Glenda's studio

This studio of Glenda I love for several reasons. But Two main ones: one the great windows which bring amazing light and views, and two, this is a work in studio. Things are practical and efficient, not just to look pretty!

I like that empty space around the working area.

And those sea views...

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Carol Cel Scrap room tour

Carol's scrap room is a lovely space, full of craft stash and good ideas on how to store it all.

I love this media unit that opens up and all those Stampin Up goodies are there.

It fits a few avid crafters!

You can see a lot more photos on Carol's bloge, here.

Michelle Short's clear stamp storage

You can see video 2 on Michelle's blog here.

Brandy's Craft Room

Brandy from Brandycards.com shares her craft room in this video.

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.

Angela's Stamp and Scrapbook Room

Angela has a very neat and organised Stamp and Scrapbook Room


And some fantastic stamp shelves, made with with cap molding



For the full tour and more photos click here

Sarah Youde's Craft Room

Sarah has shared the making of her fabulous craft room

She shares pictures from building works through to her beautiful work area. She also has some great storage ideas:



Look at these gorgeous sweetie jars


And these Ikea spice jars


Believe me she has a lot more to share, like how she stores her chipboard alphas, all of her different ribbons, her acrylic and rubber stamps, click here and enter the gallery to see more.

Jennifer's Craft Room

Jennifer has a room in her basement which has her craft room in it, its been beautifully finished and as you will see, she has some great storage ideas, click here to have a look.



I just love this shelf, its actually an antique drawer turned on its side! It holds Jennifer's wood stamps and PTI ribbon. It used to also hold her PTI stamp sets in CD cases until she recently changed how she stores them. (See bottom of this post)


Just look at this narrow depth drawer she stores her punches in, she only has a few!


Look at these gorgeous trifle bowls, one bowl holds small ribbon bits, another holds flowers, and the last holds buttons.


If you do visit Jennifers blog, be sure to have a look at her Best Scrapbook Shelf in this post where she stores most of her cardstock, inks, emblishments etc and her clear stamp storage in this post which is just fantastic and I'm going to have a go at myself.

Suzanne's Stamping room

Love it! I will let Suzanne explain it.


All my cabinets except those on the right wall are built on casters and actually roll into different configurations so that I can change the floor plan when I have friends over for classes.  The walls are a pale yellow and the floor is a dark black hardwood.  All trim and cabinets are white. The tile on the cabinet tops are 16 inch floor tile and are not fastened down so that I can change the configuration of the cabinets as I like.  The words on the walls are vision, art, dream, and imagination. I hope you enjoy looking at my space - I have enjoyed showing it off.
Suzanne


Looking in from the door:

My main work area:

That tall stack you see in the first photo:

On the walls to the right of the door:

Further down the wall to the right of the door:

Closeup of the Caboodle wall to the right of the door:

More detail about the Caboodle wall items and a different viewpoint:

To the left of the door, behind my chair:

Close up view of the left wall:

Closer view of the window wall with some labels:

Even more detail of window wall:

Amy's unmounted stamp storage

Unmounted stamps have quickly become an extremely popular choice with stampers. The lack of a wooden block means they're inexpensive to ship, extremely portable, and take up a lot less space.

Of course, that means you need a way to store them! Amy over at Prairie Paper and Ink has created a video that highlights the product she uses to store her unmounted stamps:



You can find the same type of stamp storage boxes at many online stores, including the following:

Store More Stamps by Little Monkeys

C.C. Designs Stamp Binder Boxes

Gina K Designs Binder Boxes

Taylored Expressions Mini Binder Boxes

Posted by Jessica

Patty Kumfers creative space

This is Scrapbook Pattys creative space. It's such a serene area. I really liked it when I saw it and thought she had some great ideas.

It's got an awesome set-out



and some very groovy vinyl decals on her cupboards



but the best part is her great organisation ideas




So go check it out here
and here

posted by Jacque

Rubber Stamp Storage

As most of you stampers know, storing stamps takes alot of space something most of us have very little of. This storage solution came from many sources and forums etc. Jennifer McGuire gave me the idea for the holders. She has since just changed her system. But that is what Crafty Storage is about, using methods that work for you and if they don't change to one that does. I just took and modified it to work for me.

This is not a project that can be done in a day. This did take me a few weeks and I prepared myself for that. Since I kept my stamps by type the first sort was easy.Sentiments, objects, birthdays etc. I then stamped each image on a 8 1/2 x 11 inch piece of cardstock. I then began to unmount my wood stamps by category. I put the stamps in the microwave for about 30 seconds. I then would remove the rubber from the wood and set aside.(There a numerous sites that can give you specific directions, just use a search engine and type unmounting wood stamps)

When I was done with the unmounting I used Alene's Tack over and over glue and put on the back of my unmounted stamps with a foam brush. I let them dry overnight then I used acrlyic sheets as a backing for the stamp. Then I used the Loose Leaf binder sheets from Office Depot to slide the sheets into. See below.



I then labeled each holder Objects 1, Objects 2, Sentiments 2, Sentiments 3, etc. This allows my system to grow because each new binder holder becomes the newest number and gets added the inventory notebook.

I then placed my stamped sheets into a notebook and used dividers to section them. I placed the stamped sheets in a sheet protector. I then used post its on the stamped images and then I counted how many object 1's I had and printed everything on the round labels that were made for the printer. I used a fun font. I then placed the round sticker on each image.






To keep my stamps sorted and organized I covered manilla file folders with decorative paper. I ran the tags thru my computer and then used my Nestabilities for the labels.

So when I get ready to stamp I pull out my Inventory Notebook and go to the category I need and I look at my choices and then I see the stamp is in Objects 2 then I pull the Objects 2 out and grab my stamp.

No more digging thru stamps. Easy peasy! Again remember that it was a long process but the results are so worth it. Please feel free to visit my blog