Thank you. I love to add glitter to my cards. I am on a severe budget now & am looking forward to this idea as I have mica powders. Be kind to each other. Stay safe. Love to all
awe you are so kind, i do get comments from people telling me i talk to much and they dont like my videos.. So i am aware i might need to reign it in a bit
@@SashaReade people can speed the videos up. But your followers, like myself, love the way you present you're real and are grateful for all that you teach us. So ty so much for all that you do.
Sasha, invest in some of these: BC Precision brand, 100 - 3/16" Inch Stainless Steel Nail Polish Mixing Agitator Balls and add them to your pots of DIY products. It makes mixing easy! I paid $5.95 USD in 2018 on Amazon and I even add them to any commercial products that didn't already have mixer balls. I use up to 3 balls in a pot or sprayer, depending on the size of the container and viscosity of the product. That magical number 3...always my favorite. They are worth their weight in gold! I love your videos, and you are one of the rare crafters who can chat with us and not drive me to leave your video early. You have an easy, friend next door way about you that is sincere and appealing. Thank you for all of your tips, hints, and techniques!
Wonderful information! Hint: get some stainless steel nail polish mixing balls (be sure they're stainless steel!) to put in your containers. I like 3 in each container. They really help! I got mine on Amazon a couple of years ago and they work great for my home brews of glitter mist sprays and such.
P.S. I know that you built a new craft room but scrolling through your list I can’t find any craft room tours or organization videos. Do you have any? I’m moving house and downsizing and so would love to see how you keep your “stuff” organized!! Thank you again!💕
Your video is by far the most helpful and informative that I've found so far. Thank you! Several other people have suggested using alcohol. There are three kinds available: 30%, 91%, and denatured alcohol (100 % alcohol and only available at home stores like The Home Depot, in the solvent section). What is your opinion of the alcohol method? One person used crystal clear floor polish instead of water, and she used no binder (it's probably in the floor wax already). What is your opinion of that? Have you made another video yet regarding this same subject?
This was SO interesting. It was like being back in chemistry. I have enough ingredients to try. The Wink of Stella is so expensive here in Canada. Glimmer and shine adds so much to any project. Thanks for doing all the work
Ha ha except that im utterly useless at chemistry. That was my issue Mary, it's so so expensive and there's so little in there. And i LOVE glitter and shimmer, ive been desperate to find more ways to keep the cost down and up my use of glitter! Been working on sprays at the moment, ha ha, dont look at my desk right now...
Thank you! Really great and your instructions are very very good! I so appreciate when a RUclips creator does the experiments beforehand and shares the results online with us simply because I don’t have the time to watch the experiments and have learned not to. You gave just enough information about what you tried so that we don’t make some big mistakes but rather we have a good experience!! Amazing! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I’m fortunate to have a lot of the supplies from my watercoloring! Are there any particular tutorials you can recommend where you have used these? I’m new to your channel but will be watching a lot! You are also so sweet and have just “ the right stuff “ to make videos! I hope you have amazing success for years and years to come!! 💕
I think you have taught us a lot it is all trial and error . We all do our best but sometimes someone helps others with saving money and you just save everyone money and help us get more out of what we have Thank you
Sasha it's 2 yrs later that I'm seeing this video. Wow!! Lisa Freeman, a USA Stampin Up demonstrator, makes a shimmer spray with 1 or 2 drops of the S.U. shimmer paint & some isopropyl alcohol in their spritzer tubes. This may also work with a fine brush to use as a 'Wink of Stella' on projects as it dries very quickly. Many thanks for your tutorials & they are not too long as they are so interesting. - Gaye Anderson
GREAT JOB...I had heard about the iridescent medium...and, just how great a quality product it is....I feel your homemade product with the iridescent medium and Windsor and newton paint came out BETTER than the wink of stella.🙂
Another good place for craft supplies is a store called The Range, they're pretty reasonable in prices too. You can purchase online too. 😊 I never get bored with your videos, very enjoyable.❤️
Thank you for sharing this, I have tried to mix my own Wink of Stella but just didn't get the colour right. I just ordered the 2 W&N's to give those a try. I have made tons of shimmer mists and for the mixing I added 2 or 3 little (gem)stones in the bottle. stainless steel mixing balls would work too. When I shake them they mix faster/better.
If you don’t have gum Arabic, honey MIGHT be a good substitute (especially if you use a really runny one and use a brush instead of as a spray) since honey is also used as a binder in watercolors. Heating honey makes it runny but I don’t know if it will separate once the mixture cools and settles. A second option is to spray your finished project with cheap hair spray. Also, other companies make iridescent medium that costs less than the Windsor Newton. Thanks Sasha for the comprehensive tests. An additional benefit to making your own is you can use the materials to make other things, like sprays, glitters, and pastes.
The thing that is different about the Windsor and Newton is that it is a watercolor medium. Most other iridescent mediums on the market are acrylic, for use with acrylic paints.. and those probably would be a disaster, just like the acrylic paints that she tried in this video.
Sasha, you look like a mad scientist mixing potions today. Your are so right that Wink of Stella is sooooo expensive and runs out quick. Thanks for the tutorial.
