Liquid pearl drops without points and bound button hole slots

Hey folks!  Here's my weekly post.   Peggy emailed me asking me if I knew how to make the liquid pearls not pointed, and I didn't really know, but decided it was a good challenge!  So, after some playing around I found a way to make your dots not pointed, but I must be honest that it took A LOT of practice. That means wasted product.  So, whenever you are ready to try this for yourself, you might want to buy the cheap liquid pearl stuff, Scribbles (r) shirt paint from Hobby Lobby to practice with. It is only .99 cents for a 1 fl. oz. bottle, twice the size of Liquid Pearls (tm).

You will need a piece of copy paper and a hole punch, I found that the 1/8" circle works the best, your project CS and liquidy pearl paint.

BELOW:  Mark and punch your holes in the sequence that you want your pearly dots.

BELOW: Start by holding your punched copy paper over your project where you want the dots to be.  Hold your paper in place and carefully glob the pearly stuff over the hole.

BELOW:  Move the tip of your bottle in a circular motion over and around the blob.  This takes practice to lift the tip away without leaving a pointy blob, but once you get the hang of it, it's a cinch!

BELOW: Once all your holes are covered, carefully lift the copy paper up.  There might be a few points made, but they are less pointy than if you blobbed it on without the punched paper guide.

Now, gently tap your project on your desk, making sure that your project is flat and horizontal.  Do not tilt at any angle or your blobs may end up sideways.

I was unable to capture of photo of this step happening, but it is the same kind of gentle motion that you would do to cake batter in the pan, if you wanted to get all the air bubbles out of the batter... you gently tap the pan on the counter a few times.

BELOW:  Here are the blobs I made with my punched paper guide and AFTER I tapped the horizontal project a couple times. You can see how uniform in size they are and they are not pointed

STEP-BY-STEP WITHOUT PUNCHED PAPER GUIDE:

You could follow the above steps without the copy paper, and just make blobs free-handed, but I found the punched copy paper made my blobs all the same size and I didn't have to worry about different size blobs that I get when I free-hand it. Below are pictures of how I did the blobs free-handed.

Make your blobs like normal, and here you can see the points.

BELOW:  This is what it looks like after I tapped the CS while horizontal, a few times. You can see that the points are no longer prominent, but you also can see how I was not able to get my blobs all the same size either.

Now allow all your pearl blobs to dry.  Mine took approximately 30 minutes.

POUCH CARD

I CREATED THE SLOT FOR THE CARD USING THE "BOUND BUTTON HOLE" TECHNIQUE FROM Lori McCroskey's BLOG.  She has a complete tutorial with step-by-step pictures on how to create the bound buttonhole, I simply changed the size of the button hole slot to fit a notecard.  The finished size of my button hole slot is 1" x 4-1/2".  Full list of supplies is at the bottom of the post.

BELOW:  I also decided to make some freehand pearl blobs on my finished card and tapped the project while horizontal a few times as I described at the beginning of this post to make the points disappear.

BELOW:  I marked my button hole slot with a pencil on the inside of the folded 8-1/2x11 card base.  I marked it at 1/2" away from the top and the sides and then drew 45 degree angles from the corners until they met.  This was my guide for where to cut using the Xacto knife (see Clearly iStamp blog for complete instructions on the bound buttonhole)

 

LEFT:  Since my button hole slot was so much closer to the edge than Lori's, I had to snip away the folded back cardstock on the top and each side so that it didn't hang over the edge.

For the button hole slot, I followed the remainder of Lori's instructions and then finished my card by

1. stamping on the front of the base CS

2. sewing the base CS all around the edges, this closes the inside off completely, so if you are going to add brads to yours, you'd want to add those prior to sewing around the edges.

3. Stamped the butterfly outline on Eva paper and cut out wings and stuck on with mini glue dots near the center, so that I could bend the wings a little outward.

4. Stamped and sewed the tabbed pull out card together.

DIMENSIONS FOR CARD:

The purple base of the pull out card is 4-1/4" x 3-3/4" tall, not including the tab sticking up.  Including the tab sticking up, it is 4-1/4" tall.

The base that has the slot in it is a regular A2 size card base, 5-1/2" x 4-1/4" folded (5-1/2" x 8-1/2" unfolded).

Here is the finished card and holder together.

SUPPLIES:

• STAMPS: Butterfly wings by www.cdstamps.com
• CS: PTI white and plum pudding, Basic Grey Eva paper
• INK: SU Perfect plum
• ACCESS: Stickles Iridescent white paint (similar to Liquid Pearls), sewing machine, round tab punch, tape, mini glue dots
• TECHNIQUE: Bound Button hole by Lori McCroskey

Thank you for stopping by today, and I sure hope it was worth it!  Hope you have a wonderful stamping weekend!

Laurie Wilson

Comments

[Susan (rainy)]

Love your idea to make a paper template for the pearls!! TFS!!

[Diane Noble]

Laurie, this is a fabulous post! Love the tutorial for the Pearl Drops...whoo-hoo, no more pointy ones, and the idea for the hole template to get uniform sizes is fantastic. Sometimes it's the little things!

The bound button hole idea from Lori was wonderful, and I love how you've expanded the concept. Gorgeous card...love the whole thing.

[Jan Hunnicutt]

Ohhh, that's really cool! Thanks for sharing, I've had a hard time with not getting points using Liquid Pearls. Your card is georgous too!

[Suzanne Dean]

Oh that card is just lovely--love the colors you used too!

hugz,
Suzanne

[Monique]

Hi Laurie, love your purple butterfly card, and thanks for the tip with the liquid pearls. It's beautiful!!!

[Katie]

Gorgeous Card Laurie! The liquid pearl thing reminds me of cake decorating. Your tutorial is very similar to the way you create icing dots on cakes. You should now try your hand at cakes :) or is that a hidden talent of yours.

[Juliana]

This is BRILLIANT!!! ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!
Not only that...but this is a BEAUTIFUL card, too!

WOW!!!!!

[Jody Morrow]

Neat card layout! I love that style. Very pretty!

[Jessica]

Hi Laurie,

Your card is really gorgeous! And the liquid pearl technique is something I will remember once I own one. :)

Visit my blog as I'm having a simple blog candy. Hope you can play along.

Jhet

[Kim Teasdale]

I am drooling over this card Laurie! It is stunning! Love, love, LOVE it!!!!!

[Lori McCroskey]

That is so cute....i love the little tab you put at the top, love the paper choice, love how it comes out the TOP of the card...everything is perfectly perfect! LOVE IT!

[Lisa]

Hi Laurie! Love your blog! Great tips and wonderful tutorials!

[Nancy Grant]

That's so cool!!! Perfect timing on your tutorial. I love it! Your card is stunningly beautiful too.

:-)