SYW352 – Finding Your Best Scrapbook Format

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 simplescrapper.com/syw353💖 Find your people at simplescrapper.com/membership

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. Know why you're making it, pick what checks the most boxes, and leave yourself room to change.🔗 Find all the mentioned links at simplescrapper.com/syw352💖 Find your people at simplescrapper.com/membership

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💖 Find your people at simplescrapper.com/membership

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 letting go.🔗 Find all the mentioned links at simplescrapper.com/syw350💖 Find your people at simplescrapper.com/membership

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 build identity and connection.🔗 Find all the mentioned links at simplescrapper.com/syw349💖 Find your people at simplescrapper.com/membership

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 moments are worth capturing.🔗 Find all the mentioned links at simplescrapper.com/syw348💖 Find your people at simplescrapper.com/membership

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 sense of purpose to her layouts.🔗 Find all the mentioned links at simplescrapper.com/syw347💖 Find your people at simplescrapper.com/membership

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 Projects, and a set of practical strategies for fitting scrapbooking into real life.🔗 Find all the mentioned links at simplescrapper.com/syw346💖 Find your people at simplescrapper.com/membership

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.💖 Find your people at simplescrapper.com/membership

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.💖 Find your people at simplescrapper.com/membership