Throes of scrapbooking. I just thought this was funny. I always turn my space into an absolute disaster area as I create. And this pic doesn't even show my tools and litter strewn about the kitchen, or the boxes of embellies all about the floor, or the wire cubes with stamps all over the floor. LOL
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1A: Just put it away!
Clean off your work space. Don't worry about revamping your storage systems yet, just put things away. Make a promise to yourself to clear your space off after each project.
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1B: Just put it away!
Put away all of your stuff and make it look neat and tidy. *Don't* worry about putting things away where they go--just designate some drawers as junk drawers, or some empty photo boxes as catch-alls, and put everything away so it looks nice on the outside. Trust me on this.
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2A: Cardstock
Tackle your cardstock! For 12 x 12 cardstock, I use wire grids from Target, and connect them with zip ties to make shelves. I store it according to rainbow order, then from lightest to darkest shades.
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2B: Cardstock
For 8.5 x 11 cardstock, I store it upright in a magazine holder. Again, it is sorted from lightest to darkest shades in rainbow order.
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3A: Patterned Paper
First, I break it down into themes, such as Love/Wedding, Floral, Cats, Travel, or Music.
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3B: Patterned Paper
What I don't store by themes, I break down by color. :-) I keep mine in my paper tower, one shelf above the coordinating colors of cardstock.
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4: Specialty Paper
This category includes vellum, chipboard, handmade papers, watercolor papers, glossy cardstock, embossed cardstock, adhesive backed paper, transparencies, etc. You may choose to store all specialty papers together, separated by color, or next to the tools you would use when working with those materials.
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5: Scraps
I store all of my scraps in a 12 x 12 accordian folder I bought at Wal-Mart for only $5! It has 7 pockets, which makes storing by color easy.
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6: Adhesive
Collect all your adhesive and find or make an attractive container that is easy to access from your workspace.
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7: Cutting Tools
Cutting tools include: trimmer, glass cutting mat, handheld hole punch, anywhere hole punches, exacto knife, ruler, paper piercer, perforating blade,decorative scissors, and replacement trimmer blades. Store the ones you use the most often directly on your workspace. Meanwhile, my handful of decorative scissors are stored on the side of my wire cubes with large binder rings, out of the way, since I don't use them that often.
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8: Punches
Go through your punches, first organizing them into themes or other categories. Take a gander and purge any unloved or unused punches. Sharpen punches by punching through a few layers of aluminum foil. Lubricate by punching through a few layers of wax paper. Then find an attractive, accessible way to store them. I store mine, in an over the door shoe holder, sorted into these categories.
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9: Alphabet Embellishments
I store mine by letter in a drawer unit from the hardware section. Other options are tilt-out bins, floss boxes, and small bottles. Or you could keep all alpha embellies sorted by material or by manufacturer.
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10: Alphabet Stickers and Rub-ons.
I store my alphabet stickers separated by color and color family in an accordion folder. I also have several lumpy packages of black and white rub-ons that I store in a drawer.
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11: Small Embellishments
These will probably take the most time to organize. First, decide on your method: by item or by color? Then choose an appropriate container. Some options are floss boxes, tilt-out bins, hardware drawer units, stacking containers or pillboxes, or tic tac boxes.
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12: Ribbon and Fibers
The most space efficient way to store these is to wrap them on bobbins. I cut large oversized chipboard bobbins for my ribbons, and then stored in a large box. For my fibers, I stored on small embroidery floss bobbins in a floss box.
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13: Acrylic Paint and Foam Stamps
No one has found a perfect way to store foam stamps. You have to find what works for you. The best I've seen is putting velcro on the backside of the stamp and adhering them to strips of velcro on heavy duty pages. However, this doesn't work with double-sided stamps, which are what most foam stamps are nowadays.
My solution? I store two letters in each pocket of an over the door shoe holder. Across the top row are my brushes, trays, and paints. In the extra pockets are my numbers, symbols, punctuation, shapes, and one large monogram alphabet that has two different letters on each stamp.
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15A: Die Cutting Machines and Dies
My heavy duty Sizzix stays on my table. But I grouped all of my dies and my smaller die cutting machine together.
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15B: Die Cuttings Machines and Dies
The Sizzix tower is simply too bulky for my space, but these altered boxes fit my dies and shelf perfectly!
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15C: Die Cutting Machines and Dies
I've discovered my smaler dies fit perfectly in an index card holder!
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16A: Themed Items
You can now start tackling your themed items. I'd recommend going after one theme at a time. :-) First, go through and dig out any papers that match your theme.
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16B: Themed Items
Next, go through your stamps and create a stamp index page. Next to each stamp, notate where you can find that particular image. Make sure to leave some extra room for future purchases.
On the backside of this page, I also cut out and glued die cuts that matched my theme.
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16C: Themed Items
Finally, corral all of your stickers and die cuts that match your theme.
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