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Below are the pics of the pages the demonstrate how I use FREE embellishments to save me money, but not skimp on the quality of my album.  It really is easy.  Because the pics are small, I will add a description of what I used on each page below the photo.

 

 

The actual photo is the only one we bought on our cruise.  The top border I cut out of one of the daily itinerraries that they gave us for ds's group.  It reminds us that his group was called Aquanauts, the age, and the name of the kids club.  It also inspired the color scheme for the page.

 

 

This page is when we visited the US Air Force Academy.  When we got our film developed (still using 35 mm then), there was only one good pic of 2 of our sons, which certainly wouldn't fill up a page.  So, I used a page from a tourist book that I had received from the Chamber of Commerce to remind us of the day. 

 

 

There are no actual photos on this page.  Each item is something that was "given" as part of the cruise.  The Norwegian Cruise Line title is from a booklet we weregiven when we booked the cruise and set the color scheme for the pages.  The rectangular lady with water reflections on her is a luggage tag; the round ship in the night is the coaster that our bathroom glasses were placed on; the purple squares on the left are a boarding pass, which reminds us of the floor and room number; the boarder on the right hand page, came from the stationary in the room; the intinerarry at the top right is our receipt for the cruise; the bottom right purple square ont eh right page is the inside of another boarding pass that displays what is located on each level of the ship; the coffee mug came from a daily memo.

 

 

This page shows a pcket made for a brochure and consequently serves as the title. 

 

 

The title of this page came from a brochure and set the color scheme as well.  The photos of the tiper and orangutang, also came from the brochure. 

 

 

Consequently, this page was made fromt he same brochure (I used 3 brochures for the entire zoo).  The left side title is the front cover of the brochure.  Our ticket stubs are in the top right page.  The mid page yellow info is from the brochure.  You can see ont he right the pocket I made for another brochure that contains a map of the entire zoo.

 

 

On these pages I used the front of a brochure and the inside map of the park. 

 

I hope these examples help you visualize what you can do with your scrapbooking to help keep costs down.  This is not only fun, but allows you to use your creative side to create unique pages.

 

These are my thoughts.