Sometimes it's hard.

I'd really like to scrapbook more in 2013.

Apart from the obvious reasons for scrapbooking (which are recording memories for myself and my family, and because I enjoy it)  it is becoming obvious that I have a little, shall we say... issue...with buying pretty paper. Even when I'm not scrapbooking much at all, like in 2012, I still like to buy pretty paper....lots of pretty paper, and storage is now becoming an issue :)

So, five layouts per month are now on my to-do list, and I'm going to try really hard to make that many each month. Wish me luck?

Here is number one for 2013...appropriately named "sometimes it's hard" ;)

This photo has been printed and sitting on my desk for almost 12 months, so it was an easy target to get onto a scrapbook page :)

Once I'd picked out a background paper...So Sweet from Echo Park's new collection Love Story...I reached into my little containers of leftover embellishments that I've been telling you about, and found this sticker which I think is by Basic Grey ( can I hear a WOOOHOOOO  for stash busting!)

I let the colours in it dictate my colour scheme for the layout...and love how they worked :)

You should be able to read the journaling if you click on the image. This photo hurts my heart a little, but scrapbooking for me is about keeping it real, and recording the good as well as the not-so-good. Life is not always sunshine and lollipops, right?

Best go and clean off my desk...I forgot how messy it gets when I scrapbook :)

Have a great evening...and a FANTASTIC week!

TTFN xxx