Monday's Mixed Media Piece

Hello all. Hope you are having a good day whereever you live. It is cold here in the Ft. Worth area, and has been for a few days. Maybe that will get some of those darn bugs we are plagued with! I was going to whip something out for the Mixed Media Monday challenge yesterday, and Idecided to do a transfer (the bottom photo). WOW, did that go badly! I love the image I chose and I love the green background too, but a couple of things didn't work out with this piece. I was going to add some more ephemera after I did the transfer, but maybe I should have done that first to lighten the area where the image would be. Then,the image and the background were both pretty dark. The second thing that went wrong was I lost a big piece of the girls face while cleaning up the image after the transfer. I did not let it get dry enough before I started removing the paper that was left over the image. This was an image printed on matt photo paper, and transferred using gel medium. I may try something else with this piece, or I may just chunk it and learn my lesson! The first photo is my entry for the challenge. I found the 5 in my bag of inchies and decided to use it with this charming little girl's face. I have really been into the bright colors lately, and I'm not sure what that is about! Maybe, just wanting some brightness in these gray days we have been having. Anyway, I like this piece okey. I am trying some new compositions out too, and I can really see their strengths and weaknesses so much more clearly when they are on the computer monitor. Isn't that a strange phenonomon? Well, anyway I hope you enjoy my entry and learn from my mistakes!