Epoxy Turn Table: Honey bee theme! (IN PROGRESS)

Materials:

• Epoxy & hardener

• Round Epoxy mold (14")

• Hexagonal Epoxy mold

  • I purchased three sets to decrease time / prep overhead

• Wax Honeycomb Sheets

• Mold release spray

  • Highly recommended!

• Gold spray paint

  • Purchase at your local craft store

• Gold craft paint (DecoArt Metallics - Rich Expresso)

  • Purchase at your local craft store

• Dried flowers (work better / easier than fresh

  • Dried flowers are much easier to work with than fresh flowers

  • Fresh flowers may lose / change color during the epoxy & hardener chemical reaction

  • Purchase dried flowers online or at your local craft store

  • For my turn table, I used dried lavender and baby's breath (both found at Publix)

Additional Supplies (optional):

• Reusable mixing supples (small)

• One time use mixing supplies (large)

• Disposable gloves

• Tweezers (for placement)

• Silicon counter mat

• Resin heating mat

  • Speed up curing time

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Before you get started:

• Make sure you've reviewed my Resin 101 post!

• Check your epoxy storage temperature

• Make sure your workspace surface is level (and clean)

Phase 1 - Forming & painting honeycomb base (your "honey"):

• Trace the honeycomb form onto wax honeycomb sheets (one for every honeycomb shell you will have in your project)

• Cut honeycomb bases out

• Paint the top side of each honeycomb base with your gold craft paint

  • Use a small paintbrush and "swirl" the brush to get paint into the wax indentions

• Allow to dry

• Flip honeycomb bases over and paint the other side

Phase 2 - Creating honeycomb shells (your "honeycomb structure"):

• REMINDER: Spray your honeycomb (hex) molds with mold release spray!

• Mix your epoxy

  • Pour 10ml epoxy and 10ml epoxy hardener into your mix cup

    • Pour additional epoxy & hardener if you will be pouring into more than 1 hex mold

  • Slowly mix your epoxy for 4 to 5 minutes

• Pour your epoxy

  • Slowly pout your epoxy into the base of the hex mold

  • DO NOT fill above the sides of the HEX "box" (we want the sides only, not the base)

    • Get a little on the "top" of the mold? That's ok! We can clean that off after it dries

• If you have a resin heating mat (see above)

  • Place the epoxy mold(s) on the mat

  • Set the heating mat timer for 60 minutes

  • Place heating mat cover over epoxy mold(s)

• Allow resin to continue drying / curing for several hours

Phase 3 - Painting honeycomb "shells":

• After you've de-molded 7 honeycomb shells... it's time to paint!

• Take those babies outside, and use some gold spray paint to make 'em shine!

• Make sure you both the inside and the outside

• Spray the top. Let them dry

• Flip 'em & spray the bottom

• Once they're all dry - test out arranging them in a honeycomb bee hive formation!

Phase 4 - Begin assembling your turn table :

• Take out your 14" round mold

  • Don't forget to SPRAY YOUR MOLD!

• Get one of your larger mixing cups, and a stirring stick, out

• Mix approximately 4oz (1/2 cup) epoxy and 4oz (1/2 cup) epoxy hardener in your mix cup

• Stir slowly for 5 minutes

• Once you're down stirring, slowly pour your epoxy into your form, covering as much of the bottom of the mold as possible. Pick the sides of your mold up to help coat the entire bottom.

• Gently place one of your honeycomb shells in the center of the mold

• Place the six other honeycomb shells around it, leaving space between the shells

  • Let this layer fully dry (2 hours with heating mat, or 4 hours without heating mat)

Phase 5 - Continue assembling your turn table :

• TBD (Stay tuned for updates!)

Ready? Your turn!

GO CRAFT!!!