Beautiful. I've been making my own alcohol inks for a few years. Dollar Tree sells alcohol markers (just like sharpies) in a package of 8 for $1. I get 2 packs and double the amount of ink to intensify. Less alcohol helps the color get richer. I let them sit overnight. It's pretty easy to take out the nib (writing part) and cartridge with some hemostats. I always squeeze the rest out to make sure and get it all. Sometimes I do them in a small shallow dish (covered) and after they are done, I use a small funnel and pour them into similar bottles like you have. I even mix colors to try and get different colors. Love your channel.
I just did the same thing today. I used two packs of markers per jar, and I took the tip of the marker and used that to. There is so much ink in the tip part, I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone else doing that.
Not sure where you get your bottles, but I buy mine at the local vape shops, in any size you want. They will sell them new empties. My 2 ounce bottles were like 50 cents each.
I make my own. I don’t put my “ink” into the dropper bottles until it’s completely made. I put the 91-99% isopropyl alcohol and marker cartridge in a plastic soufflé cup first. You can get them on amazon. I let mine sit overnight. When you’re ready, then you can use the funnel to pour the completed ink into the dropper bottles. Also, it takes a little bit of tweaking to find the right ratio of alcohol per color for the right color saturation. The higher the alcohol content (I.e. 99%) the better the inks will work as well.
Yes:) im gonna try it myself, I was wondering about the concentration of ink to alcohol and now im gonna try hilighter ink too...I love glow in the dark myself, and practising is so much fun
I want to say I started out with 30ml of alcohol, and found that I wanted the concentration of the pigments to be bolder. I’m using about 20ml of alcohol now. When using highlighters, bear in mind, the color of the highlighter doesn’t always translate to the color of the ink. For instance, purple highlighter makes pink ink.
It's a bummer that you don't get white sharpie, as that's often the most expensive alcohol ink! Cool knowing about the highlighters, as I've been wondering about those. I cut the plastic covering off mine, it made sense to do so.
I love making my own-especially mixing two different color sharpies for a custom color. Even doing a metallic with a solid-they turn out stunning. Love your videos, by the way! Keep up the wonderful content!
@@amydavis4945 if someone has already tried and had a tip that metallics don't work, why waste the supplies? especially since alcohol is so expensive right now.
@@amydavis4945 sorry. time is irrelevant on the interweb. :-) i'm still following tutorials from years ago! but ya know, if people want to try metallics, who am i to say don't. i am waiting for the alcohol and funnels from amazon, got my sharpies and ready to rock and roll! i bought some cheapO glass salt and pepper shakers from dollar tree so i could make about the right amount right off the bat then pour into those little plastic bottles with the needle-nose tips.
I think your success would have been even better if you used 99% alcohol. You can't find it in stores but you can get it from Amazon. I think the colors would have dripped a bit more for you.. You can also get deeper/darker colors by using 2 or 3 markers per bottle. #ProTip do not leave the cotton in the bottle to long or they begin to break down and put chunks into your projects. lol Use throw away cups to soak and then put into bottles once the cotton is white. Thank you so much for sharing with us..I always enjoy your experiments...
i think the actual white alcohol ink might be denser than the rubbing alcohol/sharpie. Maybe the alcohol used is different than rubbing alcohol? Either way while not the intended effect it's certianly pretty! There's a lot of neat things u can do with markers and rubbing alcohol. I did something similar to this to make galaxy colored sneakers but i used crayola markers. Maybe using the ink from artist alcohol markers would look more like regular alcohol ink? IDK I'm not a resin artist just a regular artist and i usually work with alcohol markers so this is very interesting to me!
For a stronger dye that might be easy to get, try wood strainers, the concentrated little bottle stuff that you usually mix with water. When I was young I was a graffitiest and this is how we made our own cheap ink, but instead of mixing with water we used iso alcohol as it dried damn quick and clean (or back then we could get cheap BIG bottles of a certain brand and just put the whole thing in a marker). The stuff usually isnt that expensive, especially as its extremely concentrated you dont have to use heaps. One benefit of this is you could measure your amounts and try different concentrations and get consistent results. Anywayz, love ya work!
I liked how they turned out, but that's my opinion. They are not pastels, they are just extremely watered down. Try using mason jars with multiples of each color, use only enough alcohol to cover them, keep them in the jars until the felt is completely drained of ink, and keep adding more marker felts and alcohol. You will be making a very concentrated ink that can be used as is in tiny doses or watered down with more alcohol.
