$.97 x 3 = 9

Creative accounting? Not really. I was in Walmart the other day looking around in the craft section and I came across Studio G products. Each product pack cost 97 cents. I got a pack of (6) 12" x 12" pattern paper, a pack of chipboard stickers, and a pack of embossed brads. I was curious. How good could 97 cents paper look? Do the chipboard stickers stick? Surprisingly it was all pretty nice.

Three 97-cent packs of papercrafting products made 9 items -- three 4"x6" notebooks and six 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" cards. I used just about everything in those three packs, even the 12" x 12" chipboard to make the notebooks. The only additional product I used was two packs of 4" x 6" index cards (on sale for 66 cents each), two sheets of white cardstock, O'wires for the books, two black brads, a little ribbon, Candi paper dots, and Pop-Dots.

Now, that's crafting on a budget, right?