Smart Little Peacock

This smart little peacock has a sweet surprise.

Her tail feathers are candy Smarties covered with Designer Series Paper!  

After making my Blossom Box Peacock (which you can see HERE),  I had an idea for this fun variation.  I just needed to get to the grocery store to see if they had any Smarties.  Sure enough there was a big bin of Easter candy that had exactly what I was looking for.  And since they were wrapped in purple I had an easy choice for the color scheme.  The stripes on the paper (from the Cheerful Treat paper pack) help create the pattern of her tail.  (Except I now see that I have one of the pink ones backwards!  I thought I had them all lined up too.)

Here are her instructions:
1. Cut ten 2"x 2-1/2" pieces of DSP.  If you are using striped paper, the stripes should be parallel to the longer side.
2.  Apply sticky strip to the long edges.

 3.  Roll the Smartie to cover it.

4.  Cut a 5" X 5" square from both card stock and Sticky Pages adhesive.

5.  Peel off one side of the adhesive and stick it to the cardstock.  Die cut it with the Scallop Circle Big Shot die.  Peel off the remaining layer to expose the sticky surface.

6.  Arrange the Smarties.

7.  Die cut the body from the Elegant Bird die.  Trim the bottom.  Add eyes and a beak.

I folded back the sticky section at the bottom and adhered it to another Scallop Circle.