"bat cave" card

So I decided to enter a challenge/contest again.

This one is for: www.papersmoochesstamps.com >> 

The challenge was to use this layout draft on a card/project:

Looking at this sketch, I started to think that it looked kind of like the entrance to a cave.  Here's how this card turned out:

Supplies:
I used a cereal bowl to trace the "fern" patterned paper -- I wanted it to give the feeling that there were vines and moss growing on the outside of the cave.  I paper pieced the bats onto brown cardstock, and added brown fuzzy flocking to their bodies.  I added two types of googly eyes, and used black Sharpie & colored pencil, white Sakura gel pen, and gray Sakura souffle pen to add detail to both bats. The branches were also paper-pieced onto brown cardstock, and the final touch was some green cardstock and stamping the sentiment, which I spliced together using two phrase stamps.

Stamps:
Bats, branches, sentiment - Paper Smooches/


Thanks for taking a look! ~ Amanda B., the manderbean :)