Creative Team Wednesday

It's Creative Team Wednesday on the Ice Resin blog. I've been bad about not posting these so far but I'll get on track now! This collection is from our teammate Cat Kerr. Click here to read and see more of these pieces.

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a great new years eve/day. We stayed in that night and toasted the new years in with champagne and donuts, can't think of anything better!

I've joined a jewelry challenge on Flicker called Four A Month. This challenge is geared to helping you think in terms of collections, which is something I greatly need to start doing. I've also given myself a challenge to make a piece of jewelry for each letter of the alphabet.
Are you doing any challenges this year?

wrap it up

This is my latest experiment with Ice Resin. I was playing around with another idea and had some resin left over so thought I'd see how it would work poured over some bubble wrap. Wasn't sure if it would stick to the wrap or pull off easily. It took some careful removal but it did separate nicely.

When I peeled it off the resin was cured enough that it wasn't sticky but still a bit flexible. After I separated the resin from the wrap I then left the resin near a vent to completely cure(During the winter months I like to leave resin pieces to cure near a heat vent). As is usually the case I realized I should've cut the resin to my desired finished shape at that point instead of when fully hardened. Oh well, I'll remember that next time!

I will next pour some clear resin in and around this piece so that I can retain all the little bits that were created over the bubble parts, they are quite fragile right now.

Fun Etsy Finds

In case you didn't see the news on Facebook or Flickr, I'm having a sale in the Etsy shop right now.