The new Letter on the The Craft Barn Alpha/Dictionary Challenge
 is L. I didn't want to do the obvious and after skimming through my dictionary I decided to do...Lattice! 

I decided with this challenge I would use some watercolor pencils I recently purchased. Although for the  lattice wall, and the ground I used Distress inks.  I did use a stencil to make the lattice on the wall. Everything else I drew and colored with the pencils.

I made the L and made the traditional lattice design on it. I colored this with traditional colored pencils.

I put the dictionary definition in the doorway as I thought it was a fun place to put it. With a Sharpie Pen I drew some birds as the sky looked too empty.

I had fun doing this and trying some new things. Can't wait to find out what the next letter will be!


The Craft Barn Alpha/Dictionary Challenge

For the past few months I've been trying to enter the Dylusions Facebook Challenge. I would miss the deadline although I still completed it. This month I got it done much earlier. This month's challenge required the color orange and arrows! You must use at least one Dylusion product on it as well as the required themes.

I used Dylusion ink sprays for the background as well as to color the  stamps and arrows.  I used Pure Sunshine and Lemon Zest. These 2 combined together to get me that more orange color. I used Fresh Lime as the accent color.

The stamped figure and corner arrows are also Dylusions. The arrows are die cuts and I used a Sharpie pen to give them designs. I put Molding Paste through the Dylusions  Staggered Bricks stencil to give it some nice texture.

Pondering Petunia's hair is made from some polyfil which I sprayed London Blue Dylusion ink on it. I sprayed that at least 4 times. It just didn't react well with the polyfil.

Finally I printed the quote out from my computer.

No challenges for me for at least a week so as its gotten really cold here and its snowing I think I'll knit me a hat.

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The new letter on the The Craft Barn: Alpha/ Dictionary Challenge is F with the twist of a heart some where in the piece.

 So many wonderful words went through my mind: Fearless, Future, Fantastic, Fabulous; as well as ways to portray it. I started going through my stamps and found Tim Holtz's Crazy Birds Stamps. These always make me smile and I abandoned the other words and decided to do Flock !

I used Distress inks and stencils to make the background. I stamped the birds and colored them with my Spectrum Noir Markers. I reversed the image of one of the birds on my computer so they could face each other and placed the hearts around them.  Cute, eh?

I stamped the other page in a light brown distress ink with some of the birds to give it more of a flock feeling. Then I placed the birds in different ways as they are crazy.

I'm looking forward to the next letter as I already have so many ideas on what to do. Of course as I've learned others ideas take their place!

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When I read the Craft Barn Challenge's  new letter is  Q; the first thing that popped in my head was Quilling! This is paper curling and I have been doing it for a couple of years although I'm still a bit of a beginner.

  I outlined a big Q and then filled it in with some scrolls but mostly rolls.

I looked up the meaning of quilling in the big old dictionary I'm using and the meaning in it only applied to sewing. I ended up getting the definition on the internet.  I decided to paint the background purple as I started making a butterfly and the colours were soft so I wanted to have a darker colour as the background to make the quilling jump out. It did come out a bit darker than I hoped.  I lost some of the pieces of the butterfly and so I changed it to a flower as I only had a few days to finish. I added a stamp bee and some stenciling to finish off  the page.

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The Craft Barn Alpha/Dictionary Challenge