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Post by refugeepea on Feb 21, 2022 18:15:31 GMT
I forgot to say where I put my PL cards. I use photo boxes. I put the 4x6 cards in front and stagger the 3x4 cards behind. I made tabbed dividers. I punched out a small circle that corresponds to that color category. I also use pencil boxes for 4x6 cards and an index card holder for 3x4 cards. It's not streamlined but they are all together and labeled.
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jediannie
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 3,088
Jun 30, 2014 3:19:06 GMT
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Post by jediannie on Jun 8, 2023 22:10:15 GMT
Bumping this up because I'm finally starting to organize all my PL cards. I was thinking about organizing by manufacturer, then by color, journaling card, theme (holiday, travel, birthday, etc). For the one off cards or random paper I've cut down to use in PL, I'm going to organize by color/journaling/etc.
How has your organization helped you use your cards? Or what's not working for you?
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Post by lisacharlotte on Jun 8, 2023 23:58:04 GMT
I just reorganized mine. I don’t have a lot, but more than enough. I have them organized by theme/type with manufacturers mixed together. My categories:
Journaling
Day/Month/Calendar/time
Icon (some type of picture or icon)
Patterned
Stripes (I have lots of KP cards!)
Numbered/list
Currently (-ing words)
Weather
Word or phrase
Food
Animal/critter
Holiday
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Post by Linda on Jun 9, 2023 0:18:50 GMT
I only have one container and I mix the sizes together within the categories.
I have:
feminine
masculine
wedding
travel
outdoors
summer
spring
children
birthday
basic (which is my catch-all category)
card sentiments
I find if I'm looking for a specific type of icons/phrase, it's easy to find in the theme sections and I have few enough cards that if I'm looking for a specific colour to layer with, I can just flip through. I'm not a pocket scrapper though.
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Chinagirl828
Drama Llama
Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 6,682
Jun 28, 2014 6:28:53 GMT
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Jun 9, 2023 5:27:18 GMT
I've reorganised mine since I posted on the original thread, although I still separate the ones I keep with my themed supplies, which are still Christmas, travel, birthday, and food, and still divide them by journaling or non-journaling.
Journaling cards have no order to them and are stored in with my labels and other journaling type pieces. When I want one I just pull out the two stacks and flip through them until I find something that works.
The non-journaling cards have been separated by colour. I have pulled out the super themed cards, things like weather images, bad day sentiments, one with a mermaid, a couple of music themed cards, etc. These are in their own group in front of the colour pile. I will usually flip through this first if one of these cards might work, then go to my colours. I also have a multi-coloured section where I store things like rainbow stripes, or a word card that has several colours. I keep quote cards and plain patterns all mixed together, as I never know what might end up working on my page, and my stash is not so large that I have to flip through more than two dozen cards on any given colour.
Since sorting by colour I'm better able to see what colours I'm using and what is being ignored and I'm finding that I'm more likely to use cards that had previously been overlooked because they were at the bottom of the pile and I'd usually find something that worked before I got to them.
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Post by refugeepea on Jun 14, 2023 16:25:44 GMT
Bumping this up because I'm finally starting to organize all my PL cards. I was thinking about organizing by manufacturer, then by color, journaling card, theme (holiday, travel, birthday, etc). For the one off cards or random paper I've cut down to use in PL, I'm going to organize by color/journaling/etc. How has your organization helped you use your cards? Or what's not working for you? I completely forgot to mention how I organize cards that don't fit the color categories. I have containers for words, grids, and dates.
For 3x4 cards, I use these.
For 4x6 cards, I use pencil boxes.
I'm bad at remembering to look at the word cards.
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