We all have. We have created the perfect scrapbooking page and we sit back and gaze at it with pride in our eyes. You know the feeling of pride one can only feel when they have spent more than an hour on a page and we KNOW we did a great job. We read our diary and then the date jumps out that we use the year 2004 and this is 2006. Or we have moved our hand across the page after writing the last word and created a smear. Don’t panic and don’t tear up the page, fixing scrapbooking mistakes is an easy thing to do!
What I’ve discovered is that there is no too big or too small scrapbooking error that can’t be fixed without anyone knowing it happened. Misspellings and incorrect dates tend to be my number one mistake. If it’s just a date or heading that’s wrong, I take a piece of solid scrapbooking paper, cut it in a unique way, and glue it over the error. Voila, you have a blank slate to write on. If she’s in the middle of writing, I take the opportunity to add stickers or other embellishments in the middle of my journal and write around. If I do stain the writing or stamp, I usually cover it with an embellishment or stain other areas of the writing and try to give the page an overall worn look.
It can also be frustrating when a picture, die cut, or scrapbook paper tears. Once again, embellishments can do a great job. If you cover the tear with scrapbook paper or the scrapbook page with a sticker, no one will ever know the tear was there. Keep in mind that if you add an embellishment in one place, you will most likely have to add scrapbooking embellishments in another place or it may look out of place.
It is through mistakes that I have been able to use my creativity to create an even better page than the previous one. It forces me to think outside the box. So, don’t think of them as scrapbooking mistakes, think of them as scrapbooking challenges. You should also know that no matter what challenge you’re facing, there’s a solution online if you can’t think of one yourself.