Proud as Peacocks

This week's challenge over at Hand Stamped Sentiments was just that....a challenge.  Take a look:



Now, I admit I thought about doing the whole pheasant thing, after all they are birds, but I thought that would be taking the easy way out.  So after thinking, thinking, and thinking some more, here's what I came up with:

I went to my box craft store and picked up a spray of peacock feathers and tore off what I wanted.  Then I took out a piece of textured Soft Suede...yep I'm hoarding-I love this color, and sprayed with a Champagne/rubbing alcohol mix to make it look shiny.  Try and take a peek:

Trust me, in real life it's very sparkly.  This is a great way to add some shine to plain card stock.

Here's another look at the lower corner:

I wanted the feathers and the picture to be the focus of the page, so I put a small strip of Garden Green DSP to journal on.  I also tied off the feathers with a piece of lace that I rubbed over my Suede ink pad-too lazy to die.

I love the #.  Years from now when Twitter is no longer, I'll have to explain, but for now I love adding them to pages.

Now head over and see what everyone else designed.--I know I'll be.  I can't wait to see how they used the theme!