 Hey guys, so one of the most commonly asked questions we get here at Art Resin is how to make coasters So we thought we would make a video dedicated to exactly that how to make a coaster And we're going to be showing you how to make coasters using some of the more commonly used materials So we've got cork. We've got a stone tile We've got a wood slice We've got a piece of glass that we're going to apply glass mosaic tiles to and we're going to show you a couple of Different ways you can use a silicone mold to make a coaster. So we've got all our materials here ready to go So let's get started Okay, so we're here with Tracy and she's going to show us how to make a glass mosaic coaster So Tracy how are we going to do it? Well, what I found here is this perfect piece of glass that is coaster size There's two different ways that you can make a coaster You can use Art Resin as a grout and it basically glues the shard pieces onto it Or you can actually glue down the shard pieces and pour the Art Resin over top to give it a nice high gloss shiny finish For this piece I'm going to use Art Resin as the grout taking my shard glasses and creating a nice design and letting it cure overnight So I have already pre-measured my Resin and my hardener by volume Then I'm just going to mix one into the other stir for three minutes And then I'm going to pour it onto my glass plate Just don't mean it which means I'm not going to let it go over the sides Just to give it that nice glue for my glass shards. So the first step is to pour One into the other. So we just need a tiny amount So we're just using these little shot glasses and Art Resin is nice because it's a one-to-one ratio by volume so you can just eyeball it using these little glasses here I'm going to stir it for three full minutes just to make sure that the Art Resin is well mixed Scraping the sides scraping the bottom So do you know why it's important to scrape the bottoms and the sides? Well, if you don't scrape the bottoms and sides when you're mixing you could end up with unmixed resin and hardener stuck to the sides And then when you pour it out, you'll end up with sticky spots in your resin exactly So now that my resin and hardener are well mixed. I'm going to pour some onto my glass So I'm going to pour just a little bit because I don't want it running over the edges and you can see The resin is so nice and thick that it's just sitting exactly where you're placing it Yeah, and as I'm spreading it out, it's going to self level itself out as well So you're not going to have any of these bare spots Yeah, you can see it happening already Now you do see from mixing that you created some bubbles So I'm just going to use the torch to get those bubbles out Now you have to be careful because The torch is going to thin the resin and you don't want it to still run over the edge So all you're going to do is just get rid of the bubbles and be done You can see how efficiently the torch gets rid of those bubbles. It's really it's the only tool that we use here at the studio, right? Oh, absolutely. It works amazing. So now the fun part we get to put the tiles on so Tracy Do you have an idea of what design you have? I do actually I just picked I'm going to do just a sun I'm going to put some sunshine on my coaster So I just picked some yellows and some oranges and I'm just going to do a very very simple design Perfect. Okay, so let's get started So because we're not bringing the resin right over the sides There's no need to prop it up right on a stand normally if you were going to let the resin drip over the sides We'd prop it up on something absolutely and that's the reason why otherwise you're going to have your piece right stuck to your table Yeah Okay, and our resin has an approximate 45 minute work time Do you have lots of time to just move around your pieces if you don't like where it's going you can Just move it around to somewhere else So we're using a piece of mirror But you could use this same process equally well on a piece of metal or on just a piece of glass, right? Absolutely, same thing same process So you don't have to use glass shards, right? You could use rocks or you could use like beer caps or anything that you want to absolutely Anything that you have just even laying around Okay, that's it. It looks perfect. So what's next Tracy? I'm going to cover it to protect it from dust while it's curing just to make sure there's no dust that falls into the piece tomorrow It will be cured hard to the touch and it's 72 hours. It's gonna be a full cure Perfect. That's awesome. Thanks Tracy. Thanks for it So I've got Tracy's mosaic tile coaster here now Tracy It must have been so inspired by her sunshine design that she took off went to Maui this week So I'm revealing her coaster. It looks amazing She did a fantastic job and a lot of people wonder because it is tile and it does have a texture. Can you use it as a coaster? So here's a quick tip about warming your resin in a water bath Now if you've watched any of our videos before you know that we recommend giving your resin a water bath if for example The temperature is cold outside or your resin is cold cold resin may have a thicker consistency It may have micro bubbles So