Hi everyone! It is Katherine at Resin Obsession, so glad you could join me here this evening.
We're live on Facebook.
I will be taking your questions about resin, and I'm still having some issues with my phone.
I'm trying to broadcast here live on Instagram as well, so bear with me a minute while we -
we'll just kind of chit chat for a minute while I get this hopefully under control here in a minute or two.
Anyway, I hope all is well with everyone. I hope you're having a good fall
and you're having a good time casting resin.
I know it's a busy time for a lot of you, you like making your own decorations,
you've got some shows coming up and I know that's pretty cool
and I wish you the best of luck with everything.
So, anyway, I hope to see everyone on here.
I'm still having some challenges getting on Instagram this evening – well that's too bad.
Anyway, I'm hoping everyone can hang out here til the end.
If you do, I do have something kind of fun – something good to share with you this evening.
Let me try here again.
So, why is everything being all crabby? I hate this!
Right? The wonders of technology.
I can come to you from my office, but unfortunately, I'm having issues getting on Instagram this evening.
This is awful.
Okay, so, bear with me just, like 30 more seconds and we'll see if we can't get this going here.
So, let's try this again.
In the meantime, why doesn't everyone tell me where you're from?
Hi Kathleen, good to see you!
I'm hoping to see a few more people here this evening.
Let's see, okay, it says my phone is on the Wifi, let me try this again.
So, okay. So, I see a question coming in already. Hang tight. Hold on just for a few minutes.
I wanna try and make sure if we can get some of my Instagram fans on here as well
'cause I know a few of them were getting their –
oh, hey Instagram! Okay, now we're cookin'!
Alright Instagram, so good to see you this evening.
I'm on Instagram on my phone, I'm on Facebook Live on my desktop – er, my laptop.
So, I'm going to be talking to both of you here this evening.
I'm here this evening to answer your resin questions
and I'm looking forward to maybe giving you some last minute help for some of your holiday projects.
Oh goodness! I see Samantha from Australia! This is pretty exciting!
So, anyway, for those of you who jumped on a little late, my name is Katherine.
I'm the chief resinista, creative director, and all that here at Resin Obsession.
And if you haven't already, be sure to follow us on Resin Obsession on Instagram and Pinterest.
We share some really cool stuff and trying to inspire you with your projects.
I am here until 9:00 this evening, so the next 27 minutes. I hope you guys will stay tuned and stay on.
If you stay til the end, I do have something kind of special to share with you this evening.
So, alright, before we jump into your questions, I did get some,
for some people that couldn't make it here this evening,
they did email some questions ahead of time, so I'm going to try to cover those as well.
But, I want to take a few minutes to talk about something that's very important and very BORING.
And that is resin safety – neh, neh, neh.
Right? I totally get it, nobody likes talking resin safety.
I understand it's really boring, but it's really, really important.
So, I want to take a couple of minutes to kind of make sure that you guys are using resin
and using it in such a way that you can use it for many years to come.
'Cause I want to make sure you guys can enjoy resin and everything it can do for you for a very long time.
So, I know this is kind of boring and I'm going to try to get through it as quickly as I can,
but in terms of a lot of the questions I get asked, a lot of them are resin safety questions.
So, I just want to talk a couple of minutes about resin safety.
Okay, so, first and foremost, what I would tell you
at a minimum what you need to work with resin is you need gloves, which I don't have any here this evening.
You need gloves and you need adequate ventilation. Okay? My recommendation for gloves, I like to wear nitrile gloves.
We sell them in our store.
A couple of reasons I like nitrile, number one is that it's least likely to react with your hands.
Especially for those of you who have a latex allergy, nitrile is a good choice.
And, believe it or not, latex gloves can be a little crabby sometimes with the resins you're working.
Especially if you're talking silicone.
Some silicone resins will not cure in the presence of latex, so that's another good reason to use nitrile gloves.
Now, here's the question I get asked a lot when I say you need adequate ventilation. Well, what's adequate?
