Hello there lovelies! It's Riikka here today to share a layout with you. The theme of the month is "self-made embellishments" and the first thing that popped to my head was the half pearls. I also made some other embellishments of a sort to the page, too.
The topic of my page is my younger daughter who is a little show woman. I took this picture while she was helping me to take a few photos by holding the background upright and popped her head to the shot. That grin and the impulsiveness of the situation tell a lot about her, kind of is her. 

I wanted the page to be happy and whimsical, like she is, so I used pinks and peachy colors in it. I first created the background using one of the new stamp sets by Marion called "Round and Round". Then I added some watercolor in the mix. After that was the time to create the embellishments - I used "Bright White" embossing powder to make myself a self-made transparency and "Queen of Hearts" to make th…

Being a mixed media artist, I love layers especially translucent layers that allow whatever lies beneath to shine through to the top. Pearl powders are translucent which is how they manage to change appearance depending on what they're embossed onto. White card or dark card, each one will have a different finish.

I wondered whether it was possible to take a Pearl powder (I have Green Pearl) and alter the look of some of my other powders? After a bit of experimentation, I discovered happily that you can indeed create new pearl finishes by layering over other colours.


For example, here I've used The Ferry Man Trio, Jealous Guy, Love is the Drug and Angel Eyes. I chose The Ferry Man Trio as I wanted something bright as my under layer and these are pretty bright.
The result is gorgeous. The effect is quite subtle and when viewed from above it just looks like a soft sheen over the original but when it's turned to the light, wow!! the magic happens and you get the beautiful pea…