{Spotlight Project} Maria Smears Liquid Pearls

Inspired by this tutorial for stenciling with Liquid Pearls and then this card, I played around with my German equivalent of Liquid Pearls today to create a cool background. Ready?

Here's that background.

STEP 1

Gathered my supplies - white cardstock which I die cut using one of the dies in the CUTplorations Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangles (available starting July 3), Gone Postal,  and Liquid Pearls.

STEP 2
Squeezed some pink dots onto the panel.

STEP 3

After smearing the first dots around with my finger I thought it needed a couple more. Smeared them too and you see the result on the right.

 STEP 4

 Added a few dots of light blue for contrast. I skipped the lower right section since I knew my stamped image would be placed there.

STEP 5

Then I stamped my image with black Versafine onto a leftover of Distress-Ink-smooshed watercolor paper.

STEP 6

Die cut it with another upcoming CUTplorations product ;) TIP: When you have your dies lined up, use washi to tape them down securely and run them through your die cutting machine in one pass.

STEP 7
I die cut the smaller rectangle from craft foam too for some dimension, then adhered my image to it and both pieces to my Liquid Pearls panel using matt medium and a paintbrush.

STEP 8

I smeared white Liquid Pearls all over the panel (see it up top in the photo below) and in three spots around the edge of my cardbase too before assembling my card.

So here's the finished card. A few sequins never hurt a girly card, right? I stamped a birthday sentiment on the inside.

 Remember if you try out any of the techniques from our Spotlight posts and hook your project up at our Spotlight Project Showcase  you have a chance to win a $15 gift certificate (random drawing) OR your choice of 5x7 stamp set + a Spotlight Project guest designer spot (randomly drawn from the Top 3 picks).

Tschüss,

Maria

Products Maria used in today's project:

  

Gone Postal | CUTplorations Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangles