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Stretching Your Dollar

© Julie Rayl

The hobby of scrapbooking is fairly expensive. Especially if you are like me. I love to shop for scrapbooking supplies, but sometimes I need to justify the expense. To help stretch the money I spend on scrapbooking, I've come up with several different craft projects to make with your supplies. Many of these ideas are great for gift-giving.

Craft Projects

1. Use your stamps and dress-up plain wood projects.

2. Decorate glass candle holders(as well as plates and glasses) with stickers, craft paints or stamps.

3. Stamps are great for decorating clothing (i.e. onsies, shirts, hats) as well as for other fabrics.

4. Make labels and tags for gifts or home-made food.

5. Stamp the walls and furniture in your home.

6. Make home-made cards. You can use die-cuts, stamps, stickers, templates.

7. Design personalized stationery.

8. Produce and activity or chore chart for your kids using stickers.

9. Decorate your own wrapping paper, tissue paper, ribbon and bags.

10. Decorate Christmas ornaments with stamps or stickers.

11. Make home-made decorations for your kids birthday parties.

12. Make home-made jewelry.

13. Produce calendars. These make great Christmas gifts for family and friends.

14. Decorate real or wood Easter eggs with stamps, stickers or rub-ons.

15. Decorate frames to coordinate with the theme of the picture that will be in it.

Give these ideas a try and see how your crafting abilities expand without spending more money. Your friends and family will love the gifts and your spouse will love that your using you're being resourceful with your supplies.

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