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1. Mica Powder Techniques for Paper Crafting: Hello, I'm Cheryl. Welcome to make a powder
techniques for paper crafting. One of the things I absolutely
love to do when I'm making a project is adding
shimmer and sparkle to it. In this class you're going to learn a few different
ways to use Micah powders to do just
that. Let's go take a look. Now these are the
techniques that we're gonna be covering in this class. Now I do use perfect pearls
throughout the class. But as I explained in
the very first video, you can use some other brands
of mica powders as well. Some of them you just
might have to do, add something to it in order to make it work for some
of the techniques. But I do show that to
you in the first video. What you need to add, which techniques those
would need to be added to. These are the cards that
we are going to create. We're going to do perfect
pearl background. And then I'm going to show
you how to watercolor in image using the perfect pearls. We're also going to talk about
interference pearl colors. These two cars were made with the exact
same purple color, but it shows up differently on white than it does on black. I'll also show you how you
can mix them into text, your pace, and whatnot, and use them to
create with that, as well as using them with gloss mediums as
well as on dicots. And then the last technique
that we're going to go over is using them in a distressed
background to create some shimmer highlights in your backgrounds for your cards. Now, we're going to
use these techniques and create cards with them. But you're absolutely
not limited to that. You can actually use
these in mixed media, junk journals, art journaling,
that sort of thing. So don't just think
that you can only make cars with these techniques. Now, all the supplies that
were used throughout the class are listed on the
supply list that's included with this class. Those supplies are
also linked to where you can purchase
them if you choose. But just so you know exactly what was used for
each and every card, they're all listed
there as well as having pictures of
each of the samples. Now let's go create some cards
with some Micah powders.
2. Let's talk about Mica Powders: Alright, let's start
this class off by talking about Micah powders. Now there's many different
brands on the market. These are just a few
of the ones that I have in this class. I'm going to be using
perfect pearls. The thing that makes
perfect pearls different from some of the other ones is
this one here has a binding agent
already mixed into it that is activated by water. So some of the techniques
you'll see me just miss some water on top
in order to activate it. Sometimes we'll be using it
with water to watercolor, stuff like that, that
will activate it. These ones here don't
have that mixed in. If you want to use
them with water, you would need to add
a binding agent and gum arabic is one and it tells you the
racial rate on the bottle. You need 11 part of this to
four parts of the pigment. Then you can mix it with
water and stuff like that. The other way we're going to use some of these powders is by mixing them into texture paste gel medium and
that sort of thing. In that case, you
don't need to add anything to the powders that don't already have
a binding agent in them. Those mediums will do the trick. They will hold everything
together and hold the powder in and you
don't need to worry about it falling
off your project. So like I said, this is what we're going to
use in this class. You absolutely, if
you have these, you absolutely can use them. But the techniques that we're gonna do that have
water with them. You would need to add you would need to get this
and you would need to add that to your mike has in order to use it
with that technique. So having said all of that, let's go start
making some cards.
3. Mica Powder Background & Watercolour: Alright, so this
is the first card that we're going to
create in this class. We're going to do two
different techniques with the perfect pearls. First thing we're going
to do is stamp and dust them on to our stamped image. And then we're also going to watercolor with them in a
stamped and embossed image. So let's start with
the background first. Now, this background here, I used some pink and purple. I used the colors
that I was going to do, the water coloring in. In my opinion, it looks
a little bit busy. For the demo. I'm just going to use pwd
or for the background. And then I'm going to use watercolor with the same colors. Just hopefully
tone the busy-ness of that down a little bit. So we're going to use
a verse of Mark pad, which is a watermark pad. And it's just a sticky ink. And it's going to hold
those perfect pearls for long enough so that we can go and set them with
a mist of water. I'm going to set my stamp down and I have two
stamps on my block, just so that I
have the other one already ready for
when I read it. So I have a brush here. I'm going to take
the mica powders and I'm going to brush them
onto the stamp damage. If you get too much
powder onto your brush, you can just tap it on
the side and it's going to fall right off back
into the container. We just do this until we get all of the stamped
image covered. You've got a little bit of
excess of the powder here. We can take that if you want, depending on how much there is. There's really I
don't even think it's actually going to go
into the container. If there's a lot there, you can take it back and put it back into the container because
there's not to mix the colors, then your best friend is
going to be a Swiffer duster. You're going to rub it
on your piece of paper. And that's going to
take all the excess of the Micah powders
off of there. I'm also going to do it on this paper just because I want to use it for a few other things and I want to make
sure it's clean. Alright, once it's
completely clean, I'm going to close
up that powder so that I don't get
my misting water in. They're going to
move my paper there. And I just haven't
missed the bottle that has a nice fine spray. Mist it a couple times and then I'm going to leave it
to dry completely. I don't need to douse it with water because that's going to make everything start to run. It's just a light misting, but you do want to
sprayer that has a nice light missing.