Hi Sasha I remember someone else making their own wink of Stella with liquid hairspray and eyeshadow and other sparkly powders, I am not sure I will have a look see if I can find out who it was huni , hugs Katie ❤️
Thanks for trying all these! I love wink of Stella but it is expensive and doesn’t last long (especially when I squeeze it and out comes half the contents of the pen!) I have iridescent medium. I’ll be ordering the gold and give it a go. I did save all my empty pens and will try to see if there’s anyway to refill them. I’ll let you know. Thanks!
Can you do your mixture in an empty wink of stella pen? I safe my old wos pens for watercolouring. And maybe another contender for a wos replacement: watered down Nuvo embellishment mousse in the mother of pearl colour.
Awesome job I learnt so much my first time to your channel and will definitely be back great information Thanks for doing all the hard labour I wouldn’t know where to start wink of Stella is insanely expensive here in 🇨🇦 this will be great when I get the recipe right! LoL 🦋🇨🇦
That's been a really interesting tutorial, thank you for doing the work and for sharing the downsides as well as the successful experiments. I've been keeping my clear Wink of Stella going a bit longer with tap water but I think I've finally finished the sparkle, on the very last bit of my piece. I wonder if the eyeshadows would work if warm liquid was used, rather than cold? If the particles could break down more effectively, maybe they wouldn't settle so fast. I tried to turn plain eyeshadow into paints, some years ago but it can't have been very successful, because I don't really remember how it turned out.
Thank you for posting this. I have alot of the supplies already so I look forward to giving it a go! Thanks A Bunch as always for sharing your knowledge.
This is such a help, especially when you realize how little is IN those Wink of Stella pens....shocking. Thank you so much! I think I would rather just use a paint brush!
Great tutorial. Very informative. On a side note, I tried mica powder and gum arabic but if rubbed right off my cardstock. Maybe my gum was old but I was wondering if you revisited any of your projects to check if it rubbed off. I love your RUclips videos.
Very informatve. I love my BLACK Wink of Stella brush...oddly I use it frequently. The colored Wink of Stella brushes are very pigmented....much like your mixture with your Stampin' Up ink mixture at the end of your tutorial.
I did make a black one but forgot to show it and swatch it! I love glitter and dark colours. Thank you for letting me know about the stella coloured ones, hard to work it out when you dont own one :) Thank you for watching
I've the iridescent medium and a lot of metallic and interference watercolors also liquid watercolors. I mixed the colors I need and put them in spray bottles so I've my own glimmer/shimmer mist. I also put my mixtures into waterbrush pens but I only use the very cheapy ones and have no issues. Ink refills are basicly the same than liquid watercolors. If you use watercolors you don't need gum arabic 'cause the watercolors have it allready in. 🙂
AHHHH yes.... this was another idea I wanted to do and forgot all about. I think i got thrown by the fact i ran out of jars ha ha. I have got TONS of watercolours! Right might tack that on in the next DIY video. Hoping to make up some shimmer spray bottles soon. Ive done them in the past but ive not got any right now. Thank you for watching.
Thank you for being you! For showing your messy, but great reult🥰 I have the nuvo aqua glimmer pen, and do not use it that much, so I do not feel the need to make more. I am curious about the perfect pearls a bit more, because I have them and do not use it... I did not quite understand what you did with them. Again, thanks for being yourself and show everything you like. 🥰🥰🥰
This is the best video I've watched on how to do this! Thank you so much for sharing it with us. I have both the Winsor Newton Iridescent Medium and the Winsor Newton Gold Drawing Ink, so I cannot wait to try this!
Hi Sasha, I’ve just found your videos, and I’m loving them! Thank you for all the research you’ve done 🤗. I have a couple of ideas. Gum Arabic is a ‘binder’ my pharmacist told me. It’s obviously used in many different applications, as I’ve learned from you this morning. I use it in a powder form (didn’t know it was available as a liquid) for cake decorating - when making sugar paste for very delicate sugar flowers, as it also makes them stronger. It’s used in cough syrups etc also so your use of it makes perfect sense. I meet once a month with a group of friends to make cards and one lady introduced us all to Wink of Stella. It is really expensive here in New Zealand, so when our pens run out, we refill them a couple of times with IPA - Isopropyl Alcohol. All of the glittery substance (mica?) which remains after the liquid has gone is then reinvigorated. We can manage two refills in this way, but obviously each refill has less sparkle than the previous one - it’s just a way to use all that remains in the bottom of the pen. We had tried water, but found it was not very successful. The IPA however evaporates very quickly and leaves the residue on your project. While I was watching your video I suddenly remembered the IPA and wondered how that would work instead of water - I imagine it would certainly help it to run smoothly, so when my current WoS pen runs out I’ll try your recipe in it, and also in a water brush. One litre of IPA costs less than one WoS pen in NZ so it’s a game changer for me. So, just an idea you might like to try. I’ve got a small jar of white perfect pearls and I put some in a spray bottle which I then filled with IPA as a mist - it works a treat. I’ve looked for the Arteza mica powders which you used, but for some reason, I can’t seems to get them. They do look great though. I’ve been trying to make some coloured mist sprays from the wicks of the beautifully coloured sharpie pens - the colours aren’t very bright, but now I’ll try putting some of the WN Irridescent Medium into the bottles. Thanks for all your ideas Sasha - you given me heaps of new projects to try, and you’ve got me thinking of new combinations at the same time! Awesome, thank you 😎. How wonderful it would be if you lived nearby and we could craft together! Anne
Hi Sasha, just for your interest, I’ve just searched for liquid Gum Arabic at our local art shop and found that they stock the Winsor and Newton brand of it. The description on the front says ‘Increases Brilliance, Transparency and Gloss.’ Also, I noticed you mentioned distilled water at the beginning of your video. My son started us on it, and I now use it for all drinking and cooking water, and on my face. I was not convinced of its value at the start, but I became a fan when I accidentally left some tap water in our coffee maker which sits in bright sunlight beside my kitchen window. Usually I empty it after each use. I forgot once, and it wasn’t used again for two weeks. When I went to refill the coffee maker, the water was green and slimy in the container 🤢. Out of interest, I sat a small, lidded jar on the windowsill, right behind the coffee maker. Two years later, it is still crystal clear, and I have a water distiller. We go through about 6 litres a day so it’s extremely economical - otherwise I would pay $1.00 per litre to buy it!
