Project Life Organization
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Filed under: Crafts, Organization
Happy May everyone! Spring has finally decided to make an appearance here in beautiful old Wisconsin. It's sunny, about 80*, slightly breezy...couldn't ask for more!
After only a couple of weeks, I fell off of the Project Life bandwagon. Not because I didn't love it, life just got away from me and I forgot to take pictures as I was going along. But I figure the first of the month is a great time to wipe the slate clean and start fresh, so that's exactly what I'm going to do. I'll forget my failure in documenting April (April wasn't that great anyway - the weather totally sucked!) and move forward. I found some photo a day challenges via Instagram so that I always have some ideas of things to photograph on days that I'm feeling uninspired or stuck, and I realized that some of the projects I work on would also be good things to include in my album.
Since I'm recommitting myself to Project Life, I thought I'd take some time today to share with you all how I organize my materials for it. I love how much less space this method takes up than normal scrapbooking does. Seriously. Are you ready to be astounded at how little space I need to store my scrapping materials? Check it out:
After only a couple of weeks, I fell off of the Project Life bandwagon. Not because I didn't love it, life just got away from me and I forgot to take pictures as I was going along. But I figure the first of the month is a great time to wipe the slate clean and start fresh, so that's exactly what I'm going to do. I'll forget my failure in documenting April (April wasn't that great anyway - the weather totally sucked!) and move forward. I found some photo a day challenges via Instagram so that I always have some ideas of things to photograph on days that I'm feeling uninspired or stuck, and I realized that some of the projects I work on would also be good things to include in my album.
Since I'm recommitting myself to Project Life, I thought I'd take some time today to share with you all how I organize my materials for it. I love how much less space this method takes up than normal scrapbooking does. Seriously. Are you ready to be astounded at how little space I need to store my scrapping materials? Check it out:
Are you impressed, amazed, and/or astounded? I sure was. I saw this metal drawer cabinet at Hobby Lobby weeks before I started Project Life, and I immediately knew I had to have it. I had no clue what I was going to use this for, but it was so cute, and it was grey so I knew it would fit in to the color scheme of my office + craft room, and it was 50% off...so I bought it. When I saw the sizes of the Project Life inserts, I whipped out my measuring tape and realized that all of the 3" x 4" inserts would fit perfectly. So, after i took my cue from A Vegas Girl at Heart and cut up some 6" x 6" paper pads (Uncharted Waters by Glitz Design) to fit the 3" x 4" inserts, so that I could use these as filler cards. With my awesome metal drawer unit, I have drawers where I can organize my filler cards by color, like so:
And like so:
My filler cards are separated by neutrals, pink + red, yellow + orange, blue + green, and multi, and I have one drawer for grid journaling cards and one drawer for lined journaling cards. Then comes the fun stuff. In the column of drawers to the far right, I have a drawer of washi tape that stays with all of my Project Life gear:
And two drawers of embellishments:
And right now there's actually - gasp! - one empty drawer that I have reserved for more embellishments :-)
Any embellishments I have that don't fit in the drawers (or that I haven't cut down to fit) slide nicely under the drawer unit, like so:
Since the 4" x 6" inserts don't fit in the drawers, I have a little plastic bin that I got from the Dollar Tree that fits perfectly on my desk shelf right next to the drawers where I can fit my 4" 6" cutouts that I use to make up week number card, and also holds larger scraps that I kept from trimming down the original 6" x 6" paper pads. It's also home to some Recollections cards that I got from Michael's, that I'm debating between keeping or using as part of a giveaway for when I grow the blog a little more.
And that my friends is it! Everything I need to complete a scrapbook layout, all stored on a 10" shelf that's 2' long. Amazing, no?
Linking up...
May 7, 2013 at 7:43 PM
Very cute! I love a great organization project! Such a nifty drawer too! Hope you're having a great week, Miss Sarah!
~Abby =)