Happy Little Accidents

Often when I am making a scrapbook page, something happens that I didn't plan and forces me to be more creative.  In this case, I thought I had lined things up so that when I cut out the holes for the pictures to show through, they would be centered (left to right).  After I cut them out I realized there was double the space on the left side than on the right side!  What to do?  I found a coordinating paper and cut a border -- looks like I had planned it that way.

A similar thing happend with the journaling block.  I thought I had everything lined up so it would cut to the right size -- but it didn't!  When I slid it behind the cut-out window, there was 1/2" of empty space at the top!  So - I found a scrap that I could match up to the journaling block at the top, and taped the two pieces together on the back. Now I didn't have an empty space, but I still could see the join line.  A couple strips from the coordinating paper solved that.  Some floral embellishments from the same coordinating paper finished the look.

I might have put a page border anyway, but without my "mistake" in cutting, I never would have thought to put the mini-borders above and below the journaling -- and it really adds a nice touch.