The Craft Barn Dictionary Challenge -- N

This time on The Craft Barn Dictionary Challenge, there aren't many words beginning with N that I wanted to do. In the end I went for the bird Nuthatch. We used to get them feeding on the peanuts when we lived in Wales, but haven't seen any here yet. They generally feed upside down and are one of the only birds in the UK that do that.
I have kept the tag very simple and drew the tree with a black pen for the nuthatch to find some insects on.
I gave the tree very little colour, so that the bird showed up clearly. It did feel strange not to use distress inks or paint, but I like the simplicity of it.

Journal page challenge with Neet

My friend Neet and I decided we needed to challenge ourselves and do more in the journal we started  last year. It's a large size which neither of us are very happy with. The small ones are so much easier to work in and come up with ideas for.
We have made a list of subjects to work from, and will go through them in order each week. Well until we run out of pages that is. Then we might do the same with the smaller ones.
This week was to include some stars, so having set off putting stars in a dark blue sky, I was then stuck. So it's not quite night time, the rest I'll leave for your imagination. No doubt a certain cat has been put out for the night and is creeping away.

Tag Tuesday -- Down the street

I used one of my unused stamps for this tag. I coloured the houses with Derwent intense crayons with a little help from my fine Staedtler pens. I stamped some trees behind the houses and gave them some gardens and paths.

Every Inchie Monday -- Rain

Not an easy one to do this week, and I struggled a bit on the sewing one. Eventually I felted a cloud and used a fine white thread for the rain. For the stampbord one I painted the umbrella and sky and then stretched away the paint to simulate the rain.

Tag Tuesday -- At the seaside

A great theme this week on Tag Tuesday as I love doing things to do with the sea as some of you will know, having seen my fabric book of the sea.
I started with a distress inked tag and stamped various images onto separate card. I coloured them with Derwent intense crayons. The seagulls were stamped directly onto the tag. I added some real shells at the bottom.

Every Inchie Monday -- Computer

The word on Every Inchie Monday is Computer, not much room for something different, but no doubt one of the ladies will come up with something unusual.
For the stampbord one I drew a laptop , and then drew a proper mouse onto shrink plastic and duly shrank it.
For the sewn one I have used the Apple symbol and given it a virus, well a caterpillar to be exact.

The Craft Barn Dictionary Challenge -- W

The next letter in The Craft Barn Challenge is W.
I have chosen woodpecker for this letter. I used texture paste for the tree trunk to give it some texture. I then painted the tree and background with acrylic paint. I stamped the woodpecker and coloured in the red bits.
I added some feathers that a woodpecker kindly left in my garden.