How do you organize your SSD scrap stash?

[Mandy]

I'm not feeling well today so I have been trying to organize and purge my scrap stuff.
I had my stuff in folders by designer, but I think I'm going to organize it by alpha, paper, element, etc.
That's how I do my non-SSD stuff and it just seems easier to find what I need.

[digideb]

I do mine by designer! I do all my digi stuff by designer!

[mummytothree]

I organize all my stuff the same way...through ACDSee!!!

Here are a few of my categories:

Boy
Girl
Summer
Autumn
Winter
Christmas

And as for papers I go by color and for elements I have every category know to man...you nmae it I have it!!! But I organized like that even before ACDSee. When I scrap I get the picture first and that kind of tells me what kind of kit I'll need (summer pic, girl pic, birthday pic, bath pic ect.....)

[lauren grier]

Originally Posted by mummytothree

and for elements I have every category know to man...you nmae it I have it!!!

do you have glittered poo ? if not i can make you some

[AnnieBananie]

Sadly, I think a lot of us would FIND a use for "Lauren Grier Glittered Rainbow Poo"

Gotta be rainbow or no sale.

[kscwgirl]

I do by designer too. Except for collabs. If they are two scoops or triple dips, they go in my SSD collab folder. If they are perfect pairs, then they go in the SSD designer folder.

[BrattyMeg]

I sort by designer too...but I'm seriously thinking of moving stuff to a new EHD by element, etc

[scrapperjade]

lol La! I don't know how anybody could USE that successfully!?!? Maybe not a top seller at your store, haha!

I organize 2 ways. In my main folders in Windows, I organize by designer. It just makes it so much easier for me. Then I sub-catagorize everything in ACDSee according to what the item is (alpha, chipboard, paper, ribbon, stitches, etc).

[Nettio]

I have a SSD folder and then within that: Alphas, Elements (all element packs), Fonts, Kits, Paper Packs, Templates. Since I mostly use complete kits, I haven't bothered to break it down more than that but maybe I will at some point. The only designer that is separate is Zoe and that's because I'm on her individual CT.

[Mandy]

I just find it so much harder to scrap when it's seperated by designer. If I'm looking for a certain element, I have to search through each designer's folder til I find something that will work - as compared to opening one folder and scrolling down to find what I want.

[HeatherKS]

Mine is categorized like all my other stuff. I have a million categories too - ribbons (and then by color), buttons, glitter, etc. and everything is tagged with their category in ACDSee. I've been considering tagging stuff by designer too because that would make it a lot easier when I'm scrapping with a particular style in mind. Like if I want doodles, pull up everything of Lauren's, etc.

[BrattyMeg]

Originally Posted by Mandy

I just find it so much harder to scrap when it's seperated by designer. If I'm looking for a certain element, I have to search through each designer's folder til I find something that will work - as compared to opening one folder and scrolling down to find what I want.

I think it also depends how you scrap..I'm a kit scrapper pretty much, I very rarely use anything outside of a kid unless like stitching or an alpha...lol I pretty know my inventory and who has what i want..but for people that mix and match, I think separating by element is a fab idea..I want to be more like that and am trying to use more from other kits..but it's hard lol

[mummytothree]

Originally Posted by lauren grier

do you have glittered poo ? if not i can make you some

nope not that one....YET......but I do have a category for phallic looking doodle people

[Nettio]

Originally Posted by Mandy

I just find it so much harder to scrap when it's seperated by designer. If I'm looking for a certain element, I have to search through each designer's folder til I find something that will work - as compared to opening one folder and scrolling down to find what I want.

This is why I've kept my folders really simple. I find it much easier to just open one folder and scroll through it knowing it has ALL my kits in it instead of hunting through a bunch of folders to find what I want. Of course this only works if you keep your stash to a reasonable amount, otherwise it can take forever to load.

[ditzyscrap]

I sort by designer, except I have a folder for SSD collabs and SSD cookies.

[nesser1981]

Just by designer in ACDsee unless its a site collab, I have a seperate folder for those.

[ColleenSwerb]

Originally Posted by kscwgirl

I do by designer too. Except for collabs. If they are two scoops or triple dips, they go in my SSD collab folder. If they are perfect pairs, then they go in the SSD designer folder.