@@dinkuminkum Just thought you and Sasha may be interested to know that I too have decorated a few cakes and I aways used the paste food coloring (being very careful to never dip twice, if you know what I mean) But I have made spray inks with equal parts of distilled water and IPA and the food color paste and for a shimmer I have used the Dollar Tree eye shadows or mica powders or my favorite, the iridescent medium.
I noticed that the Wink of Stella also has a bit of glittery look. Yours looks beautiful but more pearlescent. Have you tried adding just a bit of all white fine glitter to the mix?
Maybe I'm not that smart. What are you going to use this on and how. That's what I'm wondering. My wink of Stella is rather clear. I put it on top of things to give them a little sparkle. It doesn't do much. I bought some iridescent additive for acrylic paint. And I have some ink additives that gives a metallic look. You have encouraged come to try those. I don't use much sparkle on my cards. I'm looking forward to seeing you make things with this. A lot of work went into this video. Thanks for all the great videos. I just subscibed. Just found you.😊
Thanks for the tutorial. I'm going to try out the pigment powder advertised as nail pigment and see that transpires. Another win for perfect pearls and arteza
Great demo. I have the W&N iridescent medium too and it gives lovely effects. I also have a lot of twinkling H2Os which I think were the original use of mica and I must get them out and use tfs
Hi. I wonder if the eyeshadow would be better if it was mixed with rubbing alcohol? Also, there are water pens that you can put water in the body of the brush. You could fill these with your mixture and add a steel ball to help mix when you shake it before use. I think the solution to the water pen might be to use rubbing alcohol, which will also dry quicker than water.
Wow! You went above and beyond to make the this video! I appreciate all the time and money you spent doing this. Did you try putting your mix in an old WOS brush? Thanks.
This is awesome thank you. I have a stash of mini jam jars (20 for £4 from Wilko) they are air and water tight, also being glass they are easy to re use or recycle. x
Great results in your experiments and omg girl how many jars can you get through :) Thanks for sharing your tips and taking the time to find out more about this for us, now that's dedication lol 👍👍🌺💖😉
Ha ha, i didnt realise how many i got through until i was prepping for filming and couldnt find any more! the problem was that i started experimenting but didnt keep track of what each one was that i made the first time! i just got really into it and was creating then when it came to actually planning my video, when i had found the best most realistic ones, i just had this big mess of jars and i had no idea what was what. So i did them all again but made sure to make labels the second time. I wanted to show what each product looked like and how it reacted to making it into a glimmer pen. I just have a lot of stuff in my office it seems....
I carve and paint gourds. You talk about the ink you use and I am wondering if it is alcohol ink? I am so pleased to find out about gum Arabic. If you don't use a "sticker medium" the mica just brushes off. Thank You
I just found this video and I was wondering if you tried putting your diy into empty wink of stellar pens?. Also I use glass or ceramic beads in my diy mixes to help with them mixing.
Hi Sasha, another fantastic video. Im very new to card making and watch so many videos for tips and inspiration. I am also buying alot of craft items too,thanks to you it isnt going to cost me as much as I thought. Thank you very much x
Sasha - One way to make sure that you know what your filming is to put down some paper with a 1" grid drawn on it with each line numbered. Make sure it's slightly bigger than your filming area. Shoot some video to see what your filming and use the numbers as a guide to allow you to mark out the filming area. Maybe create four "registration marks" on paper/plastic that you can temporarily glue down to your work surface so that you know what area your camera "sees".
