artbabe
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Post by artbabe on Jun 10, 2022 16:33:48 GMT
The collection thread made me think about how I organize my collections by theme. Understand I have A LOT of paper. Way too much, but I just love scrapbook supplies.
My themes (each has a separate Iris box or 2 gallon bag)
- Christmas- red/green (3 boxes)
- Winter/Blue Christmas
- Halloween (2 boxes)
- Fall - orange/brown (2 boxes)
- Beach - vintage/adult
- Beach - cutesy/child
- Beach - nautical/red/blue
- Tropical/Mexico
- Boys
- Teens
- Animals/Zoo (2 boxes)
- Music
- Sports
- Beer/coffee/food/restaurants/breweries
- Baby
- Easter/July 4/St. Patrick's Day/other holidays
- Birthday
- Disney/Star Wars
- School
- Purple/Blue collections
- Florals
- Vintage/European style lines
- Shimelle (2 boxes)
- Vicki Boutin (2 boxes)
- Paige Evans
- Amy Tangerine
- Basic Grey (3 boxes)
- Fun Paper - one-offs (like Reminisce), graffiti, bricks, wood, metals, etc.
I'm sure I have other themes, too, but I can't recall off the top of my head. Twenty years of scrap supplies. I have purged a few times- it is probably time to do that again. Okay, it is definitely time to do that again.
So what themes/categories do other people have?
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Jun 10, 2022 17:03:11 GMT
Birthday
Christmas
Easter
Thanksgiving
St Patricks
New Years Eve
Halloween
4th of July
Night out (dancing, karaoke, cocktails, etc..)
Entertainment (bowling, festivals, billiards, etc..)
Scrapbooking
Photographs and Memories
Love
Wedding-Anniversary
Outdoors (sub categories >> beach, mountain, etc...)
Sports
Kids
Music
Travel (city, state, road trip, etc..)
Vacation (suitcases, hotel, palm tree, etc..)
Food (sub categories >> picnic-bbq-desserts-eating out)
Fitness
Generations (50's-60's-70's-80's)
Home
School-Reunions
Shopping
Beauty - Spa
Pets
Southwest
Men
Medical
Transportation
Friends
Retirement
Country
Pandemic
Some categories are interchangeable. Example: beach, ocean, skiing, lake, etc.... products could be in vacation, outdoors, etc...
There's probably a couple more, that I am forgetting.
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Post by auntmimi on Jun 10, 2022 17:28:55 GMT
Animals (zoo/cats)
Baby
Birthday
Children/Games
Family
Music
Home/Cooking/Gardening/Food
Valentine's Day/Love/Wedding
St. Patrick's Day
Spring
Easter
Baseball/Other Sports
Summer
Water/Beach/Lake/Ocean
4th of July/Military Service
Fall/Thanksgiving
School/Reading/Art
Halloween/Dia de Los Muertos
Christmas
Winter
Travel
Camping/Outdoors
Harry Potter
Girl Scouts
Pandemic
All non-themed papers are by collection.
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Post by jenna on Jun 10, 2022 17:38:10 GMT
I have a few sectioned off things but I don't think I theme scrap too often. Christmas stuff that isn't paper is in one of theseAnd then each of these papers/sticker sheets/12x12 chipboard if it fits in one of theseSpring Summer Fall Halloween Valentine's Day/Love Christmas I think that's it for themed goodies, it's so small in comparison! lol |
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Post by grammadee on Jun 10, 2022 18:28:38 GMT
Seasons: spring, summer, fall, winter.
Holidays/celebrations: Christmas, Easter, Canada Day, Halloween, Birthday, Anniversary
Sports: hockey, baseball, ninja, football, basketball, soccer. I want to add rock climbing.
Activities: rodeo, camping, hiking, baking, gardening, farming, art, scrapbooking, reading, school
Age/gender: baby boy/girl, toddlers, youngsters, teens, masculine/ feminine, mom/dad,
travel: general and Disney
Other themes: family, home, play/games,music, pets, careers (fire fighting, nursing, teaching)
I also have at least a small selection of papers and stickers for scrapping circus, pirates, zoo, antique cars, other once-a-while activities.
