I used aquarium sand for the base, plastic grass, and sculpted the fish, frog, water lilies, and rocks out of Fimo (with one real pebble).
The resin comes as a liquid with a catalyst which you mix together and then leave to set.
First I mixed the resin mixture with the sand, and placed in an ice-cream tub. Then I arranged the rocks, reeds and underwater creatures. I then poured on the rest of the resin, and half way through the setting process i placed the water lilies on top.
Once it was dry, I cut away the ice-cream tub (which had partly dissolved at the corners) to leave the pond freestanding.
I would consider making the pond inside a ceramic bowl in the future, as I saw in some of the examples.
Liquid resin really smells! I would recommend doing this outside if at all possible. The resin does not smell once set.
