17 + Ways to Use Mica Powder

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Below you'll find complete instructions plus products used in making this video.

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First Project:
Making Alcohol Inks:

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Metallic Acrylic Paint: Take white acrylic paint and mix w/ some mica powder to your desired color. Any craft acrylic paint will work. You need to use this immediately, as it can't dry and be re-wet.

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Metallic Acrylic Paint: Use Mod Podge (I used outdoor, but you can use whatever you like) and mix with mica powder to desired color. You need to use this immediately (or before it dries.)

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Metallic Texture Paste: Using a cheap white glue, put the glue onto a glass or plastic plate. Add enough mica powder to make sure it stays in the stencil and remains raised when dry (A mayo consistency). Use a palette knife to apply this mixture to your stencil, then immediately after, clean the stencil or the glue will ruin it if it dries on it.

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Metallic Ink w/ Baby Wipe: Using a folded baby wipe, and a dye based reinker, squirt a few drops reinker onto the baby wipe then put some mica powder on the baby wipe and using a palette knife to combine them, work the two together, then stamp into the baby wipe.

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Add additional colors as you choose.

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Embossed image metallic coloring: Run cardstock through your die cutting machine with an embossing folder inside, then pat the raised images with a Versamark ink pad. Using a paint brush, add mica powder to the raised images as desired.

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Mix clear embossing powder w/ mica powder to create your own pearlized embossing powders. Take a tbsp. of clear embossing powder and add mica powder to make a color you like, then combine well. Add the powder to a stamped image w/ Versamark ink then heat set. Don't combine this powder with any other embossing powders.

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Metallic Gesso- Add mica powder to gesso to desired color.

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Multi Matte Medium Stamping: Put a little multi matte medium on a scrap, stamp with a red rubber stamp first into Versamark ink to protect the stamp, then into the Multi Matte Medium and onto your cardstock, then add mica powder to color it. Clean stamp immediately after.

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Metallic Pearls: make hot glue circles on a craft mat then once glue is cooled, brush mica powder over it. Pull off and use wet glue to add to project

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Metallic faux wax seal: Squeeze hot glue onto a craft mat large enough for your stamp. Press only red rubber stamps into Versamark ink, then into the hot glue on your mat. Once cooled, brush over with mica powder. Attach to project with wet glue.

[debbiebAU]

Love these ideas. The most comprehensive use of micas I’ve seen. Thank you

[adobeblue]

Hi. Thank you for all these good ideas. I wish you had a little spoon to get the mica powder out of the bottles because then you could get what you need and not waste any. I am definitely going to try these techniques.

[diannemoore]

You are wonderful. So many useful and money saving ideas. Thank you so much.

[carlycharlesworth]

Hi Sandy, I wanted to thank you for all these fantastic ideas for the uses of mica powders. I was looking for a video concerning mixing homemade alcohol inks using Isopropyl Alcohol and mica powders, and your video gave me so, so, SO much more than I expected! Thank you for all this inspiration! I would never have thought of half of these! You can also make your own coloured clay by adding mica to air dry clay or polymer clay. Both are clays I have used with mica powders and they colour up so nicely. I have used the mica with shop bought AND home made Air Dry Clay so it makes no difference which one you use. It even works in salt dough! I hope you do a follow up video on this one with more ideas, as this video was awesome and gave me so many ideas. Thank you again. Happy crafting my friend, from one disabled crafter to another! Keep your chin up sweetie. God be with you. From a UK fan.

[JH-wdul]

I really appreciate you taking the time to go through so many techniques. I always enjoy your videos and budget saving tips!

[Saved-qvow]

WOW, never new all these technique's; your amazing. I was stuck like glue to this video, the time went by so fast. I was sent a free set of mica power's for epoxy pour's on countertops; which I no longer do. Had a lot left over, didn't know what to do with the rest of it!!! I had to put this video, it in my teaching YT saved list, so much information. Thank you ever so much, I really appreciated the education. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[anniekempton]

Awesome! Didn't know a few of them but all in all GREAT techniques!!! Thanks SOOO much for sharing this video ❤

[pauladyer]

So many good uses..thank you for showing us

[brendawalsh]

Thank you for sharing I’m new to using mica powders and your tutorial is very informative

[kmarlowe]

How fun! Thank you for sharing!
You can also use acrylic medium, or even Elmer’s Glue (Glue All, not school glue) mixed with mica powder (pigment) to create a custom acrylic paint. The white acrylic paint will increase he opacity and lighten the color, so acrylic medium or glue will give you the purest version of the pigment you choose. ☺️

[deniseaddy]

Thank you, thank you have had mica powders for a few month and hardly used them, now I will have the confidence to try some new techniques 😁😁😁

[britzel]

Great job on this video. I know this video is from long ago, but I'm curious if you would have any tips on how to use mica on air dry clay once it's dried.

[Coloryourheartout]

Thanks so much for the video. I learned so much about mica.

[TinkITreasurebooks]

Thank you so much. I purchased a set (mine came in small bags) and I've not done anything with them because I did not know how. I love the pearl idea and making watercolors.

Maxine

[michelleoyer]

You’re video brought me joy on a day when I really needed it! And it was an added bonus that it was a longer video - that I just loovve! Thank you so very much!!

[cathyb]

Wow I had no idea you had so many different ways to use mica powder you are amazing tfs

[marusnak]

Thanks, this was really interesting and valuable.

[alynngreen]

I love this video! So many ideas here. I also love your use of captions to clarify...works really well. Nice job :) Thank you

[maribethbonita]

This video was helping and interesting!

[craftysquirrel]

You can add a splash of hairspray to the mix of mica & water etc, from one of those pump spray bottles or I’m sure you could spray out some hairspray into a container from a normal canister until you have enough. But it should set as it dries that way, otherwise it just falls off once it dries, however, a coat of fixative it probably a good idea either way. Experiment, I have only been researching on YouTube so far. 👍🏼⭐️ great video👍🏼