Journal - South America

My choice this time and it was Bubblegum Pink and Squeezed Orange along with a hot place - South America - well, hot colours ...

So what does that conjure up for you?  For me it made me think of Carmen Miranda and her big hats.  As Wendy likes us to use Dylusion figures wherever possible I began looking at the stamps I had and at the ones I had stamped from my friend, Lorraine's images.  What could I cut up?

Well we ended up with a real mish mash of images, a face with the hands and bugs cut off, a bodice from a swimmer, a skirt from a cat and a nice pair of legs from a legs plate.  The hat needed extending and some fruit adding so I had a look at the images for Carmen and found one that I felt would do, so it became part of the image - almost too big for the page!  

What now for the background - used the two colours stipulated, trying to blend them into one another with my blending tool and then chose Pomegranate for the third colour to add some contrast.  Loved it against the pink and orange.  Not so sure about the way I used it so I had a look for a stencil and I found this one which I loved.  I thought it looked great against the background now.

Why is it I so often want to leave my page as just that - a background?  Anyway, here it is complete with some writing in a style I kind of copied from the internet.

Now to see what Wendy has done - and maybe start on next week's.