This week I thought I would take the easy way out and use Distress Inks for the background instead of using paint. At least I have more control over inks and so I began with a covering of Shaded Lilac and then I used Broken China at the top through my stencil (it's one I got from Germany a few years ago and I haven't a clue who makes it) and ended up with Spun Sugar at the base.
I used one of my tiny figures at the top of the page and two of my middle figures lower down with a Tim Holtz Crazy Cat for company. These were stamped, all figures had new heads on and one had a new hat and legs. I just love swapping these figures by Dylusions around as it creates more figures to play with.
As usual there has to be a story with my page. Something I started quite a while ago now and even though I struggle at times I quite enjoy creating the stories. So what is today all about
"Patsy and Edwina, two friends, had been chatting about all of their other friends and especially the ones who annoyed them for one thing or another. There was Ramona who never shared anything but had everything so she was the sole topic of conversation for about five minutes. Then it moved on to Louise, who always hung back when it came time for her to chip in with paying for something.
(Of course we all have one of those friends who lets us ring them time and time again but somehow never thinks to pick the phone up and ring you first.) Edwina had been thinking about her friend Trixie whilst they had been chatting and she came around to saying that Trixie, was rather like a cat and she never ever thinks to make a phone call, adding that if cats had phones they wouldn't call you back which rather goes to prove her point. Afterall, hadn't Trixie got the cattiest eyes ever! She thinks she is the prettiest of them all but really - those eyes of hers ....."
As I wanted to enter my journal page into Art Journal Journey where there was the new topic of birds chosen for the challenge by Wendy K I had to add a bird or two. I had recently got some of Janet Klein's little figures and one of them had some birds on the sheet so I put two of them in the sky and one on the tail of Edwina's cat. He looks quite perturbed to have a bird balancing on his tail.
