Scrapbooking is a wonderful hobby! In addition to being relaxed and fun, you can also spend quality time with creative family and friends. In addition, it brings a lifelong memory storybook.
One of the very important elements of scrapbooking is all organized. This includes, but is not limited to:
- We store all consumables in an organized way so that you can find them instantly when you need them.
- Remember the supplies you pick up at the store, eliminating duplicate purchases.
- Find time to study new and creative ways to decorate your scrapbook.
- Find enough time to enjoy the art of scrapbooking in your busy life.
- Please tell the story. Please plan a picture before taking a picture. Instead of taking random shots of people standing here and those sitting there, please tell the story. For example, let's call it Halloween. We are planning to take 4 photos of your child:
- I took him / her to the field of pumpkin.
- I was looking for a pumpkin.
- Find a pumpkin.
- Sculpted pumpkins and later.
- Amazing photo.
Taking a bit of time to learn some basic photos, your photo for your scrapbook will be amazing. For quick picture tutorial, please visit http://www.kodak.com. Organization requires preparation, and this site has helpful tips and ideas.
- WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN.
Organized documents are important for serious scrapbooking. The main goal is to eliminate future questions such as "who is that?", "When and where was the picture taken?" Since you take a picture of the photo taken, you can know exactly what is contained in one volume of photograph. Then you are ready when you are ready to organize your photos in the scrapbook.
- Take care of that naked movie.
If you find a movie roll around your house, you can go to developers right away. You can consider shipping all movies to suppliers like http://www.mysticcolorlab.com. So you do not have to spend time getting down the movies or taking pictures. Just by mailing the film, you can return the photo by e-mail in a week. From now on, please develop the film as soon as you take out the used roll from the camera.
- Storage of photos.
After creating the photo, you need a place to save the photo until you are ready to put it in the scrapbook. Please keep separately by year and event with zip lock bag. Add numbers to each bag and fill in the number corresponding to the document number. Next, keep them in the photo box. Please keep the box in a dry and cool place and protect the picture until you are ready to put the picture in your scrapbook.
- Organize photo boxes.
If there are pictures of boxes from the beginning of the 1900's to the present, it is time to start organizing. 1 day and time will start sorting through them and schedule to stick to your schedule as the days go around. Have your children and friends help you. Let's start by making a stake classified by event or year. If you do not know the exact year, please sort it at least every 10 years. This might take a while, but once you know everything, scrapbooking your photos is much easier and fun. Once all of them are sorted, keep the pictures as above.
- Behind the job.
If you have plenty of photos to put in the scrapbook from the back, please start with the latest photos and work in the opposite direction. There is a journal that posted recent photos, but even if it is not so, I can remember details more easily. Old photos - pictures you do not have a magazine - let's think about a bit.
- Baby's step.
If your scrapbooking hobby seems like a huge task for you, that is not fun. Do not think that it is not necessary to put all the photos in the scrapbook. You can put most of the photos anytime in a photo album or photo box that is not acidic. Please select a small photo set to start scrapbooking. After finishing work with this small set, you can dig a photo album or photo box and continue scrap booking, leave the picture intact, or decide whether to make a new picture a scrapbook in the future.
- Double print.
Double print will not do you well if you are sitting in your photo box and taking up space. Do something with them. They may be sent to people in the photo. That's a great way to keep in touch. Or pass the doubles to the kids who want to create their own scrapbook. It is a great way to learn your beloved hobby and decide if they want to be your own hobby.
- Relevant staff.
We may store tickets, brochures, maps, postcards, etc. related to a specific trip or event for the purpose of creatively decorating the scrapbook. For this purpose, please use Manila file folder or catalog envelope. By labeling folders / envelopes, you can know the corresponding photo / document format. Please submit these files until you are ready to use.
- Maintain it all.
Do you already have pretty good ideas on stickers, die cuts, etc. that you plan to use for a particular photo set? Please put the pictures in the same Zip Rock bag until you are ready to get into the scrapbook. In this way, everything is in one place and you can use it immediately.
- Sticker and shape.
Stickers and punched shapes can be stored in acid-free sheet protectors, plastic baseball card sheets, business card sheets, or zip lock bags with 3 hole holes. Each sheet must be classified and labeled according to themes such as birthday, Christmas, Halloween, wedding, spring season. Insert these sheets into a three-wheel binder. If you have a large number of stickers and shapes, you can use index dividers labeled with common categories. For example, the general holiday categories can hold Easter, Christmas / Hanukkah, Halloween etc. Common season categories can hold summer, fall, winter, spring and so on.
- Tiny Staff.
For very small die cuts and other accessories, please keep it in an empty film canister. A transparent thing is best, but if there is only an opaque one, put a label (or an actual die cut with a tape) on the canister indicating whether or not the label is included. Baby food jars also serve the same purpose.
- paper.
