3M: Friendship is ....

Welcome to the journey of an imperfect card that almost wasn't!

Creating this card was an 'everything is going wrong'

and taking what I thought was going to be 

unsalvageable to the salvageable!

Okay ... it's called Smoke and Mirrors ...  who am I kidding :)

Hi friends!

Today's card is for the 3M (3 Musketeers) card group

 that was invented by my good friend, Jeanette!

She invited Barb and myself to join her in this challenge

where we take turns chosing ONE image, mailing it,

and all 3 of us create a card using that same stamped image.

(I'd like to share we ONLY share images that are allowed by the company's angel policies!)

This month, Barb chose the image and it's a beauty!

Unfortunately, my card is not as I ran into a wee bit a lot of trouble.

What went wrong:

1. The first of three images was chewed up in the Scan 'n Cut.

Like 'the dog ate my homework' mangled!

2.  The second was traced way outside the scanned lines by the SNC

like a failed sobriety test - just NOWHERE close to being usable.

And that left me with one final image.

3. I used new to me alcohol based 'copic-like' markers

 and they are NO BUENO!

They leaked and feathered something awful 

and my floral colored image ended up looking like 

I watercolored it outside the lines... but I didn't!

SEE!

What went right!

1. I did my best to 'clean it up' by recoloring the image again, 

this time with copic markers

and blended/resaturated the image to move the old ink a bit.

2. I used the trusty white signo gel pen to clean up 

some of the outside feathering and add a little extra to the petals.

It's stil not perfect but it's better!

Here's the front of my completed card and it's using 

3. Pretty papers to compliment the image!

4.  A pop of pink from the rhinestones added to the flowers.

I normally don't show the inside of my cards 

so that the recipient can have a little surprise.

But for this card, here's the sweet sentiment that Barb sent.

and finally #5 ~ it fits into an A2 envelope perfectly!

I'm happy I was able to turn around this NAY to a YAY!

Perserverance :)

Thanks for reading this far if you've made it!

You can see Barb's card here and Jeanette's card here on their blogs.

Question time!

Do you have any tips on how you've salvaged a card?

I'd love to hear your ways that have worked for you.

If it were my stamp, I could have easily stamped another

but with just one image left, I'd love to hear your success stories!

I never know when I'll have another oopsie :)

Thanks for stopping by!