Scrapbook Your Way

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SYW343 - My Way with Angela Speir Jul 20, 2026

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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 creates, what she's learned from decades of memory keeping, and the massive scrap room renovation that's consuming her year.

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SYW342 - Bold Shapes and Hand Stitched Details with Shanel Pettijohn Jul 13, 2026

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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 scrapbooking with more time and fresh energy. Her pages are known for bold color, layered shapes, and hand-stitched details that make each layout feel like a small piece of art.

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SYW341 – Scrapbooking Nostalgia and Childhood Pop Culture with Leilani Schirmer Jul 06, 2026

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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 physical media she’s collecting, and how she documents childhood memories she doesn’t want to lose. Turning 40 this year, Leilani brings a colorful, playful, maximalist energy to her craft room and every project she takes on.

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SYW340 – Decluttering and Reorganizing Your Scrapbook Supplies with Rebeca Ruiz Jun 29, 2026

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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 out of her creative space and started from scratch. What followed was a months-long project that reshaped not just her space but her relationship with her supplies.

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SYW339 - How to Scrapbook a Complete Album Every Year with Elizabeth Albers Jun 15, 2026

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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 she creates eclectic, photo-focused templates at Hey Scrapper and maintains a weekly scrapbooking practice that produces a complete family album every year.
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SYW338 – Junk Journal Memory Keeping with Molove Lee Jun 08, 2026

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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 junk journaling, and why this format has given her a new sense of creative freedom. Mo also opens up about hosting her first in-person junk journaling event and the growing community she's building both locally and online.

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SYW337 - My Way with Marci Villanueva Jun 01, 2026

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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 includes going back to school for a master's degree in graphic design.

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SYW336 - The Joy and Heartache of Small Business in 2026 with Rachel Tallman May 25, 2026

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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 every year, before the Canada Post strike and US tariffs forced her to make an extremely hard call earlier this spring. This conversation digs into both the business reality and the emotional weight of closing something you love.

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SYW335 - Documenting Life in a Memory Planner with Kristine LeRoss May 18, 2026

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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 time lurking and dabbling before things clicked, and now fills her weekly spreads with the kinds of everyday moments she never would have thought to put on a traditional layout.

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SYW334 - How to Come Back to Scrapbooking After a Hiatus with Miranda Webber May 11, 2026

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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 like today.

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