Doming Resin on Polyclay Cabs 

Your tape technique really worked! Awesome 😎 🤩They r beautiful 😻

I love your work is beautiful you’re an artist and I love it

That tape trick is awesome!

THANK YOU. for explaining clearly, for showing shortcuts and tips, for being real. I've learnt more from 2 videos you have made than the dozens I watched before.

This is all so interesting. Thx so much for sharing.

You have a really nice way of speaking naturally and making the video interesting. Thank you for practical tips. I really enjoyed your tutorial. Your voice is soothing - you’d make a good hypnotherapist!

Von you are making it really hard for me not to pick up any new hobbies! These look so awesome! I usually only craft with paper but one of your tutorials has brought me into the world of chain mail. I can’t thank you enough for that. I was having trouble learning to meditate. During one of my attempts at a new project I noticed that while weaving chain the background noise in my brain just stopped. Thank you so much for all your positive thoughts and affirmations.

What a brilliant trick with the tape! Beautiful cabs 💕

Omg!!! Those are really gorgeous!!!🧡🧡🧡

These are some of my favorite videos of yours,Absolutely have I learned,Excellent teacher on resin,Thank you,Von.

wow love the colors and the tip about the tape with resin will make my projects easy ty

Those look great!

Pure gorgeousness! I think I need to invest in some colorshift paints! Great tutorial, thank you.

They came out beautiful!

You're awesome, I am a huge fan and you are the person who got me back into crafting which has been highly therapeutic so thank you so much!!! Much love 💜💙💚

Just so gorgeous! The cabs are pretty too 😁💜💜💜

Great job! You give great instructions. I have been enjoying watching your videos, thank you.

Very nice! I like the idea of the tape, going to try that! Thanks

They look so beautiful. TFS Always so much to learn from you. Thank you :) Juli X

That tape trick is a goldmine tip!! Thanks!!

Hey Von! I love your art so much! It feels really weird thinking that I could ever give you any tips... I have a couple that may be helpful. About the dumping from one cup intro a second cup.. I don't understand how or why but your pot time is longer if you transfer into a second cup. If you tip the first cup upside down and let the little bit of resin cure you will be able to just peel it right out and then can reuse your cup. Also when you have so many cabs to dome if you mix in two smaller batches of resin your workable pot time doubles, if that makes sense, less hurry, less stressed Von 😀. I learned the hard way.. Lastly.. the tape is a great idea, you have made an awesome discovery! They make resin doming mats that are really expensive so the thrifty person in me started looking.. ultimately I went into the fridge and swiped the cardboard egg crate things from a 5 dozen pack of eggs. I sprayed the little peaks with tacky glue and stuck a cab to the top of each one. That way I could run my stick around the edge of each cab and it very nicely covered both the top and the sides. The little drips fell right off onto the the egg crate after a couple of hours I just took a clean stick and double checked to make sure there weren't any bulbs hanging below. I've learned so much from you I hope that you find something in my rambles helpful! ♥️

I love them all. Beautiful colors. Would make great site wrapping pieces. Lucky ppl who will b receiving these. 😘

1. I love your channel. I get some really great ideas and this is one of them. 2. You have the most beautiful hair

Cool...thmx honey. I was just doing this last nite, and just saw this video. You're AWESOME creator!

This is a welcome video ... Thank you so much

Great tutorial and very informative TYFS ❤️👍🏻

thank you for showing this l made some tonight forgot l was baking them out needless to see they are a bit funky looking but very cool seeing as l never planned it. One looks like a monster face, another has a tree, and a couple look like the moon surface. l decided to paint them with nail varnish and then l put resin on them so once it cures it will be cool to see what they look like

Ooooohhhh I want one. Sigh!😟. Those are just plain AWESOME & BEAUTIFUL!! I hope to be able to get the supplies one of these days. I’m practicing painting dragon eyes for now.

Beautiful cabs ❤️🇩🇰

Von, are you psychic now??? If you read my comments on the color shift paint vid, I asked about the domed resin. You magically answered me in this one!! And all while you're at a show! Lol. So thanks for knowing what my question would be before I asked it. Ha!

