Creating a SYSTEM for STORING PAPERS ✅ Craft Room Overwhelm Fix ⭐
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- Creating a SYSTEM for STORING PAPERS ✅ Craft Room Overwhelm Fix ⭐- join me creating a system for storing papers so you can fix that feeling of overwhelm. I share my papers and a way of sorting and storing them. Do you need to tidy your papers? Come and organise with me! FREE Process Steps are here www.pinterest....
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It's just sad that digital papers have taken over junk journaling, most crafters seem to use them now, and it's
hard on people who don't use them when you're trying to follow something, sorry if this sounds critical but I think it's something a lot of people might feel, I don't know, let me know what you think
I totally understand your sentiments, and can I say thanks very much for raising this point. It's a valid one and you said it in a kind way, I appreciate that...I use a lot of non-digital supplies too, that's my way. I find it exciting to "solve" how to create something without a pre-created picture. Sometimes the papers are also just what I want, for an image or the colour. But I don't create digitals myself and so I'm not focused so much on using them. I also want my viewers to be able to "access" this hobby and all the joy of it. So I guess I use them occasionally. Each to their own, but as I say I hear you. Does this make sense ??😁💜
Ah thanks Joie for your reply and understanding, I appreciate what you're saying and I will continue to enjoy your channel, junk journaling means the world to me it's saves me everyday from a tragic loss, and I will bear in mind what you've said, thanks again❤❤❤❤
You're always welcome here... sending hugs 💜🌿
Joie de Fi - Yes, what you say absolutely makes sense and you put it so well.
I don’t use digitals. I work in an office and use a computer and printer all day, so it’s the very last thing I want to do when I get home. 😱🤷🏼♀️🤪
I like buying paper pads and using those. I don’t always get ‘exactly’ what I had in mind, but what I do get that is different I find inspiring, if you see what I mean? 😄
Thank you for all you share. 😊🙏💝💕💐
Also sending hugs to Eileen. ❤️💐
This is a great point, especially your point about time in front of a computer screen. I'd also say that I simply love the feel of book pages and using those and junk mail in projects...so if I can work those in I do. It's just a personal thing. Thanks so much for joining in with this debate, and for sending more hugs to Eileen!! 👍❤️🌿
It's a comfort to know I am not alone in my piles of paper.
You're definitely not alone 🥰
I’m not procrastinating,
I’ve been percolating!!!
Now I’m bubbling over with my labels,
Envelopes, containers and boxes @ hand
Salute!!! Ready to work! Mind @ ease
Awesome!
Thank you for your willingness to be vulnerable and address your paper situation on here with us. It is really helpful to know you’re not alone. 🥰
We're definitely not alone 🥰
I bought myself a large plastic tub with wheels on it for easier manoeuvring. I placed the papers vertically inside and when I look for something, it’s so easy because all I have to do is flick through the papers without having to remove them from the box. This works well for me but everyone is different and you need to find something that suits you. Love your channel.
I think Loz has a really good idea with a plastic bin on wheels with a lid.
Label each category alphabetically and have an Index page for quick reference. Thanks Joie for yr great ideas and also sharing yr frustrations which puts us all in the same predicament "sorting that makes sense" greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰 😀
Great idea with wheels!!
Agree to that, and thanks for the lovely kind words!!!!!❤️❤️❤️
I’m most impressed in finding such a talented crafter whose various storage boxes looks so human, not a wall of pristine, expensive custom made cabinets that I could never afford. Thank you for that!!!!
Aaah, my craft room has soul and atmosphere if you know what I mean, and I wouldn't have it any other way. 🤣🤣🤣🥰💕👍
I’m jelly to see that pile of beautiful papers!!!
Hehe 💜💜🥰
I would consider what types of things you typically look for when you're searching through your printables--what you call them in your mind: botanicals, vintage, small ephemera, tags, backgrounds, etc. Putting the papers in those clear folders sounds like a great idea so you can pull them up to your desk easily when you want to look for something.
Thank you!!! I only started doing printables a few months ago. I was reading your comment and looking at her Vectoria Designs floral tags. My mind was shouting "tag". You gave me an idea for organizing my printables, and my pile is MUCH smaller. I'm also working on organizing the pieces I have cut already.
Great feedback, thanks so much!!👍🥰
Oh wow I was just about getter to the end of my tether, when I decider to have lunch watch you and there you were , tackling my task , love it xxxx thank you
Hehe, we can organise together!!💜🥰👍
I just love how systematically you think things through - such a help. Be well ❤
🤗💜
Great idea! Having stuff in its place just makes them using it so much simpler
Absolutely!💜
The answer, for me, was a scan and cut and a bunch of small tins/pretty boxes collected from thrifting and friends. Amazing how much less space (in our crafting area and in our heads) kits etc take when they’re cut up, and I can store them by category. (Labels, flowers, birds, tags, journaling cards, etc.)
