Chipboard Storage - Ali Edwards style

I already see regret from people following AE and sorting chipboard by shape. It kind of ridiculous IMO, I have never once looked for a piece of chipboard because of the shape. Color yes. Sentiment yes. Maybe I’ll look for a star or a heart but never “oh, I need an oval.” Makes zero sense. I’m slowly migrating my chipboard into a container and will eventually sort by color or sentiment.

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I have 18 of these (Dollar Tree single organizer) in a decorative suitcase. They were my original way to store all of my different ephemera.  Now that I have moved the ephemera, I am not sure what I should put in them but am not willing to part with them either.

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I was also thinking about this as sorting by sentiment is the only way I can imagine doing this. I think mine would be travel, positive/encouraging sentiments, ugh sentiments, family/home, and probably a few others. Then the shape options for stars, asterisks, hearts maybe?

Amazing idea.I even have those tabs used for other organizing projects that I changed from. I have my clip it up in the garage hoping to be able to use it in my dream craft room one day. I've removed many pieces I love but want to keep for when I get a larger space because I probably won't be able to get them again. I will have to keep this idea bookmarked in my brain!

I love seeing the different ways that people store and sort there supplies, I can know that it wont work for me but I do love seeing how other people do things. This system would not work for me but I can appreciate it, simple shapes like hearts and stars and arrows I tend to keep together but not sentiments or themed items.

I don't have a lot of chipboard and generally keep it in the packet that it came in but I have a die cut problem, so many that it started to get overwhelming and I could never find anything. I ended up buying some of those multiple photo boxes in cases and started sorting them out by themes, colours and kept some together. My best friend on the other hand keeps all of her embellishments by colour and then her die cuts and chipboard are all together in a big box and she just digs around, works for her but would be a nightmare for me.

See December daily is all one theme and therefore I can see it working wether by shape or by color it’s all still DD themed

But regular chip board is fall or spring or travel or whatever so that I can see it being very difficult to find that travel quote or that fall cozy quote if they are stored by shape or color.

I do the same thing, but with those 3-drawer Sterilite containers. All of my generic embellishments go in here. It’s so easy to pull out the drawer, dig through for something that works, and then put the drawer back. Grab and go.

I don’t have a lot of chipboard. What I do have is kept with the paper collection or specific theme they belong to, that is true for everything from paper to embellishments. If it’s a sentiment or something I’d only use on a car, I have another drawer for that. Or, it’s sorted by color along with the rest of my embellishments.

Going to take a photo, brb.

I agree!  Unless you think of it as sorting it by phrases, rather than rectangles.  All the phrases in that set are rectangles.  Maybe that's what she means there?  But in the end, I think it works for her because she was likely looking for strips of sentiments to add to a page vs a sentiment that conveys what she wanted to say.

And there's no way that that is her complete stock of chipboard.  I don't use chipboard very much, but even I have more than that.  I think it's just one way to sort and store embellishments based on the way you think.

i would rather sort by theme than by shape.

I can't put words on a page that aren't what I want to say. That's why I don't buy many products with words because I always feel like they're trying to put fake words in my mouth and fake feelings on the page. I guess it's different when the words are your own - as a designer I assume she writing what she wants to say, her go-to phrases.
But what I've seen of this idea would not work for me. I have containers with stars and hearts in them but everything else is stored using other systems.