 we're live and we're live so I thought I would bring you guys in on what I'm working on today we got commished for 90 trinket trays trinket trays do by the 30th so that's exciting so I'm still doing trinket oh yay that's me sorry so yeah that's what I'm working on today the something hello you guys hey hi how are you so yeah I'm gonna show you the test I've done so far and then we're gonna just make a couple more of them NYC I want to go to NYC okay so this is one of the first ones that I did you can see the cute little flowers that are in there kind of the edges are really rough I popped them out this morning but I think they turned out pretty cute I also tried it with some sparkle lighting the colors be a little bit less pigmented but I gotta say like these molds that I got aren't the best you can see how wonky this lip is and there's like nothing I can do about it also that that one I'm like bonded to my resin so it's going back and so there's also a triangular version I definitely added way too much glitter to those and then Jeff did this really nice elegant clear one and there are some bubbles but I'll tell you what for just an artist resin that's not bad it's not a casting epoxy that was stone coat art coat which is also what I'm gonna be doing on these bad boys so I'm gonna be filling as many as I can which looks like it's gonna be this many and I went ahead and opened up some of the flowers I just bought some dried ones on Amazon because you can go out and you can get your own and then put them in a like wax paper and then put them in a really heavy book and it will do stuff it'll just dry out for you I like I lost my train of thought as I was saying it so I'm going to be just sliding some flowers into these edges I think I've decided I'm not gonna put that many flowers on just the bottom or base of these look how loose this is I probably can't even tell where I'm holding it but the gap is a different depths all the way around on this mold wouldn't recommend this mold specifically but this process I would use on you know pretty much any mold I'm trying to press these flowers to the front facing part of the mold and not let it stick to the what would be the base or the back of it that one's just not gonna listen though because I'm gonna try to get the resin to be behind the flowers so that everything that's really visible is on the front side rather than the back side which is something that I accidentally didn't think about on the last ones that we did you can probably get away with doing this without tweezers but for me it's just easier to insert these bad boys and the flowers will kind of stick to your silicone just a little bit because silicone itself is just inherently sticky if you have anything silicone at home maybe you tried using the silicone cups or silicone gloves you will no doubt know at this point that takes more work to clean those off for me anyways then is worth it all right that last flower in there I'm not putting too many flowers just on this the back the center because we're gonna put a monogram letter back there sorry for misspelling what's happening I love and miss you what's up Jude how are you doing you can do it in the microwave to what am I doing in the microwave I'm going to say only when I when live is done for some molds that are awesome and good quality well they want this shape so I'm kind of unless your people have something similar to this what I mean by your people is that she said she has people and so whoever they are I hope they have some good molds and their quality she okay so I put all of the colors in that she told me initially that she wanted I think they painted some of these like that is a very bright green for dried clover I forgot what I was saying oh yeah initially it was supposed to be the colors of the event which is basically all of them and then today when I talked to her she was like well maybe we can okay well clean it so today she was like um maybe we should just do the school colors because I think this has something to do with graduation party and so their school colors are green and yellow therefore today the colors I'm going to be trying to inlay our green and yellow two colors that I don't often work with these dried flowers are really pretty though whether they're painted in post-production or not I don't know but the colors haven't bled on my in my molds so I'm thinking that if they are painted they're also sealed in which would be wise since you know I'd imagine most of people that are getting these are putting them in soaps or resin where the color could kind of melt out I don't know these kind of flowers are but since this is a test they're going in here when you place your flowers make sure you're mindful of what direction is up for the flower so you don't end up with a trinket dish that you're looking into like this that you can see the back of the stem because it's just not cute okay so now I have my flowers all inserted I'm I wish you just let me do them all clear whatever I'm going to now fill them with the resin that I mixed up I'm using stone coat art coat well thank you Eve I will do cats Julie you should totally do that so I went ahead and mix my resin this is something this is meadow by color obsession tint with a little bit of shooting star or mercury in it to give it a little bit of pizzazz metaz this is popcorn yellow from color obsession it's a transparent tint with a little bit of shooting star or milky way for a little bit of razz metaz pizzazz this is lemon yellow from just