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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Carolyn Murray is a recently retired scrapbooker from Mississauga, Ontario, who has been creating colorful, photo-forward 12x12 layouts for more than 22 years. As Simple Scrapper’s May featured artist, she joins us for this My Way episode to share the systems and creative habits that keep her crafting nearly every day.

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Amy Zwart is Simple Scrapper's community manager and the person I call the keeper of the testimonials. She's the one who catches the moments when members finally finish the thing they've been circling for months. She brings a unique insider view to a conversation about what finishing actually looks like and what makes it possible.

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Kim Chaffin has been scrapbooking for nearly 30 years, ever since a friend invited her to a Creative Memories party and she realized the photos she was already taking and the journaling she was already keeping belonged on the same page. She lives in Tennessee, in a town internationally known as the storytelling capital of the world. That passion for story is at the core of why she never gets tired of this hobby.

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