Perfect Pearls Peacock

Even though Mother’s Day was last week, I still want to wish all the Mum’s out there a belated Happy Mother’s Day! Hope it was a lovely day for you, mine was!

I have been having a revisit with my Perfect Pearls for the last couple of weeks and have found it a lot of fun! I haven’t worked on anything specific, I just got the pearls out, some plain cardstock and decided to have a play. I’m pretty happy with the results and will now think about what I might use the images for. Probably some cards.

I basically did two methods – the first one was simply colouring my own backgrounds with the pearls, blending (where I could) the colours to create a kind of rainbow effect. I then threw on some gold peel off stickers I had in the back of my craft draw and cut around the stickers. I’m really happy with the peacock! The shimmery effect (which unfortunately doesn’t show up so well in my scans in this post) mixed with the gold peel off sticker is really very pretty.

The second method was sticking the peel off stickers on the card stock first and then colouring in with the pearls. I usually mix a bit of the powder with some drops of water in the lid of the powder I’m using. Once the lid dries it’s fine to put it back on the pot – just don’t leave unlidded pots of pearl powder unattended where small children can reach!! I can guarantee from personal experience the end result is VERY messy!!! (But my kids had a ball and no-one got hurt in the process!)

I’ve scanned the images and posted them below. It really was a whole lot of fun to just play with the pearls and remind myself of how much I love shimmer and perfect pearls!

Happy papercrafting