Peacock Card for Bizzy Becs

The July Challenge has started and as always the theme is Anything Goes.

I have bought the  Feathers Collection Darkroom Door rubber stamps to experiment with and this card was my first creation.

I really love peacock feathers and decided to create the colour in them by making a background on gloss card. I did this using Brushos (watercolour crystals). These are great fun to use if you get a chance to play with them. I just sprinkled them on the card and spritzed with lots of water. The colours I used were Emerald Green and Cobalt Blue.

I got rid of the pools of excess colour using a sheet of watercolour paper (This I will save for another project later on).

I dried the paper with my heat gun and then stamped the peacock feather using Black Archival Ink.

I inked around the edge of the paper with brown ink and then put some Cosmic Shimmer Glue for Gilding flakes on a piece of foam so that I could add it to the feather stamp. I stamped glue around the edges and then rubbed Gold Gilding flakes over the images.

The border is a Tile Works die by Spellbinders. I rubbed glue around the edges of it and then rubbed the same flakes into the black card. 

I added some remnant of different textured wool to the bottom of the main image before layering everything up.

I am hoping to experiment more with this stunning stamp set  for the middle of the month.

What will you enter into the challenge?

Happy crafting,

Jackie x