Free Scrapbook Supplies

Free Scrapbook Supplies around Your Home

The best source for free scrapbook supplies is often your own home. Many of the miscellaneous items you would normally throw away can be reused as creative embellishments for your layouts. For example:

• Stickers that come with your junk mail
• Ribbon from presents and gift baskets you’ve recently received
• Buttons from old or outgrown shirts
• Fabric scraps from previous sewing projects
• Lace trim from an old tablecloth or handkerchief
• Charms or beads from a broken necklace
• Clothing tags, especially those that feature your child’s favorite cartoon characters
• Old greeting cards with fun artwork or sayings
• Wrapping paper scraps
• Tissue paper
• Paper clips
• Paint chips
• Laminate chips

While you can create many interesting and unusual scrapbooking projects using items from around your home, it’s important to realize that supplies not originally intended for scrapbooking may not be acid-free. If you’re worried about archival safety, test your supplies with a pH pen or use copies of photos that would be hard to replace.

Free Scrapbook Goodies from Your Computer

If you have a computer and internet access, digital scrapbooking opens up many possibilities to receive free scrapbook supplies. There are thousands of websites for digital scrapbookers that have free page kits and embellishments for you to download. If you’re not interested in making digital pages, you can simply print these elements out to use the same way as your other paper scrapbooking supplies. To find free digital scrapbook goodies, check out the following links:

• Two Peas in a Bucket
• Shabby Princess
• Digital Scrapbook Place
• Scrapbook Bytes
• The Digi Chick
• Cottage Arts
• Lucky Bug Scrapbooking
• Gaucho Girl
• Designer Digitals
• Digital Design Essentials
• Designs by Diva
• 3 Scrapateers

Clip art is another excellent free embellishment for your pages. For example:

• Free Graphics
• Clip Art Connection
• Free Clip Images
• Free Clip Art Images
• Royalty Free Clip Art

Beginning scrapbookers often overlook the importance of typography, but creative font choices can easily add pizzazz to a simple layout. You can download a variety of free scrapbooking fonts from the following websites:

• Scrap Village
• One Scrappy Site
• 1001 Free Fonts
• Scrapping with Style Fonts
• The Scrapbook Site
• Scrap Girls
• Da Font
• Simply the Best Free Fonts

Freebies for Savvy Shoppers

As every scrapbooker knows, shopping for scrapbooking supplies is just as much fun as creating a new layout. Fortunately, you can use a few simple shopping tips to earn free scrapbook supplies with your purchases.

Selling scrapbook supplies is a highly competitive business. New products are being constantly released and crafters often purchase their supplies from several different sources. To attract new customers, many local scrapbook stores hold a variety of creative sales and promotions. For example:

• Buy one, get one free sales
• Earn $25 in store credit after $100 in purchases
• Get a 25% discount on your purchase after filling up a punch card
• Free grab bag with a minimum purchase
• Free stickers on customer appreciation day
• Buy a new paper trimmer, get replacement blades for free

If you use a credit card to pay for your scrapbooking purchases, you may also want to consider applying for the Scrapbook Rewards Visa Card. This unique card offers scrapbookers the chance to earn points on all purchases. Points can then be redeemed for cardstock, embellishments, paper totes, idea books, or other scrapbooking supplies.