SYW334 – How to Come Back to Scrapbooking After a Hiatus with Miranda Webber

Miranda Webber: [00:00:00] if you're not helping yourself or keeping yourself healthy of whatever that is, you're not gonna be able to do things for others. But you have to do stuff for yourself, and if that means you're in the scrapbooking world and you love to do for others, start doing stuff for yourself. Because it's gonna make you feel better, and then in turn your stuff that you're gonna give away or do for others just looks that much better.

Jennifer: Welcome to Scrapbook Your Way, the show that explores the breadth of ways to be a memory keeper today. I'm your host, Jennifer Wilson, owner of Simple Scrapper, and author of The New Rules of Scrapbooking. This is episode 334. In this episode, I'm chatting again with Miranda Webber, a South Carolina scrapbooker and longtime YouTuber who is back for another conversation about her creative practice.

Miranda shares how a difficult personal season led to a creative hiatus, and what brought her back to the craft room with a new sense of [00:01:00] intentionality.

Hey, Miranda. Welcome back to Scrapbook Your Way.

Miranda Webber: Hi, this is Miranda Weber, #myscrappylife, and I'm so glad to be here again.

Jennifer: Can you share a little bit about yourself to remind our audience who you are and what you do and all that?

Miranda Webber: All right, well, welcome to the new ones that have not heard my first vlog or podcast. Um, and welcome to the ones that are returning. My name is Miranda, and I have been scrapbooking since my son... really got into scrapbooking since my son was, um... I was pregnant with him in 2003. So I've been scrapbooking that long.

Um, I now have a 14-year-old daughter. Um, back when we first did it, she was a little, a little smaller. Um, so she is going to be a freshman next, come next school year. And I am a full-time elementary teacher. Um, I've been now doing that [00:02:00] for, this is my eighth year. Eighth or ninth year. I can't even keep straight anymore.

Um, and then my husband is now retired. He was still active duty the last time, so now he's retired. Um, he has a job out, still out at Fort Gordon, 'cause we still live in North Augusta, um, South Carolina, so he's still out at Fort Gordon, but as a contractor. Um, and yeah.

Jennifer: Awesome. Awesome. Yeah, my daughter is 14 as well. She actually is already a freshman, but she's, you know, the youngest in her class, and I'm, I'm sure we, uh, I don't know, I'm sure we connected on that in the past. It's.

Miranda Webber: Yep.

Jennifer: This is such an interesting age, and it keeps getting more interesting.

Miranda Webber: Yes. For sure, for sure.

Jennifer: They are definitely in this phase of discovery, and I'm like, "Was I like this? I guess I was, but I don't, I don't remember that part."

Miranda Webber: I, I, I don't remember the defiance, if you wanna call... Like, discovery/defiance. [00:03:00] Or I'm gonna try to test the boundaries as much as I possibly can to the point of, like, wanting to pull your hair out.

Jennifer: Yeah.

Miranda Webber: I don't remember it either, but you know, I mean, I know that at 14 things have changed. You know, things, things are changing, if you know what I mean, for girls and boys and everything alike, right?

And, uh, I, I swear my daughter's gotta be, like, the only one that doesn't have a cellphone yet. But, she comes with me to school. She goes on the bus to her middle school, and then Dad or I pick her up. And I'm like, " Why does she need a phone?" And I feel bad for her, but then at some times I'm like, "Nope, I'm good."

Especially since after the C word, if you know what the C word is, it really got big with social media, right?

Jennifer: Sure.

Miranda Webber: Media. You know, so I was like, I'm just not ready for her to have that. So we're starting as a freshman next year, so she'll be- Um, she'll turn 14 in August, so I guess she'll be, like, the [00:04:00] youngest 14-year-old in her class.

We'll see. She's gonna ... She knows she's already getting ... It's one of her birthday gifts in August is her phone. So I'm gonna be diving into that this come fall. I'm a little worried, so if y'all are the praying type, pray for me because I'm ... I, I don't know how I'm gonna do with this.

Jennifer: You know, I was surprised at how, how disciplined my kiddo was in terms of good habits. I feel like they've talked about it in school so much, and other kids and their behaviors, so I'm, I'm sure it'll be okay.

Miranda Webber: I, I'm, I'm hoping s- yeah, I am too. It's just sometimes I'm, like, thinking, "Is she gonna do what the others do, or is she going to do the things we have taught her at home and go that route. And hopefully not feel [00:05:00] pressured?" Because, you know, that for- 14 to, like, I would say ... I guess for me it was, like, 14 to 16 was, like, that pressure stage, if you know what I mean.

Like, you're changing. You're in high school. You wanna fit in, but you wanna be yourself, and you wanna make sure you're doing things that you know is right, but then you see others do that maybe your parents aren't saying is right, but it's okay for them to do because Mom and Dad say on that end that it's okay.

So it's like that pressure stage that I think all of us go through it as teenagers. And so it'll be, it'll be interesting. I think I'm throwing in high school, phone, and then, she's as of right now, she, um, got into the IB program for her high school. And so she's gonna go play soccer there too.

So she's big into soccer. And she [00:06:00] still has stayed as a keep for her traveling team and everything. So she's navigating that. It's just all the other stuff that I guess maybe I feel like I've maybe sheltered her, but maybe I didn't.

Maybe I didn't, and I'm just being naive.

Jennifer: Well, maybe it's a, maybe it's a mix of both.

Miranda Webber: Yeah.

Jennifer: We ended up getting the phone in sixth grade, but it was because of travel sports. Because she was going on a bus and we're like, "How do we know when the bus is gonna come back if she doesn't have a phone?"

Miranda Webber: Y- y- yeah.

Jennifer: That's, that's what ended up being the challenge for us, is just like being able to, to pick her up from, then that time, at that point it was softball, pick her up from her softball games.

Miranda Webber: Yeah.

Jennifer: So.

Miranda Webber: She does have those watches. Like, we have a, like, a Verizon watch, so it's like a kid watch. So when they would do, like, field...

Yeah, so you know, like, we do those field trips and stuff? She would wear that, but she knew [00:07:00] that it was just on. And I would just track her that way just to make sure. But at the same time, she just knew that I was just using it to make sure if for some odd reason the bus would break down versus back in the day when we were all growing up that we'd have to wait for somebody to call or we'd have to go back to the school or some type of crazy thing 'cause cell phones weren't a thing.

At least here I can track her and be like, "Oh, something's wrong with the bus. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have to meet them at the school," but at least I can kinda see where she's at and making sure she's okay type of thing. But other than that, I never let her use it.