if that's the case then a water bath can help to bring it up to temperature and Restore that beautiful art resin consistency now one of the added advantages of warming up your resin It's that it greatly reduces the number of bubbles in your resin So that can be a huge advantage when you're pouring into a silicone mold Now you know that we always recommend pouring layers of 1 1⁄8 of an inch And if you pour any thicker than that the bubbles don't have a chance to rise to the top to get torched out So if you're pouring a thicker layer of warmed resin into your silicone mold You'll see that you'll have far less bubbles to start with So next time you're pouring into a silicone mold try warming your resin first and see if you can notice the difference Okay, so we're here with Tara and Tara is going to show us how to embed objects in silicone molds to make coasters So we've got some rocks here. We've got some pebbles and we're going to show you a couple of different techniques So should we get started? We should All right, so we have equal parts of resin and hardener And I think we warmed it up before in a warm water bath to try and minimize some of those bubbles And then we're going to go ahead and mix them together And we're going to take our mixing stick go ahead and mix it and we're going to mix slowly for three minutes Yeah, and it's important to mix slowly because the faster you mix the resin the more air you're going to incorporate Which means more bubbles so especially when you're pouring into a mold You definitely don't want bubbles So we want to make sure that the bottom and the sides are scraped properly so every little bit of resin and hardener gets mixed in So it cures properly All right, I think that is all mixed together. Awesome. So now we're ready to pour so I'm just gonna give you some gloves So we're gonna make three coasters today. We're gonna pour a little bit in each one. Yeah Now we are pouring again thicker than our usual eighth of an inch But because we've warmed the resin up that allows us to pour thicker than the usual eighth of an inch Good, so what are we gonna start with first? I think we'll start with the more natural looking rocks. Awesome Okay, so I'm just gonna go ahead and take a handful. These are so pretty. They're like those river pebbles, right? Yes, definitely. You can get them at any craft store I'm just gonna go ahead and drop them in Slowly one at a time maybe Yeah, so pretty and there's not really any like right or wrong To how you place them just keep in mind though They are sinking to the bottom because they're rocks and they're heavy But in fact when this is cured and we pop it out the bottom is gonna be the top, right? So just keep that in mind That looks great. Okay. And what's next? Next we'll go with the the purple rocks. They're a little bit smaller Like little pebbles, I guess, right? Yeah And we are using stones and pebbles, but you can use like a variety of objects, right? You can use anything you've got beads or beer caps a lot of people use beer caps Whatever you think So it's gonna take about 24 hours for these to cure and You can pop them out in the mold as soon as they're dry to the touch the earlier you pop them out The easier it is to release them. There we go. That looks good. Awesome So now for the third one We just want to show you a little bit of a different technique when you're embedding As I just said some items are really heavy and they can sink down to the bottom or the top So what you can do if you want to get a really thick coat is you can pour in layers What you do is you pour your first layer and then you let it sit for three hours three to five hours It's gonna start to thicken up and once it's thick you can then go ahead and add your next Layer of rocks or stones or whatever you're embedding and then pour your next layer of resin on and because of the thickened Resin will be sticky at that point then the two layers are gonna bond together So there's no need to sand or anything like that. So that's a really handy tip if you want to get a thick coat to pour in layers Perfect. Okay, so I'm just gonna go ahead and take some of the turquoise on Awesome, so then we're gonna wait about three hours or so. We're gonna come back add some more rocks pour another resin layer We'll be able to see the difference tomorrow. So we'll come back in a few hours. Yes Okay, so it's been three hours our resin has thickened up and we're ready for our second layer Perfect, so we're gonna take some purple rocks this time and just sprinkle a few of them right there around Just so we can see the difference That looks great. Yeah, perfect. And we've got our resin already mixed up and ready to go Yes, so just pour our next layer on and really it doesn't matter You can put the resin first and then the stones or as we did the stones first and then the resin It doesn't really matter Good. So we'll just wait 24 hours and we'll show you what they look like tomorrow Thanks, Tara. Thank you, Joanne So it's been 24 hours and Tara and I are here to reveal our coasters. All right. Let's take a look. Yes. All right Let's start with the rocks Look at that Awesome. Oh, I love it. Oh, me too. That's fantastic. It looks so good So you