Flower Pressed Resin Coasters DIY| How to make| TheDIYHustle

Flower Pressed Resin Coasters, are a perfect gift for bridal showers, weddings, or just to add a change of color to your tablescapes. Flowers are everywhere, some wild, some ornamental, or some gorgeous gifted bouquets from a wedding or by that someone special that you would like to preserve, and what better way to preserve those sweet memories for a lifetime!!

Encased in clear resin, don’t they look like they are floating in the glass!!

Let’s see how to make the Flower Pressed Resin Coasters.

What all Supplies do you need to make the Flower Pressed Resin Coasters:

• Resin mix + Hardener
• Silicon Moulds
• Pressed Flowers
•  Gold Flakes
• Wooden Popsicles
• Tweezers(optional)
• Gloves (Silicon Gloves are great for resin work)
• Needle/ Hot Air gun
• Paper Cups to mix

Here is the link to the supplies. These products are not sponsored but this is an affiliate link if you wish to buy from here, I may earn a small amount of commission. Completely up to you!! 

How to make the Flower Pressed Coasters:

Prepare the Flowers 

Flower Pressing is an age-old technique. Don’t tell me you never buried that ‘Rose’ you got from your first valentine in your dairy. Those sweet, pink flowers buried in school textbooks. What Days!! What memories!!  If you don’t know what I am blabbering about here, Simply press the fresh flowers by burying them inside heavy books for a week max, and there you have your pressed flowers. You can also get these off amazon if you don’t want to wait for long.

Style the Silicon Moulds

Now that you have your Pressed Flowers ready, set up the silicone molds in a well-ventilated space, probably by the window where you get a good amount of sunlight. Also, ensure to keep them on a  leveled surface to avoid ending up making uneven coasters. Now start Placing the flowers on the molds. There is no hard and fast rule here, just style them as they please you.

Prepare the Resin Mix 

First and foremost put your gloves on and respirator too before dealing with resin. So, mine was by epoke and it asks for a ratio of 3:1, check the labels/ instructions on the mix you buy, like some work in a 1:1 ratio. To make the mix take three parts of resin and One part of hardener and mix them gently until the two layers blend into one. Add a few gold flakes to the mixtures and start Pouring.

Pouring the Resin mix  

Gently pour the mixture into the Moulds, until you reach the desired thickness. Press the flowers down and they will start to float up.  If you see any Air bubbles, poke them with a needle, or a stick, or torch them with a lighter or a hot air gun. Let the mixture rest for about 48 hours. Cover the resin Coasters with something to avoid dust particles from getting in.

Demoulding the  coasters 

Check the coasters after 48 hrs, they should be dried by now, if they haven’t, give them some more time. Now, gently demold the coasters from the silicon molds. they come off very easily when dried completely.

And Voila!! The Flower Pressed Resin Coasters are ready!!

Look how gorgeous they turned out. I hope you enjoyed this. Do let me know in the comment section below, I am sure you are going to do a better job than me here and leave your friends in awe the next time you get together for a party,  if you do, please share here or tag me on Instagram @ #thediyhustle, I would love to see yours.

Also if you like the backdrop behind this picture, am glad to tell you that it’s an ombre effect that I painted on my living room wall. Head over to read how I have created this ombre wall.

Thanks for stopping by!! Have a wonderful day!!

XOXO

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