 Good morning and welcome to Creightoncraft. What you are looking at is quite simply the best resin on the market right now. A company from Canada Art Resin who literally are supplying the world with fantastic resin to make the most beautiful things for your home. Something like this. You look at it and you think I could never do that. Well let me tell you with the expertuation and the right product you can. That is pretty much guaranteed. We have the most incredible resin for you. I mean take a look at the things that you could be doing. When it comes to painting. When it comes to jewelry. When it comes to photographs. When it comes to woodwork. If you are looking or when we are busy on the phone lines already. If you are looking for a resin that is going to give you clarity because this dries super clear. I mean some of the others may be yellow right now. But this is going to dry clear. You've got something that's thick. Something that is glossy. Something that is shiny. Something that is going to dry solid and hard and give you that Vavavu with your products. It's got yellowing protection in it. So it's not going to be yellow. You may have seen resins in the past. It's nice but it looks a bit murky. This is not going to do that. It will not discolour because it is actually chemically engineered not discolour. You have got a self levelling property with this as well. So your project is going to be flat. So think about trays in your home. Think about photos. Think about frames. Think about coasters. Those things that you need to be flat because you don't need a glass wobbling. Then this is going to be perfect for that as well. And if you are thinking about using this in areas where there could be food. So maybe you want to take a photo of the grandkids or your favourite pet and you put some resin over the top and then you put a cake on top of that with some sandwiches. You don't need to worry because this is completely food safe as well. It comes from a company that online, literally right now on Instagram, have 157,000 followers. That is incredible. Is it not? We have got a starter kit for you today. We have got resin and hardener for everybody. We have everything that you need. We just need an expert to show us what is what. And they come no bigger than the lady that started this company a few years ago now and it is still going strong. And she has flown in especially from Canada to be with us here today. We are honoured. We are thrilled. And we want to say welcome to the family. The queen of art raising herself. That is why I am going to call her from now on in. It is the fabulous Rebecca Zack. Come on in. Yes indeed. Thank you so much. It is so nice to have you here. I am so happy to be here. All the way from Canada. Where about Canada are you from? Just outside of Toronto. Lovely place. It is lovely. It is lovely. This is the first time for our family in the UK. But you have a UK connection, don't you? I do. Yes. My grandfather was born in Liverpool. Liverpool is one of our favourite cities which is brilliant. Are you going to get a chance to visit Liverpool? What are you here? As soon as we are done here. You are going to go to Liverpool? Yes. Art raising started about eight years ago. What was the idea? You were an art teacher, weren't you? I was an art teacher and my husband who is my business partner as well. He was in video and we are both artists. That is how we met. We were going to art shows and we were looking at this new product that we were seeing. It was just starting to come out. We thought, what is that? We had to go the old fashioned route of doing our research. Back then there wasn't a whole lot of information online. We talked to the artists. We found out what it was. We thought, this is excellent. This is great. If we love it, everyone else will love it too. We started to work with a chemist to help us develop something that was really, really good for artwork. There is epoxy resin for all different purposes. Yes, it is. Some people use it on their boat. Some people use it in industrial capacities. This is really for art itself. It is made to keep the artist safe and to keep the artwork safe at the same time. Let's talk about the starter kit we have got this morning. People are going for this already, Rebecca. The starter kit has everything that you need to get yourself started and beyond with your art resin journey. Take us through what we actually have. Let's start with the two bottles. We have the resin and the hardener. Right. When I say epoxy resin as a kit, it comes with our resin and a hardener. You need both together. Okay. Just to say over 10% of the stock has already gone. It's going to be a busy morning, I feel. Get your resin in your basket. This is the type of product that works for so many different people because it is so very versatile. You can use it in all different applications. You will see me demonstrate a lot of different things this morning. Back to the kit. We have those two there. It is a resin and a hardener. You are going to mix those one to one. It is a one to one ratio. Exactly. It is nice and easy. We made it simple for people. We also have upload torch. What is that for? Yes. First of all, we have the stir stick and the spreaders. You are going to use that to mix the product up and to spread it how you like. The torch is the best tool for popping bubbles. We don't want bubbles. This is going to be clear. It is going to be solid. It is going to be shiny. It is going to be glossy. It is going to give you that effect that you want. You don't want bubbles. No. When you stir it, you have to stir it because that is how you catalyze the mixture. You start the chemical reaction. It does introduce bubbles at the same time but you don't want those to cure in your resin. The torch is a nice little you just hit it with the torch. I am loving that noise. It is done. It really takes care of the bubbles in a heartbeat. You will see and it is very satisfying. We are going to show all of this this morning. It is sticky. You want to make sure that you have your hands protected. Let's talk about these fabulous things as well. What would you be using these for Rebecca? If you are coating something where you would like to actually coat not just the top but the sides as well. If we are talking about something like this which is gorgeous. You want that resin to drip down over the sides but you don't want your resin to actually adhere the project to the tabletop. You can see it with the photo we have got there as well. Exactly. That is what those stands are for. It just props it up so that you can let that resin fall over the sides neat and tidy and then you won't actually stick it to the tabletop. I think it is incredible. Already 10% of the stock of this has gone. 15% of the stock has gone on this now as well. We have got lots of beautiful samples in the studio. I am going to say we are going to try and show you as many things throughout the hour. Don't forget the lovely Rebecca is also on our sister channel Craft Extra at 11 o'clock this morning as well. So a busy day for this lady. If there is any stock left come with me lovely lady come over here because I want to show you some more. These are just stunning. This is the kind of thing that you can be doing. We have got some items this morning that will allow you to add colour like metallics or neons or whatever you fancy to your resin as well. So whether you want something quite sort of demure or whether you want to bring on the full Vegas colour. I mean look at that. It is just glorious. You can see how flat this is as well. This resin I mean you are a stickler for quality Rebecca. Absolutely. You didn't want anything that would discolor, nothing that wouldn't self level, nothing that would give anything but the perfect end result. That is right. That is right. That is really what we were aiming for and that is really what we got. So you can see here you can put objects in it if you would like to embed. People get really creative with this. They do you know beer caps or they do coins or plaster scene even. There is no end to the creativity that you have. So basically if you can embed it you are going to do it with the resin. That is right. 