Thursday 21 January 2016

Alpha/Dictionary Challenge - B Is For Bird

I enjoyed doing the Craft Barns Calendar Challenge last year and have decided to join in with this years Alph/Dictionary Challenge. I'm into postcards at the moment and have decided to use postcards for the challenge - I'm hoping that's okay as there was no mention of postcards in the brief.

The first challenge is to use the letter B.


I used a brayer to apply acrylic paint onto the background, then I stencilled the leaves with green paint. I stamped the bird [Sheena Douglas stamps] onto the postcard and also onto white card, I coloured the bird on the white card with pencils, I also added colour to the leaves and went round them with a black pen. I cut out a piece of card for the branch, coloured it with pencils and glued it to the postcard. I cut out the bird and glued it over the image on the postcard and added part of a dictionary with the word bird on it. I painted the postcard with Multi Matt Medium and when it was dry I added more colour with my Pitt pens. The letter b was stamped.

Thank you for looking.
xxx Hazel.

16 comments:

  1. Beautiful piece Hazel, have fun with the challenge. Hugs, Valerie

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  2. The bird is beautifully coloured! A great start of this year's challenge...

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  3. Nice to see you taking part Hazel and a lovely PC to start the ball rolling.

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  4. Oh, he is very splendid! Love his bold plumage and lovely soft sky behind.
    Alison x

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  5. Very nice card and so wonderful coloured.
    Greetings
    Sabine

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  6. A gorgeous coloured bird on your fab postcard. I love making postcards as well.

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  7. Great postcard and a lovely colourful bird! xx

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  8. I have been out of town, but was delighted to return in time to see this gorgeous beauty. I adore the bird and that plume is out of this world. You draw and paint SO well. Very impressive first entry for the Craft Barn challenge.

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  9. Beautiful postcard, the bird looks stunning :)

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  10. That's a gorgeous stamp! Fab postcard Hazel xx

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  11. A great postcard. I love how you've used the layers to get depth in to it xx

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  12. A beautiful postcard and great start to the challenge. I'm using postcard format for my entries but in landscape.

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