Craft Storage Video | Michelle Short Craft Room Tour August 2015

One of my favourite UK cardmakers and one very tidy crafter, Michelle Short of the Card Grotto, has shared a video and a full blog post on her Craft Room.

You can click here or on the photos for the direct link.

Kathy's Studio

I love the look of this space, it is a very grown up studio don't you think?
The room is 12' x 14'.
And look at this unit:

But this one bellow HAS to be my all time favorite drawer unit. So envious!

In a couple of day, Kathy will share some more ideas.
 Click here for Kathy's full post.

Elizabeth's Craft Room Tour

Elizabeth has written up a new blog post inviting all to have a nosey around her craft room


I just love her homemade stamp pad storage


Elizabeth, has kitted her room out predominately from Ikea, I love her use of the Pax wardrobes and inner drawers, she's so organised!





I also love her Bygel basket ribbon holders



There are loads more pictures and storage ideas on Elizabeth's blog here, please visit her sometime soon.

Jenne's studio

Jenne's room measures 11 x 11ft.


I love her Cricut station:

And her die cutting one:

Click here for many more photos!

thinking outside the box...

...or inside the box, as the case may be.

We live in a condo, so I'm constantly on the lookout for new storage ideas.  Since I enjoy making cards, I had to get creative when it came to storing my masterpieces (ha, ha...).

These photo boxes (the lid is not featured in the pictures) sit on the shelves in our living room and yet they hide some frequently used greeting cards.  So simple...and yet so nice to have on hand and easily accessible. 

What do your photo boxes hold?

Posted by Anne

Storing your finished cards

Hello crafty storage readers! I was browsing the internet looking for ideas to store my finished cards, when I came across Kajikit's blog. She had seen something similar elsewhere on the internet, so decided to use the idea to create practical card storage for her finished cards.

Originally she kept her finished cards in a plastic box, but they were not organised into sections so to find a particular one meant that they all had to be removed. The storage pictured here is actually plastic shoe storage, well two of them to be precise! Kajikit has taped two together and then hung them on the side of her storage drawers.

She has labelled each pocket as follows:

• Love
• Friendship
• Birthday
• Thinking of you/Miss you
• Encouragement/general
• Children (I don't make a lot of kiddy cards...)
• Current Holiday
• Next Holiday
• Future Holidays
• Next Year (in case I make cards for a holiday that's already passed...)
• Any Hero Cards

Kajikit also comments that each pocket looks like it will hold up to 20 cards, which is great, and so easily accessible!

So how do you store YOUR finished cards? I still haven't full decided what to do with mine, but I love this idea!

Card Organizer

I like to make cards in bulk but often I forget to send them out.


I found this YouTube video that shows you how to make a card organizer with calendar dividers to help you organize and REMEMBER to send out your cards!



Click HERE to go to a card organizer made by Emma and posted earlier on this blog.

Posted by Marie

I received a couple of weeks ago this email of a reader requesting for ideas on how to store the crafts things we make, such as cards and mini albums etc. And today Emma sent me an email with this. Enjoy!

" This is a card organiser I recently made, although I take no credit for the original concept, the work is all mine. I had the empty storage box from an empty display box from Asda. Luckily for me the outer shell was already turquoise and so I lined it with some of the free white card you get at the back of Stampin Up designer paper packs and covered it in lovely paper, ribbons and stamped and punched some embellishments."


You can check her blog here.