Resin Opals - Faux Opals 

So appreciate your showing your disasters as well as your successes! Nice project! Thanks for sharing!

This if for my fellow UK crafters: If like me you spent hours and hours searching the net for cello glitter with no avail I finally found some. After searching cello glitter, sello glitter, cellophane glitter, gilding glitter, random cut glitter, snow glitter, iridescent glitter Ice glitter... I finally found MYLAR glitter. :-) Yay, I am gonna love making these. Thanks for the tutorial.

I loved this video, thank you so much for filming and sharing. Your remarks throughout the video, showing us the failed attempts and then ending it with the "stay happy and motivated" remark was wonderful.

Awesome job, they look great! And I loved the way you showed and talked about the failures, thanks a lot for sharing that. People are always trying to take short cuts, not here. Thanks again

I absolutely loved your tutorial but your personality is fantastic!! Love that you share your mistakes too. They’re extremely valuable. Thank you for doing this and sharing your knowledge and awe inspiring talents.

I just wanted to thank you ! this video is the reason I tried resin, and I haven't stopped since! i've been constantly at it for the past 2 months and I love it ! I've made over 300 pieces so far ! You such an inspiration :)

Thank you SO much for making this tutorial video! Those faux opals are gorgeous and I can't wait to try making them!!!

So cool! Thanks for sharing, so glad you kept trying!

You are a down to earth lady! It was a joy to watch your video thank you!

Thanks for sharing. Beautiful. Can't wait to try all the combinations of colors with this idea.

Thanks for this video, very helpful. What I liked best was how you showed all the ones that were failures, but you kept persisting to achieve the results you got. As my wife always says, if you don't make mistakes, you make nothing

great tutorial, thank you so much dear. It's pleasure to watch you work

Since I seen where you use a crock pot to keep your resin warm. I have been heating up water and putting my resin and it has worked wonders. Thank you for the tip!

Beautiful! Good job! Thanks for sharing your talent.

Thanks a lot from a French creator for this tutorial, my first ones are drying actually and they're already stunning ! :)

Thank you so much for this tutorial. Just getting into resin. These are absolutely gorgeous! Can't wait to try it!

great tut, you make it all seem so easy,and you do have fun making those. this made me smile all the way through, thanks :)

I love your charisma.. Usually I couldn't watch a 20 minute tutorial, but your character made it interesting. And your great talent for resins of course.

Thanks SO much for the tutorial! I am going to attempt to make this into drawer knobs!!

Glitter Flakes on Amazon, company called supermart- comes in crystal, lavender, light blue, turquois, pink. Pretty inexpensive they are gorgeous. Thanks for all your tutorials, very well done

You can buy cellphone sheets at the beauty supply. They use the sheets on nails. There's tons of different colors! :) ♡

Most beautyful that i've seen in the whole network.

love this video. you can find the cello iridescent tissue paper at most dollar tree stores and it comes n lots of colors. and i normally make my own mylar and glitter out of it by cutting it up very fine and its only a dollar and the other one in this video is like $4 at my local Michael's.

Wow! Gonna try this soon! Very pretty and easy.

Great tutorial. I am just a beginner and making resin charms , and with you , it really help me understand what to do and how to do it. -Laughter Love

My lady you gave me a big laugh the time you spoke about the camera :-D I love you, you made my day and of course thank you about telling us the right and wrongs with molding!!! :-)

Thank you for showing this- and especially the things that failed! There are mistakes (exampled here) we all might make otherwise.

ow my god!!! they are so beautifull i missed this video...i diddnt know that you already make this just love it!

looks like your trial and error experiments have paid off! kudos, good job, good video ~Happy crafting (:

You are awesome I love watching you videos

hi they r beautiful. i have never tried resin,so was delighted to come accross this vid. i am going to go down this path & c where it takes me.tfs.sue

Beautiful, thanks for the demonstration. I have a few of similar jewels from my grandmother, when she was a young woman, she used to do these, only with dry little flowers. Also, it wouldn't be probably difficult to add a little loop / ring or two to the back of the "stones" while pouring the second layer, to create a button or a bead. No drilling needed that way. Thanks once more.

This is very close to the way real opal triplets are made. first, they cut a dome of clear quartz, then they cut a slice of opal, then they cut a background slice of black stone like black onyx. then they glue them together and polish them.

