My Craft Space

Craftroom Update

May 11, 2011

Hi Everyone,
I’ve been working little by little to update my craftroom. I’m loving how its set up now. There is still lots to do, like paint my closet and buy a shelving unit to go inside. I moved lots of my not so used stuff into the closet and the rest I’m organizing little by little.

I repainted my room to a light turquoise color and I can’t believe how much brighter and bigger my room feels. The picture below is one of my favorite areas. I put two cabinets from Lowes together and they made great display area and storage…

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The next picture is what I keep on top of the cabinets.

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The top drawer I keep some of my packaged stamps…

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The middle drawer of this cabinet is empty (room to grow). The bottom drawer is filled with flowers (Prima, IAMRoses, Recollections etc).

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In the other cabinet the top drawer is used for misc stuff…

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and in the bottom doors is where I keep all my chipboard and Sizzix Dies/Embossing folders.

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The boxes and basket below sit next to the cabinets above. The big box on the bottom is filled with material, the next box is wooden punches and the basket is all my newest paper collections.

Well that’s all for today. Have a great Wednesday…
Hugs and happy crafting,

What’s on my desk

February 22, 2011

Hi All,
I’m kinda taking this week as a break from scrapping. Ethan’s birthday is this coming weekend and the party will be here on Saturday night, so I have lots to get done over the next few days, but I thought I would just shot a video here and there of some scrappy related stuff.

Back in July (or was it June?) We took our first trip to IKEA and got my awesome desk. I just love this desk and would totally have two of them in my scraproom if I could. Since I cleaned up my desk today I thought I would finally show you what I did with it….ready….

Here is a link to the Copic caddy’s that I use. They are great for just tools….

Maybe today my Paper Trey Ink order will finally come and I’ll do a quick haul video for you…
Have a great Tuesday,

CraftRoom

November 9, 2010

Hi Everyone,
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I did a little work on my craft room this weekend…
Here are a few photo’s.

This is my Ikea Desk…I put up some of the Bygiel rails on the wall to hold some baskets and my favorite punches that I use the most…

Below is the view from the front of my desk. I have plenty of room to grow on my embellishments center and my CD rack that used to hold my stamps is now a quick reach shelf that holds baskets that I can easily take out and put on my desk.

OK I’ll confess this area in the below picture needs a little work. I really dislike that bracket shelving,

but it works for right now…

and the next picture you’ve seen before in other photos…

My punches are on the Ikea Bygiel rails and my storage area is

the white Jetmax cubes you can find at Michaels. I got most of mine last year

on Thanksgiving night when they had them on sale for 55% off…

Have a great day everyone.

PS Scott tells me my video thingy I’m waiting for shipping 🙂

Craftroom Update

September 7, 2010

Hi All,
Yesterday I spent a good portion of the day cleaning my room and thought while it was clean I would take some pictures to post. Well it turned into a video of the pictures. lol
Enjoy….

Don’t forget October 2nd is World Card Making Day and I have tons planned with lots of giveaways in store 🙂 Hugs and Happy Tuesday…

Tuesdays Tips~Ribbon Storage

August 17, 2010

Happy Tuesday everyone,
I’m really excited. I’ve been selected to be on the Blue Moon Scrapbooking Design Team..Woot Woot! Scott and Lisa are just amazing and their store is AWESOME. It’s going to be so much fun and I can’t wait to get started. My first project will be in October. There are three video designers and we’ll each be taking a month. Head on over to the Blue Moon Blog and check out all the fabulous designers. It’s gonna be a fun time….

OK now for our Tuesday Tips. Is everyone ready to share how they keep their ribbon stored?

Me first….A few weeks ago I posted my storage tips…Click HERE to read more details.

However I’ve been thinking about the Ribbon Rings? My friend Teri uses them and she loves them. She did a video on how she uses them, check it out HERE. Have any of you tried these? Do you like them?

OK Let’s here your storage ideas for ribbon?

Tuesday Tips~Ink Storage

August 10, 2010

Happy Tuesday….

WOW! We just hit 1500 followers…..We’ll be at 2000 before we know it….I’ll have to start thinking of another My Favorite Things Giveaway, like we did when we hit 1000…..

Last Friday you all had such wonderful tips to share….

What do you think about making this a weekly share? I’ll come up with the topic and you all share your ideas. I so enjoyed reading all of your comments and storage ideas. If there is anything in particular you would like to learn about or hear what others do just send me an email or click on the Contact Me button on the top of this page. I’ll start making a list of topics….

My tip for today is….Ink Storage

I have two systems. The first is for my Stampin’ Up! ink….
I purchased this carousel a while ago from Stampin’ Up! and love storing my SU inks and refills in it. However I’ve never had it actually spin smoothly. I think I need to oil up the bottom spinny thingy (thats the technical term lol).

For my Tim Holtz Distress inks, Paper Trey Ink and Chalk inks I use this wall mounted storage system from Organize More. The one I have hold 80 ink pads, but they have many other styles. They also carry other types of storage systems as well (Ribbon, Stamp, Cricut etc).

Hope you have a great Tuesday….

Don’t forget you can still comment on yesterday post for the Cutting Cafe’ giveaway….Hugs

12×12 Cardstock~Tuesday Tips

August 3, 2010

Today’s Tuesday Tips is more of a plea for HELP!

Right now I keep all my 12×12 cardstock and pattern paper that is not a part of a collection on my Jetmax cubes and I hate it…..Here is why….I have two or three shelves that keep collapsing. So what do you use?

What I would really love to have are the kind of shelving that you would find at scrap stores, but they are way to expensive for me….I had a tall black wire thing from Michael’s (or was is ACMoore) and that wasn’t very stable on my carpeting….

Now for my collections…Whenever I order a collection or particular paper line I keep them in this large basket, that I’ve had forever.

Loose paper, brads, mini pads etc all go in one of these clear 12×12 envelopes that I get from the dollar store.

I try to keep the most recent collections in the front of the basket. As I use the collections I will either move it to the back or take it out of the envelope and move it to my regular shelving/storage.

So does anyone have any good storage solutions for my 12×12 cardstock? I’m very happy with my collection storage and just the JetMax cubes that I’m looking to do something with….

HERE is a link to last weeks 8-1/2 x 11 storage tip…

Cardstock~Tuesday Tips

July 27, 2010

Happy Tuesday. Today’s tip is 8-1/2 x 11 cardstock….

My favorite basic white card stock is by Georgia Pacific (found at Walmart). It’s great for the base of cards, making flowers and cutting with your Cricut….

For Copic coloring I prefer Neenah Cardstock….rich and creamy

For colored cardstock I’m Paper Trey Ink all the way. The quality is amazing and I love the color selection as well as being able to order 12 sheets for $3 or 24 for $5. They also have matching ribbon ;0)

Storage:
When I went to Ikea a few weeks ago I picked up these (2/$3.99) magazine files.

Inside the magazine files, I use file folders from Michael’s dollar spot to separate my cardstock by color. When I first started I was writing the name of the company/color on the folder, but found that if I just cut a slit in the plastic that they come in I can just slide my cardstock out and keep the label inside the original package. This way I don’t have to relabel the files if I decided not to reorder that same color.

I keep my scraps right in front of the original package, so I reach for those first 🙂

Stay Tuned next week for 12×12 cardstock and pattern paper 🙂

Hugs,

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