Works For Me Wednesday is hosted by We Are THAT Family. General information about WFMW can be found here or by clicking the button above, but the basic idea is to share a tip that you’ve found useful that you’d like to share with others.
Today I don’t have a tip: I need tips for how to store and organize crafts items, particularly scrapbooking supplies, so that they’re easily accesible. I have things scattered and tucked hither and yon and would like to make it more usable. I can use suggestions about store-bought organizing tools or made or “found” ones — I have a gift card to Michael’s that I could possibly use for this.
I do have one of those accordion file boxes with dividers for different colored scrapbook paper plus some of those clear plastic drawers. But some of the stuff is just jumbled together in the drawers.
So…what are your best ideas for storing
Ribbon
Cricut cartridges
Cuttlebug templates
Scrapbooking paper and card stock
Stickers
Embellishments for scrapbooking and card-making
Stamps (the kind you stamp in ink with, not the kind you collect)
Ink pads
Artificial flowers
…and any other crafts you can think of.
Thanks!
15 Comments
July 8, 2009 at 3:57 am
Aloha my friend. I know nothing about this subject. But you know me…Just have to talk. Anyway, I follow a blog. Pamela always talks about scrapbooks. Maybe she can help ya. When Good People Get Together Hope she can maybe help you
Aloha
July 8, 2009 at 7:32 am
This lady has an awesome workspace for creating.
http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/the_studio/
I also use a filing system for my papers. I use a box with hanging files. I also use a huge 3 ring binder full of page protectors for my scrap paper. I put a different color in each page protector. That really helps me to actually use the scraps.
July 9, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Thank you SO MUCH for that link! Wow, so many neat ideas there!!!
July 9, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Thanks for the recommendation, Thom. I’ll head over there!
July 8, 2009 at 11:32 am
If you don’t have too many stamps, you could display them up on a shelf. After all, they are little works of art! I used to do this when I was into stamping (gave it up long ago as I was cutting back on expenses) and it made it easier to see what I had.
You might laugh at my way of storing ribbons and buttons–in sushi containers! Seriously, they have these pretty flowered bottoms and clear tops and are thin and stack nicely. I clean them with bleach very carefully, let them dry, and the store one color at a time in them. I have them stacked up on a small bookshelf.
Try to find containers you can see into, or at least get yourself a cool label maker and label everything. Oh, and stick with squared shapes as much as possible. They sit together better and there is no wasted space like there is with round containers.
July 9, 2009 at 10:38 pm
I have never seen a sushi container — I’ve never had it. I winder if you can get just the containers?
Thanks for the idea about the stamps — they are indeed works of art in themselves!
July 8, 2009 at 2:05 pm
I found the coolest item at Michaels. It’s an organizing center that has shelves on it that are wide enough to fit a small jar (think baby food) and the bottom two shelves have a dowel going across the bottom to put your ribbon on. That’s what I have in my craft room. I’m slowly filling it up and making use of my friend’s empty baby food jars.
Those shelves would probably perfectly fit your stamp pads and stamps.
July 9, 2009 at 10:47 pm
I have seen that — I would LOVE to get it when I have the wall space for it.
July 8, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Could you store the stickers in a binder filled with plastic sheet protectors? maybe if you used a divider set you could manage them into categories, like floral, birthdays, etc.
July 9, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Great idea – thank you!
July 8, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Ohhhhh I don’t scrap…. no help here… but I READ you!
LOL!
July 10, 2009 at 10:21 am
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July 12, 2009 at 10:19 am
Barbara–This is from my archives. It worked for me for quite a while.
http://ourjoyfuldays.blogspot.com/2007/02/shadow-box-turned-rubber-stamp.html
Blessings,
Julie
July 29, 2009 at 11:19 pm
I JUST completed a month-long crafty space makeover challenge. Here’s the final before/after shots:
http://mollyleecards.blogspot.com/search/label/Crafty%20Space%20Makeover%20Challenge
I found a lot of great, inexpensive solutions that worked for my own craft supplies… hope that they work for you!
July 31, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Thanks so much! Lots of great ideas there.