Hambo Hoedown - Balloon

Time for another Hambo Hoedown challenge! This week (okay, last week) we got this image:

... and were' supposed to use Paper Piecing and Bold, Bright Colors. Paper piecing I can do, but bold, bright colors - not so much. I rummaged through my Heaplet and all I found were muted papers. Well DUH, that's mostly what I buy and use, so that's what's in the Heaplet.

Brief interlude. "Would you like to fly in my beautiful balloon?" Sing along now:




Okay, I'm back.

Bold and bright was becoming a real challenge. I actually had to open my storage cabinets that contain all the paper I have ever purchased and found three bold and bright polka dot papers in GAH green, GAH yellow and GAH orange. I proceeded to print the balloon on pieces of all three of them in addition to white, started hacking away at them, and this finally came out:

Admittedly not my best work. I'm happy with the balloon part, but the rest of it was honestly a desperate attempt to use up more of those papers so I don't have to put them away. It's difficult to tell, but the white "sky" is colored with a B0000 Copic. I also drew in my standard birds so you can tell she is in the sky. ;/

On a brighter (!) note, I did use a piece of yellow ribbon with GAH green edging. I disappeared what was left of it, and yes, I am very proud.

In other news, I took this afternoon off and spent 3 hours - THREE HOURS - attempting to get my new wireless printer to work with my laptop. Both are on the network - I can see them from the router. However, my laptop cannot see my printer, and it's less than THREE FEET AWAY on the coffee table. I tried, and I tried, but I got no satisfaction. I might need a geek squad. Or one of my geeky buddies. Sigh. I'm going to pull a Scarlet O'Hara and "I'll worry about that tomorrow".

Thanks for stopping by!