Okay, so, for those of you who don't know, I'm located here in Florida,
so I have the distinct advantage of being able to open the window for much of the year to get some fresh air in
and I don't have to worry about my room or my area getting to cold for my resin to cure,
which is totally awesome.
I understand many of you don't have that luxury,
so I'm going to show you a couple of little things that I also use in my studio for the days that –
believe it or not, it does get a little cool sometimes and so I can't open the window.
So, here's a couple things I like to use.
So, number one, this is just, it's a little, you can see it's a little mini exhaust fan.
And what this does –
this isn't meant to blow air, it's meant to suck the air away from wherever you're working.
You can see it's a small fan, so this is great for those of you who are working
small scale crafts and that kind of thing and so this is nice.
Like, if my crafting table is here, I'll put this fan on the end of where I'm working to just kind of suck the fumes away.
Now, I fully admit that the fumes, in general, don't really bother me.
I don't know that – at least to me, assuming we're talking epoxy resin here,
I don't know that they bother me any worse than finger nail polish,
but I know some of you are really sensitive, and so this is one of the things I use.
And then the other thing that I will do at the same time,
is then, I will have another fan, like also just a small fan,
and I might have it set off to the side so it's blowing fresh air on my face.
Not over your projects because you don't want to risk getting dust settling on the top of your resin.
So I'll have the two fans set up, and I'll have this one blowing some fresh air on me.
And, you know what, if you can stand it and you've got it, I would tell you a bigger fan,
somewhere in the room, kind of away from you, that maybe is helping the air circulate.
So it's not blowing the air on you and hopefully it's not going to freeze you out
you know, when it's 40 degrees outside and you've already got 3 sweaters on.
But you, just something to kind of keep the air moving is good.
So that way maybe the fumes just aren't lingering in your work area
and you can feel a little better about what you're doing.
Now for those resins that require a respirator or if you like using a respirator,
and I will tell you that I use a respirator when I work polyester resin because the stuff smells so bad.
This is what I have, okay?
Now, I'm going to put it up to my face for a minute just so you can kind of see what I'm talking about.
So, let's pretend I'm a flight attendant for a minute.
You put it over your head and it -
okay, so it's right up here, tight to your face.
This is a NIOSH, N-I-O-S-H, approved respirator, and I have no idea what NIOSH means.
These are cartridges for fumes.
That's pretty important because they make them for particles and they make them for other things as well,
and so you want the cartridges for fumes.
Here's how you'll know if you have a mask with a good fit.
When it's up tight on your face, like this,
and you put your hands over the cartridges and then try and inhale,
you should literally be sucking your hand through the cartridge.
If you feel air at all leaking or coming in around your piece here -
Oh look! Oh, Cathleen, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Hazards, I'm guessing. Thank you! Thank you!
So, anyway, if you feel air leaking in around here, then you've got the wrong size respirator,
you've got one a little big or you need to adjust your straps or something like that.
When you get these cartridges, they're not good forever, so you'll find out how many hours they're good for.
When you're done with your respirator, put it in a plastic bag, seal the top,
and then you want to include a note on how long you used your respirator today.
And that's because you'll only have so many hours to use these and so if you don't,
all of the sudden you'll be using it, using it, using it and it'll be months later and you'll be like, hhmm...
I wonder how many hours I've used this?
So, write yourself a note and then also know as well, I need new cartridges for this.
At some point it expires anyway.
So even if you only if you use it for an hour today and then you put it in a drawer,
and don't use it for the next 4 years, the cartridges still aren't considered good when you get ready to use it.
So, you're probably wondering, how do you know when – how do you know when you need to use one of these.
Well, first of all, you're never going to go wrong using one of these.
If the fumes bother you that badly, and you want to use one, go ahead and use it.
The other way you're going to know too, is with the product that you're using,
they should mention it in the Safety Data Sheet.
They will actually say – the information will say, NIOSH-approved respirator for fumes blah, blah, blah, that kind of thing.
And I will tell you this little side note, just because you don't smell fumes, doesn't mean they don't exist.
