Scrapbooking on a Low Cost Budget

With such a large variety of scrapbooking supplies available today, it can become expensive to keep up with all the latest offerings.

One way to keep your costs down to a manageable level and still enjoy this wonderful scrapbooking past-time, is to be budget conscious when buying your scrapbook supplies.

I have written the following article on scrapbooking on a low cost budget that I hope you find useful:

Scrapbooking on a Low Cost Budget

Are you looking for top value in exchange for your precious scrapbooking dollars?

Is your scrapbook budget being stretched to the limit?

With so much choice in scrapbooking supplies available today, it is very difficult to keep the costs down and still use the latest scrapbooking essentials.

One way that is worth you looking into is discount scrapbooking supplies. By being careful in what you buy and where you buy it, you can enjoy this fascinating hobby without breaking the bank.

Buy in bulk.

Try to buy everything that you regularly use in larger quantities and save money.

Buy at seasonal sales.

Maintain a list of your regular buys and then grab them during the sale period.

Buy untried scrapbook supplies in small quantities.

Until your have determined your demand for a product, try to buy it in single units. You do not want to have large quantities of unwanted stock eating up your dollars.

Buy at clearance sales.

As stores stock up with the latest scrapbooking supplies, they often hold clearance sales to get rid of old stock. If there are scrapbook supplies that you would definitely use – do not buy just because they are cheap – then snap them up.

Use E-Cuts.

E-Cuts are often claimed to be the scrapbooking of the future. They are wonderful scrapbooking supplies that are printable scrapbooking cutouts that you download, print and use on your scrapbook pages, cards and other paper projects.

They save you money because you need to pay for each kit just the once and then you can use them over and over again. Just imagine being able to use stunning designs that are specially formatted for easy printing and cutting, to create superb layouts and cards.

Your E-Cuts can then be customized to create your own personal creations by printing them on your favorite paper, vellum or cardstock.

There is no need to spend megabucks to be able to indulge yourself in the exciting fast growing world of scrapbooking, just watch what you buy, where from, and when.

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I thought that this post via http://scrapbooking.families.com/blog/ by Nicole Humphrey illustrated what scrapbooking is all about. Showing life just as it is, warts and all. I hope that you enjoy it.

The Imperfect Scrapbook Life

Scrapbooking is such a great creative outlet. In fact, most scrapbookers are very happy and calm when they are creating layouts to record their wonderful memories. And why shouldn't they be?

Our scrapbook albums are typically filled with beautifully designed layouts, amazing photographs that almost look professional, thanks largely to some very strategic cropping, and some wonderful, perfect, happy memories.

Except, that is not all that our lives hold. Not every day is full of beauty, not every photograph comes out looking totally perfect and certainly not every person has nothing but wonderful, happy memories. It is just not possible.

That is because we are human. Humans are not perfect, and our lives often reflect that. Which is normal. And wonderful, all at the same time.

Quite often, I am asked by fellow scrapbookers, if it is okay to include these things in our albums. Things like deaths, funerals, hospitalizations and other not so rosy aspects of our everyday life. YES!

Does it not do a total injustice to your family and friends, not to include those layouts in your albums too?

It is not just our memories that are not always perfect. Photographs can be printed and suddenly what we might not have noticed when we snapped the photo, becomes the sole focus of that photograph. It could be a bad hair day, a pimple, an unflattering pose, or even an embarrassing outfit. Even those memories should be commemorated in your scrapbooks too.

And even further than our imperfect lives, and our imperfect photographs, there is also the practicality that not every single layout turns out the way we expected. Come on now! I know you have a layout somewhere, one with a big glaring spelling error, or perhaps it is coming apart, you used some strange product, or your style has changed dramatically or whatever makes it imperfect. Do not redo the layout without first commemorating what went wrong.

Don't always make your life look perfect. It isn't. But that is okay and it is part of what makes you who you are.