My back pocket
*I forget where I saw this idea, but it’s definitely not my original idea!*
I try not to buy a lot of new supplies, but I still have enough that re-swatching everything whenever I switch notebooks quickly stops being fun. When I reordered the same notebook for my third volume that I had already been using in my second, I used the last few empty pages of my second volume to swatch each collection of pens and markers I have, cut them out, and store them in the back pocket of Volume Three.
It’s been so convenient! I don’t have to re-swatch, plus I can pull out whichever cutout(s) I need at any given moment and hold them right up to the page I’m working on. I can even align them to each other to see how colors from different sets might look together, or whether they match.
Side note:
I also keep some sticky notes on the pocket (black, which I write on with white gel pen, and clear, which look super cool laid over some other bit of text or color), and on the occasions when I cut a part of a page off (say, for a dutch door spread), I stick it in the back pocket in case I need to use a piece to cover up a fairly large and annoying mistake later.
