Scrapbook Your Way

Alissa Williams is a central Illinois librarian and longtime scrapbooker who found herself at a crossroads this year. With her daughters growing up, fewer photos to work with, and a family health crisis that turned everything upside down, she needed a more flexible approach to memory keeping. Her solution: a monthly 6x8 pocket page project that captures everyday stories without the pressure of 12x...

Bre Randon is a digital scrapbooker who got her start in the mid-90s printing clip art on a dot matrix-era printer and taping photos to homemade paper frames. Twenty-five years later, she creates emotional, colorful, detail-rich layouts in Photoshop while working full-time, raising a middle schooler, and serving as a Simple Scrapper creative team member. In this My Way episode, she shares how her...

Kelly Wardlow is an engineer-turned-designer outside of Philadelphia who brings an analytical mind and a deeply personal mission to her digital scrapbooking practice. As the creator of Connection Keeping at Sweet Shop Designs, Kelly designs the kits and templates she actually uses to document life with her four kids in a 200-plus-page family yearbook each year. Her origin story as a designer is ro...

Leanne Millo has tried nearly every Project Life format in the span of just a few years. From her first 12x12 album to 9x12 pocket pages to 10x8 and now Creative Memories strap-hinge albums, she's been on a mission to find the system that lets her document weekly life in a single album per year. Her story is one of constant refinement, creative problem-solving, and a deep belief that everyday...

Heather Cerulo is a fourth grade teacher who has been scrapbooking since the late '90s, when she was photocopying her mom's pictures at Staples just to have something to put on the page. As our September 2026 featured artist, she joins us for this My Way episode to share how becoming a mom to her two-year-old daughter, Abigail, transformed her approach to memory keeping and brought a new...

Lauren Hinds is a Southern California scrapbooker, Creative Memories advisor, and the creator behind Craft Some Joy. She joins us to share the organizing systems and planning tools that have helped her move from feeling overwhelmed by unfinished projects to actively working on multiple albums at once. Lauren's approach centers on a philosophy she calls POP, which stands for Progress On Projec...

Five foundational habits that sustain creative energy all year long: reflection, proximity, saying yes, action, and camaraderie. This is a bonus replay from our archive of 77 members-only episodes that aired before Scrapbook Your Way launched. You'll hear references to tools and platforms from that time, along with live Q&A. ✨ Get free access to the SPARKED workshop and start scrapbookin...

What to do when creative burnout is real and you can't just push through it. Five simple ways to ease back into your hobby when the world has been heavy. This is a bonus replay from our archive of 77 members-only episodes that aired before Scrapbook Your Way launched. You'll hear references to tools and platforms from that time, along with live Q&A. ✨ Get free access to the SPARKED...

Three guideposts for vacation scrapbooking: cherry-picking photos, finding a format that fits your life, and knowing your priorities. This is a bonus replay from our archive of 77 members-only episodes that aired before Scrapbook Your Way launched. You'll hear references to tools and platforms from that time, along with live Q&A. ✨ Get free access to the SPARKED workshop and start scrapb...

Amanda Rowinski is a mom of two, former industry insider, and self-described modern-day memory keeping millennial mom who is navigating a creative comeback after years away from sharing online. With experience designing paper lines for We R Memory Keepers, helping launch The Happy Planner at Me and My Big Ideas, and co-hosting the Crafty Ass Female podcast, she brings a unique perspective on retur...

Hannah Lopez started scrapbooking in 2014 to document her daughter's Make-A-Wish trip during treatment for childhood leukemia, and within six months she was already making YouTube videos about her new hobby. Today she runs The Crafty Maven Getaway, a mixed media kit company and online community she first launched in 2015, stepped away from for several years, and recently relaunched with a des...

Angela Speir is a recently retired grandmother of seven from the Gulf Coast of Mississippi who scrapbooks with big florals, plenty of pop dots, and a philosophy that everyday moments matter more than holidays. As our July 2026 featured artist, she joins us for this My Way episode to share how she creates, what she's learned from decades of memory keeping, and the massive scrap room renovation...

