I have tried many methods to contain my scraps. I used to just store them all in a drawer labeled scraps. Then I went to an accordion file and sorted by color. Now I have one envelope that I keep in the front of each container to store scraps. (Like a black envelope and a white envelope) in the front of my black and white bin and so on. What method will you choose? Good luck this week. Hope everybody is making progress!! Let me know how things are going!
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Creative Options totes - they are the best!!! My yellow one contains cards that are made and organized according to b-days, sympathy, thinking of you, get well, etc. The purple ones is matching cards/envelopes to be made, the pink is scraps of partially made cards to donate for Operation Write Home and pre-cut cardstock for cards. I also keep my stamps in 2 of these. Here's a few examples of the scrap strip cards and 1 scrapbook idea......NEVER throw any piece of paper away that is bigger than a quarter - tee hee!!!!!
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See Julie's narrative in the comment section below for these pictures. Thanks for sharing Julie!!
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Aaaaaah paper - gotta love it! My friends call me the Paper Queen - I buy it just 'cause it's pretty. When I first took my Mom with me as I bought paper, she said "Oh, I get it....paper to you is like material is to me!" My Mom was an avid quilter and she was exactly right! I bought those polka dot containers (emailed pix to Kathy) at Target for $7.00. I have one that contains my extra cardstock and the other holds my 12 x 12 paper which is organized by themes, patterns, white/black, neutrals, yellow/red, pinks, wine/burgundy, blue/turq, greens, dog/cat, and holiday. I really like these containers, but they are getting pretty heavy to haul to retreats, so I'm hoping to win the hostess gift at my next Thirty-One party and store my paper in those (they have shoulder straps) and won't be so hard on this ol' girls' bad back. Then I'll use my polka containers to store my extra cardstock that you see on the table.
ReplyDeleteScraps: I have a Crop In Style container that I bought at Hobby Lobby. It has plastic dividers which I have labeled as above and then I have 8.5 x 11 plastic sheets holding my scraps, but after going to Rita's on Friday night and making Cricut critters, I found myself wasting a LOT of time, so today, while putting apples in the crock pot to cook, chix in the oven, soup on the stove, and making creamed cukes and coleslaw, I'll so thru my scraps and put the colors needed to say....make 4 Cricut horses, or 3 Cricut frogs, or 6 Valentine's hearts, etc. Then I'll gather my strips and put coordinating colors together to make strip cards....oh, will send Kathy a pix of that too. Great way to use leftovers....just sponge the edges of the strips of scrap paper and you have a background design for your cards.....you could even do this on the bottom of a scrapbook page....I'll send an example of that too.
Oh, and I forgot paper for cards......will take a pix of that too - LOVE those giant deep plastic bins to hold cards that are already made and another for ones in progress.
My friends call me the paper queen, but I bet Kathy has more than me!!!!!
Hey Kathy - how goes the big move? I can't imagine moving my whole stampin' room - but as organized as you are - I'm sure you are making it work since you are an organzing freak! Remember that song....Super Freak, super Freak, You're Super Freaky - but in a good way!!!! LOL!!! I finished my scrap paper today and then found out I have pockets in those plastic dividers that I never knew about!! soooo, I put my 1" wide long strips in those pockets.....that really cleaned out the plastic envelops, so I didn't label the little Ziploc bags for Cricut projects - that would have been way too time consuming adn just cleaning out my scrap folders made a huge difference, so searching for that perfect little piece of orange will now be an easy task! Kathy, you are a gem for setting up this organizing journey - if nothing else, it just gets you to go thru your stuff. Well, I do remember Kathy calling me Chatty - so I better close for now and unplug my apples - the house smells sooooo good!!!!!
ReplyDeleteJulie, The move is going but I am going into week 3 of sorting, purging and organizing. I still don't have everything out of the upstairs room, but it is coming. I keep promising to post pictures, but it is such a mess....need a few more days. I am finding that having it on the first floor...I work on it more. Maybe just little bits of time but its better than nothing! Trying to keep up with the challenges as I go. I pretty well had everything organized into drawers before this challenge started but I am using this time to go through what I have and tweak my system as needed. I am glad you enjoy this Julie. Thanks so much for your nice words!
ReplyDeleteGood for you! Your son will appreciate a bedroom and hey, if your craft room is closer and handier, you just might get to craft even more!!! I went to Rita's on Friday night and might go again this Friday night, then signed up for a card-making class this coming Saturday. Then I have one free weekend before the next 5 are packed full of crafting! That's the weekend I practice scanning and get some pix developed!!!!! Only 9:00, but this ol' gal is tried, to think I'll climb into bed with Boomer and call it a night!
