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Scrapbook Your Way
by Jennifer Wilson
In a world where a camera is always within reach and creative options are abundant, “Your Way” is the memory-keeping approach that fills you up and fits your life right now. This free, scrapbooking-focused show celebrates the breadth of ways to be a memory keeper today. Scrapbook Your Way is hosted by Jennifer Wilson, owner of Simple Scrapper and author of The New Rules of Scrapbooking.
Episodes
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SYW350 - My Way with Breon Randon
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...
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SYW349 – Connection Keeping with Kelly Wardlow
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…
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SYW348 – Finding the Right Project Life Format with Leanne Millo
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....
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SYW347 - My Way with Heather Cerulo
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...
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SYW346 - Craft Some Joy with Lauren Hinds
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...
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Bonus - Core Habits for a Creative Year
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…
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Bonus - Creating When You're on Empty
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...
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Bonus - Vacation Scrapbooking
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…
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SYW345 – Making a Creative Comeback with Amanda Rowinski
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…
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SYW344 - Building a Mixed Media Community from the Ground Up with Hannah Lopez
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…
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SYW343 - My Way with Angela Speir
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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SYW337 - My Way with Marci Villanueva
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...
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SYW336 - The Joy and Heartache of Small Business in 2026 with Rachel Tallman
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…
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SYW335 - Documenting Life in a Memory Planner with Kristine LeRoss
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…
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SYW334 - How to Come Back to Scrapbooking After a Hiatus with Miranda Webber
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...
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SYW333 - My Way with Carolyn Murray
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...
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SYW332 – Finishing More Scrapbook Projects with Amy Zwart
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…
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SYW331 - My Way with Kim Chaffin
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…
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SYW330 - Use Your Stash in Creative Ways with Anna Komenda
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…
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SYW329 - Use What You Have with Alissa Williams
Alissa Williams is the director of a small public library in central Illinois, and she came into our conversation with a clear picture of everything in her stash: where it lives, what it is, and when she is done with it. In our conversation Alissa maps how products come into her creative life…
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SYW328 - My Way with Cassie Wiscarson
Cassie Wiscarson is a Washington State scrapbooker with a graphic, colorful, photo-focused style and a genuine love of everyday moments. As our March 2026 featured artist, she joins us for this My Way episode to share the projects and perspectives that keep her coming back to her craft room, even...
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SYW327 - Interactive Scrapbooking with Brie Beaupre
Have you ever wished you could scrapbook dozens of photos on a single layout? You can with Brie Beaupre's interactive scrapbooking method. In this episode I'm chatting with Brie about the origins of her approach and the benefits of designing scrapbook pages in this unique way. You'll learn tips…
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SYW326 - Balancing Multiple Scrapbook Projects with Sarah Jürs
Memory keeper Sarah Jürs loves variety, from creating in different formats to participating in many projects within the creative community. In this episode you'll hear what keeps her grounded in what really matters and how she balances a full plate inside and outside of scrapbooking. Sarah's...
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SYW325 - Simplifying Annual Scrapbook Projects
When you love all the projects, how do you keep up with it all? To Megan Dosch, the answers are digital and "you don't." My conversation with Megan explores how she embraces a good enough mindset and identifies what really is the priority. From Project Life to December Daily (and everything in...
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SYW324 - How to Start Scrapbooking Again
When I came across Laura O'Donnell on Instagram (@scrappingagain), I knew I had to hear the "again" part of her story. We talk about the seasons of life that precipitated her pause and her restart, as well as what she wishes she would have done in between. Our conversation also includes important...
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SYW323 - My Way with Nelya Lutsyuk
In this episode I’m chatting with Nelya Lutsyuk, our featured artist for January 2026. Nelya is a busy mom of four who creates colorful, whimsical layouts in multiple formats to document her family's everyday life. Our conversation goes behind the scenes of her scrapbooking story and process,...
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SYW322 - The Six Phases of the Scrapbooking Process
How do you scrapbook, really? I've identified six distinct phases of the scrapbooking process that collectively influence your joy and ease with the hobby. In this episode I'm sharing how we're focusing on process at Simple Scrapper in 2026 and how each phase can highlight opportunities for more...
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SYW321 - How to Create a Realistic Plan for Scrapbooking
I've had the opportunity to review hundreds of scrapbooking plans created by members through our annual Planning Party events. In this episode I'm distilling my observations and advice into ten points for you to consider. I'm covering common pitfalls as well as suggestions for gentle, realistic...
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SYW320 - What If I Stopped Doing Projects?
In my recent episode with Alissa Williams I shared a little bit about my thinking for 2026. In this 20-minute solo episode I go a bit deeper into why I'm thinking about giving up scrapbooking projects and what I'm planning to do instead. I can't wait to hear your reaction to my semi-organized...
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SYW319 - From Journal to Scrapbook: How We Capture Stories
How do we take that "I should scrapbook this!" moment and save it for later? That's what this episode is all about. I asked a group of Simple Scrapper staff and team members to join me for a conversation all about journaling. Our discussion includes stories about personal journals, how we decide...
