Thursday 5 May 2011

Dragons Dream - Perfect Purples

Purple is my most favourite colour and has been since I was very little. Occasionally I get tempted away by teal, but I always end up back at purple (almost all my clothing is purple, turquoise or black!). So, when I saw that Dragons Dream Tag It On  challenge theme this week was purple of course I couldn't resist!

I thought I'd have a go at the perfect distress technique from the Tim Holtz Compendium of Curiosities. The idea is to stamp an image in distress ink, cover it with perfect pearls, then mist with water to set the perfect pearls and wick the distress ink out a bit from underneath. This is what I came up with:


I don't think I made a very good job of it - the ink colour under the gold perfect pearls blended too much into the background. I still like the overall effect though, even if, like most things I do, its not quite how it was intended.

Sarah
xx

8 comments:

  1. It's a happy accident! I like it very much.

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  2. If it works go with it and this works it has such a great sheen and wonderful shades of purple with just highlights of teal is that? Thank you for joining us with this smashing tag at Dragon's Dream TIO XOXO Zoe

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  3. Love the effect eve. If it didn't turn out quite as you had expected. Fabulous colour blending too. I just love the fabulous sheen this tag has. Thank you for dreaming the colour purple with us this week over on the TIO challenge.
    Wanda xxx

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  4. I love your other favourite colour too! Great tag, so glad you dreamt the dream this week.

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  5. Hi... really thought I had left you a message, sorry!! This is beautiful, so elegant and I love the accent colour you decided to used. Thanks for dreaming with us this week
    Frankie
    xx

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  6. I would not know what to expect it to turn out like but if the sheen is anything that you are supposed to get you certainly got it. Gorgeous sheen to this tag which is echoed in the edging on the flower. Great!

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  7. Fantastic, wonderful background.

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  8. Love the swoosh of shimmer and colour. I think the tag works very well indeed. Thank you for dreaming the colour purple with us this week.

    Janet xx

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