The other day, I had a wonderful conversation with a scrapbook nut! I have known this lady for over 10 years and never knew that she was addicted to scrapbooks. I came to find out that she is the master scrapper and is very accomplished at her craft. She told me that she has a designated work place to make her creations and a well organized shelf space for her materials and tools. I was amazed at how much she paid attention to the details of putting scrapbooks together.

One of the great topics that she discussed with me was scrapping on a budget. It sure sounds like a timely topic since we are going through our down economy now. (USA) There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of items you can get from flea markets, thumbing through your friends "junk" collection before they were going to throw things away, yard sales, or just going through your boxes of personal belongings that you forgot about years ago. We are talking about embellishments mainly. Getting a collection of pictures together on a topic is no problem, it is the embellishments that are hard to find if you are to "theme" your scrapbook out properly.

For example, let’s say you choose a theme about cars. There must be many embellishments you could gather about cars…from car emblems, hood ornaments, pictures of hub caps, stickers, license plates, parts of the owners manuals, old car keys, and so on. You could gather pictures of you and your family riding in the family car. It could have been and oldie classic, restored relic, or modern sports car. Even the family jalopy could conjure up many fond memories!