15% plus of the stock has gone already on this one. Please get this and please welcome Rebecca to the family with your emails this morning as well. If you have any questions about resin because I do think if you have not tried it before it could be your must do craft past time for 2023 and beyond. Oh it is a bit addictive. I was going to say once you have embedded you are going to keep embedding aren't you quite frankly. If you do want to get your emails in remember it is studio at creatingcraft.com. Now of course if you want to go for your first item the starter kit you are going to get the hardener and of course you get the resin. You get the blow torch. You get the stands. You get the stirrer and of course you get these as well which will allow you to flatten out your resin to make sure that you get perfect results. 529504 is your item number on that one. Three ways to order. The best way is to go to the website and check out the entire art resin range. Brand new to creating craft today. So excited about this. The website tell us Harry or the W's what. Createcraft.com. So do check it out accordingly. 890178. Now we do have come with me lovely Rebecca. We have got a little try me size. If you're thinking like would like to have a go but I'm not too sure. We've got some when we've got the small and then we've got massive as well coming up. We've got lots different sizes for you of the hardener and the resin. Now obviously as Rebecca said it's a one-to-one ratio. So having the two bottles together means that one will run out when the other one runs out. That's right yes. Which is perfect. Yes. That's 3149 on that one. I am going to say though all of the other options for the actual sizes the largest size of the art resin do have flexi-pay on them and also the starter kit have flexi-pay on it as well didn't it. So obviously if you put something in your basket with the starter kit or with one of the other resin sets then you will have flexi-pay as well which means you can split the cost. With this size here if we're talking like an average size project because obviously they're all going to differ. How many projects do you think we get out of that one? Well it depends on what size the project is right. So this this little guy will do two square feet. Okay that's not that. Yes and so usually you know we have this size kit for people who want to make maybe like little jewelry pieces smaller pieces or for the person who's never tried this before and they think I don't know how do I know if I'm going to love it or not. So things like the jewelry of the coast is perfect. Yes yes and so they'll try the small one and usually you know what happens they start small and then they start to graduate. They go bigger bigger bigger. It's all as the way you want more as well. Oh yeah. Just pass me the before and after as well. Yes. Because this is fabulous. This for me made me think I need this in my life because look I mean this is the art resin logo here so if you're looking for them online this is what you look for of course. That's it yeah. Have you got YouTube channel and stuff as well. Of course. Of course. Of course. All kinds of demonstrations. Yes so lots of information online you're never on your own with art resin. You can see this is before but once you are resin it look you can see the difference that it makes I mean that really is sensational isn't it. And that's what you could be doing with your home decor your well whatever you fancy your jewelry your coasters your photos it's entirely up to you. We've got demos galore so we're lining them up and ready to go but let's show you some of the other items that we've got on the show and then we will crack on with our demonstrations. We're going to start with our first one here. This is our larger bottles that we've got for you here so you've got your 1.89 litres of the resin and the same for of course the hardener. That's three four two seven three one is your item number on that one. Three four two seven three one is your item number there. One hundred and sixty pounds and ninety nine paint your price. This is the big boy but of course we have got flexi on that. Flexi will be there so you can split that down into two or three interest free flexi payments. We will find that out for you. Next up for you the moulds. Now if you would like to go for the moulds we've got these for you this morning. We've got your silicon moulds for you if you'd like to go for three your three cavity moulds. Are those going to be perfect for things like your coasters Rebecca. That's right yeah coasters we do call it a coaster mould but it's really just it's a nice perfect little shape for whatever you want to do if you wanted to just make art and put it on display if you wanted to embed something special if that sort of thing. Can you embed photos and things like that. Of course you can yes of course you can. Two three two oh seven two is your item number on that one for your three cavity mould. I was going to show you this as well because look this is gorgeous something like that as a piece of artwork on the wall I mean just stunning. How has that been done. Well that is actually some alcohol ink that's been used on Yupo paper a little bit of gold marker and then the art resin on top. So really art resin is like a clear nail polish for your art. It seals everything in and protects it but it also just makes the colors pop. You can see in the before and after is a really good example of how the colors are really saturated. Changes doesn't it. Under the art resin absolutely. Yeah so very colorful very very saturated color and it just finishes the piece. It's just gorgeous. I find that so I'm an artist as well. This is how we started out. My husband and I are making art and then wanting something to really captivate buyers and people who are looking at our artwork and it was always the pieces that were resins that people would gravitate to and so you know what that means. It means you have to resin everything. Exactly everything needs to be resins. Are you happy for people to sell things as well and if they make things you know self charity or for their own crafty habit. Of course I mean we have so many people that this is their lifeline because you know like it's original art and people are looking for that in as to decorate their home. It protects as well does it. Let's dive on into our demos because I'm gagging to see this in action. How are these fabulous chaps here. Well I'm very excited to have my puppies with me today. These are these two summer and Teddy. How gorgeous are they. Is some of the big one Teddy the small one. That's right and these are COVID dogs. You know I have COVID to thank for my lovely puppies. How lovely one of the good things that came out. It was a silver lining let's just say that. Absolutely. But we are going to resin this photo of them. So it's just a it's a photo that we've printed off on glossy paper. Glossy paper works best. And we are just going to mix up some art resin again one to one. We're going to stir for three minutes and we're going to pour it on top. Okay. Because obviously normally with TV we kind of cut corners because we don't have we have an hour. Sure. With this demo we're going to do it in real time. So we will be stirring it for three minutes as well. Give me a chance to give you some stock update stuff. So that's good. So where do we begin. Okay. Well we are going to get a measuring cup and do some measuring. So it doesn't matter which one you