Janurary

Here we are in a new year and The Craft Barn has a new Challenge. This one is a Twelve Month Challenge where we have to get it done every 3 weeks. A little less pressure!

This Challenge is based on Sarah Coleridge's poem The Months.

Every entry must have the rhyme for that month shown.

 

The Rhyme is:

                January brings the snow

makes our feet and fingers glow

We also had to have a bird wearing a Wellington. Seems this is a rainboot in England!

I used the same journal from the Dictonary Challenge. I had exactly the right amount of pages left!

I put black gesso all over the page and then used the stencil birch trees by Crafters Workshop. I applied white paint through and then  sponged the bottom to look like snow.

For my bird I decided to shrink down one of Tim Holtz's Crazy Birds. This was a problem as I have no ink for my printer and it still isn't set up from the move. I decided to buy Shrink Wrap and try doing that. I stamped several birds and colored them with colored pencils. I trimmed one all the way down but the other I cut loosely around. I used a heat gun and when it was all done I laughed to see how tiny they had become. So cute!! They also became hard and I couldn't cut them. Thus  I had to use the red one. whom I liked the best anyway. The boot I drew myself and colored with my Spectrum Noirs.

After gluing everything down I decided it was too flat so I added some mounting paste for depth and glitter for the snow glistening.

You can't see the glitter in the photo, but it's there.

I had to print the words myself. Got to get me some printer ink for the next month!

Until next time!

I can't believe it's been a whole year for The Craft Barn Alpha/ Dictionary Challenge ! I am now posting the very last letter ...P.
I have to say it's been quite a ride. I personally had an eventful year and found it challenging just to complete each letter. It was fun and I now have a very interesting Alphabet book.

So I decided to make life easy on me and picked the word penguin. I have some cute stamps from Lawn Fawn and Hampton Arts which I used to make some Christmas cards so I knew where they were. I used Distress inks to make it look like an Artic sky and ground.

I cut out a snowflake and then used the hole as a stencil. The penguins are colored in with Spectrum Noir pencils and I used a stickles to make everything glow. The light picked up it too much as it looks much more subtle in real life.

Onward to the next challenge!!!!.....