Ideas for cost-free scrapbooking
Scrapbooking is one the favorite hobbies of America.It is involving and it helps you tap into those
dormant creative energies. What is more, you get to recreate and preserver special memories on
paper while doing something that you really really love. That is why scrapbooking is a addicting
hobby.
One main disadvantages of scrapbooking is that it can be costly as a hobby. Some of the materials
you need to begin a scrapbooking are the album, special papers, decorations (like little metallic
buttons and ribbons) and accessories ( like scissors, glue, rubber stamps, adhensives, cement,
photo splits, markers, protectors and so on).
Having said that, there is still hope in turning your scrapbooking activity into a cost-free adventure.
All you need to do is to be resourceful and find items around the house that you can reuse as
decors and emblems. Below are some tips that can help you get started.
Recycle paper.
Although ready made scrapbooks and albums are available in the craft or departmental stores, you
can easily create you own personalize scapbook from recycle paper.
Sources of recycle paper are from the newspapers and scratch papers which your kids uses in
school. You can use create a whole album with recycle paper or use the recycle paper as your
decorations. One method you can do is to tear the papers into smaller pieces, recycle and dry
them up. There are many books and scrapbooking and through the internet you will not be short of
ideas. Another way is can use plain bond paper or use sheets of newspapers or magazines
cutting to add them to your album. Use those pages with ads on them for its color and graphics.
These details can be added to create some great touches to your scrapbook pages.
Look into your old stuff
Look around your home and find some stuff that you can add to your album. You can get a lot of
ideas in your home that you can use as decorations for your pages. You don't really have to
buy decorations just to make your page nice. In fact, sometimes, what you find in your home can
add a touch of memory into your page that decorations in craft stores cannot achieve.
One example are old buttons that you get from clothes that you don’t wear anymore. Buttons are
great decorations for the pages. Another possible decors are faux gemstones from costume
jeweleries that of no used anymore. You can also use some fabrics from your old clothes and use
some parts to add texture to your pages. Broken chains and ribbons in dresses can also be reused
as borders and linings.
Papered memories
If you like to keep things that have memories for you, you can actually fill up a whole
scrapbook without having to buy anything. For instance, bus tickets, movies tickets, concert tickets
and even parking tickets that remind you of special occasions can be used as decorations for
scrapbooks. The same goes with any kind of receipts. Greeting cards are another great source
of graphics and decorations.
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was posted on Sunday, February 4th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
