DIY Faux Labradorite 

Does anyone else think yavonne is adorable? One of my favorite people to watch : ) Von... everything you create is professional and beautiful, your personality is sweet, humble, quirky, funny, and soothing!.uh......? And even tho I mainly watch for the wire wrapping or metal working/jewlery side of things.... I also watch because....its just....fun to watch YOU. (Hope that doesnt sound too creepy its not meant to be....^^;;) Anyhoo.....Thank u!

Your labradorite slab and sphere are beautiful and reflect how lovely and representative these faux cabs are.Just beautiful!

Thanks a million Yvonne, I love labradorite too. Am just starting to learn the complexities of polymer so your tutorials are of great help. Love gemstones too and use them as my focals and polymer will help me to add variety to what I make. You are a wonderful artist and an inspiration to us newbies! Big hug...such marvelous things come out of the earth, love it all.

What!!?? Stone enthusiast here. Your handicraft is wholly impressive. Shocking 🤩♥️👍

Labradorite is one of my favorite stones, I just love the shifting colors and sheen when you move the stone. This is a great tutorial! Thanks again for sharing your genius with me.

The colors are beautiful! I've come far in a short time thanks to you and others who have uploaded their tutorials. I think crafting and wire wrapped jewelry will be a big part of my new life. Thanks for sharing! 💜

You are correct! Laboradorite, moonstone, amazonite, and sunstone are feldspars! The color differences are due to different mineral impurities. The flash is due to tiny cleavage planes in the structure that cause light diffraction. Aventurine is a quartz, but has a similar but more speckled flash for the same reason. Thanks for the tutorial!!!!

Great to know! I really like this idea! I’m just getting started in wire beading and you just make me so excited when I watch your videos!

I LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! this I had been trying to make something like this with just the color shift paint or with alcohol ink and foil. I don't have the lumiere paints but I will be getting some. thank you for sharing your gifts with everyone.

Howdy Yvonne! I’m new to your videos and I’m a “newbie clayer” so I learn soooooo much from your marvelous teaching!!! I just wanna say that not only are you amazing as an artist, but you are truly beautiful.... inside and out! Thank you so much for teaching me and all your “true” fans so many wonderful things.

You are amazing! My jaw is literally to the floor!

Labrodorite is my favorite stone. This tutorial is amazing.

I love your work...which I'm sure most of the time feels like play. At least that's how it seems to me when I watch your awesome vids. Love your soft voice as well. Makes it so relaxing. Thank you.

Really enjoyed this tutorial and I am going to try this very soon! Thanks for all your great tutorials! You are such a good teacher cause you connect with your viewers!

love how you explain everything so clearly, also love how you share your talent on everything you do

Very nice! Most realistic faux lab I've ever seen.

Oh gawd Yvonne, those stones are so pretty.

So pretty! I love different stones and to see how it can replicated artificially is very fascinating. I like your tutorials a lot, they're always so interesting.

Awesome job!! Your stones look just as good as real ones. I love gemstones myself, and I make the druzy necklaces myself. Beautiful!😄

Thank you for your tutorials! Love watching and and trying out your suggestions!!!

I have a penchant for Labradorite in any form and like you and your husband, my wife Judy & I are really taken with this wondrous stone. I have watched almost all of the tutorials on making Labradorite and by far yours is far exceeding any out there and looks the most natural in appearance. I shall take your advice and most likely use the glass cabs to cover instead of the UV Resin unless I find there is a non-yellowing UV Resin out there somewhere. Thank you, Yvonne, you're the best presenter out there.

I recently ordered some labradorite to use in some jewelry pieces. It is so pretty! Geology Rocks!!!

They really looks good!! Love them!

These are amazing. Very interesting, creative, and beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful! You make it look so easy! I love them!

Yvonne I am so glad I found you !! One of your jewelry tutorials helped me a great deal after trying so many times....this labradorite tutorial rocks girl---Jessie

I came here to check on the authenticity of labradorite, even though this wasn't the case you have an extremely calming/soothing voice. I enjoyed hearing it in the background :)

Very pretty!! Love the color blend.

I've just discovered labradorite and your faux stones are beautiful

Hi Yvonne. I didn't know you could bake acrylic paint. Good to know. Your pieces are so pretty. Thank you for sharing.

You are adorable and I love your tutorials and your work. Thank you

Beautiful. I can't wait to try it. This will be maybe my 4th go at Labradorite. Think this one is awesome. Thank you.

Wow! Great job on these, they’re beautiful and look real!

Wow. Thank you for sharing. I think these are lovely. I can't wait to try this.

Wow that’s pretty convincing & I’m a lapidist 💕

Beautiful! I definitely have to try this. I LOVE labradorite too

Brilliantly done! Thanks.

Your pieces are just beautiful!! 👍😊

I got my first mini crate. Love it. I have 4 crescent moons of different colors and they are beautiful.

Those cabochons are amazing! !

Love love love labradorite is my favorite!!!!!! I love love love it! I've asked people before what semiprecious gems would you be. Me for sure is Labradorite

wow!!! that huge Labradorite!!!! Drooling!!!

sooo happy to see we all appreciate feldspars and labradorite is always special

Gorgeous cabs! I love labradorite but the really nice stones can be quite expensive. You've shown us a great way to emulate it and it's more economical than the real thing. AND you can make the them as flashy as you like!

They are amazing ! They look so like Labrador

Thanks to your wonderful videos I am going to attempt to work with polymer clay. I know there will be a learning curve, but you make everything look easy. Keep up the great work!

love this tutorial. I can't wait to try it. Great Work girlie!!!!

You Rock...seriously...thank you for this video I love rocks and fossils as well.

