I just had to break in and make a couple of observations while I was thinking about it. First, I am hoping to rework this blog a bit when I get started back up. I have a few ideas and am researching if any of them will be feasible. I am so serious about wanting to scrap and blog Mon-Fri; but as we all know, life gets in the way sometimes...be it kids, vacation or illness. So I will settle for 3 days a week and at the very least once a week in times of duress. Also, I am seriously hoping to share a kind of system to my scrapbooking. Which leads me to this question: If the scrap-police came to your door and told you to purge all but seven (7) colors from your paper stash, what seven colors would you keep? (Do not include black, white, kraft, gold or silver)
In other news, I have been sort of taking (actually reading through via email on my phone) a 27-week Organization Class through Scrapbook.com. I just read through Week 4 and it was all about paper storage which in turn reminded me of a conversation at ACOT last month regarding how people store their supplies. A popular answer was 'by color: ROYGBIV'. While I admit that the way I store items is probably very different from the way anyone else does, and also that it's understandable that people store by color, I don't really understand the ROYGBIV situation. I mean, that's not even the basic pack of 8 Crayolas. So a few questions regarding this theory need to be address:
- What about Gold, Silver, Black, White, Brown and Grey?
- How many people own Indigo (I certainly don't)?
- Where is pink and aqua in this equasion (I mean really, Indigo but no aqua)?
I must say that I do have four categories that are stored by color: Flowers, Thickers, Cardstock and Tape; but they are not stored in the ROYGBIV sort of way:
Flowers are sorted into five jars: blue/aqua/green, pink/purple, off-white, yellow/orange/brown, black/white/red. I know that sounds odd, but it's actually quite pleasing to my eye.
Thickers - aaaah - are stored in three drawers: 1) pink, purple, red, aqua, blue, green, yellow (I only have one pack of purple so I used it to separate the pink & red)... 2) DIY, black&white, grey, black, white, brown (neutrals)... 3) gold and silver (bling!)
Cardstock has it's own bin and is sorted like this: kraft, white, black, grey, brown, pink, aqua, blue, mint green, lime green, coral, red, yellow, orange, other greens and purple. (I really don't think I own any Indigo)
Tape is stored in a 7-slot divider in a drawer (2 slots (Left & Right) per roll with one long roll across back): R1L = black & white; R1R = aqua & blue; R2L = silver, gray, gold; R2R = pink; R3L = Green; R3R = Multicolor; R4 = Purple, Yellow, Orange and Red
Now you may look at these lists and the way I store things and think to yourself, "WHAT???? That makes no sense whatsoever!" But really it does, much more than ROYGBIV! Because, primarily I do not own any Indigo!, rarely scrap in Orange and almost never in Purple(Violet????). Really the way I sort by color is very much related to the question I asked earlier regarding those seven colors you'd keep because my seven colors are: Pink, Aqua, Navy, Mint Green, Lime Green, Coral and Yellow (it was a very close call between red and yellow, but it's summer right now so I chose yellow). If these are my favorite colors to scrapbook with then they are most certainly the ones I scrap with most often...so why wouldn't my storage reflect that? Of course, this system isn't for everyone, but it is certainly something to think about. I mean really, Indigo??!!!
Okay, so here's the one and only layout I have done in 3+ weeks. It is the Shimelle layout...WOOHOO! While I sit most of my layouts around to check out every once in a while and make sure I like it okay before putting it away into an album, I actually still have this one sitting where I can look at it all the time. LOL! It's not my scrapbooking that's got me looking at this one, it's the lovely papers and embellies. OH MY! It was really hard to get this one started: not only had it been so long that I didn't know where to start, but I also had a case of intimidation...what if my layout wasn't good enough to do justice to my new Shimelle collection? But I got over it of course, and cut right into four pieces of paper and started gluing them to a fifth. Now I can't wait to do it again!
Oh, I did finally get my awesomeness from that last 2Ps order with the exception that one item was missing, but of course they refunded the money for that. The entire order was made up of the 2Ps exclusives - basically just wood and flair - imagine that!!! Also, mentioning that I am signed up for the last class that Shimelle did back in January; so maybe I can get started with that some time in September.
Okay, that's all today. So now, what are your 7 colors? Let me know, it's for future use. Hope all are well and having awesome times on your Road Trips.
Stay Safe and Scrap On!
P.S. Yes, I have a real issue with Indigo...maybe I had an Indigo nightmare at some point..but moreover, it's just ridiculous. And yes, I really did know that ROYGBIV are the colors of the rainbow; but seriously, real scrappiness is not all about rainbows.
P.S.S. Check out www.allscrapbooksteals.com for some shopping goodness (but don't buy everything up before I put in my Sep order!). I love these peoples.
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ooh interesting post..... I supposedly put all my papers into some sort of order but I have a mahoooosive pile of papers in a SC box waiting for a home at the moment! Cardstock is easy all files in colours. PP is harder I try and pick out the main colour or the most appealing colour and use that as the colour to file the paper..... I have blue, green, pink, brown (with orange in it), red not sure if I have a yellow???!! then I have some papers that are filed in their sets ie all the same papers together along with the stickers. All my EP papers are kept together as are all the cosmo ones..... I also have 'bright patterned papers' all together as couldn't pick a colour from those! I am sounding confusing I think!
ReplyDeleteMy embellies are not in any colour order just keep like with like normally.
Infact my whole craft room is a bit chaotic and I never finished sorting it out when I moved furniture around several months ago!
Siggghhhhh!
Your craft space is looking good
PS I also have 12x12 baggies with all my scraps colour co-ordinated inside each one!!!
Let's see...if the scrap police showed up....I would keep brown, green, blue, red. Crap. I don't even have 7 colors! I would defintely keep kraft, black and white. Those are the 3 colors of cardstock I use most anyway. The others they can have! ;-)
ReplyDeleteI sort my plain, solid cardstock on a shelf tower--by the order in which they are most used. So black, white and kraft/brown on the bottom (desktop level) and the other colors on up to pink and yellow, which I hardly ever use.
As for designer paper...I put that in a Cropper Hopper envelope thingy that holds 12x12s. I don't keep much in stock--I use it up as soon as I buy it! =D
And I agree with furrypig...your craft space is looking awesome!
Love this Shimelle page!! The colors are gorgeous! Love the layout too. I might be stealing that sometime.... ;-)