Leigh SB's Stay Crafty at Home Blog Hop (Aug 7 through Sept 25) #31

 Well Halloween is definitely creeping up on us...and Leigh has started releasing her Spooktember Halloween releases!

Take a look! You will see some of the new images in my posts in the next few days...

Stay Crafty @ Home Blog Hop 2020

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Today I am using one of Leigh's new releases: Bram Batleigh

I decided to make a journal page - and I discovered I only have 4 pages left in this journal!!

I had been looking for Bat poems online -

 I have already used some of the words from D. H. Lawrence's Bat in this page

I was considering 'Twinkle, Twinkle, little bat!' by Lewis Carroll - I may use that soon!

But I decided to use

The Bat

By day the bat is cousin to the mouse.
He likes the attic of an aging house.

His fingers make a hat about his head.
His pulse beat is so slow we think him dead.

He loops in crazy figures half the night
Among the trees that face the corner light.

But when he brushes up against a screen,
We are afraid of what our eyes have seen:

For something is amiss or out of place
When mice with wings can wear a human face.

Theodore Roethke

So to start in my journal:

First I added a bat paper (CCC22 from Oddball Art Co)

I used black soot Distress Ink around all edges on this page.

Next I added two panels of leaves.

These panels were formed using Distress Oxide then Distress Ink in Wild Honey and Seedless Preserves through a Tim Holtz stencil.

Next I added three Bram Batleigh's, printed, painted with the Inks and Oxides mentioned above, and then cut out.

I then added the poem, printed, trimmed and distressed.

I did a bit of doodling round the bats with a black fineliner and added white Posca pen to the eyes.

I will add this to Leigh's Linky

Before I forget... I will also link this to Little Red Wagon Challenge #565

Happy Crafting!