Kim Kesti
First off, I admit to having a love/hate relationship with glue dots. I love how they stick to anything, and I hate how they stick to anything. Right?
Are you with me?
Well, read on about my latest crafting blunder…
I have a delightful stack of plastic art bins filled with all kinds of goodies. They hold a lot of tiny, cute and useful things. One day I reached into the cupboard and pulled out my bin of eyelets. Much to my surprise the bin right under it came out also. The only problem was, I wasn’t holding that particular bin.
Yep, you can see it already…the entire contents spilled willy-nilly all over the floor. Murphy’s Law says that it was, indeed, the fullest bin; my brads. Sigh. I ran my hands over the bottom of the eyelet bin and lo and behold – a glue dot! One tiny glue dot had the sticking power to pull the whole bin of brads along with it. Wow.
A few hours later (with a little reluctant help from my kids) I had them all picked up and resorted.
Order has been restored (whew). I have to admit; they ended up being sorted better than before. In fact, I was so inspired by the fact that I own a brad of every shade of every color known to man, that I created this card:
All’s well that ends well.
Do you have a crafting blunder story? Tell me about it and I’ll pick three winners to win a fun assortment of American Crafts brads! All comments must be received by midnight (MDT) on Thursday, Aug. 12.
Kim Kesti,
Paper Crafts Go-to Gal
P.S. Feeling inspired by my crafting blunder? Paper Crafts launched their August Gallery Challenge last Monday, and it’s themed “Buttons, Brads & Ribbon”. Whether you want to submit a card with just brads (like mine) or a project with buttons, brads and ribbon, you have until midnight (MDT) on Monday, August 16. Click HERE
to upload your entries today!
Oh no! Luckily the kids helped you out.
My biggest blunder/s have related to using metallic ink on cards. It never really dries so I end up with gold fingerprints all over my card. Not nice when you’ve spent the last hour or so creating!
Thankfully I can’t think of any blunders. I guess I need to keep my fingers crossed.
I don’t think there is a crafter alive who hasn’t played 52 Pick Up with a caontainer of brads! Anyway, my biggest blunder recently was cutting a two-sided paper without checking the orientation of the pattern on the B side. Turns out that I cut the A side (a dot) in such a way, that I couldn’t use the pattern on the B side the way I had intended and of course I didn’t have another piece!
I have felt compelled to buy every helpful gadget I can afford. Doubted mywisdom when creating a card and needed a whole to poke a brad into. I used my pretty pink poker — only I placed the card on my palm instead of my craft mat. Yep, you guessed correct. A rather deep puncture wound to my palm. It hurt like the Dickens for a couple of days, but the card’s recipient really liked the gift.
I have this little carrying case that has three tiers in it that I keep all my little mini beads in. Well one day I went to pick it up and the handle came off, down went the case. I had about 40 to 50 different colors of beads in that thing, to this day I am slowly but surly sorting them out. Anyone want to come over and help me sort through a million mini beads?
When I first began to play in my art journal I closed it after doing a few entries with acrylic paint (the paint was dry). When I went to open it back up after a couple of days my pages were stuck together. Now I put wax paper in between the pages that I use acrylic paint on and leave it in there for awhile.
Oh my goodness! I spilled my containers more times than I wish to count until I finally switched over to “Craft Mate” containers with the individual snapping lids and the awesome scoop bottoms found in the beading departments. Love them (and the absence of those particular blunders)!
So my latest “blunder” happened when I covered an entire 3×4 inch magnet I made with glossy accents. After painstakingly making sure every bubble was popped, I had second thoughts about leaving it on my dining room table where my cat might decide to take a nap. On the way to moving it to a safer spot, it slipped and did a faceplant into my carpet. I didn’t know which to save first; my carpet which had a mixture of bleeding green and blue ink with a thick helping of glossy accents or my precious project. After about an hour I was thankfully able to save both. Ugh! Just when I thought I was done…
Well Ms Kim.. your poor little finger first and then a scraptragedy! I am so happy the kiddos helped you get them all back because they helped to inspire that adorable card! I am loving it!
Blessings friend
xoxoxox
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OH I forgot to mention… My entire scraplife is a blunder most the time… I drop stuff like paint on layouts or card all the time and then they turn out to be “happy accidents” Once I dropped a newly painted (chipboard) butterfly on a card and when I lifted it up.. it was such a beautiful painted outline kind of image that I just left it there, Happy accident still have the original painted butterfly on my desk.. waiting for it’s happy accident
Mine was much like yours, but it was sewing straight pins.
You can imagine the search was difficult to say the least. Constantly being stuck with the ones that had disappeared into the carpet. Just as you thought you found a little treasure to add to the collection, the hidden one would get you.
Hours! later we were finally straight pin free.
Most of my projects star out with a definate plan and then something happens and I have to change course. Most of the time it works out and I will get a compliment (maybe only because I look so sad and hopeful!) and I end up making up a story about how this is how I had planned the project the whole time. Who needs to hear about the little things to go wrong?
I glued my sleeve to my 12×12 paper with my hot glue gun. Enough said! Ha ha!
