The digital scrapbooking community has become Cassie King's "family that always moves with her" and keeps her accountable. Our conversation for the My Way series not only highlights Cassie's process, but the deep connection she has to memory keeping because of the people crafting alongside her online. We're excited to have Cassie as our March featured artist. Her layouts inspired five of our newest sketches and digital templates for members!

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What if we started looking at organization as a collection of habits and routines, instead of as a destination?

March and April at Simple Scrapper are all about using, decluttering, and organizing your stash of supplies with more thoughtfulness and intention. I'm joined on this episode by Peggy Collins and Amy Zwart, two of my staff members, to venture behind the scenes of the community as 2023 really gets underway.

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Alicia Harrison is ready to take bold steps forward. In this episode we chat about finding renewed purpose after burnout, including a return to authenticity and crafting in community. Our conversation also touches on the importance of safe spaces for Black women and making sure all those crafty machines actually get used. 

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Is scrapbooking your only creative hobby? Most of us have been drawn to a variety of crafts of the years and have the supplies to show it. In this episode Victoria Calvin discusses the benefits of being multi-passionate in your creative pursuits. Our conversation includes permission to give yourself space and opportunities to explore different crafts, allowing these interests to inform and challenge one another.

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This time a few years back Nolana Lynch had just completed her first December Daily project. She was hooked.

In this episode you'll hear how a curiosity about this crafty project led to major shift in Nolana's creative pursuits. Today you'll find her on the American Crafts design team, as an Ali Edwards Design Inc. ambassador, and still hopelessly in love with the magic of December scrapbooking.

Our conversation offers an invitation to think about the projects and experiences that led you into a whole new season of creativity.

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What if you had the time for scrapbooking all along?

In this episode I'm chatting with Ashley Brown of Routine & Things to explore how routines can help scrapbookers create more consistently. Ashley shares how time is actually an energy management problem and the role of routines in correcting course.

We get into the weeds on what makes routines different from habits and how the best way to get started might not be what you would expect.

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I've been a fan of Yin Goh since my earliest days as a scrapbooker.  In fact, her templates were often featured in my weekly product posts back when Simple Scrapper was a daily blog.

Today Yin is an avid hybrid scrapbooker, creating most often with Ali Edwards products. As our February featured artist, her work inspired our latest style challenge inside the membership.

This episode explores Yin's perspective in memory keeping, as well as the techniques that do (and do not) work well for her. I enjoyed 'meeting' her after so many years in same creative circles.

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Within the first 5 minutes of my conversation with Sarah Kee, I knew this episode would be a good one. She disclosed her struggle with anxiety, something we share in common, as an invitation to document more of your real story.

Our discussion covers Sarah's favorites, as always, but one of her big lessons learned has been the therapeutic nature of creating. While not a substitute for professional help, what we do as scrapbookers is powerful and important.

Personally, I felt comforted hearing someone else put words to so much of my own story. I hope it offers ease and insight to you as well.

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As memory keepers, we often feel a tension between the everyday moments and the big stories of our past. When I overhead Simple Scrapper member Jenn Slowik mention that 2023 would be all about 'legacy projects' for her, I knew that this would be a good discussion.

Our conversation includes what circumstances led to this shift for Jenn and how she views these projects in context with others. We connect her vision with our Bucket List Story concept, peeling back layers of why we scrapbook and how that can shift over time.

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When I noticed that Simple Scrapper member Youngmi An was sharing beautifully consistent, story-filled work across all formats, I had to learn more. This was clearly someone who had found her style and a creative process to bring it to life again and again.

In this episode we chat about how Youngmi scrapbooks, including how she turns inspiration into a completed page and the observations she's made about her future. There are very few mentions of specific products, which leaves me wondering if scrapbooking 'your way' is really about the stuff at all.

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