I’ve also decorated some small cd holder type binders with pretty collages so I can stand them up on top of a dresser I use for storage and they just look like art. I theme the collage (color and content) to indicate what goodies they each contain. Beats the pants off the piles, bins, and folders method I used to use. See also: Iris cases.
I’ve stopped buying ANY new stuff until I’ve got the stuff I already have cut out and stored. Full sheets from kits have gone by designer into files, but- I no longer print *anything* until I’m ready to actually use it. I’ve still got an overwhelming amount of “stuff” left over from my -PRINT ALL THE THINGS- stage, but I’m whittling away at it. Wishing us all luck in taming the paper beast! (Especially those of us who need to SEE our stash to get motivated.)
I definitely need it 🤣🤣👍🥰
@Shoshi Platypus That brown packaging paper! I love it! Multi-use-at Christmas, big time, for shipping presents; it often covers my desk under the craft mat, the edges sticking out are a good place to wipe a brush on or test an ink dauber or do a quick calculation. You’d think they were a prized possession, the way I carefully fold them up into neat flats. Yesterday I finished painting a bureau for my daughter, whose due date for the first grandchild is next week. Because my brown packing papers were so neatly stored, it was easy to take them over and spread them out on her picnic table and in the grass. When finished painting, I once again folded them up neatly and brought them home. They are ready for another project!
That all makes sense to me!!🤓👍💜
I got to many ideas from your video and from several of the comments. My takeaway is that I need to organize what I can and leave the rest to cut up/org later. I have a lot of stuff but some can definitely be put in categories. There are a lot of empty boxes in my garage that can hold papers in folders and inside the house. I have 2 arts/crafts rooms and have spread out to the kitchen right off my living room and computer/office room. The least I can do is clean and org and make things neater so I’m ready to collage or put a junk journal together. Thank you Joie and a the others who chimed in with their thoughts. It’s 9 months since this video was posted and I’m just now watching and learning and doing.
I love the way you organized the papers today. My only suggestion might be to write very legible labels for ease of identifying each category. That is my big problem--having a system but not remembering what it was over time. Labeling always helps me.
I will do that
I bought several scrapbooking ring binders with plastic sleeves then categorise by subject eg birds, butterflies, vintage writing, floral etc and keep them on a shelf. Worth the investment.
Sounds good, very organised, I like it!!😁👍💜
Hi Joie. I've watched this video before but found it the perfect motivation to finish my paper-sorting project. I bought plastic envelopes from our $Tree store here in the US. I'm sorting mostly by book pages, dyed papers (one each for all colors & coffee/ tea dyed), pattern scraps and digital scraps. You always have such great ideas. I hope you're on your way back to us. We miss you! Hugs & Creative Blessings!
I can see your frustration . Creavitives often think of all the possibilities of all of their supplies very fast. I think you’ve gotten your craft room well on to it’s way to sensible.
I personally forget what I have if its out of sight. My answer is to pile my papers and supplies on my treadmill so I’m not tempted to use it instead of crafting. Lol. Keep up the great work! If it’s not convenient you can make little changes as you go. Thanks for all of your wonderful videos. You’re a true inspiration.
Wise words about understanding my frustration...so very accurate 👍😁💜
I love to categorize, I am a data analyst 😊 by profession. Over the years I learned to be OK with the possibility of change of my categories. I decide on a set of categories and just go with it. With time if I notice that one of the categories grows too fast, I divide it into a couple or more distinct ones. And those that never grew I simply combine with a name with a lot of hyphens in it. So I recommend to see no stress in all this, just start, then follow to the best of your abilities, then get used to, then observe your natural tendencies and adapt your system to them.
I agree, flexibility and evolution is important 👍👍💜💜
I read all the fabulous comments too. I don't keep a lot of paper. But I do store what I have in sturdy plastic envelopes. The envelopes will almost stand on their own. They also fit nicely in file boxes to see what I have. I also store stencils in them with dividers. Elizabeth St. Hillaire is a wonderful artist here on RUclips. She has the best hook and line system for storing her stencils. I hijacked her idea and use the hooks to hang fabrics, stamps, brayers and anything I can mange. I go vertical whenever I can.
