Guys, I'm here with Deb Wakefield with Debera's
Ditties. Can't
wait to show you what we came up with. So enjoy the video. Okay. So far, the colorants that we're going to use in this finish, we're going to use our alma light dyes, but we're going to mix them
with 91% alcohol in a bottle. Okay. And what that's going to do is allow us
to use them as we would use alcohol inks. And the reason that we don't use
alcohol inks when we're doing the epoxy countertops is alcohol
inks are not light fast, and they will fade over time. So we don't want to do this beautiful
creation and then have it all fade out. So the Aluma light dyes will not fade. So props to Claire Lawrence. She's the one that came up with a recipe for us and a video
that will be releasing here pretty quickly where we did some shower panels
using these. The video today,
we're going to kind of focus more in how to do the veins with these. But Deb makes these up for us,
and I'm going to let her explain. How she did it. Okay. So basically what we did is
we just use our alcohol and our dyes, and we did use Claire's recipe that she gave us for
some ones that we were testing yesterday. And so we put two drops of our illuminate dye room and. Light a light. Yeah. And the rest we filled up with alcohol. Now, if you want let's say
the blue is not quite dark enough, then you go ahead and add a little bit of whatever color we added black
to make it a little bit darker color. You can use whatever you choose. So that way
you're not putting too much in. Obviously, you don't want to put tons of it all at once, or else you're going to have
a really bad color. So basically and they're really cool thing about
this is it is just like using alcohol. And that's good for us. Yeah. Yeah. So that's. So it works really, really well
and not having to worry about the movie factor is absolutely huge. So basically, you want to obviously it's
going to be transparent. So we'll just put a little bit here over. So it still is the
the transparency of an alcohol. Yep. Exactly. Yeah. Cool. So what colors are
we going to be using in this video? So this one in particular,
I believe it was ocean blue brown mixed with black. So we put two drops of our Altima,
light brown and one drop of black. We ended up using more black. But that's what I mean. You just. You just kind of play. Slightly. Right. So what we'll do
in the description of this video is we will actually either link or actually maybe put the actual recipes,
not sure quite what we'll do, but we will definitely let you guys know
the exact recipe that we used. And in choosing your color is a kind of important thing
to turn out to us is just like alcohol. This is a little different. I mean, anytime we do anything with epoxy,
we have to know our colors, right, that things are going to blend
you know, and make a different color. Hmm. Blue and yellow is going to make green. Well, the same thing with the dyes,
but the way this is used on our epoxy, you're really going
to be more like alcohol. And your colors are really going to blast. Exactly. And more intense. Right. So you may makes up three colors,
but you're finished. They have six colors
because they've all touched. Which is really cool. So now when you mess. Yes. So see, now you're having your greens
come out. So basically what we want
you guys to understand is do sample boards because we have different colors
within all of these colors because they're touching and being that they are the alcohol ink, you will get some really cool
color changes like that. Orange kind of brought out a little bit
of a green because they hit a brown. So just play with them. You're going to love it.
So I can't wait to share the technique. What we're going to do to create
the background for our cool cells that we're going to show you
is we're going to do an exotic pour and we want the exotic poor
to not take over the whole piece. So the colors that we're using
are going to be very soft. So we're going to be using quite a bit of the whites
and then just have some accent colors and then we're going to try something
we've never done before. But at lunch today,
we decided we would try new techniques, so you guys will be able to see it first
we have no idea if it's going to work, but if it does, a game changer. Okay. So we mixed up 24 ounces of stone coat countertop epoxy and the reason we're doing 24 ounces is our board is a two by two. So that's going to give us
four square feet and we're going to use six ounces per square foot
because it is an exotic pour. We're going to be using more product
on the surface. That's why you will see
that we've taped our edges because we're going to capture
all of that material on the surface and kind of make it force it
to stay on top and allow it to start to gel up
a little bit before we pull our tape. Therefore, forcing the beautiful design
that we're going to do to stay and not run off So if you're doing an exotic pour,
you do want to make sure that you use between six and eight ounces of material
per square foot. All righty. In the poor, like I said,
we're going to have white to be kind of our predominant color or kind of our
I guess, our background color. So we're going to be using Pearl Shimmer,
which is a color, passion, color. We will carry these on our website. But until then, you can check out ArtistTillDeath.om. And they have all of these beautiful
