Aloha, all!
I wasn’t thinking too very much in an aloha-like way just a bit ago. Remember yesterday when I said I was going to try to kick the heart window card up a notch? Well, the good news is that I left the original card alone. It was plain, but it was fine.
It was the second card that was the trial. First of all, what I wanted to do was to outline the cut out heart shape on the front of the card with white dots using the Signo Gel Pen. Then I was going to emboss a "Best Wishes" thought on the front using White Stampin’ Emboss Powder. The first thing that went wrong was that I didn’t really have the feel of the Gel Pen before I started using it. I should know by now to get it going to make sure it and I are in sync before I go applying it to a finished product. Then, while I was struggling with trying to fix the problems with my weak-looking dots, I managed to smudge the right side of the card with some of the gel ink. OK, we’ll just put the ribbon on THAT side of the card. Wasn’t quite sure how that was working, but what the heck. Then, without thinking, I stamped the greeting in VersaMark and embossed it. Duh!! I hadn’t used my embossing buddy, which is a must on dark card stock. There are white specks all over!!
Of couse, if I hadn’t already done the inside of the card with the liner and the hearts it wouldn’t have been so bad to have started over completely. But there the inside was, and I didn’t want to give up all that work. My final step was to stamp the greeting on the inside of the card, just as I had in yesterday’s card. But something happened between the time I placed my Stamp-a-ma-jig and the time I applied stamp to paper. Yuck! It wasn’t even a pretty angle!!! At this point, I just stamped the greeting on a piece of Designer Series Paper and called it done!
Tomorrow WILL be a better day (well, for sure as I’m really at the Stampin’ Up! convention, where I had hoped to drop this card off tomorrow at the Marketing Resource Booth to show off my skills. Hah!)
