Organizing your scrapbook space to help your at home
scrapbooking business.
by Colleen Shiach
How do you keep all those scrapbooking supplies organized to run
your scrapbooking company efficiently. Here are several helpful
tips to keep your scrapbooking business organized and efficient.
In this article we will cover, theme items, fibers, ribbon and
paper.
There are an endless number of tools and supplies that help us
turn plain pages into works of art for our customers. But
organizing and storing all those wonderful embellishments we use
to create with can be challenging. Spending time digging through
drawers and boxes looking for supplies is frustrating and time
consuming and time is money. There are simple and inexpensive
ways to help you spend less time searching for your supplies and
more time exactly creating.
Sorting supplies by categories or themes is very useful and you
can tell at a glance what you have in stock. Some useful
categories are Winter, Christmas, Easter, Valentines, Baby girl,
Baby boy, etc. Create interesting labels using 2"x 4" address
labels and your computer. You can have fun with this too by
adding small graphics and matching the font to your business
cards.
Be sure to save all those scrap pieces of paper into themes
also. A great item for this are those accordion style keepers
available at most office supply stores and 12"x 12" Paper
Envelopes by Cropper Hopper. By saving all those scraps of paper
you can use them to make die cuts and punches to match those
wonderful pages you are creating.
What to do with all those fibers and ribbons ? Place fibers in
small plastic bags and store them in your theme containers.
Smaller plastic containers work great to store fibers by colors.
You can also use recycled clear jars, cleaned and labels
removed, and sort by color. Add your creative labels to these
also. Photo boxes are a great size for holding spools of ribbon
and these come in clear also. Another great solution is to hang
a pretty curtain rod on your wall and thread those ribbon spools
on the curtain rod.
Paper is one of the most important staples and storage is also a
major problem for most at home scrap booking businesses. Paper
comes in hundreds of different colors, patterns, textures and
weights. It needs to be kept dry and clean, be photo safe and
stored in plain sight. Paper can be stored in a wide variety of
ways but horizontal is the best. There are lots of wonderful
products out there, from wire storage racks to clear stacking
plastic trays and are a very good investments.
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