It's time for experimenting and sharing! This week I played with silk screening metallic powder and am pretty excited about the results! Starting with Helen Breil's silkscreen 'Pills and coffee' www.helenbreil.com/silkscreens , the tiny holes in the silk screen really make beautiful designs. I used Ranger 'Perfect Pearls' powder that come in a set of 4 metallic colors.(copper, bronze, silver and gold) Little sponge applicators (in the package) make rubbing the powder into the screen so easy. If you brush the powder be sure to use a separate brush for each color. Otherwise the colors mix together too easily. I used black polymer as the base and screened on the copper shown in this picture. It was also easy to screen the pattern on the rounded shapes. Really a nice look. The powder adhered nicely after curing. Silk Screen I used Metallic powders I used Copper Metallic Silkscreen on Black Polym...
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