As far as the background is concerned all I can remember is that I had wiped my brush last week over the page to clean it and get rid of the remaining buff paint. What on earth I put on top of that when it was dry I have not a clue, I really need to write things down these days, old age does this to you you know. Looks a bit like Mermaid Lagoon and Broken China DO to me.
Again, in order to fit one of my figures on the page I had to shorten her legs, I don't think you would know unless you got a tape measure out - and knew how long they were on the actual stamp. Then I took some of the dogs and thought up the bones of a story - which now goes like this:
"Henora's younger sister, Hyacinth, had been training her dogs to do various tricks and one that she was particularly proud of was that four of them could do a balancing act. She was thinking of entering them into "Britain's Got Talent" when it was next coming on TV. After all, didn't a young girl, Ashley, once win the show with her dog, Pudsey, doing a dancing act. Hyacinth was convinced she could do as well with her little quartet. There were lots of tricks they could do, Rufus could kind of do the splits with his two front legs and Gerald could play the trumpet. Fifi was a little bit dopey but she could manage to whirl her head about a bit whilst twirling a feather duster in her mouth and Lola could perform the most amazing somersaults - and look at them now - they could build a tower whilst standing on one another's heads.
Hyacinth was so proud of them and of her own skill in having trained them to do all of these things so she decided to get them to do their balancing act. Once they were all in place she called her older sister, but, Henora being the kind of girl who was only interested in herself and how she looked declared that she was not interested - saying "Sorry if I look interested, I'm not" - much to Hyacinth's dismay."
Sometimes I wonder how I make these stories up, they become sillier and sillier as time goes on but with an imagination like mine you really can expect the unexpected!
Figures, from Dylusions, were coloured in using my Promarkers as usual and because I want to enter into Art Journal Journey's challenge again, which is "Hold the Line" I put a simple broken line around the edges of the page to make a border, with some lines in the top two corners - probably because I got carried away. Why not join in with the challenge over at AJJ - lots of lovely examples for you to see.