can see even though the rocks did sink to the bottom they're big enough Right that there's not too much empty space up here at the top. It looks really good. Yeah, it does very nice Right. Let's take a look at the next one So next we have our little pebbles and if you remember we only did one layer of these pebbles Yeah, it looks great too. You can see the pebbles sunk down to the bottom. So there's quite a gap there and Then for our last one we did two layers to avoid the having that gap, right? Comparancy how that looks Awesome looks a lot fuller compared to this one, which has that kind of empty space at the top here So two different options to do coasters either doing it in layers or doing it in one shot like this Great. Thanks so much, Tara. Thanks, Joanne So just a quick side note when you're working with silicone molds and resin One of the reasons why silicone molds work so perfectly with resin is the resin doesn't stick to silicone So usually when you're unmolding they'll just pop right out of the mold, but sometimes as the mold Is getting older and getting used more often it starts to break down So there are a few suggestions To make unmolding a little bit easier and prevent the resin from sticking One is to pop the mold in the freezer after the 24 hour mark and let it get really cold And that can help release The resin another one is the opposite to put it in a hot water bath And that kind of softens the resin up and makes it a little easier And releases it from the side of the mold Sometimes the molds just eventually will break down and need to be replaced So just something to be aware of when you're working with silicone molds and resin So I'm here with Jasmine and we're gonna show you how to make coasters using silicone molds and alcohol ink So silicone molds you can get them in so many different shapes and sizes But the thing to remember is it's best to look for a mold that has a glossy interior A glossy interior is going to give you a glossy finish on your resin Now if you have a mold that you love and it's got a matte finish on the inside Don't worry We're gonna show you a little trick to get that matte finish back up to the art resin glossy finish We all know and love. Okay, Jasmine. Let's get started. Okay So you're gonna take your equal parts resin and hardener as always and mix them together For this project, we're gonna pour the resin a little bit thicker So I want to make sure that we're steering it nice and smoothly so we're not folding a lot of air into it So we don't get as many bubbles perfect. All right, so we're gonna put a Nice bit into each mold right so normally we tell you don't pour thicker than an eighth of an inch when pouring resin Because bubbles will get trapped in the resin and won't have a chance to rise up to the surface Now we're gonna kind of bend the rules a little bit pouring into a mold And this is when using warmed resin really really comes in handy a warm water bath will thin out the resin There'll be way less bubbles and that actually enables you to pour a thicker layer And now for the fun part we're gonna put in our alcohol ink. So Jasmine Do you have a certain color scheme in mind or a plan? Yeah, well, you can really be creative in this part But I think I'm gonna be using some blue some green and some white for this one All right, we can get started. I'm gonna start with white You want to make sure that you pick a little pig color like white for your Petri dishes so that the design really shows up when you flip it over perfect So you can be really creative here, right? Absolutely put in a lot or a little Mm-hmm. I'm just gonna put it a little bit so that we can really see how the resin acts with the ink Perfect. So we're using alcohol ink Do you think you could get the same effect using a different kind of ink like acrylic ink or now? I don't think you get the same effect with that because the alcohol in this kind of ink actually The nature of the resin as it goes down. So that's how you get the cool effects. All right, you get those cool like tentacles Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that wouldn't happen with it. Okay, perfect All right I'm looking at this and I think it could really use a little bit of yellow and you know That's half the fun about this is really get into like experiment and go along Absolutely, this one has a lot of negative space, but I find that's really nice for really seeing our patterns. Oh That's pretty Yeah, it looks good. It's so magical watching the the ink Into the resin right and makes the coolest patterns. You never know what it's gonna do. Yeah. All right I think that looks pretty good. So I'm gonna call this one finished Yeah, it looks awesome. So let's move on to the next one. Yeah, absolutely Here I'm gonna take some purple and some pink for this one And we're gonna do something a little bit different and I have this old white bottle Which just has a little bit of white ink in the bottom So I'm gonna open it up and we're gonna actually mix the inks together before we put them in Oh, that's a great idea. Yeah, and I think I'm just gonna use maybe a dropper to if you don't have an old white bottle Of course, you can really put it in anything like you think