Lava Lamp Earings

These are some super cute lava lamp earrings. I believe lava lamps are one of the most mesmerising things in the world, so simple but awesome!!!

what you'll need:

Acetate

uv lamp

uv resin

pigments

O screw

O ring

Earring hooks.

You can buy premade moulds from amazon, they are reusable and can be easier. But I didn’t have that option, so for this project, we’ll be making our own.

1. Roll your acetate into a straw, if you want your earrings to be thick make it a thick cylinder.

2. Seal the tubes together with glue leaving no gaps for the resin to seep out of. Cut your straw into the length you want

Tip - make your straw long so you don’t have to make another one for the other earring.

Lava lamps have cool oil inside that forms melty blobs when you turn it on. This is the look we are going for keeping the shapes circular and stringy. I’ve provided references from the internet.

1. We’ll start by making the base/plug for our resin mould, roll out a piece of polymer clay into a ball then press it to flatten it. Use your mould as a cookie-cutter, cut out the size of the base.

2. Cure this base in the oven for 4mins on a fan at 150 degrees

When you take it out of the oven the fun part starts we can start building our stretchy blobs.

3. Roll a circle of polymer clay and mount it onto your cured base From there I used a dotting tool to shape it into my desired blob following the reference pictures of real-life lava lamps.

4. All that’s left is to make the floaties, these follow the same principle as before. Roll out a circle and distort it pulling and stretching until we have made a stringify oil like creature. Make some random small circles to imitate the bubbling in a lava lamp

Note - This is a creative process get imaginative with what you want your lamp to look like.

5. Now bake these in the oven for another 5 mins on a fan at 150 c

1. Colour our resin, with your desired colour pour the tiniest grain of pigment into the resin and stir. We want it to be transparent so you can see the blobs through it.

2.Now plug your base back into the hole, it may not fit perfect that’s why the next step is important. Pour a very thin layer of clear resin into your now plugged mould

Note- it will likely leak as it’s not a tight fit so put a protective covering underneath. Quickly cure it under a lamp for around 3mins This will allow you to now pour your coloured resin in without spill.

Note - Now the design of your lamp is important, we pour in the resin layers one at a time so we can levitate the blob and not have it sink to the bottom.

3. Pour a thin amount of resin into your mould, stop pouring when it gets to the height of where you want your other blob to sit.

TIP- For the next part we are going to need to place our blob into the resin, you can use a kebab with a small amount of resin connecting the end of your stick to the end of your oil figure. This allows you to lower it into the resin hands-free. ( see reference)

4. Now cure your blob and resin making sure you’re still holding that kebab stick in place, for 3 minutes under a UV lamp.

Now just repeat steps 1 and 2 above until you have placed all your blobs into the resin at the desired spacing. Make sure you fill it to the top as you’ll be adding a stopper and earring hook there.

1.With polymer clay just like before, roll a piece into a ball and press it flat. Measuring out the top of your cylinder. I poked a hole into this cap where my O screw will be.

2. Cure in the oven for 3mins on a fan at 150 c

3. You can now add your o screw and super glue it down to the top of your cylinder.

4. For finishing touches add resin to the top cap and bottom to make it shiny.

1. You will need an O loop to connect the earring hook to the O screw, pry the O Loop open and connect it to the O screw.

2. Once that is done you can now attach your earring hook to the opened O loop connected to the O screw.

3. you want to squeeze the O loopback closed