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Post by FurryP on Jun 10, 2022 18:34:27 GMT
I don't have too many themes. I keep my paper mostly by collection/designer/brand, or some other category not specific to a theme like "b-sides" or "solids".
Holiday/Christmas
Halloween
Dogs
Vacation
Camping/Outdoor
Disney/Licensed Characters
That is all I can think of right now.
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Post by scrappyrabbit on Jun 10, 2022 18:48:35 GMT
So I store my paper by collection if I bought several sheets of one collection or a collection kit. If it's not enough to make up a collection, then I store it by theme. I also keep any 12x12 sticker sheets that fit the theme in there, and sometimes other embellishments as well. My themes are very broad:
Baby
Outdoors
Christmas
Winter/snow
Halloween
Fall
Spring/floral
Summer/Beach
Food/fruit (I did a fruit themed album for my niece and kinda left the theme as is for now, will likely dissolve this theme lol)
Travel
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jun 10, 2022 19:11:34 GMT
I really don't have enough stuff to be storing by many themes. I keep my PL cards mostly by colour with some basic thematic subdivisions: winter/Christmas, autumn/Halloween, spring, summer, generic journaling cards.
For my small paper stash:
- winter + Christmas
- autumn + Halloween
- generic florals
- travel
- Disney
- generic patterns with neutral colours
That's it. I'm a small player compared to most posters!
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Post by Linda on Jun 10, 2022 19:20:47 GMT
Military
Christmas/winter
Girl Scouts
general travel
travel (specific places)
Autumn/Halloween
Spring/Valentines/easter/st Patricks
Summer/patriotic
outdoors/nature/camping
Boy Scouts
School (primarily k-8)
teen/high school
quotes
Animals
cats
graduation
religion
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Post by cycworker on Jun 10, 2022 19:29:58 GMT
I try not to sort my products by theme; I find it too limiting.
That said my organizational categories are:
-Christmas (3 categories... faith based, modern, traditional)
-Winter
-Halloween
-School
-Fall
-Travel: General
-Travel: Disney
-Travel: Camping
-Travel: Zoo
- Baby
- Birthday
-Geometrics
-Florals
-solids
-Icons (paper with a pattern that isn't geometric or floral, basically)
-Viki Boutin (sorted by collection)
Basic Grey (haven't decided how I'm sorting it)
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Post by breetheflea on Jun 10, 2022 20:13:52 GMT
Seasons
Christmas
birthday (trying to use this one up and just use general paper for birthday layouts)
Basic Grey
OA
sports
games
butterflies
rainbow (aka too colorful to pick one dominant color)
Harry Potter
books/reading
words
space/stars
music
camping
garden/bees
maps
fishing
school
food
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Post by steakgoddess on Jun 10, 2022 21:49:05 GMT
I’m not a huge theme scrapper.
I sort by item. Paper with paper, stickers with stickers,etc
I have
Christmas
Marines
Disney
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Post by 950nancy on Jun 10, 2022 22:55:19 GMT
I’m not a huge theme scrapper. I sort by item. Paper with paper, stickers with stickers,etc I have Christmas Marines Disney It is funny how different we all are. I'd struggle not having themes. I used to work with a teacher who saved all paper from her career. She'd just pile it up on her desk and at the end of the school year, she'd put it one big container and store it above the coat rack. I could literally walk in her room and ask for the calendar for the week of May 5th, 2002 and she could take down that tote and give it to me. She had an amazing memory and filing system. Without themes, I'd feel so lost. ETA: I'm not sure of the names of all of my themes, but I know I have over 20 of them. For me, each theme is listed on a plastic 12.5 x 12.5 x 1 plastic container that holds random paper from the theme and then the rest of the paper is in baggies according to lines to the right of the container. |
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Post by paget on Jun 10, 2022 23:12:45 GMT
I’ve never stored things by theme. I do PL now but still have a chunk of patterned paper from when I did 12x12. I stored by color - and when there was multi colors, I sorted by the one that jumped out to me the most. Besides color I had (and still also have) assorted color (for all the dotted, florals, stripes thet I really couldn’t chose one color as predominant) and one section for themed - this is anything in all the categories you all are mentioning including Christmas. I’ve never really preferred themed paper it seemed too limiting to me and got in the way of all the other things I wanted to add to pages.  |
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Post by amom23 on Jun 10, 2022 23:51:19 GMT
I have Christmas, school, sports, birthday and the rest is organized by manufacturer/collection.
