Scrapbooking News and Pop Culture

I rarely do in my paper scrapping. Mostly because I don't scrap in the moment so the context in that sense is already gone.

However I have started my own version of PL/Photo 365 using the PL app. I do 3 LOs with a photo a day plus I have 5 additional filler pages for the month: large photo month title page, current events/memes page, currently reading, currently watching and this year I added a senses pages that highlights the taste, smells, sights, sounds and feels of the month.

I use screenshots and download photos from the internet. Using the app makes it super easy, and I have a template that I use for each page for the whole year. I have chosen a kit and just change the filler cards for each month. This year I'm going with a specific color for each month with in the kit I chose.

Last year was the first year I did this, I printed individual pages and will add my regular LOs (eventually) to the proper month. This year I'm going to print a photo book. My regular LO will be in their own album.

I am dedicating one side of a pocket page each month to current events/headlines in my PL.
Last month I included the Chinese weather balloon, the Ohio train derailment and one other story that has slipped my mind.
Not every month is headlines, or bad news. This month in one of the pockets, I have a screenshot of my daughter’s acceptance letter into the college she’s transferring into.

I was not scrapbooking during the pandemic, but I really wish I had! It would be interesting to look back at, years from now.

I have one page of me in a mask. Other than that, I don't scrap world events.

I rarely scrapbook such events, unless they impact us personally.

I did scrapbook 9/11, but we lived near DC when it happened, and had friends at the Pentagon who miraculously were spared. We had vending machines at a mall right across from the Pentagon, and my DH and DS serviced the machines soon after the trqgedy. They saw some of the Pentagon’s destruction from the high rise parking area.

I also scrapbooked the Beltway Sniper. It directly affected us. We lived in fear at the time, especially since at least one of the victims was killed near where we lived, shopped, and frequented.

Those were difficult pages to scrapbook.

I prefer to scrapbook the happy events that our family experiences. However, at the time that those events happened, I was doing calendar pages, and I felt I had to include them. The same was true of the death of my mother. I relive those events and am sad every time I look at those layouts. As a result, I have not scrapbooked anything like that since. I have plenty of happier memories still needing to be included in my albums. I have a couple of hurricanes to scrapbook, but only because we experienced them personally and were directly affected by them. (I will never again go anywhere near Florida during hurricane season.) Pop culture isn’t important to me, nor are world events something I want to preserve the memories and photos (as far as scrapbooking). Unless something like that personally affects us, I will stick to scrapping our happy times instead.

I absolutely love this! I love the PL app and think I am going to add something like this into my process! 

I have been adding in a lot of screenshots to a monthly insert, in my chronological album.  I have included some screenshots of news events and memes etc. By nature I am an everyday moments scrapbooker so these things fit in well.  I tend to chose news stories that I have an opinion about. I would love to know what my grandparents thoughts were during various elections or any world events that had some impact on their lives. 

I did do a covid19 TN. 

I only have a couple times.

I think I made a page of 9-11. I have to look in my 2001 scrapbook and check. If I didn't, then I will make a page or two and put them in there.

The most recent is the pandemic.
I took photographs of empty store shelves, package of toilet paper, empty place of business, home gym stuff--empty gym parking lot, my comfort food, and my tested positive results, etc...

I mainly do project life and I usually include 'bigger' events into my album. Things I include are things that I am interested in and not just things that affect me. I've included Covid, elections, The Queen passing, shooting down the china spy balloon, Olympics.

I may put a major headline in my memory planner, like I noted when the Queen passed but that's about it. I do have a large pandemic spiral notebook. I started saving screenshots and articles as things shut down in March. I have jokes, memes, weekly updates from the CDC, hospital letter authorizing me to be out on the roads, outbreak updates, vaccine being created, pics of the first vaccine we (the hospital) rec'd. I just glanced through it, pretty extensive. Last article I added was about the Omicron variant in December 2021.

I think this is an entirely commendable and worthwhile pursuit. I would LOVE to be able to see a "snapshot" of big news scattered with my pages to give me contextual information about the times we were living in.
Unfortunately, I do not scrap chronologically, nor quickly. I cannot keep up with my birthday photos let alone the news.
I WANT to be one of those "record keeping" scrappers - I think if I had started PL when my kids were small, this could have happened. But I've turned into a simply scrap for fun/make the art/use mohr things scrapper. So best intentions, but no



Hey hey, gonna scrap him coming to Canada last week? No??? My BIL missed his hockey game because of Biden so there was some international tension in our house (due to security/road closures/cavalcades). And that's as Canadian a statement as one can make



If you've seen my pages, you know my love of titles. Being Canadian, the Queen's death created a "pang" in most of our hearts. But I seriously want to do a scrapbook page called, "Ding Dong the Queen is Dead". No disrespect intended

probably not - I only scrapped the Kyiv visit because it was so historical and I had stuff to say about it.

I do include it in Project Life, not traditional scrapbooking. Only the stuff that really impacts our family on a personal level. Recently that would be Covid, Trump and attempt to overthrow, RBGs death, overturn of Roe, etc. I have 3x8 album for Covid because it was monumental enough to include it. I also have a 3x 8 album of Harry Potter…discovering the series, when we reached finished reading the series, fav book, fav character, etc.

I have the entire Taylor Swift concert ticket debacle in photos. Debating if this needs a scrapbook page or two. Or just include in project life.

Lots of screenshots and memes.

If it’s big news or impactful I will include a screenshot in my PL with a flip up on my thoughts. I wish that I did more of it because it’s interesting to look back but it’s difficult enough just to get our daily lives done. A monthly recap would be cool. I wish I could just find something to easily print.

From the pandemic I have a dedicated TN. My WITL album from 2020 & 2021 contains a lot of pandemic stuff. My husband & I both work in fields in which we still had to keep going in to work throughout and it was nuts so there was a lot to include.

I did one layout called Lockdown Life and I’m really glad I did. I included pictures of toilet paper memes, empty grocery store shelves, dalgona coffee, long lines to get into the grocery store 6 feet apart, the first ad I saw for masks, and more covid related things.
I don’t really scrap current events. Trends maybe, but not current events. I like doing an occasional month in review layout and I think I’d like to include one or two headlines in them.

I also scrap world events if they impact my life. I have created pages about Covid, the Queen's Jubilee last year, multiple hurricanes we have rode out, and of course the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series in 2016.

I also love scrapping space things, so a few NASA missions, lunar eclipses, and comets have made it into my albums as well. There may be more, but that's all I can remember at the moment.