How Do You Sort...............

[Disney Ontario]

Your 12 by 12 scrapbooking papers?
I started by dividing them all by colors, then what to do with colored patterns and stripes. I have the wire cubes with shelves, but I need more shelves. I also want to go buy the clear magazine/paper holders but then that gets the price up for more than one. $9.99 here in Ontario,Canada.

Any ideas

 

[piratesmate]

I've got my papers divided ROY G BIV with the plain card stock separate from the patterned paper. I haven't been buying plain paper, just plain CS. I also have my 12x12 separate from my 8.5x11, but I'm rethinking that. I'd bought some patterned paper for a specific element & searched high & low for it one day....turns out it was 12x12, not 8.5x11.

 

[LindaBabe]

I use a rolling file rack with hanging 12x12 folders, two per major color 1 plain one pattern, 1 for grey / brown that i don't use too much, 1 Christmas, 2 disney, 2 specialty papers regardless of color. The rack is full full full!

 

[Honeybehr1]

I organize mine by colors into 12X12 magazine holders. There are 3 dividers in each box. I put solid, prints, flowered. I do ROY G BIV and put neutrals in their own box.

 

[PIRATEGIRL007]

I organize CS by ROYGBIV in my P3. I have a paper taker file for patterend and a few 12 x 12 acrylic trays. I am an oddball and organize by company. I have a bad habit of buying a whole line of scrapworks, chatterbox, etc. I also try to keep oranized by theme (disney, christmas, birthday, football, etc).

 

[FantasticDisFamily]

By color for solids in a 12 x 12 accordian file and then I have true prints in one 12 x 12 acid free envelope (the bigger plastic sort of thing you can get in the scrap supplies) and simpler patterns (strips, dots, etc) in a second 12 x 12.

From there it is a little more complicated as I also keep Disney paper and a few other special topic papers in their own 12 x 12 envelopes. The thing I like about this system is it keeps them accessible but also protected from dust and light plus when I'm heading for a crop I can slide them into my hopper (the envelopes - I carry the accordian separately) and the paper doesn't get crumpled.
Deb

 

[JudithM]

I bought acrylic stacking trays at one of my LSS. I think I have like 12 "shelves" total. My solid paper is sorted by color. Patterns are sorted by type - Disney, military, Americana, flowers, etc.

 

[Spinning]

I have 4 paper takers
2 are all card stock sorted by color
2 are pattern paper that is assorted by color. I decide what the main color is and sort that way.
Then I have my odds and end holders, which will have all disney, all basic grey, special paper etc...
My goal right now is to use up all of my pattern paper! Then keep my solid card stock well stocked and only buy patterned paper as needed!

 

[goofymom/pop]

Above my work table. I put the reds,oranges, yellows together, then the next has blue, green, aqua etc, the next brown, black, grey, white....etc. I also recently bought the 12 inch deco file thing from CM to take my papers to crops. I love it. I put all my oranges together prints, solids, letters...same with all the other colors. Now of course I don't have every single piece of a color in there but enough to be able to crop away from home. I find it a great organizer and am using it more at home than I thought since now my patterned papers are grouped in colors I seem to be able to find them better. I have one folder in there for current albums, so if I buy a particular paper for say my family album I will know where it is. Very nice!

 

[pjlla]

I also sort my solid paper and cardstock by color (rainbow effect, as most people mentioned). My patterned paper is another story. I was sorting by design (stars, stripes, swirls, checks), but it was not effective. My most recent purchases of patterned paper have been large packs from a particular maker (such as the Slab products). I have been sorting those by pattern/color, but keeping all of the same pack together, as they usually coordinate well with each other. I'm with Spinning though... I need to use up my current LARGE supply of patterned paper and only buy as needed. (Although I recently bought two large packs on sale at AC Moore of the Scrapwizard papers.... really pretty!!).

I also keep all of my 8 1/2 x 11 papers separate... I mostly use them for my Dad's gardening book anyhow.

I also have two large sections of Disney paper, a section of baby girl paper (and one of baby boy).
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[Queenie]

Mine is so badly organised. I have no storage space at all almost everything except paper is stored in a big crate in the living room. All my paper and cardstock is in a pile under the filing cabinet, I slide it out when I need it. The only organising in that pile is that the card and paper are seperated, card at the bottom of the pile, paper at the top. My A4 paper is just as bad only that fitted into a box I found.

My worry is that the gap under the filing cabinet is only so big, if I buy a few more sheets the pile isn't going to fit anymore!

 

[WDWMom]

My patterned paper is sorted by how I think I would use it.

Disney
Holiday
Boy
Girl
Girl Scouts
Other