Keep your wedding memories alive by preserving your wedding flowers in minimal floral resin tree ornaments!
For those of you have organised a wedding and had foliage or florals, you’ll know that you are left with an abundance of it afterwards. My bridesmaids took their bouquets, and I preserved my bouquet in a box frame (you can find the tutorial here) but we still had so much from the general venue decor left. I am so reluctant to throw it all away, even dried up they’re so beautiful, and so I’ve been racking my brain thinking of ways to keep it, preserve it and gift it.
With Christmas only 5 weeks away, I got thinking about how lovely it would be to have wedding mementos on our tree and to be able to bring them out every year for many years to come, and I landed on having a go at using resin. I’ve never used it before, I was pretty intimidated by it, however I got myself a respirator, used it outside and hoped for the best. My first attempt was a bit too thick for my liking, the flowers floated upwards as the resin dried making the top uneven, and the resin wasn’t as clear as I wanted it to be. My second attempt involved bringing it all inside, pouring two lots of resin, the second after the first had had some to set with the flowers in, and heating the mould and two parts of the resin before I used them.
I was much happier with the results, though the back and sides of the ornament are matte and not shiny like I expected them be, which after some research I’ve discovered is probably because the mould I used had a matte finish. I actually quite like the look it gives, and it sounds as though it can be easily resolved by applying a thin coat of resin on it or by getting a shiny mould. So, learn from my mistakes, if you want this to be completely clear and shiny on all sides, heat your resin, allow it to dry somewhere where the temperature won’t vary too much, and use a shiny silicone mould. I’m planning on gifting these to my family members, and am so excited to see what they think. Let me know in the comments below if you like this idea and don’t forget to like and share it too.