Jennifer: Yeah. Like, uh- it was the Gizmo watch is what we had. I don't know if that's the

Miranda Webber: Yeah, we do too. Yep, yep, yep.

Jennifer: It's when it, it died is when we're like, "Okay, well, we have to either replace this or go ahead and get a phone." And so that's what we did.

Miranda Webber: Yeah

Jennifer: But.

Miranda Webber: Yeah. I, [00:08:00] yep, I gotcha, I gotcha. That's kind of where we were at. I haven't upgraded hers because we knew that this summer she was getting a phone. It was like, well, we'll just keep up- we'll keep, like, updating it and hope and pray it'll get us to close to August.

Jennifer: Yes, for sure. Well, we better dive into some more of these questions.

Miranda Webber: Yeah.

Jennifer: Otherwise we will never finish. Do you have a favorite recent layout or project?

Miranda Webber: I have been really being more intentional on what I'm doing. So without getting into, like, very deep, deep personal things. So January of this year was the first year probably a year and a couple of months. That I've been really doing a lot of layouts per month.

There was a lot going on with, like, friendships and life and just things in general for a little bit into 2024 and almost all of 2025. [00:09:00] Where I was on design teams for, I think I was up to six, seven, or eight of them. And they were very consistent, having two or three layouts, and I had to push those out a lot every month.

And it was always consistent when they would ask, "Hey, would you like to join back?" "Yes, I would like to come back," that, all of that, to where some of them closed. Um, some of them I decided not to join, again, for another term. And then I took a hiatus. Like, when all of them, either I said no or they were closing or decided not to have a design team anymore, I was like, "You know what?

I'm just not gonna do this." Now, kind of fast-forwarding in, in May-ish of 2025, The Scrap Room, Raquel, um, reached out to me and was like, "Hey, I know that you're guest - designing for me, in June. I was wondering if you saw the design team post [00:10:00] about it. Um, uh, we would really love to have you, but if you, if you can't, we, you know, we understand."

So I was like, "No, I saw it," and I was... And I sat here and pondered. I'm like, "Do I really want to do this at this time?" Because there were certain things going on in my life that I'm like, "Am I gonna give it my all?" And I was like, after a lot of thought, I was like, "Yes, I'll do it." I, I, 'cause I, kind of backwards a little bit.

When I did the guest designership for The Scrap Room in June of 2025, that was already in the works. Before all of the design teams kind of started to either I said no or disbanding, you know, in that respect. So I wasn't gonna tell her just because I took a break, I wasn't gonna do her guest design ship.

Because I'm one of them that when I say yes, I'm gonna do something, it's gonna get done. So I'm like, "Nope, I'm gonna do it," because it's only two [00:11:00] layouts a month. And I went from, I would say November of 2024 Up until May of 2025, there was zero layouts that went on. Zero.

Jennifer: Wow.

Miranda Webber: And I, a- a- and there was a lot.

A friendship is what really put me into this damper. And I had to get myself out of it, but I didn't know I was in the thick of it until, my closest friends have said something. And I was like, "I've got to start doing something for this. So that I can get back to doing what I love to do," which is scrapbooking.

So as I was doing this, I realized that my style has changed. I'm tired of producing 10, 12, 13 layouts a month. And producing stuff that I really didn't like. But I was doing it because I needed, you know, I had to do it for a design team. And I wasn't doing things for me. And for what [00:12:00] I wanted to do. I was doing it for them.

Even though they're my layouts and they're going to go in my album. So I would have to say since I have come back, I would honestly say there's not just one, but since I have came back full force in December of 2025 to current. I really enjoy what I have been doing. I can't say I do not like a single one of my layouts. Since I've come back because I've really been thoughtful on what I've been doing. And put into my layouts.

I still have my same mentalities of, if you can remember, 15 minutes a day, no matter what it is, you get in your room, you scrapbook, you edit. If you're a YouTuber, edit film, something, right? I still do that, but back then I wasn't doing that. And I [00:13:00] was in here to force out layouts, and then I came into this personal thing that really went too far into my life that I didn't realize it did, till I looked back at it.

And now I'm like, "Nope." If I don't like something, I stop. And I'm like, "Okay, let's rethink this." So I've kind of put that 15 minutes into thoughtfulness every day versus, "Oh, I gotta get this done. Oh, this DT needs to get done," or, "This needs to get done. I need to batch film. I need to do this." So it's more thoughtfulness of what I've been doing versus the other, you know, versus the other stuff that I was doing in the past.

And even when we did the podcast, you know, the filming the last time when we did this. Um, back then I wasn't really thoughtful on what I was doing.

Jennifer: So do you feel like that, this, this kind of, I don't know, the c- the coming back is also a sense of like freedom and escape, [00:14:00] where allowed you to, to dive deeper into your own style, and why you've been feeling so good about the pages you've made? Is that how you'd say it?

Miranda Webber: Y- yeah, because, I, I feel like when a person's not being thoughtful about things... Now, we can do things on the fly. We can, you know, sometimes you set yourself down a path and it may, you know, take a left or a right here and there, and you gotta kinda have that flexibility. And I'm not saying I'm very much rigid on what I'm doing, like it's gotta be this way or no way.

But it's wanting it to be more... I wanna enjoy what I'm doing versus producing so much for design teams and not liking what I'm producing. Even though they, you know, the world may like it, or the design team company may like it, or, you know, who's ever doing those. [00:15:00] I wanna like it for myself. And I've learned through, you know, talking through counselors, da, da, you know, all that fun stuff, um, that I had to get back to who I was and the way I used to do things, and that was being thoughtful and intentional of what I'm doing and how I'm saying things and how I'm putting stuff together.

Because when I look back at a lot of those layouts and through that time of where I kinda took a, a hiatus, in the retrospect of things, I wasn't doing stuff for me. I was doing it for everyone else. And if you don't take care of yourself, how can you take care of others and do things for others?

Jennifer: Certainly. Yes. Yes. Yes. yeah, it sounds very integrated between your life and your creativity and finding a new sense of balance.

Miranda Webber: Yes, for sure.

Jennifer: I- is there something new you're excited to do, use, or try in your scrapbooking or in your everyday life?

Miranda Webber: Well, I've been [00:16:00] reinventing, like, I've been kind of reinventing my, I guess, my rules of scrapbooking. So like, I know in here there's some things in here that we're gonna talk about that we'll get to. But it's like, I'm gonna bring up the chickens. 'Cause I,

Jennifer: Yeah.

Miranda Webber: I saw the note, okay? And I think it's kinda funny to say 'cause I have no chickens. I live in town, i've got houses all over me. My backyard is a wood line, and if you go past the wood line, there's another set of houses. But my last layout, and it was funny, so, um, I was, you know, reading the notes and I g- I giggled when you brought up the chicken thing. Because I'm like, "Why not?

