Challenge #10 As proud (and beautiful) as a Quirky Peacock

Hi there!!! It´s Monica and this is my turn to set the challenge.

At first, let´s start warming up - by having a little dance:

Don´t you think peacocks are the most gorgeous birds of all?  They are so proud of their stunning open tails!!!!
Well this new challenge is all about that: we want to see your peacock themed projects, you can use peacock colours, it would be wonderful if you could include some proud peacocks and peacock feathers of course but not essential. We want to see projects based on the peacock's beauty and its stunning colors.
Come and play with us!!!!

This challenge is sponsored by:

 Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps. 

We had the chance to play with their stunning digital stamps and papers, thank you so much Stitchy.

The prizes for this challenge are:

1st place - 3 images of choice from the whole Stitchy Bear Store

2nd place- any 3 of the Dt´s chosen images

3rd place- any 2 of the Dt´s chosen images

For this challenge Stitchy Bear generously supplied the following beautiful peacock files and images to the team to work with:

Coosty Creations:  Mehendi Peacock Digital Stamp and Paper Pack

IKEsART: Peacock
My Heart Pieces: Peacock
 Delicious Doodles: Peacock Feather
Delicious Doodles: Peacock

Stitchy Bear: Peacock

Alipeeps: Peacock Profile

And now some inspiration from our Dt´s:

GUEST DESIGNERS

Lynda

The Delicious Doodles Peacock feather is such a bold print that rather than just colouring it I wanted to make it stand out even more with some zentangling. I then coloured it with distress markers, and spritzed it with some cosmic shimmer mist to give it some sparkle. I mounted it on black mirror card and layered that onto some hand made backing paper which I created by stamping a peacock feather stamp in versamark and colouring with perfect pearls.

Denyse

I tried to create a film cell effect, so I laser printed Peacock by IKEsArt on to acetate, foiled it in black and then coloured with my Copics. I cut the feather on my Cameo and coloured with Copics. I thought it had an Art Nouveau feel so I used an AN font to cut the lettering out of vinyl.

Frea

 I started my background by gluing down torn strips of paper with a mat gel medium. Then I added Rayher Antique medium to create texture. I printed the Alipeeps: Peacock Profile on white tissue paper and coloured her with Copics. I cut out the image and drew it’s contours on the background to paint everything behind the image white. Then I put a layer of transparent gesso all around the image to give the Lindy’s Stamp Gang spray (I used Treasure Island Aqua) some grip. I then glued my digistamp down with mat gel medium. After it dried completely I painted the darkblue centers in the feathers with Lumiere metallic paint (Indigo) and the green circles with Docraft Artiste Metallic paint (Emerald Green). The little dots were made with a TCW stencil and Inca Gold Copper and I distressed the edges of my pages with a Gelato Chocolate. Around the face and on the hair I added some shading with a Faber Castel Big Brush Pitt pen Capuut Mortuum 169.

I also used one of the papers from the Mehendi Peacock Digital Stamp and Paper Pack, you can just see it peeking through here.

DESIGN TEAM

MONICA

For this project I made a bendy card, working with this gorgeous papers Stitchy Bear provided us.

A closer look of the texture of the paper set, this file is "Mehendi Peacock". Aren´t they just perfect???

This stunning digi is "Peacock". I colored it using a mix of Spectrum Noir pens and Prismacolor pencils. And added a bit of glitter to the tail feathers.

Cindy

This peacock is by My Heart Pieces, one of many artists at Stitchy Bear!  I printed the Coosty Creations background  to 5x7" then cut it down, adding a Spellbinder cut mat on top.  Once the image was coloured with markers, I also die cut it out carefully tucking the tail out of the way.  More details at my blog!

Lyn - will be a little late due to a broken printer!

Karen

The IKEsART Peacock image was colored with Copics.  The background paper is from Club Scrap, the glass circle from Craft Fantastic, and the peahen and chicks photo from a free photo site.

Cazzy

On the front of my card I used 3 of the papers from the Coosty Creations Mehendi Peacock Digital Stamp and Paper Pack , with the Mehendi peacock. There is lots of intricate detail on this beautiful image which I coloured with Atyou Spica pens for the metallic shine I wanted, but I think I will experiment with other mediums to see what can be done. I spotted a pack of real peacock feathers in a box on my shelves and decided this was the perfect time to use one!

Inside the card  (and the smallest paper panel on the front) is the 3d effect paper from the pack. You can't see the 3d much on the small panel but you can on the inside.

Gemma and Doris are still on sick leave, they really want to get back crafting soon!

To see who won the last challenge click HERE or scroll down to the next post.

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Winners of Myth and Magic.

Hi everyone, I hope you are all having a great weekend, and maybe some good weather too!

We didn't have many entries for this challenge but the quality was fantastic.

All of the prizes have been donated by Crackerbox Palace, who are providing three generous vouchers to our winners.

And the Winners are:

In first place with some really clever arty tags using some very clever techniques is Diana Larson.

Congratulations Diana you have won the: 

1st Prize $20 voucher from Crackerbox Palace

To see more variations, read all the details, and leave some love, hop on over to Diane's blog.

In second place with her very pretty wall hanging is Rina Meyers.

Congratulations Rina, you have won:

2nd Prize $15 voucher from Crackerbox Palace. Again to find out more and leave some love hop on over to Rina's blog.

