Beautiful You Peacock
Beautiful You Peacock
Other Products: Ranger: Distress ink - Broken China, Black Soot. Archival Ink - Jet Black, Paper Distressing tool, Stickles - Golden Rod, Water mister, Water color Brush, Bone Folder, Ink application tool; Paper: SUP A4 Naturals, Ivory x1, White x2; Derwent Ink-tense pencils: 2300 Antique White, 0900 Iris Blue, 1500 Field Green, 1300 Teal Green, 1200 Sea Blue, 0300 Tangerine, 1600 Leaf Green; Other: Double sided tape, White seam binding ribbon, Fussy cutting scissors, Iron, Spellbinders S4-114 Standard Circles LG.
Instructions: This finished card size is 21cm x 14.8 cm. With one of the white A4 cards, fold in half. Use the bone folder to sharpen the fold. This will be your card base. From the paper pad, find the paper with the green background and feathers printed on it. Cut this to 13.8 cm x 20.2 cm. Ink the edges with black Soot and the ink tool. Apply double sided tape to the back of this paper. This will be your matting. From the remaining white A4 card, Cut 13.4 cm x 18.8 cm. Fray and ravel the edges with the distressing tool. Apply double dots to the back of this card. This will be your card front. Find and cut to size the printed sentiment "Beautiful You". Fray and ravel the edges. Apply double sided tape to the back of the sentiment.
To prepare the chipboard circle rings: Take the A4 card and 2 of the circle spellbinder dies; align these to make your 8.8 cm circle. Cut 4 then, glue these together to make the chipboard. Apply stickles to the ring front, leave to air dry. When dry, apply another coat of stickles if needed. To color the ribbon, cut a length to 12.5 cm. Use the Broken China ink and the water mister, apply to the ribbon. Add ink and water as needed to get the color desired. When dry, iron flat. For the stamping, use the A4 Ivory card, Jet-black ink and HCPC 3661, the Peacock, stamp the image 3 x. Using the Derwent pencils and watercolor brush, color the three images in. When dry, fussy cut the Peacocks, leaving one Peacock complete. Apply double dots to the back of this, adding enough height so the image will be higher than the ring. Cut out the remaining 2 images as follows. Cut the tail away from the body and cut the flower clusters out. Discard the 2 bodies.
Putting the card together: Thread the ribbon through the chipboard circle rings. Adhere the ribbon ends to the backside of the card front, center top edge. Making sure the ribbon is straight and taught, using wet glue adhere the circle to the card front. If needed, sliding a little to get it centered. Attach the matting and card front to the card base. For the placement of the Peacock: Arrange and adhere with wet glue, the 2 cut tails so they will show from behind the main image. Adhere the main Peacock in the center, then tuck and wet glue the flower clusters to both sides of the circle ring. Apply the remaining smaller flower clusters to the center top of the ring. Adhering the top flower cluster with a cut to size double dot to give height. Adhere the sentiment to the center bottom of card front. To finish, apply stickles to the tail and flower centers.