I have a house. Doesn't mean I have to have chickens, and I can't not use this paper because I don't have no chickens in my, you know, in my layout.

Jennifer: It's just about the overall vibe of the [00:17:00] chickens.

Miranda Webber: I'm like, the chickens are up in a coop, and I've got pictures. To give y'all context, y'all, if you don't know what I'm talking about, the non-literal embellishments that some of these companies give you. To the people that are very literal, and I am in my life.

So, but in my scrapbooking world, a non-literal thing would be why would you have chickens on your layouts when, one, there's no chickens in your photos, and two, if I remember correctly, I had one outside photo and the rest of them were my inside photos of my downstairs.

And I have chickens up in the rafters because the paper, it's 49 and Market, and it's one of the papers, Whispering Way, I think. And it had the rafters, and the chickens were in the rafters. And then I added the little chicks and I added butterflies, and I think a windmill was on this one. And I'm not on a farm, I'm in town.

Jennifer: Well I [00:18:00] think this is where it's important, whether you're shopping for something new or trying to use something you have, that those things, like even like the weird llamas or whatever thing that, that you happen to have.

Miranda Webber: Yeah.

Jennifer: That could create a, a, party vibe or, you know.

Miranda Webber: Mm-hmm.

Jennifer: It makes you feel and the impression that you wanna give.

So maybe, you know, home is, uh, nostalgic or peaceful or, um, maybe it reflects your decor style even though you do live in town. So there's so many different.

Miranda Webber: Y- yeah.

Jennifer: Interpretations and reasons why you could pick a supply like that that has nothing to do with.

Miranda Webber: Correct.

Jennifer: With what it actually is.

Miranda Webber: Honestly, the reason why I got it was because of the Highlander cows that are in it. My decor in my downstairs. So I have a two-story house, and my downstairs is, like, my area. And then the upstairs, while I scrap room, my room is in the upstairs. We turned one of the bedrooms [00:19:00] into a, like, office-type space for me. And so the upstairs living room is, like, my husband's man cave. So the vibe up here.

Jennifer: Mm-hmm.

Miranda Webber: More the grungy, you know, man vibe. Downstairs I have blacks and grays on my walls, and my accent color is, like, olive, so it's like that Scandinavian style.

But my big elements are Highlander cows, and that's why I bought the collection, was because of the Highlander cows.

Jennifer: So there was a literal connection too, so.

Miranda Webber: There was, but when you put chickens on a layout, I, I... You wouldn't believe the amount of comments I got.

Jennifer: Yeah.

Miranda Webber: Like, "There's no chickens." And I'm like, um, you know, I'm not saying that I bought it because I used to live on a farm, but I could kind of interpret it to that.

I used to have chickens when I grew up. I used to have cows and steers and bulls and horses. I could [00:20:00] kinda tweak it back to that and be like, "Hey, you know, I'm acting like I have a farm without a farm 'cause I used to live on one."

Jennifer: Yeah, and you have-- That's, it's part of who you are, so...

Miranda Webber: Yeah. But truly though, I'm one of them that if the color matches, it, I use it. And that's always been my thing. You know, saying the two things that I always say is, "They made the collection for a reason. You bought it for a reason, so then use it." You know, so obviously, if the color matches, then use it. Who cares, you know, who cares what the embellishments are?

Jennifer: Yeah.

Miranda Webber: You know what I'm saying so it it can be hard. Um sometimes you can't get past the fact that it's a chicken. Not that anything's wrong with that collection but I understand because I used to be that person. I never purchased 49 and market like I don't know how I'm gonna use this. I have almost all of their [00:21:00] collections since I've came back to scrapbooking. Because I love their mutedness their very boho vibe. I'm just using them as an example because they're the ones that give you those non-literal things like a highlander cow and a calf and a chicken and a horse. You know the farm life.

Jennifer: What do you think changed for you to be so kind of, uh, not attracted to those supplies to really embracing it in terms of being, you know, anti-49er Market.

Miranda Webber: Yeah I think we evolve. You know, as a person, if you don't like learn something new every day or, you know, the saying of you can't just be the same person every minute of your life because you're not, then you're not growing type of thing. I think learning what I went through and learning what I didn't see.

Jennifer: Mm.

Miranda Webber: Changed my [00:22:00] perspective, not only in my personal life, but everything around me.

Not only in scrapbooking, but teaching, my personal life, and then just in general. And I think I was proactively not noticing something that I should have noticed, or at least in my mind, I'm like, "Why did I not notice that?" So now, because I didn't notice something that was so huge and important of who I was then, I'm being more intentional to make sure I don't miss those signs again. And I think that's why I was glad, not that I didn't want to stay on design teams, because I love the design teams.

I love doing all that. I did love doing all that. But I'm glad that that went away. I'm glad that I stepped away from my favorite thing that I love to do, which is scrapbooking, and got a [00:23:00] new sense of me.

Jennifer: Mm-hmm.

Miranda Webber: And then taking that sense into my scrapbooking, and that's when my style started to change. And I noticed that.

Jennifer: Would you say that you're more in touch with your feelings now through, by working with a therapist and really understanding and, and going through this process?

Miranda Webber: Oh, only if you could see my face right now. I, I, I gave you the stink eye on that one. I, I still don't do my feelings. I think, I'll be honest, I, I grew up where feelings was not shown. So- It's, it's hard to say, "Oh yeah, I'm, I'm in touch with my feelings." I may be, but I don't show it. And then, you know, you got the military because, you know, military, everything around 24 years of it, you don't show it, you can't show it there either.

So I think being in touch with those feelings, I'm probably there, and I probably was there, and going through all of that. I just [00:24:00] don't express it as maybe as what other individuals do, but I take that expression into my layouts. If you would go back to what I've done prior leading up to, like, the hiatus of things, and then you come into what I'm doing now, it's very different.

They're different, for sure.

Jennifer: So one thing that I notice is that you do scrapbook a lot of non-people photos, and I can empathize because my kid does not want me to take photos anymore. And so I have fewer things to often take photos of.

Miranda Webber: Yeah, so I started, . I know everybody does, like, a s- something like this of, like, 52 weeks of 52 photos of some sorts. You know, they call it f- you know, like, it's your one layout that you should do a week or w- you know, however you wanna do it. So back in January of 2025 when I thought I could try to get myself going again. Because I took such a long break [00:25:00] because of everything else, there was, like, a smidgen of time where I s- so tried to wanting to get back into this. I'm good. I f- I figured I got everything through. I knew what was wrong with me. I th- thought I fixed it, which I didn't. I thought I fixed it. Okay, I'm gonna do this. Well, I came up with, well, why don't I do 52 weeks of my favorite 52 photos?

