Peacock Easel Card

Another peacock card today, using the Amy Design: Colourful Feathers - Peacock die set. This time, I used the complete die set along with Cosmic Shimmer Watercolour Inks. The angle of the photo makes it look oval, but it is definitely circular! 

To start with , I cut the pieces of the peacock in white stamping card. For the feathers, I used Golden Sunrise, Turqoise Cascade, Ray of Sunshine and Holly Green - which are all pearlescent - and Peacock Teal - which isn't.

I mixed the yellow and green for the central part (and also the separate small part that sits behind the body of the peacock), and mixed the turqoise and teal for other parts of the feathers. The orange I kept the same. The body of the peacock is painted turquoise.

To create the easel, I score a piece of A4 card in half and used a large circle die placed just off the edge of the fold. It opens out like this. Score one of the circles in half to create part of the easel, and stick another circle onto this.

I used several mats and layers - and used an embossing folder for a little texture. The it's all assembled with a blingy stopper! If you want to see the video demonstration, then click on the main photo for the start (last 12 minutes of the clip) - then click here for the finish (first 18 minutes of the clip). Apologies for this - we had a little glitch during the FB live, so, unfortunately, the video is in two parts. 

Thanks for popping by, and I hope I have given you a little inspiration. Feel free to follow me here on my blog, or on FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest. For all the videos, pop over to the Hixxy Studio YouTube channel to subscribe. And FB lives are streamed on both the YouTube channel and the Hixxy Crafts FB page. The main items I use can be found on the Hixxy Crafts website - have a look under the Hixxy Studio tab.

Happy crafting,

Cxxx

Peacock Doily Card

Peacocks seem to be very "on-trend" again, at the moment. And today, I have a peacock themed card to share!! This ones uses the Amy Design:Colourful Feathers 3D Push Out, and also the Peacock die from the same collection. 

For the background, I inked a piece of stamping card with a combination of Wild Honey, Peacock Feathers, Lucky Clover and Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxides. 

The doily on which the decoupage image sits, is made up of two of the tail feather pieces from the die set.

They line up really well to make the complete circle doily! Matting and layering it all onto some co-ordinating card makes the colours pop! It's as easy as that!  If you want to watch the video of the demo, then click on the main picture.

Thanks for popping by, and I hope I have given you a little inspiration. Feel free to follow me here on my blog, or on FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest. For all the videos, pop over to the Hixxy Studio YouTube channel to subscribe. And FB lives are streamed on both the YouTube channel and the Hixxy Crafts FB page. The main items I use can be found on the Hixxy Crafts website - have a look under the Hixxy Studio tab.

Happy crafting,

Cxxx

Xciting!!

We are nearly there with our alphabet challenges, and this week is X. I'm afraid this one is a bit of a cop out, as all I could think of was X-fold card.

So, here is my X-fold card, made using instructions from Beccy's Place. I made it larger than the one show there, starting with 8x8 card.

  

 I used Crafter's Companion Shabby Chic double sided card, and scored it in half each way, then diagonally down one of the resulting squares.

 

I then cut out diagonally opposite corner section, leaving a tab. 

I folded along the diagonal making a mountain, and then along the straight edges to make valleys.

  

You need to make four of these, and then glue to create three sided "boxes".

  

These are then glued together - apart from the last two - making sure the diagonal folds are on the base each time. This allows everything to fold up.

I used more of the Shabby Chic card for matting and layering inside, and decorated with pieces from Hunkydory In Full Plume Pretty Peacocks. Some of the flowers are cut from that card, using Crafter's Companion Garden of Love 3D Layered Daisy, and others are paper ones from my stash. The ribbon needs to be attached before the outside topper.

 

Happy crafting,

Cxxx

Pretty Peacocks

I made this card for a family birthday, using Hunkydory In Full Plume - Pretty Peacocks.

I used Teal card from Papermill, and cut the letters with Crafter's Companion Only Words Alphabet dies. The decorative corners were cut with corner dies from CC Beautiful Bouquet Everyday Edge'ables.

Happy crafting,

Cxxxx