This isn’t your grandma’s glue stick. Canva’s changing the game- and here’s how.

Let’s talk about the elephant in the scrapbook room: most of us have hundreds (okay, thousands) of photos sitting on our phones, slowly turning into digital dust. And we keep telling ourselves: “I really should do something with these.” But the idea of hauling out scissors, glue, and that overstuffed box of supplies? Overwhelming.

Enter Canva.

It’s sleek, intuitive, and built for modern storytellers who want to create beautiful keepsakes without battling clunky software or buying another drawer organizer from The Container Store. Canva takes the stress out of memory keeping, no craft table required.

Whether you’re a seasoned scrapbooker looking for a fresh workflow or someone who’s never cropped a photo in your life, Canva is the game-changing creative tool you didn’t know you needed.

The Case for Canva: Why It Works for Scrapbooking

• It’s Free (or Close to It)
  • You can get started with a totally free Canva account. That’s right. Zero dollars. The pro plan does unlock more fonts and features, but for basic memory keeping? Free works beautifully.
• Drag. Drop. Done.
  • No confusing menus. No steep learning curves. Canva is built for people who don’t want to spend a week learning how to layer elements. Just drag in your photos, drop in some text, add a background—boom, page done.
• Works on Every Device
  • Laptop? Tablet? Phone? Canva doesn’t care. Wherever your photos are, that’s where you can work. And yes, that means you can design a scrapbook page while bingeing Netflix on your couch.
• Cloud-Based = No Lost Work
  • Everything saves automatically in the cloud, so you can start a layout on your phone and finish it on your desktop. Forget about saving files to five different folders or losing hours of work in a crash.
• Built-in Tools for a Professional Look
  • Canva comes loaded with design tools—photo filters, text effects, smart alignment, and more—to give your pages polish. No Photoshop skills required.
• Perfect for Hybrid Memory Keeping
  • Print your pages, bind them in a book, or export them for photo printing. Canva layouts play nice with home printers, online photobooks, and even digital-only albums. Want to mix and match with physical embellishments? Totally doable.

Here’s who’ll love Canva for Scrapbooking:

• ● The Newbie:
• Never made a layout before? Canva templates let you follow a structure without feeling boxed in. You’ll get polished results without the pressure.
• ● The Busy Bee:
• You love memory keeping, but time is tight. Canva lets you knock out pages in minutes—on your lunch break, in the carpool line, or when the house is (finally) quiet.
• ● The Creative Veteran:
• You’ve been scrapping since Quickutz and glue dots. Canva offers a new frontier—a modern, sleek playground that still honors your storytelling roots.

So, how do you start?

Here’s a step-by-step to get you rolling:

Still Skeptical?

Try this: open Canva, start a blank 8×8 project, drop in a few photos from last weekend. Add a date. Add a short sentence about the moment. Save it.

Guess what? You just scrapbooked.

Now imagine doing that over and over, with smart layouts that guide you to tell deeper stories. That’s what ForeverJoy templates are built for!

Look, scrapbooking doesn’t have to mean messy desks and complicated tools. With Canva, you can reclaim your memories in the margins of your day. It’s modern, intuitive, and flexible—and yeah, we think it’s the best kept secret in the craft world.

So the next time you open your camera roll and feel that pang of “I really should do something with these,” remember: you don’t need a glue stick. You just need Canva.

And maybe a little ForeverJoy to get the story started.