Also a lot of Alcohol inks use a mix of Isopropyl Alcohol and glycerine as a blending agent which increases the brightness and allows more saturation. Also as you say the ratio of alcohol to pigment needs to be more weighted towards the pigment
Hi Artsy I live in Puerto Rico and it is very difficult to get many craft item to do different crafts like I am trying now to do jewelry resin and I wanted to ask you if I could use in the resin pearl ex powdered pigments to color the items by the way I think you are great and a good teacher
I'd love to see you try this again, using the ink now that it's been made for a while! Also, maybe trying more than one sharpie per bottle? Make it more concentrated?
That pastel block @13:47 is gorgeous. I can see figures, even. The one on the left reminds me of a mother holding a child and the one in the right looks like a head and upper body.
can u make alcohol inks by mixing powder pigments with alcohol? just maybe do the pigments with a lil bit of alcohol until powder dissolves, then add more alcohol. idk
Well, you can mix eyeshadow powder into resin to colour it, but would adding it straight to alcohol make the alcohol act like bleach, maybe? I gotta try that next pay day.
@@amethyst1826 I actually took loose pigment eyeshadow was no alcohol just threw it in the resin and it comes up beautifully it's like a smoky yet creamy lustrous look actually got from the dollar store LAX I have photos of the end product
Pigments aren’t really gonna “truly” dissolve in alcohol or resin. In resin, pigments color it fully (meaning it’s gonna pretty much be opaque from the start with the pigments fully mixed in), alcohol inks make resin more transparent, acting closer to a tint (in order to get them opaque like with pigments you’d have to use more ink, or use an alcohol ink that can help to gather the color and make it sink (like the white ink Heather used)). Powders are still really good to use, but they’re not gonna get the same effect as inks are made up of dyes and not powders.
I just started watching your videos a few days ago because I was looking up resin art on UA-cam to start learning what it entails I wanted to say that on top of your artistic ability I absolutely love your personality ! Your positivity is what has pulled me into watching more of your vids and subscribing to your channel. Thank you so very much for sharing your positivity and your love for flowers and resin 💕✌🏼🙃
You should have one cut the ink foam sections in half and two you should have removed the plastic lining off of them ~ but not bad first try! And these inks do work well with resin ~ including UV resin!!
Firstly the resin cured 👍 The white behaved normally but it seemed to absorb the colour inks and from what I could see in most they lost their transparency, . Brave trial you used so much products to do this for us, so young lady a HUGE THANK YOU 💖 these are super colours and great for simply tinting resin or mixing with the white and going for it 🌸✨
You can also use the liquid printer inks to add to alcohol. Also, if you make any alcohol ink with pigment, you can add a BB from a BB gun in the bottle. When you shake up the bottle, the BB helps mix the ink. Like how spray paint cans are made with the marble in them to mix up the paint.
Love this Heather thanks so much xxx might be possible to add/mix white Pinata ink into rubbing alcohol to dilute its strength ? Not sure this would produce less white spots but the cube is my favourite for sure xxx
It looks like the White is heavier than usual.but maybe these inks are lighter in weight than the other inks you use.The Sharpies probably need to be left for a couple days. I would love to see a few more without the White.
I love that round one so much. I was just making alcohol inks this morning so for a more intense color try RIT for your ink. Or if you want more variety for your money I ordered a tye dye set off amazon. Good luck
Via some prompting from Peter browns set of videos on trying alternative colors, I use food color and highlighters to color my pieces. It dosent do the drippy thing but it makes me happy not to have to buy super expensive colors, and the food color is transparent so any glitter or imbeds still show up nice. Also, I went to the link you posted on a previous video about the resin you use and they just, weren't selling it. A little sad, I wanted to see if I liked it better then what I was using. Your cube looks lovely
I was wondering if you used half the alcohol if the colors might be darker too....but, I too was totally shocked this worked and worked so very well.... awesome video... I am gonna try it now!
I do this to make my alcohol ink for nail art. The more markers you put in each bottle, the more pigmented your ink will be. So I usually use 3 pink markers per bottle, etc. And the metallic markers are so so cool! Love you and your videos!
Me too.. Pretty as your things usually are, I personally would love to be able to actually see the differences between the colors and how transparent they are. No offence, sincerely, but am tired of soooooo many colors and all mixed together and almost always with tons of white. Love what you do, how you present it, your curiosity, etc, etc .... just sometimes think 'less is more'. :)
Great video. Just something to be aware of....Sharpies ARE alcohol ink based... so really you are just diluting the alcohol ink already inside the markers.....thats why it was lighter. :)
The timing of this post is kinda funny. I started doing this with a 24 pack of sharpies a while ago and just finished up yesterday. I started with leaving the color filters in the bottles. I changed my mind after the first 2 and decided to let mine sit in plastic cups covered in cling wrap overnight, then pour them through a little funnel into the bottles and toss the filters. It was great to see in your video if they'd work in resin. Thanks for sharing!
