Hello, welcome to Steve McDonald's arts and crafts.
And today I'm going to be doing is showing you some different
methods of making some fabulous coasters.
And these are going to be on a Valentine's theme after one of
my wonderful members and somebody that buys me a coffee
every month.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate them called Mrs.
Wang.
Well, I'm going to be doing is some different techniques.
I'm also going to be using some stickers that I've made, and it
just made these on my Cricut.
But if you haven't got a cricut, then you can buy
simple stickers, all you can be buy some stencils.
And I have got a video on how to use stencils in resin, and
I'll link that at the end of this videos and everything else
that I use today, I'll link in the description below what I'm
going to do is paint these two wooden coasters.
And all I'm going to be using for painting those with is some
iridescent paints, and I'm going to be using for a change.
I don't use this color very often playful pink, and that
will transfer onto their lovely.
While, the painted wooden ones have dry.
And what I'm doing is I'm just adding about halfway up these
molds of some clear resin ready to put the transfers and
stickers on. These are all cured up now and ready for the next
stage.
And one going to be using is some going to be using some of
the stickers that I made with the cricut.
But I'm also going to be using this, which is brown paper, but
it has a sticky side to it.
So this side is sticky, and it's just sticky enough to be
able to give you quite a nice seal on your coasters or on
your resin or anything like that.
And what you can do is you can draw on it.
So for instance, if I want to do a heart on one of these and
I could just draw out a little heart and then cut that out,
which is what I'm going to do using
just a simple blade.
This is a really easy way to make some simple and very
useful stencil.
Then, if you take that bit up like that, and you have a
little stencil of a heart, let's make it a bit smaller.
And this stuff's really, really cheap.
I use it quite a lot.
In fact, I've made some stencils with it on my other
channel.
I'll link those at the end of this.
And then, if you want to put that heart in the middle of
something or as near to the middle as possible, and then
stick that down all the way around, then you can use
whatever you want to use in the middle they're going to use is
some glitter on
this one.
As you know, I like to stick my glitter down using gilding glue,
because I find it gives a really good big.
It does take about 5-10 minutes for the gilding glue to dry up.
But it will cause the glitter to stick to it nicely and all
I'll do is just take a dry brush like that little bit of this
glue.
And then, if you go around it, paint that on.
And the great thing about this glue is it stays really nice
and tacky once it's dry and glitter will stick to it
amazingly.
So this large one, I want to put this sticker in it, because
it's nice and clear.
And I think this stick is going to look good on this large one
go around it with my fingers to make sure that's down.
And it is down nicely.
And then I'm going to put the word love above that as well.
it is Valentine's.
After all, we've got love.
And we've got that nice cut out there.
I also want to do some with Gold Leaf part in the middle.
And so I'm going to be using this one.
I really like the color that's there.
So I want gold.
Leaf, this.
So, again, exactly the same method using the gold leaf glue.
But first of all, I'm going to put this down this transfer.
Now.
This is permanent vinyl, but I should be able to get that off
once it's dry and be left with a nice Gold Leaf heart,
prepping this up in the same way, using the gold leaf glue.
And I really like this one.
That love is going to go in the middle of these that dried
nicely the paint on there.
And it's got a lovely shimmery effect.
I went over it with one of the dragonfly paints, because I
thought that would look make it look even more shimmery.
Let's make sure that that's down properly everywhere.
ahhh
love look when the moon hits the sky like a big pizza pie
That's Amore.
And then on the other wooden one, the big heart, I think, on
that one, and then I'm going to put some glitter around the
edges of this one again, using the gold leaf glue.
So it's in kind of a relief of this one.
Now, if you don't want to use, actually, I might use Mica
powder on this one and show you what it looks like with mica
powder on, as opposed to glitter, because you can use Mica
powder on these, to do that relief as well.
Once this glue is dry, it is a little bit more messy.
But it gives a lovely effect.
Make sure you get everywhere, because the mica powder and or
glitter will only stick to wherever your glue is.
And then these two I've saved for these, because I think
they're cute and fun.
So they're all done with the ones I painted with the glue,
and now dry enough to be able to put on the either Mica
powder, glitter or the gold leaf.
So the first one I'm going to do is this one with a mica
powder.
You will have to do a second stage to this before you can
pour your resin over it, because if not, the mica powder
will bleed a little bit.