do first. You've got resin you've got hardener as long as you mix that or sorry as long as you measure that quite accurately that is the most important part. And that's it. That's really all there is to it. So not a great thing about this as well. Remember we said before there are no this is non toxic. There are no fumes and obviously we recommend you know ventilated room you know be sensible but there are no fumes. There are no VOCs. Now what is a VOC. Volatile organic compound. It's actually fumes isn't it. It's fumes. Yes. Okay we don't want any of those which is good because there's none of those in here at all and no solvents as well. I mean I do think when we think of resin we think oh it's going to be stinky it's going to be overbearing it's going to be like headache making. I'm not a doctor but I mean this sounds like it's as good as it possibly can be. Well it is. Yeah you're right. You don't have to be a doctor to to know that. Exactly which is good. I don't think I've got the intelligence for a doctor. Okay so we've measured that out. So we're going to do the same here. I just did 600 mils. See there's something exciting about this as well just the action of doing it. It's like being in a science lab. Well you know I liken it to baking because when you bake you need to be accurate with your measurements. Yes and it's the same here. We want to be accurate. We don't want to be wishy washy. We want to make sure that if we if we do 600 of the hardener we do 600 mils of the resin and that's really all it's going to take now. Can ask a question how how do you know how much you need for a particular project. I mean there's lots of inspiration online which we can watch but obviously for a project like this do you just eyeball it or do you just can you sort of do a bit and say well that's not enough I'll do another measure on there or we do have a we do have a resin calculator online at our resin dot com but we also we just say that for that 946 mil kit yes that does eight square feet. So you can sort of judge it from that as well. Any information that you need and obviously if it's not on our website createcraft.com it will be on art resin dot com. Yes and it's you just plug it in there plug in the dimensions and it'll tell you exactly how much you need of each. So here I am I've got half and half in my measuring ball. It's going to take three minutes to stir that. Yeah what I will do is whilst you're just doing that I'm going to remind you of the starter kit because already 15 percent of that stock has gone in that starter kit you are getting everything you need to get going and literally produce the most brilliant art resin items you will get a bottle and not the small bottle you're getting a good big bottle of the hardener and the resin there. You are also getting your stirrer of course to do the stirring which of course Rebecca is doing at the moment. Then you've also got your stands if you are thinking about pouring onto something to protect your surfaces and also to stop it you know just pooling and sticking things to the table. You've got your stands there as well. You've got your gloves for protection always be protected my friends. You've got these as well which are your sort of squares for sort of scraping and we're not scraping for flattening and layering leveling everything out and then also your blow torch because bubbles we don't want you so that's where the blow torch comes into its own also whilst we're here just to say be inventive because once you start using art resin you never know what you might be trying to embed. Those are coffee beans genuine coffee beans embedded in that I think that is absolutely fabulous we saw just now as well you know with the washers that you have there as well and I love that because Chris our director said there's nothing wishy washy about that resin is that no there isn't it is as clear as the day is long I mean also you can see as well if you are using your craft products whatever it may be you know maybe your cadence products maybe you mix media products you know using them within the resin itself we've got three flexi oh we're gilding flakes in that good cool make producer like that three flexi payments on this one it's 99.99 let's get that purple prices don't want to see any blue prices on this one we'll get the red price in fact look three flexi payments of 30 pounds one payments today one in the month's time and one in two months time as soon as the first payment comes to us all of this resin glory will be yours it will be winging its way to you 529504 a third of the stock has gone busier and busier for this one this morning I'm not surprised how gorgeous is that I mean that's just beautiful I mean that could be a photo that could be something you've created it could be whatever you want and just making it a protected giving it longevity and turning it into even more of a beautiful decorative piece how are we doing with the stirring we're good we're good we're ready to pour this now okay lovely so when I stirred this up I introduced quite a few bubbles and with the bubbles obviously I know we've got the blowtorch if people you know are going for resin and they think well I'd only give the starter kit can you use things like a hair dryer and stuff like that or is that a no-no or heat gun it's really not hot enough if you want the easiest way to take care of the bubbles you're going to use the torch lovely stuff and you'll see it's going to happen in one second that's why that starter kit really is put together to give you the accuracy the precision it really is everything you need exactly okay so when I was stirring what I was actually doing is I was catalyzing this mixture because this is going to go from a liquid to a solid by chemical reaction how long does it take do you call it curing doesn't it the trial yeah how long does that take it's going to take 24 hours very nice yeah and if yeah I would say like in about eight hours you could probably touch it and it wouldn't be sticky anymore do you still have that temptation stick your finger into it sometimes yes sometimes I have to resist the temptation but anyways at 24 hours then you're good to go you can hang it on your wall you can pack it up and give it to a friend whatever you're going to do okay so the mixture is ready so how do we know that's ready just because we stirred it for three minutes okay if you're if you're doing it properly and you count three minutes that is long enough lovely stuff okay and here we go we're just going to just go right for it oh see this excites me already you see it has the consistency of clear honey yes that's a very good description yes it's nice and thick I mean this is the thing and this is going to dry solid hard shiny glossy I love the fact that it's there perfectly straight away you can see already it's self-leveling isn't it it does it's self-levels to about an eighth of an inch if you were to pour this in a mold which is has walls to it so then you could pour a little bit thicker okay but really this is how I think it's going to go so I'm going to use my spreader here and I'm just going to guide the resin to where I would like it to go you can see that's so satisfying what you're yeah doing it I imagine it's even more satisfying it really is if you're putting it into molds I mean do you need to sort of prep the mold with like corn flour or anything beforehand you want to just use a silicone mold because the resin does not stick to silicone so that means that it will pop out nice and easily and don't forget we have our cavity molds this morning perfect for your coasters or for any round decorative pieces of art yes they're versatile they're just so nice round shape so we have two options at this point I've pushed the resin close to the edge and I can do one of two things if I would like to coat the edges like the the