Scrapbooking & Paper Crafts Archive

  • Paper Crafts: Origami

    Paper Crafts: Origami

    As someone whose hobby is handmade crafts, particularly scrapbooks, I’ve learned firsthand how expensive art supply stores can be. This should give you some good ideas for ways to save on art supplies while still maintaining your creative edge. 1. Now that big stash of periodicals...

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  • Embellishments: Borders, Corners & Frames

    Embellishments: Borders, Corners & Frames

    If you take a few minutes to observe what it around you, you may find some supplies you can use. With scissors and markers, a pizza box can be cut up to make a big wall collage, dry pasta can be painted and glued on...

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  • Embellishments: Die-Cut Shapes & Punchies

    Embellishments: Die-Cut Shapes & Punchies

    I’m always buying supplies for my scrap-booking and craft work, so I know how costly it can get to purchase your supplies from retail shops. Being original and artistic shouldn’t stop you from taking advantage of the ways I’ve found to save on your supplies. •...

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  • Scrapbooking & Paper Crafts: Scrapbooking Tools

    Scrapbooking & Paper Crafts: Scrapbooking Tools

    Not only am I an avid scrap-booker, but I also love creating homemade crafts. I know first-hand that purchasing supplies from art supply retail stores can get very expensive. And so, the list I am presenting here details means that in my experience help...

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  • Scrapbooking & Paper Crafts: Adhesives, Glue & Tape

    Scrapbooking & Paper Crafts: Adhesives, Glue & Tape

    The cost of purchasing art supplies from retail outlets can be prohibitive for avid scrapbookers and crafters. You can still stand out and use your imagination while following these tips to save money. • If you have a huge magazine stack collecting under the bed, there...

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  • Paper Crafts: Card Making

    Paper Crafts: Card Making

    You have a lot of different options for making use of the growing pile of periodicals that you have been routinely stashing below your mattress. I really enjoy the method of cutting out various colors and sizes of letters to make quotes or sayings. A...

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  • Organizers & Carriers: Storage Racks

    Organizers & Carriers: Storage Racks

    Look Around! There are supplies all around you! You can showcase your creativity by making masks out of paper plates, embellishing them with markers and cutting eye holes with scissors. Perhaps you could transform an old pizza box, opened up, into a collage for...

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  • Organizers & Carriers: Photo Files

    Organizers & Carriers: Photo Files

    I am well aware that purchasing supplies from local art stores is not cheap, since I love scrap-booking and doing other craft work myself. This should give you some good ideas for ways to save on art supplies while still maintaining your creative edge. A: If...

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  • Scrapbooking Tools: Blades, Cutters & Trimmers

    Scrapbooking Tools: Blades, Cutters & Trimmers

    If you have a huge magazine stack collecting under the bed, there are many ways to finally get some use out of it. Try creating your favorite quotations from assorted sizes and colors of letters you have cut out: one of my favorite tricks!...

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  • Scrapbooking & Paper Crafts: Organizers & Carriers

    Scrapbooking & Paper Crafts: Organizers & Carriers

    Explore - You’ll find materials everywhere! Everything has a use, and you can make masks with scissors and crayons or markers or use a large pizza box for a collage, decorating it with dried, painted pieces of pasta you glue on. Think openly about things around...

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