I’ve been working lately on making my office-cubicle-space a little bit happier. I already shared the paper sorter I made from cereal boxes. Today, I’m sharing some thumb tacks I prettied up with some resin flowers.
I got a silicone mold a while back from etsy to make these super cute dahlia/chrysanthemum cabochons. When I got the mold, I used it to make some earrings out of clay. This time, I used resin to make the flower cabochons. I used three different resin dyes – an opaque white, transparent blue, and transparent green – to make a range of slightly different colored push pins.
Since my mold only has three flower spaces and they take at least 12 hours to harden, I could only make three pins at a time. That made this project take several days, but it wasn’t much time each day. To make each set of flowers, I mixed the resin according to directions on the box (follow them exactly even if they seem tedious!) using a food scale to ensure even quantities of resin and hardener. For each batch, I mixed up about 10 oz. of resin which was more than enough. I then added a few drops of dye, and poured the resin into the mold. I did lots of shaking/taping the mold (carefully to avoid spilling!) to release any bubbles formed in the fairly intricate mold. You can tell that some of the earlier ones I made have several bubbles on the petals – lots of tapping the mold helps get rid of these. You can also find perfect already made ones on etsy – just search for ‘resin flower cabochons’ under supplies.
Then just set it aside to dry overnight, and popped them out it the morning.
Once I had my flowers, I just superglued them onto plain silver pushpins. Easy-peasy!
And here there are holding up some of my favorite pictures in my office! They sure brighten up my day at work 🙂
These are great! Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful!!! Thx for sharing!
Oh boy! I want to make these. They are just lovely!
These are so pretty! Hope you don’t mind if I feature them on my blog today. 🙂 Thanks for sharing this great project!
those are gorgeous. love them!
These sure are pretty and would be such a sweet thing to make for someone. What a great color they are too. Who wouldn’t like some of these?! I found your post at Too Much Time.
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Liz
So cute! Great idea!
Cute!
These are so neat! What a clever idea!! I’m a new follower from naptime Delights!
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These are so cute.
These are so pretty!! I will be adding this to my huge list of projects! Thanks for sharing 🙂
What a cute way to dress up boring old thumb tacks. 🙂
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Found you from C.R.A.F.T. What a clever idea!
Thank you for sharing!
These are so cute and I love that you made your own! I have a batch I bought from Mindy’s Minute Market but haven’t used them yet =)
Those are adorable!!! Thanks for linking up to “Strut Your Stuff Saturday!” We hope to see you again! -The Sisters
So cute 🙂
These are so sweet! I love the different colour variations.
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great idea!!
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I love the blue theme, feels like the ocean is near. I did something similar, except I went to our Thrift Store and used earings and buttons instead. They have some really different things there that you could use to glue to the top of the pins.
These are so cool – love that you molded them yourself! You’ve been featured at this week’s Craftastic party – stop by and grab a Featured On button. Thanks for linking to Craftastic Monday at Sew Can Do:)
so cool! I really want to try these sometime!
Absolutely adorable!!!! TFS
I’m feeling like I’ve been creatively deficient after reading your blog. You have inspired me! 🙂