Do 2 Mistakes equal something GREAT???

I don't throw much away... I give a lot of things I don't want, need or like away... but to throw something out... very rarely...so the other day I wanted to chill out... jet my mojo going into high speed... and so I did what I always do... create papers...  well these both went into the some other time pile... meaning that they were NOT GOOD...  I didn't like them at all... they were not what I was looking for at that time...

For some reason.. .they ended up on my work table... FUNNY how that kind of thing happens at times...  so I was cleaning up my work table today... as I had a project that I actually needed the whole table for... you will see it tomorrow... 

And these two pieces of paper that I had put in the NOT GOOD pile came together ... and I loved them together... they were just a perfect card for Simon Monday...  STAMPTEMBER.... I did something already... but needed to do something else...  and this was it... 

Okay... here they are...  totally different look for me... but I love it...

Well what do you think... yea or nay??? 

My first piece of paper was the background... and it was a piece of kraft paper... 

........and I had stenciled on it trying to match up the design.. .

......and had messed it up... ..

.....So I tried hiding it with some copper inka gold...  t

.....that didn't work either... 

.......so I picked up my texture paste and tried that on top...

......and it picked up the blue...

LOL...

oh well..

NOT GOOD... 

 

Oh well what is a gal suppose to do... try something else... right??? 

 

 

So I had picked out some of favorite fall stamps... and two of there were Fred Mullets... I love his stamps... so very real and GREAT... 

 

I wanted to do a relief... so grabbed my embossing pad... and the stamp had not been cleaned... guilty as charged...  I hardly ever clean a stamp... 

 

So when I stamped it onto white paper... it was this really pretty shade of a light teal... 

 

so I went with it... 

 

Too FAINT...  not going to work...

 

Then I picked up the teasel stamp... and brown archival ink... and stamped on top of it... just to see the teasel stamp... 

 

NOT GOOD..

 

But  I knew that before I even did that... put it into the pile... of NOT GOOD

 

So that is how these two came together... 

 

I tore the teasel and rosemary paper... and then edged it with some distress ink...  and the other... just cut out the section I loved... 

put them together... and made the tag ...

 

LIFE IS A JOURNEY.....

Not a DESTINATION....

 

 

So appropriate don't you think...  ??? 

 

So I think I took 2 mistakes and made something that at least I like... whether it is GREAT??/ is questionable... but I do like it... and the colors are right where I love them today... 

 

 

 

 

The whole card...  with a piece of cheese cloth as ribbon... LOL... 

 

The textured paste and the background... 

 

 

Thanks so very much for stopping by for a visit today... I really appreciate your visits... hope you will also go over to Simon and see all the pretties there... 

 

I also really appreciate all the comments you have been leaving me... I cherish each and every one of them...  thanks a million y'all....  (That's southern for you ALL... ) 

 

Have a great time today... and create something wonderful for someone special...  that also includes YOU... 

 

Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie