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Sunday 1 September 2013

Emma's Crafty Challenge #20

I would, firstly, like to apologise for my absence from Blogland. The past few weeks have been extremely busy for me and I have been without internet for parts of the time due to having to do a lot of travelling about. Hopefully, normal service will be resumed by next week. I will explain myself better in another post. Meanwhile ......

Sunday was the start of Emma's Crafty Challenge # 20. Thank you to all of those who entered our previous challenge, the lucky winners will be be announced in a few days time.
The theme for this challenge is
"Birds"
We are being sponsored by Mishelflo Creative Crafting who are generously offering
  a fantastic prize of £20 to spend on anything on her website. The prize includes free postage.

We would love to see your new crafty creations featuring birds of any kind. One of my favourite birds is the peacock. I just love the elegance and colours of this majestic bird.


I matted and layered black textured card and gold mirri. I wrapped around a length of glittered, wire edged ribbon before fixing onto an 8"x 8" card blank. The sentiment is a gold peel off on a Kanban die-cut shape.


I used a Sweet Poppy stencil, and pearlescent paste to create the peacock on textured black card. I dusted over with Mica powders to colour and matted onto gold mirri.


I made three stick pins and used another Kanban die cut to finish off. With the glitter, gold and micas I didn't think the card needed any more embellishing.

Don't forget to pay our fabulous sponsor a visit and have a good look around her webshop for your crafty needs.
I hope you'll pop by the Challenge blog to see the fabulous inspirational creations from the highly talented DT and to check out the rules.

14 comments:

  1. This is beautiful, I love Peacocks.... I have a lovely gold Peacock pendant.... left to me by my great aunt xxx

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  2. Absolutely fabulous Andree, love the colours and that wired edge ribbon is great x

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  3. This is truly awesome, Andree, fabulous image, colours and loving those pins xxx

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  4. hey hun, good to see you back, this is awsome, i love the colour the bird and those pins are exquisite xx

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  5. a fab-u-lous make Andree love the stick pins are they easy to make .xxx

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    1. Hi Carol, thank you. The pins are more fiddly than difficult. PM me on Facebook if you'd like to know how x

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  6. WOW WOW WOW I LOVE THIS CARD, ITS STUNNING, LOVE THE GOLD PEACOCK ITS GORGEOUS AND THE PINS ARE FABULOUS, YOU ARE SO CLEVER GORGEOUS GORGEOUS GORGEOUS XXXXX

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  7. Absolutely Stunning Andree, love the fabulous peacock and the stick pins are gorgeous.

    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  8. Gorgeous card Andree Andree. I think it's far too elegant and classy for you to have done, so you've had Bailey grafting away for you again, haven't you? Slave driver! Lol.
    xx

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  9. STUNNING Andree, I love Peacocks and this one is fabulous gorgeous stick pins too.
    Hugs
    Janet xxx

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  10. Beautiful. Love the design & how you created your stick pins :)

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  11. Fab card....love the peacock image and your use of the stick pins to look like feathers!
    Hugs Donna xx

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  12. This is incredibly stunning, i just love this so much Andree xxx

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