Perfect Peacock Anniversary

If ever there was an image begging to be colored, it's this majestic peacock on a branch. The Perfect Peacock stamp is not a typical image I would purchase.   As much as it begs to be colored, it's really too much coloring for me.  However, a dear friend of my collects peacocks and I just had to get it! 

This past weekend she and her husband celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. So I finally put stamp to paper and did a little experimenting with coloring.  As coloring is not my forte, it did take a couple tries.  Initially, I embossed the peacock in gold (for their 50th) and started coloring.  But the color wasn't popping the way I had hoped it would.  So "take two" seemed to work and here's what I did:

• Start with a 3-7/8" x 5-1/8" piece of Shimmery White cardstock (it's my preferred paper to use when I'm coloring with water…notice I didn't say watercolor.  I'm so not a watercolorer!)
• Stamp Perfect Peacock with Versamark ink and heat emboss with Clear Embossing Powder.
• Color using Aqua Painters (I prefer mine a bit more on the dry side, so I have more control)
• Color wash peacock with Tempting Turquoise ink, let dry
• Add details to feathers/body with Island Indigo and Elegant Eggplant inks
• Color wash flower with Wisteria Wonder ink, let dry
• Add details to flowers with Elegant Eggplant
• Color wash leaves with Pear Pizzazz ink, let dry
• Add details to leaves with Old Olive ink
• I did add another layer of Island Indigo ink to the feathers, as I wanted the color to be a little more intense

I'm pleased as a peacock on how this turned out (I know, I could resist)!  It did take a little time to find what would work, but once I got in my coloring rhythm, it went pretty fast.  I would make another one (if the occasion called for it).  

Actually, I thought the peacock could be stamped in a single color and would make great thank you cards. Hmm…I think I'll have to put some together for her.

Enjoy~Dawn O 

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Dawn's Stamping Supplies 

Perfect Peacock Wood-Mount Stamp Set [133830]	Teeny Tiny Wishes Wood Stamp Set [128748]	Teeny Tiny Wishes Clear Stamp Set [127802]	Shimmery White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101910]	Elegant Eggplant 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [105126]
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Versamark Pad [102283]	Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder [109130]	Heat Tool [129053]	Tempting Turquoise Classic Stampin' Pad [126952]
Island Indigo Classic Stampin' Pad [126986]	Wisteria Wonder Classic Stampin' Pad [126985]	Elegant Eggplant Classic Stampin' Pad [126969]	Aqua Painters [103954]	Window Word Punch [119857]
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

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