What is "Perfect Pearls" and "Perfect Medium"?

This is a post to explain a little about "Perfect Pearls" and "Perfect Medium". Recently, I've won some of these "Perfect Pearls" in a Ranger Contest Online ad I've been experimenting with in in various of my projects. I've received some emails and comments here asking me about these products? Therefore, I've decided to go ahead and explain it in more detail here.

"Perfect Pearls"are pigment powders which consist of built in resin for amazing combinations in wet or dry. You can absolutely mixed it with paints, inks, watercolours or just use it dry to get a pearlescent effect. They come in various colours. You can get them in kits where you'll get a small brush for applying your powders and a bigger brush for dusting off excess powders from your project.

They also include a "Perfect Medium" in the kit which works perfectly with the "Perfect Pearls". You can also get a bigger "Perfect Medium" pad separately. Just simply stamp any images or rub it against any surface before you apply the pigment powders on your project. It works just liked any embossing ink when you're heat embossing. The difference is that your using pigment powders and you set it using just a mist of water instead of the heating tool. "Perfect Medium" is also great as an embossing ink, watermark stamping and even a resist ink. I'll try to incorporate these in some of my future projects to let you all have a better idea of how to do this.

"Perfect Medium" do also comes in pens form. They comes in a set of a brush tip and a bullet tip. You can definitely let your creativity fly with these pens and some perfect pearls.

I just love how these products from Ranger Ink had inspired me! If you're hesitate to buy all the range of perfect pearls available, I would suggest getting just a kit to start you off! Try it!

Flowers using Perfect Pearls

This is a technique that I've used while creating some flowers for my recent layout which I will be uploading in a one or two days time. With "Perfect Pearls", you'll be able to create your one of a kind flower that shines and glows.

Here are the steps to it.

1) Cut out some flowers out of black card stock or dark coloured card stock. I've used a chipboard flower as a template to cut out my flowers in the pictures above.

2) Stamp some images onto the flower using the "perfect medium". (You can absolutely use any stamp images for this)

3) Dust some perfect pearls onto the stamped images. You could mix a few colours of perfect pearls in this step. I've used Interference Green and Heirloom Gold for my flowers above. Use a dry brush to brush off any excess perfect pearls on your images.

4) Mist some water over the images to set the perfect pearls. Let it dry completely.

5) Curl the flower using a scissors or twizzer and fold the petals upwards.

Try creating your own "Perfect Pearls" flowers in your next project!

Love Card

This is another card that I've created for "Pandora Willow Tree". The stamped image is from Ying, a great friend of mine.

Here's the steps.

1) Use a white card stock to create the base card. I've used the "Create your own Scallop Paper Template" technique to create the template for the scallop edge on the right of the card. Ink the edges of the base card using frayed burlap distress ink.

2) Cut out a square piece from a pattern paper. Ink the edges using vintage photo distress ink and paste it in the middle of the card.

3) Paste your image created using the "Split Negative Embossing" technique onto a card stock. Leave some space between the pieces to create a faux window look. Ink the edges of the card stock with frayed burlap distress ink and paste it on the upper half of the card.

4) Use a doodling pen and doodle a row of zig-zag stitches on the right border of the card.

5) Stamp and colour the magnolia image using watercolour pencils. Doodle the dress using doodling pen and add glitters (Stickles) for more details. Attach it to the card using a foam adhesive or pop up adhesive.

6) Stamp your sentiment on the lower left of the card and add two small flowers to it.

7) Tie a ribbon on the left of the card (following the fold).

Sources: Card stock: Bazzill; Pattern Paper: Basic Grey; Stamp: Stampin' Up, Heidi Swapp, Magnolia; Ink: Ranger Distress Ink, Ranger Embossing Ink, Ranger Adirondack Ink Pad; Others: Embossing powders, ribbon, flowers, zig pen, watercolour pencils, glue dots and other adhesives.

Celebrate Card

Here's just a very fast and simple card for a friend.

Here are the steps.
1) Cut and fold a rectangular card out of black card stock. Stamp an image randomly all over the card using a white pigment or solvent ink.

2) Cut a rectangle piece out of a pattern paper. (I've used a blue pattern paper in my card above). Distress the edges using the "Scissors Distressing" technique and ink it using vintage photo distress ink.

3) Use the "Split Negative Embossing" technique to create the image in the middle of the card. Arrange and paste them onto a rectangular piece of brown card stock. Attach the brown card stock onto the middle of the pattern paper.

4) Add a strip of lace on the lower edge of the pattern paper.

5) Add a flower on the left of the card. Stamp your sentiment onto a champagne card stock and cut it out. Ink the edges with vintage photo distress ink. Paste it on the lower right corner of the card.

I just love how the image using "Split Negative" technique turned out. It gave an artistic look to the card.

Sources: Card stock: Bazzill; Pattern Paper: Basic Grey; Stamp: Stampin' Up; Ink: Ranger Distress Ink, Hampton Art, Ranger Embossing Ink, Ranger Adirondack Ink Pad; Others: Embossing powders, Prima Flowers, brad (Making Memories), glue dots and other adhesives.

Split Negative Embossing

This is a technique that I've came across in one of the forum challenges that I'm in. It's such a fun and awesome technique that I hope you all would give it a try. It's actually very simple.

Here are the steps:

1) First use a stamp (preferable a large stamp) and some embossing ink to stamp on a black and a white card stock. Cover the image on the black card stock with white embossing powders and the one on white card stock with black embossing powders. Heat embossed both images. You will now have an image with it's negative to work with.

2) Place both card stocks together and cut both of them on the exact spot. You can cut them into halves of quarters. I've cut mine into quarters. Then, mix them up to form your complete image. You can create up to two projects with these pieces.

You'll see my finished projects in my next two posts.