Playing with perfect pearls

08/05/2009

Playing with perfect pearls

Hi there! What is it lately with me and butterflies? I promise when I sit to make something I don't plan it in advance. I don't say "let's make a card with a butterfly". But in the end, most of the stuff I've created for the past 3 weeks had butterflies. Maybe the next time I sit at my crafting desk I should actually plan to make something without a butterfly on it ;)
Anyhow, this week's Jennifer Mc Guire Thinking Inking classes over at Two Peas in a Bucket focus on Ranger's Perfect Pearls and several cool techniques you can make with them. It's super fun stuff, even if you finish with a (nice) shimmer all over your hands... Thankfully it's super easy to scrub anything from the Ranger Crafting Sheet. I own the smaller one but I'm planning on getting the bigger. You can find the monday Thinking Inking class here and today's is here.

I tried some of the monday techniques on tags but the only actual card I did was this one. There are several colors of Perfect Pearls, but the only ones I have are the "Interference" ones, which are very subtle shines of red, green, blue and violet. Maybe because of being SO subtle they don't show really well in the photo. But I promise the results in real life are super pretty, specially when the light shines on the parts where you used perfect pearls.
The butterfly was stamped with Dusty Concord distress ink and then I spread the violet interference perfect pearls over it as shown in the class. I also gave a go to my Pebeo glitter paint to make the tiny accents on the butterfly wings and it seems to work the same great way that Liquid Pearls, although with a glittery finish here.
Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies: Light purple and creamish pink cardstock; Stamps: Basic Grey Flutter set, Hero Arts Raindrop Designblock S5101 and Frames and Messages CL130; Ink: Dusty Concord distress ink, Colorbox Sand Dunes queue; Other: Perfect Pearls (Interference kit), Pebeo glitter paint, twill.