Great tips!!🥰👍
👍👍I enjoy the organization videos almost as much as the creative ones.🤗
(don't tell anyone but I like making them as much too 🤣🤣🤭)❤️❤️
I enjoy your videos that you put such hard work and effort into doing. Shame on anyone that feels entitled to offer any negative connotations. I love the versatility of junk journaling and I’m experimenting with many different papers and other things that are fun to use. Thanks for opening my mind to the many possibilities!
Thanks very much for your lovely kind words!!!💜💜
Love your honesty! And truthfully that could be me talking…….thank you
Hehe ... welcome to my channel Lora!💜
I use a plastic heavy duty divided holder with lots of dividers. I separate by theme, such as botanical, birds, nature related, and then make a separate plastic holder by holidays, and by other themes I make journals out of on a regular basis. It helps me to keep themes together so every item I need to make a journal out of is together. Works now but who knows down the road!
Great approach!!🥰👍
Me too! 😊
You. Are. Brilliant!! Thank you times a thousand. I appreciate you talking through the thought process, as always. Thank you!!! I’m doing this first thing!
Fantastic!!! Thanks so much!!🥰
Very elpful to watch you go through the steps you laid out - thanks.
You're very welcome Jan 👍🥰
Keep it simple sweetheart.
Wise words 🥰👍
This is wonderful. I have a large number of used Manila folders that I did not want to just toss in the recycle bin. The folders are scored at the bottom so that they can be refolded to accommodate more papers. I refolded them at the most narrow score mark and then added accordion folded paper at the sides to ensure that nothing falls out. I have made envelopes from magazine pages to hold partial pages and small items. The paper at the sides keep them all contained, an contracts and expands as needed. Mine are divided by subject as well.
Great tips!
We all struggle with this issue of getting organized. Just when I think I have a good system I find another way that I think will work better. The one thing that I have been most conscious of is to have most of my digitals organized by creator, so that when I use then I can always give credit to these creators for their hard work. Currently I have a couple of 3 tier carts - I love them - On the top tier I have the plastic wallets that hold what i use most and the creators that are my favorites, each wallet is labeled by creator and that theme as well
That's a great system!!👍💜😁
Golly, thanks for this. I have MORE paper than I know what to do with. I’m glad to know I’m not alone AND appreciate the motivation to get it in hand. 💜🙌🏻
You're very welcome ❤️
I’ve been binge watching you for the last couple of weeks. Very enjoyable! One thing I really love about your videos is the step by step directions to use! Absolutely love that! I’ll print the steps and put them in a binder with an example.
Awesome!!🥰👍
You are brave to take on such an un-nerving topic as sorting papers! But you have helped me think about better organizational possibilities. Thank you!
Hmmm, it needed doing, and I'm not impressed with myself, but thanks for the uplifting comment 😁😁👍❤️
Hi Joie. Organizing is one of the most challenging task in my opinion. Your system seems very thoight through. And of course, you are so right: out of sight out of mind. Thanks for sharing.
You're very welcome sweetheart 🥰
Hi My name is Shannon. I am using my hubby's acct. I watched you last night and you have inspired me to tackle my largest hurdle in my home. My unsightly paper organizing project. Thank you. I also have a tip If you have those clear paper protector's cut the top right corner off of them and it will be much easier to get your papers out.
Oooh I love tips like that!! Welcome Shannon, great to meet you! I'm delighted to have inspired you, how exciting!!😁👍💜💜
@@joiedefi Thank you so very much ❤️
I have file folders for a lot of my digitals but if I am planning a special journal such as a botanical, sewing, autumn journal, I put all of the subject papers together so I can pull and get to creating. I know some people don't like digitals and prefer scrapbook paper but I found that I didn't use nearly enough of a pack and ended up with a lot of scrap that was taking up space and was a waste of my money. With digitals, they are saved on my computer and I can print only what I want and don't take up near as much space in my craft room. I really enjoyed your video and always get great ideas from you. Thanks for all you do.
You're very welcome, great points here!!💜
Thanks for sharing great tips 😍🏵🌺🌼🌹🌻
Hello!!!! Thanks so much Lena!❤️👍
Hello Joie.... this is a great and useful video. I have a much bigger mess than you have. I am pretty good at figuring out how to sort & file my papers.... it is the damn maintaining that throws me for a loop. I tend to sort papers by how I plan to use them. One big category for me is papers printed to use as pages in journals. Then I have papers printed to create ephemera with. I also have patterned papers which are great for ripping up for collage.... then there are papers which need fussy cutting plus labels. Then there are gelli printed papers, embossed papers, paper napkins, and translucent papers, painted (with watercolor) papers, stamped papers....... and you can't forget dyed papers ie coffee. Marbled and florentine papers. I am sure I have missed a few. I LOVE PAPER!! ....Great Video!!!
