Peacock

I took the peacock photo, together with one background from kit cup382354_99 into one of my graphics programs. I copied a small area from the bottom of the peacocks throat and tiled and resized it to greate the ribbon, frame and greetings panel for my A5 card front. After moving and resizing things until I was happy with the layout I took copies of the peacock photo and created two oval pyramage layers which I placed on the other side of the A4 working area for printing. I printed the resulting design out onto Matt Crafty Bob paper and then cut everything out. My base card was created by scoring and folding in half an A4 sheet of silver mirror cardstock. I stuck the base card front layer directly to the front of this using a glue tape runner pen and then used 1mm deep, double sided, foam tape, to attach the oval layers. I put the greeting "Penblwydd Hapus" on this card (Welsh for "Happy Birthday") but as I put the design together i can change this to any greeting required before printing out again.

A lovely image with a stunning capture of the colours around the peacock's head.