When you think of scrapbooking you usually think of making scrapbook albums.  Have you tried using your scrapbooking materials for other projects?  These project ideas are great for scrapbooking with kids.

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2. Make greeting cards when scrapbooking with your children. Nearly any type of scrapbooking material can be used for making cards. Children will love creating their own Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day or birthday cards.

3. Holiday decorations are easy to make with scrapbooking materials. For example, Thanksgiving embellishments and cardstock can make name plates for the holiday table. Use your creativity and help your children make a centerpiece for the table out of paper and scrapbooking supplies.

There is a way to cut down on your scrapbook paper costs: free printable scrapbook paper. But  be careful ... there are some considerations when opting to print your own paper from the Internet.

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A good place to start is by entering the term "free printable scrapbooking paper" or something similar into a search engine such as Google. You'll get a list of several sites, but start at the top of the search results page first -- you'll have the best luck with these sites. Try the first ten or twenty sites and see what you find. You may be surprised by the options!

After you've perused the results of that search, try searching for "free digital scrapbook paper". What you'll find here are more sites that offer

With digital cameras and the internet, scrapbooking has become a hobby that anyone can do, and without a huge amount of expense. There is a world of free images, clip art, fonts, borders etc. that can be downloaded or saved to your computer and printed out for your scrapbooks.

Example from article: To find the wealth of scrapbooking freebies out there online, just do a simple Google search for 'free scrapbook graphics' or 'free clip art'. There are many other search terms to use that will reveal to you the different scrapbooking freebies you can find. You can get entire scrapbook themes with all of the free matching clip art, borders and fonts that you can use in just about any scrapbook.