All of these are so cool!! I especially love the cube. I was curious to see if the white would sink to the bottom and it looks like it did with all of the round ones. But the brilliant colors in the big circular one are spectacular. Fun experiment!!
Where I live inexpensive alcohol markers made for art are cheaper than sharpies. I've heard people say that there's some additive/filler in sharpies, that isn't in other markers. Considering this, I wonder if this would work with artists alcohol markers. (I honestly have no idea if the filler/additive thing is true, or even believable, as I've never used sharpies.)
Most markers still use additives, just different additives that normally help the inks blend more. That said it shouldn’t be too much to have any particular issues (unless the markers are just so incredibly poor quality filled with fillers and end up keeping the resin from curing).
I double my markers and use a 91 percent or higher alcohol. The metallic markers work too but you have to shake while using them. Wish I could post a few pics of some things I did with them.
I make mine from pigments and 99 % alcohol you use a Popsicle stick take 4 to 5 med scoops then fill it with the alcohol and put a small rock or bee-gun pelt inside an shake
I make mine in portion cups(like jello.shot cups w lids) and I add the ink from 2 sharpies for more saturated colors. Leave over night. U can also get opal powders or even cheap eywshadow pots from dollar store and add. Then u get pearl inks.(just make sure u shake them well before use of course) Then I pour into my dropper bottles.
I just made these this morning 👍 So glad to see they worked well. As for them being light colors, I was afraid of that so I put 2 of the same colored markers in 1 bottle to try to get a more pigmented color. I will be trying it tomorrow, I want to let it sit overnight 😊👍
New subscriber! Your video of you trying pictures in resin popped up on my feed and I'm OBSESSED with all your stuff. I'm def going to have to try this alcohol ink trick.
Also, for richer color, use 2 sharpie for each color. Shake every so often, let sit at least 12 hours for color to bleach out of pad. Hope this helps. I searched and watched several videos about making this ink. Just wonder how will work with epoxy resin and uv resin?
I agree 95% alchohol and use less will make colors brighter...I love your hair❣I had to go back cause what your hair color changed...You are fun to watch and very pretty...I use these inks for my nails...Thanks for sharing your art!!!💖
Homemade inks don't work as well on glass or ceramic pieces. I've made homemade alcohol inks and used some of them to ink up a vase. The look I wanted was dripping, which it worked well for, but if I wanted more of a traditional slower flow of inks I'd need to use regular alcohol ink. You could make your own that flow more like regular alcohol inks I would think if you mixed blending solution with the ink rather than alcohol (because blending solution as a binder in it) . But at that point you're probably better off just buying regular alcohol ink.
You can use dried out markers too. In fact that is all I use to make alcohol ink, granddaughters' dried out felt markers. Bonus* they don't fade in sunlight.
Can you try using eye shadow as a pigment! I saw someone mention it in a comment on Facebook once never saw the outcome! I think they where using it to like "paint" a mold before pouring resin
I use cheap eye shadow for my 2 part epoxy resin jewelry. For my UV resin I only use a tiny bit or it doesn't like to cure all the way. Or I do it in small pours at a time. Hope that helps. But experiment with different shadows and amounts to get the look you like.
Awesome thank you! Im brand new to resin only just got my first bottles in the mail the other day! I have a heap of old eyeshadows that I no longer use on myself. Wanted to find another way of using them
You can play around. More alcohol will make weaker colours unless you add more ink. Less alcohol may give you deeper colours, but you just have to try different levels of alcohol vs ink.
The big circle is beautiful! How about trying to mix the white directly in the bottles with the colors (as you did in your other video)? Wouldn't you'll get rid of the white dots? 🤔
You could probably use two sharpies in one bottle to deepen the color, or do two batches with less alcohol per batch then mix them together just to make it more saturated. I think the white is a little to heavy for the homemade inks. Yours turned out way better than when I tried it!
try "aliexpress" for all kinds of silicone molds, alcohol inks, and a ton of other stuff...cheap! i use them all the time for all kinds of things. i always says 'buy American' whenever possible, and it's too bad i can't get them this cheap in the U.S., but honestly...i GOTTA save the $$! (please don't judge!)
In other videos I watched, and saw this technique worked. You cut off the tip from the bottom of the sharpie, use needle nose pliers to pull out ink pad, and works a lot cleaner
Wonder what would happen if you used other types of pigments in alcohol, like gel food color, crushed watercolor tablets, India inks, mice powders, dry pigments like charcoal, etc.
