Nacy Riley's studio ideas

In her own words:


My pegboard is probably one of my FAVORITE storage solutions! I love having frequently used tools within reach without digging through drawers and cabinets! It's inexpensive too!

My pegboard organization looks a little different since the last photos. That's one thing about any craft, especially papercrafting ... organizaiton is a huge part of it, especially when new products are purchased.


You can access Nancy's blog here. For more store ideas by Nancy, click here.

Debby de Wilde's ribbon storage idea

In Debby own words:
A couple of weeks ago I was cleaning out my linen closet (When you buy new clothes you need to get rid of some too) and I found the two little hangers that were used in stores to hang mens ties on. And my brain got working and I had my ribbon storage. here are comparable systems on the market, but this one is FREE!

You can see her work and more photos here.

Patter Cross's idea

Patter uses Quickutz magnetic folders, simple idea but it works great!
To see her work and bit of her life here.

Jacqui Heffner's Studio

This is the craft area as seen from Jacqui's kitchen: the craft area is in one corner, the TV is in the opposite corner of the room. As Jacqui has limited space in her home, her goal was to create a craft area out of existing shared space.
Jacqui already had the sewing cabinet so now she uses for stamping, just had to purchase some shelves and plastic storage drawers.


I love this idea, close up of the wall behind where Jacqui seats there is this silver holder which is actually a tray for the kitchen table. Jacqui has there the background stamps that she uses the most here, as well as a few favorite stamps.

You can see more of Jacqui's Studio area here and if you would like to see her blog, click here.

Melissa Gunter Studio

You can see Melissa's work here.

Combining elements

I already had a plain lazy Susan from IKEA when I got the Making Memories carusel. For a while I put away the lazy Susan but after a while I thought I may combine both as the Making Memories wasn't rotating as well as it should. I had at the time one solid cube (those ones to alter with photos and papers) on the table more or less of the same size of the base of the carousel. So I put the cube on top of the lazy Susan and on top of the cube the carousel.
It works really well as it allows to fit much more stuff in there. However, is not that pretty!

Scrapscene Ribbon Links

Today's entry at Scrapscene is all about ribbon storage, worth a look!
Click here.

Julie Koerber's Studio

In Julie's words: While we were building our house, one of the things I desperately wanted was a place to create. For 7 plus years I would haul stuff up from my laundry room to the dining room table and transform the middle of my home into "a stamping disaster area." When we built our new home, I claimed one of the extra bedrooms. My goal was to create a space that could contain most of my craft things in a closet. That way, if company came, I could close the doors and not have a huge mess staring me in the face.


My closet it ten feet long by 2 plus feet wide. It's perfect for all my stacked storage. I've taken plastic bins -shoe box size from Steralite - and have categorized them based on stamping categories - flowers, backgrounds, phrases, etc.



The rolling carts inside the closet are perfect to store 12 by 12 papers. They fit inside perfectly and when you slide out a drawer, they have lids so that you could take a stack of paper with you to a card making party! I've also used some of the drawers to store punches, envelopes and ink pads. I mounted a small cafe curtain rod on the wall and that houses most of my ribbon. I simply strung all the rolls on the rod and they can dangle easily. I can grab the amount of ribbon I want without taking the roll of ribbon off the rod.


The desk that is my work space is one that has cubbies on both sides which are perfect for storing embellishments. I have my paper flowers, more ribbon, markers etc. in all of these cubbies. I even used one cube for my acrylic blocks. On my desk is my ink pad storage system. It is so nice having all my ink pads at arms reach! On the top of this in pad storage system are spots for my re-inkers and bottles of glitter glue.


You can see - it's not a huge space (roughly 120 square feet) but the closet is key! On the other side of the entrance is another smaller closet that houses all my yarn, patterns and needles for my other passion - KNITTING!

You can check Julie's blog here.

Poll

I have put up a poll on the right hand side where you can vote about the type of crafty storage you prefer: pretty and decorative, practical and convenient or recycling other furniture that you had or given, because crafty storage can be practical and pretty I suppose I added the all of the above answer.

Tim Holtz stamp storage video

Another clever clear stamp storage, by Kim Sonksen

When Kim heard the idea of using CD covers to store clear and unmounted stamps, Kim figured they wouldn't hold enough of them. So, playing around with an old DVD, it hit her that it would even be better to use a DVD case as the cover can hold the print of your stamps as well.


And here there is the full collection of unmounted stamps.


For more info and work by Kim Sonksen click here.

Sarah Slaughter's clearStamp Storage

Sarah found some popper wallets (1) in portrait style at staples - perfect size (A5)!

Then, Sarah put the stamps onto the clear storage sheet (2) that they come with and trimmed the printed carrier sheet a little. The stamps also cling easily to the back of the laminate sheet when done also.
Then took some plain A5 paper and also trimmed this a little. The reason why you need to trim it is so that the edges have a good seal around the plastic carrier sheet and the laminate.


Sarah then laminated (3) the printed sheet backed onto paper. All of this bits go into the popper wallet.


Stored in a basket!! (4) The wallets make storage more portable and also more secure.
You can see Sarah's work here.

Melissa Frances

I love pretty storage although I prefer practical ones. But If you would like some of the pretty ones, Melissa Frances, a canadian scrapbooking company, does it beautiful.
For more info and photos click here.

Gwyneth Jones clear stamps idea

In Gwyneth's words:

The storage idea came about as I was tidying up the craft room one day and found the packet of the ATC holders.

Having been really fed up with searching through the box for the right packet of stamps, the Studio G packets are rather small, I suddenly realized that they would fit nicely in these ATC folders - so much easier now to see them and takes far less room than a box !

Lisa itatini Rubber stamp storage

Lisa uses an antique printer's cabinet that stores all her rubber stamps.