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It has been almost a year since I participated in my first ScrapRack organizational challenge and I am four colors (black, white, metallic, and rainbow) away from having my crafting supplies organized.  You can sign up for the next free online organizational challenge by clicking here:Sign Up for the Resolved to Get Organized Challenge

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I will post photos of my completed ScrapRack as soon as I get the rest of my stuff put away.  I am trying to decide which part of my house to organize next.  I am thinking that the kitchen would be a great room to work on.  I don't have very many cabinets and there are so many things that are not used in there.

I would love to hear what everyone else would move on to from an organized craft area.

There is a rainbow after the storm!

I really thought that I would be completely done with my organizing by now, but I am still plugging away.  I only get about 15 minutes a day to work on it.  The point is though that I will be done soon.  Every day my scrap area looks better and if do need to work on a project I do know exactly where I can find those products.

Now that I have gone back and added some items, that I originally missed in my organizing, to their appropriate sections, all I have left is my rainbow section.

I had to turn it sideways in the bin to keep it from flopping around.  Here is my ScrapRack with the just rainbow section not in it.  I am temporarily using a folding table. This is three base units and I will not be buying a fourth.  I really want to use up my stuff.  I will eventually purchase a 2x4 expedite shelf from Ikea and put it on its side with the ScrapRack on the top.  All of my scrapbook area furniture is from Ikea and I have two expedite shelf units as well.
 

I have decided to leave my solid paper nicely sorted on their shelves.  I have my Creative Memories paper separate from other papers by color already.  No reason to change that since it is easily accessible from my scrap chair.  I am pulling the pattered paper out of the bottom shelves in incorporating them into my rainbow section as I get to each color.
 

I have been putting the little bit of glitter and buttons and flowers that I have in little bags that I bought in the jewelry making section at Walmart.  I got 100 bags for around $2.00 and they are handy for small embellishments.  The glitter bottles do not stay in the ScrapRack pages well.  They are just too bulky.  I marked each back with a sharpie to indicate the glitter brand and color, just in case I ever need that information.

Here is the front of my yellow section.  I am onto green tonight and/or tomorrow.
 

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Borders are finally sorted!

I spent a little bit of time each day over the past five days sorting all of my CM snippets into my border section of the scraprack.  I had so many I ended up having to pull off three spinders and move pages around to make sure everything fit so my spinders were not overloaded.  I actually had a little room on the base to add a spinder.  My first rack has 9 spinders and that is certainly all that will fit.

I ended up emptying a bunch of folders that I just had sitting on a shelf.  Now they are in the recycling.

I have moved my ScrapRack off of my work table so that I have room for present wrapping and whatever other project for which I need that table.  I try to keep it clear so that I always have space to work when needed.

And now I am back to my color section.  More on that in my next post.  

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Thanks for joining me.

More Sorting!

I have about three more stacks to sort.  I am integrating all of my Creative Memories short cuts in my border/tag theme section.  This is where I would go for any border stuff.  Some of you may just want to integrate them into your rainbow section.  Do whatever works for you.

I just love that I am emptying all of my containers and getting EVERYTHING into one, easily accessible place.

I am truly hoping to have all of my stuff in my ScrapRack by the end of the weekend so that I can continue working on my sister's wedding pages for our family scrapbook.  I have about four layouts left and then I can move on.

Themes List

The biggest part of my four section system (letters and numbers, themes, calendar, and rainbow) is themes. 

Here is the start of my themes list:

Animals
Baby
Birthday
Bling and Buttons
Borders and tags
Camping/Outdoors
Crafts
Disney
Doctor/Dentist
Food
Games
Heritage/Family
Home
Music/Theater
Quotes/Titles
School
Shapes
Sports
Travel
Wedding/Love

My themes list is a work in progress and everyone's themes list will be different based on how you find your stuff and what types of product you have.  Here is my ScrapRack with two base units almost full.  I am going to end up with three base units total, but that is as big as I plan on getting.  I will just have to use up some stuff quickly so I can make it all fit.

After filling the pages that I had, I refilled my bin and then filled more organizational pages.