Shanel Pettijohn is an Oklahoma-based scrapbooker, elementary school reading interventionist, and design team member for both Pear Tree Cut Files and Hip Kit Club. As a mom of three grown sons and grandmother to four girls, she's found a new creative rhythm as an empty nester, returning to scrapbooking with more time and fresh energy. Her pages are known for bold color, layered shapes, and ha...

Leilani Schirmer is a Mississippi-based scrapbooker, Project Life devotee, and self-described indoor kid who has turned her love of nostalgia into a creative practice. Known online as @leilani_scraps, she returns to the podcast to talk about why we’re drawn to looking back, the pop culture and physical media she’s collecting, and how she documents childhood memories she doesn’t want to lose. Turni...

Rebeca Ruiz is a Puerto Rico-based scrapbooker, class instructor, and design team member who recently overhauled her entire craft room without adding a single square foot. After years of storing embellishments by product type and squeezing paper into every available corner, she emptied everything out of her creative space and started from scratch. What followed was a months-long project that resha...

Elizabeth Albers is a mom of seven who has built a digital template design business in the margins of an extremely full life. She started as a paper scrapbooker, discovered digital through a friend, and quickly realized that designing page layouts was her favorite part of the whole process. Today she creates eclectic, photo-focused templates at Hey Scrapper and maintains a weekly scrapbooking prac...

Molove Lee is a Brooklyn-based school counselor, scrapbooker, and junk journal enthusiast who has found a way to bring all of her creative interests together under one roof. Known online as @rememberthedayz21, she joins us to share how she moved from traditional scrapbooking and Project Life into junk journaling, and why this format has given her a new sense of creative freedom. Mo also opens up a...

Marci Villanueva is a Washington State scrapbooker with a colorful, symmetrical style and a genuine love of embellishments. As the June 2026 featured artist at Simple Scrapper, she joins us for this My Way episode to share what keeps her coming back to her craft room in a season of life that also includes going back to school for a master's degree in graphic design. 🔗 Find all the mentioned...

Rachel Tallman lives in the Niagara region of Ontario, right between Toronto and Buffalo, and has been paper crafting for about 15 years. She built a sequin mix subscription business that grew quickly, landing collaborations with designers and producing a holiday advent calendar that sold out every year, before the Canada Post strike and US tariffs forced her to make an extremely hard call earlier...

Kristine LeRoss has been scrapbooking for decades, but when her daughter graduated from high school and left for college, the 12x12 layouts that had always been her format stopped feeling like the right fit. She discovered the Stop the Blur memory planning system from Heidi Swapp, spent a long time lurking and dabbling before things clicked, and now fills her weekly spreads with the kinds of every...

Miranda Webber is an elementary school teacher, YouTube creator, and returning guest who spent most of 2024 and 2025 away from her craft room after a difficult personal season. She came back as a more intentional memory keeper, and in this conversation she shares what her creative practice looks like today. 🔗 Find all the mentioned links at simplescrapper.com/syw334 ✨ Get free access to the SPAR...

Carolyn Murray is a recently retired scrapbooker from Mississauga, Ontario, who has been creating colorful, photo-forward 12x12 layouts for more than 22 years. As Simple Scrapper’s May featured artist, she joins us for this My Way episode to share the systems and creative habits that keep her crafting nearly every day. 🔗 Find all the mentioned links at simplescrapper.com/syw333 ✨ Get free access...

Amy Zwart is Simple Scrapper's community manager and the person I call the keeper of the testimonials. She's the one who catches the moments when members finally finish the thing they've been circling for months. She brings a unique insider view to a conversation about what finishing actually looks like and what makes it possible. 🔗 Find all the mentioned links at simplescrapper.co...

Kim Chaffin has been scrapbooking for nearly 30 years, ever since a friend invited her to a Creative Memories party and she realized the photos she was already taking and the journaling she was already keeping belonged on the same page. She lives in Tennessee, in a town internationally known as the storytelling capital of the world. That passion for story is at the core of why she never gets tired...

Anna Komenda lives just outside Warsaw, Poland, and has been scrapbooking since her older daughter was born. She creates colorful, layered pages with custom ink backgrounds, asymmetrical compositions, and a genuine love of working with dies and mixed media. Being based in Europe means navigating a craft market that skews heavily toward card making, and that constraint has shaped how she thinks abo...