By now you know I love working with paper. Any kind of paper really—scrapbooking, old ledgers, sewing patterns, vintage magazines.
I mentioned before how I enjoy using torn paper, because me and measuring don’t work well together. No matter how much I try, my measurements are nearly always off. Frustrating. So, I just tear it, glue it on and any accidents look like they were done on purpose (at least I hope so!)
But there are times some accidents can’t be redeemed.
For instance…
I am altering a school composition journal for my niece’s belated birthday. I have picked out really cute scrapbooking papers. (For this particular piece I am actually measuring, but this time it doesn’t have to be exact since I sand off the excess.) I’ve got everything put together down to the vintage skeleton key tied up with a few strands of turquoise embroidery thread and placed on the orange polka-dot ribbon. Turns out better than I anticipated.
Then the unfortunate accident happens. I know I should have left it well enough alone, but NO.
I’m really not this dumb, but this? this was d-u-m-b Dumb! The already-glued-down ribbon’s ends were fraying a little, so I decided to take the gajillion-degrees heat gun to it. Yep, dumb.
I proceeded to ‘fix’ the ribbon ends while at the same time burn about twenty pages of the journal. I wondered why I kept smelling smoke! Sheesh!
I tore the burned pages out thinking I saved it. No one’s the wiser, right? Whew.
The next morning I picked up the journal and another 10 pages fell out and, not noticing the night before, I had warped the front cover beyond repair.
I have started on another one and will post pics when I’m done.
{note to self: buy fire extinguisher for under desk}
Care to share some of your crafting calamities so I can feel better about myself without spending a lot of money on therapy?
:)
Brenda
