Resin crafting has taken the world of DIY and handmade crafts by storm, offering endless possibilities to create stunning, glossy, and durable projects. Whether you’re a beginner or looking to refine your skills, this guide will walk you through everything you need to know to dive into the exciting world of resin crafting. Whether you are a beginner or a resin artist looking for new ideas and inspirations.
Resin crafting involves using liquid resin—a synthetic compound that hardens into a solid, glass-like material when mixed with a hardener. Epoxy resin is the most common type for crafting, known for its clarity, strength, and versatility. Artists and hobbyists use resin to create geode, jewelry, coasters, art pieces, keychains, home decor, and more.
This beginners guide to resin crafts talks about safety and precaution when handling the solutions, different tools and materials to make your first resin project, various types of resin, and how you can use silicone molds to make beautiful resin art. You will also learn how to add color, fillers, and other insertions into resin successfully and cure it effectively.
There are many different materials you can use along with the basic resin craft materials. Here’s everything that you need to get started:
With these beginner-level steps you can make your first resin coaster or keychain to get acquainted with the substance:
Smaller project uses less resin and is ideal for testing. Enjoy the process, and do not rush the curing process, and have fun experimenting! Here’s a list of resin projects for you to try:
When crafting with epoxy resin, there is no limit. You may prefer an epoxy resin kit or a beginner friendly resin craft to get yourself familiar with the substance, and learn from practical experience apply all the information you learn. You will find beautiful epoxy resin kits and resin crafts for starters in this Epoxy Resin Crafts: Make Cool Projects for beginners.
People ask are resin crafts easy to make? After trying it for myself, once you have a project in mind, you just have to mix and pour resin. It is simple and easy, but you have to be careful with the ratio to make sure resin cures and hardens properly. Here is a list of beginner friendly step-by-step tutorials for resin art and crafts that I recommend you try to get the basic techniques down:
Pressed flower resin coasters
Make Resin Coasters WITHOUT molds
DIY Resin Art With Hot Glue Gun
Epoxy resin is also a popular DIY projects material. Find ready-to-use kits for your garage at home improvement stores for your next home improvement goal.
Learn how to imprint a design from an inspired item using this custom resin mold and resin tea light holder tutorial.
You can make so many different things with resin:
JEWELRY AND ACCESSORIES: Earrings, necklaces, pendants, bangles, bracelets, rings, hair clips, barrettes
HOME DECOR: Lamp, tea light holders, candle holder, resin geode, decorative sculptures, wall art, trays, serving boards, ornaments, decorative letters, wall clock, picture frames
PRACTICAL THINGS: bookmarks, key chain, magnets, coasters, pen holders, buttons, game boards, phone cases, bowls, trinket dish, paperweights, bookends, napkin ring, dominoes, tic tac toe, comb, utensils
PERSONALIZED GIFTS: keepsakes and memorial gifts using preserved flowers, locks of hair, and ashes, photo-embedded art, letter and name key chains, straw toppers, pencil topper
FURNITURE PROJECTS: Resin-encased wooden stools, countertops, river tables
CRAFTS: Miniature figurines, bookmarks, dried flower resin art
DIY INDUSTRIAL AND REPAIR WORK: Waterproof coating on garage floors, sealing wood, artwork, add strength to repair work.
You can make your own silicone molds for unique personalized resin products. Here’s a step-by-step guide to making silicone molds. With UV resin making jewelry and miniature projects has become more intricate with designs.
Learn nine proven methods to dry flowers and press unique insertions for your resin projects at home.
Although not a beginner level but totally doable for artists.
Epoxy resin projects
Here is a list of stunning epoxy resin projects DIY that look expensive.
You can also use resin to craft jewelry and small home projects. Some Resin Jewelry ideas and simple resin crafts for you to get started.