This tutorial shows you a DIY beading tray design with resin and raysin powder. For this, you will need a silicone mold to make a tray. This mold allows the creation of several trays of about 23.5 cm long by 13 cm wide. You can make them for your friends. We also sell a small tray mold, but this one is not deep enough to make a beading tray. We made a nice jewelry tray instead.
This beading tray allows you to carry your weaving in progress from one room to another. Have fun customizing it with our resin decorations and dyes. For example, you can put small dried flowers on the edges or make the tray in gradient colors. Let your imagination run wild.
In this crafting tutorial, we used two different materials for our trays: Two-component epoxy resin and Raysin powder. Raysin powder is a kind of plaster but much more solid and not brittle. However, it is a little more fragile than resin. The tray is likely to break if you drop it on the floor. It is also a rather heavy material. It is nevertheless very interesting for an opaque finish.
Things to know before you order:
We made the small tray first and used the leftover Raysin powder mix for the large tray part.
The Raysin powder was measured out with a small disposable coffee cup. Scoop out 3 teacups of powder and pour it into your bowl. Press the dye bottle once quickly to extract the pigments. Mix for a long time with the back of a spoon.
Clear the workspace so nothing gets in the way and prepare your trays. If you want to do the same effect as the tutorial for the large tray, place one side of the tray on a small object or book to tilt it.
You can add a cup of water when the pigment is perfectly melted to the powder and no more color stains are visible. The powder hardens very quickly once the water is added, so the pigment must be thoroughly mixed before adding the water.
Once the water is added, mix the entire mixture quickly and pour it into the small tray. Then pour the rest into the side of the large pan. Tap the molds to bring up the bubbles.
Wait 2 hours before unmolding the small mold and one week in a dry place before pouring resin on it. You can sand the edges and the back of the small tray right away.
Do not unmold the large, incomplete tray.
A week of drying later, you can move on to the resin part. Use the cups provided with the resin kit to mix the two resin components in a large disposable cup or bowl. Start with 120 ml of resin + 60 ml of hardener. Mix well but don't go too fast, this is very important.
You can add more resin later if it is not enough to fill the mold. Put chips and gold flakes in your first mix, mix and pour into the tray. Don't fill the resin all the way to the top because the resin will increase in volume during catalysis and it may leak out of the tray. Our bottom was the victim of this...
Continue the small tray with the remaining resin. Pour a thin layer of resin inside the tray and arrange the dried flowers with a toothpick. Bring them down to the bottom of the tray. Remove the bubbles with the flame of a gas-lighter.
Wait 48 hours before unmolding. Prepare a small amount of resin again and apply it to the pink surface with a brush in very thin layers, spread well. The light pink surface will darken. Your piece can be placed on a special resin mat. Wait 48 hours for the resin to harden.
Pour the second layer of resin in the small tray to cover the flowers.
Trace the outline of the tray on a sheet of paper. With a ruler, make a second trace 8 mm from the first one but inside to reduce the size of the template. Cut out a piece of beading mat using your template. Check that it fits perfectly in your tray and cut it back if necessary.
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