My paper. Organized.

This week is paper week in the Organize Your Stuff challenge over at Two Peas.  Being the organizational overachiever that I am, I got this done last week.  Because I'm doing two organization challenges at once.  The one at Two Peas and the one on the ScrapRack website.  Yep, that's how I roll.  If one challenge is good, two are probably better.  Haha!

Actually, my cardstock already looked pretty much like this, except I had little random stacks of cardstock in a different place that needed to be incorporated into these Cropper Hopper boxes.

The bigger project was reorganizing my patterned paper.  I decided to (GASP!) take all of my collections apart and put the papers together by color!  Actually, this wasn't as huge a deal as it would be for some people, because I don't buy a ton of collections.  I usually buy a few papers that I like from a collection, but I had been keeping them together.  However, I scrap by color almost exclusively, and even though I like to use coordinating papers, filing by color seemed to make more sense for the way I scrap.  Also, as you can see by the photo (the patterned paper is in the two middle cubes), I don't have a ton of patterned paper.  So I can still easily find any coordinating paper if I want to.  Each color is also separated into "themes", like flowers, stripes, plaids, ledger, etc., so I can find the type I want pretty quickly.  I was a little anxious about doing this, but as I went I got more excited about some combinations I found that I wouldn't have before.  One thing I did discover was that I have WAY too many pink papers.  I do have a girl, but I don't scrap with pink much at all.  It makes sense that I'd have a ton of blue, because that's my favorite color, but pink?  Weird.

And, just to make some of you hate me even more for being ahead of the game...all of my scraps are organized, too!  I had them organized by color already, so it just was a matter of purging some stuff I'd never use and putting them into page planner pockets (the ones with a 12X12 pocket on the back and smaller pockets on the front).  They are filed right behind the corresponding color.