Enjoyed the vid and gives me ideas. Just a few tips, Try using canned air upside down to cool the hot glue. Lay down a base coat of white to have a color transition purple, POP. A base coat of silver will make it more metallic, Sparkle. Instead of the black, this is especially effective with candy colors and pearls. (translucent paints) So base coat first, then translucent paint. I'd prob do black, dry brush silver, then dry brush the purple for example. If you want to make it look more aged try a magic wash after it's painted, see here for the recipe: www.brookhursthobbies.com/paintingclinic/clinic/guestarticles/magicwash.htm
great ideas brock! I have recently made an elsa wand tutorial with the white base coat like your suggestions! Hopefully i can find time to edit and post the video today.
Great insights! You gave me two major tips I hadn't considered before. If you need some paint finish ideas, I figured out how to make it look like tree bark or antique bronze & would be happy to show you.
I've made these before using chopsticks, but I really liked how you anchored the gems with wire, and the crystal cluster looks cool. Great technique and ideas!
Rather than making the "prongs" out of glue, I'd suggest using some wire wrap ring techniques for holding stones in place. There are tutorials available on TH-cam. It looks better, I think, and will hold it much more securely.
Might I suggest you adhere the Crystal and the marble to the ends with two-part epoxy. As to the nail polish you can water it down using a lacquer thinner if you water it down enough you can actually run it through an airbrush.
@@magicalcuriosities7062 only use lacquer thinner which can be bought at Walmart in the paint section. Because if you use nail polish remover which is a different chemical it will cause your nail polish to get gloopy and nasty.
You had my attention with the wands, but you had my heart (and my subscribe) with your daughter doing this with you. I'm a single mom of a very creative 9yr old girl and I love turning fun projects like this into our homeschool art class. I'm making wands with UV resin and this gave me some great ideas about how to secure the ends with the florist wire before freezing it with the resin. Thank you!
My daughter is been making wands since she was 7,she’s 17 now,she uses branches that she finds around,her stones,are the ones she finds at the beach,and antique stores.Yours are nice also.
They all look absolutely beautiful! You guys are really talented and I love the fact that you incorporated the children self. Very talented and inspiring.❤
Just an idea, if you want? Add some small chains from the end with the crystal or marble and decorate with beads or crystals and market them as hair sticks. I would totally wear the crystal cluster or the marble in my hair.
Thank you so much for teaching this! I've always wanted to make something like this before, but I never really realized that I could just use materials I already had at home to make them (though I'll probably have to replace the dowels with wooden chopsticks and sandpaper with nail filers lol)! Fun fact: That blue nail polish you were using that showed up as red is an iridescent nail polish. Basically, it has clear, colored glitters suspended in a nail polish base that can shift colors (different from multichrome, which I'll explain later) depending on the background and/or the angle you look at it. So, if you put it over white, it shows up as blue, but if you put it over black it shows up as red. That's why it showed up as red on the wand but blue in the bottle, but you could still see the red flecks in the bottle. Multichrome is usually a metallic sort of pigment that shifts between different colors based on the angle you are looking at it. Unlike iridescent glitters, it is opaque and keeps shifting between those same colors in the same way no matter the background. The blue nail polish you were using when you were mentioning that it is hard to paint using nail polish is actually one that I also have. That particular nail polish is very sheer and has little pigment in it, which is probably why you weren't getting the results you wanted (assuming the results you wanted was a bit more of a pigmented look). If I assumed right, then there are a lot of other polishes that will work great with this. But if I assumed wrong, and it's just that nail polish is just hard to use, that's fine. Nail polish isn't exactly created for dry-brushing, after all, though it is possible if the polish has more pigment in it. (I learned all this from watching tons of nail art videos and doing some nail art of my own just for fun. It's surprising how much information you can get from learning art stuff, and I love it, which is why I came to watch the video.)
