I’m a creative who pulls inspiration from all corners of life—both the joyful highs and the real-life moments that punch you in the gut. Honestly, I don’t think I can pin down a single scrapbooking style for myself, so let’s just go with eclectic. My layouts really depend on my mindset. If I’m in a deep, cerebral mood, you’ll likely see something chaotic and messy. If I’m more relaxed, it tends to come out clean, simple, and structured.
My brain is usually running on several channels at once, so it’s completely normal for me to be working on a digital layout, dabbling in a hybrid project, and getting messy with art journaling or mixed media—all at the same time.
Here are a few of my go-to tools: Digital:Â Adobe Photoshop CC + my MacBook; Photos:Â Canon Rebel or iPhone; Hybrid:Â Cricut Joy + sewing machine; Art Journaling:Â watercolors, stencils, and artsticks
And when it comes to embellishments—digital or physical—I’m always reaching for messy threads, ribbons, and Polaroids. Always the Polaroids.
Living in the age of digital photos, when every device has a camera, is both a blessing and a curse for the scrapbooker. Maybe you have family albums from bygone decades or generations on top of this but it creates…
Hello there! It’s Polly Karen bringing you an inspiration packed Challenge Spotlight post! Each month we have 8 monthly challenges hosted in our forums and at the end of each month, I look through the challenge galleries and shine my spotlight of…
Hello there, Polly Stefanie here again with a step by step layout I created about my daughter’s recent birthday celebration and the cake she celebrated with. I started with this template set from Scrapping with Liz: Recyclables 63. I started…
Happy Monday! Can y’all believe it’s the last Monday of October?? How is this season going so fast?? Well, anyway Polly Robin here with another Make it Monday blog post and I’m going to show you how I made a…
Greetings, Pad Scrappers! Polly Liana here, super psyched to introduce you to the MPM for November. What’s MPM, you ask? It stands for Memory Pockets Monthly.  It’s a wonderful monthly collection that’s perfect for those scrappers who love to work with pockets…
Have you ever scheduled a once-in-a-lifetime vacation? We did. We are doing a crossing of the Panama Canal by cruise ship. And we are doing it with 21 family members total. And since it’s probably not something I’ll do again,…
Hello there, Polly StefanieS here with a super quick, fun filled template idea. I snagged a simple template set from Anita designs ( 50% off SOSN tomorrow) I started by adding my photos. then the patterned papers and filing the…
 Hey! It’s nearly that spooky time of year again and the gallery has so many both cute and spooky dark background pages at the moment! But dark backgrounds are not just for Halloween. Dark backgrounds can fade into the background…
Hello there, Polly StefanieS here with a super quick, fun filled template idea. I snagged a simple template set from Anita designs that includes these handy dandy gradients so that I could play with the background paper layer just for…
Happy October! Polly Robin here with another Make It Monday card. Today I’m going to show you how I made another shaker card. My nephew LOVES Spiderman. He eats, breathes, and sleeps the superhero so I knew I wanted…
Hello there, Polly StefanieS here with a super quick, fun filled template idea. I decided to play along with the Style challenge for October, which you can find HERE. We have just returned from a trip touring Scotland so I have…
Well hello there, Pad Scrappers! It’s that time again– in our hemisphere the leaves are changing, the air is getting a chill. It’s time for… October’s BYOC and DSD!! For those who are new to all these acronyms, BYOC stands for Build…