Love what you have done, my thought is, have you (once finished) pulled apart or cut open a wink of Stella pen and had a look? It may be something so simple that means the difference of blocking up your pens and not if you get what I mean, you went to an awful lot of trouble, and It's very appreciated my end, but now I want to go and buy a wink of Stella pen and pull it apart now just to see what is so good about them. 😂
It's a very small intricate design. I have no way to replicate the inside of their pens so just made do with what i have :) They are amazing, just so blooming expensive for how fast i could go through them. I LOVE glimmer and shimmer on my projects
@@SashaReade I love your mixes better anyway, so thank you for making this tutorial, I'm new to cardmaking and found you thru Natasha, your cards are beautiful and I have a lot to learn, so having you guys helps me immensely, I've mainly gotten into polymer clay and wanted to make my own jewellery cards all pretty to sell. But guess I'm hooked on card making too now and Alina cradts on Ali Express too 😂🤦🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️ thank you so much for all you do xx
Sasha, I have powdered gum aribic, do I mix that with water first to make it into a liquid form. So tired of buying my wink of Stella, also can you use glycerin instead of water. Tfs
Question, I bought mica powders from Amazon this past week to use them like Brushos on paper. Do u think mica powders are like Brushos in any way shape or form. It’s the powder that u very lightly sprinkle onto paper, then spray water on for a beautiful watercolor effect. Please let me know, haven’t even opened them up yet. Been a bit under the weather.
HI Bonnie, no sadly Mica powder is nothing like Brushos. Brushos are like a powder ink. They are highly pigmented and are designed to react with water(I dont have any but have used them and seen them used). Mica powder is designed to be added to something else to add a bit of pigment or shimmer. They tend not to be as pigmented and can be mixed with water, but they arent designed to react to water if that makes sense? So you can blend them into water or products but they wont do much if you spray them with water other than dissolve into the water. Brushos are like super concentrated ink, spritz them with water and it activates the colour and makes it spread. I hope that helps?
Don’t risk your water brushes, put your diy formula in the empty wink of Stella pens! Would you make Pearl Ex the same as Perfect Pearls, but adding some gum Arabic? Thanks for all your hard work Sasha!
yea the problem is having enough of those to use for coloured versions as well. Ive got 1 empty one that i plan to use and fill with my good solution but i wanted to share with people how to get the effect without having to buy the wink of stella or if they cant get one where they live. With Pearl Ex, yes i believe so, I didnt see anything about it being set if you add water, which is what perfect pearls does. So i would assume pearl Ex needs some kind of adhesive additive to make sure it doesnt rub off. Thank you so much for watching and hanging out with me :)
@@SashaReade My understanding is PearlEx doesn't have a binder and Perfect Pearls does. PearlEx just blows away if you add it to paper with water. It's meant to be added to a medium that sticks. I have a lot of PearlEx that I bought, not understanding that it doesn't stick. I'm grateful for your research! Thanks for sharing your techniques!
Your liquid inks look like the dye type for fabric that Tusinieko (I’m sure I spelled that wrong!) ink makes. Same bottles, it looks exactly the same-yes expensive but out there still.
It's a great suggestion however i found when i did that with the gum arabic it made it go chunky and clotted, so i avoided the alcohol after that mess 😳
Hi Sasha, I seem to remember you eventually found a brand of waterbrush that worked with the Windsor ink solution. I can't seem to find that video. Could you again share the source of that brush available in the USA? Thanks so much! Hope your move is going well.
Thank you. I love to add glitter to my cards. I am on a severe budget now & am looking forward to this idea as I have mica powders. Be kind to each other. Stay safe. Love to all
NEVER appologise for the length of a video. We all love your tutorials 😀
awe you are so kind, i do get comments from people telling me i talk to much and they dont like my videos.. So i am aware i might need to reign it in a bit
@@SashaReade people can speed the videos up. But your followers, like myself, love the way you present you're real and are grateful for all that you teach us. So ty so much for all that you do.
Sasha, invest in some of these: BC Precision brand, 100 - 3/16" Inch Stainless Steel Nail Polish Mixing Agitator Balls and add them to your pots of DIY products. It makes mixing easy! I paid $5.95 USD in 2018 on Amazon and I even add them to any commercial products that didn't already have mixer balls. I use up to 3 balls in a pot or sprayer, depending on the size of the container and viscosity of the product. That magical number 3...always my favorite. They are worth their weight in gold! I love your videos, and you are one of the rare crafters who can chat with us and not drive me to leave your video early. You have an easy, friend next door way about you that is sincere and appealing. Thank you for all of your tips, hints, and techniques!
Wonderful information! Hint: get some stainless steel nail polish mixing balls (be sure they're stainless steel!) to put in your containers. I like 3 in each container. They really help!
I got mine on Amazon a couple of years ago and they work great for my home brews of glitter mist sprays and such.
GREAT Idea! Thanks for posting!
P.S. I know that you built a new craft room but scrolling through your list I can’t find any craft room tours or organization videos. Do you have any? I’m moving house and downsizing and so would love to see how you keep your “stuff” organized!! Thank you again!💕
Your video is by far the most helpful and informative that I've found so far. Thank you! Several other people have suggested using alcohol. There are three kinds available: 30%, 91%, and denatured alcohol (100 % alcohol and only available at home stores like The Home Depot, in the solvent section). What is your opinion of the alcohol method? One person used crystal clear floor polish instead of water, and she used no binder (it's probably in the floor wax already). What is your opinion of that? Have you made another video yet regarding this same subject?
You can just refill the Wink of Stella pens. Jennifer McGuire showed that so you don't have to keep them in those jars. Hope this helps ❤😘
This was SO interesting. It was like being back in chemistry. I have enough ingredients to try. The Wink of Stella is so expensive here in Canada. Glimmer and shine adds so much to any project. Thanks for doing all the work
Ha ha except that im utterly useless at chemistry. That was my issue Mary, it's so so expensive and there's so little in there. And i LOVE glitter and shimmer, ive been desperate to find more ways to keep the cost down and up my use of glitter! Been working on sprays at the moment, ha ha, dont look at my desk right now...
