Hi everyone, glad to be back after these
long holidays,
today I'll be showing you how to make these
gorgeous druzy
stone napkin ring holders.
For this I've used the number 400
silicone mold from Art4start,
These are really quality platinum
silicone
and i love them, I have a few of these molds
and
for today i'm going to be showing you
how to use this particular mold.
These molds hold about 30 grams or
that's about one and a half ounces
in total of resin and i have just mixed
up some grey mica powder
from Arteza and i am now going to pour
just a little bit of clear
into the top of it just mix it around a
little bit to get rid of any
air pockets that might have been stuck
at the bottom of the mold
and then i'm just going to add some
white it's crystal white from Arteza
and I like to do it in layers
i like the bottom color to
be a little darker and the top a little
lighter, this just gives a little more
variation and makes it look more real
so then just add this white to the top
zap it a couple of times with a heat gun
to get rid of the surface air bubbles
and then let it dry overnight.
And now to the green i'm just adding
some
metallic olive green from jacquard but
you can use any
dark green that you like or any color
that you like in fact
and i always like to add a little bit
first make sure it's
deep enough in shade and if not you can
always add more because of course you
can't take away
once you've added it to the resin it's
there for good
and as you can see I wasn't happy with the
depth of color so i'm adding a nice
blob and then i'm going to
add it to my mold
but before i do that i'm going to take
some
mica powder and i absolutely love this
effect, you simply take a
paintbrush, a nice clean paint brush and you
dip it into the mica powder and then you tap
gently inside the mold
and brush the entire surface
of the silicone mold and it really does
give a beautiful two-tone effect
all of that green powder that i'm adding
to the bottom
once the resin is cured, it will all just
come off clean and you'll see
at the unmolding stage none of it will
be left on
and you can actually apply this
liberally
all the way around i'm just leaving the
sides there because i want it to be the
darker green that i've just made
just tap off the excess
and you can just see how gorgeous and
glittery it is with that mica on it
it really does make a really different
effect
and so now i'm adding the green so
you can add whichever color you're
making you
add it straight on the top and just
swish it around a bit i like to use the
heat gun there
it's actually my mini embossing
tool
i like to do that in layers so that all
the bubbles go because it's quite deep
these are 30 grams and they're quite
deep and i'm doing it all in one go so
if i use that heat gun at the top i
might not be able to get
the bubbles out from underneath. So this
is the next day, leave it overnight to
dry day and i'm
unmolding it and you can tell that as i
pop it out all of that green mica powder
has stuck onto the actual resin itself
and the mold is perfectly clean and reusable
straight away
and i just love love the way it came out
it's absolutely gorgeous
and for the next step i do recommend you
waiting
just one day not the 24 hours not the
full cure
um because we're going to drill and i
like to
use the smallest drill bit that i have
and i like to use a glove as well please
do use a glove to protect your hands
even though i haven't got a glove on the
right i do have a glove on the left
and that's important because that's um
that's the hand i may accidentally slip
and hurt myself with so then i've got
one of these eye screws and i'm just
making sure it's
deep inside and you want to make sure
you make a hole that's deep enough to
hold one of those eyelets
and i'm going to do the same procedure
on the other side so the opposite end of
that
stone and then i'll do the same for the
green
and we are going to be gluing these
afterwards with some super glue and it
really does hold it really well
i really do recommend a good quality
super glue you really don't want it
coming off
after all your hard work
so here it is i'm using some loctite
superglue it's the precision range
and you only need a little and do be
careful of your fingers
you don't want your fingers stuck onto
that glue because that there's nothing
worse than that
just a little bit inside of that hole
that you've drilled and then
you quickly but very carefully put in
the eyelet
and then you leave it you don't touch it
and try not to touch the sides just the
top of the eyelet
so you don't get any glue on your
fingers
make sure they're straight so that
they're the holes are facing
upwards
because once it's glued it's glued and
you cannot get it off
and the same for the black one i'm doing
exactly the same procedure just to show
you how to do it
just pop it in make sure it's level and
straight
and then the same for the other side
and there and then that's ready to go
for the next part
and this one's already dried you can see
me pulling it out
really really tight it's really um
secure
it's really great this glue i highly
recommend it
so i am using 10mm or you could
use 8mm in fact it's your
choice you can use whichever kind 
beads
size you prefer  i do like the bigger
beads and anyway i had them lying around
so i thought i'd use them
those are quartz ones that
i'm using they're semi-precious
and it really is nice to use
semi-precious if you can rather than
glass beads
or plastic beads, 
and i'm using some
elastic thread any elastic thread that
you prefer but i do like the 0.5 mm
because i'm going to be looping it
through twice of the beads to make it
really strong so 0.5 mm is
my recommendation
you don't need a lot of string and you
don't need a lot of stones for these
because they're napkin rings and
napkins are quite small they're not very
thick
so cut a piece to your size and double
it
and honestly it depends what what
size napkins you have so just measure it
it's you have to kind of go by eye so
you loop it through one of those eyelets
and then you do one knot and then a
double knot
and then you can start beading
i think i used a total of about 10 beads
if i'm not mistaken and those are 10 mm ones
i'm just gonna fast forward this bit i'm
sure you you know how to string beads...