@Crucibelle Some of us like the input and ideas of others, I found your comment unnecessarily rude. You're rather negative and rude throughout this whole comment section. You could just thumbs down a comment if you don't like it.
This is amazing I’ve really struggled to find a perfect pink most of the pinks in full sets are too blue based and before anyone says use red and white I’ve had the same issue with red either being to blue or turning orange.
these came out so beautiful, I just discovered your page and i love your spirit and your bubbly personality, i have also heard from numerous of people for more of a deeper pigment and more bang for your buck that its best to use extra printer ink cause its more concentrated
I'd say it works. If you would like more saturation, I would say you could try using 2 sharpies to one bottle, or even cutting the sharpie insert into smaller sections, cutting the plastic outer shell of the cartridge. Another thing may be the TYPE of alcohol that is used, 99% Isopropyl, that is used often for cleaning computer circuit boards and the like (it dries even faster) that may work even better for this. Definitely makes me want to try this out now, will have to after I move later in the year XD
I made my own alcohol ink about a year ago for my yt channel ,and I use mine for nail art but I've just started doing resin so I've used those in that xx
Tou could mix the alcohol and ink pads in cups so you can remove the pads, and when one is done remove it and add another pad to possibly make it darker ..... just a thought
I loved how they came out, yes it was lighter colors but all Beautiful. You make me wanna try this so bad. My brother works with resin & wood he is trying different things out I am going to send him this video. Thanks for sharing...💜💜💜
Beautiful. I've been making my own alcohol inks for a few years. Dollar Tree sells alcohol markers (just like sharpies) in a package of 8 for $1. I get 2 packs and double the amount of ink to intensify. Less alcohol helps the color get richer. I let them sit overnight. It's pretty easy to take out the nib (writing part) and cartridge with some hemostats. I always squeeze the rest out to make sure and get it all. Sometimes I do them in a small shallow dish (covered) and after they are done, I use a small funnel and pour them into similar bottles like you have. I even mix colors to try and get different colors. Love your channel.
I just did the same thing today. I used two packs of markers per jar, and I took the tip of the marker and used that to. There is so much ink in the tip part, I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone else doing that.
Connie Connie, I do that, too. Made sense to me.
Not sure where you get your bottles, but I buy mine at the local vape shops, in any size you want. They will sell them new empties. My 2 ounce bottles were like 50 cents each.
meduza65 I got some on Amazon last year. But, I'll try different ones next time as they squirt out too fast. Thanks for the tip of vape bottles.
@@amethyst1826 Most Welcome. I know what works for me and those are just as good as the fine point, over priced bottles.
I make my own. I don’t put my “ink” into the dropper bottles until it’s completely made. I put the 91-99% isopropyl alcohol and marker cartridge in a plastic soufflé cup first. You can get them on amazon. I let mine sit overnight. When you’re ready, then you can use the funnel to pour the completed ink into the dropper bottles. Also, it takes a little bit of tweaking to find the right ratio of alcohol per color for the right color saturation. The higher the alcohol content (I.e. 99%) the better the inks will work as well.
Oh, and highlighters make your pieces glow under black lights!!!
Yes:) im gonna try it myself, I was wondering about the concentration of ink to alcohol and now im gonna try hilighter ink too...I love glow in the dark myself, and practising is so much fun
I want to say I started out with 30ml of alcohol, and found that I wanted the concentration of the pigments to be bolder. I’m using about 20ml of alcohol now.
When using highlighters, bear in mind, the color of the highlighter doesn’t always translate to the color of the ink. For instance, purple highlighter makes pink ink.
@@Melissaschiffer77 thank you for the tip:) that makes sense
It's a bummer that you don't get white sharpie, as that's often the most expensive alcohol ink!
Cool knowing about the highlighters, as I've been wondering about those.
I cut the plastic covering off mine, it made sense to do so.
I love making my own-especially mixing two different color sharpies for a custom color. Even doing a metallic with a solid-they turn out stunning. Love your videos, by the way! Keep up the wonderful content!
Awesome, I totally enjoy how you are not afraid to try new ideas. I'm going to have to try this idea with my metallic Sharpies
Metallics don't work. I've tried.
@@amydavis4945 if someone has already tried and had a tip that metallics don't work, why waste the supplies? especially since alcohol is so expensive right now.
@@redshoesgirl I didn't see the other reply before I replied. Geez I'll delete it. You realize this was NINE MONTHS AGO.
