Poly-fil® Poly-Pellets® | A Sweet Berry Designs Blog

Lately I’ve been playing around with resin and Fairfield World’s Poly-Pellets® to see what all I could possibly make with the combination. One idea I came up with was to create a bird bath bowl! It could also be used as a bird feeder bowl.

Materials used:

Fairfield World Poly-Pellets®
Two Part Resin (I use Envirotex Lite®)
3 Mixing Cups (2 small and 1 bigger)
Mixing Sticks
Plastic Wrap
Hot Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
Mixing Bowl
Heat Gun
Sharpie marker
Scissors

How I made it:

First, I mixed my two part resin. I measured out equal amounts of the resin and the hardener in two separate cups. I then poured both into a larger cup. Following the instructions, I let it sit for a few minutes before mixing it so that the bubbles could rise to the top.

While I let the mix sit, I wrapped plastic wrap around my cutting mat. I used the mat to protect the table. You don’t have to use it. I used a marker to draw out my bowl pattern.

With the hot glue gun and glue sticks, I went over the marker line with the hot glue, building it up so that I have a wall to keep the resin and poly-pellets® in.

Once I was done building the wall of glue, I mixed up the resin and hardener until it was completely mixed, about 2 minutes.

To measure how many poly-pellets I would need, I poured them out onto my plastic wrap, within the walls of the glue. I then poured them into the mixed resin and then mixed them in, coating the poly-pellets® with the resin.

Using a mixing stick, I spread out the mix until it was all the way to the edges and even.

With my heat gun on high, I waved it above the resin to help pop any bubbles that had developed. Then I left it alone to harden.

After it has started to harden for a few hours, I covered a mixing bowl with plastic wrap and turned it upside down. I then picked up the almost hardened resin with poly-pellets® and turned it over onto the bottom of the bowl. I molded it around the mixing bowl creating an upside down bowl.

Then I left it alone to completely dry overnight. The next morning, I pulled all of the plastic wrap away from the bowl.

After I pulled all of the plastic wrap off, I used scissors to cut away the hot glue from the edge.

I used an old flower pot as the base, but the bowl could just sit on the deck or the table.

The birds love it! I’m thinking about making another one just for bird seed!

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

I’ve been really into making desk or shelf sitters lately, especially if it’s words of wisdom or kindness or a word of the year and these weighted desk sitters are perfect!. I created these two desk sitters, one for business and one for fun using Fairfield World’s Poly-fil® Poly-Pellets®! I can even use the one for business at vendor events by sitting it on my table; that way everyone will know how to find me on social media! They can even be placed on a shelf!

Materials used:

Fairfield World Poly-fil® Poly-Pellets®
Fairfield World Poly-fil® Fiber Fill
Cutting mat, ruler and rotary cutting tool
Kunin Felt Premium felt 12″x18″ craft cut: Olive, Candy Pink, Orchid
Kunin Felt Classic felt 9″x12″ craft cut: White, Minty, Brilliant Blue
Scissors
Fabric Glue
Sewing Machine and thread
Pins

How I made it:

Step 1: Cut the pieces needed to create the boxes. Two for the front and back, two for the sides and two for the top and bottom. You can make the box any size that you’d like.

Step 2: Using pins, pin the pieces together at the edges. For the green one, I pinned all of the pieces together except for the back. For the pink one, I pinned all of the pieces together except for the sides.

Step 3: Sew the pieces together. I did my stitches on the outside. You could do the stitches on the inside and then turn it right side out after you have stitched it. A two inch gap needs to be left opened so that it can be filled with the poly-pellets® and fiber fill.

Step 4: Once all of the sides are sewn, except for the 2 inch opening, pour the Poly-Pellets® into the opening. I filled it about half way.

Step 5: I filled the rest of box with Poly-fil Fiber Fill. I used the handy little stuffing tool to push the Fiber Fill to the sides and corners.

Step 6: Once it is stuffed to liking, the two inch gap gets sewn closed.

Step 7: Using either scissors or a dye cutting machine, cut letters to put on the box. I used my Glowforge laser to easily cut my letters. TIP: You can print out your letters on printer paper, cut them out and use them as templates for your felt.

Step 8: Use Fabric or Felt Glue to adhere the letters to the box and then let it dry flat.