This one here. I tried it yesterday and
it had some streams in some areas so it was putting
too much water down. So this needs to dry completely before we go and stamp
and Emboss our image. So I'll see you once it's dry or background is completely dry, so we're ready to
stamp and emboss and then watercolor our image. So first of all,
I'm going to use that same first remark that I used to do the background
with the perfect pearls. I'm going to put it on my stamp. Stamp it where I like, making sure to press firmly all around and then pour on our embossing powder. You're gonna be liberal
when you're pouring it on because anything
that goes onto this paper is going
right back into the jar so you're not
wasting anything. Then we need to use a
heat gun to melt it. There we go. Now our background does
make it a little bit more challenging sometimes
to see the image. You don't necessarily have to do a background when
your water coloring. You can absolutely
just watercolor. But I wanted to use two for two different techniques
on one card, so I did. So first thing I'm going to
watercolor is the leaves. Now remember I said that this has a binding agent in it
that is activated by water. So I've got my water brush here. There's water in the handle, and I'm just picking using the wet end of my brush
here to pick it off of or out of the jar and onto my where
I'm using it for my palate. Now, the more water you add, the more translucent or transparent the watercolor
is going to be, the less water and the
more powder you have, the more opaque
it's going to be. So you really have your own, you can control whether you want it to be super transparent. Whether you want
it to be opaque, which I really, really like. It's really nice to
be able to do it, say as water and have it very
transparent and water-like, or to make a really
thick mixture and completely cover
your background. So I'm kind of going
about halfway between. I'm having some areas that
are a little bit more transparent and some areas that are a little
bit more opaque. And by embossing this image, it gives little
ridges to the image. So it helps that paint
stay within the area. As long as I'm painting
it more carefully. Which is helpful for a beginner. If you've watercolor before, you probably don't
necessarily need that. But especially when
you're starting out, it is more helpful to have
those ridges when you start. So I've got the
green paint on here. I simply need to
squeeze my brush, rub it on here, and I have a clean brush for my next color. I've never done it, but
what I saw recently, someone actually used
their lid for their pain. They took their paint and they
put it right in there lid. Which is another great idea. If you want to just use that as your palette
or if you don't have something else
you can do it on. I've also done it say on
it like a little plastic, like an old sour cream lid, that sort of thing.
