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How to Organize Your Paper in 5 Easy Steps
On the third day of our 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway, my true love gave to me…How to Organize Your Paper in 5 Easy Steps from Totally-Tiffany!
How to organize your crafting paper in 5 easy steps.
Organizing your paper is easy when you have a simple system to follow. Tiffany Spaulding, organization expert and founder of Totally-Tiffany recommends following these 5 easy steps.
1.) Create a list of all the themes/sentiments you craft about. We’ve give some examples below, but if you’d like to see a more detailed example – click here.
Baby
Beach
Birthday
Camping
Graduation
Pets
School
Sports
Travel
2.) Sort your paper into 3 major categories.
- Themes and Sentiments – follow the list you created instep 1
- Holidays and Seasons – The calendar year
- Rainbow – follow your color wheel
3.) Next, breakdown those major categories into small groups.
- Themes and Sentiments – Baby, Beach, Birthday…Travel
- Holidays and Seasons – Spring, Summer, 4th of July, Fall, Halloween, Winter, Christmas, etc.
- Rainbow – Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet
4.) Label each section using Paper Pockets, Collection Keepers or Dividers.
5.) Store your paper vertically for easy access. The Paper Manager Kit is the perfect solution.
Tips from Tiffany
- In the Rainbow section, arrange your paper shades from light to dark.
- Use the Collection Keeper for managing scraps.
- Don’t be afraid to combine your 8×8 and 6×6 papers with your 12×12 papers. You’ll have all your paper in one place. It will be easier to find and you’ll use more of it.
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I don’t have a crafting space to call my own (I wish I did!) I normally use the kitchen table or I spread out on the living room floor. It is not and ideal place but I have lots of room and often times my kids (and my critters) jump in to help me with my projects.
Because I have a small house I use my dining room table to do most of my crafts.
I am lucky I have a room in my house.
All of my scrapbooking is done at the kitchen table. I wish I had a space I could dedicate for just scrapbooking. It makes it inconvenient to have pull out and put away all the time.
I am hoping to get a room put together, but until then I use a small table in my living room.
I have a large closet to craft in and we call it my office
I live in small apartment so my craft space is a corner of the living room. Have small desk and 5 bookshelves to hold everything
I have a wonderful crafting space with a window and plenty of storage.
I have a craft room, that is sorely in need of additional organizers. I like the handles on these organizers. They are perfect for storing my craft magazines
I have a large finished basement that is my sewing and craft room. It’s wonderful!
Most of the time I scrapbook at a church crop or a retreat. Don’t have 4 legged helpers there!
i usuallly scrap in the family room.
I have a tiny room upstairs in my home that is just big enough for a crafting desk and small dresser full of supplies. I do most of my crafting there.
My craft supplies are stored in a corner of my main room… tiny apartment, so crafting gets done on main table or low kids’ table.
Pat, I am like you that I have a small house and use my dining room table to craft. However, I have one bedroom dedicated to the storage of my craft products.
During summer, I do my crafts out on the porch. In winter, I use our kitchen table.
I have transformed my dining room into my craft room. My husband has built me a desk and some shelves. I would love to add this giveaway to my slowly growing collection! <3
I converted my barely ever used dining room into my craft area.
I have a corner in the family room to work on needlecrafts, otherwise the kitchen table is used a lot when the hot glue gun comes out!
I live in an apartment so space is limited I always do my crafts either on the kitchen table or the couch but I always have to clean up afterwards which is a good thing
I craft anywhere I can… Dining room table, kitchen counter, couch, desk… Doesn’t matter. I do have a space in a room that my husband and I share for our projects but I rarely work in there… it’s too cluttered with all my supplies. LOL
I have a dedicated craft room in my house.
I live alone and so my couch and end tables become full of yarn, needles scissors, etc. Love having it handy to start and stop; however, that means I scramble to put it away when company is coming.
I have my own craft room. It’s one of the biggest rooms of the house. Until the other day, our ping pong table was my craft table. But I love ping pong, so I bought a desk at a garage sale–lots of cubbies–and now we can play again! I love to be organized…
I live in a condo so space is limited. So the dining room table or if crocheting on my couch. I try to keep my projects simple so easy to clean up.
I generally craft wherever. I am into drawing more right now, so just about any place will do.
Hello and Happy Holidays. I have a very small room in my home that I use for my personal computer and to store my crafting supplies. Right now, I have ALL of my crafting paper supplies in old computer paper boxes. It works, but not well. It takes me a lot of time to locate what I am looking for when starting a new paper craft. This system would be a crafting miracle in helping me.
I’ve just moved into a home that has two large basement rooms, I get one for my craft room and he gets the other for his man cave. I’ve never had a space big enough to leave my supplies out of boxes crammed into a closet, definitely exciting to organize in a usable layout.
I craft in my very unorganized basement.
I took over one of our guest rooms as my craft space. So far, it hasn’t been a problem but I’ll be feverishly cleaning up if more than one couple visits us at the same time. Yikes!
I craft on my dining room table. Best light in the house.
I live in a large house with my mom and sister so I have my very own little craft room with a farily large closet, I love it, it has room for my crafting desk, computer desk and sewing machine, plus 2 other dressers and a large chair, my own little retreat from the world,
Since I became ill with cancer….this is a wonderful way to work from my bedroom. I am able to keep alot of ideas etc and not loose everything. Thanks for your wonderful ideas.
