Enjoyed the vid and gives me ideas. Just a few tips, Try using canned air upside down to cool the hot glue. Lay down a base coat of white to have a color transition purple, POP. A base coat of silver will make it more metallic, Sparkle. Instead of the black, this is especially effective with candy colors and pearls. (translucent paints) So base coat first, then translucent paint. I'd prob do black, dry brush silver, then dry brush the purple for example. If you want to make it look more aged try a magic wash after it's painted, see here for the recipe: www.brookhursthobbies.com/paintingclinic/clinic/guestarticles/magicwash.htm
great ideas brock! I have recently made an elsa wand tutorial with the white base coat like your suggestions! Hopefully i can find time to edit and post the video today.
Great insights! You gave me two major tips I hadn't considered before. If you need some paint finish ideas, I figured out how to make it look like tree bark or antique bronze & would be happy to show you.
Rather than making the "prongs" out of glue, I'd suggest using some wire wrap ring techniques for holding stones in place. There are tutorials available on RU-vid. It looks better, I think, and will hold it much more securely.
I've made these before using chopsticks, but I really liked how you anchored the gems with wire, and the crystal cluster looks cool. Great technique and ideas!
Might I suggest you adhere the Crystal and the marble to the ends with two-part epoxy. As to the nail polish you can water it down using a lacquer thinner if you water it down enough you can actually run it through an airbrush.
@@magicalcuriosities7062 only use lacquer thinner which can be bought at Walmart in the paint section. Because if you use nail polish remover which is a different chemical it will cause your nail polish to get gloopy and nasty.
Thats so great! This method works great with real crystals too, which for magick work youd probly want. good luck on your wand adventure! Here's a link to a few simple crystal ones i've made with this method: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kpHIf9a-_3c.html I plan to learn more about making healing wands with crystal point wands and chakra gems. So many ideas, so little time! Hopefully after Christmas I can do it and post a video.
You had my attention with the wands, but you had my heart (and my subscribe) with your daughter doing this with you. I'm a single mom of a very creative 9yr old girl and I love turning fun projects like this into our homeschool art class. I'm making wands with UV resin and this gave me some great ideas about how to secure the ends with the florist wire before freezing it with the resin. Thank you!
My daughter is been making wands since she was 7,she’s 17 now,she uses branches that she finds around,her stones,are the ones she finds at the beach,and antique stores.Yours are nice also.
Absolutely beautiful wands and so easy to create---or at least you make it look easy. What about using real stones and crystals? Will this methods work as well?
Yes! Preferably I’d get ones with a bead hole but if you can’t do that you can secure it similar to how the marble is secured (it’s less of a strong connection this way and covers more if the stone)
WOW! This is SO COOL! My sister in law LOVES sculpting with polymer clay and just recently got into painting glass eyes, I will have to share your tutorial with her. Thank you for sharing!
+Amanda Anderson sweet! I love poly clay it’s my favorite medium. I make dragon eye boxes. Maybe she does them already but if not I’ll be doing a tutorial soon on how to sculpt them. It’s so easy!
They all look absolutely beautiful! You guys are really talented and I love the fact that you incorporated the children self. Very talented and inspiring.❤
Love this video! I've mad wands but wanted to try adding crystals, beads n stones and was unsure how. You also provided a lot of helpful tips on hot glue (putting in water to quick set n did temps to use hot glue gun), paint techniques, etc that were very helpful! I would watch more wand making videos if you make any! I too experienced those color flash colors showing up as a diff color than on the bottle depending on the base coat.
I’m so glad it was helpful for you! I have a few want tutorials updates I need to put up. I’ve learned a few more awesome tricks including working with black glue, sea shells, and raw crystals.
Very pretty. I love everything SPARKLY! These look like so much fun. I'm thinking hand-outs for birthday parties, which of course would include adults since many of us are still kids at heart. Great job. Good luck.
