Resin Cookie Cutter Ornament

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

• 1 Bottle of Color Pour Hardener
• 1 Bottle of Color Pour Resin
• Color Pour Liquid Pigments: Yellow, Red, Blue, White
• 1 Sweater Cookie Cutter
• Small Holiday Embellishments: Snowflakes, Christmas Trees, Gold Glitter
• Small Pointed Hot Glue Gun/Glue Gun Sticks
• Silicone Pad at Least 3"x 3"
• Straight Pins
• Paper Towels
• Heat Gun
• 7 Small Mixing Cups
• Small Drill and Drill Bit
• White Embroidery Thread
• Masking Tape
• Scissors

DIRECTIONS:

1. Place two pieces of masking tape on the top of the cookie cutter where you are going to drill the hole for the loop.
2. Use your drill and drill bit to make a small hole on top of the masking tape in the center of the top of the cookie cutter. Drill slowly with a small amount of pressure.
3. Cut a piece of the embroidery thread about 5" in length.
4. To create a loop to hang the ornament, thread the embroidery thread up through the hole and then back into the hole of the cookie cutter. Make a knot inside of the cookie cutter and snip off the extra thread. Your loop should be about 3" tall.
5. Use the glue gun and cover around the hole opening of the ornament. You don't want the resin to leak out of the hole.
6. Place the cookie cutter in the middle of the silicone pad.
7. Use the hot glue gun and while holding the cookie cutter still, place a bead of glue all the way around the cutter.
8. Mix a small amount of the resin, about 2 tablespoons worth, following the directions on the package. Slowly pour it into the cookie cutter in a thin small stream of resin. Only fill it halfway up the cookie cutter.
9. Make sure your glue bead around the cookie cutter is keeping the resin inside of the cookie cutter. If it leaks out of the cookie cutter, then stop, clean up your resin and start over. You will need a thick band of glue around the cookie cutter.
10. Let it sit for 6 hours to harden. While the resin is hardening, use your heat gun and a straight pin to pop any air bubbles.
11. After it has completely hardened, you can remove it from the silicone pad and remove any of the glue.
12. Mix your color pigment together in one of the mixing cups. You will only need about 1 teaspoon of colored pigment. Equal parts of yellow and blue colors make green. Add a very small amount of red to knock down the brightness of the green. Add white to lighten the green color.
13. Once you have the color you want, mix up some more resin in new mixing cups and add the colored pigment to the resin.
14. Pour this second layer of resin on top of the first hard clear resin layer.
15. Let it dry for 6 hours.
16. Place the embellishments onto the harden colored layer. Press the embellishments into the hard resin. It will stick to the colored layer.
17. Mix up another small amount of resin and pour a thin layer onto the ornament. Your embellishments should stay in place. If they move, you can use a straight pin to push around the embellishments.
18. Use your heat gun to pop any bubbles.
19. Keep pushing around the embellishments if they start to move from where you want them.
20. Stay with the ornament until the new layer starts to become tacky. Once it becomes tacky, the embellishments will stop moving. Let it harden.
21. Mix your final batch of resin and pour a very thin layer on top to seal in all of the embellishments.

JOANN HACKS:

• Use the heat gun to remove any air bubbles. Be careful not to get too close to the resin with the heat gun. You don't want to cook it.