@@magicalcuriosities7062 No worries about late replies! I hope the information was useful for you as well! I haven't had the time to make any wands yet, but when I do get the chance, I'll let you know how it went! :D
Thats so great! This method works great with real crystals too, which for magick work youd probly want. good luck on your wand adventure! Here's a link to a few simple crystal ones i've made with this method: th-cam.com/video/kpHIf9a-_3c/w-d-xo.html I plan to learn more about making healing wands with crystal point wands and chakra gems. So many ideas, so little time! Hopefully after Christmas I can do it and post a video.
Absolutely beautiful wands and so easy to create---or at least you make it look easy. What about using real stones and crystals? Will this methods work as well?
Yes! Preferably I’d get ones with a bead hole but if you can’t do that you can secure it similar to how the marble is secured (it’s less of a strong connection this way and covers more if the stone)
A couple of suggestions for securing the beads to the wand. On the teardrop bead coat the wire with the hot glue and insert it in the hole of the bead then if the dowel is like a 3/8 inch diameter using a Dremel and a small drill bit drill a hole in the dowl then apply the glue to the wire and insert into the hole immediately. Then you can do the build-up around the base. For the bead with the hole in the middle. Make-ahead on one end of the wire so that it won't get past the hole and glue it there and then make the tail of the wire long enough to tightly wrap around the top and then hit it with a shot of glue. Then make the claws to hold into place.
WOW! This is SO COOL! My sister in law LOVES sculpting with polymer clay and just recently got into painting glass eyes, I will have to share your tutorial with her. Thank you for sharing!
+Amanda Anderson sweet! I love poly clay it’s my favorite medium. I make dragon eye boxes. Maybe she does them already but if not I’ll be doing a tutorial soon on how to sculpt them. It’s so easy!
Omg thanks for this video!! Now I can make my own custom wizard and mystical like stuff! Dragons, Wizards, Fantasies.. I love those stuff so much! Thank you so much! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 🧙♂️ 🐉 🧚🏻♀️
I never wanted to use any crystals or any shining / shimmering stuff on my wands, cause I thought I'd look too weird ?! Well... changed my mind. Thx for the video! Well explained and the wands look fantastic.
+Maat Cosplay lol! My first were matte too, trying to make them look like wood. I happened upon the gold look because my daughter chose the color and it changed my whole process!
@@magicalcuriosities7062 Your daughter got a good taste in wand colours then. :) Special thx to her too. Added some gold to my brown wand yday and I liked it much better. Cheers ♥
Hi I'm an artist myself and I love getting creative with art supply's. Thank you for the video It's artist like yourself that keeps creativity alive :) Awesome wands you and your daughter did a Great Job :)
Wonderfully Done! I am extremely impressed for this being your first video! Your work is amazing and I love how they all came out!! Best out there, I think anyway!! I am going to try the wire! Love it. Also, when I add a marble when making my wand, I add texture with the hot glue to use as a setting for my marble. I let the built out setting cool first before I apply the marble. Building out the top also gives you a thicker platform to work with. The texture helped adhere to the glass. So far So good!!!!
I made my own wand and instead of using those sticks, I pulled the brushes of some of my old wood paint brushes because they were already kind of pointy and it worked really well
Franklin G. Roberts III what a fantastic idea! I’m just now making an update on some painting tips I’ve learned since this video and will include this brilliant idea!
I would sponge on the nail polish. Use a wedge make-up sponge and then paint a few coats of polish on the sponge then immediately sponge it onto your surface. The sponge will absorb the excess paint from the polish but leave behind the pigment. This is also the best method to paint your nails with glitter polish.
Love this video! I've mad wands but wanted to try adding crystals, beads n stones and was unsure how. You also provided a lot of helpful tips on hot glue (putting in water to quick set n did temps to use hot glue gun), paint techniques, etc that were very helpful! I would watch more wand making videos if you make any! I too experienced those color flash colors showing up as a diff color than on the bottle depending on the base coat.