That works as well. So now I'm gonna do
some pink flowers. This image is very
loose florals, so there's not a lot
of detail in them. So I tend to do it super quick. Painted very, very quick. And I'm not super careful with it just because
that's not really the style of this
particular type of image. Once again, squeeze
my brush out. If I knew I was going to
need more of that color, I could leave it open, but I have some there and I don't think I'm going
to actually need it. The other thing that
I forgot to mention before opening your pots and I've done this
with all of them, is tapped him on
your desk and then open them that way
if there's anything stuck in the threads are
stuck at the top of the lid. You're not wasting a
whole bunch by having them fall onto your table and then you're just basically
throwing that away. A little water there. The other thing
you could do is do this, say in a palette, these probably will dry or they've had dried
on me in a palate. So if you wanted to be
able to reuse them, putting them in a
pallet would be a good way to go and to
be able to reuse them. So I put that pink
down on these ones, but I am putting the
purple over top of it. I just wanted it to
have a little bit of that pink tide in. You're not going to
see a whole lot of it. You're just going
to see touches. And then I'm going to
use the dark color here just to add a little bit of detail
similar to some of that. Purple, just a little
bit of shading. This particular purple
here is quite dark, so I don't want to
put a whole lot of it in a lot of different areas, but I did want to
have a little bit of shadow where the petals would
go behind another petal. And then I typically
clean my brush off and then use a clean
brush to blend it in. Obviously, you can use
this method to paint any image of your choosing. It's especially great for Christmas cards and
that sort of thing. But any image will work. So I'm going to let
that completely dry and then we'll
assembler card. Alright, or pieces
completely dry. So it's just a matter of
gluing it to our card base. Now the paper is a
little bit warped just because of adding water
with the water coloring as well as the water
that was sprayed to activate the binding
agent in the powder. When we did the background. Once we glue it down, it won't be worked anymore. What I'm actually going
to do is I'm going to put an acrylic block on top of there to hold it
in place 1 second. I'm going to use this one
because it's a little bit heavier and hold it in place so that it can dry
with a weight on it. Alright, it's totally dry now. So now you can see
the difference between the two of them. This one just what the
silver background, this one with a
colorful background. Both of them very pretty. And now you know two
different ways to use Micah powders will see
you in the next video.
4. Interferance Mica Powders: All right, so the technique for the car that we're
going to make in this video is exactly the same as the background
for the first one. We're just gonna use a
dip bit different image. However, we're going to
use an interference. Perfect Perl. So it comes in a couple
of different colors. I'm using green
today, but it comes in red and violet as well. What this means is these two cards are made
with exactly the same color, but it shows up
completely different on white than it does on black. On white when you tilt it to the side and I
don't know whether the camera will
show it properly. But when you tilt to the side, you get a little bit of it
like an opalescent green. But when you have
a dark background, you get it shows up as green. Although I'm not sure if the camera's shows it up
the right way either, but it's just a fun way to
use a different color card. You could do like an opalescent, iridescent paint as well. But I just think
it's fascinating that the same color shows up completely different on the two different
backgrounds there. So I'm using a moth
background or mouth stamp because to me this color
looks like a green moth. And then I'm using a
happy birthday sentiment because I thought
it would be really, really pretty as
a birthday card. So I like for this
particular stamp, I liked tilting it a
little bit on the card. I think it just looks a
little bit more interesting. But you can put it
however you want. You can even put it and have your card facing that
way if you'd like. Stamp that and then
I'm going to just count the sentiment
at the same time, making it as straight
as possible. And I do tend to
rock the sentiment to make sure that
I get all of it. Then I'm going to use
my brush and my pearls. I just tend to go in a circular motion to
try to make sure to get all of that versa mark
stamped image covered. And it's really easy to see
the image as you're doing it. So you can tell if you've
missed a spot or not. Go close this up, grabbed my Swiffer cloth here. Then it does need to still
be activated with water. But what I'm going to do
first is I'm going to glue it onto my background and then I'm just going to
miss it lightly. Because once again,
we don't need to miss it so that it's
completely drenched. We're just missing it lightly to activate the binding agent. And what the binding agent
does is it means that when it's dried and done, I can't go and wipe
this completely off. You may get the odd shimmer on your thumb or whatever, but
it's not going to move. If we didn't do that, once the ink is dry, then you would be able to
start rubbing that image off. My piece here is glued down. I'm just going to
lightly missed it. And then let that completely
dry and it's good to go.
