journaling/lettering mistakes
From Sharon in Jenks, OK:
I LOVE your hand-lettering.
Have you ever just totally messed something up? If so, how did you fix it? Can you show us some of your worst examples?
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Yes, I HAVE totally messed things up! If it’s a really bad mess up, I’ll likely start over. If it’s something small, I’m more likely to cover it up and move on. If it can be salvaged without starting over, I’ll salvage it.
Here are some examples:
When trying to journal at a recent crop, I kept messing up because I was distracted by fun conversation. Twice, I had to cover my mistakes with pieces of paper. After that, I decided to save the rest of the journaling for when I got home. (Still need to finish that!) Under my Ott lite, you can see the small slips of paper that cover my mistakes. But under regular lighting, they’re hardly noticeable. Also… another trick to help disguise a coverup box is to draw a box around the word, close to the edge of the cover-up. I did that on the word ‘presents’ in this layout, and then to further disguise it, I drew boxes around other words on the page so it would look intentional.
Here’s another example of the same trick. The box with our names and “15″ in it is actually a cover-up box, covering up a mistake I made underneath.
But I’m not a perfectionist. For example, in the LibraryFest layout below, it drives me NUTS that my journaling on the left-hand side goes up, and that the title on the right-hand side goes down. ARGH!!
But I’m not going to redo it. It’s not that big of a deal, and besides, as my scrapbooking hero Ali Edwards says, “It is OKAY.” 
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