I’m so glad it was helpful for you! I have a few want tutorials updates I need to put up. I’ve learned a few more awesome tricks including working with black glue, sea shells, and raw crystals.
Very pretty. I love everything SPARKLY! These look like so much fun. I'm thinking hand-outs for birthday parties, which of course would include adults since many of us are still kids at heart. Great job. Good luck.
You know, if you use a thinner dowel, you might be able to build a wand with various beads directly threaded onto it which could make for an interesting look for the completed wand. You might also want to try adding layer of polyeurethane gloss over the paint and possibly the crystal, or use some of the other sealant options, either brush on or spray on. It'll protect the work you did to paint them.
AzraelThanatos interesting idea. You mean along the shaft? When I’ve used thinner dowels in the past they break easily with use (my kids are great at testing durability lol!). But might be worth trying
@@magicalcuriosities7062 The durability shouldn't be that different, at least if you mainly use the beads that can fit along it. You'd be, essentially, using the dowel as a core for the wand with the majority of the strength being from the beads and other things used to build off of it. But, if you want something stronger, there are some interesting metal rods that would work as well for it.
These are FANTASTIC!! Going to implement these tips and tricks into my beach walking stick. I found the perfect piece of wood for it and now I have a much better grasp of what I want for the design and now, thanks to your video, the tools to make that magic happen!! Thank you!! Liked and subscribed! ❤️
Thank you, I found this tutorial EXTREMELY helpful. 😁 I've been working a DIY purple witch costume and wanted to add a purple wand so this helped me out a great deal on how to make my own!
Stain the wood dowel with wood stain. Use any shade of stain you want from a dark stain to a very light stain. I like the stain method because it makes your wand look a little more wood.
Thank you for this video! It is perfect for me to create a magical fairy wand to give with a fairy journal I made for a friend of mines little girl on her 8th birthday! The journal has a secret back with a box inside with lots of fairy trinkets inside! This wand will be perfect to finish off this gift!
Wondered how to get that taper that wands have at the end. Saw a long session with carving knife and sand paper....then I saw you use a pencil sharpener. DUH! That little tip alone is worth watching! And the temperature of your hot glue makes a difference. The low temp doesn't take as long to cool and solidify. No dunking required. That's my tip to you..
love it! i read somewhere too about using canned air to make it cool down. I kind of like how really hot glue melds together more smoothly and gets onto the rod faster, but it has its draw backs. BUT...i recenlty realized using the low temp then later going back and just smoothing things out with a heat gun works pretty well too. so fun. Thanks for you input Anita! :)
awesome! I make a lot of things and these wands are always the top seller. There's fancy expensive ones that adults buy for themselves, and simple cheap ones they buy for their kids, lol. Its great.
RuinedTemple Ah, no, I watched this video, not my peers, haha! I’m saying I watched this video myself and made the wands for my class. :) And I’m referring back to the past- I’m in sixth grade currently, I’m just thinking back to the memories when I wasn’t drowning of homework, haha.
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Enjoyed the vid and gives me ideas. Just a few tips, Try using canned air upside down to cool the hot glue. Lay down a base coat of white to have a color transition purple, POP. A base coat of silver will make it more metallic, Sparkle. Instead of the black, this is especially effective with candy colors and pearls. (translucent paints) So base coat first, then translucent paint. I'd prob do black, dry brush silver, then dry brush the purple for example. If you want to make it look more aged try a magic wash after it's painted, see here for the recipe: www.brookhursthobbies.com/paintingclinic/clinic/guestarticles/magicwash.htm
great ideas brock! I have recently made an elsa wand tutorial with the white base coat like your suggestions! Hopefully i can find time to edit and post the video today.
Very beautiful , I will also make one of them , I also have all the materials for making it . 👌👌 Thanks for this great idea.