you can squeeze the ink out of later Put the cap back on and shake it up And then we'll really have a nice light pink Okay, so we can start with this now that we've mixed this white into the pink It actually becomes an opaque color so we can use it as our base. Awesome. That's such a good point Jasmine You can like totally mix your own custom colors, right? Yeah, it's really fun. It makes it your own. Yeah The white seems to like drive the ink down, doesn't it? Yeah, it's kind of like those feelers, right? Absolutely. Yeah All right now I'm just gonna on some of our regular pink You know just like the other one put it wherever your heart wants to put it Yeah, there's like no right or wrong in this is there. Mm-hmm. No Absolutely, it's all about you know experimenting with these You never really know what it's gonna look like when you turn it over the next day And I think this one deserves some gold Yes, pink and gold. It's a really nice combo. And so you said the gold is also an opaque, right? Yeah, so this is also an opaque so you will see it kind of like shoot down with all the other colors So it's gonna look great. All right, so this one is a little bit less negative space I still think we're gonna look fabulous. Yeah, it looks awesome Okay, so let's move on to coaster number three. Absolutely So for this one I'm gonna show you how you can kind of move the resin around with the stir-stake and kind of put in some movement if you like Oh, cool. So it's kind of like a marbling kind of idea. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah And then I think I'm just gonna do some yellow and some orange and pink It's so cool. I can see the ink dropping on the first one that we did already. No, it's pretty easy. That's really neat There's just a lot of movement in these pieces, which is what I really like about this. Yes Yeah If you're the kind of artist who likes a lot of control then I think this is a good exercise You don't really have a lot of control to you with this. Yeah, absolutely. I Think that's really an interesting aspect to it. All right, so we've got some color floating in there not too much I'm just gonna take the end of my stir-stick here. Mm-hmm. You can really just gently pull it around So you can get like mixing really drag it around however you like. I love how this looks and you can poke some down if you like Yeah, you know use a little bit of pressure and then it'll go in or you can just drag it on top. Super cool It's really nice for you know really mixing the colors together. Yeah So we often get asked here at Art Resin when you can de-mold your resin from the silicone mold So Art Resin is dry to the touch of the 24-hour mark You can certainly remove it before the 24-hour mark as soon as it's dry to the touch it depends on how warm your room is It might dry a little faster But definitely remove it before the 24-hour mark before the resin is fully cured Well, it's still pretty flexible and it'll be a lot easier to unmold. Yeah, I find it don't rip as many molds that way Yeah, yeah, and that's a point to silicone molds. They will all eventually break down So you want to get a good quality mold it'll last longer But they all will eventually break down and need replacing. Do you want to try the next one? I was hoping you'd ask All right, I got terry gloves here. So I think I'm going to do pink and gold and white And I'm gonna try and do a pattern I think So this square mold actually has a matte interior which is gonna give a matte finish to the resin But when we de-mold it I'm gonna show you how you can fix it and bring the gloss back Okay, so we're all done now. We've got four very different looks here. So we'll see how they look tomorrow Now normally at this stage when you're done working with resin the next step would be to torch it But we're not gonna do that with alcohol ink, right? Yeah alcohol is super formable So if you try and push this you'll let your thing on fire, which is really insane. It's not good Another great reason for using the warmed resin it reduces the bubbles right from the get-go So actually torching kind of isn't even necessary. I don't really even see any bubbles in there Yeah, yeah awesome. So we'll see how they look tomorrow. Thanks Jasmine. Yeah, thanks So we're back for the big reveal Jasmine you want to yeah, absolutely Unmold these guys so they've been sitting in the molds for less than 24 hours Oh, that's so pretty really well. Yeah, that looks amazing This one had a lot of like negative space in it. Yeah, it's so pretty all that negative space really lets you um Yeah, see the pattern of the alcohol ink. I actually really like this one. Yeah, beautiful. All right. Let's see how the next one turned out That looks so cool too. Yeah it does I love all those variations of pink. It's beautiful. Yeah, it mixed up really well. Yeah nicely done Yeah, I just really like how this one turned out now This has been less than 24 hours since we poured this yesterday, right? She'll notice that it's like still a little bit flexible because it's you know entirely made of resin It doesn't have some sort of base on it. Right So Over time this will just keep getting harder and harder in the next couple days But in that meantime