How to Rescue Your Card Designs from Mistakes

If you’re new, or experienced, or anything like me (!) you have run into situations where you need to rescue your card from a blunder.

Let’s get Started:

Card Base: 5.5 x 8.5, scored and folded at 4.25

Border Layer: 5.5 x 4.25

Card Face:  5.5 x 4

Card Face:

I stamped the images in black Momento ink and coloured them with alcohol markers.

  Then I put this aside for a period of time,  trying to decide how to finish the piece. When I picked it back up again I realized it had been sitting too close to something messy –  there was a fine blue spatter in the upper right.  (Probably from cleaning a stencil, and simple carelessness with my work!). How to salvage the time and materials…. ???

I added both large and small drops of paint above the brush.  I used a fine liner to outline the drops and a blue alcohol marker to fill them in.  I also added small dots of blue marker here and there to bridge between the fine spatter and the larger drops.   It worked –  I had successfully camouflaged my error!

I carried this one step further by creating puddles of paint under the brush. (There were puddles around the paint pot,  but not under this paintbrush).

I used a white gel pen to add accents here and there in the scene.

I put the card face into my stamp positioner and added the sentiment.

I cut the card face into three panels,  1 ⅓” each.

Assembly

I glued the border layer to the card base.

I glued the three pieces of the card face onto this, spacing evenly.

Final Thoughts:

I love Anita Jeram’s work,  and was so happy with the images as placed and coloured. (I don’t pretend to be an expert with any form of colouring, so when I get something that I’m satisfied with, I’m happy!).   

Then I was dismayed to notice the spatter,  and finally, happy again when the problem was resolved.

Happy – dismayed – happy.  Sounds like a movie theme!  

I’m so happy that I decided to rescue this card.😆

Supplies: (and links where possible)

   I have listed which products I have used, and where they may be purchased. It’s a huge marketplace; in most instances, there are multiple sources and many alternatives.

Stamps: Paint the Town, Colorado Craft Co., 

Versafine Onyx, Simon Says Stamp

Memento Ink: Stampin’ Up!

Alcohol Markers:

     Stampin’ Blends: Stampin’ Up!

     Copics:  Wallacks

Fineliners: Amazon

White Gel Pen: Arteza,  Amazon

Adhesive: Tombow Aqua, Michaels

Card Base & Card Face: Accent 100 lb., Amazon