Okay, so don't think that because you open the cap and you're like, "Hhmm I don't smell anything weird",
doesn't mean that fumes aren't there. If the Safety Data Sheet recommends it, then you should go ahead and use it.
Alright, so that's just a little bit here on my safety stuff.
I will also tell you in general, you should always, always, always, always make yourself familiar
with the Safety Data Sheets of the products you are using, okay?
Don't take my word for it. Don't take anybody's word for it. I don't care, whatever, even if you're not using our resin
or our products or anything, please please, please ask for the Safety Data Sheet of the products that you're using.
And if the company can't provide them or they're a little hesitant about it, then you probably should not be using their products.
Okay, we're not trying to...the Safety Data Sheet contains information to make sure you stay safe.
So, please, please take advantage of that information.
Okay. So, the last thing about safety, and it's not necessarily a safety thing,
but the last thing I will mention is, what do you do when you want to dispose of product?
Okay, so I don't have any empty bottles here tonight, but I do have a water bottle.
So, what I like to do if my containers are empty, is I will then switch the caps.
So I will put the resin cap on the hardener, hardener cap on the resin, close it tight, give it a couple hours.
And everything's all sealed shut and then I will throw them away in my trash, okay?
If you have cured resin, fully cured – it's not sticky, it's not gooey - that can go in the trash as well.
If you have resin that's still in a bottle, or hardener for that matter, that's still in a bottle
and you don't want to use it anymore, you know, just you're over it, you know "I don't like this",
you know, "I'm moving, I can't take it with me."
Then you will want to take those products to your local waste collection center, specifically for hazardous materials products.
It's not necessarily that what you've got is hazardous, but with most all of these products, we worry about them contaminating water supply.
And so if you take them to one of those drop-off locations and usually they'll ask you what it is,
then that facility will be able to handle the product carefully to make sure that the water supply isn't contaminated.
Okay, alright, so, anyway so I see a few of you joining in and asking some questions.
If you're on Facebook live and you missed it and you want to come back,
Kathleen mentioned what NIOSH stands for and all that.
So, okay, let's start working through and let's start taking your questions.
And I'll go ahead and start with Kathleen.
She asked about printing inkjet images and she's only found 1 paper that works
with resin without bleeding or water staining and you would like other options.
So, Kathleen, I hear you. I have never had good luck using ink jet printed papers and resin.
So, let me put that question up here so everyone can see it.
So, the problem that I…I just…the problem, even with sealing I would agree
that you still get a really great image so what I did is I switched to a laser jet -
a color laser jet printer which is so much more expensive.
I mean, you can get, what? An inkjet printer for 50 or 100 bucks.
Several years ago, it's been maybe 5, 10 years ago, I bought a laser jet color printer
and I've really been so much happier since.
It prints out the images, they're nice and crisp,
you still have to seal them with the Mod Podge, and so that might be able to help you.
Your other option if you want to stick with inkjet, is try something called Tyger, T-Y-G-E-R, paper.
It's, I say in air-quotes, "waterproof" paper.
Somehow it's able to print on there, but then it doesn't take up moisture like some of the other papers do.
I'm not quite sure how it works, but you can try some Tyger paper.
Sometimes copy stores will have Tyger paper so that you can get a few, get some of your images printed
on a couple of sheets, so that way you don't have to buy a whole pack.
You can also ask that copy store if they'll print your stuff onto, with a laser jet printer.
It might be easier for you that way. But that would be a couple of my suggestions, so, okay, awesome.
Alright, so, thanks everyone for joining in!
Can you believe it? We are already half way through the broadcast. Boy I can talk a lot, can't I?
So, hang in there, I'm here for another 15 minutes, taking your questions,
and hang in until the very end 'cause I've got something good to share with you.
So, okay, alright. And I'm seeing all kinds of other people joining in from all around the world.
So, thanks so much. I'm gonna look at a few of my other questions that I've got here.
So, somebody emailed me earlier today,
"I'm new in the world of resin and would like to be able to change a mold from a matte finish to a shiny finish."
And so, and then there's a second part to this question.
