Craft Barn Alpha Dictionary challenge - week 22 - N

Hallo, on this windy but so far mostly dry - Sunday! Not looking forward to the overnight weather that is meant to strike the UK - the last time in 1987 I wasn't on my own, and we slept through it... so we'll see this time!

Anyhow, this is the day for the latest letter to be launched in the Dictionary challenge from the Craft Barn - we're nearly at the end now, sadly - but I am pleased I've kept up with every one so far.  There is no twist this time, just the letter - N.

I went for NUMBER .

 I gesso'd the pages but my gesso is very thin and didn't cover up the dictionary pages, so I used an opaque Fresco - Lake Wanaka - to paint the whole page.

Once that was dry I stencilled randomly with the small Dylusion number jumble and the translucent version of Pea Coat (the new one is opaque)

 because I used a translucent ink, I could go over the definition without obliterating it...

 I wanted lots of numbers for my page - and took one large chipboard 5 (Craftwork Cards, which I have had forever!) and gave it a Fresco crackle effect - I used Pea Coat (opaque this time) as the base, and Antarctic over the crackle layer and left it to dry.

I had some smaller chipboard numbers, and some die cut ones (from the  Tim Holtz Word Play die) which I painted Sherbet, which is a pretty, pale pink.

Once the crackle was dry on the large 5, I painted the edges with Little Black Dress using my finger, and then stamped the numbers from the Paperartsy MN28 mini stamp in black ink.

I scribbled an edge to the dictionary definition to highlight it a little, with a journalling pen.

Although this was quite fiddly, with the painting of the numbers and gluing them on, this came together quite quickly... which is good, because I am supposed to be making Christmas cards......!!