resin I put just a little bit of it in so that it's still translucent this is emerald city by resin art I put just a little bit in so it's a little bit translucent and then I'm using a little bit of color passion top-cell white but just a little bit so it's still translucent whoo okay here we go why am I so nervous I'm fine I'm going to put this busted mold under this one to try to give it a little bit more structure for just the right now the answer is it doesn't so womp okay so I'm just gonna you guys zoomed in enough maybe probably I'm just gonna pick up this lip and pour my first color in this one I think I'm just gonna stick with transparent or translucent the transparent from color obsession with darker resin if it was not clear then you can kind of see where it is where it's going in your mold and you can fix any issues like an air pocket like I can see yeah you can see right here that little white circle that is an air pocket and if I don't address it then when it comes out it's gonna be a little hole that's not a good look so I'm just kind of puddle pouring in here till it's full and I'm gonna try to work out these air bubbles coming up when you have cheap forms like this one it's easy to like push them and make any air pockets come up air bubbles because when you have inlays like flowers and things sometimes air will hold on to the petals and so you have to work them out if you have an expensive mold more expensive molds are usually more stiff and so I don't know if this technique will work also if you're gonna do this be careful you're not mixing your colors together by manipulating it too much by squishing it like this at Mac I am using something I'm using art coat I mixed it for the recommended three minutes but for two of those minutes I mixed it with the cup submerged into warm water so that it would thin the resin as I'm working with it thinner resins will release bubbles more easily and that's just a little bit of science for you eScience I'm pretty sure it's there's actual science in there I can't tell you I can't tell you okay so this one we're gonna work with the paste that we made translucent I'm just gonna add the color in the same as I did on this side nope on this one and then the other two I'm going to try to nope I'm gonna just do all the colors and some of the white not that many air pockets in this one why is that so fun to squish everything up like that if left to my own devices I could just sit here and do that for probably hours but I'm gonna be an adult and let it go whatever okay I don't want the bottom of it to look like that so I'm just gonna do that even though as the resin cures it's going to kind of swirl and move all the colors around and it'll change this design a thousand times okay so I'm gonna push this up so that this one can come into frame push this back so we can pull this one into frame all right so I'm gonna have to make 90 of these I have some of the new UV quick coat guys I have that coming or did I just start talking about it do I have some more some of the UV quick coat coming so that I can do this in a more timely fashion because the new amazing quick coat is UV resistant not as good as art coat but better and way better than the original quick coat original quick coat doesn't have any UV in it whatsoever I'm just gonna rotate this because it seems everything is falling in one direction you guys I think this with the white is gonna look really neat as long as my flowers still show I think it's gonna look super neat I haven't done a flower in casing like this with white before because we think about it usually you just want it to be some form of clear so you can see what you've inlaid but I never considered doing a translucent white that will hopefully still show all the beautiful inlay makes 10 ounces and that made three coasters nope what is this a trinket dish just note to self if you have trouble keeping your flowers poked in and down you want to keep them from floating into the resin itself you can have enough green in here you can always take a UV resin and just UV the flowers down and UV resin will come up off of your silicone molds the clear one that Jeff did I'll show it to you guys again in a second he did that technique on on it and you can't tell at all where he added any UV resin in order to keep the flowers tacked down so they don't float up into your piece very awesome in my opinion I wouldn't have thought about that only thing is UV resin usually isn't UV resistant so if you're gonna do something fully clear then maybe don't use that technique but if you're gonna have something with yellows and things like that then and like other tinted resin then it I don't see it being an issue at all so as this cures it's going to also move around and adjust no bubbles no booblies no booblies so since I put white resin in here I can't use my trick of just seeing where there's white patches wonder if this swirl would stay probably not we'll see be cool if it did okay so I'm gonna answer y'all's questions real quick I was gonna do all of them but ran out of resin blomp blomp so yeah take you guys down real quick sorry for the movements or movement so you can see this one has already changed you can see that there's like a ridge right here and that's from the resin rolling in and it's kind of circling down if you see a time-lapse video of like a river table or mold you can really see that that movement happen I always use a heat gun to pop any surface bubbles because if you scorch your mold then it'll kind of bond