Frugal Friday with Keren!

 

Today's Frugal Friday is brought by the very talented Keren Tamir! Keren likes to pack a lot on a page, and she successfully carried on her tradition while on a budget. Come see how!

"Sweetie Pie, Oh So Sweet"

"I never thought I could create a layout so frugal in cost and make it look so much more expensive. I've attached a short step by step on how I created it and I also included six tips on how to create a frugal project."

Frugal Tips:

(How to make a layout look expensive, yet be frugal in cost)

1. Save your scraps. As you can see, I used lots of scraps from the Anna Marie Collection to build this layout.

2. Buy reusable items like masks and stamps. I used the circled mask here to create an interesting background.

3. Fussy-cut elements from your pages to use as layers on your layouts. I fussy-cut some flowers and frames to create more layers and volume on this layout.

4. Buy products that contain numerous items like the wood icons or small flowers, that way you can use them over and over again. I used my wood icons and flowers here and I still have so many to spare for another project.

5. Use your packaging. I often use my Prima packaging to create layers in my layout.

6. Create lots of layers on your project. Use foam tape to raise your layers to create depth.

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Steps:

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Supplies:

846336- Anna Marie Collection: Calico

846305- Anna Marie Collection: Anna Marie

846329- Anna Marie Collection: Sewing basket

846299- Anna Marie Collection: Eloise

570033- Anna Marie Collection: Chipboard

563035- Anna Marie Collection: tickets

569921- Wood Icons: Birds and Butterflies

563882- Wood Icons: Leaves and flowers

571528- Le Mia- cotton candy flowers

562984- Sunrise Sunset Canvas Alphabet stickers

960445- Finnabair mask

 other products: Golden Light Molding paste, cheese cloth

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Cost

1 Sheet of Anna Marie Calico paper= $ 0.80

Scraps of paper from the Anna Marie Collection= $ 0.70 (includes Calico, Anna Marie, Eloise and Sewing basket)

1 Anna Marie ticket= $ 0.10

Chipboard title from Anna Marie collection= $ 0.30

2 Sunrise Sunset Letters= $ 0.02

8 Wood Icons= $1.33

6 Le Mia flowers= $ 1.67

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TOTAL: $4.92

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Comments

[Heather Millen]

Love everything about this! Color, patterns, design & embellies! It does look like it could be expensive.

[Maria Garzon]

Beautiful!

[Paula Gale]

Gorgeous - lovely layout and colours - well done on meeting the challenge! Not sure I'd manage that in the UK - everything so much more expensive here! No harm in trying though! lol...

Paula x x x

[Susan Hicks]

Great page, very helpful post.

[amante del papel]

is such a lovely LO, thanks for the fantastic tutorial!!!

[Jennifer JRABS]

Love this dainty and feminine piece. and the video tops it! so fun to see you in action

[Eila Sandberg]

Keren really does know how to splash out but also to stretch her stash! Thanks a bunch for the tut! This proves talent goes a long way - gorgeous page in every way! xox

[Mo]

Love the tips! Thank you for sharing them. I too am a "scraps" scrapbooker. My pages are loaded with discards! im a self proclaimed "garbage scrapper".. the more "stuff" i can get on a page- the more complete it feels for me! To this day, upon perusal of my old pages, i have been known to perhaps add an element or 3! I have scraps that could possibly date my beginnings if so
Someone was curious enough to investigate my pages! When our local store closed, I was the only
DT member to beeline and call dibs on the scraps drawer! It was like Christmas for me! Random letters- odd diecuts and bits o ribbon are better than any package I can buy! Happy to see someone else who covets what others may consider trash!