sides there then I can just push the resin right over the edges so let it drip this is about the stands coming to play exactly and then it'll just sort of drip down I have a silicone mat that I'm working on top of so again this can be the resin once it's cured can just be picked off for the silicone mat and this will be ready to go again the other option however if you don't want to coat the sides you can just sort of guide the resin out to the edge and you can see I'll do it for you right now it has a lot of surface tension so I can just go right out to the edge and stop this is it's quite well it's very viscous isn't it's very thick and clear yes and it'll create a nice little edge for me there and remember this is food safe as well so if you were doing a picture say if this was a cake stand for a wedding and you had a picture of the bride and groom or whatever you know whatever your fancy on there and then the thing is you could put this over the top and once it's cured it is then food safe so if you were putting a cake or something on top of it I mean you'd probably have a doily or something there anyway but if you had a cake on top of it or whatever sandwiches you know volavants whatever you fancy then it is completely food safe it is not going to transfer any of the resin to the non leaching that's right non leaching and no bpa either I should mention no vpa yeah that might be a concern of people but there is what's bpa when it's at home bpa do you not call it that here we call it bisphenol a so it's like that's like plastic isn't it yes those nasty chemicals that are sometimes in plastics well this does not have that either you see it's a very good quality product Nigel well of course that's why eight years of a huge sales around the world a testament to that which is wonderful and you know I'm a mother I was an art teacher as I said for many years before the art resin gave now your children are with us today they have the most glorious names yes Zoe and Xavier Zoe and Xavier hello kids if you're watching your mum on the telly which was the one that they did because they did some of these over here didn't they that's right yeah let's see um it's these colorful ones this nice blue this nice green okay so how old are the children so my kids are nine and six so nine year old and six year old and they are literally look giving professional results how cool is that I mean obviously you know because things might be um you know blow torch and stuff like that adult supervision for stuff but I mean that's just so incredibly cool and I bet I bet you you know they have the coolest moment down on the block now don't they well I mean I don't want to I'll say it for you so you don't have to but it's true well I think that when you show and tell at school is going to be very excited I think that when you're a parent and when you're um you know you're you're a business person you want something that you're gonna know is gonna keep people safe and it's not gonna hurt them and they're gonna have a lot of fun with it and of course me being an art teacher I'm always interested in people being creative and using that side of their brain so I love the jewelry as well it's just beautiful also I've got to show this because look we talk about embedding things imagine if this was I don't know like a a lock of hair or something or a real keepsake dry flowers I mean that's just you know some people even will do like ashes of their pets so that why not you know it's a good way to keep things that are personal and special yeah it is a great way to preserve all of that so love it now let's go back to our dogs to Teddy and Sam summer summer sorry Teddy and summer yes it's gorgeous so now that is ready to be cured you don't I mean do you need to we're gonna get a torch temperature or anything but what's next um the only thing that you need to do is make sure that it's a consistent temperature sometimes people will have you know their house will go very cold at night you want to make sure that this is in a room where the temperature stays consistent and that's all you need to do if it does go cold does that mean that it's just going to take longer doesn't ruin anything does it well it's yeah it can take longer I mean if it's a harder room it's going to cure a little faster but ideally resin likes to just for it to just be consistent lovely yes so right now I've poured this on I've spread it out and you can see there's bubbles on that surface so what we're going to do right now is we're going to use the torch okay and if we can get a real good close up on that you've got Chris on this he'll be there it'll be there you're very satisfied Chris are you ready are you ready for camera satisfaction this is the part that people which bubble where do you want it to go which bubble are you going to go for what about this big guy right here okay so we are here just so we'll get Chris to get in a lovely close-up shot for us okay we're ready to go okay let's do it okay one well two three oh oh that's remarkably easy you see that so it's kind of like when you iron your clothing do you know it's almost as subtle that it's hard to see on camera I'm going to say that because literally those bubbles just disappeared it happens fast yeah it really happens fast and we're done they ran for the hills there's kind of look at that now obviously I'm not going to lift that up because that's still obviously drying but the gloss and the shine that you have on that can we have a look up from the overhead is that possible can you see it oh look I've got it finished here we go look at this so here's one 24 hours later there you go summer Teddy let's put you the right way up so literally 24 hours later that is the kind of fact that you were getting this way you see that nice gloss in the in the light there you go there you go yeah so that's just awesome Rebecca do you want to get yourself set up for another demo sure because I am loving this and I am not alone because we are very very busy let me remind me what you've got in that starter kit you are going to get the resin the hard nut you're also going to get the spreaders you get the mixing sticks you get the gloves you get the stands and of course you get the torch as well so that you are going to get perfect results your resin will be everything that you want it to be it will be hard it will be clear it will be glossy it will be shiny and it will be fun and it will be fun we love that here's some more fun for you don't forget you can do lots of things on our brand new app here at Creighton Craft I've got some great news we've got a brand new app 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first show here on Creighton Craft in fact our fabulous guest first-ever time on TV for your art resin there she is the lovely Rebecca beautiful fabulous waving in her gloves every home should have one you've got your art resin start to get this morning because art resin are a company from Canada and Rebecca has flown over with her family especially to be here with us for this show which is brilliant and already the starter kit I'm so pleased to say 50% of the stock has gone when you see what you could be making I mean fabulous things like this for your home for your friends for your loved ones for your business whether it be working with jewellery photographs woodwork paintings home decor whatever it may be the resin that we have got today is the best in my opinion and a lot of other people's opinion the best on the market because you are getting resin that is clear resin that is thick resin that is glossy resin that is solid resin that is hard resin that will have no bubbles as well and what I think is brilliant about this as well is the resin and the hardened that you have we are talking about things that are non-toxic there are no fumes no VOCs oh we don't want those no solvents