Today was a testament to my tenacity in crafting.  I was making a card for our niece’s wedding.  It’s about 95 degrees outside and 100% humidity.  I’m not sure if that had anything to do with my issues, but it definitely didn’t help.  I was heat embossing a large dress stamp that had the words to “I am Pretty” all over the dress.  I used detail embossing powder by Ranger (a new bottle), and Versamark ink.  The ink worked great and the powder covered the image.  As soon as the heat tool started changing the image, it became clear that I had a problem.  Instead of the image raising, it soaked into the paper.  I used black embossing powder and I ended up with a matt black image that was flat on the paper, like the embossing powder had absorbed into the paper fibers.  How that was possible, I’m not sure.  I still think it had something to do with the heat and humidity combination, but I’m really not sure.  In the end, I had to stamp and emboss the image seven times.  I should have quit after the second one, but I was not going to give up.

When it was time to embellish my card, I decided to use a thin gold rope that had matt and shiny gold fibers intertwined.  I knew it would fray, of course it would fray.  So I tried burning the end.  I couldn’t stop it from turning black (even though I wasn’t directly in the flame) and it still frayed.  I tried using the Fray Stoppa from Joanns.  It didn’t Stoppa anything.  It still frayed.  In the end, I used both methods and tried pressing the ends of each side together so you couldn’t really see the fraying.

On top of that, when I sat down to do videos today (I did two of them), I bumped my head on the camera, pushing it back on the tripod.  Because I moved the camera, both videos have some footage where I’m out of frame.  That nearly put me over the edge.  I’m seriously ready to scream.  It’s been a rough day but I persevered, and isn’t that the name of the game?

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