1. Organise Your Ideas

You no doubt come across great scrapbooking ideas all the time that you would like to stash away for future projects. But where are those ideas when you want to start putting together your scrapbook? By organising your ideas, you can quickly and easily access them all when you need them. There are a few ways you might try for organising your scrapbooking ideas:

• Store them in categorised computer files (this is what I do)
• Store them in categorised hanging files
• Store them in categorised sections of a 3-ring binder or compartmented organiser

You’ll notice the emphasis on “categorised.” Like anything else, your scrapbooking ideas will be easier to find when you have them divided into relevant category titles, eliminating the need to sort through your whole stack of ideas every time you want to start a new scrapbooking project.

2. Organise Your Supplies

The popularity of scrapbooking has soared and with that popularity has come multiple solutions to your scrapbooking needs. Supply organisers come in many shapes and sizes, from easy to carry compartmented caddies, to moveable drawer stands, designed for organized storage of anything and everything scrapbook. Dedicate specific places to store your paper, your stickers, your marking pens, cut-outs, stencils, templates, scissors and hole punches…everything you need and use in creating your scrapbooks.

Keeping your photos categorized and labeled in photo boxes is another great way to get organized too!

3. Organize Your Themes

Choosing themes is an important part of creating scrapbooks that really stand out. If you have scrapbook themes that you use frequently, it’s good to keep a separate space in your craft space that is devoted just to that theme.

For example, if your son or daughter plays soccer, keep all your soccer related items and his/her soccer team’s colors in an area all of their own. That way they will be easily accessible for the many scrapbooking projects you will be doing within this theme. Similarly, if your son or daughter is a musician, you don’t want to have to go digging through all the soccer balls and soccer nets to find the musical notes and piano keys.

By keeping commonly used themes organised within their own special areas – even a simple folder or binder will do – you can save yourself a lot of time and frustration in all your scrapbooking projects.

Scrapbooking is a great way to hold on to those cherished family memories by preserving the special moments for posterity in a book you made yourself. You can increase your enjoyment of scrapbooking by eliminating the frustrations of searching for needed supplies to complete your project. By following these three simple steps, you will be an organised scrapbooker in no time!

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Finding time to devote to your scrapbooking albums can be a struggle, even for the most devoted scrapper. We all get caught up in the whirlwind of life. There’s always something to take attention away from our craft. So, when we finally do find time to scrap, it is important to make the most of that time. The more pages we can finish (and be proud of) the better, right?

It is possible to achieve more in the time we have to scrap. All we need to do is shift our approach to scrapping just a little and employ a few very simple techniques. Give them a try and you are sure to be creating layouts faster and with ease.

1. Be organised! The biggest time saving tip that I can give you is to keep your scrapbooking supplies in some kind of order. How you organise your supplies is up to you but make sure you know where all your supplies are and that they are all easily accessible. That way you don’t have to go searching through everything every time you scrap. Plus, it will be a quick and easy clean up after each project so you are not confronted with a big mess next time you sit down to scrap.

Different systems work for different people. Personally, I organise my supplies by type (eg paper in one place, stickers in another, ribbon in another etc) and then by colour. Find the method of organisation that suits your scrapbooking style.

2. Use multiple photos. I know that pages featuring one photo can look simply stunning and are a lot of fun to make. But, if you ensure a majority of your pages include more than one photo you will move through your photos much faster and maybe even finish off some of those albums sitting on your shelf. With more photos on the page you will also find each layout takes less time to embellish as you simply don’t have as much space leftover to embellish.

3. Use pre-made alphabets. Whether they be alphabet stickers, rub-ons or die-cuts, pre-made alphabets can save you enormous amounts of time by making your titles quick and simple to assemble. Stamping or even cutting out your own letters can be very effective but quite time-consuming. If you use a lot of letters you may like to consider purchasing a personal die-cutting machine like a Sizzix or a Cricut and several alphabet dies.

4. Use scrapbooking sketches. Sketches give you easy to follow templates that can be applied to any type of layout. They take the guesswork out of planning your pages and can be huge time savers. Consider investing in a copy of my 500 Scrapbooking Sketches collection so you always have ideas to refer to.

5. Finally, don’t be a perfectionist. Scrapbooking is not about creating the perfect page design. It’s about treasuring the important memories in your life and being able to re-live them and share them with others for many years to come.

If you have any time saving tips for scrapbooking, we’d love to hear from you! Please leave a comment in the comments box below.

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