Thank you! Really great and your instructions are very very good! I so appreciate when a RUclips creator does the experiments beforehand and shares the results online with us simply because I don’t have the time to watch the experiments and have learned not to. You gave just enough information about what you tried so that we don’t make some big mistakes but rather we have a good experience!! Amazing! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I’m fortunate to have a lot of the supplies from my watercoloring! Are there any particular tutorials you can recommend where you have used these? I’m new to your channel but will be watching a lot! You are also so sweet and have just “ the right stuff “ to make videos! I hope you have amazing success for years and years to come!! 💕
I think you have taught us a lot it is all trial and error . We all do our best but sometimes someone helps others with saving money and you just save everyone money and help us get more out of what we have Thank you
Sasha it's 2 yrs later that I'm seeing this video. Wow!! Lisa Freeman, a USA Stampin Up demonstrator, makes a shimmer spray with 1 or 2 drops of the S.U. shimmer paint & some isopropyl alcohol in their spritzer tubes. This may also work with a fine brush to use as a 'Wink of Stella' on projects as it dries very quickly. Many thanks for your tutorials & they are not too long as they are so interesting. - Gaye Anderson
What a fun and informative tutorial. No one can ever get bored with you doing a video you are way to much fun. Thanks for doing all the leg work
GREAT JOB...I had heard about the iridescent medium...and, just how great a quality product it is....I feel your homemade product with the iridescent medium and Windsor and newton paint came out BETTER than the wink of stella.🙂
Beautiful colors and tutorial, thanks for sharing!
Another good place for craft supplies is a store called The Range, they're pretty reasonable in prices too. You can purchase online too. 😊 I never get bored with your videos, very enjoyable.❤️
Thank you for sharing this, I have tried to mix my own Wink of Stella but just didn't get the colour right. I just ordered the 2 W&N's to give those a try.
I have made tons of shimmer mists and for the mixing I added 2 or 3 little (gem)stones in the bottle. stainless steel mixing balls would work too.
When I shake them they mix faster/better.
Thank you for taking your time so I don't have to. 8-)
Fantastic! Thank you so much. 🌻🙏
If you don’t have gum Arabic, honey MIGHT be a good substitute (especially if you use a really runny one and use a brush instead of as a spray) since honey is also used as a binder in watercolors. Heating honey makes it runny but I don’t know if it will separate once the mixture cools and settles. A second option is to spray your finished project with cheap hair spray. Also, other companies make iridescent medium that costs less than the Windsor Newton. Thanks Sasha for the comprehensive tests. An additional benefit to making your own is you can use the materials to make other things, like sprays, glitters, and pastes.
The thing that is different about the Windsor and Newton is that it is a watercolor medium. Most other iridescent mediums on the market are acrylic, for use with acrylic paints.. and those probably would be a disaster, just like the acrylic paints that she tried in this video.
Sasha, you look like a mad scientist mixing potions today. Your are so right that Wink of Stella is sooooo expensive and runs out quick. Thanks for the tutorial.
Too Cool!!!😎 Thanks for sharing!!!
Thank you for this recipe. I will try it.
For leaking try the white plumber tape. Tape around the three thread of the jar. She if that helps and also use gamsol or distilled water...
Brilliant!!!
Wow, what a busy lady you've been! Thanks so much for this video. it's most helpful.
Hi Sasha I remember someone else making their own wink of Stella with liquid hairspray and eyeshadow and other sparkly powders, I am not sure I will have a look see if I can find out who it was huni , hugs Katie ❤️
Fantastic result, thank you so much. X
LOVE this! Thank you so much for posting!
Thanks for trying all these! I love wink of Stella but it is expensive and doesn’t last long (especially when I squeeze it and out comes half the contents of the pen!) I have iridescent medium. I’ll be ordering the gold and give it a go. I did save all my empty pens and will try to see if there’s anyway to refill them. I’ll let you know. Thanks!
That was exactly my thought.
Had a go at the iridescent plus gold mix - very impressed thank you !
My iridescent medium just arrived. Best DIY ever it works perfectly ty so much (Big hug)
Just found this but it’s 1:35 am. I need to go and get some sleep. I will revisit real soon. This is wonderful. Thank you.
Can you do your mixture in an empty wink of stella pen? I safe my old wos pens for watercolouring.
And maybe another contender for a wos replacement: watered down Nuvo embellishment mousse in the mother of pearl colour.
Yes, I refill my Wink of Stella pens
Awesome job I learnt so much my first time to your channel and will definitely be back great information Thanks for doing all the hard labour I wouldn’t know where to start wink of Stella is insanely expensive here in 🇨🇦 this will be great when I get the recipe right! LoL 🦋🇨🇦
I've just got to making this and I have put it in a spray bottle❤
That's been a really interesting tutorial, thank you for doing the work and for sharing the downsides as well as the successful experiments.
I've been keeping my clear Wink of Stella going a bit longer with tap water but I think I've finally finished the sparkle, on the very last bit of my piece.
