Craft Storage A4 paper | Comparison IKEA Letter Sorters

Today I am sharing a little blog post I have written on these two Ikea A4  Letter sorters, comparing the new Forhoja (top) with the older Kvissle (bottom).

Click here for the full post that has a clear recommendation.

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.

Craft Storage Paper and Card | My personal 12" paper and card craft storage idea

Today I am sharing  how I store my 12" card and paper.
Check it all here on my personal blog!

Ana DIY multi use crafty storage idea

Ana has shared this multi functional DIY unit on her blog.

For more information visit her blog (in Spanish).

Charmaine's beautification project

We all like a bit of pretty crafty storage, but sometimes we have to make it ourselfs. 

Charmaine shares on her blog here the process to turn her plain drawers into something more pretty.

From games room to a craft room: Banu's craft room

A lovely room, you will agree, and it is much better to have a craft room than a games room!

Click here for the full post over at Banu's blog.

Nicki's cardstock storage

Tidy cardstock makes happy cardstock!

Click here for the full post over at Nicki's blog.

When crafty storage takes over the whole house

Today is Nancy's crafty storage turn.

I don't have just one room...it has taken over my whole house. I'm single again, so I don't have to worry about it!  

I give a little tour of all the "stuff". I'm not certain any of it fits your definition of "good storage" because I didn't clean up for the pictures!  It is "REAL LIFE". 

To me good storage is what works for the crafter. So your is as goods as it gets!

Click here for the whole set of photos and more in depth explanation.

Candy's amazing studio - part 2

As promised a couple more photos from Candy's space.

The other side.

I love how Candy stores the unmounted rubber stamps.

Clare Curd's Craft room

My friend clare curd is a super talented crafter and demonstrator that has graced the QVC UK and Create and Craft screens many times. She has recently revamp her room and has shared it with all of us on her blog. Here you have some photos.

Clever idea for card left overs as well as for her stamps - bellow.

Click here to go directly to Clare Curd's blog post about her room.

Sharon's basement workshop!

I will let Sharon explain: 

It has evolved over the past 8 years going from an unfinished part of the basement.  As a Christmas gift my husband built this room with recessed lights, built in shelves, tile flooring and a window to look into the other side of the basement where we set up a playroom for the kids.  Now the kids are teens with my 16 yr old son's bedroom is next to my workshop, so I am not allowed to open the shades. :o)I just finished the most recent Purging, Organizing, Storing set up last month.  I love my room now.  Everything I used on a daily basis is within arm's reach.  I would live here if I could. 

Click here for her full post over at her blog.

Monica Gale's Craft Room

Monica has a beautiful and very funtional craft room - It's perfect, I could move in tomorrow! I think one of things I like most is that it is so pretty, uses everyday purchases and recycled objects but it looks prefessionally finished.

Be sure to pop over to her blog, My many many passions where she has also posted a small video tour of her room.


This is her stamp library, stored on DVD shelving



Recycled bedroom furniture help create a pretty workstation


Fabulous punch storage, its an Ikea metal shoe rack!


I hope you enjoy your visit to Monica's craft room, be sure and let her know you visited from Crafty Storage.

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!

Jan's creative room

Today we feature Jan's room. It is pack full of lovely stuff and all is quite well organized. I strongly recommend to check her blog post for a lot more photos! Click here for more photos.

Paula's craft room

Paula's craft room is 12ft x 12ft approx. 

Click here for more photos and ideas!

And click here to know more about her Promarker storage.

LeeAnn's new studio space

LeeAnn over at Flowerbug's Inkspot has an amazing new crafty space, thanks to her DIY husband! Check out the area for her classes:

(all photos courtesy of LeeAnn at Flowerbug's Inkspot)

Don't you love that bright, cheery green and the crisp white cabinets? And notice the size? They combined two rooms into one, giving LeeAnn an amazing 30 x 15 feet. Dreamy!

Here's a close-up of her workspace. Look at all that storage!

LeeAnn also has several wonderful storage options for things like stamps:

Sizzix dies

Punches (featuring those handy Ikea Bygel rails!)

And my favourite, paper storage in a SHOE cabinet (Ikea's Stall). How utterly ingenious!

Head over to LeeAnn's blog for more details and many more photos. Make sure you tell her Crafty Storage sent you!

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Cardstock Storage

I love this clever cardstock Organization, never gets old. This one comes from Rachel.

Amy's Awesome Paper Storage Idea!

Amy over at Bearpaw Studios recently updated her crafts room with a bright and cheery colour scheme and new shelves. I love how everything has a place to live, but is within easy reach:

(photo courtesy of Amy at Bearpaw Studios)

Let's take a closer look at the paper storage unit on her desk:

(photo courtesy of Amy at Bearpaw Studios)

Looks great, doesn't it? Lots of room, colour-coordinated, and allows you to see all your colours at once. Want to know where to get one? Make it! In Amy's own words:

"We took an unfinished cube from Michaels and used 3/8" square wooden spacers and foam poster board. I used a 3" piece of grosgrain ribbon to show which color is in that space. Now I can see each color (and how much I have so I can keep a better inventory.)"

I just love the idea of using ribbon to indicated the colour as well as make it easy to pull out the paper you need. Thanks for the awesome idea Amy!

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Bridget's studio

I will let Bridget explain her studio.

My studio (I love calling it that) is actually in a guest bedroom. I

gave myself a budget of $75. I wanted a work-place that was organized

and fun. I was really struggling with my sickers and my stamps,

photos and misc. stuff! I would just stack everything on paper trays,

and it wasn't pretty!

There was an old brown dresser in the guest bedroom. My in-laws

purchased it at an auction for less than $15 about twenty years ago.

It has huge, deep drawers. I spent about $12 sanding and re-painting

it. I'm using the top drawer for stamping, and the middle drawer has

my current scrapbooking albums.

I use the utility cart for storing stickers. I have them divided up

by theme. I use the hanging wall cabinet for ribbons and storing

photos that are waiting to be cropped. I also have two pink

containers. One pink container holds all my adhesives, while the

other holds all the little tickets and hotel room keys I manage to

collect. The caddy on the dresser holds scissors, scrapbooking

markers, hole punches, brads and my corner rounder.

This is her blog.

Beth's clever ideas and studio

IKEA curtain wire across the top and magnetic knife holders display cards and projects.

Jet Max cube system and a pegboard from Walmart.

I love this ink pad holder foam core ink pad holder that her daughter made for $2 and some glue sticks. Above it hangs a screw etc caddy from the hardware store.

Her handy daughter made Beth these racks to hold the stamp sets. After seeing something similar at IKEA for 20 dollars for 6 feet, she made them out of wood, stained and mounted them for 20 dollars total!

After losing more than a few sheets of cardstock to fading from the sun, Beth asked her friend Larissa to make a "cozie" for the paper racks.

Click here for more photos and explanation. And here for the main page of Beth's blog.