Getting Organized with Scrapbooking Organization

Find Your Supplies In Mere Seconds With Scrapbooking Organization

Scrapbooking organization is the way to sanity if you refuse to live in a scrapbooking clutter. Getting organized is a priority on your list as your scrapbooking supplies expand and grow over time.

Ever scratched your head and asked yourself, "I remember seeing that mauve-colored Gel Roll somewhere... But where?"

"There must be another cardstock I've put away that matches this paper. But I can't seem to find it now when I need it!".

"Aagrh! I've been searching for one whole hour for that missing daisy quilled-sticker. It's driving me nuts!!"

Save yourself this kind of agony. Better to start early with scrapbooking organization rather than when the clutter amounts to scary proportions.

Organizing your zillions of supplies is a necessity, not a want. Can you imagine how frustrating it can be when you intend to spend time working on your scrapbooking pages, but get bogged down with searching this and that?

You may want to pay some attention to your scrapbooking organization right away. Starting early will help you save more time later.

Giving Time to Getting Organized

Scrapbooking organization can be broken down into simple and manageable steps.

Just that you have to set aside some time to doing it. It's usually not as time-consuming as you think. If you set aside too big a time frame to getting your scrapbooking organization done, it'll appear overwhelming and you'll keep procrastinating this important task. A practical time frame will get you started quickly.

That said, you'll love it when your scrapbooking organization is all done up. Just imagine the immense sense of satisfaction and pride welling up in you.

Best of all, you can now find whatever you need in a nifty. :-)

A Scrapbooker's Guide: Organizing your Tools and Workspace (E-Book)

OK, if you need expert guidance on getting your scrapspace, scraproom, or scrapbooking life into an organized haven, here's one e-Book you might like. It shows you how to keep your cardstock, embellishments, albums, tools, pens, etc into clear organization. It helps you to create a space that's a reflection of your style.

No matter how big or small your scrapspace is, you'll be inspired and go away with great ideas from Jill Davis, the founder of Scrapbook.com. You'll get sneak previews into her personal scrap studio too.

Steps to Getting Organized

Six steps to making scrapbooking organization successful:

1) Sorting
You'll probably need a large floor space if your have a huge collection of supplies. To see everything at a glance, spread them all out on the floor. Sort according to categories like papers, brad, eyelets, tags, stickers, punch art, etc.

If you desire, you can also sort within categories. How about sorting your stacks of papers into different families of colors? Or your hundreds of eyelets into various colors? Your brads into different shapes?

Sort according to what you think work best for you.

2) Recycling
Be a little hard-hearted and get rid of those supplies that you won't need, once and for all. Sometimes it's kinda tough for you to look at those yesteryear stickers and convince yourself that you'll use it someday. The thing is, you probably won't need it and it's taking up precious space.

Clearing away those items you don't need will make space for your new supplies. Isn't that more fun?

Furthermore, your old supplies can have a chance at a new life as another scrapbooker's treasure. Hint: organize a swap with your friends or cropping buddies.

Get a box and fill it up with items that you wanna donate or give them away. Doesn't it make you feel good when you can give away something that others might love?

3) Allocating
Set up a space for your scrapbooking activity. It may be a closet, a corner at your house or if you're lucky enough, a whole room to yourself. Whatever the space, designate it as your scrapbooking corner.

After sorting through all your supplies, now it's the time to consider where to house them.

One consideration is how often do you use these supplies? Place frequently-used items close to where you work, and you may put aside those seldom-used items to another part of your room.

4) Containerizing
Now it's the time to pour your supplies into their homes that you've chosen for them.

See how prettily the various containers are filling up with your supplies. Do you feel your sense of satisfaction growing?

5) Labeling
Print or neatly handwrite labels for your containers, drawers, shelves, etc.

With your supplies in their homes and labels pointing out their exact locations to you, searching for your supplies is now a breeze.

6) Maintaining
Give yourself a pat on your shoulder for completing such an important and big task of scrapbooking organization! Now that you're done, the last thing you want to do is to mess it all up again.

To avoid this, spend 5-10 minutes after each scrapbooking session and put back each item to its place.

This habit will help you maintain a neat and tidy scrapbooking haven.

Consider looking for these items to help you with your scrapbook organization:

Scrapbooking furniture

Scrapbooking cabinet

Scrapbooking armoire

Scrapbooking storage systems

Scrapbooking organizers

Take a look at these beautiful, functional storage items that flagged my attention at Scrapbook.com! I think they not only look great but come with great reviews too!