Wonderfully Done! I am extremely impressed for this being your first video! Your work is amazing and I love how they all came out!! Best out there, I think anyway!! I am going to try the wire! Love it. Also, when I add a marble when making my wand, I add texture with the hot glue to use as a setting for my marble. I let the built out setting cool first before I apply the marble. Building out the top also gives you a thicker platform to work with. The texture helped adhere to the glass. So far So good!!!!
Thank you so much for teaching this! I've always wanted to make something like this before, but I never really realized that I could just use materials I already had at home to make them (though I'll probably have to replace the dowels with wooden chopsticks and sandpaper with nail filers lol)! Fun fact: That blue nail polish you were using that showed up as red is an iridescent nail polish. Basically, it has clear, colored glitters suspended in a nail polish base that can shift colors (different from multichrome, which I'll explain later) depending on the background and/or the angle you look at it. So, if you put it over white, it shows up as blue, but if you put it over black it shows up as red. That's why it showed up as red on the wand but blue in the bottle, but you could still see the red flecks in the bottle. Multichrome is usually a metallic sort of pigment that shifts between different colors based on the angle you are looking at it. Unlike iridescent glitters, it is opaque and keeps shifting between those same colors in the same way no matter the background. The blue nail polish you were using when you were mentioning that it is hard to paint using nail polish is actually one that I also have. That particular nail polish is very sheer and has little pigment in it, which is probably why you weren't getting the results you wanted (assuming the results you wanted was a bit more of a pigmented look). If I assumed right, then there are a lot of other polishes that will work great with this. But if I assumed wrong, and it's just that nail polish is just hard to use, that's fine. Nail polish isn't exactly created for dry-brushing, after all, though it is possible if the polish has more pigment in it. (I learned all this from watching tons of nail art videos and doing some nail art of my own just for fun. It's surprising how much information you can get from learning art stuff, and I love it, which is why I came to watch the video.)
@@magicalcuriosities7062 No worries about late replies! I hope the information was useful for you as well! I haven't had the time to make any wands yet, but when I do get the chance, I'll let you know how it went! :D
Franklin G. Roberts III what a fantastic idea! I’m just now making an update on some painting tips I’ve learned since this video and will include this brilliant idea!
A couple of suggestions for securing the beads to the wand. On the teardrop bead coat the wire with the hot glue and insert it in the hole of the bead then if the dowel is like a 3/8 inch diameter using a Dremel and a small drill bit drill a hole in the dowl then apply the glue to the wire and insert into the hole immediately. Then you can do the build-up around the base. For the bead with the hole in the middle. Make-ahead on one end of the wire so that it won't get past the hole and glue it there and then make the tail of the wire long enough to tightly wrap around the top and then hit it with a shot of glue. Then make the claws to hold into place.
Omg thanks for this video!! Now I can make my own custom wizard and mystical like stuff! Dragons, Wizards, Fantasies.. I love those stuff so much! Thank you so much! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 🧙♂️ 🐉 🧚🏻♀️
I never wanted to use any crystals or any shining / shimmering stuff on my wands, cause I thought I'd look too weird ?! Well... changed my mind. Thx for the video! Well explained and the wands look fantastic.
+Maat Cosplay lol! My first were matte too, trying to make them look like wood. I happened upon the gold look because my daughter chose the color and it changed my whole process!
@@magicalcuriosities7062 Your daughter got a good taste in wand colours then. :) Special thx to her too. Added some gold to my brown wand yday and I liked it much better. Cheers ♥
Just an idea, if you want? Add some small chains from the end with the crystal or marble and decorate with beads or crystals and market them as hair sticks. I would totally wear the crystal cluster or the marble in my hair.
Thank you, I found this tutorial EXTREMELY helpful. 😁 I've been working a DIY purple witch costume and wanted to add a purple wand so this helped me out a great deal on how to make my own!