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For years now I have been trying to make makeup brushes to look like wands with real crystals. Thanks to you I have a general idea on how I can do it
Giselle Frias what a great idea!
Giselle Frias that’s a really cool idea! Makeup brushes would be something nice to add to a girls party goodie bag.
oh you could also use paint brush handles
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Brilliant 🧠
This looks like a great use for my husband's old drumsticks. Thank you.
Renee Barger what a great idea. Those would be some substantial wands!
i wish i could see how they came out!
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unicorn kitty kitty Pugh wahoo!
That’s awesome!
So LUCKY!
I so want to make these into crochet hooks!!!!!
+Brandyce Wonderland what a great idea!!!
That would be awesome😎
@@ghettomama4299 I've already started gathering supplies to make it possible.
Brilliant,🧠
Wow.. That would be super extra crochet hooks.. Nice idea.. I think ill design myself too.. Thanks!
Great insights! You gave me two major tips I hadn't considered before. If you need some paint finish ideas, I figured out how to make it look like tree bark or antique bronze & would be happy to show you.
Benjamin Lee-Roche I would be interested to see that too. Do you have a video showing that please
That’s so cool! We should have a wand making day and if your ok with it we could maybe even live stream to show subscribers your technique
@@magicalcuriosities7062 please do this for us!
@Benjamin Lee-Roche please show us!!!
Thank you.
I'm in South Africa and our wands sold out. Your tutorial is brilliant.
Wahoo! That’s great! They are my best selling thing too. And low upfront cost so it great.
I've made these before using chopsticks, but I really liked how you anchored the gems with wire, and the crystal cluster looks cool. Great technique and ideas!
WOW!!!! I love the wand!!!!! It's soooo beautiful!!! This was so helpful and I love the way you explain it properly!!!!
Thanks so much!!!
Rather than making the "prongs" out of glue, I'd suggest using some wire wrap ring techniques for holding stones in place. There are tutorials available on TH-cam. It looks better, I think, and will hold it much more securely.
Great idea!
Now i have Wand ideas for my Harry Potter OC 😂❤🐍
+Ellinør Cipher wahoo! 🧙♀️
Brilliant🧠
Yeeeesd
Are you a slytherin ?
Might I suggest you adhere the Crystal and the marble to the ends with two-part epoxy.
As to the nail polish you can water it down using a lacquer thinner if you water it down enough you can actually run it through an airbrush.
+speedyegg brilliant idea!
@@magicalcuriosities7062 only use lacquer thinner which can be bought at Walmart in the paint section. Because if you use nail polish remover which is a different chemical it will cause your nail polish to get gloopy and nasty.
My thoughts exactly! 2-part epoxy would work brilliantly for a project like this.
Amazing. My sister and I will be trying this together! She loves wands and magic
Yay! Me too! Good luck!
You had my attention with the wands, but you had my heart (and my subscribe) with your daughter doing this with you. I'm a single mom of a very creative 9yr old girl and I love turning fun projects like this into our homeschool art class. I'm making wands with UV resin and this gave me some great ideas about how to secure the ends with the florist wire before freezing it with the resin. Thank you!
I love it! crafting is deffinately my go to bonding activity. bonus if its harry potter related. my daughters a fellow fanatic. 😘
My daughter is been making wands since she was 7,she’s 17 now,she uses branches that she finds around,her stones,are the ones she finds at the beach,and antique stores.Yours are nice also.
That is awesome! they sound so pretty. any links to her work?
I haven't seen anyone else make wands like this. Definitely feeling inspired, thank you!
They all look absolutely beautiful! You guys are really talented and I love the fact that you incorporated the children self. Very talented and inspiring.❤
E6000 with a dab of hot glue can help the beads, marbles ect. Especially the smoother surface. These are really neat and look cool.
Thank you for the tip! I love e 6000
Thank you! I’ve been wanting to figure out how this is done. Your video was a great help and much appreciated!!
