When Its Just A Hot Mess!!!

So sometimes you have a great idea.

A really great idea.

You get excited about it.

And it starts out well.

Kinda.....

I started with a piece of paper that was not my fav

out of my CKC kit.

I put it in my CKC kit, because I wanted it to get used.

So I pulled it out.

I picked out this completely fun picture of 

my grandbabe and I.

I LOVE THIS PICTURE!!

He is so amazing!!!

So I have seen a lot of circles done with sewing machine,

and I've been seeing pen drawn type circles on patterned paper 

lately,

So I decided to give it a go.

So I pulled out my Tim Holtz Distress Markers

and started drawing circles on using the thin side of the markers

and 

then used the larger felt side.

I sprayed and let the paint run.

I liked it.

A lot.

I added my layers and picture,

My button border.

Still liking.

And then......

It happened.

Made me wonder what I was thinking.

WHAT WAS I THINKING??

I added BIG sprays of mist.

It made polka dots.

Ummmm......

I didn't like so much.

Hmmmmm......

But I LOVE the picture.....

And the layers.....

And the Circles.....

But those dots.....

And the Washi just doesn't work.....

They are just a problem for me.

A PROBLEM.

But I don't want to scrap the whole thing.

I don't.

But those misty dots.....

What WAS I thinking?

So I had seen something on Shimelle's blog

by Ashli Oliver, pen worker extraordinaire.

So it's a little hard to see,

but I added some pen work around the misted dots.

It helped. 

I'm gonna keep it.

Its a good lesson for me.

I don't hate it.

I LOVE the picture, 

so I'm keeping it.

Then when all else fails.....

Instagram!

=)

So what do you when it just doesn't work?

Do you scrap it and start again?

Make it work?

Hmmm.....

this was a great lesson for me.

Have a Blessed and Beautiful,

Crafty Kind of Day ~~