Scrapbook Saturday

I’m telling you, it happens EVERY time! I ALWAYS screw something up. 

So, earlier in the week, while watching tv, I designed a title in the Cricut Design Space on my computer. Simple. The next day, all I had to do was cut it. Done, no problems at all.(Side note: that tip about rolling the mat to remove the cardstock works like a charm. It just pulls away easily.) 

When I finished the cutting, of course, I immediately put everything away and cleaned up from that. I actually told myself, “maybe you should wait until you are finished with the page.” And then I told myself, “But what can go wrong at this point?” It’s not like I messed up the title with the very last bit of paper I had—that’s usually what happens. So I went ahead and shut down the Cricut and put everything away. 

Everything’s rolling along. I get out my xyron to run the letters through. Now I know from previous bad experiences that this is where things can go awry. Invariably, the xyron runs out in the middle of one of the letters. You know, causing half of it to be sticky while the other half is stuck permanently on the top of the letter. It’s happened more times than I can count. But it wasn’t going to happen this time. I pulled out the adhesive cartridge and looked to see if it looked like there was enough left on it. I was using the 500 (if you are a Xyron user you'll know what that means. If not--it's the specific machine), so I couldn’t really tell. I just crossed my fingers and went for it.

Yay! It worked! For once, I was actually able to make a title without any issues. At least that’s what thought—until I went to adhere the letters. OMGosh! I couldn’t believe it. I put one of the letters in the xyron WRONG! Now the sticky was on the top side of the letter!!

There was no way I wanted to get everything back out to cut just one letter. What to do? Well, I had no choice but to stick the letter down on top of the exact same card stock and hand cut around it. And it looks like I hand cut around it. Not perfectly smooth like it was before I messed it up. It’s going to have to do. Even that was a bit of a time-consuming extra step. 

And then, this happened:

I dropped one of the letters that had a glue dot on it.

When I pulled it off, it ripped the paper. You might think, "No big deal, it will probably be covered up." Well, no, I'm using a transparency on this, so it will stick out like a sore thumb. (What does that even mean?) 

There's always a solution, it just adds to the time factor.

I used a marker to "color" it. It's not perfect, but "good enough." At least it's not a glaring mistake.

Why me?? Every. Single. Time! And scrapbooking is my calming activity. Except when it isn't!

PS Feel free to share your scrapbooking mishaps with me and I’ll do a blog post about them. Please tell me that I'm not the only one!