as well it has yellowing protection it will not discolor because it is chemically engineered not to discolor it is self-leveling as well and if you fancy popping a cake or a tray of sandwiches on it then that is fine because it's food safe as well so every box has been ticked the fun element of this I think is incredible as well I mean creating things like this with color with elements with embellishments with with coffee beans whatever it may be I mean if you want to make fun elements I mean great gifts and really affordable gifts to friends and loved ones as well keepsakes that will be treasured for a lifetime and they will always have a heartbeat in the story because it will be like oh great auntie Rebecca made that do you know what I mean it's brilliant to know that you can make things that are going to be appreciated now the starter kit itself excuse me very busy for this one this morning you've got your hard nut and your resin in there you've also got your stirrer because obviously you will need to stir things together you did it for about three minutes we saw that with Wrecker in our first demo you're also going to get your scrapers your sort of levelers we saw that as well and you have your stands and we have the gloves and we have the blowtorch excuse me your blowtorch so obviously that's going to get rid of any bubbles three flexi payments of 30 pounds on this one five two nine five oh four is your item number on that one if you would like to go for it let's look at some of the other items that we've got on the show as well we've got the big boys now this is the big one of the resin and the hard nut if you would like to go for that one it's six nine four four two seven is your item number there Rebecca why is it worth going for the bigger one I'm just going to have a drink whilst you talk well because you are going to try the resin out and you are going to realize how versatile it is and how many projects you can use it for so we've just done a demonstration where I coded a photograph and that we wanted to keep the resin nice and clear for something like that you would want it clear for a painting you would want it clear for some other types of artwork but you can also use colorant in the resin which we're going to be showing in a moment which we're going to show right now I think it's better to have the bigger bottles because obviously once you start you're going to want to do more aren't you and the bigger bottles will do more what we see yes and they come with flexi pay as well so three flexi payments of 59.10 on that one six nine four four two seven is your item number there we mentioned colors we've actually got three sets of colors for you this is the first one these are the originals your resin tints eight colors for you here just a couple of drops is all you need as you will see from our demonstrations with Rebecca two double three eight oh nine on that one club price twenty six oh nine now what about adding metallics now I've got to say metallics gorgeous you've got silver you've got your copper your bronze in there four of the metallics six four zero nine four six very popular those and then finally for you we've got the neons the neons are absolutely glorious I love the neons the neons if you would like to go for those that is four colors that you have in your neons and you can see this is the kind of effect that you are going to get that is like the vagus strip that's right and you know what the colorants they do work like paints so you can mix them together to create your own new colors as well that's very important to note beautiful right now let's see the oh look we're loving that oh hello let's see this in action so we're going to be using our cavity molds and then also using our colorants exactly so these are silicone molds that means that the resin will not stick to it we can pour it in and then 24 hours later we can pop it out so let's do a couple of different things with these molds just pour it on in just like that we are going to do one where we use the resin tint we're going to use we're going to do one where we embed some objects and we're going to use one with alcohol ink to make some fun effects okay so Nigel would you like to pass me any one of those resins any your favorite color your favorite color yes i'm going to bring them down and you can choose accordingly ladies choice thank you so much well you're doing i'd say ladies choice but i do love a red or a purple or an orange in fact any of them okay whichever you fancy so while you're doing that i'm going to just i have some coins here look we have some american pennies those aren't any use are they we're not at the moment here no not for me either i don't live in the US oh that's true so just to show you you know if you were going to embed you just pour the resin in and plop your your items as you see fit a lot of people like to do the beer caps or see this could be a lovely souvenir i mean i i would see one exactly keep early in the year so i came back with lots of coins and bits and pieces some pesos that you'll never use otherwise this is this this is the truth but you could pop these into something like this and you've got a permanent reminder of a beautiful occasion it's it's true it's a great memento it's a great way to sort of yeah encapsulate your memories so we can go as to our hearts content would you always recommend then obviously you put stuff in after you've poured you wouldn't like put the stuff in then pour because then it would be there's no real rules it's just that i like to do the resin first because then when i pop it out there will be a coating of the resin on the the top side you see because right now it's the bottom but when i pop it out of the mold becomes the top that's what i mean i do yes indeed okay so right now i haven't poured any resin into the last mold because i want to mix in my colorant so this is the resin tint just an orange so a couple of squirts yeah a couple of squirts let's say i wanted to make that maybe a red or orange and i'm going to ask a stupid question but that's what i'm here for no stupid questions i'm assuming that the more you squirt the darker the intensity of the color is going to be yeah like the more saturated the color that's right so this is very fun we are very busy also we've had questions in which is always glorious do get your emails in studio at kraytoncraft.com whilst we have the expert the queen of resin herself i'm going to call you that you should have that on the t-shirt i feel this is from carol carol as he made it she says morning my husband builds model railways yes nice would this work for a lake effect okay so she wants to sort of pour a little lake that's exactly what she yeah that's exactly what he's looking for and we've got something that sort of shows that as well is that the where's that lovely one with the waves on it's right here yeah look at this carol this might convince you because look this is something that rebecca's done uh this is a chopping board and we've got like an ocean waves effect on that yes and that's done with the resin tint as well that's so beautiful so it's blue it's white it's a little bit of green to make a turquoise in there i've just mixed up my own colors i love that yes so this coaster that i'm using here this one is going to obviously um it's going to pop out gorgeous in a nice solid like that and then in this last one here we're going to use some of these alcohol inks and we're going to make something something like you see here okay right so these ones we're just going to these are dotted in so again no rules no rules just all fun that's how life should be i'm not saying that you need some rules in life but you know well some people they take their art very seriously and this is an art form that you have to sort of relinquish control because sometimes you don't know