Delish Beads - How to Apply Hotfix Studs or Crystals

Hi everyone, this is Andy from Delishbeads.com and today I'm going to talk a little bit about "hotfix." Hotfix is a type of glue that you can find on studs like these, or hotfix crystals and it's basically a type of plastic, I think or kind of like hot glue gun glue it's not sticky but when you heat it up with an iron it will melt and get wound up... the glue will permeate into fabric and create a permanent bond You heat it up... By the way this is an ironing pad. You're going to want something like this underneath the fabric that you're applying the hotfix stuff on but this is the main tool here. this is called a hotfix iron I bought this one for around twenty dollars at Michael's it's like a soldering iron, the tip gets pretty hot so you want to be sure not to touch it because you could probably get burned pretty bad. But it's pretty simple to apply the studs, you just apply heat for thirty seconds and after that you want to give it a chance to cool off The nice thing about hotfix studs and crystals is that if you want to apply them to something other than fabric you can use craft glue like E6000 or epoxy that gives you some versatility there we've got about ten more seconds so that's thirty seconds uh... you want to give this a little bit of time to cool down because especially with the metal studs it's going to be hot. You might burn yourself like I did a few minutes ago But, I'm going to pull this away a little bit from the fabric so you can you can see kind what's going on here. You see the damp spot on the fabric? That's where the glue was melting into the fabric and there's little strands of glue that you can see stretching out that just underscores what i'm saying: you really want to give this a chance to cool down These other ones, these other colors are ones that i did a few minutes ago and you can see that the bond with the fabric is really strong so you can do all kinds of things with this technique.. You can make your own patterns, designs... have fun with it! :) thanks for watching!