All I want to do all day is play with my Cricut machine. After the price of replacing blades and buying new cartridges, wouldn’t it be nice to actually make some of that money back? I spent $500 last year on paper alone! Here’s a list of ideas for you (and me!) to get some of our money back into our purses

1. Custom Photo Books

If you started scrapbooking by making photo albums for yourself then you’ve already got a head start on this one. You know exactly how to layout photos of children in a playful way and photos of someone’s romantic wedding. Why not put those skills to the test by offering your services to others with a fee? You already have a huge collection of paper and a Cricut, so why not? I’m sure you can think of interesting ways to frame baby shower, wedding, graduation, or any other interesting event into an album.

2. Start a Scrapbooking School

You probably consider yourself a scrapbooking veteran with all the blogs and forums you’ve read about paper widths and how to cut vinyl effectively but remember when you didn’t know how to do all that? You can charge a modest fee and fill the room with scrapbooking enthusiasts at a local community center or other low-rental communal space. You could even host the school in your own home or start a “scrapbooking party” where you provide the supplies and charge admission with a margin for profit. Since you have most of the supplies already, the only cost would be space rental and advertising in the paper fee!

3. Christmas, Birthday, Greeting Cards

Who wants to give a boring old Hallmark/Dollar store card when you can make one from scratch? With prices of nice greeting cards already around $3-5 dollars, people would rather put the money in your hand for a custom and creative card instead of a mass-printed sparkly piece of paper! Simply make a variety of cards for every occasion, photograph them and put them on your blog or rent a table at this year’s craft show and display them there. You can start taking orders or selling your pre-made ones, but of course custom will cost more so you have more margin to play with. Since wedding budgets are usually quite large, you can also attend wedding shows for the bride that prefers hand-made favors and offer your services there for party favors, thank-you cards and invitations.

4. Recommend and Sell Scrapbooking Products

If you give good advice, why not start selling what you know is the best? Many websites offer affiliate earnings and along with showing your friends and family how to scrapbook, you can make a little commission on the side for products that you would tell them about anyway! If you are really inspired and have a design that is PERFECT, then re-buy all the supplies x100 and put them together as a kit. Package them and then sell them at the next craft fair or to your friends. The possibilities are endless for this category.

5. Digital Scrapbooking Kits

If Photoshop is your thing, why not start offering kits of pre-made digital scrapbooking pages. Many websites like Artscow.com let you upload entire pages into a photo book and since Photoshop has a big learning curve, many people would be thankful to have that done for them. You can even offer your services on websites like that in your profile by making a few good projects and getting them to be high-rated. People will then start to approach you for help.

Hopefully these tips have proven useful to you, they are just ideas but I am sure that they will inspire you to do something. After all, you should make your passion your job!

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