying to pull it out. Our pro let us know you went in for like the hard one. Did you want to start with an easy one? You think that one's easier? Yeah. We did add the clear resin on the back of this is us. So he filled in the yeah look. Oh that's see well yeah wait till you get to the letters. Oh the letters were super easy. Look how great this looks. So cool. That looks awesome. Oh maybe a couple of little bubbles but man does that look good. Look at that. I think it looks cool. Looks like kind of like it's floating. Like it's on glass. Looks like it's on glass. Yeah I came out pretty cool. All right. Oh I love it. That is so fun. Want me to get hello out there? Yeah. Hello seems like it'd be easy. I'll continue to work on. Home. You can work on. Hello. Yeah this one's really hard to get out. Should we have used that release stuff? Yes we did buy some mold release but I got the impression that that was for when your molds get a little stiffer with age so I thought these brand new molds wouldn't need it. Hold on I got an idea. Voila. Oh that one came out easy. Can you see it? I hope you can see it. It looks really good. I'm gonna try to use canned air. I thought I'd use it like an air compressor for groups. Get it easy win. Let me try. Okay I'm doing a little bowl then. Yeah I don't want to rip it like I'm afraid to. Your man handling anything. Yeah. We'll take it. Can I handle it? Yeah it's silicone. It'll handle it. You think so? Mm-hmm. Hey my little dish came out cool. That looks like something I'd buy at a store. I'm gonna do this one now. I think I filled this one up too much. It's got a butt on it. That thing's supposed to be a dish. See the see the diamond. It's supposed to sit on that. Like that. It's a little bit crooked. It's the tiniest dish. How small does my burrito need to be? It's for your what is it? Oh just your wasabi. It's for your wasabi. For my tiny toast. Hey these things came out pretty cool looking. Look at this. Oh wow that came out. Hey you really got that out huh? Yeah. Look at that. Yeah that's kind of cool. Look at that. That's so great. Oh yeah look at that. Damn pretty cool. Yeah some bubbles. Well I think there's our lesson learned and this is our lesson learned for you. I think what he should have done is filled it up a little bit. We got the bubbles out. Fill it up a little bit more. Yeah. Because you can see some bubbles in the front. It's alright. What's the back look like? Maybe that's the front now. No. Yeah. I don't know if you guys have done anything with a resin or if you've been afraid to. I hope we're encouraging you because this is super easy. Yeah this is easy. But it takes a long time. It was fun. It takes a long time. Let's get Brad out of here. I got my bracelet. Look at my cute little I think it's a bracelet. What was that bracelet for? Who's that a bracelet for? A cat? It'll go on. Will it? Yeah. I love you. I'm looking at the back off. Oh now you're stuck with that baby blue bracelet. Hope I love it. Yeah it's kind of cool. Translucent looking. Oh there's Brad. You can see him at the bottom. See Brad down there. Yeah we did that. Well tell him what you did. So he did this after I think we turned off the cameras. Yeah. This is. Oh you really turned this thing inside out. Yeah I saw you manhandle the home so I figured I'd go in. Just go in. Yeah this makes like a little cup. So a little open cube. Hope my things. I need a pencil holder. Oh man you know what we could have put a magnet in that thing and then poured the resin in it and then been able to stick them to this jam. Yes. Well look this is our first time. I could have put a magnet on this and then we could have put a tiny plate like on this thing. Yeah. It doesn't want a tiny plate. Step four we're gonna make all of our cuts. I'm gonna pop over to the glue forge right here now and cut out a backer for the this is us. Just a square one right. Yeah so for this one I'm thinking we're gonna use. So in our store we have a farmhouse backer. Do you have it just by itself or is it part of the just the interchangeable home? Home sweet home. Well we could put it in there by itself but it has just like a farmhouse sign backer and I want to mount this to it and it's gonna say this is us our life our home. Oh it is huh. Or something. Let's see how much room we have. And then for this one if you followed our social media you may have seen we're doing some spring we have some new spring kits in our store and the kit comes with the word hello but this is also hello so I wanted to use this in place of the MDF hello and put it on one of our spring kits. Seems pretty sturdy I'm surprised. I mean you could crack it. Yeah yeah crack it. But in general it's not as dainty as I thought it would be. And then this one we're also gonna use the farmhouse sign backer but we're gonna do something clever with this one. It's a two part sign. Two parts. So let's get the farmhouse backers. All right. Clean this up and get the farmhouse backers. Oh clean up. Clean up. Clean up. Everybody clean up. And now we paint. Got your space babe. All right so all of our pieces are cut out. This is the second part of our two piece sign. I don't know if you can read it yet. This is it's good to be home. Yeah you'll just have to see how it looks when we're all done. It's gonna be cool. I'll have to see what it looks like when we're all done. I'm gonna use the same backer for this is us and then we have a round. Yep a ship black round that we're gonna put. Do I want to do hello peeps or hello spring? Oh I don't know. It's very purpley. I'd say peeps peep it up. Hello peeps. All right. Let's do it. It's very topical since they're back. They're back because everybody loves the peeps right. You gonna do some Mod Podge. Oh yes thanks. I almost forgot my Mod Podge trick. Didn't layer a Mod Podge just to get in the cracks so it doesn't bleed. Step six. Now we're gonna glue it down. We're gonna assemble everything. We're gonna use some Gorilla Glue. The contact cement. A little bit of hot glue. The contact cement will keep it forever and the hot glue will keep it for now because I'm impatient. Otherwise you gotta wait like two whole minutes for this stuff. Yes he likes that. Somebody shared with us. Thank you. Always thank you guys for your tips. Someone shared you could do both and we'll give you that permanent quick hold. Are we gonna glue this down if we can see through it? I think you're gonna have to glue it on the outside where the frame is but not so much on the inside. Mm-hmm. I think you're right. All right let's get to glue it. All right. I suppose. That's good. Little recreational resin came out pretty pretty good. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be. It's just mixing pour and maybe we use the mold release but I don't think we needed to. No we didn't. Some bubbles. You guys have tips. Leave me a tip. I want to get better at resin because I want to take it to the next level. I want to make my own mold next time. I wanted to do something with resin because we hadn't. It's so popular right now. I know I said that earlier but to put it so my thought was let me try it and put it on a farmhouse sign and I love the way it looks. I mean all the way around. Well this one doesn't actually have it on there but I love this two-part look to display this together on a shelf would be super cool and this little purple hello peeps. Am I holding it crooked? I hope I'm not holding it crooked. Hello peeps and then this I feel like we could do more with it but I love but it's it still came out. I was super impressed with how the clear resin you could see through so give it that glass look and then how you did the two layer and the two color two layer I think you could do some really neat things with that so yes I'm really anxious to do more and oh my gosh and these little things these are I could totally buy this somewhere I can't believe how easy these were. Those things are crazy cool yeah really neat little yeah it came out perfect. Yeah these came out really cool this was a lot easier than I thought it would be. I know I keep saying that but it really is. I was pleasantly surprised. Have you done anything with resin? Do you have any tips? Show us what you got with the resin otherwise if you're not gonna join us for the after show it's time for us to go so we'll see you next week where we'll do it build it and make it again and but yeah look at that I got plenty of things to balance yeah something to balance this week yeah this one's got a little a little girth to it too a little thickness oh right because of that resin on the front