Paper scrap organization

People have requested that I post pictures of how I organize my paper scraps, so that’s what I’ve done in this post. I apologize for the poor quality of the pictures. I don’t get much natural light in my craft room and the artificial light helps only so much.

This first picture shows how I file my card stock by color family, with the coordinating scraps above. I bought those white cubes from Michael’s. It is better to store the paper horizontally rather than vertically so that the paper doesn’t warp, but I don’t have room to store the cubes horizontally. I tend to go through my paper pretty quickly so a little warping doesn’t hurt it :) Since I don’t get much natural light in the room, my paper doesn’t fade.



Here is a close up of my scraps. The black jumbo magazine holders were bought at Wal-Mart but I haven’t been able to find them there recently. You may need to go to an office supply store to buy similar magazine holders.

The bags are zipper type bags I received for free, but Ziplock bags would work just fine. The best size is 12” x 12” or whatever you can find at the store. Keep in mind that if the bag is any wider than 12” x 12”, it won’t fit properly into the jumbo magazine holders.

I created charts in Microsoft Word for each color family and punched out the card stock using the smallest heart from the Stampin’ Up! Heart to Heart punch. I adhered each heart with a glue dot, and used double sided tape to adhere the chart to the front of the magazine holder.

I printed card stock information on regular mailing labels (1” x 2 5/8”) to identify the color and to make it easy to order more card stock.

Separating all my scraps was time consuming but it can easily be done while watching TV or talking on the phone. This filing system has saved me time searching for scraps as well time spent cleaning up after a project. It’s very simple and inexpensive to do.

I hope this post has been helpful. If you have any questions, please ask me. Have fun stampin’ and organizin’!