So much paper!!🥰👍
Thanks for those ideas. I like the cereal box idea and the plastic folders work well. I might do a combination of both ideas. Maybe holidays can go into cereal boxes that are covered with papers representing the holidays. Thanks. Carol from California
Thanks Carol!❤️🥰
I store papers in piles of colors, rice papers, coffee/tea dyes, digitals, and themes. Some are in cereal boxes, binders and under a paper weight (rock) on an open shelf. I also have a drawer with just the odd pages to use in a journal. I use the baskets and envelopes to hold the cut up pieces from digitals and "found" unique pieces. In other words, very much like what you have done! :)
Hehe, nice one!!💜
This makes sense. Can't find what I am looking for by designer. I have tons of ephemera so file them by subject. Full kits and small master boards I store in plastic envelopes. Love to see and hear how others stay on top of things. Thanks so much for these videos, Joie!💕
Oooh great feedback Lorraine!! And fab to hear that it makes sense, I'm not always sure that I do!!🤣🤣😁💜❤️
Thanks for sharing this process. It is very overwhelming but you have made it doable. Thank you so much for sharing ❤️
You're very welcome sweetheart ❣️
I just love your organizing videos as they are so helpful. I've been separating papers in categories for years. I also separate all my "scrapbooking" papers by colors and types of patterns, lettering and textures etcetera. Truly I'm OCD but it helps me find what I need very quickly. 😊
I need to be more like you!!💜🥰👍
Hi Joie, thanks so much for doing this video...you clearly thought through the process. Traditionally, I've sorted mine by designer & kept them in a legal sized 4 drawer filing cabinet. Not the best system. iIthink I'll adopt your genre idea because let's face it, when you want a label, a gelli print won't do; when you want a floral, a background paper won't do. It would also accommodate outliers like gel prints, masterboards in various stages of completion, backed papers, etc. Getting excited now! Hazel
Fantastic!!💜
Thanks for sharing this! I have a mess on my desk AND I use Zippy bags in hanging file folders in a file drawer and categorize into themes, designers, and specific categories, etc. - these is how I store my digitals and book and magazine pages - I use both and I often keep my book pages in the book. I find it easier to cut up a digital than an original book page. You have given me inspiration to reorganize and clean up!
Hooray!!!!😁💜👍👍
I have recently started my own channel and to help me keep track of whose digitals are whose. I use Manila file folders to coral individual kits and whose they are. Unless I haven’t got very many of someone’s kits then I paper clip the kit and put them all in one folder. It makes it quite easy to pull out a few folders and put them on my desk. All the fussy cuts I have pencil boxes with them in them and I store them on a shelf above my desk, easily within reach. My craft room is really quite small also. Love your videos!! Thank you for sharing 🥰💕
You're very welcome ❤️
Beautiful!
Thanks so much
So helpful. Thank you. 😊
You're very welcome
Thank you for this perspective on onganizing papers. I have OCD which makes me super organized but also makes it difficult for other people to understand my system. 😁 I always print the entire kit which I store on a large plastic envelope or a gallon size zipper bag. These are stored alphabetically by creator. When I make a project from a kit I try to use all the pieces but if not, i have a separate filing system that is organized by type such a tags, journal cards, ephemera etc. For small things like labels, numbers, butterflies, I usually sit down in the evening to watch TV with my partner and fussy cut them. They are stored in magnetic tins that are stored in cookie sheets and hang on the wall. I know my system won't work for everyone but its helps keep me calm and if know where everything is.
It sounds good to me Emily, and I appreciate you sharing this!!😁👍💜
Thumbs up again! Such good suggestions!💙
Thank you very much Joie. Wonderful ideas for me to use. 🥰
Excellent!!💜
I've used magazine storage boxes for mags on bookcases, and am thinking of changing from current zipper pouches to the same type boxes. I have shelves next to my desk, this will allow me to get things off the floor and out of the way, and leave under my desk for the beads, charms, small things like ink pads, etc that are in sliding drawer tower. I think we all struggle with storage no matter how little or how much we have, and periodically going through and having a sort out just makes us feel better and less frustrated. Not what we necessarily enjoy it. But we find things we forget we had, get ideas, and get more inspired. We just have to finish before we stop midway because of an idea. lol. TFS!
So true, sort outs are so necessary!!💜
Thank you for SOOO MUCH information on how to organize! I’ve been following many of your tips and THEY WORK! I sent a lil monetary gift for all your efforts! Better than buying a book and NEVER reading it! I just watch, listen to you and learn!!
