U Quack Me Up!

The PaperWorksCo is having a challenge called the Ultimate Summer Challenge. This is a team challenge, something I have never heard of in the world of stamping challenges. It requires a 4 person team to take on 4 different challenges, each person doing one. The over arching theme is animals and we have to use PWCO stamps or the provided digi image. I am team captain for the Buffalo Stampers and my buddies Cheryl Rowley, Lisa Kind and Debbie Morrissey kindly agreed to play along. I took the technique challenge which was to make your own background paper.

I used alcohol inks on glossy paper to make this cloudy sky...

I used it on this project...

After unsuccessfully trying to use Copics on this image (my yellows are sorely lacking!), I went with watercoloring with dye inks. I haven't done that in awhile and it felt good. The image is quite long so I opted to put it onto a gift box rather than a card front. I have several gable boxes in my stash so it was good to use up something I already had. The sentiment that goes with this image is also long so I only used a portion of it, combining it with a foam letter "U". I spent a bit more time than usual on the details, adding some stitching, a corner accent, glossy accents (on the puddle) and the bow treatment. This project was a bit like pulling teeth. Just ask the ladies who watched me work on it last night! But now that it is done, I am pleased. Oh, and I made sure to put it out of reach of Daisy the maniac dog!

Deep breaths people, deep breaths! Our senior pastor tells us that all the time, only problem is, I am a sloooooow learner! Thanks for all the stain removal tips. I worked on it for about an hour with an arsenal of products and have gotten about 98% of the ink stain in the carpet. Now instead of ink spots we have clean spots, lol! Then I had to tackle a chocolate ice cream stain my knucklehead son left on our new chair! Life is just a test some days.

The kitchen store sent a repair guy to look at our counter and it looks like they will be able to fix it. Phew! Lesson learned...always check the tops on bottles. I bought a bottle of Windex and because I was running late for church I set the grocery bags on the counter to unpack later. The bottle was on its side and the top was not secure so half the bottle leaked out, damaging the edging on 3 sides of our island. The repair guy said the lesson learned should have been to skip church! You tell that to my pastor husband.

Thanks for visiting! Blessings on you!