POP IT IN A POCKET

All things pocket scrapping

Paris street scenes. Created with Messy Pockets Squared

ALL THINGS POCKET-BASED

Pocket scrapping was coined to describe products by the iconic Becky Higgins, creator of ‘Project Life’’. She aimed to make memory-keeping simple by selling plastic photo protector sheets with standard sized pockets into which you could slip photos and also pre-designed ‘pocket cards’.

Of course, if you are creating digitally, you can crop your photos into any size and shape you want incredibly easily. But the concept of filling an album page with delineated photos and cards is one that has become an album-designing staple.

Nearly all my own personal travel, monthly summary and event page photobooks are essentially ‘pocket style’. Here are just a few pages from my albums:

All of these were made with my photobook templates, which allow you to create a page - or a whole album - simply by ‘dropping’ photos into the spots provided, and adding any cards, paint or elements you want.

It’s a fast, fun way to document those red letter days that otherwise might be lost in a camera roll, or languishing without ‘context’ in an old photo album or box.

This week at The Lilypad, the “Summer School” focus is pocket scrapping

And, as well as some fun inspiration for travel scrapbooking and how to use ‘pocket products’ in unexpected ways

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