The other day I watched Tim's demo videos which you can find here, and I wanted to try right away the technique demonstrated in the Perfect Distress demo. I have to say that my first attempt was more of a Perfect Disaster but I carried on. And my perseverance paid off: I made two pretty cards and the third one (the disastrous one) turned out quite creative *wink*
The perfect pearls are used dry as opposed to the technique on my previous post where pigment inks are used together with a mixture of water and perfect pearls.
On the first card the flourish and on the second card the clock are stamped with Distress Inks and brushed with perfect pearls (heirloom gold). The tricky thing was when Tim sprayed water ON the image with the perfect pearls on in order to let the Distress Ink blend a little. I guess I wasn't paying too much attention on how FAR AWAY and how LITTLE water Tim sprayed on the image. The result on my card was that right before my eyes the pretty flourish image watered down completely: practically I had a big pool of red ink swaying on my card. I blotted it, stamped on it with black archival ink and didn't use the technique on this card, lol. It's the last card, you'll see the noticeable "water color" effect. But nonetheless, it has a blingy pearly effect on it.
On my birdie card the perfect pearls are visible IRL, on the photo much less. On the clock card only half of the clock is covered with pp because I let the Distress Ink dry too much. But I still like the card.
And last but not least: my creative pearly card :)
