As I watched my daughter in her weekly swimming lesson yesterday, I began to wonder if she would ever learn to swim! We have been going for over a year now and she still won’t put her ears under the water, it’s sooooo frustrating. A few tentative kicks here and there showed me she was slowing getting the hang of it. My Mum always says ’she’ll get there in the end’.
As I was reading my Creating Keepsakes magazine whilst she was having lessons I began to think how far my scrapping has developed since I first started in 2004. My first layouts were literally mounted photographs with embellishments stuck on the page and the name of the subject and date. Now I am cutting circles, embossing and using lots of different techniques and textures.
If you’ve only just begun to scrap let your scrapping style develop at its own pace. I’ve learnt that my style changes from year to year and even from layout to layout. So relax if you think that your layout isn’t perfect, it has been scrapped and the memory recorded so chill out and enjoy.









