Hello Friends! Journaling is often such a big part of memory keeping and a wonderful way to preserve our thoughts, feelings and memories. Telling our stories can be therapeutic and helpful for not only us, but others. However, sometimes knowing what to document can create a stumbling block if we aren't sure where to start. When this happens, journaling and story prompts are a great tool for brainstorming ideas and topics to explore. Today I'd like to share some story prompts that can be used right now and in the month's ahead. The seasons will soon be changing and often the seasons of our life change with calendar and weather changes. So this is the focus for today's journaling prompts..."season of change". Interpret them however you like - seasons of life, seasons of nature, seasons of the calendar, or a mix of all of these!Layout credits: Memory Pockets Monthly: Change and … [Read more...]
The Monday Mash-up – Mashing Pocket-style
Are you primarily a one kit only scrapper, on a budget or looking for ways to extend your stash?Mashing 2 (or 3!) kits together (and making your own customised collab!) gives you so many opportunities but means you won’t have to spend all your time tagging or searching your stash. If mixing and matching is not your normal style and feels daunting, this series will look at several ways to make mixing different design styles easier than you think! ______________________________________________________________________________________________Hi there and welcome to a fun new way to start Mondays in the middle of the month – The Monday Mash-up! definition: Mash-up noun- informal.* a combination or mixing of dissimilar elements, especially content from different sources. Some background:Welcome back … [Read more...]
Thoughtful Thursday: Simple Journaling
There isn't much that makes me happier in scrapbooking than clean and simple pages that showcase a lovely photo and includes some thoughtful journaling complimenting the photo. But sometimes coming up with that"simple" journaling can be so challenging! For me, this often happens when I'm over thinking things, so I have to remind myself to keep it simple and reflect on what it is that makes me love the photo I'm scrapping, and what I want to tell others about that photo.One of my journaling go-to's when I'm in this mind block is to use a formula for simple journaling: repetition and short sentences. This is my formula for many of my layouts: I will start each line of my journaling with the same word or phrase. I will then add a few words after that phrase that conveys the message I want to share. I put each sentence on it's own line and incorporate the journaling into the … [Read more...]
Playing with Scissors, Paper & a Printer: Creating a Hybrid Scrapbook Album
Hello Friends! After months of letting my photos sit on my phone, it was time I got crafty again and I had the perfect project in mind to get me creating....a hybrid scrapbook album dedicated to my love of hiking. I have spent a good part of this year on the trails and have taken lots of photos along my journeys, but not yet really documented the details. Before too much time passed, I decided to dive right in and get those memories documented!I love the physical, hands-on aspect of traditional scrapbooking but also love the ease of "shopping" my computer digital scrapbooking collections, so I opened my digital scrapbooking kits and found so many there were perfect for my themed album. Happy dance time!Knowing what I wanted to create and having found the perfect digi supplies to use, it was time to get crafting and bring my vision for this memory keeping album to life.I found … [Read more...]
How to Incorporate QR Codes Into Memory Keeping
QR codes have been around for several years. Since the 90s to be exact. While using QR codes is not new technology. It just so happens that some new ideas for using QR codes in the memory keeping process were brought to light during a Lilypad Chat and I am eager to share them. Today we are sharing them here on the blog. For those that may be new to QR codes, let's start by explaining more about them.What is a QR Code?As described by wikipedia, a QR code (Quick Response code) is a two dimensional matrix code originally designed for the automotive industry. The code is a machine readable, optical label that contains information about the item to which it is attached. A QR code consists of pixels arranged in a square grid on a white background, which can be read by a QR reader.How do you create a QR Code?You can do a quick internet search and find a wide array of … [Read more...]