Perfect Pearls Butterflies

On Sunday over at the Hero Arts Flickr group, Chris in Australia, hosted the 90 minute challenge.  It started at noon here in Auckland.... but I was busy unpacking the groceries, so it was nearly 25 past before I got a chance to start.   Chris's challenge was to use black card stock as your background.  I recently saw a technique over Simon Says stamp that was called Perfect Pearl resist.  I thought it would be fun to try.



I clear embossed the butterflies onto the black card stock .  I don't have many colours in Perfect Pearls but do have some Pearl Ex powders.  These are very similar to Perfect Pearls except they need some sort of setting agent.  I mixed them with water and coloured the butterflies then set them with hairspray.   Once it was dry I die cut them with the matching die.  I used a white gel pen to add some dots to the butterflies and do some faux stitching on the card.  The sentiment was white embossed.  I couldn't find my Embossing buddy and the white powder ended up everywhere.    And it was raining so I couldn't get a decent photo.  But I did have fun doing the challenge... and to top it all off, I won one of Chris's prizes... wasn't that cool.

I've been watching a new program on TV... Revolution.  It started yesterday and was on again tonight.  Looks like it will be good. 

Can't wait for the weekend.. It's a long one for us with Monday being Labour Day.  Hubby and I are heading up to the beach.. just the two of us this time, so no TV, no internet, nothing to do but read and rest.  I might take some colouring up with me, but am having a weekend off.


Dawn