what the that's fabulous this is giving me petri dish vibes exactly exactly so so on and so forth you just drop to your heart's content what color is that that's a good one and i like to use the white in between my layers of color again i imagine every coaster in your house is just fabulous well we do have a lot of them to drink so that they can use the coasters quite frankly do you know what we do back home we have uh we have a little art studio at our house oh how lovely and we invite our friends over for wine and art nights we're very popular why do i not live in toronto that sounds amazing is that a lot of gorgeous city it's it's pretty nice okay so that's done and now all we need to do at this point is we we can use the torch on it um sometimes when the projects are on the smaller side sometimes you don't even need to but um at this point what i would do is i would just cover it because you need to leave it for 24 hours you need to protect it from some of the dust that could fall in so here's a question again then fly yeah around the flat all the cat wandering past whatever yeah that's right yeah here's a question so whether you are doing a smaller project like this or a larger project like the one with um uh summer and uh teddy teddy thank you um earlier is it still 24 hours for curing no matter what the size of the project that's right that's right yes because that's how long it takes for the chemical reaction to really take full effect it's got to go from a liquid to a solid okay a glossy beautiful solid it takes 24 hours for that to happen lovely stuff yes we've got 20 minutes left of the shot i told you we're going ridiculously quick shall we sort of whiz into our next demonstration as well sure that would be lovely two-thirds of the stock has gone on our starter kit now i mean remember it's an angel policy so if you want to make things that literally are for selling or if you want to make things that are for you know charity or to fund your own crafty habit it's entirely up to you um for all of the readers out there who like reading their books what about making little bookmarks and things like that again you can i love this i know we made these my daughter how old zoe she's nine oh my word zoe well done these are lovely i mean you can see again the gloss and shine that you've got on there i love the fact anything can be embedded that's the great thing about this isn't it anything can be embedded and there really are no rules i find people get a good idea for they get one good idea and they try it and then that one good idea prompts all kinds of more ideas that's the springboard for a lot more creativity exactly yes we have another email coming through this is from uh let's have a look this is from uh oh this is Sarah armitage this first one let's have a look at this so welcome to the uk and welcome to cnc could i ask a little question you say that we could make a cake plate etc that will be food safe but it's brilliant but if we were to cut the cake on the plate with a cake knife would the resin mark or would it withstand the knife blade that's a very good question that is a very good question so we say that art resin is machinable that means that if you were to take a saw you could cut a nice clean edge so that's an important advantage at the same time if you were to use a very sharp knife you could theoretically damage it yes so you have to be careful you don't want to use something super super sharp but if you were to just use you know like a people use these for cheese boards and those little cheese yes they won't do any damage at all there you go i mean it is super hard i mean it really is i mean it's hard it's clear it's i have a cheese board right here so it is protection they are look here we go right look at this so your meats your cheeses can go right on top of that the wood is fully protected so there's no there's no risk in anything you know going wrong with the wood but then also there's no risk in anything going into the food that sits on top and it's hard as a rock as you can see it is that's fabulous another question for you lovely rebecca as well from carol swift carol says is this board also makes a nice place for me to rest my tablet as well which is great and do you need to do anything to items that might go moldy if you are in bed if you are embedding items like so if it was plants or food e.g. the coffee beans for example um do you need to do it do you need to worry about them going moldy within the resin i would imagine no because if the product is if the coffee beans or if the let's say you did i don't know you could even do like a you know a sandwich or something why not whatever you fancy if it was completely embedded in the resin then no air can get at the food therefore it cannot go bad also another question from carol can you put hot cups on the go on the coasters yes a hot cup is fine again it's a matter of how hot is it so i wouldn't do like a um a casserole dish no straight from the oven that would be too hot but like a coffee cup is absolutely fine or your mold wine at christmas not a problem not a problem and keep those emails coming studio at greatgraph.com is the address that's the lovely rebecca okay so right here i'm going to show you how to take something super simple like a tray i just picked this up at ikea um the shops are available yes and it's just it's something that is you know kind of standard prefab so i wanted to make it a little more personalized a little more my own you know i'm going to turn that around just so we can read the just here for the snacks the right way oh perfect it's parking me there we go thank you very much so for those of you at home that have a cricket this was just produced with a cricket or you could do a scaring cattle any machine like that fabulous exactly or you could you know you could do paint marker on this you could paint an image you could again put a photo collage of photos whatever you'd like the the opportunities are endless but two grandchildren and i love the idea of doing a collage of their pictures under this yes it would be protected yes well you see here i mean this is raised up a little bit isn't it from the um the cricket machine and we want to make sure this is protected if i put a drink on here and let's say it spills this is going to get wrecked so true so we have to put our resin on top but i'm not going to just do clear resin i'm going to go a little bit extra on this one i brought along some glitter oh you know because why not why not glittery resin yes and that's the that's the beauty of our resin it's it's just so versatile so can you add you can add pretty much whatever you like to it really anything you want you can put your color in you can leave it clear you can put your objects you can put your glitter you can really just take it to whatever extreme you're interested in and sometimes i leave it clear sometimes i i add all the color in the glitter and it just depends on my mood that day really that is glittered up like a good in there yes we've only got 15 minutes left on the show well let's just pour this on in and you'll see it's it's extremely simple i'm pouring it art resin all day look how satisfying is that and remember this is self-leveling it's food safe so if you're putting your sarnies on there not a problem yeah and there's no fumes right so we're using this here in the studio we're not using it yeah that's true we're fine everything is i mean obviously you know we always recommend maybe if you want to open the window it's up to you but there are no fumes there are no smells there are no solvents with this i mean it's non-soc non-toxic and no vocs those nasty fumes yes that's right it's all pure ingredients in here no fillers nothing that can disrupt your respiratory system it's all thriller no filler that's all filler no filler all thriller no