Cheap Scrapbooking, Saving Time and Money with What You Already Have
Sponsored LinksIn this article I would like to mention a couple of improbable locations where you will find not-only cheap scrapbooking supplies, but in most situations, free ones!
My Back Yard
While taking a break from one of my scrapbooks, I went out into the back-yard to get the washing. While I was outside, I wondered whether there had been anything from the yard that I could use for my album. And what I returned with was some great looking leaves and some flowers. I dried these out and included them in a nature section of my scrapbook. The effect was quite enthralling.
Family and Friends
Plenty of my friends and some family members have spare rooms in their homes. In them, they store stationery, old materials, files, old toys and lots of other things no longer used. After seeking permission, I went through these rooms and found a goldmine of materials I could use in my albums.
The upside was that everybody was more than happy for me to take things as they’d been meaning to throw them out, so I was actually doing them a favor.
Hard Rubbish Day
I’m not sure about you, but in my suburb we’ve got a thing called ‘hard rubbish’ day. This is a day when folk take the things that they no longer desire and put them out on the strip of grass in front of their house where the local council can come and take them away.
This is an absolute goldmine for craft-like supplies, I've found ribbons, wrapping paper, old linen, coloured pencils, paper – pretty much anything a scrapbooker might desire. I was in heaven.
So you see, if you just sit down and have a little bit of a think, you will be able to come up with a whole stack of different loactions to find items for your albums.
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