I've saved this journal page until today, because today would have been my dad's birthday. He loved Laurel and Hardy and I can see him now, sitting laughing at their antics on the television screen. This was one of my favourite pages when I made some in readiness for my stint as Guest Designer at Art Journal Journey (thanks Elizabeth and Bleubeard for the invite, I have so enjoyed myself). I wanted to post it earlier but kept thinking of dad each time I looked at it. So dad, it's in memory of you as well as being my page today for the theme "Type".
To begin with I painted my page green, adding some darker green through a stencil. Then I used an Aall & Create stencil by Abs to add the stars with some crackle paste, I love how the tiny stars come up so well.
Drawing through the stencil I made copies of the stars down the left hand side and cut them out and wrote on them "My Type of Movie Star". Next I used a typewriter die, sent to me by my bff, and I typed on a piece of paper the quote most associated with these two and inserted it in the typewriter with the bail bar over the top.
The two figures of Laurel and Hardy are from a stamp collection by Janet Klein for Aall & Create, Stan Laurel, who hails not far from us, stood perfectly on the paper release lever but where could I put Oliver Hardy? He needed to rest somewhere with his arm on something.
I was certain I had a die for cutting a film strip and sure enough I found it and had space for three film stars and so I began looking on the internet for female stars of that era. I did not make a note of who they were so the top one escapes me but I know the next one is Bette Davis and the bottom one Greta Garbo. Obviously they had to be printed in black and white and Oliver Hardy stood perfectly on top of the film strip whilst resting his arm on the typewriter.
The final things was to put a wiggly line around the whole page but I still felt there was something missing and so I went around the large stars with a black pen and then the figures too. That finished it off.
So here you have it, my page for my theme at Art Journal Journey, there are still two days to enter so will I see you there?
