Murphy's Law

Today I was going to do it; I was finally going to attempt my first mini-album and work along with Kathryn Kreiger's Crop Out Cancer event. I pre-cut all my paper. I pre-cut all my chipboard. I messed up my punched tabs and had to re-do but since I was doing this the day before the event, I got to re-do them and not get behind. I even pre-scored my pieces so that if I messed those up (scoring and I don't get along) I wouldn't have to re-cut while Kathryn got ahead of me during the class.

The one thing I didn't do? I didn't pre-tape all my pieces. And you guessed it, about thirty minutes in to the three and a half hour class, I ran out of double-sided tape.

You can be sure that in the future, I will make sure I have plenty of Scor-Tape or Miracle Tape on hand before I start a project because I did continue on with the class, using Scotch Quick Dry glue instead. There's a reason they tell you not to use glue on paper and I found it out today. It makes the paper wet and wavy and does not dry in nice, flat pieces - no matter how evenly you try to spread it.









Also, the glue gets kind of everywhere. And you don't always see it to get it off before it dries.

So I have the experience of making my first album - minus the cover because a migraine hit before the class finished, but I have my manual, so I can finish that up later if I want to. But I also have the experience of learning what not to do when making an album. And how bad it can look when you do it wrong.








So now you know some of the things not to do. When I get it right, I'll be sure to let you know. These are the adventures of a newbie scrapper, helping you not to make the mistakes I do.