Peacocks........

Such beautiful birds when their plumage is on full show,apparently it's all down to pigment and light causing those beautiful iridescent Jewel colours.....which gave me the idea for my card....Here's A close up of a peacock feather showing the beautiful copper and blue tones;-
For my card, I cut a square one, the sparkle and shine sentiment in gold embossing powder seemed so made for this card, and of course glitter and alcohol inks are always fun to play with......

I covered the sentiment and added lines of double sided tape around the sentiment which I covered in some copper glitter I found in my stash, and using some scraps of acetate coloured them with alcohol ink in blues and pool shades and cut thin strips to adhere in between a couple of the glittered lines.......and nooooo the bird in the photo isn't a peacock we bought it in South Africa loved the shape and colour .....and it's a  Guineafowl!

Entering this card into Less is more colour challenge, Peacock feather  and Pixies Snippets playground

All squared up...

Just back from a River Cruise on the Douro in Portugal and oh my goodness was it hot....41 degrees! Beautiful interesting trip though, good company, lots of wine and port and far too much wonderful food and those Portugese tiles are gorgeous, and a stunning sunset we saw and that's the inspiration for my card this week...a tile and frame card.....

and it fits in nicely with a couple of challenges... I embossed some card and cut a square to use as a central tiled piece - using the de-bossed side. Found some old square peel off stickers to use as little borders for my tiles (probably bought them for the grandchildren to use). For a translucent look I coloured a piece of acetate with sunset shades of 2  pinks and a lemonade colour - alcohol inks..Still being new to these inks it's a bit of trial and error at the moment... Using stickers on one of my cards is also a first (I have never liked the idea of them, but think they are easy for children) then carefully cut out the squares and played around till came up with a layout I was happy with..hope you enjoy as much as I enjoyed making this one....

Less is more Recipe Challenge is here...use stickers or peel offs

Cards in Envy...Hip to be Square challenge is here

AAA challenge...New to You is here

Scraps of anything challenge here



Stickers and inked acetate scraps