Find the Sunshine and Embrace Optimism with the Keep Chasing Rainbows Collection
Chase the bright spots with Keep Chasing Rainbows, a joyful collection bursting with color and optimism.
Filled with cheerful rainbows, happy florals, uplifting sentiments, and playful patterns, this collection is perfect for documenting the moments that make life feel a little lighter. From everyday memories and family stories to pages about hope, growth, and finding the good after the rain, it brings vibrant energy and positivity to your scrapbook layouts.
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Penny
Sometimes the product picks the story, and that’s exactly what happened here—Keep Chasing Rainbows practically asked for a sky moment. With this bright, optimistic palette in hand, I went straight to my photo library and pulled my April 2024 solar eclipse photos from North Texas. The cheerful colors matched a day that was equal parts awe, laughter, and “can you believe we’re actually seeing this?”—and it felt like the perfect way to document a very real, very specific moment in time.
For this double-page spread, I leaned into a simple structure: a clean photo grid with twelve 3x3 images (six per page). With an event like an eclipse, I wanted the photos to do most of the talking—people, sky, and all the little context details that make the story complete. I included screenshots and timing graphics alongside the photos, because those “everydaydocumentation” pieces help anchor the memory and put you right back in the moment.
To keep the grid from feeling too rigid, I used the radiating rainbow “rays” as a bold foundation behind the photos and added a floral strip across the bottom to ground the design. A small stripe detail extending beyond the floral band helped balance the margins and tied the whole spread together without adding clutter. For the title, I kept it simple with TODAY, letting that single word carry the feel of the day while the journaling added just enough personality—eclipse glasses from Amazon, Velvet Taco via DoorDash, and making an afternoon of it.
My goal with this layout was to capture the wonder without over-embellishing: clean, bright, and photo-forward. I hope it inspires you to document your own “look up” moments—because sometimes the best memories are the ones that happen right in the middle of an ordinary day.
Ophelia
Springtime comes to mind when I see this kit. In my family, we have many March birthdays so it was naturally one of the pages I wanted to create. I wasn’t envisioning a birthday page but more of a springtime page using the rainbow theme for one of our March babies. I also wanted to focus on the wordbit about enjoying moments. Time goes by slow and fast throughout our lives and sometimes, when you look up, you don’t realize it’s been years. I still remember the cries and diapers while dealing with the sighs and lip gloss. I am cherishing every single moment.
Kristin
I knew when I saw the Keep Chasing Rainbows collection that I was going to use the rainbow paper in the collection and much of my layout was going to be centered around that rainbow paper...I mean who doesn't love a good rainbow?!? I kept envisioning a meadow of flowers and a beautiful rainbow in the sky...so that's what I set out to create.
I cut two of the green papers in the collection into several grass patches using a Cricut Design Space cut file. I then layered the grasses together to resemble a meadow. I printed and cut out a ton of the florals in the collection and layered them in the grassy meadow, popping them up on foam to give a 3D appearance. I chose photographs of my son enjoying a day admiring all of the flowers in a local conservatory and placed them above the meadow.
I then fussy cut the rainbow out and distressed the edges to give it some added dimension and arched it to give an appearance that it was coming out from behind the photographs. I used a sunburst stencil printed from a Cricut Design Space cut file to ink some sunrays. I then used the yellow sun paper to create a sun peeking out from behind the rainbow and used the orange plaid paper to create rays to alternate with the inked rays.
I finished the layout using "Magical Memories" as my title, layering up a few more flowers, and added some tone on tone word phrases from the collection to the rainbow. My goal was to create a happy, playful scenic layout and this collection fueled my creativity and allowed me to achieve that goal!
Sugarbabe Evelyn
Ana
Creating projects that reflect different seasons of life is one of the things I love most about memory keeping. Recently, our team worked on the newest collection of Story Foundations which was Plot Twist and I made a mini journal for myself. While working on that project, it had me reflecting on the unexpected turns life can take. It made me pause, think, and really process some of those plot twists that come our way.
So it felt extra special to sit down and create this new mini album using Traci Reed’s Keep Chasing Rainbows collection. After all the reflection from the Plot Twists project, making something colorful and optimistic felt like the perfect creative follow-up.
For the cover, I used one of the embellishments that says “Life is Good.” It felt like the perfect reminder that even when days are hard, a bad day doesn’t make a bad life. I layered the title with flowers, sequins, and colorful butterflies to give the cover a cheerful, uplifting feel.
To finish the outside of the album, I added a rainbow polka dot ribbon for the closure and a pretty white trim along the spine, which makes the mini cuter!
I always enjoy making mini albums that are interactive and not just filled with photos, so I included several fun elements inside.
For the first spread, I used some of the collection’s journaling cards with uplifting quotes like “you are so loved,” “whenyou can’t find the sunshine, be the sunshine,” “this life is pretty magical,” and “choose happy.” Each card has a tuck spot behind it where I added two tags and a journaling card. I also made cute decorative paper clips using the embellishments, which I layered and sealed with UV resin.
The next spread features side pockets with card inserts and photo mats. I kept one side of each insert blank so there’s plenty of room for journaling alongside the photos.
For the final spread, I kept things simple and sweet. I added floral embellishments, photo frames, and one of my favorite journaling cards from the collection that says, “and I think to myself, what a wonderful world.” It felt like the perfect way to close out the album.
This mini album is a reminder that even with life’s plot twists, there’s still so much color, joy, and magic to hold onto.