Add a Poem to Your Collage

Poetry has become a very popular industry, and is in greeting card verse, everywhere. Everyone is doing their own original scrapbooks these days, it seems. We can even find used or new scrapbooking supplies by spending our day off digging around garage sales and thrift stores.

Collage supplies are less expensive. Using store-bought supplies and instruction is important for a professional touch, however, staying within your economic means is also important. Supporting the economy only works when you can afford the things you buy.

You can even use your old scrapbooking magazines to integrate into your collage. As long as the finished result is different from what was published in the magazine, it is now your idea.

So, carefully using your own supplies from your own experiences is the way to go, to save money on those expensive scrapbooking supplies.

Poetry is supposed to be about your life, your way of existing. Be yourself when you add your poem into a collage project. If you don't have a lot of money, use your magazines and newspapers, your restaurant or cocktail hour napkins, your tickets.

A collage project is important to you; it improves the appearance of your project. Everyone you know: your friends, your social circle, being you when you do a scrapbook project is the #1 priority here. Maybe the store does not sell exactly what you need for your project. Why put yourself down when there is nothing in the store that fits your needs to the "T". You are your best when you are yourself, and using your things to make your stuff look the best your stuff can look is something that helps make you unique.

Your scrapbook project will look better, more you, and you will save money by doing the work using your supplies, and you will save the environment, which in the long term, improves the economy.

You can make it high-tech! Just scan your image of the collage into your computer. Or, take a few digital photos of your work, and upload them into your computer. These works are now editable with various forms of software, some as simple as MS Paint, others; like Adobe Photoshop, or Asymetrix Toolbook, being more advanced.

What should I use for a stiff backing? If you have mat board, that will work, however, a cardboard box will also work if your project needs something like a mat board. Even a box like a cereal box or a tea bag box will work, in a pinch, and most of these commercially sized boxes are already packaged at standard sizes.

Your project can and will be something that reflects you, your panache, and it should be a sun-sational work of art.