Poll: S/O: Paper organization?

I organize primarily by brand, but also have separated out Christmas, fall/Halloween and the two sports my kids play.

I guess theme?

The paper stays together in the collection if there are enough sheets and then it goes into one of the few large themes I have. I'm not super particular with it as I don't have much. It all fits in one regular 12x12 shipping box (you know, about double the volume of a pizza box). Some sheets just hang around together at the back of the stack, no particular rhyme or reason.

I have a drawer for Christmas, then a larger drawer with patterned papers stored by color, and then solids in another smaller drawer by color. I also store my journaling cards by size and then by color. The exceptions being that I keep B+W cards and super colorful cards or foiled cards separate from the rest. They're also all stored ROYGBIV, or in scrapbooking terms: ALLTHEPINK, Reds that are mostly not the red I need, orange, all the yellows, smattering of green - but not THE green, blues, aquas and teals, 3 sheets of purple the industry allows to be made, browns, blacks, greys, cream - because why not, and 75 different whites.

Definately theme, however stacks of my paper don't fit a theme, haven't been organized or there is no room.

I keep collections together but other pattern papers are not sorted into any category.

card stock is primarily by color 

Mostly by theme, but some by mfg. I have separate artbin totes for OA, Echo Park/Carta Bella, and Basic Grey.
Great question that always sparks inspiration - now I'm wanting to go through my paper and re-think things!

This made me laugh out loud! It's sadly true though.

I mostly sort by brand because that is the way my mind thinks of the papers. I worked in a scrapbook store for a couple of years and that just became the way to do it.
I do have a few separate themes because they are very specific. Christmas, Fall/Halloween, Baby, Pool/Billiards and Golf.
12x12 Cardstock is by color. 8.5x11 is in a basket. I should sort it by color I suppose. I usually only use that for card making so I just grab it as I want it.

It depends. As a card maker. 8.5x11 is by ROGBIV/neutrals/specialty, and second by type. Right now a bunch of subtly pearlized CS is also by color but separate from regular CS. That may change, but I’d have to do some rearranging.

12x12 Patterned paper is partly by light/medium/dark with exceptions by theme: holiday, animals, birds. I may change the light/medium/dark section but I don’t have tons—one rolling Advantus cart—so it doesn’t matter that much.

The cart also has some solid color 12x12 which is RGBIV/neutrals/specialty.

I answered by color, but that mainly applies to cardstock. My patterned paper is partly by theme and partly by color.

I just sorted all my CS to re-organize it on my new bookshelves, so now ALL CS is sorted by color, both 8.5x11 and 12x12. I originally organized it by color on my old bookshelves, but it got disordered over the years as I used some up & bought more. That was especially true for the 12x12 CS, which had morphed into a disorganized mess - I had those 75 different whites/creams/ivories mentioned by dawnnikol spread out amongst 4 different cropper hoppers! So I invested in a few more storage containers (cropper hopper style) and spent several hours getting it all into ROYGBIV order, with special (very small) sections for metallic/foil, shimmer, & glitter paper. (Only have a few of those, mostly for Christmas.)

Side note: I have no idea why on God's green earth I have approximately eleventy billion sheets of orange CS! Plus waaaaay more purple that I will ever use! (dawnnikol I will be happy to send you some purple, LOL!) I rarely use either of those colors so will most likely be donating a stack of these.

Most of my patterned paper is sorted by theme, with a few collections stored together since they'll most likely be used that way.

Other? It's half and half and another half for me. A dozen manufacturers, a handful of themes, and the rest by color.

I'm non-committal, but I like to think it works for me 

The majority of mine is by theme, and within that by collection/manu, but whatever doesn’t fit in a theme is stored by color.

Most of mine is organized by brand or by kit. I have my ScrapRoom kits together and I keep my other kits (Kelly Purkey, Not Just For Boys, etc.) together.

My cardstock is sorted by color regardless of brand or texture. I usually pull cardstock out of my kits and keep all of that together in one place.

That’s how my brain works. I’ve found that I rarely use the cardstock that comes with kits and I end up finding another color that works for me with the kit.

My paper is also by size. I have mostly 12x12 that’s in one place. My 8.5x11 is kept together in another place and them my 6x6, 6x8, 8x8 and other small sizes are together. I don’t have very much that isn’t 12x12 though, so the others are pretty easy to store in a bin on the shelf above the 12x12 stuff. .

I chose "other".

If the paper is themed, it goes in that themes 13 x 13 storage envelope.
I organize by color.
Multiple colors are organized by pattern (stripe, watercolor, polkadot, grunge, brick, floral, plaid, wood, miscellaneous, etc...).

I have a few (no longer made) brands that I keep organized by brand  >>> Basic Grey, Daisy D's, Rusty Pickle, etc... because that helps me monitor my dwindling inventory. I am more selective about when and if I use it. I like to see at a glance, what I still have.