What's more fun than your own dog tag? Emphasize your dog's character even more with your own name tags. Whether you want your dog's name on the harness, his nickname, your favorite football club or a cheerful message.

Rowena takes you step by step in this blog how you can make this. Hi, nice that you are taking a look at this blog! I am Rowena and I go through life together with my assistance dog Bailey. I started a webshop for dog stuff a while ago and expanded with epoxy, I mainly make dog tags.

I have been asked to write a blog for itsOkay about the dog tags and in this blog I will take you through how to do this step by step.

What do you need:
- Silicone mold dog tag
- 1:1 Epoxy casting resin
- Epoxy color pigments (I use the opaque ones: you can use whatever you like)
- Mixing cups and stirring spatulas
- Metal rings 4 mm
- Hand drill
- In this example I use 2 molds including the silicone mold for dog tags , so you can see for yourself which one you like best!

Other:
- Lighter or heat tool
- Gloves
- Kitchen paper/baby wipes and cotton buds to prevent spills
- A well-ventilated workspace and possibly a face mask
- Dried small flowers or other decorations

Preparation and method

Step 1:

When you start making dogtags it is good to look at what kind of dogtags you want to make, I will now take you through making the pastel dogtags. I make sure that all my necessary supplies are ready. For the pastel tags I used a number of colors from the set of opaque pigments: light yellow, light blue, light purple, light pink, light green.

Step 2:

I always put a metal ring in the molds, you do this to strengthen the tag. I have noticed that if you do not do this, the chance of the tag breaking is greater. Not all molds allow you to put a metal ring in because there is no hole in the mold. In addition, you drill a hole in the tag later.

Step 3:

Take 5 cups and the 5 colors, put 1:1 epoxy resin in all cups and add one color to each cup and make sure you mix it well.

Step 4:

When you have mixed everything well you can start pouring the colours into the moulds, you can experiment with the colours and no tag will be the same! That is what I find really fun about working with epoxy, it is always a surprise how it comes out of the mould. So play a bit with pouring the colours, and do not pour too much in at once because otherwise the mould will fill up and of course you want to see all the different colours in the tags.

Step 5:

Once your molds are full, go over them with a lighter to remove any air bubbles.

Step 6:

And now comes the hardest step! Namely waiting 24 hours for the 1:1 epoxy resin to harden. When the epoxy has hardened you can remove them from the molds!

Step 7:

As you can see in the picture I made names on the tags, I like that I can personalize the tags with the name of the dog. I use an Epoxy sticker printer (itsOkay) for this, but you can of course also look for letter stickers or Letter beads from itsOkay. With the sticker printer you can print texts. You can also print a text in Word for example and print it out and then laminate it. You can also write a text on your creation with a Posca Paint Marker.

Step 8:

Sealing names, you don't want the letters to fall off! I always seal the names with a layer of UV resin , you can also use the 1:1 epoxy resin, but then you have to wait another 24 hours for it to dry.

Hopefully I've given you some ideas for making some fun dog tags!

You can see more examples or ideas on my webshop . On tiktok you can find me under the name: baileyssdesign. Love Rowena

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