They look absolutely stunning 😍😍😍❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you!
i really love your tutorial! very simple yet highly customizable. thank you for sharing this!! 💙
Thank you so much!
I am a wood carver and never thought of using my jewelry wire skills to add to my ten fair wands. Thanks
They look fantastic and I like that you're training the next generation of artists :)
My kids have now just started their own rafting business even. It’s so cute. They make felt food.
Absolutely gorgeous! Thank you!
Great job, I’m going to try your method. I promised my niece and nephew I would make them each one. Wish me luck.
These are gorgeous, thank you so much for making this tutorial! It may have been your first but it was super easy to follow so thanks!
+FiresofDarkness thanks!
Thanks so much. I was looking for a way to attach a crystal to the top of my walking stick. This helps a lot!
Just an idea, if you want? Add some small chains from the end with the crystal or marble and decorate with beads or crystals and market them as hair sticks. I would totally wear the crystal cluster or the marble in my hair.
That's a great idea!
Thank you so much for teaching this! I've always wanted to make something like this before, but I never really realized that I could just use materials I already had at home to make them (though I'll probably have to replace the dowels with wooden chopsticks and sandpaper with nail filers lol)!
Fun fact: That blue nail polish you were using that showed up as red is an iridescent nail polish. Basically, it has clear, colored glitters suspended in a nail polish base that can shift colors (different from multichrome, which I'll explain later) depending on the background and/or the angle you look at it. So, if you put it over white, it shows up as blue, but if you put it over black it shows up as red. That's why it showed up as red on the wand but blue in the bottle, but you could still see the red flecks in the bottle.
Multichrome is usually a metallic sort of pigment that shifts between different colors based on the angle you are looking at it. Unlike iridescent glitters, it is opaque and keeps shifting between those same colors in the same way no matter the background.
The blue nail polish you were using when you were mentioning that it is hard to paint using nail polish is actually one that I also have. That particular nail polish is very sheer and has little pigment in it, which is probably why you weren't getting the results you wanted (assuming the results you wanted was a bit more of a pigmented look). If I assumed right, then there are a lot of other polishes that will work great with this. But if I assumed wrong, and it's just that nail polish is just hard to use, that's fine. Nail polish isn't exactly created for dry-brushing, after all, though it is possible if the polish has more pigment in it.
(I learned all this from watching tons of nail art videos and doing some nail art of my own just for fun. It's surprising how much information you can get from learning art stuff, and I love it, which is why I came to watch the video.)
how cool is that!?!?!?! thanks so much for the cool info. :) hope your wand making was fun (i'm a slow replier, sorry.)
@@magicalcuriosities7062 No worries about late replies! I hope the information was useful for you as well! I haven't had the time to make any wands yet, but when I do get the chance, I'll let you know how it went! :D
Like the realistic style showing what worked and what needed adjustments. Thank you!
Thanks! Glad it was helpful!
This is absolutely perfect! Thank you so much for sharing! I'll make my own wand tomorrow!❤❤❤
Did it work out well for you?
Those wands were so pretty. I study witchcraft and I've been trying to upgrade my wand now I have ideas, thanks u for the video.
Tabitha Pinnell me too, I will need to make a wand like this
what do you do during witchcraft imma curious
Thats so great! This method works great with real crystals too, which for magick work youd probly want. good luck on your wand adventure! Here's a link to a few simple crystal ones i've made with this method:
th-cam.com/video/kpHIf9a-_3c/w-d-xo.html
I plan to learn more about making healing wands with crystal point wands and chakra gems. So many ideas, so little time! Hopefully after Christmas I can do it and post a video.
coolskeleton 95 cast spells, meditate, study. A lot of studying.
「 wxffles 」 Yep! Witchcraft as a real practice and belief, not like the “witches” you see on TV and Halloween.
These are so beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
This is good for your first diy video
+Sophia Collins thank you!
