A Special Peacock

Week 3 of Delightful Inspirations Friday freebie challenge and I'm managing to keep up so far, woohoo go me :) For completing last week's scrummy strawberries design we were given this fabulous peacock from Designed 2 Delight. I absolutely adore peacocks, the males are such magnificent birds with their dramatic plumage and the colours are just divine. The have such a gorgeous metallic sheen to the feathers when you look at them up close, I guess it's like natures own glimmer mist sprays.

The image was coloured with Promarkers and I added some fine glitter with a Sakura clear glitter pen. I covered the base of a card with the gorgeous paper from DCVW and added some electric blue ink to the edges. I had intended to follow the sketch from this week's Crafty Ho's challenge but the image didn't fit an oval so I used a different shaped nestie. Then the embossed area of vellum wasn't deep enough to lay as per the sketch so it all went a bit wrong then so I made it up as I went along!

I added 2 different shaded of blue inks to the edges of the image and across the embossing on the vellum. I have tried to attempt a Shabby Chic effect with the card but not sure if I have managed it successfully........ I have added some gorgeous velvet ribbon from Paperchase. I've only got a bit of it left so I may have to purchase some on my next visit to Birmingham. Of course that does mean I have to go into Selfridges and go past Krispy Kreme donuts and maybe accidentally one might get into my mouth, they have a cool one with gold glitter on it at the moment. Best excuse for getting glitter on my face if I say so myself.... LOL

The paper from is from Bizzy Becs who had a stall at the craft fair I visited a few months ago, the Prima triple layer crochet flower is from a prize I won from a challenge and has come all the way from America and the gem brad is from Hobbycrafts. The sentiment is one I had in my scraps box which has been recycled from a shop bought card.

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size - A5

Sketch - loosely based on Crafty Ho's

Image - Peacock by Designed 2 Delight

Sentiment - Recycled from a shop bought card

Paper - DCWV Peeking Posies pad and some vellum

Embellishments - Velvet ribbon, Paper flower, Prima crochet flower, American Crafts Gem Brad

Tools - Embossing folder, Big Shot, Nestabilities, Promarkers, small ink pads, 3d foam

Techniques - Dry embossing, distressing with ink pad

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical order) :-

• 2 Cute Rubber Stamps - Bling It Up
• Aud's Sentiments #33 - A sentiment to make someone smile (Do you know how special you are?)
• Clear It Out Tuesday - Anything Goes
• Craft Garden - Birds
• Craft Us Crazy #13 - Anything Goes
• Crafts & Me #44 - Add a Flower
• Crafty Ann's #45 - Dry Embossing
• Creative Card Crew - Animal Antics
• Creative Craft Challenges - Lots of Layers
• Deep Ocean #4 - Ribbon
• Delightful Inspiration Friday Freebie - Peacock digi stamp
• Digi's With Attitude #32 - Anything Goes
• Do You Stack Up #29 - Things With Wings
• Freash Brewed Designs #56 - Animals
• Gingerloft #22 - Make it sparkle
• House of Gilli - Anything Goes
• House That Stamps Built DCC720 - Glitter (on feathers)
• I Did It Creations #64 - Animal
• Jac-Inks #13 - Monotone
• KB Cute Monday #22 - Use a Digi
• Little Claire Designs #11 - Things With Wings
• Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes
• Paper Pretties #163 - Embossing
• Ribbon Girls #10 - Aqua Colours plus ribbon
• Scrappy Frogs - Use Flowers
• Sew Many Challenges #60 - Glitter or Bling
• Shelly's Images TTT - Show us What You've Got
• Simon Says Stamp & Show - Embossing
• Stamptacular Sunday #120 - Animal Antics
• Sugar Creek Hollow - Wing Things
• Take A Word #38 - Flight
• Tuesday Throwdown #58 - Metallic (brad)
• Whoopsi Daisy - Sparkle & Shine