5. Mixing Mica Powders with Texture Paste: Alright, so for the
next technique, we're going to mix
the mica powders with some texture paste. Now the one that I'm going
to use for this card is some translucent grit paste. But where is it? This is it with just
regular texture pace. So texture paste
itself is opaque, so it changes the way it looks, the translucent grit
paste because it's got a little bit of
transparency to it. I find that you see a little bit more of the shimmer
from the micas. Neither one is right or wrong. It's just whatever
you prefer for whatever project
you're working on. But this is how we're
going to do it. I'm doing three
different colors here. You obviously don't need to
do three different colors. You could just do one color. I just wanted for
this background to have some different
colors showing, as well as this way you get
to see them mixing together. So I'm going to take my, I've got pure gold and bronze. We're going to go
with a metallic theme for this one here. So I've got just a, this is
actually just a sloppy straw. When my girls were little. I just kept them specifically for this
and for glitter use. And it works perfectly. You could use a little
spoon if you want. You could use a popsicle stick. But this way you have a
little bit of control. I'll tell you right
now when you, if you take the pot and
try to pour some out, you have absolutely no control
over how much comes out. And often it'll be way more
than you actually need. So using a scoop is a better
way to do it. There we go. So on my little matt here, I'm just going to mix it
together until it's all mixed. Now I'm going to because
they're going to be mixing up on the card anyways, I'm just I just rubbed my as much of that paste
off of my spatula, my palette knife just
to get it clean. If this wasn't
design that I wanted everything to be pristine
than I would've used cloth, robe, wet wipe or whatever. But because they're
all going to be mixed on the card anyways, it doesn't need to be perfect. Alright, those are all mixed
together as much as I need. So the first thing I'm gonna do, I've got some this is
just like washy tape. I'm going to tape that
down so that that doesn't move on me and then I'm
gonna take my stencil down. Now, the reason to do this is so when you go to after
you've got the pace down, when you go to lift it up, if you lose track of it and
happened to, it falls again. It falls have exactly
the same spot. So this way I can
lift it up and then I can start pulling it so that I don't have to worry about
impacting my design. I'm just putting these
in some random spots. Little bit of each. Then after I've got a
little bit of each, I'll go and smooth it all out. I'm only concentrating
on the side of the card because this stencil isn't the width of
the full panel. I don't want to do the full panel because
you're not going to get it with this
dental anyways. I'm just doing
little bits of it. The one thing you
do want to be sure of when you're
doing this is makes sure that you make enough paste for the design you're wanting. When you mix your
own pace like this, you don't have a lot of
control over consistency. If you don't make enough, chances are your next
batch is not going to be the exact same color, the exact same consistency. So see how I can lift this like this. I can take this off. This needs to be
washed fairly quickly. I don't want any of that
medium to dry on there. Then I'm going to put
this aside to dry. It needs to dry completely before we move on with the card, but I happen to have one
already done ready and dry. However, before I do anything, I'm going to wipe this up. Then really I would put this on another card, I
wouldn't waste it, but for this so that I have
a clean spot to work on, I'm just going to wipe it. There we go and a little
bit of paper towel to dry it so that we're not
working on a wet surface. Alright, so our
piece here is dried. Obviously, these are
the same colors, but obviously with this one I
got a little bit more gold. This one has a little
bit more of the bronze. So it has a bit of an organic
look to it, which I like. I'm going to take
this yellow piece of card stock that is the
same as my background. I'm going to stamp my
sentiment and I'm going to emboss it with black
embossing powder. Go put the lid back on. Get some scrap paper here. Tap as much of that powder off because if there is a
section that doesn't have or if there's this like little flakes of powder
on there and you melt it. It's going to stay
where you melt it. So if there's something
you want to remove, take a soft brush and
just brush those away. Let's get the powder back in here and then
we'll emboss it. If you've never embossed before the embossing powder
with the heat gun, it goes from a granular,
opaque, too shiny. So it's really, you can see exactly what part is
done and what's not. This is a heat gun. It emits heat, it
doesn't blow air. So a blow dryer or would
not work the same. A blow dryer, which
is blow error, which would end up
drawing the ink and blowing your powder
right off your project. So you do need to have AT tools specifically for
embossing to do that. All right, now I'm
just going to line up my sentiment with the
edge of the ruler so that I can get as close or even of a border all
the way around as possible. Go. Then you could glue it on flat. But because there's dimension
in that texture paste, I like to use some
pop-up deaths with it. I'm going to flip it over. Like to put one on each end
and then one in the center. It just depends on how
big your sentiment is for this size of sentiment, I think three is plenty. If it was longer, I'd use more. And then put it. Nice. And even. So there you go. Using mica pearls with
texture, pay us in a nice, simple, masculine looking card. But really cool how you get that texture with
the Michael Porter, but you still see all the
beautiful color of them.
