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5 Great Inexpensive Ideas For Scrapbook Charms

Scrapbooking can be a great spare time interest that will yield amazing souvenirs for family, friends and you. These one of a kind artistic endeavors allow you to collect special memories and display them in a fascinating and imaginative way.

One of the things which makes your album unique is the usage of scrapbook charms and while you should buy charms at your local craft shop it is also great to use little items from around the house.

Here are five household items that you can easily turn into charms for your scrapbooks.

Buttons

Almost every home has a button jar and those bright colorful buttons can be put to some good use as scrapbook accents. Maybe you are making a scrapbook for a friend and wish to include a page covering a shopping trip. Using buttons for charms on a page like this makes your theme stand out and adds a little whimsy to your scrapbook page. Buttons also make great charms for those footage of your children playing dress up, or for scenes of your mummy stitching.

Pressed Leaves

If you have trees any where around your home pushed leaves can make fantastic scrapbook charms. Tiny green leaves can be employed in pages that have spring or summer photos, and colourful fall leaves make great additions to those Thanksgiving photos. Pressed leaves can actually assist in making those pages come alive.

Old Keys

if you are including pictures of houses or automobiles then using old keys on these pages can make for some interesting charms that add a little interest to your pages. Flat key chains can also work as charms on pages like this and nearly everybody has one or two extra keys or key chains lurking around the house.

Sea Shells

If you have youngsters and visit the beach youll doubtless have some mussel shells or even small snail shells laying around the house collecting dust. Why not put those shells to some serious use as charms on those pages filled with photographs taken at the beach or maybe fishing. your youngsters will love seeing their treasures as part of your summer memories.

Silk Flower Petals

Most crafters have one or two silk blooms laying around that they use for varied craft projects and you may also have the peculiar silk flower or two stashed away in a box somewhere. why don't you use petals from those fake flowers in your scrapbook?

Imagine the image of that candlelit dinner for two centered on a page with a drift of silk flower petals as charms. you may add them to a gardening page.

Part of the excitement of scrapbooking is using standard items in unique ways to create original and fascinating pages for your scrapbook. Searching for and finding those things is part of the fun and an inexpensive way to make those scrapbook pages burst into life.

To get more awe-inspiring concepts for scrapbook charms visit Janette Miller’s web site, where you will also be well placed to download masses of free scrapbooking layouts.

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