Another Great Tip

One of our readers sent in this great tip for Scrapbooking and we had to post it!

Tip of the month
This comes from Angie of South Carolina.

I had a ton of magazines. I couldn't hold anymore in the magazine raks and I couldn't put anymore actually anywhere. My office and home were beginning to look like a pack rats place with scrapbooking and stamping magazines everywhere. In the magazines were ideas that I wanted to try but I figured out that I spent most of my time trying to find the idea I was looking for instead of scrapbooking. One day I decided to take apart my magazines. At first I was sickened to my stomach to think I was tearing these magazines apart but then I decided they weren't any good to me if I was constantly just looking for things and not actually getting anywhere. So I began.
I took a three ring binder to begin with and some inserts. I began to put my favorite ideas inside the inserts and then finally after I got through with my thumbing through magazines and finding the ones that I knew I would use and had them all in inserts I sorted them into piles. I put the Christmas layouts in one pile and the Halloween in the next, School, sports, family, etc. Then I found some 8x11 3-ring binders and put my sorted piles into order in the binders. Of course I have a binder for holidays and that includes all the Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving etc ones and then School and Sports etc. I actually took my ideas for my titles from your website for your papers. Works great and now I just reach up grab a binder off my shelf and look through what I have in there. When I get new magazines I just go through it take out what I know I will be scrapping and happily place it in its binder. Oh and incidently I passed along the magazines to my scrapbook buddies because now they have their own binders!

Thank you Angie for your idea!