It took me a bit of time to figure out what I wanted to make with the Spellbinders "Peacock Paradise" Collection. It's a lovely collection, you can see the entire collection by clicking HERE.
I wanted to use alcohol ink and have some lovely swirls on the feathers but Yupo paper and dies don't work together well. It's hard to cut plastic and the feathers have small cutout that just wouldn't work.
So this set has been sitting on my desk for weeks, just taunting me. It wouldn't do it justice to just cut the feathers out of plain blue cardstock. I looked through my specialty papers and saw this "Rainbow Gradient" cardstock from Your Paper Insider. You can buy a 10 pack of this paper, the price listed includes shipping, which is great.
I used it before on my blog HERE. It's really beautiful.
I diecut the "Glorius Peacock" from black cardstock and the shadow from the Rainbow Gradient cardstock. I used the same cardstock for the 5x7 background and embossed it with Spellbinders "Flourish" 3D embossing folder. (this folder is from the Birthday Bash Collection, I didn't receive the folders from the Peacock Paradise Collection, but you can see those HERE).
After I embossed it, it curled a bit. I glued it to the front of the card and put a book on top of it and it laid flat again. For the entire card, I used a full sheet of this beautiful paper.
I diecut the "Cameo Frames" from gold metallic cardstock, a scrap from my stash, I think it was originally from Michaels. I diecut the frame 2 additional times from kraft cardstock, just to give it some sturdiness. This metallicc paper was thin and I didn't want it to look bumpy on the background, not to mention that I like dimension.
I used a piece of fun foam and popped up the shadow of the peacock. You can diecut the foam with the shadow die, but I just used a scissors and cut a rough shape to save some foam.
I added a few gem stickers to the peacock's head. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, so regal. It really didn't take much time to put this card together since there was no inking or coloring involved. Ok, let's not count the weeks I thought about how to make it.
Below are the supplies I used with clickable links, thank you for using them, it helps me out immensely.
The entire "Peacock Paradise Collection" can be found by clicking HERE
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