Hi I'm an artist myself and I love getting creative with art supply's. Thank you for the video It's artist like yourself that keeps creativity alive :) Awesome wands you and your daughter did a Great Job :)
These are FANTASTIC!! Going to implement these tips and tricks into my beach walking stick. I found the perfect piece of wood for it and now I have a much better grasp of what I want for the design and now, thanks to your video, the tools to make that magic happen!! Thank you!! Liked and subscribed! ❤️
You know, if you use a thinner dowel, you might be able to build a wand with various beads directly threaded onto it which could make for an interesting look for the completed wand. You might also want to try adding layer of polyeurethane gloss over the paint and possibly the crystal, or use some of the other sealant options, either brush on or spray on. It'll protect the work you did to paint them.
AzraelThanatos interesting idea. You mean along the shaft? When I’ve used thinner dowels in the past they break easily with use (my kids are great at testing durability lol!). But might be worth trying
@@magicalcuriosities7062 The durability shouldn't be that different, at least if you mainly use the beads that can fit along it. You'd be, essentially, using the dowel as a core for the wand with the majority of the strength being from the beads and other things used to build off of it. But, if you want something stronger, there are some interesting metal rods that would work as well for it.
Stain the wood dowel with wood stain. Use any shade of stain you want from a dark stain to a very light stain. I like the stain method because it makes your wand look a little more wood.
I made my own wand and instead of using those sticks, I pulled the brushes of some of my old wood paint brushes because they were already kind of pointy and it worked really well
Wondered how to get that taper that wands have at the end. Saw a long session with carving knife and sand paper....then I saw you use a pencil sharpener. DUH! That little tip alone is worth watching! And the temperature of your hot glue makes a difference. The low temp doesn't take as long to cool and solidify. No dunking required. That's my tip to you..
love it! i read somewhere too about using canned air to make it cool down. I kind of like how really hot glue melds together more smoothly and gets onto the rod faster, but it has its draw backs. BUT...i recenlty realized using the low temp then later going back and just smoothing things out with a heat gun works pretty well too. so fun. Thanks for you input Anita! :)
Great video thanks! One tip, I think you should spray a coat of Mr. Clear on top of the spray paint. Then the colors you paint will stay true to color (unless they're see thru). Check out Doll Repaint tutorials, it's how they layer colors and is completely clear. Colored pencils work on it even for fine detailing. BEAUTIFUL work! Thanks for the video, I subscribed!
@@magicalcuriosities7062 I would be curious to see if it helped the color retention, should you ever use it? I can't test out things in my garage right now lol
@@magicalcuriosities7062 If I do try it with mine, I'll let you know. Your video got me all focused on making some wands now! I always wanted to. I just never had the Start to Finish process in my minds eye. Thank you so much for your tutorial! I bet your daughters love doing that stuff!
Very awesome and thanks for sharing . You did a great first video tutorial. I will be utilising the method and materials in some creative costume ideas I have . Might even do some workshops with my makers group . Lovely work and so great to see the children getting into it too 🌈
awesome! I make a lot of things and these wands are always the top seller. There's fancy expensive ones that adults buy for themselves, and simple cheap ones they buy for their kids, lol. Its great.
Thank you for this video! It is perfect for me to create a magical fairy wand to give with a fairy journal I made for a friend of mines little girl on her 8th birthday! The journal has a secret back with a box inside with lots of fairy trinkets inside! This wand will be perfect to finish off this gift!
RuinedTemple Ah, no, I watched this video, not my peers, haha! I’m saying I watched this video myself and made the wands for my class. :) And I’m referring back to the past- I’m in sixth grade currently, I’m just thinking back to the memories when I wasn’t drowning of homework, haha.
I would sponge on the nail polish. Use a wedge make-up sponge and then paint a few coats of polish on the sponge then immediately sponge it onto your surface. The sponge will absorb the excess paint from the polish but leave behind the pigment. This is also the best method to paint your nails with glitter polish.
During quarantine ive been bored so thank you for this! I’m a huge Harry Potter fan and fan of magical stuff so this is very fun and entertaining to do
