Silicone Druzy Mold Making Using Epsom Salts - Casting Home Grown Crystals - Part 1
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- Hello again! I hope you’ve had a great week.
I’m very excited about sharing today’s video. It’s possibly my favourite thing I’ve ever learnt to make! #Druzy molds for #resin using #epsom salts! I was seeing all these beautiful druzy #molds all over instagram and no where about how to actually make them. I really didn’t want to have to buy one either because I get such a sense of joy from being able to make my own one-of-a-kind things that I feel sometimes gets lost when you buy new. It costs more initially for the outlay of new products but for the number of original molds that you can make yourself, you make your money back and more!
Anyway, I found out how to make them eventually and so of course I wanted to share this with you too. I adapted the process slightly that I learnt from Petra Jongbloed (if you don’t already follow her, do it! She’s wonderful!).
This is a fairly lengthy process so just try to accept it and really take your time. You won’t get as nice a finish if you rush things. I didn’t even realise that I hadn’t given my druzys enough time to dry before adding the #silicone rubber but looking back I think it’s because my medium size mold was particularly thick. It really needed another day to dry. It also took me a few attempts before I got the results I wanted so don’t be too surprised if you find yourself in a similar situation.
On to the products I used in this video:
Silicone molds:
1. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
2. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08...
3. (I cut the bottom off a silicone jug) www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Epsom salts - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Pourable silicone rubber - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
Glue spray - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
Mod Podge - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
Mixing container options (I use all of these):
1 - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
2 - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
3 - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08...
Silicone spatula - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Clear coat spray - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
As always, I welcome any questions or comments below. I hope you give this a go, I’m sure you’ll thoroughly enjoy doing it and enjoy the results even more!
Take care and happy crafting! X - Jak na to + styl
Thank you so much for sharing! Finally a video I understand
You're so welcome. Thank you for your feedback ☺️
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing
You're welcome, thank you for your comment ☺️ ❤️
Fantastic
Glad you like it ❤️
Thanks for sharing! This has been the best I’ve seen so far🙏🏼
Aw thank you so much x
Thank you for sharing your wonderful ideas 🤙❤️🌹
You are most welcome ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for making this video. Yours is the very best.
Aw that's lovely, thank you! X
Brillant, thank you
Thank you, Dawn ☺️
Thank you for sharing ❤
You’re very welcome ☺️
Thank you that looks like fun. I enjoyed watching. Inspiring....💙🎨💙
I'm so pleased you're inspired! 😍 thank you for your comment x
Love it❤
Thank you ❤️
Love the video, proud of you sis ❤
Aw 🥹 Thank you ❤️
Oh wow, I knew there had to be an easier way than most of what I’ve seen. Thank you for sharing and I’m a new subscriber due to this video as a suggestion 🥳
Aw thank you so much for your lovely message! So happy to have you on board ☺️❤️
GREAT IDEA 😊 Thanks for sharing
You’re welcome, Karen ❤️
Very nice tutorial
Thank you!!
You're welcome ☺️
Thanks for sharing
You're welcome ☺️
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Would PVA glue work the same as mod podge? I want to grow crystals with my granddaughter and Im completely new to this so any advice would be welcome although you pretty much nailed it with your tutorial.
Hi Trisha, yes absolutely 👍🏻 ☺️
Love these molds, so clever!! I'm new to this, could you tell me if you let the solution cool down before pouring?
Thank you Tracey ☺️
No, you want to pour the solution as soon as the salt has dissolved and let it cool down in the mold. The cooling down part along with good sunlight, I find, is the best way to grow the crystals. I'm not really sure why and there may be a better way but this always seems to work for me ☺️👍🏻
This is so beautiful. Is Mod podge water resistant
Hi! It is. There are lots of different types so I don't know if their water resistantness(!) changes with each one, the one I used in the video always works great for me. Just let it dry out fully! X
Love this tutorial! Thank you for sharing. Is there a way to make the silicone mold forpouring resin into...vs making an insert?