Now, you can have it dotty like this, that I've done it,
or you can have it.
So it's completely covered, and I'm going to have it.
So it's completely covered.
What I will use to brush that over with is one of my little
makeup brushes one of the little soft makeup brushes, and
that will chuff brush on there nicely.
And then any of spare Mica powder that I've got brush onto
this piece of card, and then I can use it again
Now that one's all dry.
What I'm going to do is remove the piece of vinyl here.
I've used permanent vinyl, but really you'd be better off to
use non-permanent vinyl, but I didn't have any.
So what I'm going to do is just heat that vinyl up a little bit
using my hair dryer that should warm the glue up that's
underneath it.
And then it should allow me to take off that vinyl nice and
easily, and it should just leave behind the heart shape.
And we are now, if you run your finger over this, you will get
a little bit of mica powder that's on the surface.
Come on on your finger.
Not a lot.
Look, it's not a great deal.
But what I like to do is before I go ahead and then put resin
on that, I'll give it a very light spray with a sealer, and
that sealer will stop that Mica powder from bleeding into the
resin that sealers dry, and we can just get on with the
other ones.
And this is the one that I'm going to use a little bit of
gold leaf on.
And the gold leaf will just stick lovely to that.
Now it does stick to the resin quite well.
So try it and avoid getting it on the resin as best as
possible, because if not, it is a nuisance to try and get off
because the static of the resin keeps it kind of stuck to it.
But you can get it off.
And I'm just using another one of my makeup brushes here to
push that nicely onto there give that bit of a buff up, make
sure it's nice and adhered to the glue.
I think that looks very pretty tidy up my gold leaf.
And this one's going to be glitter, perhaps a nice silver,
and that'll just be a case of putting the glitter all the way around.
And with glitter, I push it down once it's on there to make
sure it's nicely stuck in.
I just go around with my finger.
This is the fine glitter I'm using, and that you'll find
will help to keep that Glitter.
It's nicely stuck in there all the way around, and then I just
tap it out on a piece of card.
Give it a good blow, and that Glitter will be stuck in there.
Now, lovely.
And again, I remove that in the same way, and this one's going
to be a glitter one, but different color glitter, and I
will be doing that in exactly the same way as it did that one.
But I'm going to be using a more chunky glitter for this.
So This chunky blue.
Now, I'm going to clear up the edges, get rid of them as much
glitter as I possibly can.
That's loose before I pull this off.
This one should come off fairly easily to very light tack tape.
But what I do want to do is not pull it off too quickly,
because I don't want to dislodge any of the glitter
that might be on the actual tape itself, and then end up
having to try and get it off the rest of the resin thing.
So there's a little heart that's on there, and that's ready for
its next stage.
I'm just adding the colored resin to the backs of these and
allowing that to spread out, and that will allow those
pictures to really pop and bursting any other bubbles that
have come up from that.
And now adding the clear resin over the tops of the ones that
I've done glitter and gold leaf to, and these stickers, because
that will really seal them in lovely and magnify them and
doming these ones.
These are all cleared up now, lovely.
And now is the fun part there to that only had the Dome put
on them.
And I think they come out really well.
I love them.
It's such a simple technique that gives some really great
results.
The gold leaf, I love the gold leaf.
And that is, I'm sure, come out really, really well.
I like the little pattern on the back of that particular
coaster.
I'm not sure what pattern it is, or what it's meant to be.
But I'm sure people out there will know.
And the hearts come out lovely and sits on there really,
really well.
These are the Winking ones, and I think they've come out really
well.
There should be a pair of those.
There we go pair of those little winky one and the loved
one for that clear one, I think it's come out.
Brilliant too.
I do think, though, it would be nice if I had to put a dark
color underneath.
But I do quite like the clear the glitter, all this mold
getting a bit past it now, again, lovely and Sparkle that
side.
And the heart is visible there, and the glittery one there as
well, with only coasters.
What's really important is not to use them for hot drinks
until they've been curing for about four weeks.
And and then they should take a nice hot cup of tea, but you
need to leave them for four weeks to enable them to fully
cure and get really, really hard.
Hopefully Mrs. Wang, this video lived up to your expectations, and you've enjoyed it.
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as well.
I think you'll find that really useful.
If you want to learn more about making coasters take care,
Enjoy your resin, Bye.