colors that you guys need to check out. So this is our white aluma light dye. Then we're going to come in here
with a really fun color. It's the blue pearl
and it's an interface it's color, meaning
it looks like a very pretty purple color. But when you turn it and kind of
look at it at a different direction, it's going to actually give you
an appearance that it's got some blue shades to it so that you'll also hear
it called Ghost Metallic But this is the interference Blue Pearl. And we do have this available
also on the website. And so guys, all of these products
will be listed on my website. So all of our videos on YouTube,
as soon as we release them we put a link on our website
and it's under the tutorial link. And what you'll see is not only the video,
but you'll also see some still shots which really do kind of give
a little better explanation as well. So check that out. Our K-3 designs dot com Okay. So we're good there now. These two colors, we're going to actually mix up the gray and the dark tope using spray paint. So we're going to
these are going to be our accent color. So we're not going to use quite
as much as that of that of those colors. Probably that much, right? Yeah. And then I'm going to put the rest of hair
and the white. And we're putting the epoxy in first
because spray paint will eat a plastic. Cup. Exactly. And then inside of the Pearl Shimmer we're going to add some diamond dust
because we just love vinyl dust. You could add that diamond dust
to the Pearl Shimmer. That's so pretty. You can add it to the Blue Pearl. You could even add it
to the white opaque dye, knowing that
if you do it into the white opaque, you you won't see a lot of that diamond dust
except when the light hits it just right. You'll really it'll pick up
kind of a sparkle. I encourage anyone who has never been
to one of their classes to go. It was a highlight of my life,
and I think. We have a class in our classes. Okay, so we are ready. Before we get started, you'll notice
I had a little bit of the clear left in the bucket.
I just thumped it upside down. So what I'm going to do is grease
my board, which is basically going
to give me a very, very thin coat of epoxy so that when we pour all these
beautiful colors and we manipulate it, that epoxy is going to roll out
nice and easy and not have surface tension so and you don't have to do this
with clear. You can do it with just left over what we're going to have in our cups,
which you'll see as well. So that's a good thing. We need to tell them how we prep our base. So what colors did we use to do black? And then we fogged it with Navy blue, and
I put a little bit of aluminum in there. All right. So you ask yourself, self, why are they creating a dark background when they're going to be using light
colors? Because we did not have enough paint
on a project that we did. So we painted it black
then we poured a white dirty pour. And the undertones that came through
that dirty pour are absolutely stunning. So we decided we really like that. So we're going to do it again. So, yeah, it was a happy accident. So hopefully it will show through
on this video and you guys can see it. People
really understand their base color. Yes. So many of these finishes have a whole different look if you put a different base
color on there. All right. Here we go. Start with All right. Yep. All right. So on this particular exotic poor,
we're not even going to add spray paint between our layers,
which we do a lot. But we're not going to do it this time. We don't want a lot of those
selling effects. We want it to be kind of
a very quiet background. So are we ready? We're ready. Let's go. You can see that it's very scientific. The way we do this. We just blob it on. But some white. Sure, sure. I didn't think of a scientific well. Yeah. No, she put more thought, and you think, oh, we need to put
that interference in there, too. Oh, yeah. If you do bigger layers of color, you get larger. A larger, softer design
then if you do very small pores. If you just put a little tiny bit
at a time, your pattern will be a little tighter. Ooh, that looks pretty. Then if you put the big amounts of color. I wish they could see that.
I wish they could see that. Yeah, it is absolute. Some of the best part is
what's in the bucket. It looks so pretty. Now, if you'll notice, I'm
taking the cups, and I'm just turning them upside down
so that we get every bit of the material and we'll use that material to grease
the board as well. I'm not worried about the the colors on the board
because once we pour the dirty, pure colors on top,
you won't even be able to really tell. All right, I'll just take this All right? Make sure you have your edges. That's where you really want to make sure
that you grease well so that you don't get surface tension
and it flows really nicely. Okay, you're ready. Now, here comes the fun part. Now we are going to do
the colors we're using. Yes. So let's start with, like,
maybe you want to get two in your hand, and then I'll get one. Okay.
All right. So, like I said,
guys, we've never done this before. Remember, these are the alcohol or mixed with our ultimate
our ultimate topcoat, our. Eliminate. The light. Sorry. Basically, what we've done here
is we've made alcohol. Right?
We've we've made it yet our own alcohol. Right. Okay. You ready? Here.
