31 Pages in 31 Days 2025!

Welcome to Day One of 31 Pages in 31 Days, 2025 edition! Every year I run a challenge in August for scrapbookers everywhere–create a page a day for one month. I use a method I call “immersion scrapbooking” which is basically LEAVING THE MESS OUT for one month and crafting your heart out without guilt. At the end of the month you clean it all up and put it away, but for one month you scrapbook whenever you have a free moment. Just sit down and do SOMETHING towards those books.

Because there’s a time limit on the mess, you have permission to make it–even if there’s other things you really “oughtta” be doing. You have 31 days to do this thing you love in your life that you never seem to get to do otherwise. At the end of the month you’ll be satisfied to put it away and focus on back to school and your normal work routine–but you’ll be better for having had this month of creativity and relaxation.

That’s my philosophy of squeezing in scrapbooking in our modern world! Maybe it will work for you? I hope you’ll take the challenge–make the mess–and enjoy the month!

To help you reach that magic goal of 31 Pages in 31 Days, I’ll be posting an inspiration spread every day this month! And here’s my first layout of August 2025. It’s a layout celebrating the move to a new home and all the memories and hope you carry along as you move your family into a new place.

This layout is really easy, with three panels of 4.25 x 11 cardstock matted with three photo mats of 4 x 3.25 each. It looks kind of like a filmstrip and you can use just one strip or several of them. I used three strips and two single larger photos for a total of 11 photos on one spread! That’s pretty good.

Ready to play along? Here’s what I used in my layout today:

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