you want to make sure that you're laying it flat on the table and not kind of On something because then you might get a little bit of a kink in there, right? So yeah, you just leave it nice and flat for a couple days and you'll have a really nice and hard one Yeah, like this one here he resin last week. It's absolutely rock hard now He can't bend it, but it definitely was pliable when I first de-molded it. So yeah, exactly Great good. So I am going to reveal the next one So these two came out of the mold quite easily this one if you'll notice let's pop it out It actually stuck to the mold at the corner here See and I think one of the reasons why is that it was filled up quite quite high almost to the top And the edge of it was right on this kind of weak spot right at the neck or the collar You know at the seam here Which is a bit weak and it ripped So I mean this can happen even on the best quality molds eventually all silicone molds will break down as I told you So if this does happen, it's unfortunate for the mold But you can just sand off these little bits of residue here, right? And then you'll you'll never know you can sand it off and then just use a little bit of resin to touch it up To bring the cloths back, but yeah, this one looks amazing too. I love your marbling technique here It looks so good. Yeah, that turned out really well actually Beautiful colors here Jasmine. You did a great job on this one. Okay, so our last one now So this one you remember was in a matte mold. So that's cool But you can see it's got a frosted finish on it from the mat, right? It's not as glossy as these ones that were in the mold with glossy interior So I told you when I poured it that I was going to show you a little trick to bring the gloss back Okay, so I'm just gonna get my gloves on So you want to mix up a very small amount of art resin And remember there's no minimum amount required when you're mixing our resin as long as you stick to the one-to-one ratio You can mix up a minute amount, which is awesome So we just got a little shot glass here with a tiny amount. You want a disposable foam brush. These work amazingly well You can use your gloved hand too, but I prefer the brush because it's a little neater and here's my little stand Okay, so what we're gonna do is just brush on a really really thin coat and immediately Immediately you can see how the cloudy turns clear So it is one extra step, but you know what if you have a favorite mold in home that's matte and you want to use it This is an excellent way To make it work. That's it. So we'll just let that dry overnight and it'll be perfect. That's really cool Yeah, you can see inside of it now. Yeah, exactly. Awesome. Well, you did an amazing job Jasmine Thank you so much for coming on to show us how to make coasters using silicone molds and alcohol ink Yeah, they turned out fantastic. Yeah, it was really fun. Thanks for having me. Yeah, you're welcome Hey guys a quick side note about taping off the bottom of your piece now taping off the bottom of any piece Whether it's a coaster or a piece of artwork is really important thing to do It makes life so much easier because of drips As the resin spills over the side, it'll catch on the bottom of your piece and If you don't have tape, you're gonna have to sand off those drips after they cured Which is a whole lot of extra work. What I like to do is tape off the bottom And then when the resin is cured you can rip the tape off and the drips right along with it So I just want to show you a couple little handy tips For taping so we like to use masking tape when we tape off This is one by 3m if you use painters tape or masking tape Just make sure you get a really good quality one. They're a really cheap Painters tapes out there, but they don't have very good stick They can be really porous and absorb the resin so it really Makes a difference to get a good quality painters tape. So I've got this 3m tape here okay, so Now for taping off a square. It's really straightforward obviously So I just what I do is line it up along the edge and I let it Um extend past the sides and then I just kind of do a miter cut with my with my thumb here I'll just put my thumbnail on the very corner of the edge and then rip the tape on kind of an angle here like that Okay, so And then I just go around to each edge like that just overlapping And angling it off this one here too. You see when you do the second one It's overlapped and you've got a nice clean edge there So I'll do this one here And then I really I mean you can use like something to kind of burnish it down I just like to use my my fingers here just to make sure I get a really nice Bond there between the tape and my piece. Okay, you can even use your thumb Just to press it down And there we go. It's all ready to resin. Okay, so squares obviously are really easy for circles For a circular piece like this or in a regular shape piece if you have like a charcuterie board It can be a little more challenging But I've got a way that I like to do it and it goes it goes pretty quickly So what I do is I have thin little strips I rip off thin little strips about this size And I just take the straight edge and I line it up along the edge of my