This gives me so many ideas! You mentioned showing how to make the different cutters, I would be interested in that.

Way cool

TAPE! Oh man! I make doll eyes and I would use clay to hold them while I domed them D: THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER. Holy moly! Thanks for the tutorial!

Oh that tape is a awesome trick tfs!

Hi Yvonne, Firstly I should say that I don't work in the quantities that you do, but when I saw your cabs all stick together, I wanted to show you what I use to stop that from happening. It's the best little flexible silicone doming tray, with tiny upward-pointing fingers that you place your cabs onto for doming. The silicone fingers support the cabs & stop them sliding into each other. Any excess resin drips down between the fingers, leaving v limited clean-up. Mess doesn't adjoin your cabs to each other, as the surface is level but not flat. I had tried plastic doming trays in the past & they were awful - just like a Hama/Perler bead board, & the cabs slid around all over the place, then you couldn't get the hard resin back out of tray, but the silicone doming tray has none of these problems. It's just a little small for commercial quantities of cabs, but do have a look at it anyway, as I'm sure it will give you ideas. Here's the link & Fran at Little-Windows is lovely if you need any help. www.little-windows.com/collections/doming-trays/products/large-silicone-doming-tray

Gorgeous cabochons, I am blown away by your creativity :) /hugs Good job on close ups Randy.

I love this video. Would you consider making a playlist just for these cabochons start to finish?

I think I got couple of those cabochons in my July craft crate thank you x

Been seeing a lot of videos about resin safety. I’d love to hear your ideas about this subject.

You are a natural wonder!! Love these! Question: how do you adjust your jewelry pricing, when using polymer cabochons vs stone? I'm also a lampworker, so I make glass cabs at the torch, a lot, for my wire woven pieces. But, I like the freedom of artistic expression that the polymer clay allows. Thank you for all you do and share❣

Very nice vid. Thanks for sharing

I would love to see your take on crystal crowns Von,I bet you would make such beautiful ones and you could probably make soe with resin crystals but you don't have to. I would love to see that though.

love this!! could you put the doming resin in like a squirt bottle to have more control? and faster? just a thought

BIUTIFUL!!!! I WANT TO LEARN!!!

Yvonne, you are so well organised and you are working so hard, no wonder you are successful! What kind of tape did you use? You are inspiring me to add resin to my polymer clay products, something I have resisted up to now. You make it seem do-able.

Hi Yvonne love your videos. Can you do more videos on Leather earrings. Hugs to you

What about using those small pipets for transferring resin to the cabachons?

Have u tried low tac tape? Love all ur Artwork

Love💞💞💞

I have never tried resin. I just love your tutorials! I have a question to ask. Can a cab be added to polymer clay to complete a design and baked? I have no idea if resin can be baked. Thanks

I really enjoyed your video. Could you please up the volume on future videos. I have my laptop on high and it’s not loud enough on some parts. Thanks!

I've seen you're wire wrapping videos I'd love it if you had more since you have given us so many beautiful ways to make the cabs. Wire wrapping or other creative mounting, bailing methods... To add them to chain or whatnot. This is patron darkfury lol finally got my own acct on RU-vid

It’s the canon monoxide being released at the surface to pull the bubble out of the surface of the resin , that is created by the flame ... you could actually just breathe closely over a piece and the bubbles would pop!! 😉... I am surprised the heat caused by the gun didn’t heat thru the clay to warp it!!! Also, wax.... rubbing wax around the edges will keep the resin from sticking. I’ve used resin on large tables and things Running wax around the edges where I don’t want the resin to stick , will allow me to peel it away and scrape or cut the excess off after partial cure, and even some cases after full cure as like on wax paper !!

I was using art resin and got a really a bad allergy. I have never been allergic for anything before. So I recomend using a mask.

Question Yvonne: How do you get all the wonderful and unique shapes of your cabochons?

first of all, u are so cute! haha! ok loved the works, im using air dry clay, im researching for the best, cheapest doming solution i can get (in my country its very few and expensive) so i tried modpodge instead and its an epic failure, after 2days it turned white or cloudy all of a sudden. sigh. i really need doming solutions. anyway, God bless u, keep up d good work!

