get organized

We're loving this idea from Lisa at Scrappy Catz - before cleaning up from a scrapping session, use leftovers to create a card or two!

What a great way to organize and create in one fell swoop! Keep the clutter down, and get a head start on card giving!

Professional organizers will tell you that when it comes to paper, vertical storage beats horizontal every time. For everyday filing needs, hanging file folders make it easy to find and retrieve papers and records. No shifting and sorting stacks of paper; just flip, drag and drop!

Fast-forward to the scrap room! Scrap-sized hanging file folders are super storage solutions for 12-inch by 12-inch patterned paper, cardstock and scrap-of-the-month club kits.

Commercial products are available for scrap use, but they're expensive and hard to find--and some "made just for scrappers" products are a proprietary size that's hard to use with ordinary office furniture.

Solution: make your own.

OrganizedHome member CariA has taken her version of the Household Notebook to a whole new creative level. For style, beauty, and function, we give this project an A+

Cari's Corner

Cari's Household Notebook

Thanks to OrganizedScrapbooks member Ahorsesoul1 for sharing scrapbooking blogger K and A's Adventures photo organization and storage system!

From prints, to negatives, to digital, they have it covered!

Get inspired:

K and A's Adventures: Photo Organization and Storage

Watch out for great ideas as scrapbooking blogger Jess of Scraps Of Home shares her small-but-organized scrapbook room!

Using inexpensive organizing solutions, she's "climbed the walls" to create space and storage for her scrap stash. We like the labels and signs--they make it easy to remember what went where, when the doors are closed.

Get inspired:

Scraps of Home's Scrapbooking Room

This idea, we love. From the Scrapbooking Blog at CraftGossip.com, a picture is worth a thousand words:

They're simple but profound: tips to organize scrapbooking materials from blogger Tracie Claiborne.

"The first key to being organized is DON'T OVER-BUY. I only allow myself enough stuff that I can keep organized and in sight. If you have already bought too much...PURGE."

Together with photos of her beautifully-organized scrap wall, they're sure to inspire you to clean house and cut clutter in the scrapbooking room:

Scrap Stuff Organizing 101

Baskets and hangtags and glass jars, oh my! The Mad Scrapper blog features these ribbon storage ideas from Candice Palmer. Whether it's custom-cut cardboard bolts (tucked into open baskets), or small rounds stored by color in glass jars, these ribbon storage ideas are function and decorative, too:

Ribbon Storage 101

If you're working to organize a scrapbooking room, take some tips from Jennifer, proud owner of the ScrapCave. Using commercially-available storage units from office supply stores, the ScrapCave offers lots of storage for cardstock, embellishment and supplies:

Welcome to the ScrapCave

We all know the story: products come and products go, leaving bits and pieces of "so-last-year" stuff behind them. What do you do with those out-of-style embellishments, stickers and tags?

Try these creative ideas from Scrapbooking.com. Creating mini-books and small projects with old-style page elements makes good use of them, and clears space in the scrapbooking area for this month's must-have product:

A Scrappers Approach To Spring Cleaning