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This is Becky Nunn, guest designer
for Beadaholique.com and in this
episode I'm going to be showing you how you can colorize
brass embellishments with Nunn Design sealants
and mica powders to create
looks like you see here. What you'll need
are some brass embellishments. These ones are
raw unplated by Nunn Design. You'll need some
crystal clay, mica powders, some Nunn Design sealant
paintbrush and some water to rinse it in
and I have a double lot sandpaper
For the first step you're gonna wan to put on some gloves because
I don't really like handling this stuff with my raw fingers
and you're gonna want to scrub down your brass embellishments. See how it leaves all
this stuff and this is just cleaning up your surface in case there's any
oils on the piece and that would prevent the
sealant and the mica power mix it would prevent it from attaching
so go ahead and clean that up using that step
then we're gonna want to take like a wet wipe
and just clean off that surface
just making sure that it's nice and clean and now I'm ready
to go ahead and put my sealant with mica powder on it
to mix your sealant with the mica powder
you wanna have wax paper or
I just have a little plastic bag and
take a little bit of the sealant and scoop it
onto plastic there
then you're going to
take a little bit of the mica powder
and I just have a bunch of these smaller size stir sticks that I pick up when I'm
getting a coffee. I either save them or grab some
shhh don't tell them and I'm gonna mix
an amount of mica powder right into that. Just stir those two
and blend that together
now I have a nice
copper mixture
of sealant and mica powder. I'm getting all that excess
sealant off my brush and blending that in
now I'm ready
to go ahead and paint it on
to my embellishment. I might of had a little bit of water
also on my brush prior to
mixing that sealant and so that's why it could be beading up like that
so if you do just go ahead and rinse it fully
I'm wiping it off
on a wet wipe just make sure that I don't have any
excess water on there. I'm going back in
picking up some
and putting it on there. You can put multiple coats on if you want to
or you can just do a light layer. It dries very fast
I don't know what's fast for but depending on how high your environment
is it could dry within five minutes
go ahead and put
a coat on there, wait
5 minutes and then put another coat if that's what I want. Go ahead and rinse your
brush
just in some water to clean it
wait your five minutes to put the next coat on
I went ahead and did a second coat on there giving it a nice
solid base, totally covering
the brass. I put my gloves back on
and my
what is this? Brillo pad? SOS pad?
this thing
I'm going ahead and yes distressing it slightly
letting some of the
brass to show through
like so
I went ahead and used my Nunn Design sealant and this time
I took some pearl white Crystal Clay sparkle
dust mix that together and now
I'll go over, paint that onto the piece
to give it yet another
dimension. Pretty fun, huh?
go ahead and rinse your brush and depending on whatever color combinations that you
use you can create all kinds of
fun looks and what I love about this look so much is that
each piece can come out unique
and right now that's what's really popular is handmade, making it look
handmade and making it look really unique
To finish my piece off
I think I'll probably will attach it
right on top of this
bezel. This happens to be one of our new
grande broaches and I would probably use like crystal clay
underneath here and just put it right on there so it looks like my bird is soaring in
the clouds. It's that fun? This is Becky Nunn from
Nunn Design, guest designer here at Beadaholique.com showing you how you can
use sealant and mica powders to create
a neat look that you can put on brass.
Go to www.beadaholique.com to purchase beading supplies and to get design ideas!