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How to Organize If You Don’t Have a Scrapbook Room

I am not one of those lucky souls to have a scrapbook room. I know of one lady who not only has a scrapbook room but she decorated it with a Star Wars theme. This is her room for scrapbooking and nothing else. I would love to have one of those but I have to utilize all of my extra space for my work. When my writing work began taking over the extra space I once had, I realized there was nowhere to go with my scrapbooking materials. So at one point I just bagged it all and shoved it … Continue reading →

How to Catch Up Scrapbooking

If there is one deterrent to a person scrapbooking their pictures it’s when they have “fallen behind.” You know what I’m talking about—when your child is now in high school and you have yet to scrapbook pictures of when he was in preschool. The idea of trying to catch up can feel overwhelming. It really doesn’t have to be. The problem is we think we have to start at the beginning. But it actually makes more sense and is less overwhelming to start at the end and work backwards. Here’s what I mean—first, you have to get all your pictures … Continue reading →

Wood Stamp Storage and Organization Tips

Wooden stamps have been around a very long time, long before scrapbookers were using them in their albums. So how do you store these little wooden items? It isn’t as cut and dry as the acrylic stamps since wooden stamps tend to take up so much more space, and if you have a lot you are looking at some serious space needs. For years I have been looking for that perfect solution, but long ago I realized that it is totally a personal choice. So what might work for me, might not work for you and so forth. Here is … Continue reading →

Paper Storage and Organization Tips

Paper is what most scrapbookers have the most of in their stash. There are two different types that need to be stored and organized – patterned paper and cardstock. In between those are the specialty papers like mulberry, velvet, vellum and others. So how does one go about organizing and storing their paper? There are two methods of storage; vertical and horizontal. There isn’t one way that works better than the next, it is a personal choice and a space issue. If you have nowhere to store your paper, than you are a bit flexible in how you achieve the … Continue reading →

Top 10 Scrapbooking Organizational Articles

Organization is key to a productive scrapbooking hobby. Knowing where your things are, and being able to access them easily is key to time management and giving yourself a bit more time to scrapbook. These are the top 10 articles on scrapbooking organization. I hope they help you as much as getting organized has helped me with my scrapbooking. It’s a whole lot easier to get some pages complete when I know what I have and where it is. 1. Color Sorting For Organization Color sorting has become a favorite, easy to use way, for scrapbookers to organize their dozens … Continue reading →

How I Organize My Monthly Kits

Often, even when I share great organizing advice, I still get an email or message asking which method I use. So I thought I’d share my method of storing all those monthly kits that we get and can’t stop subscribing to. First, I subscribe to two monthly kit clubs (mostly because I cannot decide which one I like better) – Apron Strings and Scrap Jammies. I have also recently been tossing around the idea of a third one I found, that I really think I like. So, if I do join, it will be three monthly scrapbooking kits, each with … Continue reading →

Scrapbooking Week In Review For April 23rd to April 29th, 2007

It has been another week full of great organization tips and ideas. It is important to find a place for everything, to make your scrapbooking time, more productive. I hope these articles brought you a lot of useful information and creative ideas for your storage and organizational needs. I would very much like to hear from you, to find out what types of needs you might have. I have dozens of ideas, and cannot include them in every article, so please, feel free to ask! Monday April 23rd Monday kicked off our week with an article on Reusing Old Photo … Continue reading →

Great Scrapbooking Storage Solutions (2)

Organizing is an obsession for me. It became that way several years ago, when I realized how much stuff I had. Not just scrapbooking supplies, but just stuff in general. I had three households of furniture in one house. I was having trouble parting with certain items, because of their sentimental value. And others I had trouble parting with because I knew how much money I had put into the item. However, what I finally realized, was that I was costing myself more money, by needlessly storing items I didn’t use, purchasing duplicates of items I already owned (let’s not … Continue reading →

Great Scrapbooking Storage Solutions (1)

I am an obsessive organizer. In fact, I absolutely love the power and feeling I get, when I complete an organizational project. Sometimes, when I go back and realize how effective the storage solution was, I get giddy. I know, it’s strange. But it can be exhilarating when you can find all your things and not have to go searching. Because that was me, way back when. I am definitely speaking from experience. It is important for all items to have a home. In other words, everything you own, should have a place to go. This is completely true in … Continue reading →

Sticker and Die Cut Storage Ideas

As scrapbookers, we tend to accumulate a large amount of stickers and different types of die cuts, which can include page toppers and other shapes. Storage for these ideas, while plentiful, can be somewhat confusing, and since every scrapbooker is different, you have to find what works best for you and the space you are using. My favorite product is The Stadium Organizer, pictured left. This innovative, new product is a plastic stadium style plastic container, which can hold different sizes and shapes of die cuts and sticker sheets. To learn more, see this article. Another terrific item for organizing … Continue reading →