Thursday, May 08, 2014

Nouveau Peacocks

Hello everyone,  I hope you are doing well.     The weather has warmed up a little allowing us to work outside, we are weeks behind, so keeping very busy.   

If you like Nouveau designs you will love Chocolate Baroque's gorgeous new Fleur Nouveau and Nouveau Lovebirds stamp sets.    My card today features a beautiful Peacock design from Fleur Nouveau again using a favorite colour combination :)


The background is a 'mop up' sheet with Dylusions inks with Gold Glimmermist sprayed over top.   I added pattern using TCW Peacock Feathers stencil and Distress inks.   The top corners from Poppy Meadow and the Bubbles from Decorative Edges were stamped with Mowed Lawn Distress Inks.   The beautiful Peacocks were tamped with Cobalt Archival ink and coloured with Prisma pencils.  I added glitter and half pearls as well.


Thanks for your visit and have a great day,
Shirley

24 comments:

maria's knutselplezier said...

Wow Shirley this is again such a beautifull wrok with the new stamps of CB !! I adore your style!!!great image and colours!!!

Greetings
Maria

Annette P.-L. said...

Absolutely beautiful and very elegant card!!

Valerie-Jael said...

Beautiful colours and design, love the peacocks, and the BG is exactly right! Hugs, Valerie

Patricia said...

Beautiful!
Greetz Patricia

Astrid Maclean said...

Stunning! Love the subtle stencil effects in the background. The perfect backinging to that lovely stamp, and of course your greens are always wonderful!

chrissie said...

Very beautiful card Shirley with stunning colours

Love Chrissie x

Gerrina said...

I love these stamps and with these not so commen colours they look great aswell! Hope it is getting a lot warmer, so you can enjoy (and work) outside... Warm hugs, Gerrina

froebelsternchen said...

Oh this is AMAZING dear Shirley!

Sue's Crafty Corner said...

Stunning Shirley, such wonderful colours as always. I love this stamp and think it makes a great anniversary card, with the colours you've used - Emerald or Sapphire. I'm glad the weather has warmed up for you there and you are managing to get out into the garden.

Sue xx

Crafting Queen said...

Stunning card, love the colours. It's very wet here,only managed five holes this morning before calling it quits. :) Hope Archie and Sheena are enjoying your better weather.

Riannerizanti.blogspot.nl said...

Heel apart echt mooi en kleurrijk
Liefs Rianne.

Shona said...

Hi Shirley! I bought a bag of Glad bulbs and finally think I might be able to plant them. The Tulips will bloom soon, and the Magnolia is blooming, weeks late. River is constantly coming in with mucky paws, I guess that means Spring has finally arrived!
One of my favourite things about your cards, is that you use Cobalt ink rather than black, and how you dress up your stamping with gel pens or what you did here with the peacocks and the glitter. Just beautiful !!

Margik said...

This is a fantastic card with a fabulous colors. Love it!

Silvia(Barnie) said...

That's another fantastic card. Did I ever mention that I love these fresh colors ?

Saakje said...

Hi Shirley.
Beautiful card with those nice colors. I do allways love your b.g and how you combine colors.
Of course it's nice because you are soooo talented.
"lieve groetjes " xxx Saakje.

Irish Cherokee said...

Beautifully done Shirley. Normally I would not like this color combination but this is gorgeous.

Paula (PEP) said...

I love the way you used so many different stamp sets to compose such a cohesive design - not to mention the peacock feathers stencilling. The colours are exquisite & I love the way you used both dark & light teal pearls. Those corner stamps work brilliantly as frames & I love the way the spots (peacock's crests, bubbles, pearls, dots in the stencilled background) are a recurring motif throughout the whole design.
Paula (PEP)

Sophie said...

Oh, Shirley, du hast soviel Talent...
Ich bin wieder total aus dem Häuschen, wie wunderschön diese Karte ist.
Du kombinierst die Stempel und die Farben, dass es eine Pracht ist.
Und ich bin wieder ganz verzaubert <3

Sonnige Grüße von Sophie xx

Alie Hoogenboezem-de Vries said...

Such a lovely stamp Shirley! And it even looks better with the colours you have add to it and on the background....really lovely!
Have a nice weekend, Alie :-)

Shilpa Nagaonkar said...

Lovely colors on Peacock and beautiful card, Shirley!

Sue said...

Stunning colours Shirley I'm catching up on all my friends blogs LOL this is gorgeous:) have a great weekend huggles Sue xxx

Greta said...

Stunning creation, as always, Shirley! Hugs, Greta

MaryH said...

Wow, even your mop sheet turns to a work of art! Those were fab stencils to use with these wonderful stamps. Love the effect you achieve with the Cobalt stamping. As always, wonderful card. Glad you are getting some nicer weather. TFS & Hugs

Shirley said...

Beautiful colors, background, and peacocks too!