Tutorials
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Contemporary Pocket Card Pages: Out-of-the-Box Layouts!
Remember when scrapping in pockets became all the rage and when pocket journal cards and filler cards first became a ‘thing’? Well, it’s been more than a minute, but pocket cards found their niche and are still a regular inclusion
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Create a book box with hybrid scrapbooking
Today I’m sharing how to make this fun and decorative book box, perfect for storing little keepsakes, photos, journaling supplies or small gifts. All my measurements are in centimeters, but you can easily transfer this to a size suited for
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Tips & Tricks: Organizing Digital Supplies in Lightroom
This is Polly Beth. I’d like to share my system of organizing all the yummy digital scrapbooking products I’ve collected over the years so I can easily find what I want for my layouts. Before I get to the specifics
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Two Templates Two Ways
Happy Tuesday from Polly Beth and Polly Nancy. We are joining forces today to illustrate how versatile templates can be. We will be using the Grow Templates from Lynn Grieveson Designs. We also thought it would be fun to use
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Ways to Use Artsy Kits for a Traditional Style Layout
POV: Sometimes I’m drawn to a kit just by a few elements in the preview and have to have it, but then feel bad for the rest of the kit that just sits, life purpose unfulfilled on my EHD. If
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Template Tuesday: Making Room for Journaling
Do you struggle to find room for journaling on your layouts? Here are some tips & tricks you can use.
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A fun and easy gift card holder for any celebration
Hello everyone! Today I want to show you a super simple way to make a gift card holder that feels a little more special than the ones you get at the store. And even though I call it a gift
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Tricks to Make Your Photo the Star of the Page!
If, like me, you area photocentric scrapper and think the photo/s should be the star/s of your scrapbook layout, but sometimes you feel like they aren’t for some reason, or that they are struggling to compete for attention with everything
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Cinnamon Roll Turkey Treat!
Hello Pad Scrappers! Polly Liana here, excited to share a little food craft that I make every Thanksgiving morning for my family. It’s cute, pretty easy and tides them over until the big meal. Here’s a photo of it: Cute,
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How to Make Traditional Layouts from Artsy Templates
Sometimes we pigeon-hole ourselves or our products. As a longtime scrapper and template user, I’ve gone through various creative styles myself and seen product trends come and go. I freely admit that I rarely use a template 100% as it
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7+ ways to fill a journal spot that are NOT journaling
Hey! What’s your immediate reaction to a journaling challenge? Do you dread them? Are you filled with trepidation or are you in the opposing ‘no problem, I can fill a page with words!’ camp? Do templates with significant journal spots
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Road-testing Photopea for Digital Scrapbooking.
After what has been a technologically challenging month, having suffered (yes, suffered), through trying to scrap in my preferred way with Canva over a few devices, I’m glad to say that Photopea is the answer to any digiscrappers’ prayers and
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Step by Step: Intro to Digital Scrapbooking with Canva
Hi there! If you are new to digiscrapping or just interested in trying a new scrapbooking platform or program, you might want to keep reading (or not, no pressure, I will warn you it’s long but the learning process takes
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Color Swaps on Papers: Not just the Hue/Sat Slider!
Having blogged the Mixed Media Beginners series a few years back, I still feel artsy scrapping is not exactly my comfort zone and so everything just takes me longer. I really appreciate when the bones of an artistic background have
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Trashing Perfect Paper with Torn Overlays
Over the years (cough: decades) I’ve been a scrapbooker, I’ve gone through phases of valuing perfectly flat papers (carefully bringing them home from the bricks and mortar store without so much as a dog-earred corner) then preferring highly textured ones
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6 Ways to Respect Privacy in Photos (+ a bonus one!)
With the ability to share photos digitally these days and issues surrounding permission and privacy that are laws in some countries and an issue of contention in others, for scrapbookers this can present a dilemma. With group photos and extended
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Create Unique Titles Using Styles
Hi Pad Scrappers! Polly Liana here with some great tips to make your titles come alive with originality and fun! I don’t know about you but sometimes I have to skip the title on my layouts because I just can’t