Final alpha challenge....

Phew the alpha challenge is complete - here's the link to the Craft Barn

The final two letters were X and I.....

Now there were about 6 words beginning with X, one of them being the letter X itself so not much choice so in the end I went with Xylophone. There was already a some ink on the page from Y on the next page so I also added some blue paint. I cut out rectangles and glued them down and then made a beater from a pipe cleaner and some card. I stamped a few music notes as well.

 Then for I, I chose a word I found reading the dictionary and that is Ichthyology the scientific study of fish - picture has a little too much reflection in it but the background is distress stain in blue and some silver round the edge and then I stamped some fish on some paper I had already inked and then cut them out and stuck them down and drew on some lines and measurements etc.

 Finally I finished off the front cover by painting it with gesso, then I made use of a few things I had for Christmas one was the cricut mini so I cut out some letters for A2Z and inked over them and I used some gilding wax around the edge, also some distress stain and then I painted the whole thing with gold shimmer mod podge and sprinkled on some glitter before it dried.

Wow and that's the whole year done!!

Aquarium

The new letter in the dictionary challenge is A - it took me ages to find a word - there are a lot of boring or unsuitable A words it seems! Anyway I decided on aquarium and a plan soon came to mind....

I used the appropriately named Aqua colour paint dabber on the background; I then found a plant stamp suitable to use as a fish tank plant and stamped that in Mowed Lawn and Forest Moss distress ink. I stamped the two fish - one is Paper Artsy the other is Inkadinkado. Then I drew some bubbles with a fine liner pen and then used clear gloss to make 3D and more like water. I used a craft nib to colour in the fish with barn door, spiced marmalade and salty ocean distress inks. Finally I used a little peacock feathers around the edge.

Here is the link to the Craft Barn