Peacock Cards

I made these cards both because I wanted to use my new Peacock stamp set and metallic inks, but also because I wanted something to submit to this week's Less is More Challenge, Week 79: Blue & Green.

The first card I did was purple ink on a dark green background (yes, I know, not the challenge colours).  I saw a card in Paper Crafts magazine a while back that had a gorgeous peacock feather in purple on a dark green background and thought it looked amazing.  My attempts to buy that particular stamp were thwarted by the stamps going out of print, so this is as close as I could get.  This card is also shorter than the other two (therefore it doesn't have a ribbon) because the first time I tried punching through the 2 layers of cardstock it messed up (the Martha Stewart punches aren't quite as strong as the Fiskars in this respect, so I changed the punch for the other two).

For the second card I used teal ink on a blue background (I didn't buy the metallic green, so this was the closest I could get).  I decided it wasn't quite close enough for the challenge so I did a third card, with blue on light green.

 

The inks really shimmer, but you have to clean you stamps IMMEDIATELY after stamping (I used soap and water as it's a pigment ink), or the ink won't come off completely (and even if it does come off, I noticed a faint staining effect).

Supplies:

Cardstock: Recollections

Stamps: Stampendous - Proud Peacock

Inks: Encore Ultimate Metallic - purple, teal, blue

Punches: Martha Stewart Arch Lattice, Fiskars Dotted Scallop Edger punch

Hot-Fix jewels iridescent - Darice; teal - Imaginesce (4mm), mystery company (3mm) (I bought a set in Germany but threw away the label as I hadn't planned on starting this blog at the time)
Ribbon - from stash (Note, the teal ribbon with silver edging was actually white, coloured with a teal Crayola marker)