Altenew Level 2 - With A Twist Course

 How many times have we all thought of a project, worked on it for hours, and then made cuts where they didn’t need to be made!  I know that I have done that WAY more than I want to admit!  And although it sounds cool to say, “There are no mistakes, only design opportunities,” in reality that is more difficult than imagined.  Can you see where I’m going with this?

The “With A Twist” course was fantastic!  Chock full of ideas to perk up the creative muses, test the boundaries of skill levels, and just plain fun!  And I came away from the videos with a firm idea in mind of what I wanted to do.  And then I attempted to put my ideas onto card stock.  Well, I got so frustrated with myself that I threw down my glue press in disgust, heaved myself away from my desk, and declared to the dog, “When it gets this rough, it’s time to quit for the day.” 

This morning, I started again, new card, same basic idea.  And even though some things didn’t quite work out the way I had envisioned, overall, I am pleased with the results.  I used purple embossing powder to create two floral outlines on white card stock and cut them out with the Library Blooms stamp and die set.  Next, I took a piece of white card stock, cut it on a slant, and then ink blended it using Pumice Stone Distress Oxide Ink - mind you, these are the EXACT steps that I took yesterday.  I adhered the die cut blooms onto the edge of my ink blended paper, and then put that onto a purple card base.  And then I created a sentiment using the same ink blended paper and a sentiment from the Tangerine Grove stamp set.  After cutting it out using a Tim Holtz label die, I popped it up on my card front using 4 pieces of scrap card stock.  I trimmed the excess blooms off the bottom of the card, but opted to leave the leaf at the top.  Oh!  I also went a little crazy with purple gems on this one - here it is:

But NOW you need to know the “Rest of the Story,” as Paul Harvey used to say.  I decided to see if I could save the work I had done yesterday.  You see, I had grabbed my trusty scissors, never doubting myself as I bore down on the blades, and - GASP!!  I CHOPPED OFF ALL of the luscious blooms along the decorative edged twist of my card!  I kept looking at it and looking at it, and looking at it, wondering what to do.  Finally, I turned the card in a different orientation, did a little strategic ink blending, cut down some vellum, added bling, and here is the card save.  Believe it or not, I kinda like the “mistake” card best!  How’s them apples for a surprise!