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There are two new wonderful sets of peacock themed stamps from Chocolate Baroque, Peacock Parade and Tangled Peacock.
I have been working with Peacock Parade and it's been very enjoyable. Here is one of the designs I came up with.
I started with making my fiery sunset background, using my leafy background technique in a range of yellow, orange, pink and red Adirondack and Distress inks. I added hills (or maybe sand dunes) in Seedless Preserves Distress Ink using torn paper as a mask. I die cut my pavillion using a DoCrafts X cut die, adding the trellis with a Memory Box die mounted behind. I added some gold pearlescent paper in the dome, with detailing using the peacock border stamp from the Peacock Parade set embossed in gold detail powder on black. I embossed the peacock in the same way and added red gems onto the pavillion and peacock. I added the palm tree stamp from a Christmas set Peace on Earth, the birds are from the Landscape Edges set and the sentiment from the Butterfly Dreams set.
Do pop over to the DT blog, linked in my side bar, to see the great work of my DT team mates. There are some great creative ideas coming up.
Elaine
Here is another sample from me using the lovely Steampunk Butterfly stamps from Chocolate Baroque, stamp of the month on special offer during December.
I started by inking the background with Stormy Sky and Bundled Sage Distress Inks. This was one of those backgrounds I fiddled with for ages. I started with some waste from die cut grass that I used as a mask, then I overstamped, didn't like what I had done, splodged water about and in the end I was happier with it. Then I overstamped with the lovely stained glass fragment from the plate that all the girls in the DT have fallen in love with. I used a turquoise archival ink and added some white highlights with a Prismacolor pencil. The touches of white are inspired by my team mate Miranda, who often uses white highlights to great effect. I embossed the butterfly in teal metallic powder and added colour with Distress Markers and more Prismacolours. The sentiment is from the Butterfly Dreams set.
I have been busy with more Christmas cards. I feel like I have been on the case for ages, but still seem to have about 15 more to make. Tonight I finished a card for a competition in a local craft shop, that might make an appearance in due course. I hope you are getting on better than me with your last minute cards. Some of those I still need to do are for VIP card makers - no pressure there then - eeeek!
Elaine