You start off. Yeah. Which one I have? Oh, you have. I should say it round like round. Okay. All right. So what we're going to do is as we pour, we're going to drop some colors in. Oh, yeah. Yes, ma'am. All right,
so we still have a little bit on there. And say, yeah, let's not do too much. And you can see this is also very scientific. All right, let's torch this and heat it a little bit
because we have graced our board. I really don't have to manipulate this
and I guess tilt. But I'm going to
because I have that that ability, because we used six ounces per square foot
and a block. She likes to self level. This will eventually level out,
but we're going to help it out here. And sometimes if you have that surface
tension and it's not wanting to flow, you can heat it up
a little bit on that edge, just a little bit right in front of it, and it'll help it spread. Now, just so you know, to this lacing
is happening because we hit it with heat. So what I believe this is going to do
is it's going to give us a really light background. By the time you stretch it out,
it's going to give us this. Right. Kind of very soft. Yes. Now, like I said,
if you're doing this a pour in place, the epoxy will eventually level out. Now, if I were doing a pour in place
and I didn't have the ability to tilt, I probably actually would use eight ounces
per square foot as opposed to what we used here
as six ounces per square foot. Just it'll make it a lot easier. All right. So I'm going to turn it
so you guys can see a little bit better. Now, you don't have to use bright colors
like we did. You could use very muted colors. And then you would get a very,
very soft finish. And the thing about exotic paws,
you honestly never know what you're going to get. Yes. And so you don't
when you are doing a tilt, you don't want to tilt it so fast that you get what we call fingers in the epoxy where it starts to do drips. And you it
literally looks like little fingers. So when you tilt,
do you want to make sure that you tilt and have the epoxy roll slowly? And we've actually tilted
large countertops that we fabricated here in our shop. We may have to have several people,
but we've actually done it and it tilting create such a tool. I guess design almost You really can't recreate that
any other way. All right. So we're going to kind of fill that in. Now, you'll notice how our background,
our background is getting very, very soft. And that's what we're going for
is a very soft background. Remember how we said that that black's
going to kind of peekaboo through? Look how that background
is causing almost a shadowing effect. And I see
this is where I could play all day long. I could play So what a fun finish. So look how we got a design, and we
literally don't have to do anything else. This could be the coolest background
foreground. Actually,
you won't even have to do anything. This could be a finish all on its own. But we're going to go to the next step. Imagine that. Have fun. Wait a minute. I want to get this one
little piece over here. See, this is mine
not walking away, Rhonda. It's so Deb's fixing to go run a stop. Stop okay. Love it.
And let it do its thing. What? It's doing things okay? So this basically causes
a whole lot more translucence. If you see that there. See here. And as it keeps moving,
that's what it's going to do. It's going to give you all these colors,
but you can have the chances. Very translucent like here. And that's why the background color of the actual board is playing such a big part of this finish. All right. So imagine if you didn't want the oranges
and the blues. You could mix up whatever color you want with the Illumina like dye
and the alcohol and create whatever finish that you want. But how fun is this? And like I said, you've never done this. No, I've never done
putting the alcohol in the exotic pour and this is that we had no idea how this
was going to turn out, guys, actually. What I've learned, though,
is, I mean, look how light this is. Yeah. So let's say now seeing this,
we really love this, but maybe not have the darker color
in there to use this as a background. Absolutely. Because if you just did this now,
we could play with more colors. Mm hmm.
So that they'd be more vibrant on the top. Absolutely. That's what I'm seeing and I'm
learning from that is just really light, subtle background,
especially making our own alcohol. Now, you could play in here
and make it more vibrant. Heck, yeah. Think about. Heck yeah.
So what do you think? You think we ought to go
and just try to play and add some bars? Let's try. Let me know. In the comments below. Would you stop here
or do you want to see them? And I go another step further, which you're going to see anyway,
is that if you enjoyed that part. All right, well, then let's do it. I'm going to tap this and get a little bit
more material in this corner, and then we are going to have some fun. Okay. So I'm going to come in
with the banks that we made, and this is blue. We're going to start off with that. And then I have a brown
and then I'm black. Brown Guys, I'm
fixing to blow y'all's brain. This is so much fun.