6. Mixing Mica Powders with Gel Medium & on a Die Cut: So if you love the texture that you
get from texture pace, but you wanted it to be a
little bit more shiny, glossy. Glossy gel medium
is your answer. And that's what we're
gonna do with this card. So you do want to make sure again that you're
mixing up enough. When I was making. I've already got a
piece here that's derived. Let me just grab it. When I was making the
part for the sample here, I had some that I had more mica powder in
it so it's darker. And then I had to
make a little bit extra because I
didn't have enough. So I've mixed another one and I didn't use quite as
much Micah powder, so I've got some lights
and darks in here. Now for this particular design, it absolutely works and I
think it looks fantastic, but it just depends
on what texture, what stencil you're using, whether it's going
to work or not. So the easiest way to not
have to even think about that is by having
enough mixed to start. So once again, I'm going
to tape my paper down. I'm going to tape
my stencil down. And you can see I reuse these pieces of
tape several times. There's no point in tossing it after one use
when you can reuse it. I'm going to put some Micah Right on my little pile
there and I'm going to mix it the same way I
mixed the texture powder or the texture pace with the makeup powder is
exactly the same. There's no difference. The only difference
is this is going to dry, glossy and shiny. And in my opinion, it really highlights the pearlescent
of the makeup powders. All right. I do like to hold my stencil down because I don't
want it to lift up and I don't want the pace to go
underneath my stencil. And that's one of the reasons for having it taped down
so that it doesn't shift. But it's also nice to know
that you're not going to be getting paste underneath. Fill your central as
much as you like. You don't want to have so much pace that you can't
see your stencil through it. But what I do is I do
scrape it so that is even with the top
of the pencil so that you can still see
this tensile image. So actually I'm going
to keep using this just because I've got it
already missed anyways, I might as well just use
it on this piece here. No point in it going to waste. I'm going to set
that aside so that I can wash it as soon as I'm done. And then I'm going to
set this aside to dry. Like I've already shown you. I've got one already
here ready to go. But we're going to
clean this up so that I don't accidentally
play something into wet paste because that is exactly the type of
thing that I would do. I don't know what they're doing. A paper towel. Let's
draw it off as well. So before we finish this here, I have got, so I've already got my background here glued
to the base of the card. I've got a die cut here. So there's a piece
of card stock with some double-sided tape and I've simply run it through
my die cutting machine. I'm going to take the backing up just to the bottom
of the flower. That way I have something
to hold onto and I'm not touching the tape. I'm gonna take the green color. I'm going to use my brush here. I'm going to dust the
green onto the tape. And because that tape
is super sticky, it's going to just grab a
hold of that Micah powder. If you touch your
brush to part of that tape that doesn't
have Micah powder on it. It is absolutely going to stick. So just be prepared. It is going to stick to your
brush if you touch the tape. But it is going to
come right off. If you happen to get a little
bristle from your brush stuck on that tape, you can just take a tweezers
and pick it right off. It picks off really easily because I only have
one color on here. I'm going to take that excess, put it back in the container, then flick as much of that
powder off as possible. Alright, and now I'm going to go and I'm going to use the
pink and the purple. You could absolutely
use one color for the flower that
would work just fine. But I just thought it would
look really pretty to have just pink tips to the flower and then
purple towards the inside. And much easier if you
hold it with your, hold the dicot with your fingers so it's not moving around on you see I have a little
tiny bit of green. There must have been some
green still on my brush. In my opinion, it's not ruined, going to keep using it. But if that's something
that bothers you, you do want to keep in mind to clean your brush between colors. I was just thinking and forgot. There we go. So I'm gonna take
my little backing here and I'm just going
to lightly rub it. You don't really need to
do it as much as with mica powder as you do with glitter or like
embossing powder. But that way if there's
anything loose there, it's going to either
stick to the backing or rubber rate
into the adhesive. I'm going to take my glue and put it on the back
of my die cut here. I typically will just put
the glue on places that are going to stick out and
possibly catch on things. I'll put it on the
leaves, I'll put it on parts of the stem. I don't even worry about
doing it on all of the stem. There we go. You could put a sentiment
on here if you wanted. I chose to leave this one blank and then add the
sentiment whenever I, whenever I decide
to go and use it. But there we go, I'm going
to stick it down with an acrylic block on top
of it so that it's Wade. But I'll let you see this
one a little bit up close. Again. Micah powder used in
two different ways. We used it with the
gel medium and we also use it with some
double-sided adhesive. You can even take
adhesive and put it around the edges of
the card and use them like a powder to cover the
adhesive that way as well, to have a full mat that
would work as well. So I'll see you in
the next video. We'll show you one more
way to use my competitors.
