Have you ever experienced that you are SURE that you have letters in green or blue, but that you have no clue where they are? Or that you have yellow envelopes somewhere, but WHERE?! It drove me insane… so I had to do something about it. After some deep thinking, I realized that when I’m working on a layout I often look for something in a specific color to spice it up. And that’s where this idea came from: I started organizing and sorting my embellishment by COLOR. Buttons, ribbon, alphabets, tags, envelopes, and everything else you can think of.
First step: buying clear plastic containers for each of the colors I had in mind: blue, red, green, yellow/orange, pink/purple, brown/natural/kraft, black, white, clear and metals.
Second step: I picked a few buttons in a color, poked holes in one of the sides of a container, and attached them with embroidery floss (this was a lot of work and gave me some blisters, but hey you gotta love the result, right?!)

Third step: Put all the “sorted by color” stuff away. Store all the containers in a closet or open rack like I did.

Fourth step: Take a few steps back, make yourself a cup of coffee, take a seat and enjoy how it looks. And it doesn’t only look nice, it actually works too! Here’s how it looks inside a container:

I’m curious about how you guys sort your embellies: please share and leave a comment!
See ya next time and happy organizing!
Liesbeth















