That'll at least get me 52 layouts done. That's one layout a week. That should be easy to do, right? So I thought.

Jennifer: Do you respond well to challenges? Like, does that excite you?

Miranda Webber: It, it depends on how the challenge is given to me. So if a person just come to me and says, "Hey, I need you to "Be challenged with this," I'd probably look at you and be like, "Nope, not doing it. Because you're wanting a reaction out of me. But if somebody comes up and tells me, "Oh, you can't do something. Oh, watch me.

It's gonna get done, and I'm gonna do it more than what you expected me to do because I'm gonna make it look like I'm so over the top [00:26:00] that you're never gonna wanna challenge me again. Because that's where my mind goes. And that was kind of... It goes back, that goes back to my growing up. I had an individual in my life that would tell me I couldn't do things, and so I had to prove I felt like in that time, um, I had to prove to show, mm-mm, you don't tell me that I can't do something.

I'm gonna show you that I'll do it better than what you thought I was gonna do, and I'm gonna make it so over the top that you won't ask me again. And I think I kinda just made that goal with my challenges. I think at that time it was I don't mind scrapbooking the minute stuff. I don't mind scrapbooking a picture of my coffee cup sitting somewhere, in my room or my craft room or if that's all I only took for, like, three weeks in a row.

I don't mind taking photos of landscapes or, you know, do- you know, like my house. [00:27:00] Um, when we talked the first time, I- if I remember correctly, I think I was only in my house for, like, maybe a year, and so I didn't get to do anything. 'Cause I had to wait for the contractors to be done. So all my walls were white or builder paint white, and so I was like, "I documented all that. I took all those photos. Why am I not putting this in a layout?"

And so those were the things that I went back to when I started the 52 weeks, and then it... Like, I fell off again. Because I got back into that rut that I thought I so-called fixed myself, and I thought I was good. And then when, obviously, when I was talking about the Scrap Room, they asked me to join, and then going forward, the two a week or the two a month. Um, I kinda struggled in the beginning.

And obviously, um, I had conversations with Raquel and about that over there and [00:28:00] saying, "Hey, you know, give me some time. I gotta get back into the swing of this 'cause I haven't done a design team in well over..." By that time, it was, I would say, six, seven months.

Filming was rough 'cause, you know, you had to get back into the swing of it, right? I think knowing that I was in that harder time and, you know, that harder part of those chapters of your life and then coming out of it, I realized that it's okay that you don't scrapbook like everybody else.

I really enjoy doing what I'm doing now. There for a long time, I was doing it because it was required of me. Because I joined a design team. It's required for me to do X, Y, Z to get whatever out of it, right? Well and it wasn't, I didn't join them and was fighting through it. That was not it. I love the design teams that I was on.

I was on one of them for six years. The shop is [00:29:00] closed, but I was the OG and I was the only one left when she shut down her shop. So I wouldn't stay that long if I didn't like what I was doing with that particular company. But I think I was going through the motions and not really having feelings with it.

And I love that I got feeling back, even though I may not show it. But I know I have it because I see it in my papers. I see it in my layouts.

Jennifer: Well and There's something that-- about finding those stories that otherwise wouldn't be told. Um, I was, uh, taking my camera with us to a volleyball tournament last weekend, and I was trying to take some test shots on my desk just to make sure everything was working okay.

Miranda Webber: Mm-hmm.

Jennifer: I took a photo of my, my headphones, you know, and I wear these.

Miranda Webber: Mm-hmm.

Jennifer: Uh, noise-canceling headphones a lot nowadays.

And I'm like, "This is a d-- A, it's a decent photo, and B, this is actually a, a not insignificant part of my life where I'm wearing noise-canceling [00:30:00] headphones on the treadmill, in a Starbucks when I'm recording podcast episodes. Um, when I wanna watch something in the living room which is not what my family wants to watch." Uh, so that is a story in itself. And it's maybe not the one that would come if I'm scrolling through my library. I'm gonna think, "Oh, well, I haven't scrapbooked, you know, that birthday party." But if I really think about it, that is a very worthy story about what my life is like right now.

Miranda Webber: And that's the thing is, is that we, I feel like we as scrapbookers, we scrapbook everybody else's life, but we forget about ours. What about us?

Jennifer: Mm-hmm.

Miranda Webber: Me taking that photo every week about what my coffee cup looks like as an example, because I do do that a lot. I scrapbook those. I go back on Instagram if I posted it there or Facebook or whatever. Or say, if it was April, I [00:31:00] could go back in April, even though I may not have talked about it on social media, I could scroll through what was I doing during that day or that timeframe to be like, "Why did I take that photo?" And then scrapbook it. And I don't journal on my pages. I don't like to journal.

Very seldom do I journal. But I do a, video planner. And I sit and write down like what I did the video on, so, you know, if it's a hop or a design team, what day it's gotta film, just so that I can keep up with myself.

But then in there, I document my process so that I have something to talk about when I do my voiceovers. What inspiration came from and what the photo's about. So when you're listening to my YouTube channel, I try to use that thought process now versus what I used to do in the [00:32:00] past. In the past, I never did this.

I started this not necessarily because my, my counselor/life coach thought I should. I did it once and I was like, "This is nuts." Like, why? But then the more I did it, I actually enjoy writing down my process, writing down the materials I use, writing down what the photo is, and then document like the page numbers. Because those page numbers is how many layouts I've done so far in the month, the year, or whatever you wanna look at it.

So if I do the videos that I have done process-wise, like filmed in January, I'm up to 56 since January. So that gives me my knowledge of I've already surpassed 52 weeks, if you [00:33:00] think about it.

I've already scrapbooked more than what a year's worth of photos I should have done with my challenge that I did in January. That I started in January of last year. 'Cause I- we rolled it over into this year. 'Cause, the group that does it with me, I asked, I was like, "Hey, do we wanna do this again?"

They're like, "Yes." So I've already done 56. So that means I'm already four layouts over what I would have done if I would have just done one a week.

It feels fantastic, you know. And if I really truly wanted to go and look and say, "Hey, this is how many I've done truly since January, I would say probably 10 more we got added to that, so I'd probably be 65, maybe 66.

So that's fantastic. Because that's way more than I did in 2025. I, I, I think I maybe have done 30 layouts, maybe 40 tops in 2025.[00:34:00]

Jennifer: Well, it sounded like you needed the practice of taking photos. Again, the practice of, of filming, of recording.

Miranda Webber: Yes.

