Decisions made...

I've been thinking for a while now of starting a blog. A scrapbooking blog to be precise.

I knew very little about scrapbooking a couple of years ago when I bought a goody box from a paper store and made my first tentative steps into the world of 12x12 cardstock, patterned paper and brads. Pretty much all I knew was that I loved the look of the patterned papers, and I love photos too, so it seemed the perfect combination.

Nowadays I have a scrapbook filled with layouts, more patterned paper than most non-scrappers would ever know what to do with, and a long suffering boyfriend who simply rolls his eyes when I pull out my camera again or he finds me clicking through an online scrap store.

And I have to say that most of what I've learned about scrapbooking has come through the wonderful online community and spending a LOT of time looking at other scrappers blogs.

So here goes... it's a new year and I've just had a birthday, so I'm feeling it's the perfect time to try new things. I'm going to begin my blog!

The first thing I'm going to share is a layout I've created for the sketch challenge on a favourite blog of mine, http://sarahscardsltd.blogspot.com/. I love this blog and this is the first time I've attempted their sketch challenge. The photo isn't great... I need to work on getting the lighting etc right for photographing my layouts. I hope you like it though.... :-)