I wonder if the eyeshadows would work if warm liquid was used, rather than cold? If the particles could break down more effectively, maybe they wouldn't settle so fast.
I tried to turn plain eyeshadow into paints, some years ago but it can't have been very successful, because I don't really remember how it turned out.
Thank you for posting this. I have alot of the supplies already so I look forward to giving it a go! Thanks A Bunch as always for sharing your knowledge.
Ah brilliant! I hope it works out really well for you. It's good fun experimenting. Thank you for watching
Not bored, this is great. Thank you Sasha.
Thank you Carol! Sometimes i really need encouraging words like this :)
I tried your sparkle recipe and am very pleased. Thank you for time and expense of all your experimenting and then sharing with us!
This is such a help, especially when you realize how little is IN those Wink of Stella pens....shocking. Thank you so much! I think I would rather just use a paint brush!
Great tutorial. Very informative. On a side note, I tried mica powder and gum arabic but if rubbed right off my cardstock. Maybe my gum was old but I was wondering if you revisited any of your projects to check if it rubbed off. I love your RUclips videos.
Such a useful and thorough video. Thanks heaps!
Very informatve. I love my BLACK Wink of Stella brush...oddly I use it frequently. The colored Wink of Stella brushes are very pigmented....much like your mixture with your Stampin' Up ink mixture at the end of your tutorial.
I did make a black one but forgot to show it and swatch it! I love glitter and dark colours. Thank you for letting me know about the stella coloured ones, hard to work it out when you dont own one :) Thank you for watching
I’m going to try this, I have just found wink of Stella and although I love the effect it’s very expensive
I've the iridescent medium and a lot of metallic and interference watercolors also liquid watercolors. I mixed the colors I need and put them in spray bottles so I've my own glimmer/shimmer mist. I also put my mixtures into waterbrush pens but I only use the very cheapy ones and have no issues. Ink refills are basicly the same than liquid watercolors. If you use watercolors you don't need gum arabic 'cause the watercolors have it allready in. 🙂
AHHHH yes.... this was another idea I wanted to do and forgot all about. I think i got thrown by the fact i ran out of jars ha ha. I have got TONS of watercolours! Right might tack that on in the next DIY video. Hoping to make up some shimmer spray bottles soon. Ive done them in the past but ive not got any right now. Thank you for watching.
Thank you for being you! For showing your messy, but great reult🥰 I have the nuvo aqua glimmer pen, and do not use it that much, so I do not feel the need to make more. I am curious about the perfect pearls a bit more, because I have them and do not use it... I did not quite understand what you did with them.
Again, thanks for being yourself and show everything you like. 🥰🥰🥰
Loved this tutorial, been wondering about how to DIY some Wink of Stella.😀
This is the best video I've watched on how to do this! Thank you so much for sharing it with us. I have both the Winsor Newton Iridescent Medium and the Winsor Newton Gold Drawing Ink, so I cannot wait to try this!
Thank you for this video!
Hi Sasha, I’ve just found your videos, and I’m loving them! Thank you for all the research you’ve done 🤗.
I have a couple of ideas. Gum Arabic is a ‘binder’ my pharmacist told me. It’s obviously used in many different applications, as I’ve learned from you this morning. I use it in a powder form (didn’t know it was available as a liquid) for cake decorating - when making sugar paste for very delicate sugar flowers, as it also makes them stronger. It’s used in cough syrups etc also so your use of it makes perfect sense.
I meet once a month with a group of friends to make cards and one lady introduced us all to Wink of Stella. It is really expensive here in New Zealand, so when our pens run out, we refill them a couple of times with IPA - Isopropyl Alcohol. All of the glittery substance (mica?) which remains after the liquid has gone is then reinvigorated. We can manage two refills in this way, but obviously each refill has less sparkle than the previous one - it’s just a way to use all that remains in the bottom of the pen. We had tried water, but found it was not very successful. The IPA however evaporates very quickly and leaves the residue on your project. While I was watching your video I suddenly remembered the IPA and wondered how that would work instead of water - I imagine it would certainly help it to run smoothly, so when my current WoS pen runs out I’ll try your recipe in it, and also in a water brush. One litre of IPA costs less than one WoS pen in NZ so it’s a game changer for me. So, just an idea you might like to try. I’ve got a small jar of white perfect pearls and I put some in a spray bottle which I then filled with IPA as a mist - it works a treat. I’ve looked for the Arteza mica powders which you used, but for some reason, I can’t seems to get them. They do look great though. I’ve been trying to make some coloured mist sprays from the wicks of the beautifully coloured sharpie pens - the colours aren’t very bright, but now I’ll try putting some of the WN Irridescent Medium into the bottles.
Thanks for all your ideas Sasha - you given me heaps of new projects to try, and you’ve got me thinking of new combinations at the same time! Awesome, thank you 😎. How wonderful it would be if you lived nearby and we could craft together! Anne
Hi Sasha, just for your interest, I’ve just searched for liquid Gum Arabic at our local art shop and found that they stock the Winsor and Newton brand of it. The description on the front says ‘Increases Brilliance, Transparency and Gloss.’
