Tuesday November 5, 2019...EVERYONE MESSES UP.....

I recently held a product based class for the Friend Like You bundle.  I was creating cards for this class and I was having "ONE OF THOSE DAYS!"  

You know....one of those days where the simplest of ideas is impossible to make happen....you know, where whatever can go wrong will go wrong.  Yep, that was me!

Now I am preluding these cards with this statement....these cards are far from perfect....and were a hot mess. Why am I posting these cards? The answer is simple....to show you that we ALL have "ONE OF THOSE DAYS" 

The plan for this class was to do three clean and simple cards, and three cards with one technique, and three more cards with a simple background technique ( I will show you the technique cards in a future post) 

So....the clean simple quick and easy cards.....

  Here was the first one of three: 

The idea was great....the execution....not so much....I should have used my STAMPARATUS!  

The background splotch is fine....but the image and the greeting are faded and had I used my stamparatus, I would have been able to stamp them again so they were dark and crisp.  

Ok fail number one. Don't sweat the small stuff Shel....move on....

Then I went on to the next card: 

Did I learn my lesson from the first card?   NOOOOOOO!   Did I dig out my stamparatus....NOOOOOO!

My splotch is once again perfect.....my focal image faded and sparce!  Darn it !  

And to top it off I stamped the greeting fine but hit it with my hand and smudged it across the bottom of the page!  

Man I was not happy! 

But did you know there is a partial fix?  Yep!  Take a couple of deep breaths....restamp the greeting on scrap card stock and mat it on black to cover up the hot mess.  

The focal image....nothing I could do with that....move on Shel...move on. 

Fail #2

So the final card for the set of three...

Again great background splotch....faded focal image and really badly messed up the greeting; that was once again restamped and covered up!  Geesh!  

Fail #3

Now I am gonna be totally honest here....after these three I simply got up and walked away from my craft table.  I was frustrated and mad as a wet hen.  

How could I  mess up three seemingly simple cards!!!  

Moral of this story:  No one is perfect....everyone messes up...everyone has a bad stamping day.....and if you have the stamping tools (stamparatus) PLEASE USE THEM.  

Yes they are a mess.....but life is messy sometimes.....and I like to show you all, that every one of us messes up. 

Had these clean and simple cards been stamped properly they would have been gorgeous....but I messed up three times! 

After I walked away, did some dishes and cleaned out my kitchen cabinets, I went back and had a very productive afternoon.....I just needed to reset.   

So when you have a bad stamping day....walk away....take your frustration out on dishes and cabinet cleaning.....reset....and then go back to stamping.....and remember.....EVERYONE MESSES UP.