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Kit Organization
For those of you that organize by theme what are some of your folders? My miscellaneous folder is overflowing. I feel like I throw a lot in there.
I did mine starting with months of the year kind of.. 00 Birthday/Wedding 01 Winter/snow 02 Valentine/Love 03 St Patricks 04 Easter 05 Spring 06 Summer/Beach 07 Independence Day 08 Learning/School 09 Fall 10 Halloween 11 Thanksgiving 12 Christmas 13 Babies 14 Boys/Kids 15 Amusement Parks/Carnival/Fair 16 Animals 17 Outdoors 18 Things that Go 19 Girls 20 Toys and Games 21 Photography/Scrapbooking 22 Music 23 Arts and Crafts 24 Mystery/Detective 25 Travel 26 Food 27 Family/Friends 28 Pirates 29 Disney 30 Computer Geek 31 Home 32 Misc Holidays (Cinco De Mayo, Fathers day) 33 Misc (has 64+ kits...) 34 Cartoon and TV (64+ kits too) 35 Aliens/Space/Monsters 36 Sick and Doctors 37 Sports 38 Sleep or Not
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I don't organize by theme....but
maybe break down the misc by moods or emotion...like sounds like maybe those are the everyday general kits so what about like Happy sad kinda separation? I don't know. I organize by store and then by designer and use Bridge to view all the previews at a glance
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I use a program from Bianca I think...so they are all tag by designer, store, and themed elements...I love it bc I can search rainbow and all those kits will pop up...took forever to organize.
I will look at the feelings idea..... Thanks
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I'd start by looking through your miscellaneous folder and seeing what commonalities you find. Good luck!
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I do mine a little different
I do Holidays with all those. -Birthdays -Christmas -St. Patty's -4th of July -Halloween -NYE -Easter Seasons -Spring -Fall -Summer -Winter Then I do themes -Beach/Ocean/Water -Disney -School -Etc I could find exactly what I have, but that usually helps break mine down a lot. Quote:
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Here are the themes I use. Some of them are the same as what you're already using.
Americana Amusement Park Autumn Baby Beach Birthday/Celebration Christmas Disney Easter Entertainment Food/Beverage General (Catch all for everything that does fit in everything else) Grief Halloween Heritage/Vingage Magic/Mysterious Masculine Mother's Day Music New Year Outdoors/Parks Photography/Scrapping Sports Spring Steampunk Summer Thanksgiving Travel Valentine/Romance Wedding Anniversary Winter |
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These are helpful...keep it coming.
I just broke my travel folder up into USA Travel, Travel general and International Travel...it had gotten HUGE. My Animal folder is big too and may need help LOL I think I have well over 800 kits in my stash.
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Like Christmas I have those Christmas then Christmas 2020, Christmas 2019, etc. Once they're about 6 years old, I don't use them anymore and those get purged. That's something I just started to do in the last few years though. |
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I do store-designer but have often thought I need a better system. I spend lots of time searching or forgetting I have kits.
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I have mine broken up into quite a few categories.
I have: All About Me Amusement Park, Circus, Fair Animal, Zoo, Pet Around the House (remodeling, moving, home related) Baby Birthday Boys Celebrations (generic celebrations, receiving awards, retirement) Character Traits Childhood Christian Christmas Country, Farm Health and Fitness Dream/Star Kits Easter Fall Family - Heritage Food and Drink Friendship Gamer, Geeks, Social Media (technology related stuff) Garden, Generic Floral kits Generic Kits (non themed) Girl Power Graduation - New Life Growing Up - Tween and Beyond Halloween Hobbies Life - Exciting, Funny, Crazy, Extraordinary Life - Fresh Starts, Positive Outlook (Fight Song Vibe) Life - Good Life - Mundane, Ordinary, Everyday Life - Sad, Grieving, Brokenhearted, Emotional Love, Romance, Wedding Media - Movies, TV Money and Shopping Motherhood- Parenthood Music New Year's Eve Outdoors - Camping, Hiking, Nature Outdoors - Water, Fishing, Beach Pandemic (needed its own category!) Political, Patriotic School - STEM Southwest Space Sports Spring Storybook - Movie - Game Characters Summer Super Hero Thanksgiving Toys and Games Travel - Transportation Valentine Weather Winter Now that I type it out I see a few that can be combined. I'll have to see about doing that as I was working on my hard drive anyway. I also have broad categories for alphabets, calendars, clusters, doodles, element packs, frames, journal cards, mini kits, paper and felt piecings, paper packs, photo masks, printables, quick pages, silhouette cutting files, stacked papers, stamps/brushes/styles, word art, and templates. Some of these have loose elements that I saved from kits I deleted years ago. I realized I was keeping lots of OLD kits because I liked a couple of elements from them. I decided to keep what I liked from those and move them into those folders instead of keeping them as full kits. To be honest though, of those broad categories I really only use templates and mini kits. Go figure. I might end up getting rid of even more things now that I've had that realization.
