Purple Peacock

Purple Peacock

A peacock-themed birthday card for a lovely friend. The front was inspired by Googling 'peacock cards', and I created this by hand-cutting teardrop shapes out of thin purple paper as well as using a hole punch on shimmery purple paper. I built the tail by first lightly sketching out the curves of each tail feather, and then adhering white cross-stitch thread following the sketch lines using glue. Once that dried, I added sparkle to the thread by going over it with a silver pen. The purple pieces were then adhered to the card using dimensional adhesive.

The additional feathery details were added using Gelly Roll Aqualip pens, and coloured with more glitter pens. 

This was massively time-consuming simply because I am a perfectionist (well, there was also all that cutting to be done). And because I liked it very much.

However, I don’t think I will be working with white card again anytime soon. It’s too easily dirtied, especially since I’m prone to getting ink stains on my fingers.