Resin Art
The Resin Floral Design Process
Prepping flowers for resin design is a totally different process from freeze drying. In fact, we can not use freeze dried flowers with resin pieces. Instead, flowers are preserved in silica.
Even though these two processes are different, they both begin with the same steps.
You Prep the Bouquet
Receiving bouquets in good condition is crucial to the entire process, and we do have to refuse some flowers that are just too damaged or dying to proceed.
Recut your stems and put your flowers in a vase with fresh cool water. There’s no need to refrigerate them, just make sure they do not get too hot or too cold.
DO NOT wrap tightly! DO NOT freeze your flowers!
3. Hydration Treatment
When your bouquet is fully disassembled we give your flowers a final hydration treatment to help counteract the effects of aging/dying. This doesn’t bring a dead flower back to life, but it does help breathe a little extra life into the flowers that were on the verge of being unusable.
5. Design Approval
Once your flowers are preserved they are stored in air tight containers until we can begin your design work.
We do not begin any design work until your order selections are complete, any extra keepsakes are delivered to us, and your order balance is paid in full.
Once paid in full, your order goes into the queue behind other paid in full orders. To avoid long waits for your order, bring any keepsakes with you to your drop-off or design appointment and pay in full.
With our larger resin pieces like the squares or hexagons, we will design a mockup for you to approve. Once approved, we will start the resin pouring process
Smaller resin pieces like candleholders or ring holders are too small and difficult to send a mockup prior to pouring.
7. Un-mold and polish
Once the resin has fully cured, the fun part of removing the resin art from the mold can begin. This is always a fun time to see the results!
Once out of the mold, we inspect the resin art for any blemishes and polish it so that it looks beautiful and ready for display.
2. We Disassemble Bouquet
Once we have received your bouquet, we work on gently taking it apart so that we can start the prep work for freeze drying. This is also the time when we determine which flowers are in the best condition for your design. Dead or damaged flowers will not be freeze dried.
4. It’s silica time!
Silica is gently poured all over your cut flowers. We make sure that silica gets into all the little tiny crevasses and spaces within the bloom itself.
This helps preserve the shape and color of the flower unlike other techniques like pressing or hanging upside down.
6. Time to pour resin!
It has taken us years and a lot of trial and error to refine our resin pouring process.
Resin art requires a lengthy labor-intensive process by a trained resin designer. Our resin designer has to wear protective eyewear, apron, nitrile gloves and wear a respirator mask.
A layer of resin will coat the bottom of the mold and then each bloom is carefully placed by hand in the resin.
Resin art needs multiple layers of resin with each layer taking 24+ hours to cure before pouring the next. We also have to consider changes in humidity and room temperature in between the different pours.
After all layers are poured, an additional 24 hours is needed before pulling the floral block from the mold.
Note: Silica drying flowers does not guarantee exact color matches!
So many factors are at play when it comes to the natural color composition of your flowers. Things that can affect the color include, but are not limited to, what condition we receive them in, the quality of the original flower (grocery store rose vs. boutique/designer rose), if they were painted or dyed, etc.
We cannot guarantee that flowers will retain their original color once freeze dried.
To learn more about these color differences, please review our FAQ page.