Jeudi Journal - Yellow (and my tribute to Manchester)

Ok Ok So we are supposed to be on a travel thing at the moment. Well, yes we are, or yes, I am, but I have stopped off in China for a short spell and am crafting away whilst there.  Today I/we are having Yellow as our theme for crafting.  (aside: Actually I cannot find anything with the craft room as it is, got most things to hand but forgot about country type stamps)

Last week, as you no doubt remember from the news we had a terrible bombing incident in Manchester which is only a few miles away from where I live and I was so upset and angry that this had happened that I decided I needed to do a tribute to Manchester and the victims of the terrible bombing.  This is what I did:  

I had already painted a page yellow and so I decided to work on that. I found a picture of Manchester's skyline and printed it out along with some hearts that sported the Union Jack.  The latter of which I altered in sizes before printing.  I then stamped some more balloons from my Crazy Birds Accessories and stamped three Dyary figures from Dylusions.

I tried to colour the skin of the three figures differently to represent the various nationalities in Manchester and stood them together along with a giant heart saying "we love Manchester".  There are 22 balloons all told in the sky, one for each of the victims who lost their lives in the bombing.  As you can see I kept the colours to those of the Union Flag and I tried to use colours appropriate to the people when colouring in their apparel.

As for such a sunny background - I hope that Manchester will rise once again from this and there will be sunny days ahead for every one.   God Bless all those who have suffered from that dreadful day.