Pressed Flower Resin Charcuterie Board Tutorial | Transparent Black Resin & Copper Leaf Inlay

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The video features a detailed tutorial on creating an elegant charcuterie board featuring a floral inlay using transparent black resin and copper leaf accents. The creator begins by preparing a wooden board from their website, dusting it off and painting the designated inlay area with black acrylic paint to establish a dark base. To achieve a textured, artistic look rather than a flat surface, they apply black ink mixed with a small amount of water, using a heat gun to dry the mixture quickly while blending it to create depth and splatter effects without saturating the wood. This initial step sets the stage for the resin work, ensuring the background has a rich, vignette-like quality that makes the subsequent floral elements stand out dramatically. Once the inked surface is dry, the creator addresses the challenge of making the board sticky enough to hold dried flowers in place. Instead of relying on gilding size, which did not adhere well in this instance, they recommend applying a thin skim layer of quick-curing UV resin or using hot glue as an alternative tack method. A crucial tip shared is to practice the flower arrangement on a separate piece of felt cut to the shape of the inlay before placing them directly onto the board; this prevents ruined flowers from falling apart and allows for careful planning of the layout. The creator emphasizes selecting affordable dried flowers, preferably sealing those with dye first to prevent color bleeding into the resin, and suggests starting with a specific color palette that includes black, white, copper, and red to complement the dark background. The assembly process involves carefully placing the flowers using hot glue dots, taking care to avoid glue strings that could interfere with the final look. The creator weaves the flowers together to create an asymmetrical but full bouquet appearance, adding dimension and motion so the arrangement does not appear as merely flat layers on top of each other. During this phase, they introduce Onyx gel tint from Color Passion to add a deep, rich tone to the resin, occasionally adding clear resin in sections to push out the darkness and create a billowing effect around the flowers. This layering technique ensures that the dark resin frames the floral elements without overwhelming them, resulting in a sophisticated piece where the flowers appear to emerge from a deep void. After curing, the finished board reveals a stunning contrast between the rippled edges of the dark resin and the vibrant pop of copper leaf embedded within the design. The creator notes that while the piece looks incredible with its deep tones and elegant finish, it is currently raw wood and requires proper sealing and oiling before sale to protect the surface and complete the aesthetic. They encourage viewers to experiment with both clear and dark resins, asking for feedback on whether they prefer the transparency of standard resin or the dramatic depth of tinted options. By following these steps, makers can create unique, high-end decorative items that offer a personalized touch while avoiding common pitfalls like trapped air bubbles or melted flower dyes.

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Hey y'all, I've missed you guys so so much, but I'm back. I'm in the studio doing resiny things, and this is the first Well, I guess this is now the second one that I've really done and edited a video down for by now. I wanted to show you guys this um charcuterie board with a floral inlay that I did. Ooh, ah. It's got some texture to it, but it is decorative only, so I'm not mad about it. I think it looks amazing with this black resin, and I want to know what you guys think. So, leave me a comment down below. Let me know if you like the video, and we'll be back live soon. Till then, here is a close-up of what I'm about to show you guys how to make. I hope you enjoy. I also have a blog on my website artisttilldeath.com that also tells the process of making something with a flat inlay of flowers. And I hope you guys take a second to check it out. Anyways, first thing I did is took one of the charcuterie boards from our website artisttilldeath.com, dusted it off, and painted the inlay area black with just an acrylic black paint. And then I took some black ink. I I'm pretty sure any kind of ink will do. I know it's water-based, but we're going to fully dry this, so it'll be fine. So, I spritzed the surface first just so that where I put the ink, it wouldn't just immediately [clears throat] soak in and leave a dark mark there. It allows me to blend it out a little bit. I didn't use too much water, just a little bit to get the flow going. I didn't want to saturate it. That would be bad. And then after it dried a little bit, I went back in with the same ink and water mixture that I had, and added some darker areas, some splatters, touched up areas that I wasn't pumped with, and did the sides. And then I took a heat gun cuz I have no patience, and I dried the edges and the top. The main thing I wanted to do was dry the inlay area. So, as soon as that was dry, we moved on to making it sticky. My standard tack from APS Studios, I am out of. So, I'm using a gilding size, and it didn't stick as well as I thought it would. So, what you can do instead is to take some resin. I would use a quick-curing UV resin, and just put a little skim on the bottom, and wait for that to tack up. And then, as soon as it's like cold honey tacky, start laying um in your flowers. However, I would also, if this is the first time doing something like this, I would recommend doing a layout on the side. Just to be sure, because once you put a dried flower in resin and try to pick it back up, now you have flower