Faith's Guide to Mica Powders Part 2

This is so exciting! There are tons of techniques you can do with Mica Powders, here are a few more of my favourites:

This first one is very simple, I just wanted to show the difference between the interference powders and the regular powders. So I've made a nice, easy mica background using the regular powders:

Basic Mica Background

I'm using the Festive set of micas. This is another one of the £13.99 sets which contains 6 little pots of pigment powder, a fine brush, and a mini-mister for setting the powders. I'm also using my Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink, which is a lovely sticky clear ink, and an ink-applicator tool.

I've covered my piece of white cardstock with clear ink using the tool, and I'm brushing on Winter Chestnut, which is a nice dark red colour.

And ta-da! Look at that!

You can set this with hairspray if you want to, or you can fill up the mini-mister supplied with tap water and lightly mist your cardstock. These Mica Powders contain a binding agent, so when they come into contact with water they become set and won't rub off.


Micas and Distress Ink

This next one is really fun, Micas will work with Distress Ink! Because Distress Inks stay wet longer than a regular inkpad, the mica powders will adhere to them.

I'm using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and Antique Gold Mica Powder from the Antique Tones set.

To begin with, cover your white cardstock with Distress Ink using either cut n dry, or an ink applicator tool like the one I've got here.

Next, add the mica powder straight away:

This looks wonderfully shiny on it's own! And you can get a lot of fun effects by simply mixing Interference Powders with different colours of Distress Ink.

But you can go one stage further, and add water!

Using the mini-mister from the Mica set filled up with tap water, give your cardstock a good squirt!

You can go in with a paintbrush as well, and flick some larger water droplets all over the cardstock

Because Distress Inks do fun things when they come into contact with water, as this dries, the Distress Ink will move out from under the mica powders giving a fabulous distressed background! You can then punch shapes from this, die cut out of it, or just use it as a background. Because you've got it wet, the micas will already be set.

Stamping with Micas and Distress Ink

You can create some fun effects combining distress inks with mica powders.

For this one, cover a piece of cardstock with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. Next you need to squirt it with hairspray so that the mica's won't stick to the background where you don't want them.

Next, ink up a stamp in clear distress embossing ink and stamp it on to the cardstock.

I've chosen the Antique Red Mica Powder from the Antique Tones set. Brush it straight over the cardstock. Because you sprayed the background with hairspray, the mica powders won't adhere to the vintage photo, it will only stick to the image stamped in clear ink.

Brush off the excess powder, and this is what you're left with. Isn't that gorgeous!

And yes...there's even more coming soon!!

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