Jennifer: Understanding, you know, how we're gonna combine things together to find a new groove for yourself.

Miranda Webber: Yes. Yes, for sure.

Jennifer: So I really wanna talk about some of these things that you really do on every single layout, and it's so interesting. Because I started writing some things down. I'm like, "Well, maybe this is just, like, on this one." I'm like, "Oh, no, that she really does this on a lot of pages." And the the first one is so distinct is that you mount a pattern paper on a larger piece of cardstock. Like you... But you only cut... It's not like a one-inch border. This is, like, a quarter inch maybe around the edge. How, how did that get started? Was it functional or creative?

Miranda Webber: Mercy Tiara

Jennifer: Okay.

Miranda Webber: So Tracy Banks.

Jennifer: Yeah.

Miranda Webber: If you don't know who Tracy Banks is, she's from [00:35:00] Canada. She used to do, um, Mercy Tiara She's still on there. She does a Patreon channel, um, and that's where she does most of her stuff, and I've been a Patreon of hers for years. And it's a, it's a priceless plug here, but she did a very, very, very, and when I say a very bright layout, I was like, "What in the God's green earth is she d- she wants us to do what?"

And me, the very non-bright person, I'm like, "How in the heck am I gonna do this challenge?" Uh, i- so in the Patreon chat, or in, like, the Patreon thing, if anybody doesn't know, you kinda do, like, what we're doing here, but we get to see the videos. And we're live, and we can either talk there or get on Discord and talk, and, I literally said, "You're nuts." And Mercy Tiara's like, "No, you gotta do..." And I said, "You're nuts." So then she [00:36:00] started putting black cardstock around her papers, and I'm like, " Now you're wasting a black piece of paper. I'm like, "This is not making sense." So as she's going through this, I realized what she was doing was taking her bold papers and giving them a box within a box.

So if you look at it, it's like, okay, so that's, like, one box, right, for your layout. That's the outside. Well, then, if you want to make it look like your eye to go into the center, she was taking a black border, like a very thin one like you would do around your photo.

Jennifer: Mm-hmm.

Miranda Webber: Around the, those big, bright papers she was using.

And she's very much pattern on pattern on pattern, and I'm a very much pattern on pattern. Tracy and I were a lot alike when it comes to that. She would do patterns. It didn't matter to her. I, it didn't matter to me either. But she was taking those big, [00:37:00] bold, patterned papers that I'm just like, "What are you doing?"

And putting a black, thin cardstock around it. And it toned it down enough to make it very minimum, where it wasn't like, boom, it's in your face, and she used all these patterned papers. And that's what started my obsession. Sometimes I'll use other dark colors but it's typically white or black.

But that's why.

Jennifer: I, I mean, I'm familiar with her, but I, I haven't really watched her, her channel before. I, I love that concept of kind of grounding a busy pattern paper.

Miranda Webber: Mm-hmm.

Jennifer: Giving it a container to live within, rather than it it's just expanding and overtaking you. So.

Miranda Webber: Yeah, correct.

Jennifer: Now you also draw a border around the border.

Miranda Webber: Yep, I do.

Jennifer: And you, and you do that a lot.

Miranda Webber: Yes, I do. I do it on everything.

Jennifer: I love a good hand drawn border around a lot of things. I do, I do it very similarly too.

Miranda Webber: I know, and I'm trying to think of where that came from. It was [00:38:00] her too. I think if I remember correctly she did it and I loved it. And then I couldn’t stop doing either of them. It was like its almost my signature I get more comments about you didn’t line your paper than I do anything else. Because I changed it up. But yes, I do do that. I do the border within the border. I do the line borders, and I'll do it on... I do, I know why I started the line. Now I remember. So back when I was talking about, you know, the black paper on the pattern papers. Okay, so if you didn't wanna use up all your paper, I was telling them way in the beginning when I did this, take your pen and do the black border around. Or a white border if you love them white gel pens.

They're like my nemesis. But, um, those two, use those, and it's like a box within a box, so it tones them down, or it gives them dimension without giving them dimension. [00:39:00] So if you take those black pens of whatever, you know, you could use the thick ones. I use the fine Sharpies, you know, most people use for anything else but scrapbooking, and that's what I use around them. So if you don't wanna use all that card stock to make it thick, use the pen, and it still gives you that dimension.

Jennifer: Correct. Correct. Yeah. And I mean, some people will like cut out the center if they're matting something. I find a little fussy that there's... like doing it, um, but I understand.

Miranda Webber: Don't either.

Jennifer: Get the most out of your paper. One of the other things I noticed is that you are often, like, making... Like, yes, we, we often make like maybe embellishment clusters off the page, but you're making like layers of papers. Like strips of papers, or you're multi-matting your photos multiple times, and you're doing this kind of off the page, and then you're adhering this bundle down.

Miranda Webber: I don't need my foundation paper to be underneath my photos. [00:40:00] I have a glass mat. Um, any mat. It doesn't matter what type of mat you have, as long as you have, like, the lines. I just know where my 12, where my 12-by-12 is. So I use my foundation. I get that done, and a lot of times, that could be off drawing, or I need lines to make sure.

I'm one of them that I don't like crooked things. And if I use my foundation, it's not straight. Like, I mean, it is straight, but if I need it really straight, I use my lines on, like, my glass mat or whatever that I'm using. And then I'll just, if I've got that already adhered, I'll use then my background piece that I'm needing it to go on.

I'll bring that back in, make sure that that's lined up 12-by-12 straight. And then I'll place it down. And then I'll work in my, my corners. I always start in the inside and work my way out. a lot of times I don't use my photos as my [00:41:00] focal point. It's typically what the photos are about is what my, n- not even my title, it's my, um, it's what the photos are about.

So it could be the event or whatever and that's my style of do I want it in the center do I want it off to the side. Do I want the embellishments to be more of the focal point

Jennifer: Mm-hmm.

Miranda Webber: Or do I want the title to be big or is this going to be one of them that I need a cut file and I'm going to put multiple photos on. But I don't need to show the whole photo. A lot of individuals and there's nothing wrong with this they won't cut into their photos. They'll do four by six or three and a half by five or whatever other sizes they have. Right. And but to cut down them down it's like scary to them. And it's fine I get it but it's okay to cut out the white side like the white [00:42:00] stuff. Or I call it the white noise. There's no point there's nothing there so cover it up or cut it out. Because then you can add more things to tell the story outside of just the photos. And that's why I don't journal I don't journal. Because if you want to know something about the photos let me know I'll tell you. Because I'm I'm pretty good about remembering what this was.

Jennifer: Sounds like your video planner is kind of turning into a memory keeping document as well.