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SYW318 - Minimalist Digital Memory Keeping with Tracie Radtke
When you're feeling the itch to make a change, try thinking small and subtle like Tracie Radtke. Tracie is a digital memory keeper who focuses on clean and simple pages that she prefers to have printed in books. She keeps her process interesting for each project by switching up style choices like...
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SYW317 - How to Let Go of What Doesn’t Work with Alissa Williams
In this episode I’m catching up with Alissa Williams from the parking lot of the volleyball club where both of our daughters play. We reflect on our faves and fails from 2025 and share our tentative plans for scrapbooking and planning in 2026. Our conversation also touches on embracing what fills...
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SYW316 – Scrapbooking in Your 20s with Kaylen Faye
Kaylen Faye is a 20-something second generation scrapbooker, content creator, and bride-to-be. In this episode Kaylen shares how she uses social media to inspire others and document her crafty adventures. Her story is a timely reminder of how sharing our creativity can build community and…
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SYW315 - My Way with Lynnette Penacho
In this episode I'm chatting with Lynnette Penacho, our November featured artist and our current template designer. We explored how Lynnette’s passion for telling her own story led to the creation of The Faves Project, a monthly tradition that celebrates her favorite moments and memories. Our...
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SYW314 - How We're Starting Fresh in 2026
✨ Register for the 2026 Planning Party at simplescrapper.com/plan26 In this final episode of our series prior to the 2026 Planning Party, I’m again joined by Simple Scrapper staff and team members to reflect on the shifts and changes that have shaped our scrapbooking journeys. We share honest...
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SYW313 - What We Learned This Year
✨ Register for the 2026 Planning Party at simplescrapper.com/plan26 In this episode, featuring Simple Scrapper staff and team members, we reflect on the importance of learning from experiences that don’t go as planned. The conversation includes how we navigate false starts and unexpected...
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SYW312 - What Went Well This Year?
✨ Register for the 2026 Planning Party at simplescrapper.com/plan26 In this episode, I'm chatting with four of our Simple Scrapper staff and team members to reflect on what’s truly working well in our scrapbooking lives. We shared the systems, creative ideas, and little victories that keep us...
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SYW311 - My Way with April Peebles
In this episode I'm joined by our October 2025 featured artist, April Peebles. April is also a long time Simple Scrapper member, so it was exciting to hear how our community has influenced her process and priorities, particularly in this season of life with adult children. Our conversation…
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SYW310 - Embracing Your Creative Path with Katrina Katz
Katrina Katz is a curious, thrifty crafter who loves playing in her notebook. And despite no longer scrapbooking in the traditional sense, she definitely considers herself a memory keeper. In this episode I ask Katrina to share some of her favorite things in the stationery world and take us…
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SYW309 - My Way with Caroline Stevens
In this episode, I’m joined by Caroline Stevens for a thoughtful conversation about her scrapbooking journey. Caroline shares how she’s made memory keeping work in a small space, including favorite projects like a collaborative album created with her daughter. We talk about the role of…
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SYW308 - 12 Clever Ideas for Budget-Friendly Scrapbooking
Is your scrapbooking budget feeling tighter than before? As is the case with most hobbies, scrapbooking typically requires ongoing and not-insignificant investment in tools and materials. Yet the reality is that scrapbook supplies, like everything else, are rapidly increasing in price. So you…
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SYW307 - Crafting the Empty Nest Era with Caroline Gatenby
In this episode empty nester Caroline Gatenby shares how she has embraced this era and made crafting a central part of her daily life. She shares her thoughtful approach to a streamlined hobby, focusing on formats like pocket pages and notebooks. Our conversation discusses prioritizing…
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SYW306 - Five Essential Tips for Simple Photo Management
Get your photo library organized with a "backwards," future-proofed approach. This episode shares five essential tips for simple photo management, helping you create or check that your system supports creativity and memory keeping. The focus is on understanding which aspects are fundamental and...
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SYW305 - Larking About with Franky Shanahan
In this episode we welcome back Franky Shanahan, a professional copywriter who previously joined us to chat about learning how to scrapbook. This time around Franky shares how scrapbooking led her to embrace new hobbies, like gardening, and how these pursuits have shaped her life. Our…
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SYW304 - Knitting Wellness with Molly Grimm
In this episode, Molly Grimm from Knitting Wellness shares her journey of integrating knitting with emotional well-being. She discusses her personal background, the creation of her platform, and her development of resources that combine therapeutic techniques with her craft. Molly also provides...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
In a world where a camera is always within reach and creative options are abundant, “Your Way” is the memory-keeping approach that fills you up and fits your life right now. This free, scrapbooking-focused show celebrates the breadth of ways to be a memory keeper today. Scrapbook Your Way is hosted by Jennifer Wilson, owner of Simple Scrapper and author of The New Rules of Scrapbooking.
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In a world where a camera is always within reach and creative options are abundant, “Your Way” is the memory-keeping approach that fills you up and fits your life right now. This free, scrapbooking-focused show celebrates the breadth of ways to be a memory keeper today. Scrapbook Your Way is hosted...
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