7 Secret of Recycle Scrapbooking

[Earl Kelly]

Do you know about recycle scrapbooking? I have learnt about recycle
craft, but not too sure about recycle scrapbooking, until one day my 3
years old daughter show me her scrapbooking using recycle material
that she used to keep her craft and papers. My little angel gave me an
idea of we can recycle our children school craft to create a very
creative memories craft! Here I share my experience and 7 secret of
recycle scrapbooking, if you are a cost saver person, you may find it
useful!
Secret #1 Think twice before you throw anything.Lots of material at
home such as color paper divider of your file folders, your childrens'
craft work from school, faulty printed paper, tissue paper cover,
presents wrapper, ribbons etc if the design is neat, clean and nice
looking, keep them for your scrapbooking. You can use them as
embellishments or decorations in your scrapbooking. I used to throw
all these away, but now I am getting passion on recycle all the them!
Secret #2 Storage for recycle stuff.You need to have some storage
space to keep all your recycle stuff, try to keep in sorted or
grouping by same category for easy of searching.
Secret #3 Recycling from other craft.If you have been doing lots of
craft at home, reuse this craft material again to do recycle
scrapbooking. For example, if you have created a pencil case craft
using recycle cartoon box, cut out excess area of cartoon box into A5
paper size and paint some beautiful flowers or insects on it, join all
the A5 drawn design together with a threading string or folder rings
to create a mini scrapbook album.
Secret #4 Recycle Scrapbooking paper excess from previous
scrapbook.Reuse the scrapbooking paper that was excess from previous
scrapbook. You can create a new design by using the excess
scrapbooking paper. This can be done by doing patching or overlapping
pasting different paper on top of each to create an unique look!
Secret #5 Recycle your digital scrapbooking or computer
scrapbooking.You can reuse your same computer scrapbooking printed
layout on another new scrapbook topics. Note that you also can recycle
scrapbooking digitally besides recycling the printed layout. Besides
that, there are a lot of layout, images or pictures on the web are
free for download and you can reuse them for this case.
Secret #6 Print on recycle paper.Print most of your design on recycle
paper. This is to save cost at the same time save the earth. Most of
the printers will print a test page when you changed new cartridge,
keep this paper for recycle printing purpose. Perhaps the test printed
page can be reused to create another creative memories, because the
test page always printed in multiple colors and text.
Secret #7 Do it freely.Last by not least, create your every scrapbook
freely. It is important if you are using recycle stuff to scrapbook.
Do not restrict your creative mind to fly. Explore along the way, will
help you have more creativity ideas to create a unique design of your
creative memories.
Hope you enjoy reading this article while enjoy your scrapbooking!