I like crafting, making resin jewelry in particular and I’d like to show off some of my stuff online but I can’t ever get a good picture. Either the flash takes up the whole piece of jewelry or you can’t see what’s inside the resin. Any tips for a non-photographer? I have a Nikon D30.
Like I said, I’m not a photographer and I don’t really want to buy anything extra. I’m just looking for some tips for a better picture, it doesn’t have to be perfect or professional.
You can make a light tent from a cardboard box as described in this link, however it might require you to buy a lamp and a special light bulb (if you don’t already have them):
http://www.digital-photography-school.com/how-to-make-a-inexpensive-light-tent
Or, since you say the photos don’t need to be "perfect," you could simply take a white sheet, drape it over a chair for a clean backdrop and place the chair near a window to light the photo with natural light.
Don’t use your flash. Direct flash is too harsh of a light source. And use the Macro setting on your camera for close-up shots.
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Im having a lil trouble figuring out how to do an animal print necklace (zebra cheetah print etc.) I really want to MAKE not PURCHASE a pink zebra print necklace for mother’s day without actually printing out a design an embedding it. PLEASE HELP! thanks 
heres an example…..an to the one guy i dont want pigeon poop necklaces geez.
http://www.etsy.com/transaction/45108661
how do you paint in resin?
I don’t think I understand your question.
You want to use resin but don’t want to "embed" anything in it?
And you don’t want to have to print anything out, but you want a "pink zebra" design?
I guess you could just glue a fabric you’d found (cheetah or zebra fabric would be much easier than pink zebra**) to the back side of a pre-formed and cured/hardened piece of resin (or glass or plastic, or even a hardened blob of epoxy glue).
To attach the fabric to the resin, use E6000 or 2-part epoxy glue, or even a permanent white glue if strong enough.
Not sure what else to suggest since again not sure what you’re wanting.
** you could though dye a regular b&w zebra fabric pink, and the dye would "show" only in the white areas… or you could just paint (with acrylic paint, e.g.) or otherwise color in the white areas with pink
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Hi, I’m looking into making resin Jewelry. I live in a small town and it can be hard to find supplies
Can I use this in molds?
http://www.homedepot.ca/product/bondo-resin-repair/935043
Thanks
That is a 2-part polyester resin, made by the Bondo company.
Craft polyester resins can be cast into molds of any depth (craft epoxy resins are less fiddly and better for lungs, but can’t be cast into molds or poured into cells deeper than about 1/4"-1/2" without worry about cloudiness.**).
The polyester resins sold in auto and boat depts, etc, for using with fiberglass cloth will work in molds but aren’t as reliably clear when cured as the ones sold "for crafts" (the most common brand of that kind is Castin Craft’s Clear Polyester Casting Resin).
I’m sure you can find craft polyester resins at craft, hobby and art supply stores though locally.
And craft epoxy resins can be found in those places, and also as "bartop resin" in places like Home Depot and other hardware stores.
You might want to read some of my previous answers here about the differences between the kinds of resin, links to lessons and more info (including to one of the pages at my site), brand names, etc:
http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091115185640AAXBfZF
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqRoGzjtN95Is41Kmm_SHHfsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20091011042033AAytK0x
releases and molds especially… and places to buy:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100206091500AA7eXFv
making cabochons with resin, in cells and also in molds, etc:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100521191232AACynOx
**there is one "tweaked" epoxy resin that can be used, though it has some disadvantages (Easy Cast)
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Hi everyone!
I’ve just started making resin jewelry and was wondering how to finish thenpieces so they are nice and shiny. I used some car WAC and that shined them up great but is this all I need? Is there any kind of coating or anything I can use to keep them shiny?
Have you tried You Tube? There are several resin jewelry videos there. I’ve seen people use marine varnish and similar varnishes on their pieces. I’ve never actually seen resin pieces come out ‘dull’ though.
You Tube is full of great videos- I refer jewelry makers there all the time. It’s unbelievable the amount of how-to videos you can find on jewelry!
