Rebecca's Favorite Free Stuff for Scrapbooking

When I was cropping with friends recently, I found myself referring to this list again and again to find free patterns to make my own embellishments. This list has links to all of my favorite patterns including arrows, photo mounting tabs, butterflies, flowers, and so much more! The best part about these patterns is that they are all simple and quick to make. You can make them out of solid cardstock, patterned scrapbook paper, or even chipboard. These patterns make it easy to save money while still making stylish scrapbook pages.

If you have a little more time or a desire to be creative then you might want to try your hand at paper piecing. These patterns are a little more complex, meaning that they have more pieces and may take a little extra time to cut everything out. However, with just a bit of patience, you can create beautiful art pieces that will perfectly compliment your scrapbook pages. You can find patterns for every season of the year. Some of my favorite patterns are the Zoo Animal Paper Piecing patterns because they are just so cute!

Word art gives you a way to add that perfect title or journaling phrase to your digital or paper scrapbook pages quickly and easily with professional looking results. These free word art kits can be printed on cardstock or imported into photo editting software. You can read Three Creative Uses For Free Digital Word Art in Traditional Paper Scrapbooking if you need help with a few tips for using word art on paper scrapbook pages.

Scrapbooking from a sketch is the perfect way to jump start your creativity. The best part is that you can find dozens and dozens of free scrapbook page sketches here on About.com Scrapbooking. In fact, there are so many that I ended up dividing them into two lists Free Scrapbook Page Sketches and Even More Free Scrapbook Page Sketches.