Hey Y’all,
When I had my children, I was a mother two toddlers, going to school and I didn’t have much money to go out and have fun with. I was shopping in the dollar store one day when I saw that they had started to sell scrapbook supplies for only $1.00. While many of the supplies used in scrapbooking are specialty tools used for specific scrapbooking effects and are rather expensive, but there many different items available at the Dollar Tree that you can use to create multiple, beautiful scrapbook pages saving you a lot of money if you’re just starting out. Here are a couple items I have found and picked up at my local dollar tree that are too cute to pass up and will save you a bunch of money.
I have created many beautiful, yet simple scrapbook pages using items I bought from the Dollar Tree, but look professional and definitely more expensive. Over the next couple of weeks I will be showcasing some of the scrapbook pages I created using several of these products. So keep an eye out for those.
10 Items I Have Found At The Dollar Tree
- Page Protectors
- Stickers (Different Themes Available In Different Stores)
- Scrapbook Paper (Different Themes Available In Different Stores)
- Glue Dots (Squared and Circular)
- Paper Trimmer ( Usually No Bigger Than An 8” )
- Journaling Tags ( Different Themes Available In Different Stores)
- Chipboard Embellishments (Plain and Patterned Available)
- Stamps (Vary By Location)
- Ink Pads ( Different Colors Available)
- Die-Cuts (Vary By Location)
- Albums
There are all sorts of little items that are needed by a person just beginning to scrapbook without investing a lot of money up front. I’ve embellishments that include scrapbook stickers related to little boys, playtime, baby boy and baby girl shower and birth stickers, alphabet stickers and beach themed stickers. I have also purchase decorative tags and chipboard lettering pieces. There are also co-ordinating scrapbook papers that go along with the embellishments sold on the shelves of the dollar tree. My favorite item found at the dollar tree, which sell out really quickly, are the scrapbook album page protectors. Other crafts store try to sell you 10 scrapbook album page protectors for anywhere from 4 to 10 dollars for a 10 pack, but Dollar Tree sells a 10 pack of page protectors for only a DOLLAR!
Other items that are useful when scrapbooking, but sell out very quickly are the adhesive glue dots, mono adhesive tape dispensers for pictures and a paper trimmer. The paper trimmer isn’t a 12 inch paper cutter, but will work for someone just starting out. Their paper cutter also features a decently sharp blade, so it is useful for cutting any scrapbook paper, but the downside is that it dulls rather quickly.
Most of these products available are by a company called Miss Elizabeth’s and the company makes the most adorable scrapbooking items, so cute that even scrapbookers with no limit to how much money they spend will want to purchase these items because they are such a great deal. For those of you trying to keep your hubby happy by not spending too much money and staying in budget with your hobby, you will have him pleased with the beautiful photographic keepsakes you will create without breaking his wallet.
Now go visit your local dollar store and start scrappin’ those scrapbooks and keepsakes on a budget everyone will be happy with.