Which cool paper do you store until you are ready to use it? You can get a portable portable filing container. You can investigate its composition and hang files / folders to ensure the safety of the archive. Label the hung file with a theme or color. In order not to curl the paper, you can put the Manila file folder in each hanging file folder. Or you can purchase a file holder pocket or sheet protector that fits in a 3-ring binder, store the document in each pocket, classify it and label it. By the way, please be careful not to store paper containing acid together with other paper.
- Storage container.
Please research and subscribe and purchase a scrapbooking organizer that holds paper, consumables, etc. Many office supply stores have six drawer organization stations. They are vertical, there are six see-through drawers of the same size. Each withdrawal can be specified for a different purpose (paper, template / die cut, sticker etc). In addition, because it has wheels, transportation between rooms is very easy. Or, if you often bring scrapbooking supplies out of your home such as a friend's house, you use a portable system that is not heavy or tiresome and has a handle.
- Stencil.
Please put your stencil / template in a sheet protector that you can purchase at the office supplies store. Then insert it into three ring binders for easy access. By the way, depending on the color of the template, you can save two templates on one sheet protector. This makes the design easy to see and eliminates interference between designs.
- CADDY.
If you always have a scrapbook at home, please use the kitchen cabinet. In the cabinet for the kitchen, there are many compartments that normally house kitchen spoon, radolf, and spatula.
- Grasp it.
If you are lucky enough to have a specially designed room for your scrapbooking hobby, put a big peg board on the work area. You can easily find doctors, templates, crimpers, rulers, stencils etc. and paste them where you can reach them. You can also hang a small shelf or shelf nearby, store all the corner rounds and photo corners. If you like everything that is open, this system works attractive.
- Rubber footstool.
Keep rubber stamps in shallow plastic containers, rubber stamp organizers, or shallow drawer plastic organizers. Do not stack the stamps. They need to be stored in a single layer so that you can always see the top of the design stamp.
- Other storage ideas.
Fishing gear boxes where compartments and levels are expanded or collapsed are ideal for storing scrapbooking goods and tools. A plastic toolbox with many see-through drawers is also perfect for this purpose.
- Scrap books for magazines.
Is your closet full of scrapbooking magazines? This dilemma has several things. 1) You can find articles you want to keep through your magazines and organize them into file folders by category. In other words, keep articles and throw magazines. 2) Alternatively, you can put the magazine in the cardboard magazine box. When doing this, always keep a list of magazine titles / issues list, interesting pages, words explaining why they are interested. By doing this you can scan the list just by finding what you are looking for, rather than searching the entire magazine. You can also create a list with a word processing file using your computer. By using the search function, you can easily search keywords in documents.
- I will keep that idea.
Rather than keeping great scrapbooking ideas and tips in all your heads, what you've chosen from magazines, websites, etc. - for your thoughts and ideas, put some notepad inside Please turn on the three-wheel binder you put. Furthermore, if you see something in a magazine, just tear the page from the magazine, punch it and put it in a binder. The same thing happens if you see something on the website you want to reference later. Just print it and insert it in the binder. Binders can even be divided into several different sections, such as page layout ideas, organization of ideas, nice tools and power supplies.
- Please select the designated work area.
Scrapbooking is fun and chore less when everything is in one place, nearby, and accessible close to the work area. Please specify the room or room of your home for this activity. You should be able to exchange your consumables and photos in seconds without having to enter another room or dazzle through the closet.
- shopping.
Please remember what you would like to pick up for your hobby, using an organized shopping system. - Sizer, clinker, paper etc. As a result, you will no longer purchase items you have already purchased. When thinking about what you need, put it immediately on the scrapbooking pickup list and bring this list when going shopping. Use a 3 "x 5" index card to create examples of cuts and punches. Keep a label on your day timer or small three wheel binder and keep it. We do not buy duplicate items by bringing these cards when purchasing scrapbooking items. This is also effective for remembering the color pen / pencil you have. Just draw a line on your index card and paste the label.
- Please use what you first used.
Please resist the urge to buy one million new papers and punches until you use some of the handicrafts you already have. If you already have items that you can use with your current power supply.
- I shop online.
Instead of shopping online, you save a lot of time to go back and forth between stores.
- trade.
If you have something that you have not used for more than a year such as craft scissors or stickers, please exchange with friends. Do you know? Sometimes your friends can use this item soon. You can get something quickly.
- Goal.
Always set your scrapbooking hobby goal. It may be 1 or 2 pages a week. This is especially necessary when creating scrapbooks on special occasions in the future.
- plan.
Before starting work on your page, please plan in advance. Arrange your photos in chronological order and collect stickers, die-cuts etc corresponding to your photos. Please think about your layout and how to document each picture. This satisfies the final result and reduces the need for redoing.
- Perform two steps.
Step 1: Assemble your pages with your photos, documents, and important die cuts.
Step 2: The two-step process decorating with a sticker, stamp, etc. can complete the critical part (step 1) earlier and continue the second step later.
- Keep your page easy.