These turned out great, can't wait to give it a try ♡

Oh Wow I really love this technique very pretty.

Ahhhh these are so good! I love rocks too, my collection is getting a little out of control xD; Always cool to see a new faux technique and these are awesome.

I got my tree kit yesterday and I am so excited. I have one more kit coming. Phillips Charlotte

Great technique! I like how you referenced the real rock. Have a wonderful day. :)

Nicely done lady very close to the real thing, best tute I have seen to match a Labradorite.

Love the name of your site and love your version of labradorite! I joined because I would love to see what else you make! I made the mistake of ordering a round ball of real labradorite(fake) and it was all just a washed out version of black. Not 1 hint of color!!! I was so disappointed 😞 but now , thanks to you, I can make my own! Thanks a million!💙🖤💚💛💜

How funny when this particular specimens first came out no one wanted it. I fell in love right away like you . I bought like three or more shoe boxes in every color . My luck I got surgery while recuperating someone broke into my humble home and stole half my life. I say have my life cause a few month before I lost my health,my house,my car even my teeth . Cherry on top they took everything that had money value and then some.....

I love labradorite it's the key element to my book series!

Beautiful work.

I got 3 big ole hunks of labradorite. Love polishing it up.

Great video! Love it ! Gonna have to get some of those folk art paints all I have is lumiere.

Wow they turn out great...💜💜💜

I love love your technique! I just did it and now waiting for it to dry so I can cut it out!

Thank you so much l love you talent God bless you!!

Got my craft crate :) love my new cabs, I sorta think im just gonna stick them on my monitor so I can stare at them all the time they are so beautiful hehe.

Soo beautiful!❤️

Thank you for showing this now ik what to look out for

Wonderful job...I have to try them.. . They are so gorgeous . Thanks for sharing . . 😎 😎 😎

lovely! you and your art!

Very beautiful Yvonne

I totally agree with you Samantha Larson. Yvonne is adorable. 😊

LOVE your voice = you are a new favorite!

Awesome tutorial Yvonne, just one quick question, if I use the faux stone for wire wrapping can I oxidize the copper wire wrap in Liver of sulphur or will the ruin the "stone"?

Beautiful work! Thank you for sharing. Just a thought, that if you place a non-stick paper (parchment, freezer) on top of the clay, and THEN place your cutter on top, and cut, youll get rounded edges which would really make it look natural (worth a try...)

I love watching you. You are truly talented. I did try this and I didn't get anything remotely like yours I got the muddy look in a lot of the piece and when I did the run off it almost completely ran off and the clay became really mushy not sure what I did wrong lol. But it was fun!

Lovvv those colors n that " stone " omg 🤗

nail gel wow, love it, sweet.

Wow , thank you 😊 for sharing, lovely ❤️ too Cool

It looks wunderfull ♡♡♡

Beautiful i love your videos

I love rocks too!

This is amazing! Will you be doing and wire wrapping tutorials with these?

You are really pretty and i love your work

I see this was a year ago, but as someone that sells top quality labradorite, I wish I could have sent you fabulous examples of this amazing stone...

This is random but you have a gorgeous smile!

You are amazing !!!

Incredible 😍

thank you very cool

You are an amazing instructor thank you so much! One question could you include a complete supply list along with your vids? I would love to be able to take that list with me to the store. Thank you again for everything. Stay safe happy holidays

Beautiful

You are awesome!!!!

I love my rocks or stones too😜

Gorgeous cabochons, Yvonne! I hope you'll do some wire wrapping with some of those so we can enjoy seeing you doing it. There are many pearlescent medias that can give a beautiful spectrolite flashing color range and the lumieres are among them as they do give a beautiful oil slick effect. The Daley Rowleys do too but they're way more expensive. Also, did you try mixing some Pearl Pinata in regular colors? That gives good results too. My main problem in years of trying to imitate labradorite is how to make the flash completely disappear and then appear only under certain angles, the way it happens in the real stone. Try topping it with some Opal Magic finnabair acrylics - the results are breathtaking. I'm sure you'd have a lot of fun with it. And also because it's an acrylic with a glue component, you can actually place a thin sheet of translucent clay on it and not just resin it, and that makes it possible to bake the cabochon after, so you can create the bezel and setting after you make the "stone".

Well, this is the 4th different tutorial that I've watched and you are such a natural! You effortlessly put colors together and get beautiful results. I'm about to give up Tonight makes my 5th failure at recreating faux anything. I don't know why because I try to follow instructions to the T. But dear lady, I love your tutorials and the things you create. How do you figure out what colors to use? You use paints, correct? Where does the shine come in? How do you know what thickness to make the jewelry? Do you have a secret for not having your clay stick to your machine? I have to clean mine after EACH time I put clay through(even if it's the same color. My clay either crumbles or sticks. I want so much to make Christmas presents for familyand friends but inevitably, something goes wrong. Did you have these problems when you first started? If so, how long did it take for you to be successful. Well, thanks for listening.....I'll look forward to your nect presentation.💚💙👍

soo cool!!!

What is that oven you put them in? This is all brand new to me - you have captivated me with your art so now looking into trying my hand at your craft. Thank you for all you do. Amazing!

very very nice

Very cool

-heavy drool- your sphere is... Amazing.... Im jelly!! Mine is... Smaller and not as gorgeous. Omg you need to do some GOLDEN labradorite!!!

Thanks for another awesome tutorial! Might u know if UV resin yellows or changes in any way if ‘over’ exposed to uv light, like if it’s in the natural sunlight all the time? I wonder if it dries out and starts to crack also. And are the effects on uv resin stronger or less than the same effects on 2-part epoxy resins?

whats the difference in yellowing between uv resin and regular catalist resins?