to your piece and it's not gonna not gonna be a good look okay I might have missed this and the customer didn't want it but what about alcohol ink I know isn't color fast but might be able to get cool effects and it be more translucent so yeah so ultimately because it's not color fast I'm not gonna use it I don't want to give something to a client that is gonna fade over time particularly because they are wanting yellow and yellow alcohol ink dropped into resin directly in my experience fades in a matter of months and so I can't do that because half of their color scheme would then be faded we're just glad you're here Libby was watching old ATV videos I preach that so much I appreciate that you know what I mean words are hard I do appreciate that so much because every view counts to get us into the algorithm that YouTube doesn't want us to be in sometimes hi Connie thank you so much for coming in and chatting with us today and watching video yeah no these are not my favorite color for sure but is what it is so Jeff did UV these I put a sticky finger of resin right there oh oops sorry so he did UV these down you can see my little sticky fingers from the resin but I don't see any UV if you do decide to do that then I would put the UV resin onto your mold just put a little dot heat it up nope put the UV light on it for a few minutes so that it will start to cure up and then once it's mostly cured but still tacky you can place your flower on it I'm not talking about like beads of UV resin I'm talking about like just a little just a little shmium dude says hi everyone should subscribe you'll learn so much well thank you thank you thank you remember back when there's only 5,000 subscribers we're at 57,000 now we got to get to 100,000 girl I know so I guess that answers my question what was the question yeah Claire I didn't see her question either I'm also working on this piece it looks better from afar it's like a Monet trying to play with some texture mediums that in particular is modeling paste we'll see see how that goes anyways if you guys didn't know we are doing a video train today where people are hopping around from one channel to the next to the next and sorry about that one of my mics died okay so yeah so that's what art coat looks like using a mold yeah you can use a pressure pot stone coat does make a casting epoxy they actually have one called super cast and you can pour it pretty deep most casting resins recommend like an inch or less deep but with super cast you can go I think two and a half inches so yeah these are already changing so much even that has changed hi Jerry so that flowers definitely on the outside that one's on the inside I'm interested to see what these ones look like with the white very interested indeed but I'll be popping these bad boys out in the morning so tune in I don't know if I'm gonna do live or shorts but I think I think these flower inlays are gonna look really good I just have to come down to what colors you know so yeah either way I got all these flowers on Amazon for like 11 bucks and they're pretty good they're very very flat because they've been pressed and they're already dried out the molds I will link my Amazon shop for you guys if you click down in the description box under this video after the feed is complete I will link the flowers and the molds down there just click the Amazon storefront link and in terms of my shop I have the colors that I use today which were emerald city from resin art that's a dark green one the translucent green is meadow green from color obsession it's tint the sparkle in my transparent our shooting star or Milky Way from resin art the yellow is popcorn yellow tint from color obsession and then the opaque yellow that I used is lemon sherbet from just resin and the white is top-cell white from color passion yep alright you guys I hope you enjoy this video I know it wasn't that long make sure you click over to the next channel in our feed of the train artist train are we still calling it a train should I feel weird about calling it a train you we are gonna be able to see them they're gonna be great they're gonna be amazing and the next person on the train I think is tish it's art Wednesday okay so yeah the artist Haven is doing Art of Palooza at 7 o'clock so you have 30 minutes to get yourself a beverage and a snack and come on over and join us on the artist Haven's channel for Art of Palooza at 7 p.m. central which is 28 minutes from right meow channel collaboration love all those anyways you guys are amazing thank you for tuning in and seeing what I'm up to today if you haven't subscribed please do so leave me a comment down in the description box below this video and let me know if you prefer the color or the clear the hex or the triangle and tune in tomorrow where I'm going to de-mold these and probably have to do another sample and I'll be doing a video on this process as well all right you guys be kind of one another because you never know what someone's going through and always remember we do the tests so you don't have to and I'll show you my puppies my baby boy hi my baby blue eye he's sitting in front of his fan and his director's table because he's precious and perfect let's go wake up your sister JK let's just go find her okay always like you better don't wake her up if I stand real still maybe she won't notice hey Sherry she has stolen Bowie's fan she heard Jeff paying attention to Bowie so she may get up no can't be bothered all right you guys see you guys over for Art of Palooza bye