All right, you ready? Yep. All right. So I'm literally going to come in here
and just put colors down. And I'm going to take we cut a window
spreader in half our quarters, actually. And we're going to use this to spread. And we're just using a really light hand
And I'm not pushing down. I'm just kind of spreading it out. And this is just to your liking. Whatever you decide,
if you really like that, look, if you want to blend it
more because it's just like alcohol. What is alcohol now? And so you're going
to get another color in here. I want to add something else. Yeah, that's like. Well, right. I really don't want to do too much
with that. Yeah. So let's do let's do a few drops
and then we'll do a little run around you. And then I'll do a couple of drops here. And then let me add just one little dark. Okay. Right there, we'll add a dart. That's enough. That's enough dark. So, guys, this is a way to really create some very unusual and organic veins. And the cool thing about it is you can use
any color that you want to do this. If I really want to soften that out more,
then I will incorporate the the white underneath of it. But right now, we just kind of want to see
what it's going to look like. What is we're just. Playing
just don't really want to leave big dots. Oh, look at that. Oh, I love that. That is so pretty. All right. So I'm going to do this. So on this corner right here,
like I said, guys, we're just playing add just a couple of the dart drops
every so often, and then I'm going to add
more of the blue. Now, see the difference? I'm just doing drops. So by doing the drops as she blends
them, it's not you're not going to get these heavy colors. And that's the that's just fun things that we learned
when we were playing with this. Yeah. And if we go if you want the heavy colors,
just don't blend them in, really. Right. Exactly. And this are what I'm going to try to do
is I'm just going to do the same as we've done up here,
just so our colors will blend. But I'm going to try to make it
where it goes around. So we can kind of have a vein,
a purpose for a purpose for our block. There we go. And we don't have to worry about that. It'll it'll all blend out. This is still obviously real new epoxy. So all this is really going to blend. So you just keep going back
until it's the way you want it. Oh, I love that right
there. That's so pretty. All right. Go on over, blend. Exactly. And if you want a boulder, we can put it. Matter of fact,
I really think this looks cool. So if you want to put a little bit more
bold. There, you want a blue one,
you want a blue or. A dart, we'll put a little of both,
maybe blue and some black. Okay. Here, some brown. Kind of a little heavier
like you did not yeah, like that. And then some brown, too. Okay. Then that'll match the. Okay. And I won't do too much
as far as blending it. Oh, look at that. Oh, yeah. See, I like to try to keep
the separation still. And then as it moves out,
I'll get more trans. Yeah. Awesome. Oh, yes. Yeah. All right. And, you know,
we haven't even used the orange. We could come in
and put a drop of orange in here. I mean, this is so many things you can do. So last night, we did a pour on some shower panels, so we did use the alcohol
to create some really cool veins. But we the thing that we did different
this time is we had never put the alcohol
as we were pouring in the exotic pour. So that's the part that was new to us. We did play with these veins last night,
and that shower video will be coming out in a week or two All right. Can't walk away right now. I know you can't walk away. I learned this from her. I didn't have this problem before. Whatever whatever. Oh, yes. Look at that. So, guys, I could see doing this. We were just talking about doing it
just in black and white. How cool that would be,
really, to do that. Look at those veins. There's no other way to create that. We found such an organic grade. I know. I sure am a little harder from the side. There Lots of fun. Yeah. What I normally don't like is
I don't like it where it looks like I purposely drag it across the epoxy,
but with it being still fluid. Right That should blend out, right? Matter of fact. This is blending.
It's already starting to soften. Yes. So look how soft this is getting now. So pretty. Because remember, we still have
we have a lot of product on this surface. So this is going to move But the neat thing about the alcohols
we discovered is they don't move as much as we thought. Like if we were to run
spray paint across this, it seems to move a lot more than what these inks are moving. Like All right. Oh, get that blue in there. That's pretty. All right. That kind of brings out. Yeah.
Other oh, my. Oh, yeah. That's that's gorgeous. All right. So see, guys, how much fun this is? Oh, my gosh. I can have so much fun. And we didn't put the orange in here because we already
had it in the background. And then that kind of leaves
that as a nice, subtle background. Exactly. Keep playing. Oh, my gosh. You could go nuts with this. Now let's show them
just for the sake of showing them what would happen if we spritzed
a little bit of alcohol on it. So let's take. Which corner do you want to take?
You want to do the big one? What do you. Want? Well,
the probably show them the best. Okay. So now we're going to take 91% isopropyl
alcohol. Now, you may want to wait about 20 or 30 minutes before you do this so that you're a poxy starting to set up
just a bit and it'll, it'll get a,
your effect will last a little bit longer, but we're going to go ahead and do it
right now and just kind of see what we get That's fun. I'm going to get just a couple of. Them, especially for people
who are always looking for cells there. Yes. There
you go. Now you got a really fun. Now I'm not going to touch the other ones. We're going to leave these. Even though I dropped a couple of them. But now that's a fun finishes well, look at this. I love that. Hmm. And even in your background,
look how it created these cells. In your soft background. That's neat.
Which is what's cool about this, huh? If you if you decide
you really like this part, do this first. Exactly. And then you can play with your. And the nice thing about the alcohol
things that we're doing. You can actually wait until this is totally cured and play
with your alcohol on the next day. Right.
