Mistakes Happen

Every Card maker makes mistakes. It doesn't matter if you're a novice, have some experience or are an experienced card maker. Sometimes those mistakes are what we call happy mistakes, where you make a mistake but it turns out to be good and you're pleased with the end result, it may even enhance your card in a way you didn't think of before. At other times you make a mistake and it may feel as if all your hard work should now go into the trash/recycle bin. Yes, sometimes that happens. Sometimes you can cover a mistake with an embellishment of some sort or you can work around the mistake because no one will notice it unless you tell them about it.

Today I was working on some cards with my new Vicki Boutin stamp and die set.

I embossed the circles filled with dots around the card in what I thought was a pleasing pattern. I made several backgrounds and was working on blending inks on the ones I had heat embossed in white. Well it turns out that although I used my anti-static pouch to heat emboss the sentiment, the ink from my blending wasn't quite dry enough. I wiped it clean and tried re-stamping the sentiment with my VersaMark and I missed a little on the placement.

It's not a huge mistake but it's not something that is not noticeable either. I figured I would ink up a scrap piece of paper with the blended colors I'd used and just place it over the sentiment. This time I'm going to make sure my ink is dry before I stamp with my VersaMark. If that doesn't work out, I can always use circle punches or dies to die cut out pieces from the card panel to make a new card.

Mistakes happen and it's ok, sometimes we just have to accept it and let it go and sometimes we can fix it and make it even better.