Zooming with Perfect Pearls

I have a little blog hop for you today!  A few of us were doing a zoom craft session with Loll leading us in a few techniques for using our Perfect Pearls (mine were sitting much neglected in my craft cupboard).

First up we tried watercolouring die cuts with them.  

 

 

For this one, I painted the die cut poinsettia with nothing but Perfect Pearls - sprinkled a tiny bit on my craft mat, spritzed with water, and painted.

Added a heat embossed sentiment, a pale gold shimmer border, and some gemstones.

 

 

Next up, another die cut:

 

For this one, I tapped a green ink pad on my craft mat, sprinkled a bit of green Perfect Pearls onto it, then spritzed with a little water and blended them before painting the die cut.

I glued it to a die cut stitched rectangle, added a heat embossed sentiment, popped it up on fun foam, and embellished with red stick-on pearls.

 

My conclusion is that I prefer the second technique - by mixing the Perfect Pearls with some ink, I got a richer colour than was easier to paint on evenly.  The Perfect Pearls added great shimmer to the ink - I think you can see it a bit in the photo.  When using the Perfect Pearls alone, as on the poinsettia, I found it quite streaky and hard to blend.

Then we tried smooshing with them to create backgrounds.  I made some backgrounds on white mixed media and white watercolour but they were very similar to smooshing with inks or Magicals.  What I did find really intriguing was using the "interference" Perfect Pearls colours on black watercolour paper.  I got several really beautiful backgrounds from them.

This is blue interference Perfect Pearls - sprinkled on my craft mat, spritzed with water, and then I smooshed into it with black watercolour paper.  Hopefully you can see some of the shimmer in the photo.  I added the die cut reindeer, stamped the sentiment in a similar blue, and had the perfect shade of blue shimmer cardstock for the base.

Hop on over to the rest of the Zoom group to see their results:

Bonnie  https://bon2stamp.blogspot.com/2020/09/perfect-pearls-with-friends.html

Brenda  https://inkspiredtostamp.blogspot.com/2020/09/playing-with-perfect-pearls.html

Christine https://itsacarddaysnight.blogspot.com/2020/09/a-perfect-pearl-revival.html

Darnell  https://www.djkardkreations.com/2020/09/playing-with-pp.html

Loll  https://www.stampingwithloll.com/2020/09/zooming-with-friends-september.html

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Great Impressions sentiment
Ink - Versamark
Paper - white, mixed media, gold shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Penny Black poinsettia die, various colours of Perfect Pearls, champagne embossing powder, gold gemstones

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - A Muse sentiment
Ink - Distress Pine Needles, ColorBox Cranberry
Paper - white cs, mixed media
Size - A2
Accessories - Penny Black holly die, green Perfect Pearls, clear embossing powder, Lil Inker stitched rectangle die, red pearls, fun foam

Supplies for card 3:
Stamps - Rubber Soul sentiment
Ink - Distress Blueprint Sketch
Paper - black watercolour paper, blue shimmer and white cs
Size - 4.25" square
Accessories - Memory Box reindeer die, blue interference Perfect Pearls, fun foam