Polly Picks: Scrap Like Lynnette Challenge!

Welcome to the next edition of our newly revamped Polly Picks series, where each month we will chat with one of our Pollys about their scrapbooking style and fave things and give you the chance to win a $5 code for the store just by scrapping like them.

Before we jump into the September challenge, let me announce the random winner from our August challenge – big congrats to jagruti patel! (You’re prize will be sent shortly through conversations so watch out for that this week!)

This month we are featuring Lynnette! Her full gallery is here but I’ll link some specific pages below when we get to the challenge part from her gallery that caught my eye and feel to me like they are definitively her. If you have ever pinned a Disney page for inspiration, I think you’d know Lynnette and her family’s Disney adventures. Her amazing use of pocket style scrapping is what gained my attention first years ago and I’m also a fan of her everyday life, home and renovation documenting, because our everyday changes throughout the years and the little things can be big things when we look back, and I feel like she really understands that and it drives her scrapping. She can really rock any style but I’m also a fan of her multi-photo style of filling the page, nature based pages and interview centric journalling, especially on annual birthday pages.

Your digiscrapping history and style:
1. How long have you been digiscrapping and has your style changed since then? I started in digiscrapping in 2005 – I can hardly believe I’ve been at it for 20 years! My style actually hasn’t changed much. I have played around with different trends, and I really embraced pocket pages when they became more common around 2014ish. But as I look back, not too much has changed for me!

Let’s get find out more about Lynnette’s scrapping from her with an interview. Here’s my Scrap Like A Polly Q&A with Lynnette.

Your page focus and process:
2.What do your layouts usually focus on and how do you usually start a page? My layouts are either story focused, or focused on my joys & blessings. Scrapbooking is both a gratitude practice and a creative practice for me. I love to document my life, our memories, and the things that I love. As for where I start – it really depends! Sometimes I have a specific kit I want or need to use and I will find photos that will work with it. Other times I have an event or story I want to scrapbook and then I’ll go looking for products that will work with it.

​Your must-have products:
3. Is there a specific type or category of element you must have on a layout? I don’t think I have anything that’s a must on EVERY layout… but I do use a lot of small word strips and labels which are perfect for layering and adding a date to the page.

4. Are you most drawn to patterned papers or solids for backgrounds?
I mix it up a lot, although I would say I tend to gravitate towards solid backgrounds more. I like to start with a fresh clean base and build on it with layers of pattern papers, paint, and all the fun elements.

Examples of your gallery faves:
5. Can you share 3 fave pages with us and tell us a bit about why you love them?

This is two pages – I love to make two page spreads for events where I have a lot of photos. Sometimes I’ll do one page with a single large photo and then fill the other side with a lot of smaller photos. This was the perfect kit and it just came together quickly & easily!

Pocket pages are a go-to for me as well, I love not having to think about the overall layout design. It’s fun to just play around, fill the pockets, and find the right balance of photos, pocket cards, journaling, and other elements.

I love this layout because of the gorgeous handmade feel of the elements and the color palette. Also, I used one of my favorite tricks – If I have a kit I love but the photos don’t really work with it, I just make them black and white. I really love how these photos look with the colors of this kit!

Thanks Lynnette – the big photo plus multiphoto page combo is such a great way to tackle album spreads and that B&W conversion trick is definitely an ace up the sleeve when it comes to using any kit!

Now it’s your turn to Scrap Like A Polly!

Just scrap a new page using the ingredients listed below that channel the featured Polly’s style and upload your page to the TLP gallery and come back here and post the link to your page in the comments please.

These pages helped me come up with the ingredient list below and my own Lynnette style layout. Whether it’s clean crisp traditional pocket style or a more artistic or messy style with a grid

These are the ingredients you need to scrap like Lynnette:

  • Maximalist page style
    • Use a grid layout as the basis of a page filled with any combination of photos, pocket cards, papers, wordart and elements.
    • (there’s flexibility here, it doesn’t have to be a perfect linear grid)
  • Use 2 or more photos
  • Use 2 or more pocket cards
    • (you don’t have to make a pocket page but it should include pocket cards in some way)!
  • Include 2 or more wordstrips or labels
  • Use smaller elements and fasteners, and layer some straight on or overlapping the edges of your photos
  • Add at least a few lines of journalling

Let me show you some currently available goodies that suit scrapping in Lynnette’s style that might help kickstart your scrapping and then the page I made channeling my inner Lynnette!

This is the page I created in Lynnette’s style. I’ve used a template in today’s SOSN by Lynn Grieveson called Messy Pockets 7 as a base for my grid, with a few different products by Sahlin Studios and Acetate Alphas 3 by Heather Joyce.

I like when there is a square option for pocket cards or when some designs are included that crop easily to fit different shaped template spots or shapes. That ‘snapshots’ one at the top was already square and perfectly fit the template spot and having the Adv luggage tag one on an angle gives it a bit more impact and ability to pop off the page with Lynn’s template spot shadowing.

I used smaller elements like the numbered traffic cones from Project Mouse: Cars and a mix of wordstrips and labels to fill the page and took advantage of the masks and tape spots on the template to give this a slightly more artsy look while keeping it busy looking with a lot of photos and tight spacing, aligning with this location, that is the definition of busy.

Now it’s your turn!

You have from now until the next Polly Picks post in the last week of September to scrap like Lynnette using the ingredient list above. Feel free to use products from any designer currently selling in the TLP store and add anything extra to the ingredients to make your layout. Don’t forget to link me to your page in the comments or in the September Scrap Like a Polly forum thread for your chance to go in the random draw to win. We also have a Polly Picks gallery category to pop your page in – it’s here. (If that doesn’t work, add the new ‘polly picks challenges’ tag, just don’t add a hashtag for it when typing that in the tag field of your gallery upload to ensure it works 🙂

The deadline is 23 October. Can’t wait to see what you create.

I live just south of Sydney, Australia, with my husband, our two teenagers, and three birds. I’ve been digitally scrapbooking for nearly 20 years, and a regular at The Lilypad since 2010. Creativity has been a constant companion—but not always a tidy one.

My style? Anything and everything. I don’t really box myself in. Inspiration tends to show up everywhere—except maybe under the lounge when I’m vacuuming, or under the kitchen sink. But I can almost always count on finding it in my photo folders, my favorites list, the shop, or the Challenge Pad. Honestly, time is more of an issue than inspiration!

Photoshop has long been my go-to digital tool, though we have a bit of a love/hate relationship. After many years with CS6, I’ve started trialing other programs too. My ergonomic mouse is a game changer (trackpads and I don’t get along), and in terms of digi products, I’m all about templates, mixed media, patterned papers, and word art—though I never would have guessed I’d love mixed media this much five years ago!

If you’re new to scrapbooking (or any creative hobby), the best advice I can give is: jump in and have a go. Most of us learn by doing, and yes—that means some frustration, a few mistakes, and definitely a learning curve. But if you push through the messy parts, there’s so much joy waiting on the other side. And if it ever feels like the frustration is winning, vent in the forum—we’ve all been there, and someone will always show up to help, or at least sympathize and cheer you on.

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