Bringing paper to life : crafting a beautiful peacock wallmate

A lovely day to the wonderful and creative members of this amazing community, it's been a really great week and I hope you all are having a great time. One of the most beautiful expression of creativity is crafting, especially when simple materials like coloured paper can be transformed into a stunning piece of decoration. Today, i had some free time to spare and I decided to use it to craft something really creative, creating something with your own hands brings unmatched joy and satisfaction and recently I embarked on a creative project to craft a peacock wallmate using colored paper, and the end result was a vibrant, eye-catching piece that now proudly adorns a wall in my home. Here's how I made my peacock wallmate.

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Materials

• cardboard
• Ruler.
• Scissors.
• Compass.
• Paper glue or gum
• Blue colour paper.
• Black colour paper.
• Green colour paper.
• Purple colour paper.
• Yellow colour paper.
• Orange colour paper.

MAKING PROCESS

step 1

To begin my craft, I began by making a frame using my cardboard and black colour paper, then I took my black paper and made a structure like a tree branch and gum it to the center of the frame.

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step 2

Next I carved my cardboard to give me the shape of a peacock.

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step 3

Then I attached the cardboard peacock on the prepared black tree and coloured it's head black and then attached a paper crown on its head as shown below.

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step 4

After doing that, I then now cut green, yellow and blue pieces of colored paper to the same size with scissors.

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step 5

Then I carefully cut it out bit by bit to make it look like wings and place them on top each other.

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step 6

Then I took paper of these three colors green, yellow, purple and cut the papers to a certain size with scissors.

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step 7

Then I attached the green, yellow and purple color papers to each other with paper glue.

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step 8

Here I then gum the coloured paper which I have made to the tail part of the peacock using my paper gum and also gum the paper wings to the peacock also

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step 9

In this step, I took a piece of orange paper and cut the orange paper with scissors to make some flowers.

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step 10

Then I cut a large green paper with scissors to make some flower petals and then attach the flower petals with orange flowers around the peacock with paper glue.

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After doing that, finally my peacock wallmate was now ready and below is my final result.

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Creating such a craft is not only a test of artistic skill but also of patience and precision. Now, every time I glance at my handmade masterpiece, I am filled with a sense of accomplishment and happiness. This wallmate not only decorates my home but also reflects the love and effort I poured into making it. I really hope you all liked my peacock wallmate and it's always a pleasure sharing my creativity with you all, have a nice weekend.