@@amydavis4945 sorry. time is irrelevant on the interweb. :-) i'm still following tutorials from years ago!
but ya know, if people want to try metallics, who am i to say don't.
i am waiting for the alcohol and funnels from amazon, got my sharpies and ready to rock and roll!
i bought some cheapO glass salt and pepper shakers from dollar tree so i could make about the right amount right off the bat then pour into those little plastic bottles with the needle-nose tips.
We're not even going to talk about how her hair changed through the video?
I noticed that too
HAHA, I didn't even notice that! Too focused on the project. I had to double check to see what you were talking about.
I actually wondered that myself, but it was 24 hours... so I guess that's time enough to change hair color....
Been trying to figure out how it changes so much since I started watching her!
I agree I was like what happened to the hair color, that was a quick change, lol.
I do this with a highlighter too & its awesome! Also blacklight responsive. So fun!
I think your success would have been even better if you used 99% alcohol. You can't find it in stores but you can get it from Amazon. I think the colors would have dripped a bit more for you.. You can also get deeper/darker colors by using 2 or 3 markers per bottle. #ProTip do not leave the cotton in the bottle to long or they begin to break down and put chunks into your projects. lol Use throw away cups to soak and then put into bottles once the cotton is white. Thank you so much for sharing with us..I always enjoy your experiments...
i use dollar store travel bottles larger openings can remove the sharpie pad with tweezers
I buy 99% alcohol at my local stores.
@@racoonsister I am in Florida and you can not get it here. So wish we could..
In my local pharmacy, they keep the rubbing alcohol behind the counter. Maybe it is a similar thing at yours!
Not available in Alabama either.
i think the actual white alcohol ink might be denser than the rubbing alcohol/sharpie. Maybe the alcohol used is different than rubbing alcohol? Either way while not the intended effect it's certianly pretty! There's a lot of neat things u can do with markers and rubbing alcohol. I did something similar to this to make galaxy colored sneakers but i used crayola markers. Maybe using the ink from artist alcohol markers would look more like regular alcohol ink? IDK I'm not a resin artist just a regular artist and i usually work with alcohol markers so this is very interesting to me!
For a stronger dye that might be easy to get, try wood strainers, the concentrated little bottle stuff that you usually mix with water. When I was young I was a graffitiest and this is how we made our own cheap ink, but instead of mixing with water we used iso alcohol as it dried damn quick and clean (or back then we could get cheap BIG bottles of a certain brand and just put the whole thing in a marker). The stuff usually isnt that expensive, especially as its extremely concentrated you dont have to use heaps. One benefit of this is you could measure your amounts and try different concentrations and get consistent results.
Anywayz, love ya work!
I liked how they turned out, but that's my opinion.
They are not pastels, they are just extremely watered down.
Try using mason jars with multiples of each color, use only enough alcohol to cover them, keep them in the jars until the felt is completely drained of ink, and keep adding more marker felts and alcohol.
You will be making a very concentrated ink that can be used as is in tiny doses or watered down with more alcohol.
What if you tried using less white?
Less alcohol might keep them more saturated. They look really cool though, that cube one 😍😍
That cube one👀😍❤❤❤. Yaaasss!! The swirl in the large circle😍😍😍❤❤. All of them came out gorgeous!
Also cutting long ways down plastic coating of ink tube seemed to help another youtuber
Also a lot of Alcohol inks use a mix of Isopropyl Alcohol and glycerine as a blending agent which increases the brightness and allows more saturation. Also as you say the ratio of alcohol to pigment needs to be more weighted towards the pigment
Ughhh so much joy when I hear "welcome back to my channel!!"
I make all my own alcohol ink. I use “printer ink” to color my alcohol. I can make any color and it works. Enjoy your channel. 👍😀
I feel like this would be great for people just starting out to help save money for nice alcohol inks.
Hi Artsy I live in Puerto Rico and it is very difficult to get many craft item to do different crafts like I am trying now to do jewelry resin and I wanted to ask you if I could use in the resin pearl ex powdered pigments to color the items by the way I think you are great and a good teacher
I'd love to see you try this again, using the ink now that it's been made for a while! Also, maybe trying more than one sharpie per bottle? Make it more concentrated?
That pastel block @13:47 is gorgeous. I can see figures, even. The one on the left reminds me of a mother holding a child and the one in the right looks like a head and upper body.
Do you think the white is what made them so pastel?
Kymber Sage yes.
Yeah and its too heavy. You need low density white alcohol ink. Special made for petri work if your using homemade inks
can u make alcohol inks by mixing powder pigments with alcohol? just maybe do the pigments with a lil bit of alcohol until powder dissolves, then add more alcohol. idk
I would live to see heather do this next.