Yvonne Williams YOU SHOULD TRY USING SMALL SQUEEZE BOTTLES FOR YOUR RESIN AND THEN YOU CAN OUTLINE THE PIECE OF CABS

Thanks for sharing. I got clay and want to make cabs. Will you show us how we can make those clay cabs and colors pls?

Yvonne, do you sand all your Cabs after the resin has cured? I have watched so many videos and it appears this step is either left out of the video or the piece isn’t sanded. I have used resin once before and it was not shiny when cured. I would love to try this process but will wait for clarification on the sanding. As always, you have created awesome pieces.

Awesome as always! 14:24, what did you do to give it that look? It reminds me of a labradorite or abalone shell!

Do you do any resin to the back? I have a real problem with the one time I used the resin how ever the temp out side was about 40 degrees Celsius

Hi Yvonne - when I do my Mod Podge Dimensional glaze I seem to get all kind of marks that almost looks like dust. Do you know what I can do to prevent that? And sometime it looks like lines are on the clay and if I use a head pin, it will have an indentation???

Yvonne, I messed around with resin a long time ago--I don't do anything anymore, but that's another story. The resin pieces I made back then have YELLOWED!!! So disappointing, because I made so MANY pieces with very subtle color effects. Is your resin a non-yellowing resin? I even tried UV resin. Got the UV light box and everything. Am enjoying watching your videos. You're stirring my idea box. :)

Can you use a squeeze bottle filled with resin to apply the resin to the cabs.

Wondering - would sorrounding the clay cabs with painter's tape (like the cabs are the bottom of a cookie cutter) solve the surface tension issue, or would it make things worse?

Hi miss von ...missed you and Randy how's the weight stuff?

Omg you mentioned harbor freight JUST as I was price checking there for heat guns lol 15 bucks btw.

I have a question. I hope you get this! Anyways, what if I go to cut my polymer clay, but I use that technique where I put plastic down 1st to give it that rounded effect. I really like that look. But I also really like the look that a top coat of clear resin makes. Could I do that rounded effect on my polymer clay cut outs and still dome with resin? Would the resin drip off and break that resin edge barrier that allows it to dome?

Hi Von! I bought some pre-made polymer clay beads a few days ago and whatever was used to seal the clay caused the beads to stick to each other inside the bag because of how tightly packed in they were. When I was gently pulling them apart the beads became damaged some had chunks taken out of them, others only damaged the coating and a couple even had the metal centres of the beads pop out as well! Do you know of anyway to fix the problem? I'm on a pension so I have very limited funds for buying anything to fix them with and I think they were on clearance so I probably can't get my money back.

I might use something to lift up cabochons from table. Like button or coin or something like that. That way resin would go over the edges if it leaks. Maybe. :D

I noticed on some of the cabs that the resin doesn't go fully to the edges. Since I haven't started any resin, I was wondering if you can touch that up with UV resin? Are they compatible?

Those.... look fucking cool!

I've been wondering if you can use the same oven that you cook with for baking the polymer clay?

Von, How can I tell the difference between a doming and a casting resin?

Do you have to do the resin step?

When you say "Glow" do you mean glow in the dark and if not would you mind showing us a closer-up view in a future video the effect you do mean??? Thank-you for sharing. Have a lovely day!!

Have you tried UV resin?

Have you ever thought about applying the resin using a syringe?

Is that a drawing of a pie on the table?

Hi Miss Von! Help I am Trying to do Polymer Clay's!! I am a Newbie with Polymer Clay's..

Hi! I am not new to your channel but my new Channel is.... if that makes since. I usually pop on as Sandi D and probably still will. I have another email and a new RU-vid channel that I want to start fresh with. Any I will continue to follow you on both channels! Lol! Have a great day!

I found out from a master resin lady who does resin tutorials for tiny pandora if you resin, ,you should not just fill the holes, dremmel them out them refill!!! What is the difference?

You need respirator and goggles please you will go blind! Use plastic or metal sticks wood heats up the resin.