filler why haven't i used that one you can have that on me take that back to toronto with you thank you so again every time you say it think of me oh well so here we go i'm just using the spreader just to coax the resin into the little nooks and crannies because i want it to go right out to the edges and lovely idea it's super super simple and it's just impressive you know what this is a conversation piece when people come over and you serve them your tea and crumpets they'll say well look at that where did you get that tray and you'll say isn't it i mean we can buy trays we can buy coasters everything shop bought these days but the thing is it doesn't need to be if you are creating things in your own home straight away you know that they will be bespoke so when people invite you around for their lovely wine and art evenings which i'm living for it's like literally you're going to be like oh that's nice where'd you get that well actually i made it myself i do a bit of resin art i made it myself that's exactly it and this is resin is one of those things that you know it looks it looks super impressive it looks hard to do but it's in fact is very simple again if you can just measure accurately and stir for three minutes that's really all it takes that's all you need to do resin will take care of the rest if people want more tips and techniques from you obviously we said 157 000 followers on instagram cannot be wrong rightly so what's the address is it just art it's art underscore resin isn't it for the instagram yes for instagram and then on facebook and youtube and things like that yep it's art resin so just art resin it's nice and easy so lots of videos tips and techniques on there there you go so there that's it i'm done i'm done spreading and that's another project in the books that's fabulous and i think that again would take 24 hours yes this is a bigger project so i'm going to just hit that with the torch and now the blowtorch of course from the starter kit don't forget the starter kit two-thirds of the stock on the starter kit now approaching 70 percent of the stock on the starter kit this is getting rid of those bubbles i know it's not easy to see on the tv but let me say in the flash or any bubbles that are there are running for the hills right now they are gone all that's left is the glittery goodness of that that's just fab isn't it cute that is and that's gonna take 24 hours so tomorrow when i come into work that's gonna be nice and hard yes you can use this tomorrow oh my gosh i'm going to have my lunch right tomorrow okay thank you so much it needs to be done me and harry will sit down have a lunch off here it would be great yes right if you want to give the starter kit 529504 is your item number do you want to get yourself ready for another demonstration please let's keep this coming i'm loving let's look at what we've got for you so we've got all of our hardener and our resin options remember they come in equal size bottles no matter which option you're going for because it is a one-to-one ratio between the actual hardener and the resin itself remember with your hardener it is going to be all you the resin so it's going to be clear thick glossy shiny solid and hard when it actually dries takes about 24 hours to cure non-toxic no fumes no vocs no solvents so none of the nasty stuff i mean you can use it for you know paintings jewellery photos would work you name it any area of the home for home decor as well with the tray with a picture of the dogs earlier with the coasters it is literally not lumpy and bumpy it is as flat as it needs to be and it's food safe as well so if you do want to use it with any food products things like cakes or sandwiches for trays etc etc chopping boards for cheeses breads then you don't need to worry because it is food safe as well now if you do want to make your own coasters you've got your three cavity mould there uh three two three two sorry so two three two oh seven two is your item number on that one don't forget everything's on the website tell us Harry or the W's world great craft dot com the metallics very popular the resin tints you've got your four colors in there they look divine when you actually put them into something as well so that's six four zero nine four six your item number right Rebecca's got a chopping board out she is ready for action again so this is food safe so when we you know i have a little chopping board here it's rather plain it's rather standard prefab and i'm going to make this my own this is it it's nice it's functional but it's not particularly exciting it could be a lot more interesting couldn't we we need to like yeah we need to jazz it up a little yes jazz it up as a perfect expression okay so what we're going to do actually Nadal would you mind describing me the white and the green will relate the white and the green yes so i have i have some resin there you go there's take them out of them i love late yep that's great there's the work there's the green perfect beautiful so i have my resin in little cups here and i am going to put my resin tints into the cups there's no magic rule to this you just sort of put your resin tints see that's rather fabulous isn't it just looking at it as well oh this is the fun part right that's right so it'll go sciency again i love it you showed my uh my little uh ocean tray and that is what i'm making now okay so this is the effect that we're going for this is so cool it really is i live by the seaside i live in Brighton on the south coast so this is a little slice of home for me this just think it's lovely look at that yes and it's quite easy to do at the same time so we're going to make you pay a fortune for that in the shops you know why because it looks so impressive yes absolutely oh my goodness how did they ever do that oh i could never do that but really i'm going to show you and it's very very simple it's fun honestly i love it so clever so we're just mixing and i want a different stick for the white so just doing that around very busy can i say thank you to everybody that's placed in order for this show because i know it's lovely when we have new guests to the studio and especially ones that have come from you know a long way away just for this show because rebecca and the family have flown over from toronto in canada just for this show they're going to do a bit of you know london and live pool at the same time which is good because rebecca has family or from family from live pool yes they're not there anymore no they're not there anymore but that is where my heritage is how lovely yes now you can play around with these colors a little bit you see this one looks maybe a little too turquoise so let's just add a little bit of white to that so you can blend your colors so for those of you who are you know you like to paint or you like to mix your colors you can really play around and it's whatever you're interested in in doing it like again like i said there's no rules here so if you if you like the way the colors look then you go with that if you'd like to change the colors you just change the colors you play around until you've got something that you are satisfied with and when we do this ocean cutting board you will see how easy it is because all it involves is pouring so we are going to do the darkest color at the one edge working our way out to lighter lighter lighter and finishing with white okay okay so let's do that now i'm this is where you're standing from the start to get again coming very handy because obviously you're pouring over the edge we're pouring over the edge you need to protect your table with your silicon mat the bits that drip onto the mat can you sort of like keep those for later if need be well it will cure because it's been mixed up so that's a question again it's probably a stupid one but again that's what i'm gonna do no it's