Well, you can mix eyeshadow powder into resin to colour it, but would adding it straight to alcohol make the alcohol act like bleach, maybe?
I gotta try that next pay day.
@@amethyst1826 I actually took loose pigment eyeshadow was no alcohol just threw it in the resin and it comes up beautifully it's like a smoky yet creamy lustrous look actually got from the dollar store LAX I have photos of the end product
You can mix mica or eyeshadow powders in alcohol ink and it makes a pearl color... you just have to make sure to shake the bottle really well
Pigments aren’t really gonna “truly” dissolve in alcohol or resin. In resin, pigments color it fully (meaning it’s gonna pretty much be opaque from the start with the pigments fully mixed in), alcohol inks make resin more transparent, acting closer to a tint (in order to get them opaque like with pigments you’d have to use more ink, or use an alcohol ink that can help to gather the color and make it sink (like the white ink Heather used)).
Powders are still really good to use, but they’re not gonna get the same effect as inks are made up of dyes and not powders.
I just started watching your videos a few days ago because I was looking up resin art on UA-cam to start learning what it entails
I wanted to say that on top of your artistic ability I absolutely love your personality ! Your positivity is what has pulled me into watching more of your vids and subscribing to your channel.
Thank you so very much for sharing your positivity and your love for flowers and resin 💕✌🏼🙃
You should have one cut the ink foam sections in half and two you should have removed the plastic lining off of them ~ but not bad first try! And these inks do work well with resin ~ including UV resin!!
Firstly the resin cured 👍 The white behaved normally but it seemed to absorb the colour inks and from what I could see in most they lost their transparency, . Brave trial you used so much products to do this for us, so young lady a HUGE THANK YOU 💖 these are super colours and great for simply tinting resin or mixing with the white and going for it 🌸✨
I wish you would have tried one where you mixed them in the resin and then poured 😥
You can also use the liquid printer inks to add to alcohol. Also, if you make any alcohol ink with pigment, you can add a BB from a BB gun in the bottle. When you shake up the bottle, the BB helps mix the ink. Like how spray paint cans are made with the marble in them to mix up the paint.
Love this Heather thanks so much xxx might be possible to add/mix white Pinata ink into rubbing alcohol to dilute its strength ? Not sure this would produce less white spots but the cube is my favourite for sure xxx
I have made my own alcohol inks to use on an epoxy cup. It worked pretty well. I love how everything came out. Your pieces are so pretty 🤩
I DEFINITELY think that it was a SUCCESS!!!! I love the looks of the little cube how you can see into it❣
It looks like the White is heavier than usual.but maybe these inks are lighter in weight than the other inks you use.The Sharpies probably need to be left for a couple days. I would love to see a few more without the White.
I love that round one so much. I was just making alcohol inks this morning so for a more intense color try RIT for your ink. Or if you want more variety for your money I ordered a tye dye set off amazon. Good luck
Does Rit work well with alcohol?
Via some prompting from Peter browns set of videos on trying alternative colors, I use food color and highlighters to color my pieces. It dosent do the drippy thing but it makes me happy not to have to buy super expensive colors, and the food color is transparent so any glitter or imbeds still show up nice.
Also, I went to the link you posted on a previous video about the resin you use and they just, weren't selling it. A little sad, I wanted to see if I liked it better then what I was using.
Your cube looks lovely
Nice to see another Peter Brown fan here!
Silver Sharpies!!! I have a ton of those. They work on every color, light or dark.
I was wondering if you used half the alcohol if the colors might be darker too....but, I too was totally shocked this worked and worked so very well.... awesome video... I am gonna try it now!
Maybe try to double up on the sharpies and using less alcohol? I don’t know but this came out way better than I thought it would, way to go!
I do this to make my alcohol ink for nail art. The more markers you put in each bottle, the more pigmented your ink will be. So I usually use 3 pink markers per bottle, etc. And the metallic markers are so so cool! Love you and your videos!
GIRL YOUR EYESHADOW!! I had to pause the video and take a moment! OMG why is everything you make amazing??
Pretty!! I would have liked to see one without the white alcohol ink or at least a little less.
