Organising Keepsake Cards

I came across a blog post a while back on organising keepsake cards, I featured it in a Friday Favourites back in May. It was a really simple idea of using binder rings to keep bundles of cards grouped together. Well, this weekend I finally got around to organising some of my own cards and I’m thrilled with the result!

For now I’ve organised four bundles – weddings, babies, 30th birthday cards and ‘misc hurrays’.

The ‘misc hurrays’ is a bundle I put together of things that we only have a few cards for, versus a large bundle. It includes welcome home cards we got when we moved back from San Francisco, congratulations cards my husband received when he completed his Phd, as well as a few thank you cards.

To keep the cards together I bought these binder clips from Amazon which have a simple snap closing on them.

The rings are 2 inches in diameter and seem very strong – they had no problem handling the large bundle of 30th birthday cards we have!

Once I had divided our cards into bundles and punched holes in them, all I did was make simple covers using my Silhouette Cameo.

I had different coloured card at home from other projects so I was able to use a different colour for each bundle.

I also used different images for each one that I had downloaded for free from the Silhouette library.

So the only cost for this project was the binder rings, which were about €4.65.

So a quick and cheap DIY organisation project. The majority of which I did sitting in front of the TV!

I’ll probably do some more bundles in the future. I’d like to do one of all the cards we received when we got married, but I’ll have to dig those out of a box that’s in my folks house first.

This method definitely suits me better than all the cards thrown loose into a drawer, which is how I had them ‘organised’ previously!