In third place is Croms with her interesting box.

Congratulations Croms, we love your box, and you have won:

3rd Prize $10 voucher from Crackerbox Palace

Because the voting was so close we also have a runner up and that is Karen with her firery card.

Congratulations Karen, you get a runners up badge.

Could you all please contact me (Cazzy) using the email link in the sidebar and I will arrange your prizes and send your winner's badges.
Don't forget to come back later to find out about the next challenge!


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Reminder Post for Myth and Magic and Must use paint (the 3 Ms)

Here is your midway reminder and a few more examples from the team.

Don't forget there are some lovely prizes to be won from Crackerbox Palace who are giving away 3 generous vouchers.

Cazzy

Here is the other side of the door hanger, featuring Serpent and Submarine stamps from Crackerbox Palace.

The images are coloured with Promarkers, and the background is Fresco Paints again, I used the glass ball gel for the sub's exhaust, and sealed the whole thing with Sparkly Mod Podge. It had to be a Yellow Submarine didn't it!

Doris

For my midway reminder project I made a card with a beautiful dragon with blue eyes and white teeth, courtesy of our sponsor Crackerbox Palace. I worked my project with a .studio file as a base. The stamp was painted with watercolor pencil.

Some more examples may appear later or in the next couple of days!

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Challenge #10 2013 Myth and Magic and Must Use Paint

Hi everyone! It's my (Daire's) turn to set the challenge again and this challenge is:

Myth and Magic and you must use paint on your project.

 I hope you enjoy incorporating some of the magic of mythology into your pieces! You can enter anything you like: cards, ATC's, art journal pages, collages, tags, bookmarks, murals, tapestries, bags, scrapbook pages... anything! As long as you used paint somewhere.

A couple more things I'd like to say:

Sadly this is Caro's last challenge, due to pressures of work she is bowing out but we know you will be seeing her on either the GDT or entering challenges. Caro is one of the founding members of the team and we all wish her the best for the future and thank her for her contributions over the years. Caro we will miss you!

And also, a big thank you to Cazzy for helping me draft this post! I'm in the middle of doing my end-of-year Uni assignment, which unfortunately is taking up a lot of my time!

The sponsors of this challenge are the fabulous:

Crackerbox Palace

Crackerbox Palace make real rubber stamps and ship to anywhere in the world, stamps can be wood mounted, foam mounted (printed on the back), or unmounted.

Crackerbox Palace have provided the team with some lovely stamps to use, and you can win a very generous prize from them too:

1st Prize is a $20 voucher from Crackerbox Palace

2nd Prize is a $15 voucher from Crackerbox Palace

3rd Prize is a $10 voucher from Crackerbox Palace

Please note the voucher does not include postage.

Here are some examples from the Design Team to inspire you:

Caro

I have used the Crackerbox Palace Dragon and sentiment to make a card for my nephew.  I used watercolour paper and covered it with a wash of blue watercolour paint before stamping the dragon onto it in distress ink broken china to make the background paper.  I then layered the sentiment for the centre of the card, then decoupaged the corner dragon and coloured it in using promarker pens.  I finished the card by adding peel offs!

Cazzy 

I used my Crackerbox Palace Stamps called Rena's Unicorn, Sleeping Dragon and the sentiment "If you can't stand the heat don't tickle the dragon" to make a door hanger. I used Fresco paints to make the background, these are new to me as you can probably tell. I also used Sparkly Mod Podge and Artist's gel medium with glass balls (the dragon's bed) which I coloured with Distress ink. The images are coloured with Promarkers. I love these images!

Doris

This is my project. It is an Easel card in bronze and beige tones, and I use acrylic black paint in the middle of the top card.  I used a beautiful unicorn stamp, courtesy of our sponsor Crackerbox Palace . I gave him a small shadow in light blue, almost imperceptible, I used glitter to the moon and also to a fairy, that I cut as an additional element. Plus I used flowers and ribbons.

Lyn

I got nice and messing painting this castle with acrylic paints and adding the sentiment and dragon from our sponsors Crackerbox Palace . They were stamped in black ink covered in clear embossing power and then zapped with the heat gun. Then I cheated and coloured them with ProMarkers. (The paint was covering up the lines!) I've added a couple of brads for 'handles' and gone round the whole thing with a black Tempo marker pen. And here's my second card....

I've used the same stamp and sentiment from our sponsor. I covered a blank card with some medieval looking backing paper rounded off the corners and edge it all in brown ink, then painted it with some metallic paints, which  I had as freebies from a magazine. I also made the flowers the same way, add a spray of colour with some Cosmic Shimmers. They left a nice sheen on the paper and of course, I made a nice mess!

Daire

And finally to me! I made this set of notecards using the Stone Face stamp from Crackerbox Palace (as soon as I saw it I thought of those statues from Ancient Greece). I definitely used a lot of paint on these! I started by finger painting on a sheet of watercolour paper then did a bit of brush painting and stamped yet more paint with a couple of handmade stamps. I chopped the sheet into four (so they were perfectly card-sized), added a border and stamped my Stone Face in brown acrylic before adding a few pen doodles. I like that they go together, but aren't too 'matchy matchy'. I'll be sharing a more detailed tutorial of these on my blog tomorrow.

We can't wait to see what you come up with!

We will show you some more examples next week on the midway reminder post.

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