Me too.. Pretty as your things usually are, I personally would love to be able to actually see the differences between the colors and how transparent they are. No offence, sincerely, but am tired of soooooo many colors and all mixed together and almost always with tons of white. Love what you do, how you present it, your curiosity, etc, etc .... just sometimes think 'less is more'. :)
Great video. Just something to be aware of....Sharpies ARE alcohol ink based... so really you are just diluting the alcohol ink already inside the markers.....thats why it was lighter. :)
The timing of this post is kinda funny. I started doing this with a 24 pack of sharpies a while ago and just finished up yesterday. I started with leaving the color filters in the bottles. I changed my mind after the first 2 and decided to let mine sit in plastic cups covered in cling wrap overnight, then pour them through a little funnel into the bottles and toss the filters. It was great to see in your video if they'd work in resin. Thanks for sharing!
sisssssss your makeup your hair the black making it pop im in loveeeeeee
All of these are so cool!! I especially love the cube. I was curious to see if the white would sink to the bottom and it looks like it did with all of the round ones. But the brilliant colors in the big circular one are spectacular. Fun experiment!!
I would love to see some without the while ink??
Same
Me too
Agreed, dont think the white was as flattering plus it was too heavy.
so many beautiful art you make, i love them, you are a beautiful person and very skilled.
Where I live inexpensive alcohol markers made for art are cheaper than sharpies. I've heard people say that there's some additive/filler in sharpies, that isn't in other markers. Considering this, I wonder if this would work with artists alcohol markers.
(I honestly have no idea if the filler/additive thing is true, or even believable, as I've never used sharpies.)
Most markers still use additives, just different additives that normally help the inks blend more. That said it shouldn’t be too much to have any particular issues (unless the markers are just so incredibly poor quality filled with fillers and end up keeping the resin from curing).
I double my markers and use a 91 percent or higher alcohol. The metallic markers work too but you have to shake while using them. Wish I could post a few pics of some things I did with them.
I make mine from pigments and 99 % alcohol you use a Popsicle stick take 4 to 5 med scoops then fill it with the alcohol and put a small rock or bee-gun pelt inside an shake
When I made mine I sliced the felt sharpie inserts in half.
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I make mine in portion cups(like jello.shot cups w lids) and I add the ink from 2 sharpies for more saturated colors. Leave over night. U can also get opal powders or even cheap eywshadow pots from dollar store and add. Then u get pearl inks.(just make sure u shake them well before use of course) Then I pour into my dropper bottles.
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That eye makeup tho 😍 combined with the hair, the whole look is absolutely fabulous
I just made these this morning 👍 So glad to see they worked well. As for them being light colors, I was afraid of that so I put 2 of the same colored markers in 1 bottle to try to get a more pigmented color.
I will be trying it tomorrow, I want to let it sit overnight 😊👍
New subscriber! Your video of you trying pictures in resin popped up on my feed and I'm OBSESSED with all your stuff. I'm def going to have to try this alcohol ink trick.
Just came across this video....love it! And you have a great fun personality which makes your videos enjoyable!
I have used rubbing alcohol to use sharpies as a medium for painting it was cool.
You should try and find a way to make white alcohol ink
I just started watching you and love your ideas can't wait to try them thank you so much for all your ideas
Also, for richer color, use 2 sharpie for each color. Shake every so often, let sit at least 12 hours for color to bleach out of pad. Hope this helps. I searched and watched several videos about making this ink. Just wonder how will work with epoxy resin and uv resin?
I agree 95% alchohol and use less will make colors brighter...I love your hair❣I had to go back cause what your hair color changed...You are fun to watch and very pretty...I use these inks for my nails...Thanks for sharing your art!!!💖
Homemade inks don't work as well on glass or ceramic pieces. I've made homemade alcohol inks and used some of them to ink up a vase. The look I wanted was dripping, which it worked well for, but if I wanted more of a traditional slower flow of inks I'd need to use regular alcohol ink. You could make your own that flow more like regular alcohol inks I would think if you mixed blending solution with the ink rather than alcohol (because blending solution as a binder in it) . But at that point you're probably better off just buying regular alcohol ink.
Wow these are so beautiful 🤩They came out gorgeous and it does work you did an awesome job I’m going to try that
I have been binge watching your videos and I love your art and your hair is amazing too
You can use dried out markers too. In fact that is all I use to make alcohol ink, granddaughters' dried out felt markers. Bonus* they don't fade in sunlight.
Can you try using eye shadow as a pigment! I saw someone mention it in a comment on Facebook once never saw the outcome! I think they where using it to like "paint" a mold before pouring resin
I use cheap eye shadow for my 2 part epoxy resin jewelry. For my UV resin I only use a tiny bit or it doesn't like to cure all the way. Or I do it in small pours at a time. Hope that helps. But experiment with different shadows and amounts to get the look you like.
And yes you can paint eye shadow on the molds before using UV resin. I've never tried with 2 part resin.
Awesome thank you! Im brand new to resin only just got my first bottles in the mail the other day! I have a heap of old eyeshadows that I no longer use on myself. Wanted to find another way of using them
She’s on her way. Good start ☺️
Absolutely LOVE them !!
