 What's up y'all. I am working off of my phone again. Diane has my laptop that we usually stream from. I'm also going to use some of the keelty colors and Copic and Ranger and all that stuff to make sure that it's compatible. This is how this is going so far and basically I have to keep pushing down all of the little petals so that they can stay covered you know and every time I did that they would like disintegrate except for the Mod Podge and the DecoArt. DecoArt is the front runner right now. The resin is crystal clear. It's beautiful. All of the glitters sink. See that's interesting. It's still very movable, malleable, so I'm still pushing down the petals every half and I did order sealant for flowers. I'm going to test along with hairspray and a UV archival spray so we'll see. I will absolutely find out how these keelty works by the end of this. Good morning everybody. Good morning Michelle, thank you for joining the channel. I appreciate it, but yeah, oh hi Boi. What are you doing? Everybody wants to say hi. So we'll see how those turn out. So, onward with the test. This is a wood slice that Laura Taylor sent me. They come like this. They're just raw wooden slices. I noticed that they're pretty smooth. So I wanted to test out polygons on this as well. I wanted to see if I could make a geode on there. I haven't sealed it back in, but the front I sealed with polycrylic. Spray it with spray gesso and then sanded it down with something, a 400 same. I'm putting a little bit of alcohol in here. This is 91% isopropyl alcohol. I'm sorry you guys can't really hear me. I'm going to try to speak up for you guys. I am on my phone and for some reason it doesn't pick up that well, so we'll see. I'm trying my best. Let's get this party started in a minute because I'm unprepared. Happy Tuesday. I hope everyone's having a brilliant day. It's been quite a day here. Trying to get my house back on track from all of the things going on. Classes, Australia, etc. I've never done an alcohol ink geode. I've always just done free imagery with alcohol inks. We're going to find out how this works together. You're in it with me. I hope you enjoy the ride. I'll try not to scare you, but here we go. I just put a little bit of alcohol down first. I'm going to use a paint brush a lot more than I regularly would with this one just because I need to get that. I need to be able to move resin in a particular direction. The wood may still be a little bit... Is that the word I'm looking for? Because I think it'll just give it extra character. I haven't done a geode in a while, but to me the best looking geodes aren't perfect. They have flaws and they move in different ways. If you have something that's perfect, then to me it doesn't look natural because in nature nothing's really perfect. I think perfection comes from imperfection. I don't even know if that makes sense. In my head that makes 100% sense. This says don't shake it, by the way. Does it come with a brush? The directions say place down your first color as a filer installation evenly with finger or brush. Let it dry completely then apply second color. Because I am a super diggin what I have so far, I'm going to go ahead and try to seal this in just roughly. It doesn't have to be perfect as I just talked about. So this stuff has zero smell. It's kind of thicker, it's not as thick as like with glue, but it is on the thicker side. I'm trying to think of what it reminds me of. It's not coming to me yet though. Now I'm pretty late to the game with this keelty. We were going to send me some stuff to review for you guys, but I'm not sure what happened. I just never got the kit for you guys. This stuff came from Judy. She let me borrow her toys to show you guys what this stuff's all about. I'm not really into anal with how neat this masking is. I feel like the thinner it is, the quicker it will set up, and I don't think that it matters in terms of like, it may not work as well if you don't put it together. So while that's drying, I'm going to go on to the next section. The clear stuff is the keelty masking or layering solution. It's quite keelty. I think they're in Ireland, but it is a masking fluid. This is just the alcohol. I'm just shaping the alcohol. It does have some paint on it still from when I did this layer, which is fine. So now I'm going to use, I have no idea how to pronounce that, but this is by keelty. It looks like this, but I don't know if I'm reading that right. This definitely is a pretty color. It means it doesn't take much, you know? I'm drying the outside first so I can get a harder edge line. I don't even know if that's an official term, but in my head it sounds official, so we're going to go with it. It's still tacky. But apparently I applied some layers thicker than others, so I'm just trying to even that out. I don't think that matters at all. That's just me. Hey y'all, hey y'all, hey y'all. Now I'm going to do a slightly different darker color. This one is turquoise by ranger. Oh, I guess I should