I am soooooo mad at myself that I didn’t take a picture of this scrappy-blunder-disaster JUST a few mornings ago when it happened but my Mommy instincts kicked in over my scrapper ones! LOL
So I was busy cleaning up my scrap space in the dining area while my Brody boy…. 2yr old was sitting at the counter eating a blueberry muffin his Daddy gave him before leaving out the door to work. Seriously less than 2 mins is all it takes….. heck…. 2 seconds is all it takes to land that boy into trouble. I turned around and my son had run his muffin through my QK Revolution that was sitting out on the counter. Flattened it like a pancake and muffin was everywhere. It was a sight. Of course….. even though I was irritated to say the least…. part of me was kinda proud he knew what to do with it! HA HA HA HA!!!!
Probably laying a project down on an open ink pad is my favorite trick!
I am trying to remind self to close the ink after each use.
I blunder everyday I create. I drop things mostly. I have splattered paint on cardstock that didn’t mean to get splattered. I have cut it up and used it on other projects. Loooks gooood! Thanks for a good post!!!
I am a victim of the spilling as well. I have a tool box with a snap top lid. In the top is every brad, small button, paperclip and small embellishment I have. I thought the lid was snapped closed when I picked it up and EVERTHING fell out. Ugh. Sadly, this has happened more than once. You would think I would learn!!
I love adding stitching to my cards, but it doesn’t work so well when I forget to open up the card when I start sewing. Yeah, I’ve sewn the the front to the back together.
Oh, dear….haven’t we all experienced a similar disaster? (But your card is smashing!) My most recent disaster was with a little hinged case of googly eyes. I love putting googly eyes on the faces of people and animals when I making a fun, cute card. I had repurposed a brad case (the kind that looks like a mini compact) as the home for my googly eye collection. But, when I opened the case the other day, I had it upside down, and they all went all over the place. I’m still picking them up. And sometimes, I have the strangest sensation that I’m being watched! ;O)
When I do stuff like that, we call it a “craftastrophe”. Been there, done that with the brads (thankfully some of them were able to be picked up with a magnet). I have so many cups of tea drown a just-completed card, it’s sad. But when I killed my laptop with the tea, I knew it was time for a travel mug!
Uuuh…sometimes when I use my craft knife I forget to move the project out from under it. And then everything looks like a slasher movie and I have to start over.
I love to add stitching to my cards, but half of the time I end up stitching the card closed and once I stitched my sleeve to the card – DUH!!
The largest blunder I ever had was scattering paper all over the floor. I have an organizer that holds my large scraps by color and patterned paper. Of course, I had to tip over the organizer and you know what happened next ! Ooops.
Well, I guess I don’t feel as bad as I once did about my ‘blunders’…seeing others have had some minor catastrophes too
I keep my ink pads upside down in a plastic set of bin drawers. Most every time I take one pad out two or three come out with it and (thankfully) fall onto the hardwood floor–ink side down (of course).
I just finished making a card that turned into a happy blunder. I cut the cardstock 5.5″ x 11″ as ususal. I planned an offset fold and scored at 3.25″. Got the card finished, it was perfect. Addressed my regular sized envelope and only then realized that my card was 5.5″ x 5.5″. Do I have any square envelopes? Of course not. I figured out the necessary dimensions, made a pattern from scrap paper and cut an envelope out of printed vellum. Voila, the perfect envelope for the card. My daughter (the recipient) was quite impressed and I must admit, so was I.
Before I got into cardmaking and bought a large desk, I scrapbooked on a plastic, folding table. I was trying to staple a picture to my layout but did not have a long-reach stapler. Somehow I stapled my entire layout to the table. My husband came to the rescue with some pliers. I was able to cover the extra holes on my layout with some patterned paper.
I found my blog post from 2007 about the incident: http://1200somemiles.blogspot.com/2007/08/scrapbooking-mishap.html
LOL OMGosh I am ROTFL because that happed to me 2 weeks ago with all my brads and eyelets and a few other things but it was a small shoebox sized box that fell with all that stuff in it and all I could do was laugh and then I started thinking of that Tom Hanks movie “Money Pit” when the bath tub falls through the floor and he just stands there and laughs that funny laugh he does and my dear husband thought I was going mad! LOL TFS and good luck all!
I picked up a free, no-sew, quick pattern at a craft store for a scarecrow on a broom: a decoration for our front door. I knew I would have to hurry after dinner to be finished so I could watch my favorite tv program. I got every thing together before dinner so it would be a breeze. When I got ready to glue the fabric scarecrow front to the back, I discovered I had forgotten to get the glue. I ran to the craft room grabbed “tack it over and over” instead of the tacky glue I had intended to get. While I was applying the glue, I was not careful to keep it off the kitchen table, tacky glue is never a problem to clean up. I had some skips and a little too much in some areas so I just used my fingers to smooth it out, still thinking it was tacky glue. As it started drying, I discovered my mistake, everything was sticking to my hands. First, I grabbed a paper towel. It stuck to some of my fingers. Then I thought of the naphtha (lighter fluid) over the refrigerator but it was behind a basket of flowers. Now I am stuck to some of the flowers and the basket. I got the can with the other hand and peeled the flowers off myself and proceeded to rub the fluid on my hands. I got it off of me and then went after the table. What a mess. It took days, literally to get it almost all off. One small spot is there to this day after 5 years. I don’t want to scrape it with a knife and that’s all I haven’t tried. The whole time, I could do nothing but laugh at the ridiculousness of the whole mess. I waited until the next day, took it apart and used the tacky glue. It was adorable and I still use it every fall. I missed my program, of course and I haven’t tried a no-sew project again. Sewing is so much easier–and faster!