Good luck!
~Val
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I used Easy Cast resin and it never cured right, still feels tacky. But I think I’ll take Diane B.s advice and drill a layer off.
Not sure what you mean exactly by "dissolve," or which kind of art/craft resin you’re using (polyester or epoxy, etc), but you can remove little areas of resin that stay sticky (after waiting a few days to be sure) by using acetone.
If you have a large amount to remove that’s already fully cured, you’ll probably need to sand or drill it out, then redo by adding more resin or just by coating with epoxy resin or even with a clear water-based gloss polyurethane, etc.
If you used a polyester resin (like Castin Craft’s Clear Polyester Casting Resin, the most common brand), it’s not *supposed* to fully cure in any areas that are exposed to air, like epoxy resins will. Polyester resins are often used with a sheet of fiberglass, etc, as a next layer so they need to remain tacky to bond well to the next layer.
Sometimes polyester resins will cure hard or good enough over time, or you can do things before it cures to protect all parts from air, or afterward like above.
There’s lots more info on using "resins" in art/craft on this page of my site:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/other_materials.htm
…and also in some of my previous answers here (sometimes overlap between them):
http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091115185640AAXBfZF
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqRoGzjtN95Is41Kmm_SHHfsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20091011042033AAytK0x
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100402061140AAD0jwB
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100206091500AA7eXFv
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I know you can buy frames for making your own resin pendants but I have paper images that I want to make a pendant with that are not a size I can find a frame in. I am pretty new to this so am wondering if there is a (hopefully easy) way to make your own frame so it’s customized to the items I want to put in resin. Anyone have any ideas?
Hi. That depends on how big or small your image is. If it’s really small, maybe it can fit on a scrabble tile, or even have a border like a photo frame. If it’s really big, try other flat surfaces such as wood chips or bottle caps. Just paint the back too, for a cleaner look.
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Im interested in making jewelry with resin… can you use fiberglass resin to make jewelry? if not what kind should i get? can you buy it at lowes? I dont have any big craft stores near me.
Yes. You *can* use such resins to make jewelry. But it will be awkward, smelly and not very precise. There are specific casting resins for that purpose - you might look on sites such as Amazon for colored resins designed for the purpose.
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I make resin jewelry and I have been wondering how stripes are made in resin.
please and thanks!
I would assume that it’s poured in sections. Depending on the mold, you could either turn it on its side or insert some kind of temporary divider to keep the first color from running. Then, once it was hardened, you do the same thing again with the next color, and so on.
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I need a doming resin for jewelry making, so I was wondering if any ordinary type of epoxy resin would create a doming effect, or if there is only a specific type that creates that effect. And if so, where can you find it? Thanks!
Doming resin is a specific type of polyester the other type flattens out. It took me quite a while to find a source in the US
http://www.riogrande.com/MemberArea/ProductPage.aspx?assetName=623014
These folks are in the UK where most of the sources for the material seem to be:
https://www.jewellerycraftsupplies.co.uk/catalog/index.html
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I’m looking for blank square and circle pendant trays and ring trays for resin jewelry making. I can only seem to find people selling it on etsy and artfire, but it is so expensive. Is there somewhere I can buy a bunch of them for a good price? Thanks fellow crafters!
I think you’re looking for pendant "trays" and ring "bezels", etc, for putting clear resin into (usually over images, or other things), to make the pendants and rings themselves, right?
(They’re also called cabachon settings, charm blanks, bead frames, and photo "Italian charms" once finished, etc, and ring bezels or well blanks, etc.)
If so, check out some of the sources from these searches:
http://www.google.com/images?q=pendant+trays&biw=1293&bih=930
http://www.google.com/images?q=cabachon+settings&biw=1293&bih=930
http://www.google.com/images?q=ring+blanks+bezel+well
You may also want to check out this page at my site for more on making those:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/other_materials.htm (under "Epoxy" Resins, click on the subcategory called IN PERMANENT CELLS)
HTH,
Diane B.
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