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Saturday 23 February 2013

Craft Barn Alphabet Challenge -H

Hello there, Pooh here with you today, I've been busy creating our page for the alpha challenge over at The Craft Barn . This fortnight the letter is H. I had a flick through our French/English dictionary and, following the theme of words that sound or are the same in both languages, came up with hexagon.

I decided to be clever and cover the word with a hexagon sticker, so my misting didn't obscure the word, as one of the challenge rules is to show your chosen word on your page.

I misted my pages in chalk and Dylusions mists.





I heat dried the pages between each layer of mist. A handy trick, if you position the heat gun just right, you can lie down and have a sneaky snooze and leave the page to dry itself. NOTE, don't snooze too long, or you may end up with burnt pages!!!


I selected a hexagon mask and sprayed Dylusions London Blue over my page, using both the positive and negative sides of the mask to create two different effects.


Next, as I was in the kitchen, I had a rifle through the snack drawer; having to mist in the kitchen does have its advantages you know!


After 51 small smackerels, I selected another hexagon mask, and the new white Dylusions mist.


I once again used both the negative and positive sides of the mask. When I was finished spraying, I removed the sticker from my chosen word. ARGH, disaster, it had stuck fast, and left a residue that completely obliterated my word!!!!!!!


Not to be beaten, I turned from the French - English to the English - French definitions, and repeated ALL the above steps, including the snackathon.

Next, I took the outline surrounding these stamps


Cut it in half, and stuck directly to my pages. Us bears are developing quite Womblish techniques in our crafting lately!


I then added some of the hexagon stickers, and cut the letters to spell my chosen word with a Sizzix Sizzlits alphabet strip. I assembled all my elements to pawduce this. Don't I look happy to be demoing my creation?


A close up of my page. The whiter hexagons were achieved by rubbing a Papermania square mini white ink pad directly through my mask.


I love this altered dictionary challenge, I hope the bears let me play again next fortnight.

With love from the bears.

18 comments:

  1. Brilliant dictionary page! Lucky you were using a French to English and could start again!

    Lauren x

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  2. This is brilliant. Your hexagon-fest really gets the message across.

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  3. Hi Pooh - these pages are fabulous. I love all the stenciling. I would really like one of those Hexagon ones... fabulous :-) Nice to see you having a bit of a crafty time today xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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  4. Oh Pooh, what a shame things didnt work out first time but well done for trying again. A lovely page for us to see and extra snacks for you, what a smart bear

    Gill x

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  5. Love the hexagons on the pages. Glad to see you managed to keep your paws clean with all that misting!!

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  6. If at first you don't succeed. Have a snack and start again.
    Well done Pooh. Great job.

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  7. Poor old Pooh - lucky you could start over! I love all those different layers of hexagons. MM x

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  8. Great word! Just as well you had enough smackerels for a second go!

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  9. You'd have thought Pooh would have thought of HONEY! The honeycomb is hexagonal too which was what I thought it was going to be from the link photo! Great page there. BJ

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  10. I hope there were a few smackerels left for the others... not that I think you didn't earn your snack - what dedication going through the whole process twice over! Well worth it, though - a great H page...
    Alison x

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  11. First one was just a practice one after all!...Practice makes perfect! And the final page is wonderful! Lots of love from Laura xxxxxx

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  12. Ah, determination gets us EVERYWHERE! Your hexagon pages turned out fabulous in the end. You should look happy showing them off.

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  13. Great pages for your word choice Pooh Bear!

    MaggieH

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  14. Beautiful pages and the hexagons are just perfect! Very nice!

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  15. You beat me too it with the hexagons! Nice page.

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  16. Fabulouse word, brilliant page.

    Sylv xx

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  17. Oh Pooh! What a fabulous page! And two snackeralls too! Hope you got some exercise (snort) ! :)

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  18. I thought that with the bears, you would have gone with honey ;)
    great page !!
    Thanks for playing with us at the Craft Barn
    Izzy

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