not a stupid one do you know some people get really creative and they actually save the little bits and they cut it because the day after it's uh it's a little bit flexible so you can actually cut it with scissors so nice little embellishment if you ate a day and a half you probably couldn't do that but if you waited just right at the right time the 24 hours you can actually you know pick it up play around with it and any of the resin and hardener that we've not used if that's in pots like this you can't kind of keep that for another project later once it's gonna cure once it's been catalyzed that chemical reaction cannot be stopped to always be sort of a wary not wary but always to think about how much you can actually need yes in the you know you've got about 45 minutes before this mixture turns hard that's not bad to no panic no 45 let me we've been on the show for about 45 right we have 50 to be exact there you go okay so you see i've just done some stripes here and here's learest you've got about a year so still a lot of time a lot of time you'll be using it in a year that is a god-given people use this on a weekend and they need more on a Monday so okay so now i've got a hairdryer it's just a regular hairdryer again if you're trying to pop the bubbles you want to use the torch but this is a technique where we are intending to actually blow the resin around okay so this is actually the hairdryer from not the presenters bit here at crete graph yes so if yannis comes in today can't blow dry his hair that's all i'm going to say sorry yannis okay so we've got our colors laid out and ready for this absolutely okay here we go okay oh oh look at the wane effect hello that's fabulous oh that i love straight away oh that's awesome so that's just one way to do it that is awesome oh my gosh how close can we get on that chris director because that is just that makes me want to swear it's so good it's flipping amazing look at that and i just did the little end of it but you know what i could have done much more of it i could have added more shades of blue if i wanted to we've got five minutes left can we do the other end for sure yes i have extra yes absolutely oh my god that's too much fun i love that if you would like to give you a starter kit this is the kind of thing that you could be doing remember that starter kit how we do is it 70 percent of the stock do we say 70 percent of that stock is gone you are getting the torch you are getting the stand you're getting the gloves you're getting the mixing sticks you are getting your spreaders in that you get your resin and your hard nut as well and you are getting a whole host of inspiration because you are becoming part of the art resin family think about all of those videos online all of that tuition all of that interest all of that aspiration and inspiration that you can find all over the internet courtesy of rebecca and art resin yes that's my full-time job just to give information and inspiration on how you do it so well thank you i do have fun with it i think that's the key if you're having fun and i hope that translates right i've never seen the presenters hairdryer used for such good things do you know how me normally it's just a sort of hair i'm not me obviously but again you see there's no real rules here i'm just pouring it out just at will and like i said there's a little bit of like um there's a surprise element to art resin because sometimes you don't know how it's going to turn out until it's actually done there's uh you got to relinquish a little bit of control and i think that's really the beauty of it okay this is fabulous again it's going to take 20 fries are we ready right we're ready for close-up chris we're going to do this other side now we get yeah we are ready and you see how there's like lots of cells happening on this side right so that's the beauty of it as well this is just wonderful over here okay here we go yeah we're ready oh look at that oh it's literally giving me peach at home vibes i love that and the wavy ripples that you get i mean it all comes like sessions down doesn't it and that's when the little almost like not the bubbles but there's little sort of patches of color start coming that's right it changes over time because again this is a chemical reaction that's happening and so the it's going to do its thing it's gonna it's going to have its own life and i really think that's the beauty of it and it's bits that are on the actual silicon mat as well because obviously there's a lot of stuff here i'm thinking we can't waste this because it all looks fabulous yes so these bits here once they dry you can pit them off the silicon mat anyway yeah can you cut into it you can cut into it you can even at the 24 hour mark you can even twist it and you know sort of manipulated a little bit so some people do things in in that respect as well i mean there are no rules when it comes to art resin the only rule is measure accurately and stir for three minutes that's all you need to know couple of questions if we were trying to use this on a project that goes outside is it weather resistant so this is actually waterproof which is another good thing to note again if you wanted to wash this off let's say you had your meat that was my other question what about dishwashers and things like that dishwashers i would i would just i would use caution okay yeah i would use caution so hand wash yeah i would say hand wash um treat it gently but do you see this these waves happening here the beautiful cells that are coming to light now that's just incredible doesn't it look like i spent two hours on that it does and you know what i mean i said live down in bright and it's like if you go into this place called the lanes down there that would have been it's like it's just lovely but the shops can be quite expensive this you would be paying i swear probably about 40 50 pounds for easily easily because it's just and how simple is that yes well in canada this was this cutting board was about seven dollars okay and but if you were buying it now how many dollars would you be able to get oh my goodness i don't know in canadian i would say at least 80 at least i know i'm behind in 20 i have no idea how much that is but that's a great markup on seven dollars that's right that's fabulous that's right but it's not it's not simple anymore it's it's now special it's personalized it's unique it's one of a kind oh it certainly is i mean i love i couldn't even i couldn't even do that again if i tried it would always look a little different a little different a little different and it's all about that personalization should we hold these up because i mean these are just found two fabulous pictures and this could be a photo from a holiday that you've had somewhere glamorous and exotic and then over here we have got the classic pooch shot haven't we we've got the lovely summer and teddy that of course is rebecca and her husband's dogs and you can see just how beautiful that looks because you've got that protective layer of the resin on the top rebecca can i say thank you so much i thoroughly enjoyed the show it has been a joy will you come back again on craft extra 11 o'clock with charlie because he's gonna love this and please go for the starter kit a 70 percent of that starter kit has already gone you've got the resner resner the res in the hard now mixing the two which is what you do one to one race with your spreaders your mixing sticks your gloves your stand and your torch in there as well three flexi payments of 30 pounds it's a complete angel policy you can add color you can add embellishments you can add coffee beans if you want it's entirely up to you from rebecca of herself i'll see you the other side of the break and rebecca's back on craft extra and 11 o'clock this morning from both of us take care and have a reasoning bye-bye