SYW342 - Bold Shapes and Hand Stitched Details with Shanel Pettijohn
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 hand-stitched details that make each layout feel like a small piece of art.🔗 Find all the mentioned links at simplescrapper.com/syw342✨ Get free access to the SPARKED workshop and start scrapbooking consistently at simplescrapper.com/sparked.
SYW341 – Scrapbooking Nostalgia and Childhood Pop Culture with Leilani Schirmer
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. Turning 40 this year, Leilani brings a colorful, playful, maximalist energy to her craft room and every project she takes on.🔗 Find all the mentioned links at simplescrapper.com/syw341✨ Get free access to the SPARKED workshop and start scrapbooking consistently at simplescrapper.com/sparked.
SYW340 – Decluttering and Reorganizing Your Scrapbook Supplies with Rebeca Ruiz
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 reshaped not just her space but her relationship with her supplies.🔗 Find all the mentioned links at simplescrapper.com/syw340✨ Find your creative home at simplescrapper.com/membership
SYW339 - How to Scrapbook a Complete Album Every Year with Elizabeth Albers
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 practice that produces a complete family album every year.🔗 Find all the mentioned links at simplescrapper.com/syw339✨ Find your creative home at simplescrapper.com/membership
SYW338 – Junk Journal Memory Keeping with Molove Lee
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 about hosting her first in-person junk journaling event and the growing community she's building both locally and online.🔗 Find all the mentioned links at simplescrapper.com/syw338✨ Find your creative home at simplescrapper.com/membership