7. Using Mica Powders in a Distress Background: For our last technique, we're going to use Micah powders in a distressed background. And it's a great way
to add just a bit of a shimmer to that background. And it's very easy to do. So works best if
you do it on a mat. It doesn't work as well to do the distress
background onto glass. Ink just reacts a little bit different by
doing it on a mat. It tends to beat up a
little bit more and you tend to get more of
that texture to it. So I'm actually using
two different colors. You don't need to use
two different colors. I'm using turquoise computer. You can absolutely use just one. I just liked the way
it looked with two. So I'm putting a little bit
down and you can see that I tapped my straw here to get
little bits all around. I didn't want to have one pile of it in one area
because if you do that, then your tend to get a bit of a blob in one area
on your background. So let's move that to the side. Next, we're going to use a spray bottle and
we're going to put some water on
it and we want to see a bunch of those drugs. I've got some mixed
media paper here. This is paper that
can handle the water. You definitely need to use
mixed media paper with it. Not regular card stock
because it's going to react completely different card
stock is just going to bubble and blister under the paper. Whereas mixed media
can handle the water, it is going to
curve a little bit, but that's totally fine. I've got to heat it to here. This is a little
bit more gentler, gentle than a heat gun. So it does admit some heat, but it's more for drying paint
than it is for embossing. You could use this to emboss, but because it's a gentler heat, it takes a little bit longer. So I'm using my heat
tool to dry that ink. It doesn't need
to be a 100% dry. 80% dry is good. I just don't want to have
pools of water anywhere. If there's anywhere and
there's a one right there. That's why I'm
concentrating right here. If there's any pools of water, I'm going to use my heat gun in that area to dry that
up as much as possible. Once that's done or
what we're gonna do and that's a
little bit too wet, I should draw it a little
bit more, but that's okay because it's on the edge. What are gonna do is
we're going to tap it in the remaining drips. And that's going to add some
splotches and splatters. And then we're going
to draw it again. So you can continue this for
as many times as you want. Typically, I tend to do
it about three times. Sometimes when I'm doing it, it just doesn't have enough of the splatters or the
texture that I like, so I tend to do it
a little bit more. It's a personal
preference thing. You'll kind of know after playing around with
this technique little bit when
it's done for you. Because this background
is quite busy. I left the stamped part
of it quite simple. So I've just got
some flower stamps that I stamped in Boston than just a simple sentiment that was stamped and in
Boston the same color. So I didn't want it to
compete with the background. You could put a dicot
over top of this as well. I chose not to just
because we have another card that has a
die cut over top of it. So I chose just to
do a stamped image. I need to get those puddles. They're dry first. If it gets a little
bit too dark, you can take a paper
towel and you can mop up some of the
excess moisture. Sometimes it's like watching paint dry and it doesn't drive fast enough for you to go. We're going to tap it
in those blobs again. And I tend to focus on some
of the smaller areas rather than the bigger blobs. And then you can look
at it and see if there's this area
that's missing and you can do another splotch
on that as well. I think I'm liking
the texture to it. So once this is dry, I'm good with it. That's we're going to
move on to the next step. For this part. To move on to the next step,
it needs to be a 100% dry. If there's any part of
this that's not completely dry before we go to the
stamping and embossing, that embossing powder is going to stick to whatever is wet. So we need to make sure
it's absolutely dry. Before we move on to that. All right. We're good to go. I'm going to clean this up. Where did my paper towel? I had a used one here but
apparently not. There we go. Just make sure
that we don't have any wet areas that we can accidentally put something in. Alright, so it does
curl up a little bit, but once we go and glue
it back to our card, it's going to flatten it out. So I'm going to use some liquid platinum
embossing powder. Use the piece of paper that we've been using
with our pearls. Just wipe it off a little bit so there's not as much
parole left on there. Now, if you feel
more comfortable, you can stamp in a boss
individual flowers. I decided to just go for it and stamp a bunch of
