HELP WITH MOTHER OF PEARL EFFECT BEADS

[maceygray]

Hi

Can any one help i am trying to obtain a mother of pearl effect beads using Ivory Effetre, Silver Leaf and clear. I cant get the effect i am after, so i need to use silver foil rather than leaf?

Thanks

[beadysam]

Can you change the colour of your text so we can read it?

[Vicki]

if you encase Aurae you get a lovely mother of pearl effect...I can't see you'd get it with silver leaf & ivory as they react in a different way...unless there is a technique I don't know off, which is possible as there are many techniques I don't know of 

[Steampunkglass]

Might be worth investigating using mica powder as well, spread some on marver, roll hot bead through it to stick, makes quite a nice opalised effect, not sure if it's exactly what you are after though

[sublimekate]

Not sure what you're after, the only thing I can think of is make a clear bead, burnish silver foil on to it and then introduce it to a reducing flame, if you do this the silver doesn't just melt in, it kind of fuses and bubbles on the surface, then you can let it cool a little and reduce it again to get a strong mirror finish then apply clear over the top.

This is a bead where I did this with silver, but I didn't encase it, it's just clear and silver foil, but as I say I put the bead in a propanne rich reducing flame once I'd burnished the silver on.



HTH, Kate x