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Card Crafting on a budget? Money Saving Tips
Ten Amazing Money Saving Tips For Card Crafters There is absolutely no need to spend a fortune to begin card crafting as the amount of paper that gets wasted is huge and card making or any kind of paper crafts is an excellent opportunity to recycle and contribute to helping the enviroment whilst making something useful and saving money. I have in the past spent a fortune on products to help me create my own hand made cards but have learned that it is not necessary to do so and just a few tools and basics can be purchased while the rest can be found elsewhere.
Here are a few tips to help you begin making top quality,beautiful cards for next to nothing: 1/ In any D.I.Y shop in the UK ( and probably in other countries too ) You may take and/or ask for samples of wallpaper and paint. Many people do this to try out various colour schemes at home before making a final decor choice. In my local store, it is expected that people will tear off pieces of wallpaper borders or wallpaper itself and take them home to look at. Some shops give out sample books too ... Just ask for a sample of what you fancy and take it home to use 2/ Collect pretty papers. Wrapping papers from gifts, also packaging from various products like perfumes, gift boxes, flowers, plants, paper bags, chocolates, etc. 3/ Get some great pictures cut out of almost anything that you find on a daily basis. I collect them and cut them out from old magazines, Last years calendars,old booklets and leaflets, even old colouring books which are very cheap to purchase,have some great useful pictures in for cards making. 4/ Recycle all your own cards and ask your relatives and friends to save theirs for you too. When you look through them, don't forget to use as much of the card as you can. I tend to cut out greeting banners, useful graphics,pictures etc as well as any beautiful glittered borders, pretty flowers, and any inner materials that are nice and even some of the inner verses. All of these can be used on your own cards later. 5/ Stamping - I have a few rubber stamps but I also use other materials to stamp with. You can use scrunched up tissue for a patterned effect, also sponges and corrugated card to stamp different effects on cards. I check all kinds of surfaces on ornaments etc that can also be used to ink and stamp with (they can easily be cleaned)
I use baby wipes to clean everything with including many household surfaces and they are amazing and cheap to use for cleaning rubber stamps.
Don't go out and buy lots of ink for stamping either as you can use watercolour paints instead and they will last longer and give you more colour. Also if you do use inks, remember you can refill them with ink refilling units for printers ( it saves money just to re-ink your stamping block rather than buy a new one or expensive re-inkers) 6/ Don't forget to ask friends and family to keep other useful materials like ribbon and bows from gifts and let you have them too. I rarely buy ribbon as i have collected plenty of it from packaging and from gifts 7/ Buttons and old jewellery are also useful for adding to cards as embelishments. Get yourself a jar for all oddments of this kind and add to it as you go along. 8/ dried flowers and old pot pourri can also be used to create great collage and embellishments so don't throw it out - Use it! 9/ Don't buy expensive glues and /or double sided tape. Instead you can save money by getting basic pva adhesive 9 cheap but perfect) and standard carpet adheseive double sided tape is often cheaper than crafters tape and its also wider so you can cut it to the width you require 10/ If you have a printer, design and print your very own backing papers instead of buying them. I use photographs of flowers that i have taken and then i play around with them in a paint program on my pc and make my own backgrounds but even if you dont have the paint program you can always find something pretty online and print it off as long as you are not selling it or breeching any copyright laws. |
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