Well, you can make sure that this never happens to you. This video shows you one method to work out the volume of your mould.
Another way to work out how much resin to mix is to fill your mould with rice or water and then tip that into a measuring cup/jug.
Here are 3 ideas to try!
1. Top the mould up
Mix more resin and try to match the colour.It's really hard to get an exact colour match. But you might get close enough that no one will really notice the colour difference.
You can barely see the difference in this bangle - it looks like shadow and highlight - and it would be barely noticeable when this bangle was being worn.
2. Use the colour-blocking technique
Top the mould up with a couple of contrasting colours of resin so it looks like you meant it!Bonus tip! This is a great way to use up extra resin that you mixed too. Just keep topping up your mould with whatever resin you have left from each project and you'll get a multicoloured piece like this striped ring.
3. Half-fill the Mould
Here's a bangle cast from one of my cuff moulds. It measures 33mm across the widest part of the bangle.
It measures just 19mm across the widest part!
See how different they look when they're alongside each other.
Looks totally different, doesn't it!
Partially filling the mould makes this mould much more versatile!
So it's not always a disaster when you don't have enough resin to fill the mould. You just need to think creatively to top them up or trim them so that it looks like it was deliberate.
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