![]() ![]() Once it’s blended use your little heat gun (on the highest heat) to pop all the bubbles! If you like how this looks then you can leave it at this point but I wanted the colors to blend a little more (softer lines please!) so I pulled out my larger heat gun. The easiest way to do this is with your gloved fingers… start with the lightest colors blending, blending, blending and move upwards toward the navy. We’ll want to mix the layers a bit though so they blend and the harsh lines go away. Once you’ve poured all of your resin and scraped your little cups of any remaining resin your window tiers should be completely full of resin. If you’re not working at an angle you’ll make stripes that work the same way… simply separate your piece into 4 sections and go from there: clear in the bottom section, light teal in the second section, dark deal in the third section and navy in the top section. You want to pour the light teal so that it covers part of the clear and the upper portion of the window pane. It will start to flow down the glass and off the sand so pour it quickly and then start on the light teal. Start with your clear resin and thoroughly cover each of your shells and sand. Once the resin has been mixed let it sit for about 2 minutes and then hit each cup with your heat gun to minimize the bubbles… then we’re ready to pour! Step 4: Pour Your ResinĪfter your resin has sat for a minute and you’ve zapped all the bubbles with your heat gun it’s time to pour. Go ahead and mix all 500ml of resin in a large mixing cup and then pour the resin into your smaller cups to mix the individual colors… and if you’ve never mixed resin before you can follow my how to mix resin for beginners tutorial here. If you’re not pouring your waves on glass you can use more resin if you need to! For this project I mixed a total of 500ml: 100ml of light teal, 170ml of dark teal, 100ml of navy, 100ml of clear and 30ml of white. Ready for the resin? For this project you’ll want to keep the resin layer as thin as possible (glass can crack under the heat of resin curing so you don’t want thick layers that will get super hot… nice and thin is the way to go!). Or you’ll have to pour lots and lots of resin to keep them secure! Step 3: Mix your Resin! There’s no right or wrong way to arrange your shells so just come up with something that you like… if you’d rather cover the beach with shells then go wild! Just remember that your shells need to be secured with resin so you want them touching the sand. I tried several different combos with several different shells before I decided on this little combo.Ī bit of white lace coral and a starfish in the middle with a few colorful shells on either side! ![]() Now it’s time for the fun part… shells!!!! I picked out a few different shells from my collection and started to arrange them on the sand. So if you want the teal sand to stick around you’ll need to add more than I did… just a heads up. Then I added a sprinkling of the teal sand as a cute touch to tie in the teal of the waves… but after adding the resin the teal sand wasn’t really visible. Which basically means I poured quite a bit of sand at the bottom and then gradually tapered it off about halfway up the window pane. That means the sand needs to go fairly far up the beach, under the clear water into the light teal area. We’ll start with clear over the sand and then go to a light teal, then a darker teal, and finally to a navy. In order to make the “water” as lifelike as possible we’ll have a gradient of teals and blues for the waves. In order to *ahem* not spill sand everywhere (which I may or may not have done before) I filled the top of the sand bottle and then poured the sand onto my piece. The important factor is to plan out your piece first so that you can start in the right place!įor me, that’s the bottom left corner. Since this is an ocean wave tutorial it makes sense that we need a little sand in our piece! For this particular window I’ll be adding sand in the bottom left corner and the waves will be going up and to the right… but you can easily add sand straight along the bottom or even in the middle as a little island. Silicone Measuring Cup/ Larger Mixing Cups.Respirator/Mask ( resin graded filters).I think I’ll tackle an ocean wave tray next… It’s the technique we’re learning today but you can apply it to so many projects! The possibilities are endless!Īt least that’s how I feel when I learn a new technique… I just want to put waves. Ready to make a few waves? Resin waves are an easy project that look amazing… and you can use this technique on just about anything! I’ll be showing you how to make waves on an antique window (which leaves you with a see-through stained glass kind of effect!) but they look amazing on a piece of wooden mdf as a wall art or even on a tiny sea shell as an art piece. ![]()
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