Craft room re-shuffle

So…

I was stressing about my scrapbooking paper. I just couldn’t find the paper as easy as I wanted. This is because I had them in a draw with 6in” x 6in” paper and A4 paper. Plus all the excess cut-offs, which I had no idea how I was going to use because I never looked at them.

I decided to create a tub and fill it with my scrapbook paper as well as an ice cream tub filled with my cut-offs. I actually have quite a lot of small cut-offs so this was handy.

I then moved my stickers out of my washi tape draw because that wasn’t fun to look through with all the clutter. I made a spot with sticker books to the back of the draw, my box of smaller sized stickers to the front with some other decorations to the left side.

Then I re-sorted my washi tape storage draw and have one section for all of my pens and the rest is tape.

I later did some scrapbooking and discovered I used a lot of the cut-offs because I could easy trek through it all. I also enjoyed scrolling through my paper to find the right pieces. I have very unique pieces so I haven’t sorted it by theme or colour or anything but they may change in the future.

How do you store your scrapbooking? Please comment below.

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