A Pink Card and how to fix an "Oops"

Today feels like a typical summer day with hot humid weather and of course a chance for a severe thunderstorm. We had some light quick showers this afternoon but Joe did get the grass cut and I got some weeding and trimming done in between the rain drops. We actually had to turn the A/C on this afternoon. Yesterday was errand day and grocery day and one of the errands was to buy a new printer. I’ve been without a printer for over a month and Staples had a good HP printer on sale $110 off so it was only $89.99. I hope it’s a good one and not a dud! In hooking it up after supper I somehow unplugged the keyboard and with no keyboard there was no typing. By the time I figured everything out I was brain dead so I didn’t get a post in.

Today’s card is another magnolia image.

I warned you it was very pink! The image was coloured with Prismacolor pencils. The background paper came from a .99 paper pack from Michaels. The hot pink paper and ribbon is from the stash. The ovals were die cut with a Spellbinder’s die.

Now for the Ooops! On Saturday morning I had about an hour to kill before we were heading out for a bike ride so I hurried down to my lower studio (aka the basement) and started to experiment with a piece of water colour paper, Distress Inks, stamps, stencils and paint. I had the piece looking pretty good and then I had the not-so-brilliant idea to stamp and emboss in black a large mostly solid flower stamp on it. Well that didn’t turn out very well as the stamping was not even. I tried colouring in the negative parts of flower with an alcohol marker and that really ruined it.  I hate to throw things in the garbage so I grabbed some bird dies – one from Memory Makers and one from QuicKutz and die cut some from various parts of the paper. They are lovely!

Here is the piece that I originally made with the birds put back in place and I know you can barely see them which is good as I wanted you to see the original piece.

 

Can you see the lovely background I created using stencils and Distress Ink? Too bad I ruined it.

 

Here are the birds die cut from that piece. I have room to die cut a few more yet. The background was quite lovely until I added that flower but now I have these funky birds to use on other projects. So, the reason I’m showing you my “oops” is to show you how I take an “oops” and turn it into something useful instead of adding it to the garbage pail.

 Cheers

Violet