 Hi, I'm Aliyah and I'm from Artistically Crafted and I'm here at the Art Resident headquarters today and I'm going to show you how to make alcohol ink coasters. So let's get started. I've chosen this four inch hexagon shape. You can use any shape that you like and this is a non-porst material so the alcohol inks won't get absorbed into the ceramic. Also going to be using this 99% isopropyl alcohol and that's to allow the inks to move. Here we have our alcohol inks. You can use whatever colors you like, a little bit of mica powder, a little spoon to scoop up the mica powders, a little syringe to pick up the alcohol. Our hair dryer will allow the alcohol ink to blend, a little bit of metal leaf, a small paintbrush with the silver leaf. Lastly, we're going to be using our art resin and that is just going to complete the poster set and make everything really shiny and beautiful. So the first thing I'm going to start with is pouring out a little bit of my alcohol into this cup. Get my syringe and just pick up a little bit of that alcohol. It gives me that control that I need and it's just less messy. I'm going to start with my blue ink and a little bit of purple and then a little bit of the alcohol. I like to just squeeze it in the areas that I put the ink just a little drop then I'm going to get the hair dryer and just blow away. So now I can see where needs more ink and what colors have blended and if I like that a little bit of purple and just put it where the pink is. Just add that on blue just in the corner. Some more alcohol. I'm going to get a little bit more alcohol just to dilute this color a bit more. I want it to be really faded. Some mica powder just to add a little razzle dazzle. A little goes a long way. The mica powder has given a metallic lining so you can see how vibrant that is. I'm going to try to get all of the coasters the same color. If the design, if it doesn't match that's okay it'll just be unique to each coaster. And it's done. Now we're going to go ahead and add the silver leaf. I'm going to start from the corner and make a thin line and I can see where it's wet so when it dries it'll be sticky to the touch of lining here and attach it to that line that I had done first. So we're going to let that dry until it gets sticky and then we can add our silver leaf. I'm going to just take a few pieces and add it on to the areas where I can see the lining just so I don't waste the leaf. Just add it on with your finger just like that. And I'm just going to use my finger to remove all the excess and it comes off nice and easy because that adhesive we waited for it to get nice and sticky. Now I'm going to add the crylon spray just to dilly inks in and get it really ready for art resin. And here I've got my hardener and my resin. I've got a cup with measurements on it as a guide and a stir stick. I've got some gloves and I got my torch. Remember that resin and hardener is a one-to-one mixture and it's measured by volume not weight. I use a calculator online and I was told to use four ounces for my coasters and make sure that I'm scraping the sides. I'm scraping the bottom by mixing slowly. You're less likely to get all those air bubbles in there. I'm ready to go ahead and coat my coasters with resin. Just pushing it to the ends. Don't be afraid of drips. Right now we're going to go ahead and pop those air bubbles and we're all done. This just keeps our pieces totally protected from any falling debris. We're going to leave this overnight for 24 hours and we will come back in the morning and see how they look. See you tomorrow. So let's go ahead and take a look. These are so vibrant. I'm loving how I can see more of the deep blues here, more of the metallics in the mica powder and I love how they're the blue just transitions into the purple and the pink and that metallic lining from the silver leaf is just really vibrant really making me happy with how that turned out. To complete these coasters I'm going to put a little bit of glue at the bottom and add cork to it so I like to apply the glue. I get my next cork piece and I put the glue on top of that so any glue will fall onto the next one. Squeeze and apply that on and it just looks like that. So you just want to wait 24 hours for the glue to dry and once that's done you've got yourself a beautiful set of alcohol ink coasters ready to be used. So we're all done here and we've got ourselves a beautiful four-piece coaster set with alcohol inks and resin and I wanted to thank you all so much for being here with me today and I wanted to thank Art Resin so much for having me. If you have any questions or comments please leave them down below and I'll see you all next time. Bye for now!