Thank You Card For Maria

Started: December 30, 2007
Finished: December 30, 2007
Made For: Maria
Scraplifted From: my own layout
Materials: 2 colours of cardstock, ribbon, eyelets, VersaMark, Perfect Pearls Pigment Kit in Metallic
Tools: Cuttlebug, Olivia alphabet cutting die, SU All Year Cheer stamp set, SU So Many Sayings stamp set, MM Tool Kit, rotary cutter, gold metallic marker
Cost: under $5
Would I Do It Again? yes...
Notes / Comments: this is a card i made for my BIL's mother... i didn't have a specific design idea in mind when i sat down to do it, but i knew i wanted to use the purple cardstock and i thought the green ribbon would be a nice compliment to that... using the gold pigment from Perfect Pearls was just an excuse to use it... in total, this card took about 20 minutes to make, if that... the design element is very simple, but i like how it turned out... the second picture shows the gold pigment a little better than the larger picture... in person, it has the appearance of a very luminous watermark effect...

the Perfect Pearls Pigment Kit is easy to use... there are several kits available, each including 4 pigment colours, a small Perfect Medium pad (which is similar to VersaMark) and two paint brushes (one to place the pigment, one to dust off excess)... what is nice is that you can keep building up the layers of pigment until you get the amount of saturation you like... i find you can do about 3-4 passes before it won't take any more pigment... for more ways to use Perfect Pearls, Charmed Cards & Crafts has some project ideas...