Once again this was a last minute page but due to me having gone out for the day (forgotten all about this needing doing) and then having a bad back. I had painted the page blue though!
The words, chosen by me way way back were "I'm the reason Santa has a naughty list" - not that you would know it by the look of my page, it is not at all Christmassy. Just blue all over. Hopefully when I get some time I will put some colour on it.
Anyhow, I decided to stamp 25 all over the page, as it was Christmas themed, for part of the background and then I needed some words - but guess what? I had an old stamp that said "Naughty or nice" - an old one of Dyans. That went all around the page - what next? The figure.
Oh dash! I had stamped the numbers the wrong way around for the figure I was planning on using. My page was landscape and not portrait! Oh heck, my plans would not work so in the end I just stamped some numbers the right way around and so it became a hotch potch of numbers. A couple of holly leaves and it had to be it!
I could use my original figure - the naughtiest one I could find. So it was the one scantily clad, almost indecent! She looked a bit lonely on the page - I needed a Father Christmas (or Santa as the words call him). Apart from some 'heads only' and a few smallish ones I was stuck - then I had the brainwave to look at the cards we had received for Christmas and there he was - Father Christmas and some presents. Thank goodness my lovely cousin Ken had saved the day - well, evening. Perhaps very unethical but in an emergency and only for my own use I did a hasty copy, cut him out and put him on the page. Shame he didn't have a list in his hand (I have seen either a card or a rubber stamp where he has, but obviously not today). So here she is - the reason Santa has a naughty list!
Now to start on next week's page, I cannot get in such a pickle again. I am entering this into Art Journal Journey's challenge which is 'words and numbers', chosen by Yvonne this month, because it contains both in abundance.
Oh, and a Merry Christmas to you all.