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Post by Ryann on Jun 11, 2022 0:05:22 GMT
Christmas and Halloween. Everything else is by color.
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Post by marie on Jun 11, 2022 0:52:50 GMT
These are my main themes plus some kits from SC and Citrus Twist that I haven't used up yet.
Christmas
Winter
Fall
Halloween
Summer/beach/pool/July 4
Spring/Easter
Birthday
Disney
Little boy
Teen
Baby
School/graduation
Baseball
Other sports: basketball, rugby, track, soccer
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Jun 11, 2022 2:26:28 GMT
I only store some of my embellishments by theme and have the below.
Travel
Christmas
Birthday
Food
Birds/butterflies/animals/other critters
All my other embellishments are stored by type or colour. In a move that's sure to make a lot of you twitchy, my patterned paper has absolutely no organisation to it.
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Post by mikklynn on Jun 11, 2022 11:18:36 GMT
I have all the usual themes, plus hockey, baseball, scrapbooking/crafting, beauty salon - DGD is planning to go to cosmetology school, plus loves playing with hair and makeup so I bought today's Peachy Cheap collection. I have a camping box for my childhood photos, plus the outdoor elements work well for other things, too.
Oh, and I look like a Felicity Jane hoarder. I have 8 months I haven't used, due to DH's illness and my move. I'm hoping to play with those soon, then I'll combine them all.
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Post by myboysnme on Jun 11, 2022 13:47:08 GMT
Christmas
Easter/spring
Valentines
Winter
Summer
Parents
Play
Child
Baby
Baby boy
Baby girl
Girls
Boys
Wedding
70s
Travel
Countries/states
School
Disney/cartoons
Beverages
Food/kitchen
Home
Sports
Baseball
Art
Asian/martial arts
Ice skating
Beach
Tropical
Birthday
History
Gaming
Work
Memory/faith
Family
Fall
Zoo
Dates/calendar
Military
Politics
Transportation
Garden
Medical
New year
Pirates
Bikes
Farm
Sealife
Camping
Crafting
Pets
Pool
Graduation
Grandparents
St Patrick's
Arizona
California
Dancing music
Books
Camera
Amusement park
Bath
Rain weather
Dinosaurs
Movies
Covid
I have more but I can't think of them
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Post by honeypea on Jun 11, 2022 14:05:22 GMT
Christmas
Halloween
Camping/outdoors
Disney
just about everything else is lumped together.
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Post by aj2hall on Jun 11, 2022 15:19:10 GMT
I keep collections together and have some embellishments stored separately. The categories for collections and embellishments are similar.
Seasons - Spring, Summer/beach, Fall, Winter
Holidays & Celebrations - Christmas, Halloween, July 4th (Dh was in the military and I used patriotic collections for our DC and Williamsburg trips, so I have a lot) Birthdays
Travel
Disney
Sea World, Universal & Harry Potter
Outdoors - camping, hiking, national parks, scouts etc.
Nautical with sections for Pirates & Sea life (we have 2 sailboats, paddle boards and a canoe, so we spend a lot of time on the water)
Baby Boy
Little Boy with sections for dinosaurs, cowboy, space and planes, trains & automobiles
School with a graduation section
Sports
Home & Family
Gardening & Food (cooking, baking etc)
crafting
Love, Valentines & Wedding
Animals - with sections for pets, farm & zoo
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Post by babylou on Jun 11, 2022 17:07:28 GMT
I sort by brand for the most part. But I do keep the following separate because if I need those topics, I'm searching for them specifically.
