How To Organise Your Scrapbook Storage

Hi! I'm Susie Jefferson and I'm glad to have been invited by Kay and Graham of Blade Rubber Stamps come and talk to you today all about what I know about scrapbooking. Now, I'm going to talk to you about how to organize your scrapbook storage. I think the main problem is what you are going to do about the 12x12 paper.

Smaller papers are easy, A4 is easy, you can go to any stationary shop and find something but 12x12 are bulky and you need to keep them nice and clean. You don't want your corners turning up, you don't want to scuff them, you don't want dirt on them and you need to be able to get at them easily. Now there are many, many types on the market.

This is one of the basic and really useful ones. It's just polypropylene obviously, archival acid-free and nice and roomy and it's hard. So you can actually pop all your papers in there like so, pop the lid on and you can see that will actually stack without bending, you could even have stood upright like this on a shelf or you can lay them down like that so if you have several you could separate to color order or to subject--wedding, baby, pets, retro, all pink, all blue, etc.

another type is this little carry case, which is another useful type and it unzips and at the top you actually have not only a section where you can put papers in, you've got a lift out bit which is also in decks so you can have all of them in here. Take out your little guide there and actually have a little index on each tab telling you what papers you've got by manufacturer or by type or by color, whatever you want to use it for. You might have all car keys, greens, blues, another one all violets and pinks, etc and it just makes things to find than you having to go through every single sheet.

If you want to you could also use something like a pizza box. If you are going to use a pizza box it has to be brand new, unused and you need to line it with something like a scrapbooking paper because wherever the paper surface is touching your papers can also in a non-acid free environment affect the papers that you are using. You need to keep these clean at all times and obviously you use a little bit of common sense.

The other question of course is what you are going to do with your embellishments. Well if they come in a little handy tin like that, obviously you keep them in there, keep reusing it, bead containers, etc. virtually all of them come in containers or you can go to a station, you can buy little acrylic door, etc.

just something pretty that fits nicely on the shelf that you can see what you got and the main thing is you can find it. And that is our little section on how to look after your scrapbook supplies.