I use the smallest bedroom of our house for sewing,& storage, Cut on the dining room table. Hand work watching TV on couch
Love these organizing
ideas. I retired and had
a shed built in my back
yard that is my craft
shed! It is finished with
a wood floor, has a air
conditioner and heater,
lots of work space. It is
so easy to go out into
and get lost working on
all my craft ideas! Love
it. See pictures at:
https://www.pinterest.com/cghundley/my-craft-shed/?etslf=6644&eq=my
Carla from Utah
I do my crafting in my living room since that is the only place that I have at the present time. I live in a 545 sq. ft., 1 bedroom apartment, at the present time. All of my crafting supplies are in my bedroom.
I have a space that’s about 8’x8′ in the corner of my basement where I can craft. I have a few shelves, and old dresser, my grandma’s old sewing machine, a full spectrum floor lamp (as well as overhead light fixtures),and my craft table in this limited space. In order to do all of the crafting in this space that I wish to do, I have to be well organized with my tools and materials. Your tips on paper organization are helpful. The Totally-Tiffany’s Craft Storage Organizers would keep everything in place even better!
I have converted a spare room into my craft room. Now that the kids are all grown and out of the house I now can have a dedicated room for my hobbies.
I have a small room off of my bedroom for all of my paper crafting and beading.
My studio is on my second floor – a great light-filled space
I am in the process of setting up a craft room. I look forward to using it and hopefully getting my grandchildren interested in crafting.
Since my kids have all flown the nest, I have converted one of the extra bedrooms into a crafting space but it never seems big enough for everything I want to do.
I have a room but I still overflow to the garage, kitchen table and coffee table.
i use my dining room for my crafting.Always looking for good ways to store paper..
My family room is my craftroom…not good. Working to get every thing organized in my basement!
A craft space? Waht’s that? haha.. usually the kitchen table!
My family room is my craft room…not good. Am working to get things into the basement and organize!
When my youngest child moved out, I took over her bedroom for my crafting room. It got repainted, re-carpeted and all set up just for me! I love it.
My craft space is in the loft of my townhouse, where everything is organized in bins. I also have a crafting table and assorted chairs, including two easy chairs in case a friend wants to relax and craft with me. However, depending on what I’m working on, my craft space is also the sofa in my living room!
I usually grab stuff from my “craft room” (or as my husband might call it, “crap room”) that needs some TLC organizing, and work at the kitchen table where I can look out the bay window!
Where I do my crafts depends on what the craft is.
I have patterns from magazines that need organizing…..the more I TRY to organize the more confused I get
My crafting takes place wherever I am. Sometimes I even go to the library to craft. Organizational materials would sure help keep me making cool stuff (being able to find what I need).
Since my husband passed away I have taken over most of the house. I have a loom and workspace in the smallest bedroom (which was once my only craft space). I have my quilting and sewing space in the basement where his model railroad used to be. I have my papermaking space in the laundry room. I usually spread out my jewelry making on the dining room table and living room. I do reading and designing in my bedroom and hand work and web surfing for patterns in the den. Occasionally I use the garage for hardening metal jewelry and drying dyed fabric. On nice days I will put my spinning wheel on the porch and spin otherwise it is in the living room.
I have a room with lots of cabinets and shelving. I have my sewing machine table and my craft table. I love it and it has lots of windows on the south side.
I am blessed to have 2 rooms for my crafting! One room is for working and one is for storage/organization. I still have problems with organizing stuff! My paper stash is one area where I could use some help. I keep my paper in a huge stack to keep it from getting wrinkles, but it is not organized. Each time I need to use something from the pile, I have to go through the whole thing to find what I want- what a huge waste of time! Help!!
I’m trying to clear out my absolutely STUFFED basement, but for now, I do everything on the kitchen table.
Since have very little available space to craft, I tend to do all my crafting while sitting on my bed. I have assorted containers that are on rollers under the bed, and I just pull the ones out that I need at any particular time or for any project.
Where I am, is where I craft. Sure, it would be great to have a craft room or a she-shed, but I’m ok with a portable drafting table, a fabric idea board (hung on the wall with Command hooks), or just my lap. I’m not crafting as a business, so it’s the process and the pleasure that are most important to me.
at my kitchen table
Right now my craft area is my dining room and it is totally covered with my card-making supplies. I desperately need some organization tips.
I craft where ever I can. On the kids table, on the dining room table, in the breakffast nook, on a tv. tray, On my bed, or sometimes just on a cookie sheet! I have crafts spread out everywhere!
I don’t have a crafting space yet!!! It’s usually at my kitchen table(we don’t have a dining room). Things I’m working with and scrap containers and embellishments etc. all around my “space at the table”….yikes my hubby must be even more crazed than I thought!!!
Thanks for the contest and chance to win. Paper storage is always a blunder to me. No matter how I try to organize it…I can never find that certain paper I know I have….but where is it right now??? Wish me luck…maybe after the holidays.
I mostly scrapbook with friends….because my area needs a makeover….I moved just trying to get organized….getting things out of boxes and trying find a place for everything just not sure where to put everything…..and how to make everything within finger tips…knowing where everything is….if I could get to my table ….I would craft more often!!! I need to figure out what to so with everything! I need to get things out of boxes so I can see them…or know what I have!!!
I used to have my own room but since we moved I use either the kitchen or dining room table.
We dont have a designated area for crafts so the kitchen table gets taken over!
I craft on my coffee table. I keep my supplies in a storage container.
I craft in the living room right on the coffee table. We store supplies in a box.
I craft on my kitchen table and I keep my supplies in another room.
All around the house! I have a craft room, but I am often found in the living or dining room, where I caan be close to family.
I am very fortunate to have a room dedicated to crafting.Each wall has shelves to hold my craft bins which total 50.I should mention that the closet holds bins loaded with fabric.I use Sculpy to make Santa heads,fashion beaded jewelry,I am at present trying needle felting to list a few of my ventures.Crafting is a world I love to get lost in.