More Embellishment Categories
Manufacturer:
Because scrapbookers buy packaged accents by manufacturer, this often puts a visual record in mind. If you remember buying a certain embellishment, you can probably relate it to the manufacturer, and grouping by manufacturer will help you know where to look. Certain brands have particular styles, too. As you design a style-specific page, it will be easy to pick from the manufacturer’s items that share the same style.
These categories may overlap in the way you design your pages, so overlap your organizational structure, too. When you dedicate a storage box to eyelets (type), for instance, you might sort by manufacturer within its compartments to help you keep styles and sizes together. Or sort all the eyelets you have into color groups within that box. Repeat the same method for buttons in a second box.
If you design pages by themes or events, consider organizing your embellishments by the shapes and colors that fit typical events or seasons. Keep all the hearts, flowers, yellows, oranges, and pinks, for instance, grouped together for those springtime and romance pages.
Hint: Fishing tackle boxes with snap-close lids can be stacked on a paper towel holder and also used for on-the-go cropping. To keep the desk clutter-free, we mounted a metal surface to the wall (we used a pizza baking sheet) and filled magnetic canisters with small items. The canisters came from Making Memories and Bed, Bath & Beyond, and we made a few by adding adhesive magnet strips to the backs of empty tins.
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