Custom Pins With Translucent Enamel
Custom Translucent Enamel Pins
One of the great things about custom pins is that you can achieve a wide variety of effects with them. Translucent enamel can be used to create some really cool effects on your pins.
Enamel paint is perfect for creating translucent effects on custom pins. You can use it to create a 'stained glass' effect, or to add a bit of sparkle to your pins. It's also great for creating custom pin designs that are truly one-of-a-kind.
If you're looking for something really unique, try creating custom pins with translucent enamel. You'll be able to create some truly amazing designs that will really stand out from the crowd!
Benefits of Enamel Paint on Lapel Pins
Enamel paint is seen as the gold standard when painting over metal. Its long life and glossy finish provides an alluring shine guaranteed to get admiring eyes and looks from people who see it, perfect for impressing your colleagues and motivating your staff.
Enamel paint is tried and true with a long history of application on jewelry and decorative art. While it takes a little time to dry, the result is a surface that shines brilliantly for years to come.
Custom Pin Effects with Translucent Enamel
When you add the translucent paint to a lapel pin design, you are essentially reducing its opaqueness and reflective qualities, which, when paired with strongly defined, outlined elements, creates a greater appearance of depth. It gives the observer a feeling of spaciousness in an otherwise compact design by allowing the artist to use more sophisticated effects such as layering, glazing, or optical color mixing.
In many cases, it's almost like peering into a precious gem or stone. Indeed, the effect, when executed properly by a trained professional artist or craftsman, can seem practically otherworldly.
Part of the way it does this is by allowing some light through to reveal the metal surface it covers, resulting in a brilliant, subdued shine. It's also a cost-effective way to achieve 3-D like effects for your finished pin design without having to pay extra for the die casting process.
Applications of Translucent Enamel Trading Pins
Imagine, your child's little league baseball team has just finished playing a game in Cooperstown and it's time to trade pins with the opposing team. Instead of whipping out the same old trading pins that everyone else has, you put forth a pin with the green of the baseball diamond in stunning detail, so that the field almost seems alive, ripples of grass in what could have just been a uniformly green, boring patch of grass.
Or what if you wanted to make pins for your fishing, bait and tackle store in a high-visibility tourist area? You can almost picture a lapel pin with your business's name at the top with a giant marlin jumping out at you, its scales shining through the design to properly render one of the most prized of all catches in lifelike detail, water splashing behind it in varying hues of beautiful ocean-blue.
Translucent enamel is also the go-to painting style to produce the stain glass window effect on metal.
Translucent Enamel vs. Opaque Enamel Pins
Remember, no enamel is 100% transparent (translucent) or opaque, which is important to keep in mind. So when it comes to lapel pin design, we recommend you consider every tool at your disposal for doing justice to your lapel pin project. That means the right combination of standard soft enamel paint and translucent enamel for recessed areas.
This way, when your final design comes out of the factory and lands on your doorstep, you and your team, fans, customers or admirers will all resound in awe, "Hey, let me get a closer look at that."
To get started on creating your very own translucent enamel pin, simply email us, or complete our quick and convenient Free Quote form, and a sales representative will contact you regarding your request to begin the process of creating your custom lapel pins.
