"If At First you Don't Succeed - Give Up" is Wendy's choice this week for our Jeudi Journal. This one really had me stumped! If only there was a figure that had hands up in the air, or clutching at face ...
Thankfully I had a page already done, not a clue what I used - I suspect Distress Inks and that looks like an Andy Skinner stencil or two. As it turned out the page was busy so I did not need to do any more to the background.
On Saturday I was talking to my friend Cath and she came up with a suggestion of ripping half a page and sticking it back - giving up because whatever I was doing didn't work. That was great but when it came to execution I was stuck - again!
I had had an idea earlier in the week, something to do with fish and an under water scene but my addled brain stopped working and I could not, for the life in me, remember what I had thought of doing.
So come Monday I got to thinking, merging ideas, and came up with this
ok, so it needs some explanation!
The top corner shows our little caterpillar day dreaming about becoming a beautiful butterfly and he is wishing with all his might that this will be him. The bottom corner is when he realises his wish has not come true and he is still a little old caterpillar.
Now you and I know he will eventually turn into a beautiful butterfly but he just needs to be a little more patient. Now what is on the cards next week?