If that's what you're looking for, Right. So it's really versatile
as far as what you can do with it. All right, so she made a huge point right
there. Let's say we love the background
but we were a little skeptical whether or not we were going to go forward
with the veining. You could let this cure overnight. So now it'll be dry. It'll be very slick. Now you can come in straight on top of the cured epoxy. You can come straight on
with your alcohol. Now, you can manipulate that
with a heat gun or tilting and actually do add a alcohol painting over the top of this. And it would be stunning then. Now, this is what's cool
about not using true alcohol inks, but using these dyes is now
we don't have to worry about that fading. So what we would do is you're going to have to seal it, though, if you go directly over your
your cured epoxy and then you come over the top
with your dyes in your alcohol, you're going to need to seal that
before you pour epoxy because that wet epoxy
will reactivate the alcohol. So what you could do is come over
with a clear matte spray paint or an archival paint, which is by lawn,
which actually has UV protection in it. You could do that,
let that dry, then come over with another clear coat
and it would be amazing. So another reason for doing that is, well,
alcohol which is what we made ourselves. We'll change color with epoxy
when you put your epoxy on top of it if you don't seal it. Yeah, I'm not really sure that these particular dyes will do that,
but I know that that can happen. But we still need to make sure
so we don't get it to reactivate. Yeah, because it's really heartbreaking
when you don't and then you get your colors
totally end up changing. Yeah. Right. If you know green did brown or brown
too green or whatever. Yeah. So you definitely want to do that. Okay. So that looks really cool. I want to show you really quickly
the veining that we did yesterday. I mean, give
you guys a sneak peek on the shower. So we'll be right back. Okay. So this is a shower that we all worked
on last night. This is one of the panels
using the same technique of dragging through the alcohol with the dye in it. And you can see that you can create
some of the most unusual veins on top of an exotic pore,
which is what we did here. Like I said, this video
will be coming out in a few weeks. All right.
So we're having way too much fun here. And even though this could be
a finish on its own and we've already gone one more step,
we're going to go another another step. So that's what happens when you have an artist like that
come joining you All right. So we're going to try to take some of these colors
and separate them with clear alcohol. So here we go. So let's just say, like I said,
we don't know if this is going to work on the epoxy, but or this blue is here
and it's already transparent. We can see it. But what I want to do is kind of open
that up just to see if it'll do it. You can see how it's already going in
here. Look at that. That's really cool. So let's just see what it's going to do. So that's clear. Plain. 91% isopropyl alcohol. We're using a. Just a little pipette pipette.
I think. Yeah. Let's just see what it does. So it is kind of opening it it up. Yeah. Which is what alcohols
do on a hard surface. So I would assume
that would just keep doing that. And then you could keep adding colors. But what it's going to do, it's going to push the color out
so your edges are really dark. That looks cool. Yeah, like that. Put some in the dark area
and see what it does. What I'm trying to do
is try not to get dots. I want to kind of run it. Right. There you go. Oh, yeah. Wow. Okay. I like that because now you're it's
opening up to that color from underneath it and even it's probably bringing out
the individual colors as well. And you can just keep playing with that. You can manipulate it
just. Here, mate. Nope. That's yours. I mean, so it doesn't look like a circle,
even though I think if you left that there long enough, right? You could tilt it or do whatever. Yeah, but if you don't like that,
which I don't, I don't like the way. See, that looks like a earthworm
or something. And yeah, you can still just kind of play
with it, manipulate it. Oh, wow. So that opens it up
and you can keep adding color if you. If you wanted to. Yeah. Wow. You saw it here first, guys. Fun, fun, fun, fun. Fun. All righty. You keep playing and playing and playing. So I guess what
we're basically trying to tell you is have fun, be creative,
and let the creativity just flow. The alcohol things are going to stay on
top of the epoxy. They're not going to sink down. So you have quite a while, especially in
an exotic pore, to play with these. I mean, we can even come in here
if we wanted to still because it's still very fluid. Let me see what happens if I move it. We could come in here or. Yeah,
we could come over here, though, and cause still some really fun reactions in here. How fun. Okay, so we're going to quit
because this will be a 12 hour video so let me know what you think,
guys, in the comments below. Let me know what colors
you would like to do maybe what kind of background
you would like to do and send me pictures. I love to get pictures of you guys when
you do some really cool creative work. All right. So don't forget to visit our website,
our three designs dot com for all of these products except for the couple of products
that we got from artists till death. And we will link
those in the description below. So thank you so much. I've had so much fun with you. Check out Deb's website, our Facebook. So why don't you give them. All deities artistic stone. Yeah, she's got amazing, amazing stuff. So anyway, guys,
until next time you remember what to do. Remember? Don't be scared. No, she doesn't remember. Move forward and be creative. Thanks, guys. See you next week by.
