Geishas with Chalk Resist Background

This morning I went outside to give food and fresh unfrozen water, to the birds and I discovered that one of us had left the back door open all night. Eeek! Living in a big city, security and the need to lock doors is important so, I think we were lucky. However, I don't think too many burglars will be out in this cold weather and I was amused to read, last week, that  2 thieves who did risk it were caught, very easily... they were tracked by their footprints in the snow back to their own houses! Yeeehh!!

Today I enjoyed messing around with chalk inks to make a background and thus fulfil the challenge for an Asian swap, which my good friend Leo is organising. I liked the background so much that I made 3 cards from it and stamped the images with the geishas UMs that I designed for stampattack. Not sure which one I'll send in for the mingle but I think it may be the 4 geishas in a row. 

When I did the drawing for this one I asked my husband what he thought  of it and his reply was "Bum, bum, bum, bum!!" ( 4 backsides in other words!!) so that's what I always call that image!
For the background I stamped a Japanese script with Versamark then clear embossed it. I sponged chalk pads over in two shades of blue and a little yellow and, after drying, the chalk polished off the embossing to show the script.