Added another amt…you are so deserving!
I want to say an enormous thank you to you Sherry. I appreciate your support so much!! It means a lot to me. Sending hugs!!🌿🥰
Wonderful ideas. I needed this type of show😊
You're very welcome Dotty!🤓👍💜
I do not have digital images but do have loads of scrapbook paper pads with images as well as solid papers in various colors... and I too keep mine in clear pockets or large 12x12 zip lock baggies...BUT... as an added organizational method I find very helpful is I do make heavy dividers with the tabs on the top so I can actually find the various categories .and I don't have to remember what pocket holds what by color, etc.. I can see the taps and can add another pocket if need be to add to that grouping... That way I do not have to look thru an entire tub or in my case a cardboard file box.. I have done that with my stamps and have found it very convenient to find what I need quickly. . Love the idea of the plastic tub with wheels..
That plastic tub is so easy to move, I agree about tabs!! Critical!
I think if you don't have money to spend on digitals etc is a good thing...It makes you more creative! I bought a book of cloak room tickets for a £1 and I distress them to use in products (you can coffee/tea stain them). You could also start a glue book and glue any bits you collect adding doodles and colouring (making you own papers). Any mail that comes with a stamp/cancellation marks on it, glue it in your glue book. I also bought a modern invoice book which I also distress.
Love these ideas and tips so much!!🥰👍💜
I am the queen of fussy cutting, keeps me busy while watcvhing TV. Those are seperated by category & size. I don't do the printables, my printer doesn't make nice ones and I really like the texture of other papers. That said I have TONS of paper, thanks to local thrift stores. I bought shelving from scrapbook stores as they all went out of business. I sort the whole pages by color. Seperate files for exotic papers, lined papers. I moved a year ago and the studio is still not ready for prime time and I've spread to the dining room table. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and am down to sorting scraps by size (tiny as postage stamps, size to put on small envelopes/pockets, long skinny pieces for trim or tags, full-page ephemera)
Sounds like you are doing really well....🥰👍
I found this a really helpful video Joie. Thank you for working through your ideas and process.
You're very welcome!!❤️❤️
I definitely think it helps to analyze how you journal. By theme, era, designer, etc? Then sort accordingly. Things that need fussy cutting go in a bin next to the chair I sit in most evenings and I cut them out in my spare time and sort them into smaller bins, similar to yours, by theme. I sort scraps by color and vintage papers by era since I mostly do memory keeping.
You're quite organised, that really helps. 👍🥰
Thanks for sharing with us your ideas. I think I will be doing some reorganising today. Its a never ending process
It definitely is..... thanks so much for popping by!!🥰
Hello Joie, I separate butterflies and birds and one container and then I have pictures of ladies in another I have pockets in one if I have pockets and have birds or butterflies on them they go into the pocket container. I have papers that tea and coffee died but they are and then I have printed too many digital it’s not the whole digital kit but too many digitals. I like the magazine holders because you can just pick it up and take it to your desk and take any of them to your desk take the papers out that you want to use when you’re done you can stick them back in the ones you don’t use or you can put picture scraps into your scrap magazine holder. Like me I have a lot of those holders so maybe you could store yours on the floor in that other room or maybe your husband could put you up a really long shelf that would be awesome
It would indeed!!💜
Hello Joie, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for visiting Denise!
Joie, I was just watching the part of this video about 12:23, where you are talking about the folders from your office-if you score across the bottom of the (larger end) maybe an inch up from the fold, then crease all the way across you could store an inch of scrapbook paper.
What a great tip!!!❤️
I love your videos and this is no exception! However, I am a digital creator and have so many of my own digital kits as well as so many others I have purchased! My room is filled to the brim with papers!
I have all my digitals in snap clear envelopes by kits and all the rest are by Creator's Name. It is not working for me either. I never even look in these envelopes!
I am going to try to do what you have done, but fear I won't ever remember who created each sheet.
I have recently started back doing videos and intend to use stuff up if I can.
Thanks for this video it definitely has my mind thinking of solutions. xo Deb
Thanks very much!!❤️
I’m struggling with this as we have moved and downsizing has given me nothing but frustration. Thank you for this video. I hope this will work.
You're very welcome ❤️
My craft room is my dining room table, shelves in 2 closets and a corner on the floor. Having such a small amount of space has greatly enhanced my creativity. Categories = generalized titles like birds, flowers, nature, fashion, theatre, people, architecture, typography, and backgrounds. Then for each broad category = small, medium and large sizes. All boxes are recycled packing boxes. Oh, & two boxes--- one for tools to cut ephemera. and glues.
