I agree. I teach a class on scrapbooking in the fabric store. There are a lot of things you can use. Buttons, velcro, rickrack, binding tape, all kinds of things. As the daughter of a professional seamstress and quilter, I steal things from her junk drawers all the time.
Cindy
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Cardstock and papers can be expensive. For added texture and dimension, look for more economical fabric remnants that can be used to layer on your cards. (Probably not for scrapbooks if you're worried about acid-free). I got some tulle for $0.87 for almost a whole yard, and some red burlap for around the same price at JoAnn's. Many times they'll have decorative fibers/yarns and ribbons on discount, too!
Barbara
Paint chips now come in many more forms. There are even textured chips. Paint chips aren't just strips of colors anymore.
Cindy
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Other sources for free/cheap card stock:
If you already have a business relationship with a commercial printer, ask what they do with their old paper sample booklets. These come from the paper companies as an aid to customers selecting paper for printing orders, and typically contain a dozen or more small sheets of paper or card stock in every color or texture that particular stock comes in. When new booklets come out, the printers often throw the old ones out. Privately owned printers (not the Kinko's/Staples variety) are sometimes happy to give away their old samples. To be polite, I usually offer some token payment.
For heavier stock, try a picture framing gallery. Ask what they do with the centers of the mats they cut for framing artwork. I've been able to buy an entire liquor box full of various colors of mat board in scraps about
8"x10" for $3.
You steal them from the paint section. That is what they are for. The paint guy from the Home Depot even saves me the ones they throw away. He just keeps them for , in his words, "crazy people like you, who actually want them."
Cindy
Using my sister's Agent account, my email is snipped-for-privacy@aol.com. It will be a great day when the schools have all the money they need, and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.
OK, I've seen paint chips mentioned in magazines for stamping and scrapbooking. Where do you get them, outside of stealing from Wal-Mart/Lowes paint section? Do you ask for old ones from retailers? Or are people selling them now?
Barbara
You can ask for old ones from retailers, but if there are specific colours you want, its prolly best just to hover around the stand and mutter quietly to yourself whilst selecting shed-loads which compliment each other - hold several up against each other and ask the ever-ready assistant who is at your shoulder waiting to ask "can I help you" - things like "will this yellow really go with this magenta?" or whatever
- and walk off with armfuls of co-ordinated colour chips which the helpful assistant has picked out for you!
Suzie B
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