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I copy & paste the kit previews into the following folders (that way I can put them in more than one if I want to)
Caroline (my daughter) Disney Events (birthdays, loose tooth, berry picking, etc.) Everyday Life (mostly where I look for my PL pages) Inner Work Kids Liam (my son) People (extended family & friends) Places --- Camping & Nature --- Travel Destinations Rebecca & David (me & my husband, for us individually & as a couple) Seasons- Fall --- Halloween Seasons- Spring Seasons- Summer Seasons- Winter --- Christmas My 'fullest' folder is Everyday Life.
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Maybe look through the miscellaneous folder and see if there are any reoccurring themes there. If you find a few that seem to go together, create a new folder of that theme!
I have my Disney kits by theme, but just started putting my regular kits by theme too. I have some broken down more than what others would do. I have a nature/camping/outdoor/hiking, that I could probably break down more. I also have beach/cruise, then a pool/waterpark. I feel I need to break more kits up by themes though. May have to use some of yours to make my own!
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I've broken my animals up into Birds, Aquatic, Land, and Dogs and Cats because I have a lot of dogs and cats.
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I split my Misc. by colour theme - Bright, Muted/Pastel, Girly, Boyish ... There's over 100 kits in each of those lol I should probably split them more
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Mine are organized like this in ACDSee so I can tag kits in multiple categories. I tag just the kit preview in a kit unless I know I would use the alpha or some of the elements separately from the kit. I know how I scrap which is why some of the categories are broken down into unusually specific ways e.g. I have "Monkey" and "Moose" in my "Animals" category because my kids' nicknames are Monkey and Moose but not in others e.g. my elements breakdown only includes stitching and not any other type of fastener.
Activity >Exercise >Fair >Fishing >Gardening >GNO/Restaurants/Dates >Hiking/Camping >Lake/Ocean >LEGO/Puzzle/Cards/Board Games >Mini Golf >Pool/Sprinklers >Reading >Sledding >Sports >>Baseball >>Basketball >>Biking >>Bowling >>Football >>Skating >>Skiing >>Soccer >>Swimming >>Volleyball >Travel >>Driving >>Flying >>International >>Stateside >>Tropical >UPick >Video Games >Zoos/Museums/Playgrounds Holiday/Season/Celebration >Autumn >Birthday >Christmas >Easter >Fourth of July >Halloween >Nature >New Year's >Spring >St. Patrick's Day >Summer >Thanksgiving >Valentine's Day >Wedding >Winter Texture (used mostly for alphas) >Cork >Fabric >Glitter >Handwritten/Stamped >Metal >Paper >Plastic >Stitched >Vellum >Wood Theme >Animals >>Butterflies >>Cats >>Dinosaurs >>Dogs >>Monkeys >>Moose >>Unicorns >COVID >Disney >Emo >>Whining >>Winning >Faith >Family >Fashion >Friendship >Grief/Loss >Hobbies (indoor things like scrapbooking, reading, etc.) >Home (this is where I put "everyday"/PL-type kits) >>Food/Drink >>Tech/Social Media >Illness/Injury >Motherhood >Music >Pregnancy/Babies/Kids/Teens >Rainbow >>LGBTQ/Pride >Romance >School >Shopping >Work Type >Alpha >Cut Files >Elements >>Foliage >>Frames >>Hearts >>Journal Cards >>Masks/Paint/Stamps/Overlays >>Miscellaneous >>Stars >>Stitching >>Tags >>Wordart >Kit >Papers >Template |
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how do you tag your items for easy searches? I need to do some serious organization of my digi stash, lol. I see LeeAndra uses ACDSee, which version do you use? I went to their website and there are quite a few programs. I have often wondered about using LR but I have a love/hate relationship with it, lol.
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I haven’t made the jump to use it yet because it would take me forever to organize everything but I think it would be a really great tool.
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One of the good things about just starting over after a 10+ year break is it has made me get rid of all my old kits and 99% of the freebies I picked up along the way. I am on a buying spree now to get more up to date kits which has been fun.
I have folder categories like those listed above and then each kit inside the folder and then in each kit folder I have the preview file and a folder for elements, papers and alphas. No matter how the designers sort their files I only use these three folders. It makes it less cluttered for me. It looks like this: Category ---> Kits ----> Kit Name---> Preview, Element folder, Paper Folder, Alpha Folder I also have just created a spreadsheet by stores I shop of each kit I purchase and who the designer is so I can keep track and if I can quickly look and see if I have already purchased it. Each store I shop has a spreadsheet with columns for kits, columns for templates and columns for other. the column headers are Kit Name, Type of kit (ie kit, template, styles, etc), Creators name, More info (I usually just write if it was a free kit) and the store name Seems like overkill but I have repurchased kits a few times in the old days and really don't want to do that again |
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I repurchase supplies more often than I would like to admit.
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Haha. So glad it’s not just me!!!
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I started out as a fan and customer then was asked to join her team. I was with her until she retired and then when she came back until she retired for good. She was such a sweetheart.
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I agree with other that it seems like it might be the emotion/abstract idea kits that are cluttering up you Misc folder. Here are my folders for those kind of kits:
Change Currently and Lists Dreams and Goals Everyday Life Good Days and Happiness Growing Up Individuality and Self-Esteem Me Time & Relaxation Moods (this one's got kits about moods in general, not specific moods) Silliness and Smiles Tough Times I hope this helps!
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