Jeudi Journal - Drama

Nope, there is no drama going on with me on this blog today but the quote mentions the word so I thought it might tempt you to pop in for a peek.  This week the quote chosen by Wendy is "Drama Shield - Active".  My first thoughts were to make my own character dressed as a silver knight or use one of Dyan's,  as I should, but put a knight's head on the top and give it a shield.  Then I wondered how I would bring the whole thing together so instead I just did this

I first of all painted my page this lovely Aqua Green - it looked different in the tube, a bit more bluey - and then I used some of my tiny background stamps with Shabby Shutters Distress Ink and then went over with my favourite circle stencil (Peeled Paint Distress ink).  I chose a couple of figures, one sitting looking sad and the other walking away, glancing over her shoulder.  I have several of these plastic umbrellas so I used one on here as I do need to use them up somehow.  So:

"Little Rose, a tiny slip of a thing who adores eye make up, called to see her big sister to discuss what they were going to do over the weekend.  Unfortunately there was a bit of a drama going on at Iris's house, the cat had stolen the meat that she had put out to cook for her boyfriend's Valentine dinner that evening.  It was not the only tragedy that had happened to Iris that day though - on top of the meat going missing she had broken one of her false nails.  Now that was a real tragedy and so she was well up for a moan to her much smaller and younger sister.

Little Rose, however, had enough problems of her own, didn't Iris realise she at least had a boyfriend whilst Little Rose was all alone for Valentine's night.  She'd only popped in to see what the two of them were doing Saturday afternoon whilst the boyfriend was playing football.  Moan, moan, moan, was all she felt Iris could do so she decided to back off and activate her drama shield.  She wanted none of the whinging and moaning.  "Drama Shield Active" she shouted over her shoulder as she took herself off to see what goodies she could buy herself - a visit to the shops was preferable to listening to big sister.  "Honestly" she said to herself, "some people are never satisfied and do not realise just how lucky they are."

Good job the spots on the umbrella were metallic and the handle too - that meant I could link up to Art Journal Journey for Valerie's challenge of Heavy metal - it would have been so much more obvious had I had the knight and his shield.