I couldn’t resist the Color Burst/Creative stamping combo – so here is another!

Again this one started with the background. I had purposely trimmed this down to have a flame-like look to the background.

Upon scanning the free stamps that I got with Issue 25 of Creative Stamping magazine I spied a peacock-esque style bird and thought that it wasn’t too much of a mental leap to think that this could be a pheonix rising from the flames!

So I cracked on and came up with this.

The swirly background was from a free stamp that I got with Craft Stamper magazine back in May 2015. I really liked the way that it added some dynamics to the lower area of the background.

The peacock/pheonix was then stamped over this (both stampings used Versafine ink).

I must admit that I did have to think for a bit on this one on how to finish it off as I didn’t want to over do it.

I eventually decided on just adding some gold colouration as I thought that it would work well with the black and red in the main design. So I set to work.

The lower areas were already quite densly black so I decided to transition some of the black into gold – like a Pheonix transforming from the flames and coming to life…

The final element was to add some faux stitching. I spaced my pierced holes out with a piercing ruler and then added the stitching with a gold pen and a black pen; to continue the theme established in the main design.

And there we have it!

 

I love the raw unstructured look of this and was really impressed with the colour choices – but what do you think? Did I nail it (as the kids say these days)?

Do let me know…

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Many thanks for taking the time to read about my little creations.

I’ll see you again soon!

J :)