mask in for this. I was hoping it would have some kind of a smell so I can narrow down like what's in it that makes it work, but unfortunately it has zero smell. It does dry really quickly though, so that's something. Well, maybe not because I am using a lot of heat. So in this one, I'm going to not really mask off all of it so that I can hit the rest of it with some alcohol and see what it does. If it all adjusts, none of it adjusts, some of it adjusts. I'm going to do a bigger piece. I need this masking fluid, this amount that comes in this jar. I don't know if this is the biggest jar they do, but I don't know if that would put it. Hopefully they sell it in a bigger, uh-uh, Boeing. No, no, no, no, no. That's enough. Moose? Don't. Only when I'm live do they want to talk about it. Fill the whole thing, even though this egg shape isn't really geody. Not geody, but I'm going to just work this all the way around and make it a full one. You know? Oh, I know, Trudy. Oh, Sonia, that would be awesome. It is a masking fluid. It's by Keelty. I don't know if I'm even saying that right. I'm just brushing on some alcohol to, I guess, shape out my next layer. Easy to control the alcohol when it's just coming out of that squeeze bottle. Mermaid. What's the next color? This is mermaid. I'm just going to activate that ink with a paintbrush. I don't really do that many brushed alcohol ink pieces. A little bit too structured for my skill level. That gives me more room to make them flow a little bit. This is the first time I've used Keelty, but I have to say so far it's pretty fun to work with. So I think I'm going to do also gold on this and maybe some black. I have my gold from Ranger, which apparently you have to super shake up. This one's almost dry. This one is basically dry. I'm interested to see how this masking solution works under resin. Like, is it going to mess with how the resin works? It's more fluid, so I can manipulate the color a little bit. It was just a little too solid for a second there as I move up the piece. Hey JJ! I'm going to go ahead and mask off this one and I realized that I don't have to use quite as much as I was. Which is awesome because anytime you can save any product which will ultimately save you dollars, it's a great day. For the record, Keelty did not send me these products. I'm getting paid to talk about these products. I'd like to tell you guys that it's awesome and works. If I can do the experiments, you don't have to. That's what I'm all about. I'm just kind of masking off those little dips and curves that Geo tends to have. Since I have extra no. Bowie? It's okay, it's just my job. Fards flowing pretty easily over this prepped wood surface. I'm pleasantly surprised and excited about that. Great channel, by the way. If you haven't checked her out, you do. She knows all the things about bowies. As soon as Jen gets her channel going, that'd be awesome too. Alright, so here we are. This is dry. I shouldn't be nervous, but I'm nervous. Okay, we're just going to do it, right? Let's see what we go for. Looks like it's shifting at all. Yes, Ms. Clara, this is Keelty Inks Masking Fluid 4 Alcohol Inks. This one's still a little bit tacky. I guess I could hit it with this. Masking solution, the longer it's going to take to dry. So that's why I keep running my hand over the piece and smoothing out any thick areas. I'm going to do a black ink on the inside of this. If not, we'll just cover it with no stress. This is, nope, I have no idea. Hey Petra, it's this color. So the gold, I don't know if you guys have ever used gold before, but it really doesn't like to move once it's where it's at. So even if it comes off a little bit, I'm cool with it because the color I'm working with is going to be darker than that anyway. So don't really care if any of the gold's picked up. So I'm not going to waste any of the masking solution. It's probably too much, but yellow. I don't think it is a US product. I'm pretty sure he's from Ireland, something like that. Whoever ultimately buys this piece is going to get a bowie hair because I keep getting it out of my spot. For the first time I tried alcohol, it looked so easy with whoever it was that I was watching. I totally got that and not even concerned. I should have been very concerned. I guess the point of me telling you that is there's never a medium that you try and just doesn't really work out for you. You just keep trying it. It's the worst that can happen. Nothing. Be careful though because if you're doing this on wood, you can still scorch your wood. It's not a good look. You get a good look under a geode. Just don't risk it though. I wouldn't risk it. It's very dark, but I do have actual black bicopic. So I'm going to just add on to that. Sorry y'all. How do people call me when they know that I'm filming? If they don't know that I'm filming, then I don't need to talk to them. I hope you guys are back. You guys can't see anything? Alright, hold on. Let me figure out what's going on. Anyone?