Admit it, you’re obsessed.

You love making keepsake cards, scrapbooks, and crafts with stickers, paper, and embellishments to preserve your family’s memories. But the problem arises when you need to organize your scrapbooking and papercraft supplies.

Crafting is sometimes a collage of creative dough. Start with a small project and neatly store all your supplies in a neat box. Then the next thing he knows, all of his supplies have taken over his house and he’s finding craft supplies everywhere from the garage to the bathroom cabinet.

How can a crafter keep papers, embellishments, stickers, page protectors, tape, pens, stencils, and scissors organized so they don’t get cluttered?

Help is here! Here are some tips for organizing your scrapbooking supplies:

Take it one step at a time

If you’ve been scrapbooking for a while, you may have accumulated a mountain of paper. Looking at the mountain of craft supplies can make you feel overwhelmed.

Take 15 minutes at a time to work on it. You’ll be amazed at the progress even a busy mom can make.

choose a place

Tame your creative clutter by selecting a dedicated room, desk, or spot where all your scrapbooking supplies will be stored.

Sort in categories

Get containers to classify your papers, stickers, borders, etc. within. Save the papers you plan to use. Throw away papers that are too small or that you no longer need. And donate unwanted but usable papers to a local elementary school or youth group.

You can store them by “type” and also by “subject”. For example, all of your baby’s scrapbook items can go together in one drawer. Holiday scrapbooking supplies in another and so on.

Mini Stackables make it easy to store and organize your scrapbook papers. You can place it next to a desk or table. It also stores neatly out of sight in a cupboard.

Label

Have a place for everything and put everything in its place. Having a label on each bin and drawer makes it easy to put items away when you’re done with them. Take the extra time after you complete a scrapbook page to put the items away.

Once you create a system of what goes where, it’s much easier to stay organized. Look around your craft room and you’ll notice how a clean room inspires you to create and you won’t have to re-purchase supplies because you can’t find them.

Give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done. Happy scrapbooking!