You are hilarious! I really enjoyed your tutorial video. Very informative, easy to understand, and entertaining to say the least...lol Thank you for that!

They are very pretty! Great idea thank you for sharing!!! Liz Canada!

Thanks a lot. .like the way you did it, and your nice personality. .

When working with epoxy resin which ET-Lite is basically, I've seen people use colored chalk powder mixed with the resin. I guess this would work with the Envio-Tex Lite. I've used Envio-Tex Lite for years with great results, but never colored it. Have to try that. Thanks for the video.

Yes! The metal flake looks fabulous!

You are wonderful! Congratulations!

These are really pretty

Thank you for showing your mess ups. I'm trying for the first time and a bit discouraged because my first few haven't turning up. I'm having some of the same problems you did. I see that there could be hope for me :)

love the personality on this woman.

beautiful!! thank u. i will definitely stay inspired! so many possibilities! xxx

Wow... really pretty!! I bet those would look fantastic all beaded up :)

Thank you for your video. I learned a lot. Its especially helpful that you showed us what happens if put the glitter in the wrong order. nicky

I had been searching all over for the cellophane glitter, no luck. But I came across chopped metal leaf. It has gold, bronz, copper colors. I am going to give this a try and hope I get similar results. It can be found in most craft stores. Yours are just so beautiful ! I have been watching almost all your video's, you are a great teacher. You never give up, try different things and you end up with amazing results. I have only done one batch of resin cabs, hope the next ones come out better.

I know this video is pretty old now, but I just learned that resin is a thing? Wow, I'm behind the times! So I started looking for videos and found this one. Love these fauxpals! I love the real thing, but they are way too tiny and don't usually have enough "flash," so to be able to make your own flashy fauxpals is a great idea! And you can make GINORMOUS one! Also..."this camera sucks. Piece o' crap." Nice honest personality. Also good to show the mistakes. Mistakes are how we learn!

This is amazing! thank you for the video

Hi, Just beautiful! I love pearl, abalone, and things that looks like that. Your art work looks almost like abalone. Thank you for sharing your trials and errors, that is a big plus. And, you kept trying, good for you. Thank You for sharing, and the video.

Gorgeous 💜

Things to try for more realism: experiment with shredded gold leaf and silver leaf (avail from Michael's and Hobby Lobby) and mixing with colored iridescent glitter. Also try shredding colored iridescent mylar foil in a blender or coffee grinder to get irregular shapes and sizes. Finally, add a bit of black tint to the first pour to emulate that smoky look of black opal.

Nice and pretty. Gives me some ideas. Thanks.

Those are pretty!

Thank you so much for this tutorial. I have been looking allover the internet for a tutorial on black Opals, (love them to death) and none has given me so much as you . There are room for so much variations, just have to try it. I live in Denmark, and cannot get resin here, so have to buy it via Amazon, hopefully the danish custom service let it go trough ;) Good luck to you in the future

You can also get the cellophane at hobby lobby in the wedding supplies. But it's confetti, and the have it in green pink red purple and white. Also you can use a few drops of artist inks in place of the mica.

I tried this but couldn't get mica powder, so I waited till my first layer was completely hard then painted the back with black nail polish. Then when that dried I filled it with clear resin. They came out really good. I like how yours look.

This is amazing , thanks a bunch for this ! :)

Fantastic, thanks so much for this tutorial. It's great :D

Great Presentation! Cannot wait to try this out myself. FYI- Many online nail supply companies sell "Mylar Flakes" which I believe are comparable to the cello flakes you had on hand. They usually sell a rainbow of iridescent colors in smaller quantities, but pretty nonetheless.

True. You want to mix thoroughly but not like you're whipping and egg. Also, as she mentioned in the video, make sure you scrape the sides and bottom super duper well, repeatedly, as you stir to make sure you mix it all in.

You ROCK! I've been wondering what those holographic bits have been for a while!

this is awesome, thanks for sharing!!!

I bought the glitter retail at the craft store. I'm getting all kinds of messages that there are sheets of the stuff you can buy, and there's a great response video I just posted to this one from a viewer in Italy who uses exactly that.