I make my own ephemera and don't use plastic. Thank you Joie, for this very thoughtful video. Lovely weekend to you! 🌹
Thanks sweetheart
I will just go to the Dollar Store and get some tubs and folders. Then will put under my worktable and that removes the clutter from the sitting area tables where visitors come. It was so helpful. Thank you for helping me think it out!
You're very welcome lamona. I think we need a Dollar Store here in England too!!👍😁💜
Thanks for a great video was very handy on how to sort papers
Thanks Nicky, sending you hugs!!❤️
You would be surprised just how much will neatly fit in an 1.5" or 2" three ring binder. Those thin translucent binder folios with pockets that go into the binders are a way to separate the piles into however you want to sort them out. You can use zippy bags, to stick in the folio to hold smaller stuff or use sheet protector sleeves for partially cut out pieces. You really don't want to go much thicker than the 2" because it gets too bulky and hard to handle. Now is a good time to get them when back-to-school stuff is usually on sale. Adding dividers between the folios helps with keeping sections organized.
That overwhelming pile of papers could easily and neatly be stored in 3 or 4 binders, and you can easily pull them out, easily find what you want, and easily tidy it up. IF you find one binder getting too full, you can either, say you have a tremendous amount of bird themed papers, just take them out go to another binder, all by themselves but go with one maybe a bit thinner, like 1". For example, you can have one binder for botanical/nature and have a section for butterflies, one for birds. one for wildflowers, etc. Then another binder, you can have for kits. One binder you could have for backgrounds, letters, collage papers, etc. You get the drift. Think of what you have and how you use them.
Storing them vertically on a shelf or bookcase, or even on a far corner of your desk area they take up very little real estate. It is very flexible, cheap and easy to use. Hope that helps!
I love this idea too. It also helps those of us that sometimes get too much. We can SEE that we have enough. I use very sturdy clear envelopes that stand-ish on their own.
Great idea and I tried it with a 3” binder but it was so heavy I couldn’t lift it!! Maybe 2” or 1” for each color?
Great suggestions!!❤️❤️
Not sure i understand how you would put the papers in a binder eithout puncturing them with holes
@@brookematthews4431 There are many ways! Sheet protectors, those pocket folios students use have three rings or if not, get out your hole puncher. Or you can make them. I don't know where you are, but here in the US you can get all kinds of binder fodder at the Dollar Tree. But due to inflation it's now the Dollar and a quarter store. But last time I went there it was back before Easter.
I wish I could put up pictures!
I was known as the "Binder Queen" back in the days when I home educated my 4 (now grown) children. It even leaked over to the Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, and Girl Scout Troops I was involved in with my three sons and one daughter.
Looking back we really just junk journaled our curriculum lol!
Hope that helps to clarify a wee bit!
Cheers!
Designing a system is always daunting and it will change over time as your craft grows and changes. I am a scrapbooker so have lots of papers and other stuff but have my journal stuff stored differently at this stage as I use mainly found items in magazines, books, op shops, and top it off with scrapbook supplies when appropriate. I don't do digital, couldn't afford the downloads and especially the printing. My journal papers and laces are in boxes under my desk with some on my desk as I have little room. I'm thinking as I proceed I will need to upgrade that storage system to accommodate more of a collection. I follow journal makers on RUclips but use the ideas no the papers.
That makes sense, great feedback Denise!🥰👍
I always enjoy your videos and find them very helpful. You do such a great job with explaining everything. I totally agree that the organizing/storage is an ongoing issue. I have found that the hanging file folders work great for 8 1/2 X 11 paper. I, too, store those under my desk. But I also buy a lot of 12 X 12 pads and find those harder to store. (I'm not much of a digital person) A lot of my ephemera is stored in the drawer units sold in hardware stores. Thanks again for sharing.
That 12 by 12.... I am currently just stacking mine. Am open to all ideas, thanks for sharing!!!😁👍💜
@@joiedefi for 12X12 I use the same bids (crates) that hold the hanging folders. Without the folders the 12X12 pads fit in. But then I'm constantly pulling out a bunch of the pads and they end up in stacks. Hard as we try, I think with this hobby it's difficult to stay organized cause we need so many different supplies within an arms reach. (At least that's the excuse that I'm using! 😂)
Thanks so much for sharing your system!!
You're very welcome Susan 🙂👍❤️
I think a lot of crafters are constantly looking for better ways to organize their supplies
I had my digitals by artists -some I still do 🤔but I’ve had by holiday also -but I use clear plastic envelopes -I can get a lot on them
You’ve given me some ideas on reorganizing
I do have like vellum in one, etc I think it’s gonna be very individualized & each person has to think about how they find things best? By color, subject, artists
TFS 👍great job!
