How to Create a Mica Lift Technique on a Polymer Clay Pendant

Hi, I'm Amy Koranek. I want to show you how to do a mica lift technique on top of a faux carving on a polymer clay pendant. We're going to take a really fine paint brush and I'm using micro pearl mica powder and I'm just going to get the very tip of my paint brush coated with the powder and then just start working that in to all the little nooks and crannies. It's not important how much you get on the top of the piece but it's very important to make sure it's all down inside those little crevasses. So I use a lot of action with the tips of my bristles, just to make sure it's down in there. Now once you have the piece covered, this is just the easiest thing, I wish I had thought of it myself. You're just going to take pieces of Scotch tape and burnish this down with your finger one area at a time and then lift this up. You can see how the mica powder is starting to lift up. Now you want to do this all over the piece. So what we want to do is keep removing this mica just keep lifting and lifting it up, until you get back to the original color. You can see there is a little bit of smudging here still and if I just keep going and lifting more and more, eventually I'll get all that back up and it'll be pretty much back to the original color. I love this technique. I think it's so fun and easy. It makes the carving that you've done in your piece really pop out. I hope you'll enjoy trying it out for yourself.