Video: Saving a Card with a Great Sentiment

Daniel West

Hey there! Daniel here with a great way to salvage blunders we all make in our workspaces. I promise you no awe-inspiring new trick. But I can assure you, the stamp set I use to fix my happy accidents will knock your socks off! Affirmation Messages features some super whimsical and funky fonts accompanied by retro graphics. 

Watch the video below to see how this card came to be. Or click HERE to watch on YouTube.

To create this card, I laid down the Sunflower Field Heroscape layers in Green Apple, then Pine, Butter Bar, Caramel and Cup O' Joe inks. I stamped down the Shine/Sun sentiment from the Affirmation Messages set. Next, I arrayed the farm scene out in my Hero Arts Mini MISTI and stamped it all down with Intens-ified Black Ink. I created a cloudy sky with the Summer Sky ink and a blender brush. Then, I noticed I had messed up the panel by mixing the blue and yellow inks. Also, the sun can't be seen so clearly through clouds. So I grabbed one of the sentiments I had stamped and fussy cut and popped it up over the sun. I saved my project!!

Affirmation Messages

For my second card, I masked out a scene using the Welcome Neighbor stamp set. But when I blended some blue up from the houses, black ink from the mask I used smeared up into the sky. Never fear! I finished coloring my project with Copics, blended in some Wet Cement on the bottom, finished the sky and covered my blunder with another fussy-cut sentiment!

If you watch the video, you'll find a third bonus card that I made error free!  Well, almost!! I used a stamp set Hero Arts no longer carries. So to fix it, I recommended a very suitable replacement called Winter Forest Animals! It just goes to show you, mistakes are just opportunities to innovate!

Thanks for hanging out with me a bit! I hope you get a chance to mess up a project and fix it today!

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CM413 Affirmation Messages
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CM411 Sunflower Field HeroScape
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CM238 Welcome Neighbor
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CG781 Birch Forest Background Cling
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CM377 Winter Forest Animals
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AF435 Intens-ified Black Ink Pad
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AF426 Pool Party Reactive Ink
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AF429 Blue Hawaii Reactive Ink
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AF432 Grape Slush Reactive Ink
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AF207 Butter Bar Mid-Tone Shadow Ink
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AF214 Cup O' Joe Mid-Tone Shadow Ink
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AF332 Caramel Bold Ink
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AF344 Green Apple Bold Ink
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AF342 Pine Bold Ink
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AF338 Summer Sky Bold Ink
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GW101 Precision Glue
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PS400 Hero Hues Dove White Top Folded...
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MT310 MISTI Mini Hero Black
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MT300 MISTI Regular Hero Black
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  • Leanne in Cali

    Love this video! Thanks for sharing!!

  • Liz

    We’ve needed these wonderful large sentiment stamps. Nice cards! Thanks for introducing them!

  • Lagene

    Thanks for the video, great advice on salvaging booboos.

  • donna mikasa

    Great saves, Daniel—love the fussy cut sentiments, too!

  • Denise Bryant

    Awesome cards! Love that field of sunflowers!

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