it should’ve been a cinch

Do you know that feeling of excitement when you come across a project you just have to recreate?

Like right now.  Like immediately.

And then you pin it. But that pin is unnecessary.  It’s perfunctory.  Not because it’s superficial.  Or you’re indifferent. Quite the opposite.  You see, the pin is strictly to share with others because this particular inspiration project will be recreated on the very same day it was pinned …

… so you grab your keys and  your sunglasses and run out the door to gather supplies …

And at the craft store everything comes together like clock work.  Like it’s meant to be.  Like this project has just been waiting patiently for you stumble across it on Pinterest or at a link party …

And then to top it all off, you find the perfect way to put your own stamp of creativity on it …

… and when I say “stamp” I mean that literally …

When you get home and you get started right away ...




And then you’re patting yourself on the back.  And you’re high fiving yourself.  There may even be a cringe-worthy fist bump or two because in your own mind you are just so very clever …


But then …




After all that back patting and high fiving and cringe-worthy fist bumping you realize things have gone terribly, terribly, and horribly wrong.


And your back patting and high fiving and cringe-worthy fist bumping self remembers that the tutorial used paper … not card stock …  like I did.




And you remember that the tutorial said to use a very thin layer of Mod Podge and not to glop it on … like I did.


So my humbled non-back-patting-high-fiving-cringe-worthy-fist-bumping-self went back to the drawing board and came up with these …




And why did it work this time?




Perhaps because my back-patting-high-fiving-cringe-worthy-fist-bumping self went back and spent time reading through the tutorial carefully …




And perhaps because instead of using card stock paper I made color copies of my coveted card stock images on light weight paper stock …




… and then I kept the Mod Podge application oh so very thin.  On the back of the paper and then on top …




To finish it all off, they got a few coats of shellac …


And to finish me off?  I’m slurping, sipping, swigging, and swilling …


Let the back patting and high five-ing and cringe-worthy fist bumping commence .... again.






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