An organized workspace makes scrapbooking quicker, easier and more enjoyable. Learn to make the most of the craft space you have available, whether it's a tiny corner or an entire room. Includes tips for planning and creating an efficient workspace, affordable storage solutions, great flea market scrapbook storage buys, options for cropping-on-the-go, ergonomically correct work solutions and ways to child-proof your scrapbooking area. Plus, advice from veteran scrapbookers that will help keep your workspace running like a well- oiled machine.

Scrapbooking. It's a hobby that leads to fun, family memories ... and back pain. Long hours at the scrap desk can wreak havoc on joints and muscles. Worse, a stiff neck can get in the way of layouts, layouts, layouts!

Planning your scrapbooking room or scrap area, keep ergonomics in mind. Web site ScrapJazz offers this guide to proper planning for your scrapbooking space ... and your body:

Scrapbooking Ergonomics

Need inspiration to overhaul the scrapbooking room or scrap area? Take a tip from blogger Scrapbook Obsession. Her before-and-after photos should inspire any wanna-be organized scrapbooker.

Ideas we like: the efficient U-shaped workspace, Scraprack (ceo's favorite!) and good use of kneehold space to store files.

Scrapbooking Organization: Mission Accomplished via Scrapbook Obsession.

Welcome to the new home for Organized Scrapbooks--and pardon our dust!

Our site has converted to a new format, but a few loose ends remain. Please be patient! We'll have our scrapbooking articles, resources and printable forms up and running as quickly as possible.

Get organized for great scrapbooks with free printable forms to organize scrapbooking layouts and supplies! Click the planner pages link above for free printable planner pages to organize scrapbook layouts, albums, tools and supplies.

New! Check out these new 2007 calendar planner forms. They'll help organize each month's scrapbook goals, crops and classes.

Puzzled by scrapbooking terminology? What does it mean mean when a friend says "Yesterday, I CASEed a layout at the LSS!"? What's a Z-line cart?

Find answers and definitions here in the Scrapbooking Dictionary! We're still under construction, but we'll be adding new entries right away.

What's the biggest challenge facing would-be scrapbookers? Finding time to scrap!

The scrapbooking process is partly to blame. From snapping photos to picking them up at the developer, planning layouts to purchasing supplies, creating pages to embellishing them, scrapbooking takes time and requires attention to detail--a tall order for those of us with busy modern lives. Fight back with 17 ways to find time to scrap:What's the biggest challenge facing would-be scrapbookers? Finding time to scrap!

The scrapbooking process is partly to blame. From snapping photos to picking them up at the developer, planning layouts to purchasing supplies, creating pages to embellishing them, scrapbooking takes time and requires attention to detail--a tall order for those of us with busy modern lives. Fight back with 17 ways to find time to scrap:

I admit it, I am a VERY productive scrapper. I get pages done. And cute ones too. I journal, I embellish, I add handmade doodads as well as store-bought. I honestly can say that after 13 years of scrapping, I make great scrapbooks. And I do them fast. Need a two-page layout design in 45 minutes or an album in a week? No problem. I get asked all the time HOW I do it?

I will share with you my straightforward and simple process. If you can master this, you can get a LOT more done in your limited scrapbooking time. I can get up to 160 kits packed in a weekend and later get up to a hundred pages assembled in a week. And I do it consistently, incorporating the cutest and newest materials and accents. But you don't want to hear me brag. You want to know HOW to do this for yourself.

Planning is the key.

Did you know that an inch of pattern paper is estimated to be 100 sheets or 75 finished pages?

Did you know that one inch of cardstock is roughly 50 pages finished? How many inches do YOU have? How many pages do you do a year?

Do you have over 12 inches (1 foot) of cardstock or printed paper? Do you realise that is enough paper for 1000 pages? Are you stockpiling for someday when you already own enough paper to do thousands of pages?

Did you know that one tin/set of 100 eyelets makes and average of 20 pages? (And how many sets of 100 do YOU own?)

Did you know that many paper packs and multi sheet slabs usually have 10-20% of their patterns that will not suit you within a pack? (one sheet in 5 may not be to your taste so don't keep it in the stash--share!)

Did you know that each sticker sheet you own will do aproximately a two page layout? If you have binder full of stickers it will equal about 300 pages to use them up?

Did you know that each yard of fiber you own will make 1-2 pages? If you own a skein of knitting yarn, they contain between 100-200 yards of fiber? At that rate it will take you 100-200 pages of JUST THAT SKEIN to use up that yarn ball on layout pages? (SHARE!!)

One of the most difficult challenges we face is what to pack for a cropping party. Crops are times for us to get together with others who share the hobby and get some pages done. We socialize and create and gab and snack. Crops are one of the best parts of scrapbooking. We get to enjoy our hobby and our friends at the same time. What fun!

The dilemma is packing for a crop. How will you know what to bring and what to leave home? You do NOT want to pack everything you own. You'd be shuffling supplies all night and your friends would be giving you dirty looks for hogging all the table and floor space! You want to stay focused and organized. You want to travel as light as possible. How can we do it? Here's help!