Making Stenciled Fireworks with Perfect Pearls

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Hello and happy Wednesday! For today’s card, I decided I’d take the fireworks stencil in the December Box from The Hedgehog Hollow out for a test drive and see if I could make a shimmery stenciled fireworks background with Perfect Pearls.

Making Stenciled Fireworks with Perfect Pearls

I usually do videos for you during the second half of each month, but I have to apologize today – the mountain cedar pollen here in south Texas finally got to me and I’ve had laryngitis for just over a week now. This morning I could squeak a little bit, though, so I’m hoping I’ll clear up in time for Christmas Eve! 🙂

On to today’s project! I pulled out some black cardstock and taped it down to my craft mat. Then, I chose the top two fireworks on the stencil and used some Post-It® Tape to mask off the rest.

Making Stenciled Fireworks with Perfect Pearls

Instead of using Perfect Medium, I smooshed Nuvo Clear Mark right from the pad through the stencil. I didn’t tape down the stencil, I just held it as still as I could as I moved it around the card front.

Making Stenciled Fireworks with Perfect Pearls

It ended up looking something like this:

Making Stenciled Fireworks with Perfect Pearls

Even though it looks like the Clear Mark is drying, it’s still sticky. I got out my brushes and began buffing on the Perfect Pearls Powder. The colors I used are called Festival Green and Turquoise.

Making Stenciled Fireworks with Perfect Pearls

There’s no special way to apply the powder, just brush on what you need until all your stamped areas are filled in. There’s a bonding agent in the powder, so after you dust off the excess, your design will dry permanent.

Once the background was done, I wanted more sparkle. To make that happen, I spritzed it with Shimmer Spritz and set it aside to dry.

Making Stenciled Fireworks with Perfect Pearls

Meanwhile, I trimmed a 5-1/2” x 4-1/4” piece of the silver mirror cardstock for a mat, and die cut the sentiment from a similar cardstock I had in my stash.

Making Stenciled Fireworks with Perfect Pearls

Then, I attached the fireworks panel to the silver mirror cardstock. And finally, I adhered the sentiment with Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive and attached the card front to an A2 size card base.

Making Stenciled Fireworks with Perfect Pearls

Thanks so much for reading today! 

Making Stenciled Fireworks with Perfect Pearls
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PS – here’s another card I made with Perfect Pearls – go take a look!

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