Saturday 27 September 2008

Peacock Fan - Getting A Round Tuit


Well, it only took me four months to make this card - for me it's been a bit of an epic, in fact you might even describe it as an obsession! I saw the Peacock Fan themeplate by Elusive Images with it's beautiful stamp of a single fan blade at the end of May this year and as soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to make it into a fan and add real feathers behind each blade, but as the stamp was the Graphicus Guild members offer of the month at the end of July I waited to buy it at the offer price. I finally got my themeplate when I was at Graphicus for some workshops during my summer holiday. By this time I had a copy of the Artylicious Peacock Summer Party CD which has been designed to co-ordinate with all the lovely Elusive Images Peacock Stamps so now, early August, I was all set to roll.

I knew it would take me some time because I am not particularly good at cutting out and I knew that cutting the feather detail at the top of each fan was going to be fiddly so I decided that I would make 1 or 2 "feathers" at a time till I had the 7 I needed. In all it took me about 3 weeks to get all my feathers made and painted in between making cards for birthdays, challenges and trying to build up a stock of Christmas cards too. So since the end of August my fan elements have sat with me picking them up at regular intervals, popping my Peacock Summer Party CD into my computer to browse through the designs and pondering what to do next! This is perhaps one of the downsides of Glenda Waterworth's Artylicious CDs - there are so many beautiful designs on each CD to choose from that I often struggle to make a choice over which one I will use and for this fan card I had spent so much time making the fan I wanted to be sure I had the right paper.

I finally took hold of myself today after seeing a challenge called "A round tuit" on the This Thursday It's All About challenge blog. Yes that was what I needed! I needed to get "a round tuit" and make a decision about how I would turn my fan into a card!

Anyway here is the finished result, at the end it just suddenly came to me which paper to use and I hope I got it right, I think I did. With this card finally "out of my system" perhaps I can get my teeth properly into that fabulous Peacock CD because there are so many lovely card ideas I have been pushing away until I got my fan card made.

Each blade of the fan was stamped using holographic black EP, then painted using Twinkling H2Os. The black parts were coloured with a Sakura black Glaze Pen and I used a clear Sakura Glaze pen over Twinkling H2O paint on the gems in the fan to make them look more like facet cut Amethysts, Emeralds and Paraiba Tourmaline. The "Pearls" were created by using Ranger's Liquid Pearls in White Opal.

The card itself is A4 - the fan is too big to fit on an A5 card - and because Glenda creates Full Bleed images on her CD's I was able to print the peacock feather design borderlessly to cover the whole sheet of card. I then lightly spritzed the sheet with gold Glimmer Mists to give it a gentle lustre.

19 comments:

  1. Phree, this is just gorgeous and well worth the effort

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  2. your tuit is fabulous and well worth the wait! thanks for playing along! xx

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  3. Lovely card and you did a fantastic job with the feathers!

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  4. Stunning card , bet you're glad you have finished it - it was so worth it!

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  5. Oh my God!!!!How VERY VERY Beautiful...(As Sam sends all her cutting to Phree)Need your address.JJ
    Hugs

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  6. That is so beautiful Phree, I love it!

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  7. It's beautiful Phree! and well done for sticking with it. That's true dedication for you. Thank you for the award too, I'm honoured!

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  8. Phree, that is absolutely beautiful. Wish I was half as talented.

    Anna(_fran)

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  9. Absolutely beautiful! Well worth all your efforts x

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  10. Phree this is 'fan'tastic. What a labour of love and patience. Do you have a very special person in mind as the lucky recipient? It is just so perfect.

    Lesley

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  11. Phree that is GORGEOUS. The colours are just beautiful and yes, I think you picked a beautiful paper for it to go on.

    Glenda

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  12. Gorgeous - well worth all the effort!!

    TC
    :)

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  13. Wow beautiful, those feathers have really finished it off a treat. Well done Phree.

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  14. Stunning card, love the vibrant blue! You are so good I could not have waited that long:-)...

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  15. Wow Wow Wow
    I so so so adore this. Its perfect. Its stunnng and I wish I had made it
    Glad you joined in with this weeks challenge
    Tracey This Thursday

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  16. What a beautiful card! Your peacock feathers are amazing! And you are right about the background paper you chose! It is perfect! Gorgeous!!!

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  17. That fan card is super gorgeous, Phree, the colours and texture are top-notch. Just love it ! X Fab

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  18. This is fabulous - I love it. I have been wanting to do the peacocks myself - I must make time

    Hugs

    Vron xx

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  19. How gorgeous and the feathers really make your art just come alive! Wonderful!

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