Christmas
Fall/Halloween/Thanksgiving
Baby
Pool/Billiards and Golf
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Post by artbabe on Jun 12, 2022 16:09:12 GMT
I am so glad a lot of you have a crazy amount of themes, too. I was kind of embarrassed once I started listing them.
I forgot a few themes:
Outdoors/Forest
Superheroes and Comics
School
College (Ohio University forever!)
Vacation Places: Washington DC, Delaware, Philadelphia, etc.
I can understand people not using themes- I do a lot of pages like that, too. But if I'm doing a baseball page, for example, I just want to put something baseball related on it.
A notable crossed themed page I did was one when my nephew dressed as LeBron James for Halloween. So it was a combination of basketball paper with bats and spooky Halloween Thickers. I'm very proud of that page.
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Post by mamagidget on Jun 12, 2022 19:53:47 GMT
Christmas
Winter
Fall
Spring
Summer
Halloween
Valentines Day
Birthday
Outdoor/Camping
Disney
Baby
Little Boy
Masculine
Feminine
Little Girl
School
Pet
Vintage Family Tree
Pirate
USA
Sports
Farm
Zoo
Music
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Post by BSnyder on Jun 12, 2022 21:32:23 GMT
I am not big on themes with most things organized by manufacturer, color, and/or type. My few themes:
Christmas
Halloween
Son and daughter- specific to my kids and interests through the years, not gender
Cats
School
Travel
That’s really all I separate out for themes. I tend to scrap most pages by mood and feel, either matching materials I want to use with photos or photos I want to use with materials.
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Post by refugeepea on Jun 12, 2022 22:46:15 GMT
Oh Gosh, so many!
Winter/Christmas Camping Sports Spring Summer Fall Halloween Comic Con Pride Autism Cook book DS #2, still not finished with his first 5 years
Books Entertainment (movies, music, TV, concerts, plays) People Disney Valentine's
St. Patrick's Easter specific people; grandma, grandpa, and dad
Heritage School Words (quite a few generic stamp sets that are for everyday life photos) Stripes, Floral, Mulitcolor, and polkadot (not much)
I also have a pretty good collection and over 20 years of scrapbooking. Some are just stamps. Others could fill a couple of Iris Cases.
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Jun 13, 2022 0:12:38 GMT
It's interesting reading some of the categories you have, I would never have guessed someone would have a pirates category. Son and daughter- specific to my kids and interests through the years, not gender I love this as a category! |
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Post by BSnyder on Jun 13, 2022 3:39:35 GMT
I can understand people not using themes- I do a lot of pages like that, too. But if I'm doing a baseball page, for example, I just want to put something baseball related on it. A notable crossed themed page I did was one when my nephew dressed as LeBron James for Halloween. So it was a combination of basketball paper with bats and spooky Halloween Thickers. I'm very proud of that page. I tend to use cut files fit these types of thematic pages, if I am really wanting something I don’t have in my themed section or through a paper line. Often the photo defines the theme, along with my title and journaling. I just don’t feel the need in many cases to add themed embellishments. I am lazy that way. 😆 |
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Post by artbabe on Jun 13, 2022 18:07:07 GMT
I tend to use cut files fit these types of thematic pages, if I am really wanting something I don’t have in my themed section or through a paper line. Often the photo defines the theme, along with my title and journaling. I just don’t feel the need in many cases to add themed embellishments. I am lazy that way. 😆 Oh, I think my way is the lazy way. You actually get your machine out. I haven't bought a Cricut yet. I have the cartridge one but the rubber on the cartridges is disintegrating so I need to buy the new type. You also do journaling and I'm so lazy about that. I have hundreds of layouts I need to go back to and journal on. I just love themed embellishments and paper, I guess. I have tons of unthemed pages but I do love using themed stuff, too. Maybe I just like the excuse to buy new stuff. |
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