It’s so fun to make your own resin jewelry! Express your creativity and create resin jewelry in all your favourite colours and shapes. You can make your pieces truly one of a kind with beautiful add-ins like mica powder and gold flakes.
Follow our helpful step-by-step photo and video tutorials to make resin earrings, a resin necklace pendant, and a resin bracelet. This easy resin craft is SO PRETTY, and it’s a lot of fun for beginners and experienced crafters alike. Keep reading for more helpful tips and tricks about working with resin!
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How to Make Resin Jewelry
Equipment:
- Popsicle sticks (or silicone stir sticks)
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Instructions:
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Mix the resin
- Before working with resin, protect your working surface with a drop cloth and/or a silicone mat. Always wear protective nitrile gloves and eye protection.Work in a well-ventilated space and wear a respirator if your resin requires it. Read your resin's label for safety requirements.
- Mix the amount of resin needed for the amount of jewelry you'd like to make. We mixed 40 ml of resin total, which made 5 pendants, 2 bracelets, and 2 pairs of earrings.Begin by adding 1 part of Part A to the silicone measuring cup. The amount of Part A should be half the total amount needed. (In our case, 20 ml.)Follow your specific resin's instructions for ratios, drying times, and curing times.
- Add an equal amount of the hardener (Part B) to the measuring cup, or whatever ratio your brand of resin suggests. (In our case, 20 ml.)
- Mix the resin and hardener together with a popsicle stick or a reusable resin stir stick.Stir slowly, scraping down the sides and bottom of the measuring cup. Continue mixing for 3 minutes or until the mixture is clear (streak free).
Step 3: Add colour and gold flakes
- Pour the resin into separate plastic mixing cups, 1 for adding colour and 1 for gold flakes.
- Add coloured mica powder into one of the cups. Start with a small amount and continue to add pigment until the resin is opaque.It's recommended that your pigment is less than 6% of the volume of your resin.
- Stir, combining the resin and pigment until it's well mixed with no clumps.
- Add gold foil flakes into the second cup of clear resin. Use a clean popsicle stick to mix the flakes into the resin, separating and breaking apart the larger pieces.The gold flakes have a tendency to clump up in the resin, so do your best to separate them.
Step 4: Pour the resin into silicone molds
- Set your pendant silicone mold on the silicone mat.Hold 1 resin cup in each hand. Pour into the mold from both cups at the same time, holding the cups on different sides.For example, hold the coloured resin on the left and the gold leaf resin on the right. Slowly pour from both at the same time until the resin meets in the middle and the mold is full.
- Break up and separate any large clumps of foil that remain, adjusting them across the pendant as needed.
- Repeat the same pour in your bangle bracelet mold.
- Use the popsicle stick to carefully scoop the coloured resin into the earring molds.Don't overfill the mold, as you'll need a flat back to attach the earring post later.
- Let the jewelry sit, untouched, for the recommended dry (or demold) time.Our resin's dry time is 12 to 18 hours, but we recommend waiting 24 hours so that the jewelry is hard enough to handle without warping.
Step 5: Demold and attach jewelry findings
- Once your resin jewelry is dry you can demold it. Push from the bottom of the mold and stretch it a bit as you pull the jewelry out.
- Attach a jump ring through the hole in the pendant.If your mold doesn't have a hole you can use an electric drill or hand drill to make one.
- Use pliers to close the jump ring and add your cord necklace or chain to complete the pendant necklace.
- Add a dot of jewelry glue, or a craft glue like E6000, to the flat back of the resin earrings.
- Set the flat part of the earring post into the glue.
- Repeat with the matching earring and allow the glue to dry and cure for the time recommended on the package.
- Your resin jewelry is complete!Once your resin jewelry has completely cured (72 hours for our resin) you can sand any rough edges off the back.
Helpful Tips:
- Resin jewelry is a great way to use up leftover resin from a larger project!
- Place a dust cover (like a food cover used at picnics, or a clear plastic lid from a food tray) over the resin while it hardens and cures. This will prevent any unwanted particles falling into the resin.
What resin is best for making resin jewelry?
We highly recommend using Let’s Resin epoxy resin to make resin jewelry, or for any resin art project. It cures in less time than other brands and it’s non-yellowing, which means your resin jewelry will last for years to come.
Epoxy resin is a great choice for most resin projects. It’s very easy for beginners to work with, and it gives you a decent amount of pouring time to work with. Deep pour resin is required for any objects thicker than 1/2 inch, so if you’re only buying one type of resin, casting resin is the way to go.
UV resin is another popular choice for jewelry, and you can use it, but it’s not our first choice. We find it more fussy to work with, and it doesn’t always give the same polished and smooth look that epoxy resin does.
Do I have to use a silicone mold to make resin jewelry?
We love using silicone molds with resin because they’re so easy to use! But you can also make resin jewelry with open bezels (also known as metal pendant frames).
To do this, attach the bezel to a piece of tape. You can use regular masking tape or buy a special resin tape. Make sure there aren’t any gaps between the tape and the frame, and then pour your resin into the frame. Allow to dry like usual, and then remove the tape.
How can I colour my resin jewelry?
You can create stunning color effects in your resin by using different pigments or dyes. We mostly used mica powder for our resin jewelry, which adds a nice shimmer to the resin as it adds colour. We also coloured some of our jewelry with acrylic paint.
Other options to colour resin include: alcohol ink, food colouring, liquid resin dye, powder resin dye, or any other type of art pigment.
What can be added into resin jewelry?
There are so many fun inclusions you can add into your resin jewelry. We used pigment and gold foil flakes for our jewelry, but glitter is another popular option. (Check out our resin ornaments post to see how cool this looks!)
Or try sequins, confetti, beads, buttons, rhinestones, or gems. You can even make beach themed resin jewelry with shells and sand!
Dried flowers are another add-in that look amazing in resin (see our resin keychains). You can use pressed flowers or even crushed flower petals as a substitute for gold flakes.
You can add pretty much anything into resin, so long as it’s dry/free of moisture. Keep in mind that your items may look a bit darker or “wet” when you add them into the resin.
Each piece of resin jewelry is a tiny work of art, and they’re so fun to make! Learn how to make resin jewelry and add a personal touch to each earring, necklace, or bracelet.
This resin art project is a really fun way to explore jewelry making and experiment with different colours, materials, and techniques.
Here’s even more resin craft ideas:
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Our book Low-Mess Crafts for Kids is loaded with 72 fun and simple craft ideas for kids! The projects are fun, easy and most importantly low-mess, so the clean up is simple!
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