*WARNING*WARNING*WARNING...

what follows is a lesson in "what not to do" when you're scrapbooking.

MULTI-TASKING!

Normally I'm just fine doing 357 things at once. But when I scrapbook, I pretty much shut down my multi-tasking feature. This morning, I thought I could handle being on the phone AND using Glimmer Mist at the same time.

WRONG! Or as my children would say...epic fail!

Earlier this morning I had paper-pieced some Greeting Farm stamps, colored in their faces, and placed them on the NEW QK Composition Notebook. I tucked the QK Split Rail Fence behind the pieced images and added my sentiment on the notebook's label with the NEW QK Cotton Candy font.

No biggie so far.

Fast-forward to my phone call. My finished card is laying in front of me, and I'm on hold. On hold with no music! I decided my card needed just a little something more - a bit of shizzle, if you will. So I grabbed my Coffee Shop Glimmer Mist.

*BEEP*BEEP*BEEP* We interrupt this crafting monologue for an impending disaster!

Realizing I already had my pieced images in place, I quickly cut out a mask to cover each of them with. I even die-cut another composition notebook label to protect that too. I just wanted a splattered, Glimmer Mist effect around the edges of my card.

First mist from about 18" away...and it's looking good.

Second mist from about 12" away...and it's just about perfect.

Third and final mist from about 6" away...and the movement of air from the Glimmer Mist blew all three of my masks away, thereby covering my cowboy, cowgirl and notebook title.

ACK! And that's exactly what I screamed into the phone, right as someone took me off of hold! {The pharmacist was completely freaked out!}

Here is my finished disaster...

Since I made this card for the sponsors of the high school FFA chapter, I'm going to just go with it. It was actually pretty windy last week during the county fair so I'm adding to the inside..."a down-and-dirty thank you very much!".

I think it'll work, and no one will ever know. Unless you tell them! {wink, wink}

So please learn from my mistakes... 

1. Glimmer Mist first, if at all possible {it'd have been so easy in this instance}
2. Use sticky notes or Scotch Tape to secure your masks {duh Susan!}
3. Make your husband call in his own darn prescription refill {I'm blaming this all on him!}

I do love using the Composition Notebook as a card. It's big...5.25"x 7.125"...and the corners are perfectly rounded. You just run adhesive up both sides of the included spine, and lay the "pages" in place. 

So it's been an interesting day around here. Hope your Monday is going better than mine is! {LOL}

Everyone needs to mark their calendars for this coming Friday, April 30th at 5pm PDT. Because I'll be LIVE! over in the Scrapy Land Studio kicking off National Scrapbook Day 2010! More details to follow - so watch the blog this week.

Questions, ideas, or other scrap-tragedy stories to share, I hope you'll leave a comment here!

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