So changing the finish on a mold once it's already been produced,
unfortunately it just not something you can do.
What happens is whenever a mold is made, whatever is used as the template
to make the mold from, that finish imparts onto the mold.
So, especially if you're talking silicone molds, I know everybody…
I guess a common misunderstanding out there, or misconception, is that if it's made from silicone,
it's always going to be shiny and that is not the case.
It's whatever the surface of the template is that that imprints onto the mold.
So, if it's made from sandpaper, it's going to have a sandpaper finish.
So, unfortunately, there's no way to change the finish on the mold.
And then, the second part of that is
"If you can't change it, then what can you do to being the castings back to shiny?"
So, the cool thing is, we actually have a video on YouTube, on our YouTube channel,
youtube.com/resinobsession
And then, so the great thing about that, is that we show in the video,
6 different ways to get a shiny finish back on your resin castings.
What I've done here with the video, I'll see if I can't go back and
put some links up here cause I know you guys are going to be asking.
But it shows 6 different methods, shows which ones I like the best,
and it also gives some of you who are outside the United States some different options on how to get a shiny finish
'cause unfortunately one of the products that I use I can't ship outside the United States, so…
Anyway, so, okay.
Alright, so I'm seeing all kinds of nice comments.
Thanks, tinksfairyworkshop, on Instagram, that's very kind of you, thank you.
I'm so glad everyone's having a good time this evening and learning a little bit.
Anyway, so I'm watching your comments and stuff come through,
so if you've got a question, by all means, please ask it.
And I'm gonna continue with some of the other questions that got emailed to me earlier today.
Okay, so somebody wants to know if they can put fresh flowers in resin to make jewelry.
So, flowers in resin make beautiful jewelry.
Fresh flowers in resin unfortunately do not work in resin.
What happens is the flowers will die.
So you'll put them in today, they'll look great for, I don't know, a few days, a week maybe,
a couple of weeks and all of the sudden they'll start to turn brown.
So, if you're going to use flowers in resin,
they need to be properly dried and sealed before you include them in your resin projects.
And we've got a few articles on our blog as well that show you how to do that.
It is challenging, I know.
It'd be great if there was a way we could do fresh flowers in resin, but unfortunately, we can't.
And then I see – so tinksfairyworkshop, God bless her.
She's in the UK and has insomnia, so she's up learning how to do stuff with resin.
That's really cool, thanks for joining me.
Okay, alright, so let's see about some other questions.
So, somebody wanted to know
"Is it possible to simply coat items in resin, so that they retain their original shape (like for example, a rose bud) or must they always be in a mold?"
Specifically, this person wanted to know, if you could take something and dip it in resin.
No, you do not have to put something in a mold in order to encase it in resin.
However, dipping in and of itself, brings up some challenges.
So, if you haven't worked with resin before,
or even if you have, it's almost like you know, you take, like if you were to take –
like what do I have here on my desk?
Okay, so, I have a highlighter,
if you dip it in resin, or, you know, imagine it's syrup or honey or something.
I mean there's gonna be some surface tension to keep it on this, but it's gonna wanna drip off the bottom.
And that's what happens when you try and dip something in resin.
You can't necessarily make it stop.
Back here earlier this summer, I took a stainless steel tumbler
and coated it in resin and I know a lot of you guys like to do that.
And so basically the tumbler had to stay rotating the whole time or what I did is for the first hour,
or every five minutes for the first hour, you know, I would flip it over because the resin wants to drip.
So basically you have to keep doing that until the resin starts to cure, until it starts to hit that gel stage.
So it's not that it can't be done, but it can be a little tedious.
So if you're willing to babysit your projects, and you know,
you want to dip it in and you know make adjustments over the next hour or two
depending on the kind of resin you're using,
as necessary, by all means that's not a – I mean, it's not impossible, it just can be a little tedious.
Okay, I see a note here from Jennifer,
"I'd love to see a tutorial one day about using flames to pop bubbles. The times I've seen people do it in videos,
I can't get my head around the technique versus the dangers."
