Handmade Bezel Resin Hearts

Make your own heart shaped bezels with easy to find supplies. Fill them with resin, beads, cabochons and broken jewelry pieces.

Aluminum flashing (any hardware store)

Serrated edge scissors (kitchen department at the 99c store)

Glaze Coat 2 part epoxy resin (any hardware store)

18 gage wire

Flat plastic (top of a takeout container will work)

Aleene's Tacky Glue

Jewelry pieces

E-6000 Glue

Clothespins

Needle nose pliers

Book pages or music sheets

Latex gloves, plastic cups and stir sticks

Chain to hang your hearts (got mine at www.ChainGallery.com)

Cut 3/8" wide strips of aluminum flashing with serrated edge scissors

(I got serrated scissors in the kitchen department at the dollar store)

Bend into a heart shape

Glue the edges together with E-6000 and then clamp with a clothespin until dry

Trace the metal heart on a thin sheet of clear plastic

*I use the tops of takeout containers

Cut out and glue the metal heart to the plastic using Aleene's Tacky Glue

Add more glue around the outside edges so that it's air tight

When dry, cut out book page hearts and fill with beads and jewelry pieces

Mix equal parts of Glaze Coat and stir for a few minutes

Fill the hearts and pop the bubbles with a long arm lighter

Let dry overnight in an unoccupied part of the house or outside under a box

Create "S" hooks with heavy gage wire and glue on the back with E-6000

When dry, hang from a chain