Thanks so much!❣️
You gave me some great ideas. I do have a partial filing system for some of my papers but it gets out of control too quickly! I like using the plastic folders because they are not bulky and can be easily accessible in a bin or box! I tend to be organized and create various methods but I have difficulty keeping things put away and back where they belong! I re entry ordered some shelving to help me create space for stuff I don’t use regularly so that the things I want to have access to has a more accessible location ! I will await more from you to help me along the way! thanks for sharing your thought process!
I'll share an update later in the year....that also might help with my (lack of) discipline in this department 🤣🤣💜
I have so much overwhelm going on right now..I appreciate these videos and the kind words of reassurance and encouragement. Thank you!!
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Thanks for some great ideas for storage, I am in the process of navigating how to chorale all the ephemera, printables, and miscellany so I appreciated your thought processes and visuals!!
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I enjoyed your video today and got some great ideas.
When I put two different categories like Christmas and Thanksgiving in a clear folder or bag together I face one category to the front and face the other category to the back, then put a small label on both sides saying what is facing that side example Christmas
W / Thanksgiving on opposite side.
And on the back the label would say:
Thanksgiving
W/ Christmas on opposite side..
So it wouldn't matter which side the file was put back you would know what the second category is.
I hope I made sense in my explanation.
That makes a lot of sense!! I hadn't thought of Thanksgiving, great suggestion!!💜👍😁
Brilliant as always ❤️ I love my under the desk paper storage idea that I took away from your last organisation video, it works really well for most of my papers but I haven't categorised the digitals like you just did. Thinking that might be a good idea for me also.
My system has been to sort digital papers regularly so that I find gems that I had forgotten I had then my next projects tend to heavily favour those papers and that leads to new ideas. I also go through the files on my computer, which are sorted fairly well when looking for new inspiration. My digital files are massive because I lean heavily towards Public Domain images that really seem to get me inspired, kind of like your passion for books 😉 🥰
Great sharing, thanks 👍🥰💜
Oh those plastic sleaves are a fabulous idea for our printable kits tfs Joie...Kia Kaha... I was just pondering the same problem...
It's an ongoing challenge if I'm honest, paper just gets everywhere!!❤️❤️❤️👍
Fabulous ideas for breaking down paper storage! Thank you 🤗
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Thanks for sharing idea’s ❤️❤️
You're very welcome!💜
Yes! Loved this video👍❤️
Splendid!🥰
Thanks so much for sharing ❤
You're very welcome, great to see you here again Ellen 😁💜
Thank you for this video. I always have a hard time organizing, sorting, categorizing.... the background paper and images is ok...but those in between them is at lost somewhere.... I dont have lots of papers....but there will always some that is always at lost. The video help me to rethink my organizing......alot of thinking and sorting. Thank you again.
You're very welcome, thanks so much for popping by to watch!!😁👍💜
This is a great idea. I know the struggle to keep it all organized. I did enjoy this. Thank you for sharing.
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Yes it has many file types so I give up. I believe I’ll try this I have all I need storage bits already. Thank you so much.
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I decided to use binders for my digitals & I place them in clear page protectors. I have two huge binders 1) Sorted by colours, rose theme, collage sheets, ladies, children, black & white, and background papers 2) Ephemera choices. I store the binders behind my desk, in easy reach of my craft table to pull out, flip thru & put back. I tried putting them (like you) in an open bucket in sleeves but found the pages got warped in the box. I tried the file folders but didn’t like that I couldn’t see (at a glance) & gave up on that system altogether. I appreciate you sharing your ideas with us!
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I don’t have much digital papers but the ones that I do I use a file folder and of course categorize them for examples nature animals” would be wild animals, birds, butterflies etc. And even if I had tag butterflies I would put them with the butterfly category. So when I decide to make something with butterflies they are all together with butterfly images. I hope that makes sense. I have a file cabinet. If I didn’t have a file cabinet I would put it in a plastic box on the floor, under or next to my desk. But I’m definitely addicted to scrapbook paper. I have so much scrapbook paper that I can wall paper my most of the house.lol. When I’ve moved to other places my family hate helping me move and complain that I have to much craft supplies. Lol 😂
LOL 🤣🤣🤣 I think we might be related, I love scrapbook paper too! Great suggestions Maria, thanks so much for sharing this!!👍😁💜💜💜
Hi thanks for video. I LOVE BASEBALL CARD protector sheets bought at dollar store. For storing small items labels and cut out punches . I use recycled binders (thrift store) daughter school) and bought at dollar store transparent sheet protectors used for some digitals whole or partially cut or small onion skin prints . I also repurposed old photo albums with the pocket sheets. Very small photo albums are great for small cut outs as well. Take care
Great approach!! Thanks so much for sharing!🤓❤️👍
Thanks!
