Happy April Fool's Day!

I love to play along with Darnell's challenges because it's always fun and inspirational to see what everyone creates. For her 2nd annual April Fool's Day challenge, she's asking us to share our boo-boos just for fun. There are no prizes, this is just a fun challenge where you can share your card boo-boos, some NBUS, or both. Just click the banner above or one of the two links in this paragraph, and it will take you to her NBUS #11 Challenge.

Today I have a card that went wrong from the very beginning.

I started by stamping this Tim Holtz crazy dog with Versafine Black ink, and then wanted to seal the ink with clear embossing powder so I could color it with Copics. You see, Versafine Onyx Black and Copic inks don't play nice together, so the ink has to be sealed. I grabbed the embossing powder and covered the image with it, but when I hit it with a heat gun, it turned white around the edges! I grabbed white embossing powder instead of clear! What?!#&!  DUH!!

It looked ridiculous with white edges, almost like a 4-legged see-through ghost! LOL I should have tossed it and started over at that point but I heard this voice from within telling me "you can fix this."  

{How does one silence that voice from within I wonder? LOL)

I outlined the edges with the darkest brown Copic I own and then colored it in, but I still didn't like the way it looked. I fussy cut it anyway, wasting even more time on a useless project. My next brilliant idea was to cut and color a birthday hat to add some bright fun colors to dress up my dull dachshund. That should help, right?  WRONG!!! 

I pulled out a snippet of pastel blue cardstock to match this little fella's collar. When I stamped the hat image (from the Tim Holtz crazies accessory stamp set) I realized I'd pulled out a piece of textured cardstock. If you click the photo to enlarge it, you can see the ridiculous coloring on this hat as the texture just wouldn't allow any color to absorb. It would have been the perfect hat to match the original dog before I colored it darker! I fussy cut the hat and popped it onto his head anyway. I should have given up entirely at this point, but I pushed on, adding the dog to a pretty piece of dsp and a kraft card base. I stood back, took a good look and thought to myself, now I've even stuck the dog down at a ridiculous angle and he looks as if something frightened him into leaning back on his hind end! Anything that could go wrong with this card DID! I decided to quit at this point and start over......

Here's the 2nd attempt which looks a wee bit better! At least the dog is dark enough to look like a dog and his hat is brightly colored. I used a new sentiment my friend Mary Anne shared with me and cut it into 3 pieces and matted with colorful snippets of red, blue and black. I used my retired SU! tab punch to make the brackets from lime green card, and added some puffy shiny stickers to add to the festivities of a birthday celebration. The dsp for both cards was from a pack of self-adhesive papers I bought from QVC when I first began making cards.

I think we all have days like this, but normally I scrap my boo-boos if they can't be fixed. I saved the first card as soon as I found out about Darnell's April Fools challenge so I could play along. I hope you'll dig deep into your schtuff and bring your boo-boos to the table so we can all have a good chuckle along with you. From now on, I'll be saving all of mine for next year's April Fool's day!

Thanks for stopping by and make it a good one! 

Beware of the pranksters - they're lurking and just waiting for you :) 

Happy April 1st!!

Carol