Leanne
04-03-06, 10:33 PM
A great way to save money is to find things in your daily travels that were not necessarily specially created for scrapping, but which you can use in scrapping, often if you buy these items outside of the scrapping world, they cost less than their scrap-flavored equivalents. If you start thinking outside the scrapping box, you suddenly see new options everywhere!
for instance...
in the hardware store, you can find cheap wire for working with beads. the thinner gauges look wonderful woven through paper or cardstock on cards or l/o's, and they have more color variety than you'd expect. you can also find small hinges, acrylic paints, and tons of cool, cheap types of paintbrushes to play with.
at the stationery store, you can get pre-cut tags in various sizes from Avery. u can get approx 100 "luggage tags" for about $5 and 100 "marking tags" for about $3. they are all pre-strung, which means you get free string, whether you use it for this project or another one. they come in white and a manila-natural sort of shade, and they distress beautifully. (the only thing with tags and other paper items is that you have to check the ingredients to make sure they are archival safe). you can also get chalk, cool paper clips, staples, safety pins and packing tape (for photo transfers).
when you buy photo frames, they often have a mat inside. keep it- you can use it as a frame, on a page!
also, hit your local dollar store. as scrapbooking becomes a bigger and bigger market, you will notice more and more scrapping things, all over the place!
when traveling, don't forget to save those little bits of memorabilia, like local maps, sand from your vacation's beach, your bus or train tickets. those things are free ephemera!
When taking photos of people try to take photos of the landscape and things around at the time and look for anything you can find like leaves or flowers or other things its free and it looks good. If you have a tree or plant on your page its great if you can actually stick the real thing onto the page.
these are just a few of the possibilities...
once you start looking, then you see these little opportunities everywhere. hope this has been helpful. happy scrapping!
for instance...
in the hardware store, you can find cheap wire for working with beads. the thinner gauges look wonderful woven through paper or cardstock on cards or l/o's, and they have more color variety than you'd expect. you can also find small hinges, acrylic paints, and tons of cool, cheap types of paintbrushes to play with.
at the stationery store, you can get pre-cut tags in various sizes from Avery. u can get approx 100 "luggage tags" for about $5 and 100 "marking tags" for about $3. they are all pre-strung, which means you get free string, whether you use it for this project or another one. they come in white and a manila-natural sort of shade, and they distress beautifully. (the only thing with tags and other paper items is that you have to check the ingredients to make sure they are archival safe). you can also get chalk, cool paper clips, staples, safety pins and packing tape (for photo transfers).
when you buy photo frames, they often have a mat inside. keep it- you can use it as a frame, on a page!
also, hit your local dollar store. as scrapbooking becomes a bigger and bigger market, you will notice more and more scrapping things, all over the place!
when traveling, don't forget to save those little bits of memorabilia, like local maps, sand from your vacation's beach, your bus or train tickets. those things are free ephemera!
When taking photos of people try to take photos of the landscape and things around at the time and look for anything you can find like leaves or flowers or other things its free and it looks good. If you have a tree or plant on your page its great if you can actually stick the real thing onto the page.
these are just a few of the possibilities...
once you start looking, then you see these little opportunities everywhere. hope this has been helpful. happy scrapping!