Mokume Gane With Pinata Inks

Mokume Gane With Pinata Inks
You'll need translucent clay, leafing foil and inks in the colors of your choice, a rubber stamp, a tile to use as an inking plate and a sharp blade.	Roll out the clay as thin as you can and back it with the foil. The sheets shown here are the width of a pasta machine.	Stamp the clay surfaces at random. Let the ink dry, stack the stamped sheets, cut in half and stack again.
Press out any air bubbles, then cut the stack in quarters.	Compress the stack. Press it to thin it out. The ink stretches with the clay.	Thin and stretch the stack laterally to make the foil crackle. Cut in quarters, again.
Stack up the four pieces and compress the stack to thin it once more.	Distress the stack - I like to use a credit card to make a grid pattern.	Square up the flattened stack to make a tall cube.
Press the top to flatten it if you like.	Shave very thin slices off the top of the stack and apply to bead bases or a sheet of clay.	The resulting sheet can be applied to pens or flat surfaces.