She's hilarious! Good tutorial :)

ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TY 4 Sharing ♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥

I have a bunch of this cello glitter that I used to decorate some stocking holders I made last Christmas. The glitter shown in the video is from Michaels, I think I found pink and this bluish purple color, maybe green too there. At Hobby Lobby, in the party supply section, they sell it in different colors, its sold in clear bags and they have a lot more in them. Hope this helps!!! I'm going to go get started on some beautiful opalescent resin domes! Thanks for sharing your tutorial! :)

LMAO, love your personality…..say it like it is!!! great videos!

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

These would make beautiful mosaics.

Great video, informative and clear...tfs.x

When buying the cellophane sheets at the dollar tree or wherever, use a cross cutting shredder machine to achieve the chunky pieces. To have easy release from the mold, use a bit of pam spray or just buy the mold release spray at your closest craft supply.

great video!

These look so cute going to make them

Very nice love them

I actually like your idea I'm going to try that ty 4 sharing

That's a great idea!

I have also waited about 2 hours after adding cellophane and added glitter to make the same effect, then to smooth it just add a thin layer of clear resin when it a dries also known as doming with a clear layer and it has a beautiful effect.

So cute!!!!

If you are looking for that cellophane in sheet form, try cheap Christmas wrapping paper from the "dollar store". Its cheap, you get a lot of it and lots of colors. Try the foil types also. A paper shredder or different styles of pinking shears would help. Great video.

It is fun! And that is a really great idea. :)

Beautiful art :) You were saying if you could find the iridescent cellophane in sheets you would buy it and cut up your own glitter. Try checking Floral wholesales . When I was a florist years ago we could buy it for the shop in big rolls... I used to use it when making displays for weddings..so pretty.We used to order from Norfolk Wholesale and Virginia Beach wholesale.. I can't remember which one carried it.. I'm sure you could find it on rolls online, good luck

The Dollar Tree store near me carries sheets of the iridescent cellophane marketed as gift wrapping tissue paper.

I had the bubble problem when I first mixed resin because I mixed the resin too quickly and whipped in a bunch of air. I now mix the two parts together VERY slowly (almost like Im in slow motion) to prevent the bubbles. Also after I pour into the molds I will occasionally run a flame (grill lighter works great) over the surface of the wet resin and it will pop any air bubbles that are close to the top. Hope this helps.

Hi, i loooove your videos. They're so inspiring. Where do you get the molds though? Thanks

Dollar Tree carries the iridescent cello sheets ( in the gift stationary section. They use it as tissue paper) They have a few different colors, green, blue, clear...

Oh thank you. I have spent hours online looking.

try the dollar store in the gift wrap section where they keep tissue they have the cellophane tissue. thank you I enjoyed your video I can't wait to try it myself.

Loved your tutorial as I have always wondered how they are made. IF a person wanted to put a hole into one to make a piece of jewelry, lets say a pendant, how would you put the hole in it and at what stage? I Subscribed and gave a thumbs UP! Thank you!

awesome. Thank you for your trial and error overview too. I definately would of wasted time and money trying those. What brand resin do you use or like the most, and where do you get it? I wonder also if I can use my silicone molds for cake decorating. not for cakes of course. lol

Excellent. Thanks for the video. I hope I'm gonna make some. :)

I've always been able to find it at Michaels. I'm sure you can order through their webstore, too, but I haven't checked.

Very pretty

As much trouble as I've had living in NW Montana finding supplies, I thought I'd tell you where you can get what you need. I went to ebay and put in the search bar "Ice resin, envirotech"and not only did I find that,but I found a combination package with the putty I wanted to make molds. The whole package was only $35, no shipping cost. Cool huh?Oh AND all the cups and sticks and everything one needs to get started came w/it.

this lady is awsome and so funny! 😸

These would make gorgeous fursuit eyes for Angel Dragons!

can you put tiny glow in the dark thingies inside instead of those glittery thingies? am imagining installing spheres of those by my lamp..please let me know your thoughts about it, thankies

Will it only work with the two part resin to make these? I have a one part that I use to seal glass art and I am just curious. Thanks.

I wonder if you do the first resin with the cellophane. . Let dry.. then do the black resin layer then add a piece of metal to the back laying down in the shape of the circle with a loop like hanging off the side then let dry then another layer if resin then let dry.. could this work to be a pendant? ?? I wonder if it would hold. I'd like to make some as Christmas presents for mothers and grandma. ♥

Do you have to use a special mold to keep the top of the stone shiney

question, what is the mold release and is there a cheaper alternative, or you strongly suggest the mold release product????? thank you cc