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 Transformation | Ange Lee's Ikea MOPPE drawers

From something like this:

To this:

LOVE it!

Check it out in the full step by step post on Ange Lee's blog posts here.

Mira Jurecka's Studio

Mira Jurecka has shared her studio in the Citrus Twist Kits blog.

I love that everything has a place! Beautiful.

Click on any of the photos or here to see the full post and explanations.

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!

Mayholic Craft room

May Sukyong Park craft room is lovely. Really like the layout and elements.

Click here for more photos.

Expedit Kallax inserts by Stamp-n-Storage

I think I need a few of them!

Judy Alonso's scrap room

Judy Alonso from Spain shares her scrap room on her blog.

Click here for a lot more photos!

Jo's craft room

Jo from The Crafty Nomad blog has shared her craft room which is full of luscious fabrics and threads.

I particularly love the old sewing machine in the window. And the island bellow.

Celine Navarro's Project Life Storage ideas

Lately this blog should be called "Ikea" Crafty Storage, non the less, Celine Navarro's ideas on how to she stores her Project Life are quite good.

One clue, the name of the Ikea acrylic strorage is GODMORGON.

The Expedit saga

I have just posted on my personal blog what I have been able to found out about IKEA's Expedit saga. 

Bad news, it is official it's discontinued.

Good news, introducing the Kallax:

Marleene Craft Room

Marleene has a beautiful Craft room in what I think is her attic. A lot of IKEA elements, including the favourite of Crafty Storagers, the Raskog trolley and a STENSTORP kitchen island.

I strongly recommend to visit her gallery over at Two Peas in a Bucket, but I would like to highlight two great ideas:

A corner kitchen unit that rotates, perfect to utilise 100% of the space.

And that she uses a medium sized square Expedit (UK) unit over a Hemmes (UK) chest of drawers , both from IKEA.

 

Sari Hanninen Craft room

I love this room because its a small space well organised.

(Plus you get to hear how to pronounce IKEA's RÅSKOG (USA - UK) trolley by a Finnish person living in Sweeden, I love how Nordic languages sound!)

Sari's blog can be found here.
Enjoy

Craft Storage Most Popular | Alex - from IKEA - the most used craft storage unit?

When I recently had a look through my Pinterest Crafty Storage board to see what kept reappearing.

And the most popular item was the Alex drawer unit from IKEA. (Links for the UK IKEA site, search Alex on the main page of IKEA)

There is of course the tall thin version as well.

There are literally hundreds of units used by crafters and artists, and I cant feature them all but here there are some of my favourite photos of the Alex used to store crafts. ( Click on the photos for the link to their blog post for more photos and/or explanation!)

Anna's is one of my favourite as she has creatively remove the top two drawers to create an extra open tall drawer at the top.

Amy makes it a lovely sewing area desk unit.

I like how inside all these drawers there are extra organisers for smaller items, idea from Caprice.

Anita's used three of them to create a working island. Perfect for those die cutting machine as well as trimmer area.

Ikea Hackers has also a step by step tutorial on how to decoupage with old maps one of these popular units.

There is even a Flickr gallery (highly recommended) and a Hero Arts Flickr discuss groups on the Height and depth of them, Alex wide here and the tall and thin here. 

Or a Splitcoasters Thread on them which again I highly recommend to visit as it discusses the height of the drawers.

Kristina Werner has even done a video on hers:



Well, I have got one of those units and I have to say it lives up to the hype!

Heart Handmade Uk Craft Room Tour

Claire from Heart Handmade Uk Craft Room Tour has shared her gorgeous space on her blog.

Click here for far more photos and Claire's explanation.

Christine Emberson's craft room

This is what Christine says about her space limitations:

Unfortunately I do not have a window but I made up for it with bright wallpaper on one wall and keeping all furnishings nice and light.

So fear not, no matter how small or dark your space is you can always make it look better.

You can read more about Christine on her blog here and here.

Elizabeth's Craft Room Video Tour - Part 1

You can see part 2 here on Elizabeth's blog.

Ali Edwards Office part 3

For those following who like Office/craft areas there is an update on the progress on her are by Ali Edwards on her blog.

 Click here for the link.

IHeart Organizing DIY paint project

From this pretty white Ikea unit:

To this really really pretty:

Lovely, isn't?

Full post here.

Andrea's Studio

 Andrea submitted her studio a few weeks ago and immediately wanted to featured it but I wanted to do it properly so it has taken me a few weeks to find the time to do so.

The room is 11 x 10.

One thing I loved is that Andrea has a lot of tools that are usually hard to store but she has them out and ready to use without being an eye sore.

Like all the die cutting materials.

I love this trolley to store paper by colour.

You can see far more photos on Andrea's Flickr. Click here to go to there.