Peacock Inspiration

Flourishes released three new sets this week and held a challenge to celebrate.  As one of the sets is a Peacock set, the challenge was to use the colours of a peacock feather in your card.  I love the blues and greens of peacock feathers, but the picture on the Flourishes blog had a very definite gold in it also so I decide to go with those three colours.

I stamped the heart first on watercolour paper and embossed with gold glory e.p.  Then I brushed water across the sheet of paper and squeezed droplets of Garden Green ink and Not quite Navy ink onto the wet paper.  It bled across the paper and the colours blurred into each other.  I think I will try this technique again but wait for the ink to dry and emboss afterwards; it was hard to get ink into all the little spaces in the centre of the heart.

I used the same technique to do the “From the Heart” greeting on the inside of the card.   The greeting was meant to be on the front but no matter how I arranged things I wasn’t happy with it on the front so it got put inside and I added the embossied  gold background on the front.

Hope you had a happy Valentines Day, but don’t forget let your loved ones know you love them everyday!

Supplies:

Inks:  Versamark, Garden Green, Not quite Navy
Cardstock: Watercolour paper, Not quite Navy, Brushed Gold
Stamps:  Ever After, All Year Cheer
Also:  Gold Glory e.p.