So, Jennifer, that's a really great point.
I'm one of these people who – I like to use a heat gun.
You know, fire, fire...a good, healthy fear of fire is not a bad thing.
You know, what I'm probably more worried about with anything using a flame around resin is
like especially if you're resin painting, if you're using something that's flammable and you know,
if something flashes up on you or even if you're talking about using a plastic mold,
you know and you get your flame a little too close and you melt your mold.
Although, that's not to say that I haven't warped a couple using a heat gun,
but, yeah, I'm not gonna lie, I am one of these, that I like to use a heat gun.
'Cause, you know, a flame, especially if you're enclosed and you don't necessarily have a real fire safe area
then, yeah, a heat gun is probably a better option.
Okay, so, Samantha wants to know,
"Do you know of a resin that can be used to coat a round bead? The resin I use drips off."
Okay, and Samantha is using ICE resin.
So, Samantha, ICE resin's a good choice.
It is a doming resin, it's a clear resin.
I think it probably relates more to what I just talked about with the fact that the resin, it wants to drip.
So you can coat the bead with it, you probably just,
you'd need to rotate your bead fairly frequently to make sure that it evens out.
For some of these people that I see do resin tumblers, or you know,
coat their tumblers with resin, they've got it on almost a spit.
Like, you know, they're barbecuing something.
And the cup just slowly turns the whole time.
Honestly if you are interested in doing a whole bunch of resin beads,
that's probably what you need to do.
Is somehow get it so it just slowly rotates the entire time,
or at least for the first few hours until your resin starts to gel enough that it's just not going to move anymore.
Okay, alright, so let's see, what other questions can we talk about?
So, someone asked, er - emailed me earlier today,
"I was wondering if you can use a doming resin as a main resin as this dries more quickly enabling more pieces to be ready sooner."
So, how quickly a resin dries, or cures, is kind of irrespective of whether or not it's a doming resin.
So if you want a resin that's going to cure faster, then you need to look for a resin that cures faster.
For example, all the resins we sell at resinobsession.com,
I have, it's included in our FAQ section, I've got a PDF of all the resins we sell
and their breakdowns on minimum amount to mix, maximum amount to mix,
their cure times, their best uses, pot times, and all kinds of stuff.
So, it doesn't necessarily have to be a doming resin in order to get a faster cure.
And that's something that I realize everybody needs something a little different.
Some of you, you know like in this case, she wants a faster curing resin so she can churn out more pieces.
Whereas I know for some of you, especially when you get started,
all the sudden that pot time as totally crept up on you and things are starting to gel and you're like,
"Oh my gosh, I totally need more time to get this done."
So, at this point I would tell you just do a little more investigating and
I'll try and include a link with the article with the PDF of the ones we sell
and how they breakdown and all that kind of thing.
Alright, looks like I've got time for one more question before we do stuff.
Okay...alright...okay.
Okay, so somebody wanted to know if you can color clear resin with food coloring.
Unfortunately, no.
Food coloring does not do well in resin because it's got a lot of water in it.
Resin does not like water.
So, in general, the colors that are designed specifically for resin are going to be your best bet.
That doesn't mean that I want to discourage you from trying other things,
like paints, or eye shadows, chalks, you know, I've used spices before.
I mean, all that stuff is really good to try.
What I will tell you is, be sure to keep a journal of what you've done 'cause you'll
if you're anything like me, you know, you'll mix stuff up and then you'll go to de-mold it in a couple of days
and you'll be like, "Huh. What did I do now? Or, how did I mix this? Or, I don't remember what I did."
So, it's important to keep a journal.
And be, you know, be good about, honest with what happened and maybe it gives you some ideas
on what to do differently next time or what to try differently or do some different stuff.
So anyway, don't be afraid to try.
Some of your mistakes will be your best learning opportunities
So, anyway, okay.
Alright, so I'm here for 4 more minutes.
Let me see if I can get one more quick question.
And then we can, then I have something to share with you.
I have a couple things to share with you.