Also, I noticed you mentioned distilled water at the beginning of your video. My son started us on it, and I now use it for all drinking and cooking water, and on my face. I was not convinced of its value at the start, but I became a fan when I accidentally left some tap water in our coffee maker which sits in bright sunlight beside my kitchen window. Usually I empty it after each use. I forgot once, and it wasn’t used again for two weeks. When I went to refill the coffee maker, the water was green and slimy in the container 🤢. Out of interest, I sat a small, lidded jar on the windowsill, right behind the coffee maker. Two years later, it is still crystal clear, and I have a water distiller. We go through about 6 litres a day so it’s extremely economical - otherwise I would pay $1.00 per litre to buy it!
@@dinkuminkum Just thought you and Sasha may be interested to know that I too have decorated a few cakes and I aways used the paste food coloring (being very careful to never dip twice, if you know what I mean) But I have made spray inks with equal parts of distilled water and IPA and the food color paste and for a shimmer I have used the Dollar Tree eye shadows or mica powders or my favorite, the iridescent medium.
Thanks for going to all the trouble for us :). I have been making my own but didn’t know about the gum Arabic.
Really loved seeing all the detailed directions. I’ve been wondering about how to do this. TFS!
Excellent tutorial!
I noticed that the Wink of Stella also has a bit of glittery look. Yours looks beautiful but more pearlescent. Have you tried adding just a bit of all white fine glitter to the mix?
Very good ideas. Thanks.
Great video and tutorial mama God bless you. 🤗
I havnt tried this method. I use rubbing alcohol and hairspray. Might give it a try.
Love your information videos
Maybe I'm not that smart. What are you going to use this on and how. That's what I'm wondering. My wink of Stella is rather clear. I put it on top of things to give them a little sparkle. It doesn't do much. I bought some iridescent additive for acrylic paint. And I have some ink additives that gives a metallic look. You have encouraged come to try those. I don't use much sparkle on my cards. I'm looking forward to seeing you make things with this. A lot of work went into this video. Thanks for all the great videos. I just subscibed. Just found you.😊
Thanks for the tutorial. I'm going to try out the pigment powder advertised as nail pigment and see that transpires. Another win for perfect pearls and arteza
That’s fantastic I tried this and when they dry out you can use them as twinkling H20’s
Great demo. I have the W&N iridescent medium too and it gives lovely effects. I also have a lot of twinkling H2Os which I think were the original use of mica and I must get them out and use tfs
Hi. I wonder if the eyeshadow would be better if it was mixed with rubbing alcohol? Also, there are water pens that you can put water in the body of the brush. You could fill these with your mixture and add a steel ball to help mix when you shake it before use. I think the solution to the water pen might be to use rubbing alcohol, which will also dry quicker than water.
Could work, not done this technique in a while, but alcohol certainly helps keep away from mould
Did you make one just iridescent? I'd LOVE one like that!
This looks great, Sasha! One year later, are you still using this? And, did you find the non distilled water made your make not last?
Wow! You went above and beyond to make the this video! I appreciate all the time and money you spent doing this. Did you try putting your mix in an old WOS brush? Thanks.
I use the Windsor newton to make mine great video
It is amazing stuff! it really is. Thank you for watching :)
Fantastic video, I've often wondered about doing diy WoS, so thank you so much for taking the time to do this for your tubers! 😍
This is awesome thank you. I have a stash of mini jam jars (20 for £4 from Wilko) they are air and water tight, also being glass they are easy to re use or recycle. x
Great tip! Thank you!
Great results in your experiments and omg girl how many jars can you get through :)
Thanks for sharing your tips and taking the time to find out more about this for us, now that's dedication lol 👍👍🌺💖😉
Ha ha, i didnt realise how many i got through until i was prepping for filming and couldnt find any more! the problem was that i started experimenting but didnt keep track of what each one was that i made the first time! i just got really into it and was creating then when it came to actually planning my video, when i had found the best most realistic ones, i just had this big mess of jars and i had no idea what was what. So i did them all again but made sure to make labels the second time. I wanted to show what each product looked like and how it reacted to making it into a glimmer pen. I just have a lot of stuff in my office it seems....
@@SashaReade all us crafter's have a lot of items ermmm well maybe to many lol xx
Thank you for sharing!
I carve and paint gourds. You talk about the ink you use and I am wondering if it is alcohol ink? I am so pleased to find out about gum Arabic. If you don't use a "sticker medium" the mica just brushes off. Thank You
I just found this video and I was wondering if you tried putting your diy into empty wink of stellar pens?. Also I use glass or ceramic beads in my diy mixes to help with them mixing.
Thank you this was interesting. I will try this.
Did you try your whole recipe for the eye shadows and then a bit of vegetable glycerin? that may make it work and not fall right to the bottom
Hi Sasha, another fantastic video. Im very new to card making and watch so many videos for tips and inspiration. I am also buying alot of craft items too,thanks to you it isnt going to cost me as much as I thought. Thank you very much x
Sasha - One way to make sure that you know what your filming is to put down some paper with a 1" grid drawn on it with each line numbered. Make sure it's slightly bigger than your filming area. Shoot some video to see what your filming and use the numbers as a guide to allow you to mark out the filming area. Maybe create four "registration marks" on paper/plastic that you can temporarily glue down to your work surface so that you know what area your camera "sees".
