Pet Peeve!

Okay, I have a pet peeve and even though I'm complaining about this... I do take some responsibility for this myself.

In the beginning, when I first thought about getting into scrapbooking, I downloaded a bunch of stuff and I wasn't really thinking about detailed organization.

Well, Now that I am really getting into scrapbooking and making some of my own kits I am realizing the need to be very organized. Heck, once you download a bunch of stuff it could get lost on your PC and never get found again, or at least not for a very long time. Hence, good organization is a major plus!

So, what is my pet peeve your wondering? Well it's this, I am sitting here going through all of those kits I downloaded in the beginning before I had a "system". And guess what, I can't credit anyone for some of those kits because they did NOT include a document with their information or they included a Word document. I don't have Word on my computer, many people don't and I can't open them.

Now, I do realize that I should have been better organized. As I said, I do take some responsbility here and that is why I WILL include a notepad (most computers have that) or Adobe Reader document (free to download) with ALL the information needed for proper credit.

The lesson here, if you are just starting out in scrapbooking, STAY VERY ORGANIZED FROM THE BEGINNING!

Don't do what I did and just start a scrapbooking folder and put each kit in it's own folder with no other organization. I suggest when you download a kit, paper, element, wordart, etc. from a designer start a folder with their name on it, open a new folder within that and name the folder with the kit name or item you downloaded. Do this for each item. At least then you will be able to credit someone if they haven't included any "identifying" documents within the download.

Well, I'm done ranting... Have a great day!