Craft Barn Alpha Challenge - Letter B. . . . . .

As usual, I'm just getting my entry in at the last moment (almost) for the Craft Barn Alpha Challenge!

The letter to be used this time is B and for my word I have chosen: bête noire.
I particularly dislike spiders to the point that I don't even like looking at pictures of them or seeing them on tv so I couldn't choose to use those for my 'bete noire' page! Instead, I have chosen bats. I know they can look so sweet hanging upside down to sleep but if you're out in the dark and they swoop around your head it's not a pleasant experience! I  would never do anything to harm them but neither would I engineer a visit with them!

Here's my take on the definition but beware because it does look as if Halloween has come early!!

My bat drawing isn't quite what it should be so I found an image on google  and decided to give it a makeover. On the left of the print out you can see the original. On the right you can then see where I've used black, grey and white pencils to add shading and definition to improve the print out (I hope!).

The finished pages complete with bats both printed and stamped.

Word definition which was masked off during production to preserve the original text for all to see.

Two printed bats were used and both were altered with pencils as mentioned earlier. The images were glued to card, cut out and applied to the pages. At the lower edge of the two printed bats, I used the black pencil to add shading for definition.

The letters were die cut, painted with DecoArt Americana acrylic paint. Carbon black DecoArt Traditions paint was used to stamp onto the letters. (I used part of an Andy Skinner ink splat stamp to add the detail).

The pages were first coated with watered down fresco paint. Some script was randomly stamped with chalky black  ink. The bats were stamped / glued into position. The edges of the pages were coloured with black pan pastel. I liked the way this stuck to some of the script stamping which was slightly damp. Sequin waste was then used with DecoArt Americana acrlyic in red and DecoArt Traditions in carbon black - both were applied with cut and dry foam.

 Not entered this challenge at the Craft Barn yet? There are still a few hours left today and the next letter goes live tomorrow so why not pop over and get all the details for entry by clicking here?