Well, this is another of my journal pages for the "In Gear" challenge I am hosting at Art Journal Journey and this one does not have a gear in sight. I decided not to include any gears as such but if you look there are lots of gears hidden away. The car, the bicycle and just ever so faintly you can see the ferris wheel - all have gears inside them to make them work. In other words you could say they are all "In Gear".
This was an already coloured page in my square journal so I put some Elements Olive Green on with a brush to make a kind of darker splodge in the middle and then did some stencilling. Then I added some stamping using Versafine Clair Nocturne and Momento London Fog. The figures are, of course, Dylusions. For our Journal challenge (between ourselves) Wendy and I have to use Dylusion figures and a Tim Holtz' snarky comment, which this week is "You smell like drama and a headache, please get away from me".
"Billie is working in her father's garage and as usual her overalls are full of grease and all manner of things. Her hair is hanging over her eye so that it is almost a wonder she can see what she is doing. Suddenly she hears a noise outside and sees it is one of the girls from college, Serena. Serena is at college on a beautician course and so the two girls are polar opposites but they just happen to have the same friendship groups.
Only yesterday they had sat having coffee together when Billie had been bemoaning the fact that her boyfriend did not understand why she spent so much time at her father's garage when he thought she should be going out with him. Serena had been one of the less sympathetic ones in the group and had said
"You smell like drama and a headache, please get away from me."
Poor Billie was most upset and annoyed yesterday but had got over it now so she shouted through the window to Serena but Serena totally ignored her and walked on. Determined to have it out with her Billie closed the garage door, put the lock on and hopped on her bicycle and tore after Serena.
I think we will leave it there, you really don't want to know what happened next or what Billie said."
