separating cardstock

[needtime2scrapsoon]

Has anyone ever seperated their Stampin' Up! cardstock from their other brands? I see all these cool challenges with certain colors of SU! stuff and I sometimes forget which color names go with which cardstock. I'm tempted to organize them on their own with the names of the colors, but I wonder if its going to be too weird have a 3rd paper set. I've already got my 12x12 one one shelf and my 8.5 x11 on another. This would add a SU! section too. I've got the space I'm just wondering if it would be more work than its worth?

[Joan B]

I keep my colored cardstock in individual folders with the name of the company and the name of the color on the label of the folder. they are all in alphabetical order by name of color, regardless of brand.

[ccbooboo]

I do sort of keep the paper of certain companies together. Most of my 8.5x11 are in magazine holders. I typically don't keep the plastic wrapping, so having a color swatch book has been handy for those situations when I forget the c/s name. Also, my color swatch book makes it easy to test combinations even from mixed sources.

[criminalgrace]

I separate my cardstock by company within my Cropper Hopper vertical paper holders. I don't label individual colors because I can usually remember them or reference my swatches, but if I get to the point that I need to, I could have easily create dividers with extra kraft cardstock and a tab punch.

[Jana Z]

I store my 8 1/2 x 11 paper in a file cabinet. I have mostly SU, and I have sorted it by colour (RBG, etc) and then have a hanging file for each colour (or two, depending on the amount that I have). I have all other brands (i.e. Michael's) in one hanging file by colour behind the SU of the same colour. One thing that I did that helped me was that I took one sheet of each SU colour and put it into a clear page protector that I labeled. This helped me remember the colour, act as a divider if I had more than one colour in a folder, and I used the page protector to keep scraps of that colour together too. Hope that helps!

[needtime2scrapsoon]

ok so I spent most of last night organizing my SU cardstock. I put them all in folders and named them, placed them in a clear bin in the color families, then roygbiv. But I've got some old colors which I'll still use but I can't find the names of in my old catties. Where could I find the old retired color names?

[Tinkerbell1958]

I have jetmax cubes. I keep my paper on the shelves of the cubes separated by color family, 3 colors to a shelf. Then I take the color chart out of a catalog and laminate it and set it on the shelves next to the appropriate color family. That way I always have the name and numbers hand when I need to reorder.

[Allistamps123]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joan B

I keep my colored cardstock in individual folders with the name of the company and the name of the color on the label of the folder. they are all in alphabetical order by name of color, regardless of brand.

Me too! I have too keep them separate.

[DLS881]

Everytime I get a new SU color cardstock, I punch out a small square and write its name on the back. I punch a hole in it and keep on a keychain. I have had to reference back to the swatches quite a few times.

[craftyteaspoon]

I had just finished getting all the colors in 8.5x11 and had them each in their own folder marked with the color name...then I find out that more than 50% is now discontinued. If I'd known I would not have wasted the $ getting some colors and would have stocked up on others. Lesson learned...again...only buy what you really like.

Now I need to decide if I should mix the retired colors with my non-SU or keep them separate.

[creatingisfun]

i have them all seperated by color, usually only buy from SU or PTI so I know where its coming from, dont have a lot of collection. Now I just collect Kraft, black and beige the most.
oh and white.