ReplyDeleteOnly 9:00, but this ol' gal is tried, to think I'll climb into bed with Boomer and call it a night!
ReplyDeleteLOL - can you tell I'm TRIED (tired) TO (so)....too much packed into one weekend! Friday night playing at Rita's, all day Saturday in the garden (6 hours to finish just the main garden), then organizing and cooking today - just had a bowl of my cinnamon apples from the crock pot with a tiny bit of french vanilla cool whip - to die for!!!!! G-nite!
Julie...What is in the picture of the plastic bags on the table. Is that more scraps? We thought that your scraps were in the Crop In Style...just trying to sort this all out on our lunch hour at work...LOL....Kris and Kathy
ReplyDeleteYeah, all those plastic page protectors on the table were the mess I had in my Crop in Style - now that I have sorter thru them all, they are back in the Crop in Style and all the strips are in the divider pockets and I put all the crap I don't want in another folder to give away for free - outta my hair! :-)
ReplyDeleteWell Miss Kathy - I have a mess because of you!!! Above, that pink tote, the only one that's a mess.....well, it's now all spread out over my table.....but also thanks to you, that container is getting reorganized! I decided to go to Rita's again on Friday night and play. This container was filled with half-made cards, leftovers from stamp camps, card fronts that have been run thru the Cuttlebug and just a mess of this and that....but things too good to toss! Sooooo, tonight when I come home, I'll stamp on some, cut ribbon for some, get out embellishments for some.....and then put them in a smaller tote to bring to Rita's on Friday night for assembly and I even found some things I thought I lost! LOL!!!!!! Sooooo, while I have a mess, thanks to you, I'll have an organized mess after a couple more nights, and then after Friday night, I'll have a whole bunch more cards made up, thanks to you, and then have a nice donation for Operation Write Home which is being held on Nov 5th...thanks to you....soooo, look what YOU did!!!! :-) My hubby walked in and said...."I thought you were organizing?" Tee Hee!!!!! Looks like the cardstock fairy went on too many carnival rides, got sick, and puked all over my neat and tidy table!!! LOL!!! I even found pix of my Mom's flowers that I thought would make pretty cards - thought those would be pretty ones to donate to the local nursing home. You are such a gem and I'll thank you even more after Friday night! Love ya Miss Containerizer Gone Mad!!!!!
ReplyDeleteOh Julie...you make me laugh!I am so glad that I could HELP you out! You'll have to let me know how things look after Friday night. Hopefully you will think that all of this organizing was worth it LOL....
ReplyDeleteI am still plugging away at my mess in the new scrapping room whenever I get a few spare minutes. It's 9:17pm and I just got home from work and checking in with my parents. Each time I respond to them I hear you in the back of my head telling me to be patient and tell them what they need to hear to make them content. Dad was upset thinking he was out of refills for his medicine (which by the way he was but he still had plenty left to get him through) I did my therapeutic fibbing and told him that I had called and the refills were on the way all the while I hear Julie telling me that it is okay to do this if it brings them peace. He seemed to calm down. It felt so good. Now I just have to remember to cover my rear and do it tomorrow. LOL I know that this is a little off the subject...but thanks for all of your support...I am working my way through your book. It is helping...giving me new ways to cope with this parent care taking thing which is still kind of new to me. Thanks again!
WAHOO!!!!!!!!!!! Good Girl!!! You are such a WONDERFUL daughter - sounds like you did everything right tonight and then to hear that your Dad calmed down just warms my heart and makes me smile!!! It also makes me sad as I know the long journey ahead of you and just had another friend tell me how her Mom got so nasty and upset with her at a doctor appt. Her mother has dementia and is caring for her son with Down's Syndrome, so this friend has to get them both safe, but she said her mother said some very hurtful things to her.....I reminded her....it was NOT her mother that said the hurtful things, but Alzheimer's (the devil) that said those hurtful things and to keep pluggin' away and do what she needs to do to get them both in a place that is safe and where they are well taken care of. I'm so happy the therpeutic fibbing worked Kathy!!! You calmed your Dad down and mostly, reassured him and gave him the peace he needed, the reassurance he was okay.....great job!!!!! I'm sooooo proud of you!!!! Say, does your Mom have sundowning? I found out that if you close the drapes BEFORE the sun sets, it helps delay the sundowning - calmed my Mom down for an extra hour or two in the evenings which makes a huge difference now that winter is coming.....my Mom would see our reflections in the window when it was dark outside, and those reflections ended up being the children she had lost, but for others those reflections can initiate the confusion and loss of time/place/etc. Again, great job Kathy - so, so proud of you and glad that little hint helped!
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