Absolutely beautiful wands and so easy to create---or at least you make it look easy. What about using real stones and crystals? Will this methods work as well?
Yes! Preferably I’d get ones with a bead hole but if you can’t do that you can secure it similar to how the marble is secured (it’s less of a strong connection this way and covers more if the stone)
Those wands are so cool...
IMMA DO SOME-
A couple of suggestions for securing the beads to the wand. On the teardrop bead coat the wire with the hot glue and insert it in the hole of the bead then if the dowel is like a 3/8 inch diameter using a Dremel and a small drill bit drill a hole in the dowl then apply the glue to the wire and insert into the hole immediately. Then you can do the build-up around the base.
For the bead with the hole in the middle. Make-ahead on one end of the wire so that it won't get past the hole and glue it there and then make the tail of the wire long enough to tightly wrap around the top and then hit it with a shot of glue. Then make the claws to hold into place.
Great tips!
WOW! This is SO COOL! My sister in law LOVES sculpting with polymer clay and just recently got into painting glass eyes, I will have to share your tutorial with her. Thank you for sharing!
+Amanda Anderson sweet! I love poly clay it’s my favorite medium. I make dragon eye boxes. Maybe she does them already but if not I’ll be doing a tutorial soon on how to sculpt them. It’s so easy!
So want one lol love how u still incorporate your crafty stuff into ur magic stuff... Love it finding nice beads here is hard
I know, I’m always on the hunt for nice beads. I recently started using raw crystals and shells and will be adding more tutorials on those
Love this. My daughter and I love wands like these...so great that we can now make our own!!!
Yay! Something fun to do while stuck indoors.
I made mine about 3 or 4 years ago, watching this video. Thanks for the tuttorial!
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Thank you for watching! Have fun! Stay magical 🧙♀️🧚♀️🧜♀️
I'm going to have to try this for future wand making!
+loser-by-choice good luck!
Omg thanks for this video!! Now I can make my own custom wizard and mystical like stuff!
Dragons, Wizards, Fantasies.. I love those stuff so much!
Thank you so much! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 🧙♂️ 🐉 🧚🏻♀️
+_Dawn The DawnFury Dragon_ thanks so much !!!
Loved the video! Some great tips! thanks
I never wanted to use any crystals or any shining / shimmering stuff on my wands, cause I thought I'd look too weird ?! Well... changed my mind. Thx for the video! Well explained and the wands look fantastic.
+Maat Cosplay lol! My first were matte too, trying to make them look like wood. I happened upon the gold look because my daughter chose the color and it changed my whole process!
@@magicalcuriosities7062 Your daughter got a good taste in wand colours then. :) Special thx to her too. Added some gold to my brown wand yday and I liked it much better. Cheers ♥
Hi I'm an artist myself and I love getting creative with art supply's. Thank you for the video It's artist like yourself that keeps creativity alive :) Awesome wands you and your daughter did a Great Job :)
Thank you Wayne! The kids keep me young. I love creating with my little ones
Wonderfully Done! I am extremely impressed for this being your first video! Your work is amazing and I love how they all came out!! Best out there, I think anyway!! I am going to try the wire! Love it. Also, when I add a marble when making my wand, I add texture with the hot glue to use as a setting for my marble. I let the built out setting cool first before I apply the marble. Building out the top also gives you a thicker platform to work with. The texture helped adhere to the glass. So far So good!!!!
That’s such a great tip! I’ve learned a lot since the video too so I will add some updated videos with those ideas and include your tip!
I made my own wand and instead of using those sticks, I pulled the brushes of some of my old wood paint brushes because they were already kind of pointy and it worked really well
Thanks so much for this video! I greatly appreciate it! Beautiful!
Suzie B your welcome!
Very helpful .... thank you!
Great tutorial,,, to prevent the overspray, wrap with plastic wrap or cover with silly putty; the silly putty peels right off when you’re finished.
