| One of the problems with creating is organizing your | | | | To start with, begin with your magazines, looking at |
| layout, card and gift ideas that you want to recreate. | | | | each issue with a fine tooth comb. This project can go |
| You start to buy all these magazines or idea books, | | | | places with you, taking a magazine or two and your |
| finding layouts you want to recreate, or titles you want | | | | recipe cards to write information down. As I look at the |
| to use, or colors even. Yet how do you begin to keep | | | | magazine and find an article that, I want to refer back |
| them organized in a way that is easy for you to find | | | | to or a layout idea...I write the following information |
| later? This article will help you to start to organize all | | | | down. |
| those ideas you have! | | | | Magazine name |
| One thing I will not recommend is tearing apart your | | | | Month of issue |
| magazines. There are so many times later on, as I look | | | | What area this fits into (layouts, organizing, colors, etc) |
| through it again, that I find a different idea that I did not | | | | What page or pages this is on |
| the first time I looked at the book or magazine. In | | | | What about this I want to keep |
| addition, you can always look at the ideas you can find | | | | As you, write the information down, place in your |
| in the ads themselves. If you do find yourself tearing | | | | recipe cardholder under the appropriate letter. This |
| the magazines apart, you eventually will have a file | | | | helps when you are looking for baby ideas, or |
| with nothing but ideas in them. | | | | journaling ideas, you are able to go to the perfect |
| I have things organized in two different ways, and for | | | | magazine for what you are looking for. For all those |
| me, this works well. It might take a bit of work up front, | | | | ideas that are lying around, you are going to add the |
| but you can then have your ideas organized so that | | | | pictures to the same type of A-Z categories you did |
| you can find what you need when you need it. I will | | | | with the recipe cardholder. This way, if you have |
| add this...I am still an organized work in progress, but | | | | examples, you can always pull the binder down and |
| this system I have done works very well for me. | | | | look at the examples you have to recreate what you |
| Supplies you need to get started: | | | | want! |
| Binder/binders in 2" sizes | | | | Again, this is a work in progress to organize your ideas |
| A-Z tabs | | | | better. This is the best system for how I do my |
| Paper (lined and plain) | | | | creating...and when I get stuck, and can't decide what |
| Sticky notepads | | | | to create, I can always look in my books to find the |
| Recipe file holder | | | | perfect color, embellishment, title idea, or what have |
| Recipe cards | | | | you! |
| A-Z tabs for recipe file holder | | | | |