My cat knocked over a full bottle of black ink onto my March spread yesterday

I had to carefully blot the whole mess with paper towels, which left a weird, blurry ghost of my weekly layout that I'm now calling 'abstract art' and rolling with it, but has anyone found a good way to salvage a page after a major spill?

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taylor_patel12d agoMost Upvoted

Ugh, I feel this so hard - I had a coffee spill turn my entire weekly spread into a brown swamp last year and I just had to scrap the whole page (the worst feeling). White gel pen is definitely the way to go, it gives the whole mess a cool intentional vibe that nobody has to know was just panic damage control.

the_nancy1mo ago

Turn it into a haunted house theme for October. Your ghost layout is just early. Honestly, I'd probably trace over the blurry lines with a white gel pen to make it look intentional, call it a 'negative space' experiment, and never speak of the ink bottle again.

nancy_king291mo ago

My old art teacher would hate that white gel pen trick.

finley_shah641mo ago

My art teacher in 10th grade would have called that a "happy accident" and made us roll with it. I spilled black ink on a half finished portrait once and just turned the whole thing into a shadow monster eating the person's face. Got an A. The white gel pen save is totally valid, it's just fixing a problem with style.