You're welcome 😃
Oh if I could figure it out I'd tell you 😂 I just can't seem to think of a way to make a druzy/gem cluster mold for pouring resin into that's all diy. The only thing I can think of that's a little less diy-from-scratch is finding a gem you like the look of and casting that, or, buying little crystals (or making little resin Crystals from individual crystal molds) and sticking a load of those together to create your own gem cluster and then casting that 🤷🏼♀️ what do you think? X
@@hscraftytutorials Thank you- I cant think of a way either. I made a mold last week & it was so hard for me to figure out the right way to cast it so it would face the way I wanted it to & I still did it wrong- lol
@@smilinn4awhile it's a tricky ol' game 😂 I hope you get there with it and I'll definitely post a video if I figure something out! X
Love this, thank you, I'm little confused, with Petra said 50gms alum salts X 200 ml water. I tryed, was a desaster lol, Im trying yours, so is it equal parts water with epsom salts? Thank you in advance 🙏
Hi, thank you ☺️ yes it's equal parts epsom salts to water, however once that dissolves, add more salt if you can. Stop adding salt when you notice that it isn't dissolving anymore, a 1:1 ratio is just a good starting point. Hope that's clearer ☺️
Hi Hanna! I love the simple to make these druzy molds! 👏👏👏❤️ Question, can I put two layer of water ínstead of one, to make the crystals bigger?? Thank you for your awesome tip! 🙏🤗👩🎨🖼❤️❤️❤️
Hi Paulina, you're so welcome ☺️ and yes, you can do multiple layers. I think I even tried it myself but there wasn't a significant difference so I didn't think it was worth adding into the tutorial but they do grow slightly. They might grow better in really good sunlight, I only really got sunlight in the 2nd half of the day. Best of luck ☺️👍🏻
@@hscraftytutorials Thank you soooo much Hanna! You’re great! 👏👏❤️👩🎨🤩
@@pkotesky no problem at all 🥰
Have you tried just moulding the glued down Epsom salts?
No, have you? I didn't think it would be as shiny but it might still look quite interesting 🤷🏼♀️
Hi, I’m wondering why do you do the water mixture ? I’m a little confused because you already have the salt there being held on with the glue. Please let me know what the purpose of the boiled water is? Thanks for sharing.
Hi Maria. So as I understand it, the main contributor to the forming of the crystals is the salty water mixture. The salt on the inside of the mold is just there to help the developing crystals latch on to something to make it easier for them to grow. Hope that clears things up ☺️
Hi when you say put it in sunlight is that on hot day like summer, i live in uk and we don't get a lot of sunshine 😅
Haha so do I! I lived in the US at the time that I made this tutorial but now that I live back in the UK, I believe it would still work. It’s not the heat that’s needed, just some sunlight. Ideally, yes, lovely bright sun but we take what we can get 🤣
When you pour resin and use the mold as an insert and it leaves an open space in your resin piece. Do you fill that or leave open just trying to get an understanding of all the uses of the druzy mold.
Hi Beth. I leave the crystally part open/exposed. I understand that if you were to fill this in with resin, the crystal texture would disappear. The resin bonds together to become one solid piece and all definition would be lost. This may be different if you used 2 different colours. The join between the first piece of resin and the newly poured piece should then be visible but I haven't tried this so I couldn't say for sure ☺️
The result product is stunning ❤️
I have 2 doubts...
1) Can't our edible salt crystallize ?
2) Can't we use the silicon molds after making Druzy molds, do they get damage ?
Hi Harshith, great questions!
The salt does crystalize but after about a week and a half so plenty of time to make lots of molds ☺️
The molds do get a little messy at first when cleaning but they do come up clean with some perseverance. I've only fully cleaned a couple so far because for me, I now specifically dedicate a handful of molds to druzy making. Because of this it wasn't too important whether they cleaned up fully when starting again which saved me lots of cleaning time.
If you're worried about damaging your molds though, I would suggest dedicating just one or 2 molds to druzy work 👍🏻 hope that helps ☺️
@@hscraftytutorials Thanks a ton for answering, so sweet :)
@@harshithramkumar2027 Any time!! ☺️
i don't have epsom salt available... Can i use Alum or table salt?