Miranda Webber: Yeah that too for sure. I I do I try to remember that not everybody scrapbooks like me. So when I am doing my voiceovers or my process videos I try to explain to them that I'm like look you can do it other ways. This is just how I do it. But you can take little bits of what I do and turn it into your own. You could take that the splatters or you could take me [00:43:00] doing the border like the cardstock and then cutting that little strip around to give yourself a little bit of something that's fine too. You can still do your style within everybody else's style.

You're just taking bits and pieces. It's just like a sketch. You're starting out with a layout that you're scrap lifting. You could literally just take the placement of the photo where you place it on yours, and that's considered a scrap lift. Because you used that as your inspiration, and that's okay. It doesn't have to be everything.

Jennifer: Yeah, yeah. Well and I think it's about it as am I taking the style? Am I taking a technique? Am I, knowing that there's so many different layers to a page that you're looking at that you can, um, absorb, copy, uh, keep for later, uh, whatever, whatever works for you.

Miranda Webber: Yeah, most definitely.

Jennifer: So you were talking about dimension, and I know like you, you're the one, you're gonna fold the butterflies. You're gonna like bring up the, the leaves of a flower.

Miranda Webber: Mm-hmm.

Jennifer: And [00:44:00] you also use a distressing tool quite a bit on a lot of things.

Miranda Webber: Yes.

Jennifer: How long have you been doing that?

Miranda Webber: Well, the dimension side, I think I've been doing... I learned a lot of that when I was in Germany. When we got stationed over in Germany, I met two very amazing friends that we're still friends now. One of 'em, our kids are the same age. We, we've, our kids have grown up. One of 'em... So one's a freshman. My daughter's an eighth-grader, and then she's got a sixth-grader. So now it's gonna be a sophomore, freshman, and a seventh-grader come this next school year, and we, we've learned a lot from each other. She's taken things from me, and I've gotten things from her.

And she's the one that's like, "It's okay to do these little things." Well, I've taken these little things and either added it to everything I did. I don't think I have a single layout in years that is not distressed. I [00:45:00] don't think I have... I, I, I don't know how far back I could go in any of my albums that wouldn't be distressed or have dimension of some sort.

Jennifer: And it's, it's so interesting because I've, uh, c- I came from digital scrapbooking to paper. Um, so I didn't come from like a traditional scrapbooking place, and I, I had learned about like even inking the edges and, and some distressing. But the distressing of die cuts is so genius to me because sometimes they're just so flat.

Miranda Webber: Y- yes.

Jennifer: This is a little piece of paper, um, of a, you know, a camera. But.

Miranda Webber: Yeah.

Jennifer: How can we make this look more organic to the page, uh, and just not so, not so two dimensional.

Miranda Webber: Well, yeah, it's even the stickers. I think for me it's the stickers that are the worst. And I think it's because you can distress like the paper embellishments and paper and all [00:46:00] of that. It's a little bit harder to distress a sticker. Now, can you do it? Yes, 'cause I've done it.

Um, I, I mean, I've done it just so that it's not so, like, like I placed it there and it's in the wrong spot type of thing. And, you know, sometimes I feel like, "Is this gonna look good?" Or I try to hide 'em. Like, I'll tuck 'em in under things so that where you can do dimension or you can do distressing to give it a little bit of life, there's a little bit more life to it.

Um, that's why I think I've gotten to like 49 & Market a little bit more, or like the laser-cut stuff. Because they have... Even though that they're flat, right, like, there, there's something to them to make them look more realistic than like a sticker. Or like what you were saying, like just putting a piece of paper down or a, a, you know, a die cut down and it's just flat.

Jennifer: Yeah, it's been so interesting to see [00:47:00] how the manufacturers are using different, like, weights nowadays. Like.

Miranda Webber: Yeah. Yeah,

Jennifer: The laser cuts and, um, oh, the, the paper repacks that have been in some of the Vicki Boutin collections. Um, some of those almost, like, me 'cause I'm like, "This is just so thin. What am I supposed to do with this?" But I think it is, it is giving us new opportunities for, for layering, for dimension, for, uh, playing with things in different ways.

Miranda Webber: Well, we've evolved, right? Like, we keep trying to evolve ourselves. So.

Jennifer: Yeah.

Miranda Webber: For, for example, like you were talking about digital scrapbooking. So I, I never did digital, period.

Jennifer: Mm-hmm.

Miranda Webber: I... And I have, I do have the printer. I have the Canon printer that prints out 12 by 12 papers from one edge to the other, and I do use it.

But I realize that I'm not one to [00:48:00] like do digital digital. Like, I'll get like the digital... Like, I don't do digital. Like, I don't go on... You know what I mean? Like, it's like hybrid. Yeah.

Jennifer: Yeah.

Miranda Webber: I'll print out the digital stuff, and I'm like, "I don't like how this looks and feels." Now, do I love the paper that I...

Yes. I'm the one that bought the paper to be able to print it out, right? So I know that the, it's not the paper, but I'm just like, I think there's something to say. And I don't know exactly what it is, but it's something about getting the paper in from other companies that makes my life a little bit easier.

Because when I print it out, it looks different than, say, you would print it, print out the same thing on whatever printer you have, right? And if we would put it together, we don't look the same. And I think that, like, messes my [00:49:00] OCD brain up. Because my printer and your printer should print out the same thing, but they're not going to, and it messes, it messes it up.

So while I tried hybrid, I don't necessarily enjoy it. But I see a ton of individuals that do it, and I love what they do.

Jennifer: You mentioned in one of your videos, like you enjoy making hard things simple. Um, in terms of like using mixed media, but not, not going to 110% or level 11. You're doing it like your level and trying to make it, uh, still approachable and fun for you.

Miranda Webber: Yeah. Well and that not just for me, but for other individuals that may not have dipped into it yet or don't know where to start. I mean, I love the junk journals. I mean, junk journals are huge. Um, a lot of people do 'em. And I was just at a crop, during my spring break, and, there was a lady that sat right next to [00:50:00] me, and she became a, like, my whole table, we all ended up becoming friends. 'Cause I went to a crop by myself and didn't know anybody else. But lo and behold, I did actually know quite a bit of 'em, I just didn't realize they were going, 'cause I've met them at other crops, and we ended up all kind of sitting together. And my table mate was doing a bunch of decoupage, all of this, taking,

they had the What is it called? Gel plate. Is that a gel plate?

Jennifer: The Gelli plate? Yeah.

Miranda Webber: Yeah, yeah. Okay, they're taking that and taking these random things and putting them on there, then rolling more paint on it. And I'm like, " What in the world are you doing?" And, and she was explaining it, right?

