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"Knowing" your stash

littlekiwi said:
ugh, I'm feeling worse than when I started...just had a look to see unused but purchased kits in December/early January and I'm utterly ashamed it got so out of hand and I bet thats the same most months too.....I have nearly 40 new supplies that I haven't even used just from the past month or so
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It sounds like that folder is a great place to start for the next week or 2 of challenges at least - & I think that will help the 'knowing' you asked about.
The kits I know best, like Cheryl, are ones I have used & pulled from repeatedly. And if you 'know' a designer has a certain style or say element pack kind of formula, (& you would Jennifer after all your tagging) then that's half the knowing to me. I may not know which specific bird of Lynn Grieveson's or fancy flower of ForeverJoy's I'm looking for, but it's kind of narrowed down the search field just by knowing the designer, y'know?
 
@bellbird I don't have an unused folder as such as I pop them into their designer folders as soon as I unzip them but I bet I could tag them some how
 
This method probably wouldn't work for everyone, but I discovered that to use all my supplies I actually needed less organization rather than more. I needed a preview for every kit together in the same folder so that I could glance over all the possibilities and click quickly to get a better look at anything that might work. Before this I was missing too many things--for example, if I was scrapping a birthday layout and only looked in my birthday folder, I might miss the perfect kit that wasn't birthday-specific. I was using too many themed kits (reusing them because they were the ones I kept seeing when I went to specific folders) and too few general kits (which is most of what I own and like to use). I still use other organization methods, too, but this folder of previews is the one I find myself coming back to again and again. Each preview's name begins with the initials of the store so that I can look through just my TLP stuff if I want.

This is also how I organize for MOC. I copied all of the TLP previews into another folder then deleted the ones that weren't in the store any more. When I buy a new TLP kit I make sure to add the preview both in the big folder and in the MOC folder. Tagging doesn't work as well for me--I would constantly be adding new categories, would call something teal in one preview and blue in another, etc. I need the more visual method.

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@rach3975

I also like to stay away from using themed kits for only their specific theme. Now for some I do. But others even with a theme can work for other things as well. I did multiple pages for a wedding with Kristin Aagards Healthy and Fit kit because the kit colors were the wedding colors. I was able to bring in wedding elements from her Marry Me kit. So like you tagging just doesn't fit my style of scrapping :)
 
I get overwhelmed with scrapping on mine when my harddrive is nearly full & I need to do big backups & removing. That's part of my issue lately. I feel I can't scrap until I can do that stuff & I can't do that stuff because it takes so much longer & 2 baby girls make computer time hard.

Beyond that I only KNOW my stash if I've scrapped at least 2 pages with something to cement it in my brain. I'm a visual person & remember things in photos, so using them helps remember what I have.
 
Eyeore said:
I tend to do a store search for themes and then once I see the designer I check my stash for it.
I don't know what I have, but I am ok with it. Shopping for scrapping supplies and scrapbooking are my guilty peasure.
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Same. I also make sure i am logged in so TLP tells me whether or not I have it already, lol
 
HavaDrPepper said:
I am more focused now on using kits that haven't been used before. But my issue has been those kits that don't have plain, non-patterned papers in them. I should pull together some of those plain papers from other kits by the designer that I can use in that case. I have to have a plain background on my pages, especially DYD!
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I know you didn't ask, but I like buying a basic pack that has lots of plain cardstock and use it as my go to. I have this one:

(She has a few of these large packs if there's a different set of colors you prefer)
Because I know I have this, I use it as my go to. No solids in my kit? No problem, I go here and grab a paper.
None of those work?
White, Wood, or Kraft it is. It takes hardly anytime, and it saved me the time of pulling my own set.




 
@bestcee Would you believe I have some paper packs I bought years ago from other designers? And, I never use them. I have a hard time combining designers... yes, even for papers. The only time I can do it is if it is a collab kit when I know everything is in the same color pallette. With my eye issues I have a hard time with seeing if colors match. I use light colors for 95% of my backgrounds (the other 5% are dark colors). White or kraft are not my style at all.

Yeah, a mental thing for me but I just can't do it. I do have a couple of retired small paper packs from Bella Gypsy that I have used. I just need to get a few more colors from other kits put together so I have a better selection.

In the end, I'm just a one kit scrapper and OCD about it!
 
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