piece here Okay, and so I've got a little piece that's um That's overlapping and again I just use my thumb to hold it down and I just Rip and I'll just go around with these thin little strips Okay, and I just Just rip off the edges and I just go around overlapping Okay, it's a little tedious, but This is the easiest way I've found to do it Okay, so you get the idea I just keep overlapping and eventually you end up with kind of almost a nautilus sort of pattern like that Okay, and you can see here. I've got a couple drips that caught On this piece Now a handy thing when you are removing the tape is to wait until the resin is dry to the touch And that can be well before the 24 hour mark In fact, you can pull it off as early as the 12 hour mark depending on how warm Your room is and how quickly the resin has dried now the reason you want to pull it off early Is it because um if you wait until after the 24 hour mark when that resin has fully cured It's going to have really bonded and it's going to be really hard to pull off So this one here has been sitting for over a week or so and I was trying to pull it off earlier And I'm going to have to sand this off those those drips there that the tape has caught They've really bonded to the resin on the side and the tape is just like ripping without really pulling Without really pulling the drips off the drips are kind of staying on there So I'm probably going to end up having to either use a blade to pop them off or sanding it off And you can see on this one as well The resin has um has run down the sides and really really cured all the way around the tape So if I had pulled this off early, it would have just ripped right off that now the resin has really really cured And it's going to be tough. So always remove your tape As soon as your resin is dry to the touch And that's it. That's your quick tip on taping and removing your tape from your resin piece Okay, we're going to do the rest of our coasters now And I've got my cork coasters my stone tiles and my wood slices Now the reason I grouped these ones together is because I want to do a little experiment These are all natural objects, which means they're more porous than say glass or mirror or metal And being more porous means that they can absorb the resin which could end up making them darker So an easy way to test for this is by testing first with a little bit of water Just drop a little bit of water say on your wood slice and if it immediately goes dark You know, it's probably going to absorb the resin and it's probably going to end up darker as well So what you can do to lessen the darkening is to seal first So you can use a spray sealant like this Krylon spray Or you know, I really prefer actually using a brush on sealant like white gluer mod podge And you can apply it with a disposable foam brush or even your gloved hands And the reason I prefer a brush on sealant is because these natural objects have a lot of nooks and crannies In the stone and the wood and you can really use the brush or your gloved hand to work in the sealant into those nooks and crannies And the most important thing is to choose a sealant that dries clear and is appropriate for the material you're sealing So earlier today, I sealed some of these coasters I used a brush on sealant for the wood and I left this one unsealed I used a brush on sealant for the stone tile and I left this one unsealed and then for the corks I sealed one of them with spray sealant I sealed this one here with a brush on sealant and I left this one unsealed So we're going to compare and see which one works best. Okay, so let's start with the cork So I've got all of my tools here ready to go. I've got my dust cover. I have my torch I've got a toothpick for getting little bits of dust out. I've got a spreader for doming and Most importantly, I've got my art resin equal amounts of resin and hardener stirred for three minutes And I scraped the bottoms and the sides as I stirred. Okay, so I'm ready to pour So first I'm pouring on to the piece of cork that has the brush on sealant As I said, I'm not going to let it run over the sides I'm just going to do a little doming technique here with this little spatula These are so handy. You can use a little plastic takeout knife too Okay, and there's no special skill involved in doming. All you need is a steady hand And just work slowly. Okay, so we're just going to nudge the resin right up to the edge without letting it go over Art resin has a beautiful thick consistency and it lets you just Put it exactly where you want it to go and it won't move And then next I'm going to pour on the coaster that had the spray sealant When you do this, you don't have to tape off the bottom You can if you want for a little extra insurance, but when you get good at doming you don't have to And our last one is the coaster that had no sealant on it at all. It's just rock cork So I'm doming all of these but as I said, you could tape off the bottom And let it run over the side if you wanted to I like the idea of doming because it's one less step Okay, we'll just give these a quick torch to get rid of any bubbles Got our artist torch here. Just a really quick pass. It doesn't need much And then of course we