How To Add Color To Resin Mold

Using powder to tint resin is an easy mode to add sparkle and color to your resin crafts. My favorite powders for resin are the Pearl Ex colors. They come in multiple hues plus are and then concentrated.

I will show you vi easy tricks to color epoxy resin with Pearl Ex powder.

Tip i: Brush powder onto your mold surface

If you brush the powder on very thinly, the end production will be simply a hint of colour on the resin. These blue disks were made with the aforementioned blue colour of Pearl Ex. The one on the left was lightly brushed. The i on the correct had Pearl Ex mixed in.

Tip 2: Brush more than than one colour into your mold

You can use Pearl Ex to just 1 role of the resin mold or use different colours in different areas of the mold. For example, apply yellow or gold Pearl Ex in the center of a flower with the petals a different colour.

Tip 3: Add colored resin after brushing on pulverisation color

Utilize coloured resin with the painted Pearl Ex technique in tip two for a different issue. I bandage these leaves with Pearl Ex painted in the mold, blueish on the left and gilded on the correct. The resin was tinted with Resin Obsession Bright Scarlet Translucent pigment.

Tip 4: Add a contrasting colored resin afterwards brushing on the pearl powder.

Pigment on Pearl Ex, then pour in a resin mixed with a dissimilar color of Pearl Ex to add dimensions.

Tip 5: Remove some of the pulverization from the mold

If y'all have a mold with a deeply etched pattern and only desire the Pearl Ex to be in the high areas of the completed piece, carefully use a wet wipe to make clean off the loftier points of the interior of the mold. You tin can even paint in a 2d colour of Pearl Ex.

Tip 6: Utilise the powder to color resin

Because Pearl Ex is a dry pigment, you can add information technology to the resin to color it. Add together more to supersaturate it or less to give information technology a marbled event. The blue charm on the left has more powder than the red-blue charm on the right. The pocket-size ovals have fifty-fifty less Pearl Ex powder. The same colour Pearl Ex colored each sample.

And if you lot hate wasting your resin color powder, you can salve it. Afterwards painting the Pearl Ex on, if you lot accept also much loose powder in the mold, you tin hold information technology over your trash can and tap the mold to accept the loose pulverisation fall off. Tap the loose powder off over a clean coffee filter. Then, pour it dorsum into the Pearl Ex bottle.

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Originally written by by Kate Ledum