Sunday, September 5, 2010

A Fortunate Mistake





Hi everyone! Have you ever noticed that sometimes a "mistake" turns out to be the best thing that ever happened? Ok ...it's not like I won the lottery or anything because of a mistake but I did end up with some pretty good looking flowers! I was playing with some distress mists when I was trying to decide what colour to mist my flowers for this LO. I was spraying on a discarded piece of cardstock and I had first tried a blue mist which I discarded as too dark. I then decided to spritz my flowers with a vintage photo/bronze Perfect pearls mix { I'm cheap and mix my own colours!] ...but I wasn't very careful and the wet edge of my vintage photo flower touched against the still wet puddle of sapphire chip mist.At first I was dismayed but then I really liked the effect as the blue spread across the vintage photo ...so ended up doing all the tips of my flowers like it...a FORTUNATE mistake! These pics were taken last week when Rob and I went for a romantic night for our 20 th Anniversary.We had rented a suite at the beautiful Candlelite Bay Inn in nearby York Hrb. After a fantastic supper we decided to go for a stroll on the beach. As we sat on a couple of large rocks admiring the view of the ocean I happened to glance down and saw this grey rock with the shape of a heart in quartz running through it ! I couldn't believe it ...definitely a sign to us ...a sign of love ! I thought it was a pretty wonderful omen to find on a romantic stroll on your twentieth anniversary ...don't you? Everything except for the blue flowers , the blue string pearls and the TH inks are from SCRATHAT's July kit www.scrapthat.ca . Thanks for popping by!
PS. The rock now resides in my garden!

7 comments:

  1. This is so Gorgeous!!!!!!!1 I love the fabulous colors!!!!!! Stunning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  2. Wow this is absolutely stunning love your flowers and I too love to make my own glimmer mist . Michelle York Hbr. is such a beautiful spot and how lucky of you to find that stone .
    Happy Anniversary to you both
    Marilyn

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  3. This is so beautiful! Love the rich colors. Those flowers are amazing!

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  4. What a lovely page! Such clever photography too.

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  5. Michelle..your details are stunning! This layout is gorgeous. But..you know what I love about you. Your writing and journaling is so honest and pure. You can tell your just an amazing lady who loves life and family by the way you journal. Your stories are so touching,the fun layouts are too funny...I love reading them..they brighten my day!

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  6. PRETTY florals! Shhh...when you make a mistake just pretend you MEANT to do that! LOL~ Nice blog :D

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  7. Found your blog from the Scrap That interview. Am so glad I did. I love reading your comments and your pages are all so beautiful. That is an amazing story about the rock. Wishing you many more happy years together!

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