Resin geode clocks, with their shimmering layers and sparkly texture, are a beautiful mix of art and function. The best part is they’re easy to create in your own individual style: you can customize the look using your favorite color palette, metallic accents, or experiment with textures to make it truly your own.
In this beginner friendly tutorial, resin artists Sandra (@wildheartresinart) and Nadia (@summergirldesigns)—a talented mother-daughter duo from Croatia—walk you through the process of creating your own gorgeous gold and white geode clock. Sandra shares easy-to-follow techniques, from layering pigmented resin to making handmade resin crystals and adding glass pieces for an extra sparkly touch.
Ready to give it a try? Let’s get started!
What You’ll Need:
- A circular MDF board (with a hole in the center for the clock hardware)
- Clock mechanism
- Liquitex Titanium White acrylic paint
- Foam roller (for an even base coat)
- Vaseline or painter's tape (to protect the back from drips)
- ArtResin
- Disposable gloves (for safe handling)
- Mixing container
- Stir stick
- Small mixing cups and stir sticks (one for each colorant)
- Resin paste – Sandra used two shades of white, plus parchment and gold
- Crystal clusters or make your own with a crystal silicone mold (choose your favorite!)
- Gold leaf marker
- Crushed glass (clear and gold)
- Gold crushed glass
- Gold fine glitter
- Gold mirror foil and adhesive
- Gold leaf
- Artist’s torch (for popping bubbles)
- Heat gun (for blending resin layers)
- Dust cover (to protect your piece while curing)
Step 1: Gather Your Materials
Sandra starts by painting her circular MDF board with Titanium White acrylic paint. Using a paint roller, she evenly applies the paint to the front and edges of the board. This step ensures the brown MDF won’t show through the resin layers. She adds multiple coats as needed until the surface is fully covered.
Once the paint is dry, she flips the board over and applies Vaseline to the back edges with her gloved hands. This step helps prevent resin drips from sticking to the perimeter.
You can also use painter’s tape, but Sandra finds Vaseline quicker and easier to apply—especially on a round surface.
Step 2: Prepare the ArtResin
Sandra starts by propping the board up on stands and making sure it’s perfectly level. Then, she mixes her ArtResin.
Wearing gloves, she measures equal amounts of resin and hardener by volume, stirring for about 3 minutes, while scraping the sides and bottom of the container to ensure a thorough mix.
💡TIP: Since Sandra will be using a dirty pour technique, she mixes a generous amount to account for run-off. She also mixes extra to create her resin crystals.
Here, she is using approximately 8 oz of resin and 8 oz of hardener.
Step 3: Add the Colorants
Once the resin is mixed, Sandra pours it into smaller cups, one for each pigment she plans to use.
She starts by adding a small amount of Titanium White pigment paste to a large cup of resin and mixes thoroughly. Since white is the base color of her design, she will need extra white tinted resin.
Next, she prepares a smaller amount of Parchment, a warm beige pigment paste.
Finally, she mixes a small cup with Gold pigment paste for a touch of shimmer. (Remember, a little gold goes a long way!)
Now that her colors are prepared, Sandra creates her crystals.
Step 4: Prepare the Resin Crystals
Sandra uses a few different crystal molds to create decorative resin crystals for the clock. Since one of her molds is quite large, she pours small amounts of clear resin into different areas instead of filling the entire mold. This way, she gets smaller crystal clusters rather than one large piece.
💡 TIP: Make your own silicone crystal molds with our blog How To Make A Resin Crystal.
Step 5: The Resin Dirty Pour
To create a marbled geode effect, Sandra uses a "dirty pour" technique. This means she layers all of her different pigmented resins into one cup before pouring it onto the panel.
At the last moment, Sandra decides to prepare a second shade of white resin to add into the mix.
In a large cup, Sandra starts with a generous amount of titanium white, to which she will start layering her tinted resin.
First, she adds a small amount of gold resin.
Next she adds her off-white resin.
And follows this with parchment.
She repeats the process, layering small amounts of each color until the cup is full.
💡 TIP: Ensure you leave a little bit of each color in the cup for a second dirty pour.
She then gives the mixture a very short, slow, and gentle stir with a wooden stick, being careful not to over-mix so that the colors stay distinct.
Sandra pours the dirty pour mix along the center of the board, then adds a little plain white resin to both the top and bottom.
She continues the process, layering more pigmented resin in the cup and pouring it in different areas to create a natural geode or marbled effect.
She fills in gaps using white. 
Sandra creates smaller amounts of her dirty pour mixture where she needs to fill in gaps or to create detail.
Sandra uses a wooden stick and her gloved hand to add and define lines as needed to enhance the design.
Once she’s happy with the composition, Sandra torches the surface to remove bubbles, then covers the piece and lets it cure overnight.
Step 6: Add The Resin Crystals
The next day, Sandra demolds her cured resin crystals.
To give the clear crystals a warm golden hue, Sandra experiments with a variety of gold elements to see which effect she likes best.
First she applies fine gold glitter to the base of one of her resin crystals.
Next, she applies gold leaf to the bottom of a crystal cluster.
Next, she positions the crystals on the board and outlines their placement with a gold leaf marker.
💡 TIP: Make sure your crystal placement won’t interfere with the movement of the clock hands!
Next, Sandra removes the crystals and applies adhesive in the outlines. She then applies gold mirror transfer foil directly to the cured resin surface, adhering it with a plastic spreader. 
She also brushes on a little gold leaf flake to add a brighter pop of gold.
Once the gold accents are in place, Sandra carefully sets the resin crystals back into position and mixes a fresh batch of ArtResin (approximately 12 oz total).
She applies a small amount of clear resin under each crystal to adhere them securely.
Then, she pours the remaining clear resin over the entire piece, using a silicone brush to spread it evenly.
She torches the surface once more to remove bubbles.
Next, Sandra adds her glass elements. She starts by adding clear glass pieces around the resin crystals.
Then, she adds gold-tinted glass for contrast. 
Finally, she torches one more time before drizzling resin over the glass pieces with a silicone brush to lock everything in place.
Then she allows her piece to cure for 24 hours.
Step 7: Add The Clock Hardware
The next day, Sandra cleans up cured resin drips. She starts by turning the clock face down onto a silicone mat, wiping away excess Vaseline with a paper towel. 
Since Sandra forgot to seal the center hole, she warms the resin that seeped through with a heat gun, then very carefully loosens it with a blade.
Next, she warms the resin drips with a heat gun before gently scraping them off.
Next, she drills through the center hole to ensure the clock hardware will fit properly.
She adheres the clock mechanism to the back and front with UV resin, but quick-set adhesive works too. Next, she adds the clock hands.
And that’s it—her custom geode clock is complete!
We hope you enjoyed learning how to create your own resin geode clock by following along with Nadia and Sandra!
To see more of their work:
Follow Sandra on Instagram: @wildheartresinart
Follow Nadia on Instagram: @summergirldesigns
Visit their Etsy shop: @SummerGirlArt
Watch their resin tutorials: @SummerGirlDesigns
If you try either of these techniques out, don't forget to tag us with @art_resin on Instagram!
Please leave any questions or comments below :)
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