 I have found though that the key is to just sort stuff from one box, bin, stack, or bag at a time.  It really keeps it from being overwhelming.  Please know that I started this process back in January and compared to other people that I know I don't have a lot.  I probably have a medium amount of products as compared to other crafters.  All I can say is keep working at it and it will get done.  Even having some of my stuff organized has helped me find things significantly quicker than before I started organizing.

Creative Memories Power Palette organization!

I decided that I did not want to separate my CM Power Palettes.  They are meant to be used together and when I do use them I usually use them for a bunch of scrapbook pages with the same theme.  I really did want them in my ScrapRack so I just three-hole punched my PP folders and I can fit two on a spinder.  Although I did put them all the way in the back since they don't really fit under a theme or color category.  They are their own category. 

Once I use them up most of the way I will probably pull them apart and stick them somewhere in the four section system to get used up.  In the meantime, this is working perfectly!

Page options for your scrapbooking organization!

Welcome to my not very exciting, but certainly informational blog!

When I ordered my ScrapRack I also ordered the ScrapRack pages to help me organize all of my stuff.  I started with the 35 page variety pack because I really did not have any idea which size of pages would work best for me.  Now that I have most of my embellishments and paper in my rack I realize that the super-size singles and the double xl are the two I use the most.  That being said, I have used all of them.  I love that there are so many pages options.






You can see more of the available pages and watch a video on your page choice here: http://thescraprack.easystorecreator.com/items/SHOPPING/2-Pages/list.htm

When you are ready to start purchasing your ScrapRack or any supplies, please click here: http://thescraprack.easystorecreator.com/store.asp?CAME_FROM=JenGreer13

One extra special thing about the ScrapRack spinders is that they are the same size as regular three-ring binders so you can use any type of three-hold punched pages you already have on hand.  I have used my Creative Memories sticker binder organizers in my ScrapRack and sold my sticker binders on eBay so I could buy more ScrapRack pages.

I also used a three-hold punch on my CM decofile folders and my CM Power Palette folders so that I can use those in my ScrapRack.

I gave in!

After sorting about 70% of my scrapbook stuff into a bin, I started selling all of those empty containers/totes on eBay and saving my money.  I found out the people really like to buy Creative Memories and organization tools on eBay.  I did pretty well and very soon had enough money saved to buy a ScrapRack.  To learn more about the actual ScrapRack you can watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZhPLSdR7oo&feature=youtu.be

I continued to sort more and more stuff into my bin while waiting for my scraprack to arrive. 






I also really started getting into the purge process, which I NEVER thought I would do.  But, I realized that I did not want to store any more stuff that knew for sure I would not use.  I got a USPS priority mail box that is the perfect 13x13 size for scrapbook paper and started filling it with anything that knew for sure I would not use.  I am still adding to it, but when I am finished I am going to take photographs of the entire lot and list it on eBay.  I still have plenty of supplies left to probably last me the rest of my life.

Start your scrapbook organization in a bin!

You don't even need a scraprack to get started.  The first webinar I joined was the Resolve to Get Organized Challenge webinar in the beginning of this year and I have done at least two more since that first one to get to the point I am at now.  A new webinar series will start in January.  I post a link to sign up for the free webinar once it shows up on The ScrapRack site.

I started my organization process with a rubbermaid bin, cardboard dividers, and post it notes.

I just started emptying one tote, bag, box, at a time and organizing every item into a four section system.  You can watch a video and read all about the four section system at: Four Section System  It is well worth the time.

My first time blogging!

This is my scraprack at the beginning of my scrapbooking organization.  It has now grown and I will soon post my COMPLETE scraprack.  I started this organization journey by taking a free webinar which I signed up for at:



When I first saw the scraprack several years ago I thought "I will never need something like this."  And now, after spending money on a dozen or more totes and organization boxes and the re-purchasing of products I already own and wasting time looking for things I know I do have, I went for it.  I am so glad that I did.

Check back and I will tell you more about my organizational journey and how I am now motivated to move beyond my scrapbooking area and into other rooms with some of the same principles I learned from Tiffany Spaulding.