Black Pearls

Good morning! Today I have a "Wild at Heart" sample using Pearlex powder, which is a crushed mica pigment. There are a lot of great things about Pearlex, it gives your cardstock a beautiful sheen and texture, and requires no heat setting (which I also love not having to worry about getting good coverage or removing all my stray flakes ahead of time the way you do with embossing.) The result is a pearly solid finish and cardstock that looks like a piece of stamped silk! I have another Pearlex sample I will be sharing with you soon along with a pic of how easy it is to apply, that one is on white cardstock, but today's shows one of my favorite things about it, how beautiful light powders show up over dark cardstock. Here on black this silver powder seems to create a "negative" of the negative frame.

Simply stamp the image in Versamark and brush on the powder. It sticks to the Versamark the same way chalk does when you are doing poppin' pastels. I stamped this onto Black Onyx and attached it to Silver Lining Pure Luxury Cardstock, and added a few tiny adhesive rhinestones over the little dotted buds. The die cut is Labels Nine. You can rub around the edges of the die like a stencil with more Versamark and add more Pearlex, but here I just used a little silver rub on paste.
Here is another view of the card and this time I added some larger rhinestones to the flower centers I found at my LSS. This bling is so big they are almost like mirrors LOL!

Have a great day!

PS Not counting the matted dies, this is a TWO layer card! (4 if you count them) I love how the border in the frame image makes it look like I matted silver on black on silver on black on silver (which would be five layers), when really it's just stamped on a large black mat and attached to a silver card!!! :)