You may feel the necessity to actually create art works by chance, but let's make it easy if you are going to complete the scrapbook as soon as possible. The main purpose is to obtain photos and documents in the album. Save your really creative moment for extra special scrapbooking project. Also, if you remember too much on one page, you will be away from the photo.
- QUICK COLOR SCHEMES.
By referring to a book of harmony of good color, please organize the scrapbook quickly with colors complementing each other. You can choose one at your local bookstore. Examples of hundreds of color combinations are included. Chijiiwa Hideaki's Color Harmony is an excellent book for this purpose.
- Multitasking.
Looking for a few minutes here or there to catch up with your scrapbooking? Please carry your phone in the same room as the designated scrapbooking work area. Then you can crop, frame, or mount at the same time while you are calling with friends and family. Or, instead of making a punch when you need, make a punch at the same time as you watch TV, call or wait for water to boil. This will save you time later because the punch is ready when you need it.
- Your child will be involved.
Many people are hoping to involve children in real projects. For example, placement of stickers, application of die cut and so on. If your child is not involved in the actual project, we will give them their own project. You can find some photos that you do not use with scrapbooks, cheap paper, children's scissors, etc. After that, each child makes their own scrapbook. Either way, children will be occupied to give you time to enjoy your hobbies.
- Turn off BICKERING.
If more than one child is participating in scrapbooking activities, please obtain your own plastic storage box and accordion file and keep your own supplies. When you want to work with scrapbook, consumables are already separated. You can even color your own supplies, plastic boxes etc, so they can always know what belongs to them. For example, blue container, blue scissors, blue in Billy, all pink labeled in Sally.
- Family time.
Scrapbooking is perfect for spending time with family. Please get around the whole family and the table at the same time. It is a great opportunity to share ideas and dreams with each other. Does not a man's family seem to be involved? It may be possible for a woman to sit at the table while enjoying scrapbooking and enjoy it at the same time. At least everyone gets together and enjoys.
- Team up.
Scrapbooking is the best time to spend time with friends and catch up with each other. Let's set up a scrapbooking club and meet with each other at weekly intervals. Let's make party of it!
- IDENTIFY.
Next, when you come with friends and scrapbooking clubs, please paste a small tape on the scissors. Handle side of your punch tool, pen and so on. After that, everyone can share it, but be sure to put the tool back when you go home.
- Please do not sink kitchen.
When scrapbooking at your friend's home, it will take several minutes to plan what you want to do. By doing this, you just carry what you are about to use. In other words, if you are working on a wedding theme, there is no reason to carry all of your holiday items.
- Please clear the method.
If you look for supplies, background papers, pictures, frames, great rubber stamps etc. too much, you have time to organize your workstations. I do not like throwing away, trade or trading things you do not need. Please organize your supplies into binders and storage containers. You only have to work on a clear surface only with the current project that is always in front of you.
- Clean up the scrap.
If there is a basket of used paper near the workstation, you can immediately throw away scraps that you are not planning to use. Please do not leave garbage on your work surface. If you visit a friend's house, you can quickly destroy all scraps by quickly carrying an empty tissue box and clean up the host quickly and easily.
- Keep away.
Always take your expendable items home, and please erase everything as soon as you finish using it. You should be able to start with fresh ones with a clear heart and transparent surface.
- Large items / small items.
Do not place large items on small items. In that case, it will be invisible and it will be difficult to find immediately.
- Ergonomics.
We will organize the work area for productivity improvement. Please confirm that it is lit. Please sit down and have a comfortable chair. Your supplies and tools should be within the range of weapons.
- safety.
Keep scrapbooking in mind with safety in mind. Please use the protective cover of your table. Craft mat is ideal for cutting. Please put the scissors and other sharp objects in a place out of the reach of young children.
- Easy.
Different personality styles require different organizational systems. Please make sure you are using the organizational system you can live on. Please use an organization system that can cooperate with your style and find things without delay. If you find it easily in alphabetical order, please use that type of system. Perhaps you should find things in color. Then use that system. Your organizational system must function in harmony with your personality.
- Please do not do anything serious.
Too many things happening in your life, it will be hard to find time for your scrapbook and hobby interests. Reduce or eliminate activities that you really can not enjoy. Reduce your child's activities. Do not schedule an organized cleaning schedule and clean the whole weekend. We make healthy dinner easy, but halve the preparation time. Have your household help you with housework and duty.
- Leisure time.
We can effectively use the extra time all of us have. Do I have to wait at the doctor's office for your reservation? Please sketch the idea of quick layout. Waiting for the washing cycle to be completed? Sort some pictures or collect consumables for tomorrow's scrapbooking project.
- Write it down.
Please never leave home without picking up small notes. You are bound to come up with thoughts, or cute captions for your scrapbook. If you do not write it down, you might forget it. Sometimes you want to keep a small pad and a pen tip near the bedside in case you have a bright idea at midnight.
- pleasant!
Plan, organize, and schedule time to enjoy creation with family and friends. Scrapbooking is fun, laughter, memories, and a moving moment!
