Peacock

Time for another challenge over at

IKEsWORLD

Feathered Friends (may be angels)

Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :)  do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, just remember, you must use and IKEsART image to be eligible for the prize.  Why not pop on over to the store, Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :)

For this fortnights challenge I am working with the adorable image  - Peacock.  I have used this image so many times, it is one of those I keep coming back to reuse :)

A pretty simple creation in the end, once I had coloured the image my creative thoughts flew away and were nowhere to be found.  After playing around for about an hour I could not get the finished card to look like I wanted it to and left my craft room in a big sulk - hahhaha.  Oh well, first job in the morning - get it finished.

So here we go with what I did.  I started by printing the image and colouring with Promarkers.  I then added some of the bits of my peacock feather to the image, the sheen is just magical :)  Once that was done I added lots of blue glass gems and then trimmed the excess feather bits off.

 Promarkers used

I mounted the image on to a Sizzix doily die then mounted that on Spellbinders Grand Labels 1 then the onto Spellbinders Scalloped Squares - I wanted lots of layers on this card. The top three layers were mounted using foam tape.  Using the eye of the feather I drew the tops bits in as they were to big for the card, part of the problem I was having earlier.  To cover the silver thread I used I added another blue glass gem.  A birthday peel off sticker was added for the sentiment then a turquoise bow with a beautiful turquoise gem, recycling of my daughter's broken necklace hehehe.  I added lace behind the feather then attached to the card.

Here you can see the gems sparkling - yep this is a real sparkly card :)

 Front view of card.

Ingredients:-

• Digi - Peacock by IKEsART
• Promarkers
• Dies - Sizzix doily, Spellbinders Grand Labels 1 and Scalloped Squares
• Lace, ribbon, feather, gems and charm from my stash

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

• Animal Friends Challenge - M, P1, E3 Must have an Animal made ​​of paper and an animal motif
• Cards Galore Encore - M, P1, E3 MAKE A CARD! 
• Natalie and Amy's Challenge - M, P30 #24 Things With Wings!
• Sparkles Forum Challenges -M,P15, 3E * Things with Wings * 
• ABC Challenge - P1/15 ‘T is for Tic Tac Toe’ ** (RIBBON, SENTIMENT, PEARLS OR GEMS)
• Cosmic Colours Challenge - M, P1, all papercrafts #5 Color*
• Artistic Inspirations - W, E3 - Anything Goes and/or Bling
• Love to Scrap - 2W, 3E, F, digi or real stamping - (Week 1) Anything Goes
• Dragonfly Dreams - M –  Challenge 9 - Let's Celebrate with Jewels or Pearls
• Jellypark Friends Challenge M - It's All About Pets and Animals
• Pile It On - W #37 Flowers and/or Feathers
• QKR Stampede – W, 4E, SIO – No. 104 - Things with Wings
• Sweet 7 Challenge Blog -2W, E3-  No.4 (W1 of 2) - Anything Goes with a color twist - see colors below
• Little Miss Muffet Challenges -  2W, 1E, SIO (challenges listed in tab at top) (W2 of 2) - Blues and Greens