have our toothpick candy We're going to look in the light and make sure there's no bubbles that I missed or bits of dust Oh, actually there's one little thing there A bit of dust. There we go. Got it. Perfect. So we're just going to cover these up in 24 hours They're going to be hard to the touch and we'll see how they look Okay, so now we've got our stone tiles. Okay, so remember this one I sealed with the brush on sealant This one has no sealant at all. It's totally raw. So we'll see if it makes a difference with the resin So I'm pouring on the coaster that has the sealant here And then I'm just going to actually let it go over the sides on this one It's a little bit harder to dome on sort of an uneven surface like this. I've taped off the bottom With painter's tape. Okay, and I'm just actually going to use my glove tanned Just to run the resin along the edges. You can even Dip your finger in the resin and then just Run it along the edge here And next we'll do our coaster that has no sealant on it. This is raw stone So when it cures we'll see if there's any difference in the color And again, I'm going to let this one run over the edges So taping the bottom is really handy. It's going to catch all the drips And then the next day when the resin's dry to the touch, you can just rip the tape off and rip all the drips off along with it so Okay, so now I've poured I'm just going to use my torch to get rid of any bubbles Okay, so again just a light pass with the torch And then grab the toothpick and just take a look in the light to make sure there's no bubbles or dust Yes, it's looking pretty good. There's one tiny little bubble there. I'm just gonna pop it There we go Perfect So you can already see this coaster is actually going a little bit darker the one that didn't have any sealant on it So we'll see how it looks tomorrow after it's dry after 24 hours So i'm just going to cover it now to protect it from dust And we'll see how it looks tomorrow Okay, so now we're going to resin our wood slices Now if you remember this one here had the brush on sealant. This one is raw wood Okay, so one of the other reasons why I really like applying a sealant Especially with wood is that wood can be notorious for off-gassing and what that means is it releases the trapped air because it's an organic material It releases its trapped air into the resin in the form of bubbles So sealing just helps to provide a barrier. It creates a barrier to prevent that air from off-gassing So I always like sealing All right, there's a lot of different reasons why wood can off-gas But it can be the age of the wood. It could be how dry it is. It could be the type of wood So sealing is always a best practice Okay, so now i'm going to pour And i'm just going to dome this one again Again if you wanted to do the sides absolutely no problem. You can just tape off the bottom Just get a good quality painter's tape You want a good quality one that has good stick Okay, and if you do want to cover the sides as well, you can use again a disposable foam brush But I just like using my gloved finger So now i'm going to pour on the piece that has no sealant the raw wood You can already see there's a difference here In color the one with no sealant Is immediately going darker Okay, so let's grab my torch here and give this a quick Torching to get rid of those bubbles Okay, and toothpick check Well, there's a little bit of dust in this one here Okay Awesome, so we'll cover it up and we'll see how they look tomorrow So our coasters have cured and i'm ready for the reveal So we'll start with our wood if you remember this one had the sealant on it. It kept its color It's still quite pale. This one here had no sealant So the resin really absorbed and it actually I think it looks quite beautiful. The wood grain is just glowing But you want to be careful and test first so you know exactly what to expect Wood is all different. It depends on the type of wood. It depends on how dry it is You might not get this kind of glow this one for example here I sealed it on the front so it kept its nice light color But you can see on the back where the resin seeped over it went really really dark So all was best to test first so you know exactly what to expect Same here with our stone coasters or stone tiles This one had the sealant so it kept this nice bright color And the one with no sealant absorbed and went a little bit darker So just good to have options And now the cork and this one actually surprised me the results here This was the cork coaster that had no sealant. It looks beautiful This one here was the darkest one of all and this one had the brush on sealant So the cork really really absorbed that brush on sealant and ended up becoming really dark And the one here that spray sealant I actually wasn't even sure if it would work And it totally did. This one is the lightest one of them all So just an important reminder always always best to test first so you know exactly what to expect when you're resigning So that's it. Thanks so much for joining us as we showed you step by step how to resin a coaster We hope that you feel informed and inspired enough to try making a coaster of your own And as always be creative and have fun