The cube is AWESOME
I wonder how they would perform if you added less rubbing alcohol
Alcohol is a binding agent that's one thing I've learned with my experiments
You can play around. More alcohol will make weaker colours unless you add more ink. Less alcohol may give you deeper colours, but you just have to try different levels of alcohol vs ink.
The big circle is beautiful! How about trying to mix the white directly in the bottles with the colors (as you did in your other video)? Wouldn't you'll get rid of the white dots? 🤔
I absolutely LOVE your hair! I really enjoy watching you try out new things! Thank you!
I love the cube paperweight, it's like you cut a chunk out of an iceberg that's also rainbow
I also love this trend of you trying something thinking it won't work and finding out it actually works really well
Good Goddess your eye make up is stunning!!! xx
Heather is stunning! Lol. I love that she mixes up her make-up and hair colours just as much as she does her project colours!
What % strength of alcohol did you use?
91% or 99% alcohol is used
Wow,!! They turned out amazing!! I love the square one 💗
I've used alcohol inks for all my art , and yes , the Sharpie and rubbing alcohol 91% , is my goto favorite
Will 70% work the same cant find 90plus
You could probably use two sharpies in one bottle to deepen the color, or do two batches with less alcohol per batch then mix them together just to make it more saturated. I think the white is a little to heavy for the homemade inks. Yours turned out way better than when I tried it!
You can also use more then 1 sharpie in a bottle to make it a deeper color
try "aliexpress" for all kinds of silicone molds, alcohol inks, and a ton of other stuff...cheap!
i use them all the time for all kinds of things. i always says 'buy American' whenever possible, and it's too bad i can't get them this cheap in the U.S., but honestly...i GOTTA save the $$! (please don't judge!)
Can we get a follow up?
Did you use them again? Did they work better after ?
In other videos I watched, and saw this technique worked. You cut off the tip from the bottom of the sharpie, use needle nose pliers to pull out ink pad, and works a lot cleaner
Wonder what would happen if you used other types of pigments in alcohol, like gel food color, crushed watercolor tablets, India inks, mice powders, dry pigments like charcoal, etc.
It did work. I love what you did.
you can use the ink from a highlighter or sharpie directly to dye resin without diluting it
I would put two or three markers of the same color into the alcohol for more pigmented inks IF I MADE MY OWN
@Crucibelle Some of us like the input and ideas of others, I found your comment unnecessarily rude. You're rather negative and rude throughout this whole comment section. You could just thumbs down a comment if you don't like it.
You can make alcohol inks using acrylic paint and alcohol! Be cheaper in the long run ! You can get acrylic paints in all sizes of tubes!
I wonder if you can use watercolor paints ! Love the vid!
I watched Peter Brown...lol (?sp) use Sharpies and a multitude of other things as colorants for resin. It's pretty cool, check him out.
I like them a lot but would have left out the white. 😃
This is amazing I’ve really struggled to find a perfect pink most of the pinks in full sets are too blue based and before anyone says use red and white I’ve had the same issue with red either being to blue or turning orange.
these came out so beautiful, I just discovered your page and i love your spirit and your bubbly personality, i have also heard from numerous of people for more of a deeper pigment and more bang for your buck that its best to use extra printer ink cause its more concentrated
My friend and I are always playing with resin and it’s so fun to watch your videos!
i love the lava lamp look as it reacts. they look so cool! i like how they came out.
Can you use the torch and heat gun on that? I have tried looking for answers but didn't come up with any.
i was wondering, maybe you could use more than one sharpie per bottle to get a darker tint?
I'd say it works.
If you would like more saturation, I would say you could try using 2 sharpies to one bottle, or even cutting the sharpie insert into smaller sections, cutting the plastic outer shell of the cartridge. Another thing may be the TYPE of alcohol that is used, 99% Isopropyl, that is used often for cleaning computer circuit boards and the like (it dries even faster) that may work even better for this.
Definitely makes me want to try this out now, will have to after I move later in the year
XD
LOVE your eye shadow!!
I make my own metallic kind using powder pigment and 91% and up alcohol.
I love your hair and your projects are SO CUTE
I made my own alcohol ink about a year ago for my yt channel ,and I use mine for nail art but I've just started doing resin so I've used those in that xx
Tou could mix the alcohol and ink pads in cups so you can remove the pads, and when one is done remove it and add another pad to possibly make it darker ..... just a thought
I loved how they came out, yes it was lighter colors but all Beautiful. You make me wanna try this so bad. My brother works with resin & wood he is trying different things out I am going to send him this video. Thanks for sharing...💜💜💜