...it's really a relaxing activity i've
actually made myself some bracelets too
just for fun just for myself, so there
you can see i'm kind of measuring it out
that looks right to me
and once you're finished you take
the opposite end of the elastic thread
and you thread it back through
and then what i'm going to do is i'm
going to thread it back through all the
way along
so back through that first or the last
bead and then until it meets the other
end
so until it meets the other string and
i'm going to also do the same thing
for the other side i'll be using the
last bit of string
that's left over on the other side to
string through until both of those
strings meet
here i am doing the same on the opposite
end so back through
i think i got about three beads on the
other side
before i met up with the other string
well four no three
and then you're going to just pull just
make sure it's all
quite tense the string so that all
the beads are nice and tight
and then you're going to do one knot and
then a double knot and a double knot to
finish always helps it
to to be much stronger i think it might
be called some sort of
sailor's knot i think, anyway
something like that
and then you knot them two or three
times but we will be gluing them again
with that
super glue just to ensure that the final
knot is nice and tight
and that it doesn't go anywhere and then
i'll be hiding it underneath one of the
the actual knot i'll be hiding
underneath one of the stones and that's
a little tip i can give you
so that you don't see the knot in
between two beads
so here i am doing a double knot so
that's one loop
and then back through the exact same
loop and then
really pull it make sure it's nice and
tight
and before i cut it off
i'm going to use some of this super glue
and i'm going to put just a little dot
not too much you don't want it actually
touching the bead itself you just want
it to be on the knot
a little blob on top of the knot and
then i'm finding the nearest bead and
i'm hiding it underneath
then very carefully snip off the rest
and let it dry
and there you go one napkin ring
so for the black one i've done the exact
same thing and i've used some hematite
and
some lava stones and one
or two i think it's one or two cracked
crystal quartz beads too
just at the end there you can see  on the top
right and this is optional but
it's nice to put a little bit of gilding
you know we're kind of used to putting
gilding now
on our coasters and on any plates that
we make
and trays etc and it's optional you
don't have to do it
but if you do i'm just using a pen since
um
since i'm not worried about it coming
off because you're not really going to
wash them at all
and here's the end result so i really
hope you've enjoyed the tutorial i
really hope you've been inspired
maybe you'll make your own and if you do
please do tag me on instagram
or facebook or even
pinterest or even youtube
and here's a little idea of how you can
present your napkins
just you can look on the internet if you
like for different ways of
folding napkins i'm sure that's a whole
nother tutorial i could do
but this is quite a simple way of
doing it and it does look kind of pretty
and i've used these on black napkins but
you can use them on white ones or any
other colors that you like in you
and it's actually quite nice for every
person at the dinner table to have a
different colored napkin ring and you
know it makes great gifts so if you're
having a dinner party you could always
put it on their plate with a name with a
name on it or underneath you could write
their name underneath
and then you can offer it to them at the
end of the meal so i really hope you've
enjoyed this tutorial
I will see you in my next one, take good
care of yourselves, bye!
