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Paper crafting has become extremely popular in recent months. Scrapbooking is a perfect way to show off family photos and chronicle family history. In addition, other fun paper crafts are making your own greeting cards, making hand-made papers, quilling, and origami.
Often, paper crafts enthusiasts begin with scrapbooking, but when the ‘working with paper bug’ hits them, then they branch out to making their own greeting cards. Handmade cards are very unique and original and are sure to please anyone, regardless of whether the receiver is interested in paper crafts or not.
If your children have taken an interest in arts and crafts, scrapbooking is an enjoyable activity that you can share with them. This is also one of those activities that they can perhaps ask their friends and playmates to participate in. If you plan properly, this could just be a means of keeping them occupied for an extended period of time.
A few suggestions to help you keep down the cost of your supplies are:
* Let them cut out pictures from old magazines.
* Gather up old photos that you no longer want or need and let them scrapbook with them.
* Make photo copies of your pictures for them to scrap.
* Kids always love using stickers. Often these can be bought very inexpensively.
* Check your scrapbooking supplies for leftovers and odds and ends. Kids are good at finding uses for unused pieces you will probably not use.
It’s cold here in Florida now, and when it’s cold here that usually means that most of the rest of the U.S. is cold too. That tells me that it is a good time to stay inside and get busy scrapbooking!
Now having come here from Ohio, I realize that it is not really cold, but when you’ve been here for a while and endure the hot summers, 50 or 60 degrees for daytime highs and 30 degrees, maybe even in the 20’s at night, feels quite chilly. Besides, our cold spells usually last only a couple days, and then it is back to the 80’s. This one is lasting over a week!
Anyway, whether you’re into scrapbooking or another craft or hobby, now is a good time to work on it. Keep warm!