Brennan's Crafty Corner : Elevating Cards with Perfect Pearls

Hello everyone! I'm so happy to be here again today to share another amazing technique. I recently picked up some perfect pearls and I want to show you how you can step your cad up with them. We're also going to use a little ink blending and stamping too!

Ignore my messy mat for starters. But the messier the mat, the more well-loved! First I'm taking a card front (4 x 5 1/4 inches) and adding an inch of tape on each side. This is where we'll be doing the ink blending.

I will be using Tim Holtz's Distress Oxides in the colors Faded Jeans and Uncharted Mariner. As you can see, my ink blending didn't come out the best but that's ok! The perfect pearls will save my ink blending and make the card look even better!

I will be using this fluffy paintbrush and some perfect pearls in the color perfect pearl. Dip the brush into the pearls and apply to the paper liberally. You can blow off any excess, we just want to ensure that the inked portion of the card front is fully covered!

This is something like how yours should look! It looks pearlfect (see what I did there) Next we're going to stamp the flower I'm using on this card! I'm using this lilac from Technique Tuesday, but unfortunately, they have recently decided to close down. I will link another one of my favorite florals below instead of this one. Apologies for that.

I will be using copic markers G07 and V17 for this card. However, I'm not shading so truly any coloring medium would work! Once you color in your flower, die-cut it out. I do have a coordinating die for this flower but fussy cutting would work too!

Then you should glue the flower onto the card front at this point! If you want to, you can add a sentiment too! I will be adding get well soon to my card.

Once you do that, decide if you're going to add a border or not, I went with a black one. All you have to do is glue the card front to the card base and you're done! I hope y'all enjoyed this tutorial! If you want to buy anything I used, almost all the supplies are linked below! I really like how using the perfect pearls came out, it gives the card such a great shine. Happy crafting everyone!