She flipped it over and she was showing me, "Well, this is what it'll actually look like," and I'm still like, " You are doing all that work for the bubbles?"

Like, I'm all confused. And so, like, that's the mixed media that I, I [00:51:00] c- I can't get my brain to, like... Like, I see it and I'm like, "But how are you gonna use it?" She did the first layer, and then she got my... This is gonna sound funny, but I, I know why she did it. So some of the really cheap paper towels you get have those weird pattern, patterns on them.

They're not just like plain. So she put that down as like the bubbles. Like, 'cause it ended up looking like bubbles after she pulled the, napkin off. And so then couple weeks later, she actually got to use whatever she made at the retreat, and she showed me.

It was a card that she made, and it actually looked gorgeous. Like, I would, if, if that would got sent to me, I would've been like, "Oh, this is so cool. I can tell that it's handmade." I really would have enjoyed getting that card, so whoever that is going to would enjoy getting that card. But in the beginning, my brain couldn't go that deep into mixed media. So I think [00:52:00] for me, my mixed media, I try to make it simple and easy to use. So that if you wanna make it more complex, go for it. But if you don't, here's a simpler way to do it. And so that's why, like, on my channel recently, when I joined the Crafty Maven Getaway, I used to be on her design team through Hannah.

I used to do it a long time ago. That was one of my DTs. But then she, had some life stuff, so then she quit the design team part of her business because she just couldn't keep up with it with everything else. She emailed me saying, "Hey, you made part of the design team." She gives me a call right away and she's like, "I don't want you to overthink your mixed media. I need you to be the simple one." And I was like, thi- 'cause I was like, "You ain't gonna get much more than that."

Jennifer: Yeah.

Miranda Webber: But she needed that. Part of her team, she needed that. Because she does, her focal [00:53:00] points are mixed media. Like, when she does her layouts, she has less paper and uses fibers.

So it's, like, all the texture-y, fiber-y type stuff with the mixed media. So that's her backgrounds on a 12 by 12 layout. She doesn't use a lot of embellishments or paper. She uses her mixed mediums and fibers for her background and her embellishments. I'm the opposite. I use mixed media for my background, and then use the paper die cuts and photos as the main focal point.

Like, the background's my extension to what I'm trying to achieve. Where hers is the other way around. While, yes, she wants her photos to be the focal point, but she does a huge, a bigger part of her layout is mixed media. So when I a- asked to see if, you know, wanted to do the design team call and turn myself [00:54:00] in for that part of it, um, and she came back, she's like, "I need you to stay simple.

I want you to use my stuff and do simple." And that's what I've been doing. I, you know, sometimes I make it a little bit more than others, but a lot of times you see me with stencils. I don't do a lot of backgrounds without the stencils. Splattering, all that kind of stuff is just typical stuff that I feel like most people do if they want a little bit of mixed media.

Splatters is the best way to go. If you wanna dip into it, splatters. Um, that's what I did. Before Germany, I never touched mixed media. Never touched it. You would never think with the layouts I've done that I've never touched mixed media in my life. It wasn't until I went over to Germany, met my two friends that I have now, those are the ones that got me into mixed media.

And I've, I've taken mixed media further than what they use, but they're the ones that got me into it, and they started me out with splatters. And then I [00:55:00] went from there.

Jennifer: I love hearing how you've kind of picked up these different things from, from different fellow creators and have molded them into your own style.

Miranda Webber: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so that's why I feel like if you get anything out of, you know, this episode of, you know, of the podcast, of this season. Don't think you have to act like every other scrapbooker. Stay true to yourself, pick up on things, try new things, but don't think you have to do what every scrapbooker does.

Stay true to yourself. Because you're going to enjoy scrapbooking a lot longer if you do that than trying to stay with everyone else and try to keep up with the Jones. You don't need to do that in scrapbooking. Take little pieces, work with it.

If it doesn't work, find something new if you want to or stick true to yourself. 'Cause you're [00:56:00] gonna feel better in the long run anyway, and you're gonna enjoy your layouts a lot longer. Versus looking at them and saying, "Why did I do that? Why do I need to do that?"

Jennifer: I certainly have, uh, a collection of pages from a certain time that, that, that feel that way,

Miranda Webber: Oh, me too.

Jennifer: Yeah. Now, one of the, like, the tools that you've been using to really make things simpler is these giant black and white paint sticks. So can you tell me what these are? I've not seen these before.

Miranda Webber: They're, they're, honest to God, they're Liquitex paint sticks. Go onto amazon.com and type in Liquitex paint sticks, and they're just, they're, they're a tube of paint. And you push down on it, and you just shake it, and it drops splatters. Like, um, you know how enamel dots look kind of like there's a little bit of a bump to it?

Jennifer: Yeah.

Miranda Webber: Like a cheaper version of that.

Jennifer: Okay.

Miranda Webber: You know, by the time that you buy enough enamel dots, you could have probably used one paint [00:57:00] stick for that timeframe, right?

Jennifer: Yes.

Miranda Webber: You know. So that's what they are. They're literally a paint stick. They're on Amazon.

Jennifer: Okay. We'll link 'em up.

Miranda Webber: Yeah. Yeah, and if you go to my channel, they're in my, they're in my description.

Like, if you click on the links, they take you right to Amazon. That's where they're at.

Jennifer: Yeah.

Miranda Webber: And they're white and black.

Jennifer: Yeah, I'm gonna definitely check those out because those two core colors, there, there's always a use for black and white splatters. Um, and my little bottle of, of old Heidi Swapp Color Shine Gold.

Miranda Webber: Oh.

Jennifer: Holding on to.

Miranda Webber: Y'all. Oh, my God. That, that gold Color Shine, that, that was the one that I said I was never gonna use in my life, and I've never, after I bought one I never bought it again. Because I don't think I sh- I, I'll probably be honest, but I'm almost betting I didn't shake it up well enough.

Jennifer: Yeah, you really do have to, to shake it well, too. And now I think a lot of the, the portion of [00:58:00] it that is more evaporative perhaps has changed, so the, the composition is quite different than it was, say, 15 years ago. Well, let's end, though, on a positive note with, like, kind of a, a quick rundown of some of your current favorites. Um, what about adhesives?

Miranda Webber: Stampin' Up!'s dimensionals. I, I have a full drawer of all of theirs. If they would ever stop selling theirs, I'm gonna be in trouble. That's my adhesive.

Jennifer: What about your liquid glue versus, uh, tape and foam.

