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!

Disclosure: I was provided product from Fairfield™ for this blog post. All opinions of these products are solely my own.

Creating a cozy porch reading corner featuring Fairfield World products is fun and easy. I’ve joined several crafty friends to create summer patio areas using products that we received from Fairfield World. Check out below how I created my cozy porch reading corner.

First off, I wanted to post a Before photo! And then show you individually what I created using the different Fairfield World products. Then I will explain how I created each one!

I started by creating a pillow and a cushion for my cozy Adirondack chair.. I used a simple envelope pillow case for both for easy removal for washing the fabric.

Poly-fil® Poly-Pellets® are so versatile. Here, I used them in a vase to hold my flowers in place. They are fake flowers and I didn’t want to use actual water, so the Poly-Pellets® made a great filler.

I also created epoxy coasters with the Poly-Pellets®. They are fun and durable and can be used inside or outside.

Here is a list of the materials I used and how I made each of them!

Materials:

Fairfield™ Foam Cushions (I used 2 pieces of the foam)
Fairfield™ Poly-fil® Weather Soft Pillow indoor/outdoor pillow insert
Fairfield™ Poly-fil® Poly-Pellets®
Fabric (I used 2 different patters)
Envirotex Lite® Pour-On Epoxy (measuring and mixing cups and a popsicle stick)
Coaster mold
Heat gun or torch
Scissors
Sewing Machine
Cutting Mat, Cutting ruler and Rotary cutting tool if your fabric needs to be cut
Pins
Vase (and flowers. You could use real, but I picked fake)

How I made it all:

I started with the cushion.

I cut my fabric to 21″ x 44″. I pinned and hemmed the 21″ edges so that they didn’t unravel.

I laid the fabric out, inside up and placed my 2 cushion pieces stacked on top in the middle. Nows the time to figure out where you want the flaps of your envelope pillow case. I put the top flap closer to the top. To do this, fold each end of the fabric up and over the cushions. Shift the fabric as needed. Remove the cushions and then pin the edges in place. Sew them closed. I sewed it 1 inch in on both sides.

Flip the fabric inside out and add the cushions.

Once I tried the cushions in the envelope pillow case, I tried my pillow insert inside the cushion pillow case to gauge what size pillow case I needed for the Weather Soft pillow insert. It fit perfectly, so I made my pillow case the same size as the cushion pillow case.

For my Poly-Pellets® Coasters, I used a coaster mold and Envirotex Lite® Pour-On Epoxy. I filled the mold with pellets.

I mixed up the epoxy following the directions included and poured it into the mold filled with Poly–Pellets®.

Using a heat gun, I allowed the heat to pop the bubbles, per the instructions for the epoxy.

Let it sit and cure over night. Make sure it’s in a place where it won’t get bumped or that no dust or pet hair can get in it!! Once it’s dry, you can remove it from the mold.