Scrapbooking Made Simple

I finished this 8 x 8 layout of my son at approx 2years old with our dog. I wanted to do a layout to remind my son when he's older of the special bond he had with our dog. She treated him like he was her puppy! It was very cute! This layout is pretty economical. I used the 6 x 4 mat stacks from Die Cuts with a View for my patterned paper, utilising left overs from a previous project. The plain orange background is from a bulk pack of paper. I was able to use paper for the background rather than cardstock as the patterned pieces are actually cardstock so they give the strength to the page. The stickers (letters) are a variety of stickers I've collected from $2 shops and the K&Co stickers used for Dog and Boy were in a discount bin at a scrapbok store for $2.95. The rub-on (Best Friends) was also from a discount store and cost me $3.95 a similar product from a scapbook store would retail at approx $8.95 and I have heaps left! I use my papers in a miserly fashion by placing a...

Today I have a treat for you. My sister-in-law has moved back here from the States and below you'll see a post I asked her to author for me. Anne had a great idea and I thought it best if she explained it so I'd like to introduce you to Anne: Make Your Own Stickers Saving money on STICKERS!! Although using this method doesn’t save you a mountain of money, it does get you the look that you want at the right price without ending up with that enormous box of bits and pieces of alphabet stickers that you now don’t know what to do with as all the vowels are missing. I KNOW you all have one of these. What I did was buy a packet of Avery clear labels from Office Depot , you can get them for laser or ink jet printers (make sure you get the right one or it could get very messy). Then just Google whatever you want to have a sticker of, whether it be a picture or object. I just use Google Images and type in whatever I am looking for. (Make sure you don't infringe copyright h...