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I've tried many different ways since I started junk journaling a year and a half ago and I seem to return to my tried and true gallon size zip lock bags. I can see through them and know right away what it is. If it's something that's been cut into I'll put all of them into one baggie which would be to be done or finished. I don't have a lot of categories either. If I have a lot of digitals already cut out, they go into little baskets I can stack on top of each other making it easy to grab and go. There's more, but this is the basics. The zip locks go into a basket, standing up.
Good strategy Robyn 👍🥰
I would label the wallet/plastic files. (a taped down post it, is fine). You can have a main header, and then some detail as needed.
Good idea!!💜
Thank you for sharing your organizing of papers. Mine are out of control and i have to get better organized in order to use the papers i have printed.
Me too!! There's a lot of us in the same situation 🤣🤣👍🥰
Joi this is brilliant thank you so much I probably need to print on demand as I'm in the same situation loads of papers I've tried several of the methods on the list but I find I go back to: Ephemera, fussy cuts & backgrounds.
They're all key categories 👍🥰
Great video as usual .I keep my digitals in a plastic sleeve binder separated by maker. So far this works for me.
Sounds good!!
Greetings! Great ideas as always, Paper can be daunting to organize but your tips and tricks are very useful and creative! Thank you! I have very limited space so I use 12×12 stackable paper containers and few craft storage bins with drawers! Enjoy your weekend Joie!🥰
That sounds super organised, I'm coming to craft in your room Yolanda!!🤣🤣❤️
Yes, I am definitely like this too: if it's organised, easy to access/use/put away afterwards, then I am more creative, more likely to use it, etc. I recently organised all my papers - got a box for hanging files and a set of hanging file folders and labelled them all and sorted. I can easily grab a file and pull it out, have it on my desk and access what I need and then just as easily slot it back in the box. It's a system Julie Fei-Fan Balzer shared some while ago, and it's infinitely expandable - you can sub-divide into as many categories as you like depending on how many boxes or filing cabinets you feel you can put into your space. It was when I discovered hanging file folder storage boxes (with a lid! Thusly dust proof) for cheap on Amazon that I realised that was an option for me - and it's been life-changing in terms of my art. I previously had all my print outs, gelli papers and whatever all in one Art Box and it took forever to rifle through it all to the point that I barely did.
*having watched* A few more thoughts in response to your comments in the video: there's no one solution, and it's hard to know what's right for you until you try one. But we have to try solutions with an open mind - it might not work, it might need adapting or possibly binning altogether. In terms of how to divide or categorise things: it is about how your brain works. I think in different ways depending on (a) what I am working on and (b) the kind of paper I think I need: it might be by colour, or it might be by subject/type. Thusly in my paper storage I have one file for every colour, including black & white, neutrals and 'multicolour', but then I also have categories like 'vintage' or 'scenic' or 'floral' and so on, though I am now realising after a month or two, that I need to make a few more categories in the same way that you have to subdivide some of those further. So, knowing how your brain works (do you think, 'that supply from that designer/manufacturer is what I need', in which case store by company/designer; or do you think 'I need florals' or 'I need blue'... and so on) is key, but also allowing yourself to be flexible and adapt any system you try. Ultimately it has to help you find things easily and be able to art without being hampered and overwhelmed by the supplies. Love the system you came up with and enjoying hearing your reasoning behind your decision making - hope it works well for you!
(Apologies for lengthy comments - as much as anything, I'm writing all this in case it helps someone else too, because it's really helped me!)
I really appreciate lengthy comments. I read them and learn myself!!🥰🥰👍👍💕
I would put labels, tickets, and tags all together...😃
I think that's a great improvement, thanks for sharing 👍👍
going to do this method for my own digitials
Oooh nice!!🥰👍💜
I really like how you put a lot of thought behind how to organize your papers. I for one am guilty of just filing them away, pretending I’m organized and still don’t know what I have😆 this video was quite helpful! Thank you!
You're very welcome
I also am more creative when dealing with an organized system and working is more joyful and productive. TFS Joie!❤
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Maybe if you put the "Fall" and "Christmas" papers back-to-back so that you flip it over to see the beginning of either topics, could be easier to find what you want. I hope this helps.
That's a great suggestion!!! Brains!!👍💜