I think this will probably be the last of my entries for Art Journal Journey this month. I so enjoyed Eileen's theme of "inspired by ..." which has attracted over 140 entries. Sadly Eileen passed before her theme was published but the team decided to go ahead with it in her memory and Erika and Chris have co-hosted throughout the month. Thank you ladies, I have so enjoyed what I have been doing.
Today the Challenge I do with Wendy uses the quote "Some day you'll go far, and I hope you stay there" - not very nice is it? I decided to do something quite different to what I usually do and use up some of the Dylusion figures that are difficult to match up with bodies and to use some collage papers as well. These are from one of the Dina Wakley books that a friend once bought me and which I have not used before. I divided my page up into three vertical strips and put some paint on the centre one and made a quick border with some scribble to decorate it. The two sides were split up and I filled them with curved pieces using Dyan's acrylic block which has a lovely curve to it. Then I used some Whipped Spackle through the 'Diamonds in the Rough' stencil, and the stars and the arrows ones - all Dylusions - drawing around them with a black pen. As you can no doubt guess this page was definitely inspired by Dylusions products.
The story goes "Jane was a bit of a dreamer, a lovely girl who worked hard to better herself at every opportunity. She had not had the best start in life but she was determined that she was going to go somewhere with her life and become someone her old school teachers would be proud of. She had taken herself off to evening classes, after leaving school with very little in the way of qualifications, and had studied hard resulting in getting good grades in all the examinations she took.
Her friend Edwina was not ambitious like Jane and could not understand why Jane was not always ready to go out clubbing or simply hanging around with the gang. She wasn't anything like Jane, in fact she could be quite spiteful at times. Often their friendship suffered as Edwina could turn quite nasty if things did not go her way or if she felt that she was not number one as far as Jane was concerned.
Matters came to a head the night that they had gone out celebrating Jane having got three "A" levels, all with very good grades. The other girls were making quite a fuss of her and everyone was laughing and joking about Jane going on to university and how she might become the Prime Minister one day. Edwina did not like it, she wanted to be the centre of attraction not Jane. Her eyes darkened, as they often did when she was in one of her moods and she surprised the others when she suddenly turned on Jane and shouted "Some day you'll go far and I hope you stay there".
Aghast the others turned to look at her, poor Jane put her hands up to her face and looked so sad, she had not thought her friend could ever be so mean to her, but Edwina just tilted her head on one side, put on the stare that only she could perfect and looked long and hard at them all."
