How do you organize your die cuts?

Most of mine are with collections. Others I keep in small stamp pockets in a bin, sorted by manufacturer or theme. I can find things better by flipping through a bin vs flipping through a binder.

I'm in the good enough category

If they go with a collection kit - they stay with it until I disperse the leftovers

If they are themed - then they go with that theme

If they don't fit above, then they are either by colour or they are sitting on my desk as use it or lose it

plain chipboard? I have less than a dozen pieces so I'm holding on to them and using for challenges here. If I had more? I would keep a few of the easier to colour/decorate shapes and donate the rest

I store my die cuts mostly by theme but a few of them are by color. Most are in a binder in clear pocket pages from Totally Tiffany (the pages are TT, not the binder). I have a few that are stored separately in a divided plastic bin that fits in a drawer of my storage tower.

As for chipboard, I've never been into it myself because I don't like dimensional elements on my pages, but I say if you like them and think you'll use them you should keep them. I don't really follow trendy stuff in scrapping though - I use what I like. YMMV

For the die cuts that go with collections I put the packaging insert in the front of the collection so that I know it exists, and store the die with the rest of the dies so that I only have one place to search. I do something similar with washi tape, cut a 4” piece and place it on the front of the collection’s snap envelope, then store all of my washi tape together in a drawer.

I use the same method Jennifer McGuire uses to store my stamps and dies*** I don’t have very many of either so right now they all fit in one side of the double container like she uses for her stamps, along with my embossing folders, date stamp set, and stencil on the other side. Yes, one stencil  I also have a small section with premade pockets for stamps & magnetic inserts for dies ready to go, I don’t need the whole container like she has but I imagine a lot of peas would find it helpful! One other thing, since it’s so important to me that like things are stored together I break up my really big stamps sets and store them in 2 pockets, labeled 1 and 2 instead of storing different sizes in different places. And I unmounted all of my wooden stamps and store them with my clear stamps. So every stamp I own is in one place. Every die cut I own is in one place. Every embossing folder I own is in one place. Regardless of the collections they belong to or their size. 

The stamps are separated into categories (sentiments, holidays, alpha & numbers, flourishes, everything else). And then dies are in their own section and just sort of grouped together but not separated. Sentiments, holidays, basic shapes, everything else. But I think I am going to combine the stamps and dies and here’s why. When I’m looking for something for say, a Christmas page, I may go looking for a die cut but would probably be willing to use a stamp. But it never occurs to me because my mind was looking for a die cut, it didn’t find one and so I put the whole container away because I’m not a big stamper. I like looking in one place for things whenever possible, less chance I’ll miss something. 

So I think I’m going to combine them into the following categories: alphas & numbers, sentiments, basic shapes, flourishes, florals, holidays, and everything else. There are further divisions within these categories, for example I have all of my thanks dies together, my floral dies together, etc. 

***Instead of using folders I actually purchased some thick dividers like they use in music stores to separate artists because I also use them to separate our DVDs/Blu-Rays and CDs so wanted them a bit sturdier. Yes, we still have a dozen or so CDs, we mostly take them in the car with us for when we can’t stream music on road trips. Anyway, I can’t even remember what I googled to find them but if I remember I’ll come back and post them here. 

HTH!

For me it would depend on what they are. If they’re basic shapes (I still liked) that could be used on a lot of different layouts I’d consider keeping them and covering them with patterned paper to coordinate with the page. Same if they’re part of a theme I still use. If they’re shapes that no longer appeal to me they’d go I to the donation pile. 

I keep my diecuts with the collection or theme. The exception is random items. There are often sports diecuts or stickers with other themes, so those I move to my sports supply. Otherwise, they'd never get used.

I also keep some sorted by color. Those are usually when I've used most of a collection or it's a random item.

Y’all I was so confused as to why so many people were keeping them with the collections. I missed an important distinction; die cuts, not dies . For those I also keep them at the front of the clear snap envelope of the collections. The only loose ones I have are for various themes, and that’s where they’re stored. When I use enough of a collection to break my packs down I’ll let you know what I come up with

Recently I kept a few certain letters and shapes and threw all the rest in the recycle bin.I didn't think the thrift store would want them, and I have enough other stuff to donate already. The ones that are left will get decorated somehow depending on the project, but no more naked chipboard for me.

I'm neither a theme nor collection scrapper &, consistent with my style, use (& therefore, buy) few embellishments. Since it doesn't matter to me from which collection embellishments are purchased, all diecuts/ephemera from a given manufacturer are stored together. My suggestion is to organize diecuts/ephemera to support your papercrafting style/process/work flow, personal preferences, & the way you think about/mentally organize/recall supplies. HTH.

They are not organized. I have one of those peg boards. They hang on hooks stacked together and I flip through to find a style or colour I need. It’s kinda messy but my husband went to a lot of trouble making and installing the pegboard so I work with it.