The Padico Star Drop UV

The world's best UV medium, perfect for any small project instead of CA glue and epoxy. The most yellow-resistant resin on the market! Can be kept clear or highly pigmented with colour Sparkle Mix. Works with EcoGlitter, ethical mica, ghost pigments and holographics. 

Direct pour, channel rings and inlay settings and cabochon mould compatible.  It works beautifully with breastmilk, ashes, hair etc for all of your keepsake and memorial jewellery creations. Perfect combined with bright opal flecks.

Please get in touch if you would like a quote for wholesale quantities for larger projects or for DIY kits and reselling.

How to Make It Yours

1. Choose your size from 10g (for a handful of pieces) to a 500g bottle for professionals

2. Add a kit Add on a DIY kit if you like, including practice UV medium and preservation powder (see below). This is great if you already have a setting for a project and just want to choose your own colour

How It Works

1. Order: pick your bottle above and place your order
2. We get to work: it is lovingly packaged within our current turnaround time (see our FAQs and Terms of Service)
3. It comes to you: economically but safely shipped, ready to turn into a piece of wearable art for your clients

DIY Kit Contents

If you'd like to buy this ring as a kit you'll receive:

• your chosen Padico Star Drop UV
• 2x practice bezel settings 
• 1x pair of vinyl gloves 
• dust mask
• 3 cocktail sticks
• vibrant sparkle mix sample (another random colour to practice with) 
• 10g bottle of practice UV medium
• sandpaper 
• label backing paper
• 1x sachet Breastmilk Preservation Powder and Breastmilk Preservation Powder PDF Instructions (feel free to decline or pass this on if not needed!)
  

You can also request some practice ashes/faux cremains here. You might also want to provide the following optional items yourself (not included):

• •  LED UV torch** or a good UV lamp for professionals
  • bottle of Padico Star Drop UV HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
  • a pestle and mortar
  • Ultra Fine Sharpie

Follow our tutorials to prepare your clients' inclusions, or buy a pack of 5 or 10 sachets of Breastmilk Preservation Powder here!

Medium Material

Padico UV resin is the highest quality available on the market in terms of durability, ease of use and yellowing resistance. Although pieces made with this still need good care instructions, this high quality LED UV curing resin is the perfect alternative to epoxy resin.

Nikki’s Tip: If you need excellent standard products for your keepsake, memorial and breastmilk jewellery clients then I highly recommend spending the extra on Padico and I won't use anything else now for Tree of Opals jewellery. Nikki Lovegrove, Owner & Artist, Keepsaker Supplies & Tree of Opals

Suitable for small pieces, doming, with water clear moulds. Please see our individual mould listings for a guide to which are suitable but we do not recommend anything larger than 20mm across or more than 12mm thick. This resin is more environmentally friendly than epoxy as there is much less wastage, no need to mix up your resin in advance, just pour, cure and go.

Tutorials and Learning

You can follow our tutorials to learn how to prepare your client’s inclusions and build your layers properly.

Please subscribe to Nikki’s YouTube channel for more keepsake and memorial jewellery making tutorials. Click the bell if you would like notifications when new tutorials are posted. This is our top watched video on How to Create a Beach Scene in Resin Jewellery

Learn about the Boobie Awards (Nursiversaries) here on Tree of Opals. We also offer opalescent flakes here, which are mylar shards, other birthstones are available here and the October birthstone dangle charm is here. Buy individual crushed glass colours here, you can buy the full set of Crushed Glass for Resin Set here and our Birthstone Crushed Glass here. Opal dangle charms here and gold filled opal dangle charms are here.

Simply premix with resin then pour this into your mould, or push it into a mould already filled with resin, or sprinkle in a setting along with breastmilk pearly sparkle mixes. You can also add your clients' elements or inclusions like breastmilk, lock of hair, umbilical cord and placenta or cremation ashes. Then cure in the usual way. Or you can add your resin to the mould before adding the forget-me-not flowers.

If working with UV resin we recommend you work in layers to achieve beautiful depths of colour.

Please read our full Terms and Conditions and FAQ page before ordering. Not available to ship by courier internationally, sorry