Scrapbook Your Way

Bre Randon makes around 250 digital pages a year. Sara Case pulls two stories at the end of each month, and if those two layouts get made, she's good. For the second half of our two-part series leading into the 2027 Planning Party, I'm joined by Simple Scrapper staff and creative team members to talk about how each of us decides what counts as enough. The answers range from tracking hours to tracking nothing at all, and none of us do it exactly the same. 🔗 Find all the mentioned links at simp...

Square digital pages, 12x12 paper layouts, 6x8 inserts, Blurb trade books, and three-ring binders all show up in this conversation with six members of the Simple Scrapper staff and creative team. In the first of a two-part series leading into the 2027 Planning Party, we dig into format: digital or paper, what size, layouts or pockets, and how each of those choices shapes what actually gets finished. The group's approaches could hardly be more different, yet the same lessons keep surfacing. Kn...

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 12x12 Project Life or full-size layouts. 🔗 Find all the mentioned links at simplescrapper.com/syw351...

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 approach to scrapbooking has been shaped by small spaces, big stashes, and a philosophy of lettin...

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 rooted in working with adoptive families and the neuroscience behind why scrapbooks help children b...