Thursday 7 July 2016

The undecided peacock...


There's a peacock that lives on my route into work, and I often see him perched on the garage roof or garden wall in the mornings. He inspired this card. 
I'd made some backgrounds using pixie powders and thought that one of them matched his colours quite well. I die cut the peacock three times out of the background (it was a free die with one of the craft magazines a while back) and snipped the tails off two of them to add to the original to give him a fuller tail. I die cut a frame out of matt gold card using Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangles and also cut a rectangles to fill the frame out of another pixie powder background. Once glued in place I added a black gem for his eye and black AB gems to his tail. It still looked unfinished and so I doodled a border (shamelessly stolen from Lynne in N.I) I still feel that something is missing from it, but I haven't a clue what, it may be one the ends up in the recyling pile! Hopefully the close ups give you some idea of the shimmer.



10 comments:

  1. What a wonderful die and the colours are fabulous. Lovely colours within the frame. What about adding a sentiment to the left hand corner, and/or a few gems,whatever you do I love it, Kate x

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  2. Love that peacock die, and you chose some beautiful colors to do the background. I would add a small sentiment on a black strip on that shimmery panel.

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  3. Gosh, you have been busy producing such a beautiful peacock.
    I think a small sentiment could be what is missing, otherwise it is a very nice card!

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  4. Beautiful card Cara....love what you done with the peacock....stunning colours...Maybe a sentiment?....Joolsx

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  5. Beautiful card Cara....love what you done with the peacock....stunning colours...Maybe a sentiment?....Joolsx

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  6. Wow, beautiful card Cara! I can't believe there's just a peacock running around loose that you can see in real life every day. Here, the only place you can see one is if you go to the zoo! hugs and happy weekend :)

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  7. Loving your peacock Cara, the tail is majestic!

    Hugs Erika. x

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  8. Ooooh I love your gorgeous peacock, you must have very posh neighbours! I reckon all this needs is a sentiment just under your gold frame x

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  9. Beautiful peacock. I loved the added dimension of the sequins/ bling. Creative Blessings! Kelly

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  10. Beautiful peacock and the background part as well perfect.

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