Using Enamel When Making Jewelry

Video Transcript

"This is John Mendez with Expert Village and I have made my enamel for the jeweled frame. And what I like to do is I like to jewel about an inch, maybe two inches, depending on how much you want to do, but you have to remember this is just on there with hot glue so the more that you do the more risk you have of losing the beads by handling it. So I only like to do small portions at a time and then go in with your resin and hardener before it starts to harden. You can just drop it anywhere. You can let it just drop on top of the beads but in between and what that will do is gravity will just take it in. I use a head pin or tooth pick and just kind of squeeze it into those little crevices. And you can go around and do that in between all of the beads and make sure that you get all the empty spots. Don't be afraid to touch all the beads because like I said, gravity will pull this down into all those little tight spots and later on you can clean it up with a razor blade after it's cured and hardened. You can go around and take off all the little pieces with a razor blade. So you want to be really ample about applying this to every little crevice. And you can see there where I have done it. Now once you get all those little piece in there finished you can go ahead and bake this at one hundred degrees in your oven and it will harden up in about a half hour. "