This is my system as well. BUT, I'm a kit scrapper, so once I pick a kit to use I'm usually good to go. Plus, like Meg, I pretty much know what my other inventory is for things I might need (stitching/alphas).

I would def organize differently if I wasn't a kit scrapper.

[newfiemountiewife]

I do mine by store>by designer.

I have tried different ways but this one works best for me.

[Leah]

Mine is all by store, designer and/or kit.

[sczos911]

I have an SSD folder & I sort by kit, alpha, template, word art, elements, flowers, stitches, frames, fonts and so on. And when I DL something it unzips right into the main SSD folder. When I use it, it goes into a specific folder. This way I keep track of what I have used and what I need to use.

I do think that I need to sort the kits by designer.

[Lukasmummy]

I can't believe I am going to admit to this, but for my sweet shoppe stash I rely on the store, I search for what I want in the store and then search the computer for the name of the file. I can't tag the files as quickly as I can buy more but I make sure I tag them after I have used them and before I dump them into the main sweet shoppe designs folder. That folder is so large that the computer refuses to give me a size on it that's without the stuff that's on the external, templates or anything recent say in the last 3 months because I haven't gotten around to putting them in there yet. *sigh* it's one of those things I always mean to organize or do better but don't get around to. Hugs Crystal xx

[Tracie Stroud]

I have it all by designer, b/c I use ACDSee so I can find categories (ribbons, buttons, etc.) reallly easily.

[kscwgirl]

Originally Posted by BrodoNY0123

This is my system as well. BUT, I'm a kit scrapper, so once I pick a kit to use I'm usually good to go. Plus, like Meg, I pretty much know what my other inventory is for things I might need (stitching/alphas).

I would def organize differently if I wasn't a kit scrapper.

This is exactly why I do it the way I do... I'm a total kit scrapper.

[Di-ahh]

Store --> Designer then I search to find what I need.

And my search did not reveal any poo, glittered or otherwise. Looks like a sadly lacking area in the market!

[Aggie Aviso]

I do mine like Steph. I have my own SSD folder, then it has alphas, elements (frames, overlays, stitches, word art), SSD collabs and full kits. I rarely break full kits down but SSD kits have AMAZING alphas so I copy and paste the ones I really like to the alpha folder.

[Stacey42]

I sort by kit (subfolders for if I have used it yet or not and for the designers I CT for), alpha (subfolders by type), templates, word art (Subfolders for theme), elements (Subfolders for type), stitches, and doodles. I had it all tagged out in ACDSee but if you are on Facebook you know I was having issues copying it all to my new EHD because it was taking forever. So I stopped. I copied the alphas and the elements but I'm going to have to retag the kits.

Im a kit scrapper and I was overtagging them anyway, making work I didn't need to do. Lately I'd just been taggng the preview file with color & theme and tagging the alpha & any swirls or doodles & leaving the rest of the kit untagged and that had been working just fine. So I'm going to redo all my kits with that method.

[sczos911]

Originally Posted by Aggie Aviso

I do mine like Steph. I have my own SSD folder, then it has alphas, elements (frames, overlays, stitches, word art), SSD collabs and full kits. I rarely break full kits down but SSD kits have AMAZING alphas so I copy and paste the ones I really like to the alpha folder.

GREAT idea Aggie! That is what I love (well one of the MANY REASONS) about the kits in the stores. They always have a great alpha.

[Paula]

I organize by designer only. But, I put the name of the store beside their names. For instance:

Lauren Grier - Sweet Shoppe Designs
Kate Hadfield - The Lily Pad

If it's a collab, I file a little differently. If it's a collab that one of my CT lovelies did - the I'll file it in that designer's folder. If it's a designer who I buy from a lot such as Kate Hadfield or Natalie Braxton, I'll file it in their folders.

I also have a master list of all the stuff that I have organized by designer with a list of what I have from them as well as the DVD number it's copied onto. In the event of collabs, I cross reference all the collabs with each designer that did it.

If it's a store collab, then I have a folder with the store title such as:

Sweet Shoppe Designs
The Lily Pad

then I put the collabs in there and list them on my master list under collabs. I know it's a lot of work, but when my PC crashed before converting to Mac, I didn't lose anything and I knew exactly where to get all my favorite goodies back!