Organizing Your Scrapbook Materials

It’s inconvenient that storage systems can be so expensive, especially since being organized is a great tool in life. (Which is why it is expensive, people have a need, so sellers make it costly. Anyways…)

There are plenty of ways to keep your scrapbooking materials organized without going broke. Here’s a few tips:

• Mason jars work great for holding supplies like paintbrushes, buttons, thread (mini spools), pens/pencils, ribbon, etc.
• Use a Parmesan cheese can to keep a few spools of ribbon. Decorate the can, drop them ribbon in the bottom, and pull it through the pour spout (the three holes).
• Spice containers will work for keeping glitter or beads.
• Cut a cereal box down to use as a magazine file.
• Use giftcards and coupons. Keep your eye on craft store fliers for storage that might be useful to you. when you need an item that you can’t make or find cheaper elsewhere scout the ads, many craft stores put out weekly 40% or 50% off coupons.
• Save your shoe boxes to store photos, scraps, or whatever else you have.
• Check your local thrift store and scour garage sales for items you can repurpose, like kitchen utensil caddy.

I’d love to hear of any other frugal ideas you have for organizing your scrapbook materials (or, really, any idea for repurposing items).

Tagged as: Basics, embellishments, Frugal Fridays, Organization, scrapbooking, Series, tips