Mica Powder Techniques for Paper Crafting

Name: Mica Powder Techniques for Paper Crafting
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Techniques to incorporate Mica Powder shimmer in Cardmaking, Mixed Media, Art Journaling and More!

Created byCheryl Penner

Last updated 5/2022

English

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What you'll learn

How to use Mica Powders with a Stamped Image
How to Watercolour with Mica Powders
How to mix Mica Powders with Pastes and Mediums and use with Stencils
How to add Mica Powders to a Die Cut Piece

Course content

1 section • 9 lectures • 43m total length

Mica Powder Techniques for Paper Crafting Class Introduction1:59
Explore mica powder techniques for paper crafting with makeup powders, including perfect pearls, watercoloring with pearls, and interference colors. Create cards and mixed media with shimmering backgrounds.
Let's talk about Mica Powders1:44
Discover mica powders, featuring perfect pearls with a binding agent activated by water, and others needing gum arabic. Learn to mix with texture paste or gel medium to secure pigment.
Mica Powder Background & Watercolour9:59
Master a mica powder background and watercolor effects using perfect pearls on stamped and embossed images. Learn to achieve translucent or opaque results by adjusting water.
Interferance Mica Powders3:17
Demonstrates interference mica powders with perfect pearl, showing color shifts on white versus black backgrounds, using a moth background and a 'happy birthday' sentiment, and mist-activated binding.
Mixing Mica Powders with Texture Paste7:52
Mix makeup powders with texture paste to create a metallic, multi-color background using translucent grit paste or regular paste; combine pewter, gold, and bronze for a masculine, textured card.
Mixing Mica Powders with Gel Medium & on a Die Cut6:51
Discover how to apply mica powders for a shiny, pearl-essence texture by mixing them into a glossy gel medium or dusting them onto die-cut adhesive, delivering finishes for paper crafting.
Using Mica Powders in a Distress Background8:54
learn to create a distressed background with mica powders, add shimmer using turquoise and pewter, and layer stamping and embossing for texture on mixed media paper.
Other Ways to use Mica Powders2:51
Explore how to use mica powders beyond color, creating custom maker sprays with water-activated binding agents, coloring resin, polymer clay, and background stencils for shimmer.
Mica Powder Techniques for Paper Crafting Thank You0:31
Discover mica powder techniques for paper crafting and use them beyond cards in art, journaling, and mixed media, with ideas you can carry into future projects and classes.

Requirements

No Previous Experience Required

Description

Welcome to Mica Powder Techniques for Paper Crafting!

In this class you will learn the many of my Favourite different ways you can use Mica Powders in your Paper Crafting Projects. We will be taking those techniques taught and turning them into cards in this class but those same Techniques in other paper crafting projects such as Mixed Media, Art Journaling and Junk Journaling.

This Class comes with a Supply List PDF. The PDF has pictures of all of the Cards Created as well as the Supplies used for each Card. Those supplies are linked to where you can purchase them (if you choose) for your convenience. You will find the Supply List PDF Link with the Introduction Video.

In this Class you will Learn:

1 -The brand of Micas I will be using in this class and what I like about them.

2 -How you can substitute other brands of Mica Powders.

3 -How to Create a simple Pearlized stamped image

4 -How easy it is to Watercolour with Micas

5 -How to mix Micas into Pastes and Mediums to use for Paper Crafting.

6 -How to Add Mica Shimmer to a Distressed Background.

7 -We'll talk about a few other ways Micas can be used in Creating.

I will be Using Perfect Pearls in my demos for this Class. Alternate Brands can be substituted but an additional product needs to be added for them to work for some techniques, we will go over that in the first video after the Introduction.

Who this course is for:

Creators wanting to learn many different ways to use Mica Powders