I am starting to play with this today. I threw out my perfect medium pads, because the foam was disintegrating. I am substituting my Versamark pad. Of course, that works well for the first technique in the videos where you just stamp and add the PP.
However, in the Lift Technique, it did not lift very well. I am wondering if others are also having this result. My black paper MAY possibly have a coating on it, and I am thinking that might be the issue too. It still gave an interesting result which I will share later when I am ready to photograph things.
I also know that I can get around this by NOT putting Versamark direct to paper first (as they do use the Perfect Medium direct-to-paper), I think I will just get a lighter amount of pearl coating.