Cheap Scrapbooking, Saving Time and Money with What You Already Have
Sponsored LinksIn this article I want to mention a few unlikely locations where you’ll be able to find not-only cheap scrapbooking items, but in most cases, 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.
Friends and Family
Many of my girl-friends and some family members have spare rooms in their homes. In them, they store old materials, files, stationery, old toys and many other things that they no longer use. After looking for permission, I sifted through these rooms and found a treasure trove of supplies I could use in my scrapbooks.
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 don’t know about you, but in my suburb we have a thing called ‘hard rubbish’ day. This is a day when folks take the things that they no longer want 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 items, I've found wrapping paper, old linen, ribbons, coloured pencils, paper – pretty much anything a scrapbooker may want. 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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