A Quick Checklist to Organizing Your Scrapbooking Supplies With so many scrapbooking supplies on the market, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. And if you’re like most scrapbookers, organizing your supplies can be a bigger undertaking than scrapbooking your actual pages! But with our checklist for organizing your scrapbooking supplies, you’ll quickly have your space organized and ready for creativity! Organizing Paper The first step on your checklist to organizing your scrapbooking supplies is your paper. A popular way to sort paper is first by size, then by type (cardstock, patterned paper, vellum), then by color. Having your cardstock sorted by color will make it easy to find and keep it neat and organized. Organizing your patterned paper is a little bit different. Depending on what types of paper you have (and how much you have), you can sort patterned paper by themes, manufacturers, or the predominant color. Think about what kind of scrapbooking you do, and choose a sort that will work best for your needs. Put your organized paper into paper holders to keep it neat and flat. Another item on your checklist to organizing your scrapbooking supplies is to set up a spot for scraps. A small box or folder will work well; weed this out every month or so so that you still have usable scraps ready to go. Organizing Embellishments Next on our checklist to organize your scrapbooking supplies are embellishments. Embellishments are notoriously hard to keep up with, and there are many products on the market designed to help you keep them organized. First, you will want to sort your embellishments by type. Look at your embellishments and decide how broad you want your categories to be; how many embellishments you have should drive this decision. For example, if you have lots of brads, eyelets, and snaps, you might want to sort them separately; if you have just a few, you can put them together. Other categories to consider are: ribbons, fibers, tags, buttons, stickers, and rub-ons. Next on your checklist to organize your scrapbooking embellishment supplies is to decide what kind of containers they will fit best into. Smaller items (such as brads and eyelets) fit nicely into small plastic containers. Bigger items, such as flowers and ribbons, look beautiful in glass jars on your scrapbooking table. And I organize my stickers by theme in an expandable plastic divided file folder. Organizing Tools The last step on our checklist to organize your scrapbooking supplies are your tools. Think about the tools that you use most often, and keep those out and ready to go. For me, this includes my paper trimmer, adhesive tape runner, scissors, and hole puncher. For tools that you don’t use as often, pretty baskets make easy and attractive storage options.
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