Have you tried embossing powders? We're going to next time my craft buddy comes over.
Love what you have done, my thought is, have you (once finished) pulled apart or cut open a wink of Stella pen and had a look? It may be something so simple that means the difference of blocking up your pens and not if you get what I mean, you went to an awful lot of trouble, and It's very appreciated my end, but now I want to go and buy a wink of Stella pen and pull it apart now just to see what is so good about them. 😂
It's a very small intricate design. I have no way to replicate the inside of their pens so just made do with what i have :) They are amazing, just so blooming expensive for how fast i could go through them. I LOVE glimmer and shimmer on my projects
@@SashaReade I love your mixes better anyway, so thank you for making this tutorial, I'm new to cardmaking and found you thru Natasha, your cards are beautiful and I have a lot to learn, so having you guys helps me immensely, I've mainly gotten into polymer clay and wanted to make my own jewellery cards all pretty to sell. But guess I'm hooked on card making too now and Alina cradts on Ali Express too 😂🤦🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️ thank you so much for all you do xx
Hi Sasha I have seen 80 leak proof containers with black lids on ebay for £7.29 huni they hold 5ml / mg I think , hugs Katie xxx
Have you thought of using alcohol instead of water. It might let it run smoother and it will disappear, leaving the shimmer.
Great Idea! I'm going to have to try that!
Don't add as much water let it be a solid and just use a wet brush with it. This is for the eye shadow. I Love it.
Sasha, I have powdered gum aribic, do I mix that with water first to make it into a liquid form. So tired of buying my wink of Stella, also can you use glycerin instead of water. Tfs
Brilliant tips thank you! Ive been toying with buying the powdered form so i can have a go at making my own exploding powders as well
Question, I bought mica powders from Amazon this past week to use them like Brushos on paper. Do u think mica powders are like Brushos in any way shape or form. It’s the powder that u very lightly sprinkle onto paper, then spray water on for a beautiful watercolor effect. Please let me know, haven’t even opened them up yet. Been a bit under the weather.
HI Bonnie, no sadly Mica powder is nothing like Brushos. Brushos are like a powder ink. They are highly pigmented and are designed to react with water(I dont have any but have used them and seen them used). Mica powder is designed to be added to something else to add a bit of pigment or shimmer. They tend not to be as pigmented and can be mixed with water, but they arent designed to react to water if that makes sense? So you can blend them into water or products but they wont do much if you spray them with water other than dissolve into the water. Brushos are like super concentrated ink, spritz them with water and it activates the colour and makes it spread. I hope that helps?
Thnx very helpfull
Don’t risk your water brushes, put your diy formula in the empty wink of Stella pens! Would you make Pearl Ex the same as Perfect Pearls, but adding some gum Arabic? Thanks for all your hard work Sasha!
yea the problem is having enough of those to use for coloured versions as well. Ive got 1 empty one that i plan to use and fill with my good solution but i wanted to share with people how to get the effect without having to buy the wink of stella or if they cant get one where they live. With Pearl Ex, yes i believe so, I didnt see anything about it being set if you add water, which is what perfect pearls does. So i would assume pearl Ex needs some kind of adhesive additive to make sure it doesnt rub off. Thank you so much for watching and hanging out with me :)
@@SashaReade My understanding is PearlEx doesn't have a binder and Perfect Pearls does. PearlEx just blows away if you add it to paper with water. It's meant to be added to a medium that sticks. I have a lot of PearlEx that I bought, not understanding that it doesn't stick. I'm grateful for your research! Thanks for sharing your techniques!
Your liquid inks look like the dye type for fabric that Tusinieko (I’m sure I spelled that wrong!) ink makes. Same bottles, it looks exactly the same-yes expensive but out there still.
It is.. it's called 'all purpose' ink and you can get it on Amazon. Still relatively expensive, though.
Can you use food colouring instead of ink for the wink of stella
Yep! works just the same
@SashaReade
Sorry but can you use food colouring instead of ink for any project
I just use rubbing alcohol and super fine glitter. The alcohol evaporates almost immediately leaving just the glitter shimmer behind.
That would mean the shimmer rubs right off the cardstock, though.
@@onyxwelborne wonder if you could add some gum arabic?...
What do you use this for?
The T is silent. Pronounced sue kin echo. Lol. Love your tutorial.
Where can I find a picture of your swatch.
12:50 - I believe Tsukineko is pronounced “soo-kin-echo”
Yes it is
If you replace the water with alcohol your paper won't get as wet or warp as easily and it will dry much faster.
It's a great suggestion however i found when i did that with the gum arabic it made it go chunky and clotted, so i avoided the alcohol after that mess 😳
Glycerin might work in lieu of arabic gum.
Have you tried taking the Wink of Stella Pen apart
I have done, there are definitely extra bits in there that are not in standard water brushes
They are called pipets
Hi Sasha,
I seem to remember you eventually found a brand of waterbrush that worked with the Windsor ink solution. I can't seem to find that video. Could you again share the source of that brush available in the USA? Thanks so much! Hope your move is going well.
I thought wink of Stella was alcohol based.
What is the purpose of gum Arabic?
It is a binding agent. It makes sure the mica doesnt rub off
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