Okay, "I made some resin parts for my car.
100% correct mixture, but after 3 days it is still sticky.
What am I doing wrong?"
Okay, so when it comes to resin and hardener, the 2 parts, you mix them together,
it heats up, the chemical reaction produces heat, and that heat is what causes the resin to cure.
So, I would say, it's been my experience, that 75% of the time when someone says they still have sticky resin,
either the mixture wasn't measured accurately enough and it wasn't mixed thoroughly. Okay?
So, assume you got both of those done.
Then a couple other things to think about would be the temperature of your room.
You know, most epoxies like low 70's Fahrenheit.
It might be that you didn't mix enough.
You have to have so much hardener and so much resin to mix together to produce enough heat for it to cure.
And then it might be something you added to the resin.
I mean, some of these, you add colorants, or you add something else and it just, it keeps the reaction from happening
the way it should and so for that reason that might be some reasons why your resin didn't cure.
But we also have a troubleshooting section as well, and I'll put a link there to, so you guys can all enjoy.
Okay, alright, 2 more minutes!
Okay, I've got something fun to share with you.
Okay, so, I'm checking my notes here.
Okay, so, big announcement.
For those of you who don't know, if you come and buy stuff at resinobsession.com,
we have a rewards program because I love that you guys can help fuel my passion for resin
and I want to pay it back to you guys in the form of rewards.
So, we've had the rewards program and it's done – I think customers have really liked it.
So this week, I added a couple of new rewards, INCLUDING, if you like this kind of setting here tonight,
2 of the rewards are a 15 minute face session with me or a 30 minute face session with me, okay?
So, if you like this and you want to talk more resin, and it's just me an you one-on-one,
those are rewards now for our rewards program.
You can hop on over to our site and the details are over there.
Okay, alright, so, here's, for those of you who've hung in here this evening, thanks so much.
And here's what I have to share with you.
So, was it last week? No, it was the week before last.
I made some rainbow pendants that showed up on the blog and I got a few questions about
"What's that powder?" "I really like that powder that you added in with the colors to get the rainbow stuff."
That is the Resin Obsession Pearl Powder
and it can be mixed with transparent resin and it gives this beautiful luminescent sparkle.
And so, and it's to effect, so the more you add, the more sparkly and pearl you get and that kind of stuff.
So, okay now this is important, before I tell you the details because this is important,
I realize some of you are going to be watching this later.
This offer that I'm getting ready to tell you about is good until 11:59 pm tomorrow evening, Thursday, October 19, 2017. Okay?
Alright? So, you can get a free pearl powder, all you have to do is pay the shipping.
Okay? Alright.
Here's what you do.
You go to shop.resinobsession.com and go to the colorant section.
I'm going to do it right now – make sure I'm telling you guys the right things.
Okay, so, shop.resinobsession.com.
Okay.
If you look on the left hand side of our store, you see a little tab that says colorants, click on that.
You want to click on the powder link, okay?
And in the second row down, third one across is the Resin Obsession Pearl Powder.
Okay.
So, all you have to do is put it in your cart and use the code CANDY, okay? C-A-N-D-Y.
And all you have to do then is pay shipping on that Pearl Powder.
You got a Pearl Powder for free – just you pay to have it shipped to you.
So, anyway, that's my way of saying thank you for coming tonight.
Glad we could hang out, glad we could talk resin.
I wish I could have gotten to everybody's questions this evening.
My goodness, we could have a little marathon on all these questions, but let's do it again sometime, okay?
Alright, so if you're watching this later, you know this will be recorded so if you're watching it later and you have questions,
especially if you're on Facebook, leave them as a part of the comments and I will do my best to get them answered.
And just a reminder, free Pearl Powder through October 19, 2017, 11:59 pm Eastern, use code CANDY.
Okay. And all you've gotta do is pay the shipping.
Anyway, alright everyone, thanks so much for joining me this evening.
And if you haven't already, follow us on our social media stuff,
we've got some cool things coming up, so we hope to see you around here again soon.
Alright, bye everyone! See ya!
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