Miranda Webber: That's the Art Glitter Glue. That's what I use. I know that some of them will use the Scotch one, um, that's the fine line, fine, in that fine liner bottle or whatever they call. I know that they're very comparable, so, um, I just know that mine is the Art Glitter Glue. And I've had the same bottle for three years. I just fill it up.

Jennifer: Oh, okay.

Miranda Webber: Yeah, I just ... 'Cause you can buy, like, the bigger bottles just like you can with the Scotch. [00:59:00] I don't know what they call theirs, but their Scotch glue, that's kinda the same thing. The thing that I notice differently between the two, and maybe, and I could be wrong, but I know with the Art Glitter Glue, it doesn't leave, like, there's not a hint of ... You can't tell that there's glue there. Where I know with the Scotch, it would leave, like, a white hue. It was, like, almost like it wouldn't dry all the way.

Jennifer: Okay, great, great. What about your favorite pens for outlining and.

Miranda Webber: Those are Sharpies, the Sharpies fine liner. That's it. That's all it is, black.

Jennifer: And I notice you're using, like, a tool to pick up sequins, and I feel like there's this whole world of, like, I'm guessing this comes from the diamond art world that I don't understand. This, this uh, sorcery, I guess.

Miranda Webber: So it is on Amazon. They're jewel pickers. So you know when you would do either ... Yes, they would [01:00:00] use them for those diamond art things, you know, 'cause those, those little jewels are super, super small.

Jennifer: Yeah.

Miranda Webber: You, like, honestly, go to Amazon, and you type in jewel picker, and that's what comes up. And I don't know what Houdini stuff they do, but it works.

Jennifer: Okay.

Miranda Webber: Just, it, it ... And it, it works so well to the point where it ... I, I won't go back. I used to use my, I used to use, um, my tweezers. I used to use, like, all of these things. Nope, jewel picker it is. And I have a set that I scrapbook with here at home, and then I got a traveling set. I bought two of them.

Jennifer: My Amazon cart is going to keep getting larger here, I think.

Ok, what's your favorite distress color right now?

Miranda Webber: Oh, that'd be the Distress Spritz by, um, Tim Holtz, the Antique Linen. I use that for almost everything. And that, if you guys, [01:01:00] y'all in your Heidi Swapps, go to that and you'll never go back.

Jennifer: Okay, okay.

Miranda Webber: I'm challenging y'all 'cause I know there's a lot of y'all out there still hoarding those white bottles with the black and white lids. Mm-hmm, I know them.

Jennifer: And do you have any other, like, secret hacks that you use or random non-scrapbooking things you're using in your hobby? Like, just, you know, weird tips that you would share, 'cause I feel like you've got, you've got some.

Miranda Webber: Um, uh, man, um, I think.

Jennifer: Well, there was one that I noticed, so I can say that.

Miranda Webber: What was that?

Jennifer: You were talking about how if you, um... We just tend to think of rub ons as something we add to the background, but if you wait and add them last, it adds more, like, texture and dimension to the page because you're adding them partially over things.

Miranda Webber: So I did a layout where it had a bunch of, um, it was a cut [01:02:00] file. So the cut file that I was supposed to use, you can use it either as a stencil

Jennifer: Mm.

Miranda Webber: Or you could use it as like a background piece to like put paper on it, and it was like the little stars. Not like a star star, but more of like a, like a weird diamond shape.

Jennifer: Okay.

Miranda Webber: Like, you know how the stars up in the sky, you know how they kinda have that little middle and like the twinkle and the lines kinda coming out of it.

So that was the cut file. Well, what I decided to do was I used the negative pieces, so the actual little pieces of that cut file. I put it on my background, the negative I guess, or like the template of the stencil. I put that down, and then I took the little star pieces and glued them in on my background.

And then I took the stencil off, and then I left those stars on there. Well, I [01:03:00] was, as I was scrapbooking, I, decided I wanna use some of these rub ons, and in my brain I was like, "Oh, shoot," you know, blah, blah, blah. Glad I'm doing a voiceover because I know I said stuff I shouldn't. I wanted this rub on on there.

So I was like, "Well, here I go. I'm gonna take this chance. First time I've ever done this." So I rubbed it on there and I was like, "Ooh, I actually kinda like this." I kinda liked how it softened up the starkness of these stars. But then, but then how are you gonna see the stars? So then that's when I got out my black little Sharpie, my thin one, and I outlined the black stars on top of the rub on.

So as you rub it in, right, you're c- you're going over whatever it is, like the paper embellishments, right? But if you push it down enough and you take your black, like I would do the fine tip and just outline those pieces, [01:04:00] you're actually giving it dimension. 'Cause if you would take and look, like bring the 12-by-12 or whatever you're doing and put it, like, eye level with you, you can see the dimension. It's like dimension on dimension, and that's kinda what started my reasoning on why I'm like, it's okay to put rub ons on top. You know, e- because I really liked how that was. And there was a lot of people that commented that they're like, "Oh, I never thought to do this." And I was like, "Shoot, you, you and me both."

I didn't know that this was gonna work. I thought this was gonna be in the trash, scrapping this whole thing, starting all completely over because I messed up, and it actually turned out to be a really cool thing.

Jennifer: Awesome. I'm so glad that worked out.

Miranda Webber: Yeah.

Jennifer: Miranda, this has been such a fascinating conversation. Do you have any, like, final tips or things that you wanna share about what you have new or coming up this, later this year?

Miranda Webber: Well, [01:05:00] I, I mean, I'm gonna keep focusing on, you know, doing my layouts, being thoughtful and intentional. And then obviously you guys can definitely find me on all my social media platforms. Um, none of them have changed since the last one, so if you're there, thank you. If you're new, come on over. Um, I do know that I joined two design teams since I have taken time off.

So I'm part of the Scrap Room design team, and then I picked up the Crafty Maven Getaway. So now I'm kinda back on some design teams. I'm being more intentional about that. So my thing is, the last thing I wanna leave you with, with y'all is just be intentional and make sure that you're enjoying what you're doing.

Because if you're not enjoying it, stop, rethink, and then restart. Because I have realized, take my own advice, and I should have done this a lot sooner, is if you're not helping yourself [01:06:00] or keeping yourself healthy of whatever that is, you're not gonna be able to do things for others. But you have to do stuff for yourself, and if that means you're in the scrapbooking world and you love to do for others, start doing stuff for yourself. Because it's gonna make you feel better, and then in turn your stuff that you're gonna give away or do for others just looks that much better.

Jennifer: I love it. I love it. Thank you so much for spending time with me.

Miranda Webber: Yes, you too, and thank you for asking me to do this again. It's always been a pleasure.

Jennifer: And to all of our listeners, please remember that you have permission to scrapbook your way.