Paper layout by Mandy Steward using the Birthday Bash Collection Super Mini as printables!

Crazy for scrapbooking, card making and paper crafting? Try some free scrapbooking printables from Scrap Girls -- The best therapy for victims of the "incurable madness" described below:

There's no obligation because you are going to get great scrapbooking freebies just because you have found our site.

Fellow crafter,

There's photo albums. There's premade cards in discount stores. And then there's the sheer joy of creating your own scrapbooking layouts, handmade cards, or paper crafts...

...Jean Michel Basquiat (a Venice artist whose work is known for its ability to express emotion) said it best when he wrote, "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for."

If the hairs on your neck tingle when you walk into a craft supply store and walk the aisles, gazing at the colors and textures, you've got the madness.

I know I do. I'm the Rozanne Paxman, CEO of Scrap Girls. Like Michel Basquiat, I create because...

• ...in a world where people spend their lives doing things that they hate, my crafting is at once an endless source of delight and an act of rebellion...

• ...because paper creations do not criticize, lie, yell, fire, lay off, abandon, leave, but respond happily to my manipulations, unafraid of whatever experiment I am proposing that we engage in together...

• ...because I feel like I'm leaving a little piece of myself behind when I create and that feels important to do, particularly in this crazy world of ours...

I've got it so bad, this friendly madness of creation, that I think about it, I talk about it, and I dream about it. And so do all of us here at Scrap Girls.

When we're not printing out cardstock, covered with stray glue dots and stamping ink, or figuring out what to do with the little bits of paper we long to save, we're creating beautiful printables to use in our scrapbooking and paper crafting projects.

When we're not surfing the web for new ideas, browsing craft stores for new techniques, or reading stacks of magazines to find inspiration, we're creating beautiful printables to use in our scrapbooking and paper crafting projects.

When we're not experimenting with digital scrapbooking, or searching for new software and filters, or chatting online with people who share our madness...

• ...or figuring out new ways of using bottles, candy tins, paint cans, and paper bags...

• ...or creating hand-made Christmas cards for everyone on our list - not because it's more economical - but because we want to give them a little piece of ourselves with the card...

• ...or studying clothing colors, details, and patterns for new ideas for our paper crafts...

• ...or comparison-testing adhesives, or trying tips we have learned about how to make our own stamps...

• ...we're creating beautiful printables to use in our scrapbooking and paper crafting projects.

We'd like to invite you to try our printables yourself for free with our Freebies (free scrapbook pages, free digital scrapbook supplies, and free scrapbook printables) that are available in our Boutique. Use them when you are creating gift albums, cards, and more. You'll find printables particularly helpful to you because...

• Once you buy a printable, you are free to use it as much as you wish for your own personal use. You can print it out over and over again.

• You can print them very successfully on you current color printer. If you don't happen to have a wide-format printer that prints edge-to-edge, don't worry. Most of the paper you use in projects is cut into blocks, shapes, or stripes anyway. You can just trim off the little white border that remains and use them in manners like our design team is displaying. (But if you happen to have a wide-format edge-to-edge printer like many of our team does, you will be in heaven because printing your own backgrounds is "to die for.")

• It is economical to print your own supplies, particularly if you access some of the great online resources.

To further help you, Scrap Girls has tried to price our product lines in such a way that you will save money using our printables, even after you purchase the paper supplies and printer ink or toner.

Still don't believe the using printables can help you save money on your scrapbooking, card making, or paper crafting hobby? Let me show you something that you may find very interesting... my scrapbooking room.

• How much money do you think I spent on these supplies?

• How many of these supplies do you think I use regularly?

• How often do you think I realize that I don't have the right paper, or enough of the right paper?

• How often do you think I wish I had more letters of an alphabet, another tag that matches, or another page topper that matches what I'm working on?

• How much of my paper, alphas, embellishments and other supplies do you think I bought "just in case" because experience has taught me that if I find something I like, I better get it because it won't be there next time I go to the store? This fear has caused me to experience "scrapbooking hoarding" issues. Sometimes, I'm actually afraid of using certain supplies because I fear that I might regret using them on the page I'm working on. After all, there may be a better page coming up someday and I'll need them for THAT page....

But using printables has totally revolutionized the way I create scrapbook pages, cards, and paper crafting projects!

• I'm no longer randomly adding to my stash.

• I buy what I need and use what I buy.

• Even though I buy more printer ink and paper than I used to, I'm literally saving $100s of dollars each month on my hobby.

• I recently cleared out the room above. I have been able to pare down my supplies so much that I have cleared out an entire room of my house to use for something else. In fact, I have now turned that room into a sewing and painting room! You see, everything I scrapbook with fits neatly into a single close area (and I still paper scrap all of the time).

• Because Scrap Girls delivers both the printable and digital version of the graphic files, I have begun to use my supplies to scrapbook digitally and have recently discovered how much fun this new medium is!

Remember... once you own printable files, you can print them out as often as you want!

...no more running to the craft store to discover that they are out of the paper you want...

...no more learning that the paper you saw last week and you want to buy today has been discontinued...

...no more waiting until you can find time to get to the craft store to find a new idea because you can see it, buy it, download it, and use it NOW!

...no more wishing that the pattern, design, or alphabet was "just a little bit smaller" or "just a little bit bigger" because graphic files can be resized!

The Scrap Girls team is so sure that you will love printables that they are constantly working to create new free scrapbook designs for our visitors. We announce new Freebies with each issue of our newsletter, so make sure you join our list. The free scrapbook supplies will only available for a day or two free-of-charge, so don't miss them! Join our newsletter list so that you'll get the word that new Freebies are available in our Boutique.

All the best to you.

Happy printable and digital scrapping,

Ro