Alum does have a triangular bonding and chunks might be a bit bigger. Any solutions?
@@LA-no3yj Hi! I'm not sure about table salt, but you absolutely can use alum salts. I haven't tried it myself but from what I saw whilst trying to figure the process out, the steps are exactly the same and both methods provide very similar results. I only used epsom salts as I thought more people would have those to hand ☺️
Hi! I have question. Can i use any plastic container to make crystal? Or it have to be silicone?
Hello! Yes, I believe you can use plastic containers too. I have only ever used silicone myself, but as long as you are creating that salty waterproof base then the crystals should form ☺️👍🏻
What is the little white circle?
Hi, do you mean the smallest container that I used to make the smallest mold? It was the bottom of an old silicone mixing cup. After a long time my silicone mixing cups can get a little natty so instead of throwing it away I just cut out the bottom. It was the perfect size for those little insert druzies for coasters 👍🏻
Hi, I'm late to the game of druzy moulds. I've wanted to make my own for well over a year but never had the guts 🤣😂 a quick question, your clear coating spray" is that a silocine release spray or have i misunderstood this 🙂
Hi there ☺️ it's never too late to get started! The clear spray is to help solidify the crystals so that when the silicone hardens and is peeled off, the crystals should hopefully stay put and not crumble. I think if you wanted to use mold release you would use this on top of the clear spray layers (I've never used mold release though, that's just my guess). I hope that helps ☺️ x
@Hannah Somerville's Crafty Tutorials thank you, so much x
do you, by any chance, have a link to the spray as I'm not sure which one it is (so many to choose from😂
@@ResinHut no problem at all! Yes I do, I've linked it in the description. Let me know how you get on ☺️👍🏻
Can we use any Epson salt????
Hi there ☺️ As far as I know you can! I'm sorry if this turns out to be untrue, I couldn't be certain. I have only tried the plain ones shown in my video but I didn't come across any info to the contrary during my research into epsom salt druzies ❤️
I brought hunks of salt crystals from the Dead Sea in Israel. I wonder if I could use them to make molds?
Oh wow! I honestly couldn’t say but if you’re not worried about wasting/running out of your salts, it could be worth a fun experiment 😃
What do you mean by turning them 180 degrees? Now it is winter and i am in Chicago means no sun so what shall I do instead?
It just means turning them around so that the opposite sides are now in the sun for an even exposure. Crystals still grow without sunlight but I've just found that they get a bit bigger and chunkier with sunlight so you should still be able to grow them without ☺️
@bushbosh 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
wow! So much cheaper than ordering crystals lol
Absolutely! I’m a thrifty gal at heart and saving the pennies is so satisfying 😋
Why do we do mod podge step??
Hi there! The mod podge step is so that we can get the salt to stick to the mold. The glue needs to be waterproof so that when the solution is added, it doesn’t break down ☺️
My first attempt failed
The salt was very weak and I think the last step of placing water was where it went wrong
I’m sorry it didn’t work. It can be a little fiddly. Just make sure the salt has dried out thoroughly and spraying it with sealant definitely helps with strengthening x
@@hscraftytutorials definitely will give it another shot
Thanks for your feedback
It definitely makes sense
can we make The solution with borax
Yes, borax works, I have a video on my channel about making borax crystals ☺️
What about the fact the sun is only out for so many hours? 😂 how do I get around that?
Pray 🙏🏻😂
@@hscraftytutorials lmaooooo!! Can I use any kind of adhesive spray? I have this 3M adhesive (it’s quite strong) and want to be sure before I try lol
@@Terraann85 😋
I think the main thing is it needs to be waterproof so that when the water sits in it for hours it doesn't ruin the hold or make the water all....gluey ☺️
can you use spray gorilla glue? :)
Hi Sherry. So instead of the spray glue I used? Yes, that should work for getting the salt to stick to the mold, but I don't know how easy it would be to clean the mold later on...😬
*Disclaimer - Hannah will not be held responsible for the injury and/or death of any molds* 😂
@@hscraftytutorials Thank you so much for the quick reply. I'll let you know how it goes. :)
Good luck 👍🏻❤️