them at the same time. I can kind of see
faintly where my ink is. And because of that,
I can choose where to put the next stamp. Like I said, if you're
more comfortable doing individual stamping
and embossing, you can absolutely do
that. There we go. Powder on the excess off. And then let's put the powder
back in the container. Like I said, I can use that
heat tool to emboss as well, but it's just going to
take a little bit longer. So I'm gonna use my heat gun. There we go. So now you can see right
on that background there's little pockets of mica. So it doesn't put the mike
over the entire thing. It just puts a little
pockets of it, which is what I love about it and makes it
more interesting. In my opinion. Now I'm going to take a daughter and the darker of the two blues, and I'm just going to ink the edges just to
frame it a little bit before gluing it
onto my card base. And you could, if you
wanted to ink it with a different color to frame
it a little bit more. I just chose to be a little
bit more monochromatic with it and stick with the colors that were
used in the background. There we go. Once again, because from the water technique that paper's a
little bit curled, I'm going to just put a
block on it to weigh it down while it dries.
But there you go. Another way to use Micah powder. So in the next video, we're not actually going to
do a technique, but I'm just going to
show you a few other ways that makeup powders can be used. Just so you know that that's another use for
them. Was he there?
8. Other Ways to use Mica Powders: Alright, now let's have
a quick talk about a few other uses
for mica powders. Now, first of all, you can make your own Micah powders, sprays. And because the perfect pearls have a binding agent in them
that's activated by water. You don't need to do
anything else with them. Just having them in the
water will activate it. So you could just, I've got a
little mini ministers here. I just put a little bit
of perfect pearls in with the water that's already
in there and mix it. And you've got your own
custom Micah spray. You can mix colors with that. You don't necessarily need
to be doing single colors. You can make your own
custom colors and then you would just spray
it on your background. I got this is mixed media paper because for a
one-color you could spray variety of different
ones and then let it dry. So this is what it looks
like after it's dry. So it just has an
all over shimmer. You could also put it
through a stencil. So these are both
done with stencils. Now, for these ones, I didn't have my mixed media paper out. I was just playing
around, so I just use regular card stock,
so it's quite worked. But then you get the image of the stencil and it
is also a shimmery. You could also put some
distress we incur in them if you wanted to have
a color Micah spray, those are those
look really nice. The only thing with this is same as mixing it
with texture paste. You don't have a lot of
control over consistency. So if you were in the middle
of a project and ran out of a spray and wanted
to make some more. There's no way to
know that you have the exact same amount
as you did before. So I would only use it
for a certain project or ones where you don't
necessarily mind whether it's got different
consistency or not. So these are all resin
projects that have Micah powders in them using
them to color the resin. Some of these are classes on
this platform and some of them are on my YouTube channel, but all of those are different
techniques or wherever, using mica powders within
resin to color it. You could also use makeup
powders with polymer clay. Often they'll use that to
make the polymer clay poorly. I don't have any
samples of those because I don't
actually do that. And then another thing, I used to work at a
scrapbook store and we often had glass makers come in wanting Mike us to mix in with their class projects for
whatever they were doing. So there's a bunch of different ways that
you can use them. These are my favorite ways and as well as some other
ways that I use in, but I just want to include
them in this class. But that's the sky's the limit. That's not the only
ways you can use them. These are just some
of my favorites.
9. Mica Powder Techniques for Paper Crafting Class Thank You: Thank you so much
for joining me for the makeup powder techniques
for paper crafting class. I hope you enjoyed learning some of these
different techniques. And just remember,
even though we created cards with the techniques
that we were using, you're not limited to that. You absolutely can use
them in art journaling, mixed media, and other projects, as well as the ones that I
mentioned in the last video. I hope you have a
great day and see, I hope to see you in
class again soon.
Artsy. Island Girl, Teacher
