Jeudi Journal - Sparkle

First of all may I welcome Avril and Sheila my new followers, hope you enjoy my blog.

Wondering how to incorporate "Lines" for Chris's challenge over on Art Journal Journey I remembered I had a super stencil by Tim Holtz which was composed of nothing but lines.   Eventually I found it, it now resides with my other favourite most used stencils, and got out the texture paste and had a lovely time putting it at the top - well just over half, of the page.  Whilst trying to work out a seamless continuation down the remainder of the page I realised I would not be able to do the writing if I carried on with the lines so I abandoned it and left the bottom bit empty.  That solved a problem!

Next was the painting and I decided to use just a Buff shade of paint which went on next.  Background finished, now to the characters, and so the story begins:

"Henora and Hermione, two very close friends, were off to a party and Hermione had made herself a new dress of which she was very proud.  Big sister Henora was not that taken with it and felt that her younger sister looked a bit "over the top" and rather like a Christmas Tree and so she told her how she was feeling.  Hermione was not at all put off because, as she said, "when going to a party you should NEVER FORGET YOUR SPARKLE".

That made Henora think and so she went and put on her new sparkly blue shoes which she was actually saving for a big date later in the year.  And so the two girls set off for the party, both wondering how the night would go.  Hermione thinking about her 'grand entrance' and how everyone would admire the new dress she had made and Henora just wondering what on earth her friends would think of younger sisters idea of a party outfit."

The outfit Hermione is wearing was made up from one of Dyan's Christmas Tree images and was something I tried out ages ago - at last I got to use the figure.  All the red berries (lights) have sparkle on them as do both pairs of shoes the girls are wearing.  Thank goodness for 'Wink of Stella'.

And so the page was finished and ready for scanning.  Oh dear, the lines did not really show and that was the whole point of entering into the challenge at AJJ.  Thinking cap on I decided to go with a bit of wax rubbing over the lines.  They look fine and are quite prominent when you see it in real life but on a scan?

A bit of pink and a bit of purple wax - back to the scanner - does it look any different - no, not really.  Ah well, I am sure the ladies will take my word for it.  Off to join in AJJ now.