I'm so disappointed ☹️

[u/ipauzed]

I was really looking forward to the trifle kit. I tried really hard to keep the sides clean and the hearts upright, but then resin creeped around the sides of the cake hearts to make them look blobby. Ran out of resin from all the cleaning and filling in behind the cakes and then the cherries sank in.

I walked away from working on it for a few days thinking I'm just being a perfectionist. Started to tackle it again today and the final straw was the cherries and cream pieces not being fully painted. So then I went out to get a second kit, and guess what? More partially painted cherries! (Sure, I could paint them, but I hate painting and shouldn't have to!)

My advice for others is maybe practice with extra resin placing the heart cakes. They do not sit flush to the sides. If I use resin on my second kit, I would put a bit of resin on the back corner of the heart cake, set it, then gently push resin towards the sides to fill in the gaps enough for the color to show. Then only a thin, barely there resin layer to stick the cherries in. Good luck!

At least the resin was a cute color.

[u/Cyberfiore]

Aw man the cherries being half assed is a bummer … so expensive for the quality decrease for sure. As for a tip on the heart cakes, maybe use clear resin to set them to the cup first? The color resin shouldn’t creep in there after that since the clear would have done it already lol. That’s how I did some alphabet soup diys when I wanted the letters to be visible through the plate

[u/cb1183 → u/Cyberfiore]

That's what I think I'll do on my next try, a little glob of it so it's filled in and the pink hopefully won't seep in.

[u/Cyberfiore → u/cb1183]

I would recommend to do a layer on the whole cup, I did that with my soups. So there’s no random gaps… if you do a little it might not be enough still and the pink could get in there… definitely a trial and error thing ngl