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Real Nature Gifts · Tucson, Arizona · Tips & How-Tos
🍁 Fall leaves don't last long. They dry out, crumble, and the color goes brown in a few weeks. Seal one in resin the right way and it keeps that color for years. Here's the simple way to do it 👇
🍂 1. Pick the right leaf
Pick one that still bends a little. If it crumbles when you touch it, it's too far gone — the resin can't save that one.
📖 2. Press it flat
Put it in a heavy book between two sheets of paper and leave it a week or two. Flat leaves sit better in the mold and don't trap air pockets 🫧
💧 3. Dry is everything
The leaf has to be bone dry before it goes anywhere near resin. Any moisture left in it will rot later, sealed or not. This is the step people rush 😬 and it's the one that ruins the piece.
One of ours — cherry blossoms in resin.
🖌️ 4. Seal it first
Brush a thin coat of resin on both sides and let it set. That's the seal — it locks the color in 🎨 and keeps bubbles from leaking out of the leaf during the pour.
📌 5. The pour
Pour in two steps: a shallow base pour first, set the leaf on it, let it gel a little ⏳, then pour the rest over the top. Two pours keep the leaf from floating up or drifting to the side.
✅ That's it. Press it, dry it, seal it, pour it — and a leaf that would have crumbled by Thanksgiving 🦃 is still red years later.
— Real Nature Gifts, Tucson, Arizona 🌵 · RealNatureGifts.com
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REAL NATURE GIFTS · EST. 2012 · TUCSON, ARIZONA