This month we are mashing pocket-style! As part of our current Summer School 2022 event, the pocket scrapping, past Memory Pockets Monthly and journal cards categories are all on sale this week and there will be a tutorial coming up specifically on journal cards. Pocket scrapbooking took off several years ago with the Project Life method of documenting our day to day. In the paper scrapping world, it initially involved putting printed photos and journal, date and filler cards in 3×4 and 4×6 inch plastic sleeve pockets to make memory-keeping easy and encourage scrappers and non-scrappers alike to get their photos off their phones and into albums to preserve their stories in a more tangible but relatively easy way. Over the years the sizes and orientations and possibilities with pockets have expanded and digital pocket pages have followed this trend. Whether you like clean or artsy style scrapping (or a combination of them!), you can find pocket templates and pre-made pocket cards to suit you or you can make your own with ‘normal’ scrapbook supplies like paper and elements. The clean rectangle blocking and universal sizes mean that you can easily mix journal cards from different themes and different designers and still have a cohesive looking page. It also means that if you are making a special album or photobook, maybe about a new baby or specific vacation, sticking to pocket pages regardless of the different card packs used will make the whole book more uniform too. Sahlin Studio and Britt-ish Designs’ massive Project Mouse line is made with this in mind and I got started in pocket scrapping back with the first Project Mouse card packs, got hooked and have been using pocket pages to scrap about travel since then. The Memory Pockets Monthly (MPM) range is now also massive and caters to a wider range of themes and makes mixing and mashing almost too easy!