Franklin G. Roberts III what a fantastic idea! I’m just now making an update on some painting tips I’ve learned since this video and will include this brilliant idea!
Beautiful!! Might make one of these for my niece. Thank you for sharing!!!
You’re welcome 😊hope it went well
Ficaram lindas de mais! Parabéns! 😍💙
Inspiring! So creative!
Thank you for your video. Your wands are awesome definitely going to try make me a few. Love them.
Great video, definitely going to try your method, thank you for sharing
Thank you! I hope it worked out well for you! If you have any questions hit me up
Great project, really cool how you manipulate the glue.
Anastasia's Hole in the Holler Creations thank you! It’s surprising how much you can do with hot glue. I’m learning more every day
I would sponge on the nail polish. Use a wedge make-up sponge and then paint a few coats of polish on the sponge then immediately sponge it onto your surface. The sponge will absorb the excess paint from the polish but leave behind the pigment.
This is also the best method to paint your nails with glitter polish.
Love this video! I've mad wands but wanted to try adding crystals, beads n stones and was unsure how. You also provided a lot of helpful tips on hot glue (putting in water to quick set n did temps to use hot glue gun), paint techniques, etc that were very helpful! I would watch more wand making videos if you make any! I too experienced those color flash colors showing up as a diff color than on the bottle depending on the base coat.
I’m so glad it was helpful for you! I have a few want tutorials updates I need to put up. I’ve learned a few more awesome tricks including working with black glue, sea shells, and raw crystals.
Very pretty. I love everything SPARKLY! These look like so much fun. I'm thinking hand-outs for birthday parties, which of course would include adults since many of us are still kids at heart. Great job. Good luck.
+Margaret Nauta love that idea! I have made them for valentines class handouts before (smaller quicker ones than these but same idea)
Cute ideas thank you for sharing
I LOVED this video. The technique gives great results and inspires me to get crafting!
Thank you so much! I hope it goes well for you. It’s kind of addictive and so easy that I keep coming back to it for a good relaxing mindless craft.
You know, if you use a thinner dowel, you might be able to build a wand with various beads directly threaded onto it which could make for an interesting look for the completed wand.
You might also want to try adding layer of polyeurethane gloss over the paint and possibly the crystal, or use some of the other sealant options, either brush on or spray on. It'll protect the work you did to paint them.
AzraelThanatos interesting idea. You mean along the shaft? When I’ve used thinner dowels in the past they break easily with use (my kids are great at testing durability lol!). But might be worth trying
@@magicalcuriosities7062 The durability shouldn't be that different, at least if you mainly use the beads that can fit along it. You'd be, essentially, using the dowel as a core for the wand with the majority of the strength being from the beads and other things used to build off of it.
But, if you want something stronger, there are some interesting metal rods that would work as well for it.
Beautiful tutorial ❤️!! Thanks
Thank you!
That was amazing! Thank you so much for sharing!
Sunshine Dawn thank you so much for watching !!! 🥳
THIS LOOKS SO COOL !!!!😍❤️❤️ OMG I WILL TOTALY DO THIS !!!!
YOURE SO CREATIVE 😱
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aw thank you so much! I hope you try it, it is really fun. Fun to do with some friends as a group craft too
This was brilliant, I love how they all turned out, you are very creative! Xx
One OF THE BEST things that I've seen in my life!!!!!!!!!
ah! your too kind. I hope you have fun making some!
These are beautiful!
Thank you
These are FANTASTIC!! Going to implement these tips and tricks into my beach walking stick. I found the perfect piece of wood for it and now I have a much better grasp of what I want for the design and now, thanks to your video, the tools to make that magic happen!! Thank you!! Liked and subscribed! ❤️
+Claire Beane I love that idea! I have so many sticks collected but still have never made a walking stick.
very talented great use of materials enjoyed watching
Thank you! Cheers!
