Recycling
Stuck for a few different ideas for making cards, or maybe short of cash, here is a list of things that may inspire you and most of them are for free, be warned it will turn you into a complete hoarder! Check out some other recycling ideas for your crafting here: Household items for crafting For more images and ideas click here
Beer/alcopops bottle tops Book club ads - to make mini books Broken jewellery or unmatched single earrings Buttons Coins Corks - cut them in half - champagne ones are an interesting shape Glossy magazine pics Inside of envelopes - iris folding/patterned paper Jigsaw puzzles Newsprint Old books and music sheets Old greetings cards Packaging Paint swatches and wallpaper swatches Playing cards Postage stamps Price tags (the little ones with string attached) Ribbon from packaging Road maps/maps from the back of old diaries Scraps of material and buttons from worn out clothes Sweet wrappers Thick card from board envelopes/notepads for 'chipboard' Tickets Timetables Tissue paper from gift boxes and bags Tomato puree tubes - wash them out and use the inside for embossing Wine and beer labels Wrapping paper off cuts Okey Dokey (Jackie) on the forum has used bottle tops for these 'embellishments'  embossed it Visit her blog Here	Here are a few great ideas Leggies (Rachel) on the forum has used an old map Visit her blog Here Angelnorth (Joanne) on the forum used a tomato puree tube and embossed it Visit her blog Here
Or how about making you own rather than buying: Learn to use the PC and make your own inserts and backgrounds, consider going on a Word course. Learn to use tables in Word it will help you align the inserts, check out the basics section for guidance. Buy a trimmer card is much cheaper by the sheet than made into cards. Just match the corners and crease. I hope that this has whet your appetite, if you can think of some other ideas post it on the forum and I shall add them to this list.

 © Crafts by Carolyn Updated Aug 2009