Creative Listing Using the Weekender Collection with Nikki

I absolutely love making creative lists! It’s such a fun way to be creative with all my fun scrapbook supplies.

Layle By Mail has a YouTube channel where she does lives and create lists almost every weekend and so I thought I would share how I use Traci Reed Designs to create a travellers notebook layout and design a list for our summer 2025 plans.

I used the weekender collection from Traci Reed to tell the story and even though it doesn’t have any photos it’s still super fun way to get creative with all the fun embellishments and papers.

The grouping of photos is a bit spaced out and our eyes are jumping around haphazardly instead of following the design in a natural, smooth path. 

Let’s add in some strategically placed clusters to help get this scrapbook layout back to stand out status.

Notice how the clusters now create a zig-zag path for our eyes to travel along. Our eyes perceive balance and are kept actively moving through the page making the design feel dynamic, despite being a flat digital layout. 

Tip #3: Splatter & Scatters Matter!

This is such an easy step to skip, but crucial for the finishing touch of an eye catching scrapbook layout. Consider it the jewelry of a project! 

One of my favourite ways to use splatters is as a mat underneath my photos and embellishment clusters. With digital layouts I leave my splattering until the last step, but you may want to add them at the beginning on hybrid layouts. 

What if you find splattering too messy or aren’t a mixed media guru? Plan out a general idea of where your elements are going to be on a page and you can layer digital splatters onto papers before you print them out. No mess!

Scatters can be easily created by sizing down singular elements from a collection and placing an odd number of the element at the edges of an embellishment cluster, like I did with the pink hearts in the above layout. 

Thanks for hanging out with me today. Hopefully you learned a new tip or maybe you were just reminded of design principles you already knew. Either way, have fun scrapbooking and sharing your memories with others!