Easily make a beautiful star with just a few supplies. The star looks impressive, but is quick to make and it can hardly go wrong. I will explain how you too can make this beautiful creation!
But before I do that I will tell you a little more about myself. I am Patricia, 40 years old and in daily life a stewardess. I make many creations of epoxy resin myself, but I have more hobbies. For example, I also make things of wood for which I even have a webshop: Crea-Hout . On Instagram I am called CreaPatanda . For now I will show you how to make beautiful Christmas stars.
Supplies
Not essential, but useful:
I am crazy about glitter myself. But I skipped that for this blog, because you can achieve a lot with the color pigments. I used the following dyes:
I also like to work with multiple colors and have therefore built up the stars from multiple colors. Of course, you can choose which colors you want to make your star with. Let's quickly get started with the explanation, so that you too can quickly make such a star beautiful star in the house. I made 2 stars, but I will use the red/green/white in the explanation.
Step 1. Mixing and coloring epoxy resin
For this tutorial I use UltraEpoxy because it is very good and cheap. You can also choose another epoxy resin. For the star you need about 110 grams in total. I made the star in 2 stages. First the colors and then the background.
I worked with the ultraepoxy, which has a mixing ratio of 100:60. Use for the first part about 50 grams of epoxy resin. Weigh this in the ratio 31 grams of part A and 19 grams of part B. Mix this well for 3 minutes. I then divided the ultraepoxy into 3 containers. 1 for sparkling white, the least for the middle circle, this is about 5 grams. 1 for red, of which I put the most in a container for the larger dots, which amounts to about 28 grams and 1 for green which I filled on average for the smaller dots which is about 17 grams. It is a bit of a guessing game with the quantities.
Tip : If you have epoxy resin left over you can always fill a small mold. I always have molds of pendants lying around for this purpose which give nice results.
Step 2. Pouring
Once the epoxy resin is colored well we are going to fill the mold. Pay attention to which color you have mixed for which point. I worked in a cross for a nice effect. So for red I used top, bottom, left and right and for green the slanted points. Be careful with pouring. It is possible that due to the static of the mold some epoxy will drip down the side. Remove this with a baby wipe, so that your mold is clean again when you pour the next layer.
Tip: If you want to remove air bubbles, which there won't be many, be very careful with your blowtorch or lighter. You don't want to hit the silicone mold, the heat can melt it and stick to your epoxy work and then your mold will be ruined. So be very careful with this.
Step 3. Coloring and pouring the background
After filling the first layer of colours, we let it harden for at least 8 hours to prevent the background from mixing with the colours of the points. For the background, you can weigh 60 grams of epoxy resin. This is 38 grams of part A and 22 grams of part B. Stir this well for 3 minutes again and then add the supreme white pigment paste. This makes a nice dense white colour for the background so that the red and green stand out well. The sparkling white of the middle is also clearly visible through this even white background colour. As soon as the epoxy resin is mixed and coloured, we pour the mould completely full. Here too, if you want to remove air bubbles, do this carefully.
Step 4. Remove from the mold
Let the epoxy resin harden for at least 24 hours after pouring the last layer. Now follows the last step and then your star is ready. The best part of all epoxy resin work, in my opinion, is taking it out of the mold. Then you see your end result. So don't wait any longer and take that star out of the mold. Take a look at your beautiful result. Enjoy how beautiful it has become. Then show it to everyone and in the meantime make a new one, in different colors or maybe the same colors, because I know for sure that many people would like such a beautiful star.
The other star with gold, silver and black I made in the same way, only with different colours. For the middle circle I used gold flakes in ultra epoxy. This gives a nice effect. The black background also makes the colours stand out nicely. This way you can vary a lot with colours. There is now one ready with pastel colours and I am also going to make a glitter variant!
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