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May 20, 9:55 PMHouston Scrapbooking ExaminerLisa White

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Child's Artwork by Gloriana White

With all the bells and whistles now available for scrapbooking, it is easy to overlook what you may already have on hand to use for scrapbooking. Rather than spending loads of money on stickers, stamps and or die-cuts, start looking at what you have left over from the experience you want to preserve.

• Use your children’s artwork or schoolwork to frame your child’s pictures. Every week while your child is in school they generate loads of paperwork that can include one of a kind pictures/artwork, unique stories, and examples of their work that you can use to show how wonderful your child was at their age.

• Using your ticket stubs can allow you to show what venue you visited, the date and time of the event and can even make note of who all went if you use all the tickets.

• Keep brochures and flyers from the event or location visited. Many brochures are done with full color pictures that save you having to take pictures of monuments and let you focus on showing the interaction of you, your family or friends interacting while having your experience.

• Preserve nature and incorporate it into your page work. Pressing flowers in books, including twigs, leaves and pine needles in a page can give a natural look to any page. It can also preserve a special flower or plant that has a special memory.

• Save candy and gum wrappers use these items to create a page showing favorites or to show nostalgia for a simpler time.  Be sure to clean them thoroughly before you place them in your scrapbook.

• Print index copies of your pictures and cut them down into little pictures to decorate your page. You can show many different pictures on a page this way and just have larger copies of the best of the pictures.

It is important to remember that you don’t always have to ‘buy’ items to scrapbook. The purpose of scrapbooking is to preserve memories, what better way than to include the things you use when you experience life.