Wow I just loved this video.
i made a wand with a crystal cluster at the end and it came out really good! i work at a craft store so i just had to try and i'm glad i did
I'm so glad you went for it. It's fun!
Thank you, I found this tutorial EXTREMELY helpful. 😁 I've been working a DIY purple witch costume and wanted to add a purple wand so this helped me out a great deal on how to make my own!
Oh cool I’m doing the same, I’m gonna be a witch for Halloween and my colors are gonna be black and purple
Nice video. Can’t wait to make my first wand
Is amazing!!! Great job
Stain the wood dowel with wood stain. Use any shade of stain you want from a dark stain to a very light stain. I like the stain method because it makes your wand look a little more wood.
michael goodman good idea! Mine definitely have a more metal vibe 🤘🏻😉
Those wands are awesome looking nice tutorial
Thank you! Your wands are fabulous! Now I can make my own +++!👏
Have fun!
Woww amazing work and creativity i love those crystals
+Clart Patangan thank you!!!
Thank you for this video! It is perfect for me to create a magical fairy wand to give with a fairy journal I made for a friend of mines little girl on her 8th birthday! The journal has a secret back with a box inside with lots of fairy trinkets inside! This wand will be perfect to finish off this gift!
What a sweet gift!
Really enjoyed watching. That look great
+Sheryl McDonald thank you so much
These look great!
Thank you so much!
That was awesome! Thanks for posting this
Your welcome! Hope it helped!
Wondered how to get that taper that wands have at the end. Saw a long session with carving knife and sand paper....then I saw you use a pencil sharpener. DUH! That little tip alone is worth watching! And the temperature of your hot glue makes a difference. The low temp doesn't take as long to cool and solidify. No dunking required. That's my tip to you..
love it! i read somewhere too about using canned air to make it cool down. I kind of like how really hot glue melds together more smoothly and gets onto the rod faster, but it has its draw backs. BUT...i recenlty realized using the low temp then later going back and just smoothing things out with a heat gun works pretty well too. so fun. Thanks for you input Anita! :)
Absolutely gorgeous!
thanks!
Fairy!!!Thank you for vidéo showing and Spirit Idea !🌟🌟🌟🌟🕯️🌹💛
Good luck on your wand! I’ll be adding more wand videos soon!
Great idea!!! Love em all!!
Thank you!
They look so cool.
I bought a similar magic wand at a sci-fi convention about 30 years ago. It had a large marble on the end. I think they were selling pretty well.
awesome! I make a lot of things and these wands are always the top seller. There's fancy expensive ones that adults buy for themselves, and simple cheap ones they buy for their kids, lol. Its great.
Aaa I remember watching this tutorial to make wands for my whole class in fourth grade.. :) I love this, the nostalgia hit me hard lol
This comment confuses me... How did you and your whole class watch this tutorial in the 4th grade if it was published in February of this year?
RuinedTemple Ah, no, I watched this video, not my peers, haha! I’m saying I watched this video myself and made the wands for my class. :) And I’m referring back to the past- I’m in sixth grade currently, I’m just thinking back to the memories when I wasn’t drowning of homework, haha.
+Vivi Squiggle ha! Must have been s similar video. So fun that you made them for your class! They make great valentines favors!
So cute cant wait to make some for my crystal shop
These are SO COOL!!!!
Great tutorial, your wands are beautiful!
Your so kind! I hope it helps you in making your own!
Perhaps if you use thin nail polish you can make the crystals a different color
+Present Mic cool idea! If they are plastic then alcohol inks work well for a transparent coloring.
There is a type of paint that is made to work on glass, that would work. Michael's/HL, Joanne/crafter's companion would be where I'd look.
These are so gorgeous!
Thank you!
Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you so much!
Very Nice!😻 Thanks for sharing!
+Gabrielle Schmidt thank you for watching!
I made some myself and they look amazing! They are really easy to do!❤️
Thanks so much for this video!
Your welcome! I’m so glad you did it! So fun right?