Storing Your Scrapbook Paper

Posted on | September 1, 2007

I’m not a scrapbooker, at least not the way scrapbooking is done these days, but I am a card designer, which means that I have PAPER, lots and lots of paper, and I can’t seem to keep track of it.

Recently I’ve found myself purchasing doubles, triples, sometimes even quadruplets of the same paper. It’s not because I’ve fallen in love with it that I need to have it all, it’s mainly because I didn’t have an easy way to view what I already have.

Let’s face it, scrapbooking and card making can cost quite a bit of money, but when you’re buying duplicates repeatedly, that can blow your entire crafting budget. I had decided I needed to put a stop to this quickly.

I don’t live in a palatial home, so any space I can free up is considered prime real estate. I started my organizing process by taking all my paper and placing it into one big giant pile. Then I began separating them by colour scheme and project. If I knew that I was going to use a certain paper for making Christmas cards, then I’d place it in a my Christmas paper pile, regardless of the colour.

Then I got the Ziplocs out. These clear plastic bags have come a long way from keeping my sandwiches fresh. They now come in all sorts of sizes, even large ones big enough to store 12 x 12 scrapbooking paper. Now I realize that I can purchase scrapbook paper and supply holders at any craft store, but these items can become quite expensive to buy, especially when you need to purchase more than one. Using clear plastic bags is a great alternative that can do the job just as well, and is much more cost effective.

This has worked out great for me because now I when I’m looking for something red to accent a card, I just flip through my Ziplocs to get to the red section. Keeping my paper stored in easy to see containers has freed me from the massive paper chaos. Now things are organized and my concentration is on creating.

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