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Cheap Scrapbooking, Saving Time and Money with What You Already Have

In 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 short break from one of my albums, I ventured out into the back yard to bring the washing in. While I was out there, I pondered if there was anything from the back yard that I could use for my album. And what I came back with was some lovely leaves and some flowers. I dried these out and included them in a nature section of my scrapbook. The effect was quite beguiling.

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 quite alright with me taking these things as they’d been meaning to chuck them out, so I was in fact doing them a favor.

Hard Rubbish Day

I don’t know about you, but in my neighbourhood we have got a thing called ‘hard rubbish’ day. This is a day when people take the things which they no longer need and put them out on the strip of grass in front of their home 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 sit down and have a bit of a think, you’ll be able to come up with a whole heap of different places to source materials for your scrapbooks.

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