Growing in Unity Day 3

 Welcome back Unity friends.  I hope you have enjoyed my projects so far this week featuring the Succ-y without you stamp set.  This set was part of the August 2020 Whit-Kit, but you can still pick it up in the store, so it's not too late to grab it!!!

So for today's project I wanted to share with you this fun journal I made to keep track of my succulents in my garden. I started with this cute little book that I picked up in a package of 8 at the Target Dollar Spot.  It is 8 x 8 and the perfect size for making notes about my friends in the garden.

I started by stamping the image onto white carstock. I then colored the image with my COPIC markers.  I trimmed the cardstock down to 6 1/2 x 6 1/2.  I then edged the paper with some Distress Markers in complimentary colors.  I created a frame like border around the edge of the journal using this wonderful paper I received at Christmas this year.  (this paper is called Eucalyptus and for some reason people were saying it was the "unicorn" of pattern papers, so I had to ask for some for Xmas)  It is beautiful paper and complimentary to the colors that you find in succulents.

Now to show you what didn't work out...and how there are times when even your best project turns out a little succ-y and makes you pivot and go in a new direction.  This project was suppose to kick off my Growing In Unity week.  When I first started this project, I stamped and embossed the image in brown ink directly onto the cover of the journal.  I decided to emboss because the cover is a glossy texture.  What I didn't realize is that no matter how hard I tried and no matter what medium I used, the colors were not going to be smooth.  They turned into this weird sticky kind of mess.  When nothing was working, I put the project aside and moved on to the other things I wanted to create and share this week.  I just let my creative brain roll around with ideas of how I could fix it and figure out that I had to cover up the embossed image on the cover.  Here is how succ-y it looked...

I'm sharing this because it is so easy to get frustrated and think a project will not work out if the colors are off, or something isn't quite right.  I am a big believer in "make it work" from Project Runway.  Stamp the image again and do a coverup; just a part of it, or the whole thing like I did.  It is a great way to turn a project that you might think is headed to the garbage can into something that is worth saving!!

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Happy crafting....Lynda