M and P

The Craft Barn alpha/dictionary challenge 2016 has come to an end: one letter every other week all year through adds up to the whole alphabet (missing the å,ä,ö we use here Finland :) ) I have animals from a wildlife dictionary, both underwater predators this time: the Matamata turtle for the M challenge and the illuminated netdevil (pensaskrotti in Finnish) for the P challenge. Here are the cards. I used some underpapers with embossing as backgrounds.

The matamata turtle looks rather weird. It lurks underwater and swallows small fish, check this little video here. The illuminated netdevil is an angler fish, one of those deep sea ones, but besides the lure, this has a bush-like thing dangling under it's chin (the Finnish name means bush-crott). Both the lure on the head and the bush are luminous, obviously to attract food... And this is the female, males are tiny and attach themselves as parasites to the females abdomen! Here are the backs of the cards with the definition texts.

And so all the cards are done! Here are links to the previous posts, I guess I'll have to make a post with all the cards. Let's hope we get a sunny day, so I can take some new photo's.

a (pinecone fish)

b (bananaquit)

c (colocolo)

d (dugong)

e (emoia)

f (falanouc)

g (gundi)

h (hoolock gibbon)

i (great tinamou)

j (jamaican tody)

k (flower-faced bat)

l (flying dragon)

m (matamata)

n (njala)

o (oribi)

p (illuminated netdevil)

q (quelea)

r (rathbuni's salamander)

s (surucucu)

t (talapoin)

u (unau)

v (vikuña)

w (weddel seal)

x (african ground squirrel)

y (nocturnal curassow)

z (zorilla)