confetti, and it's just not conducive. So, what I usually do was um I'll cut a piece of felt that's the shape of the inlay that I'm working on, and then put it to the side, and I'll do my layout on it, so that I have the parameters of what I'm going to be filling, as well as it won't let like if someone walks by really fast, it won't like blow all of my flowers everywhere. So, that is what I typically do. I didn't have any felt, so we went just by eyesight. And so, I'm going to tell you guys kind of my thought process on layout for arrangements for a flatter floral inlay piece like this. These flowers all came off of either Amazon or something similar. Some online, not very expensive place. Um if you try flowers from Temu or something like that, I would recommend trying to like spray seal them first, cuz I have used ones from there that were dyed, and the dye did up getting kind of melted into my resin. Sorry about all the ruckus. My windows are open. So, when I do my layout, I start with picking a color palette and for this one, obviously, I went with black, white, some copper and the red. So, I also Ooh, I really, really love doing like dried fruit inlay with my florals. This one happened to accidentally from the last class I taught um on the subject have some copper leaf stuck to it and I thought that was a great pop of metallic that wasn't overbearing. So, what I'm doing is since I didn't use a skim layer of resin as I'm just putting a dabble of hot glue to make it stick to where I want it to. Um the thing about hot glue is the strings will get in the way if you aren't careful, so that's why you'll see me do a little whoop, little circle um after I put the hot glue on so that I don't have the little strings. And so, what I'm doing is creating kind of an asymmetrical, but full um bouquet or Okay. Or arrangement. But, it says hi and it made me jump a little bit. And what I'm doing is kind of working the flowers up under and weaving them through each other so it doesn't look like flat flowers on top of flat flowers. It has kind of some motion to it. Sorry about my hair in the way. And what that is going to do is give you some depth even if you don't lay your flowers out in in layers. So, if you wanted to, you could do resin flowers, resin flowers, resin flowers if you had a thicker like substrate. I think this is like 1/2 in or less thick. And so, you really have to be mindful of how thick your flowers are that you're laying into it. The other downside of using just a dot of uh hot glue to stick it down is that air bubbles can get trapped under the petals on the sides. So, be mindful of that if you don't use the resin skin layer method. I added just a squirt of the Onyx gel tint from Color Passion. >> [clears throat] >> Sorry about that. I absolutely love it. It's always transparent, but it's got a great depth of tone. It's very rich. And so, it can get overboard. And so, I accidentally added just a little too much on this one. So, I will be um adding some clear to kind of push out the dark. Every time I come back into screen, I'm adding a little bit more of the dark resin so that it's kind of building some depth. And I'm putting it over a little bit of the flowers knowing that I'm coming back in with the clear in the center to billow and push out from the center um the clear into the dark resin. I hope that makes sense. I know it sounds confusing, but essentially, I wanted it to have like that vignette effect around my flowers. And so, to do that, I'm layering dark on the outside and clear on the inside, you know, in sections so that it doesn't kind of blow the clear all the way out to the edge, and it doesn't bring the dark all the way in from the edge. I hope that makes sense. If it doesn't, leave me a comment. I'm happy to go further into that. But, I love this process. The dark gives it such a a new elegant layer to it. This is while it's in the dust-free zone drying, curing. I think it looks so rich. And this is after curing and I cannot even tell you how many compliments I get on pieces like this. That transparent black resin making it look like flowers are coming up from the deep is just chef's kiss, elegant, priceless. And so before I sell this, I will oil I will oil all the wood and make all of this look like it should and be properly sealed in cuz right now it is just raw wood. It's not sealed with anything. All it has on it is the ink mixture that we did. So that will have to be done before we sell it. But as you can see, sorry, out here I have a flash. So I'm hoping you can see it. That is a billow of dark resin. Then we got some billowing over here on these edges so it looks rippled. I I love it. I love it so much. I love the little pop of copper to bring the color out. And I don't know. I just Sorry about my smudge here. But you can see it also here outside of the smudge. That like swoosh. That swoosh of dark. I love it. I can't get enough of it and I cannot wait to hear what you guys think. Do you prefer clear resin or is dark resin okay? Let me know in the comments down below. If you want to get the resin I use, which is Stone Coat Art Coat, uh you can get it from my website artisttilldeath.com. Or you can also get it from Stone Coat directly. Use code y'all, y a l l, all caps, no punctuation to get uh a discount from stonecoatcountertops.com. Um you can use code a t d on my website to get a 5% off discount code. And yeah. This board is the rectangle charcuterie board. And the black gel tint is from Color Passion. It is the color onyx. So, anyways, I hope you guys had an amazing time watching this. I had an amazing time making it. Cannot wait to hear what you guys think. And until the next one, we'll see you guys there. Be kind to one another cuz you never know what someone's going through. And always remember that we do the test so you don't have to. See you guys. Bye.