Cyclin' Sunday - Storage solutions

Hi Dolly Here

I thought – as I seem to have spent the last few days reorganising my scrap room – I’d post about storage ideas and hope that some of our regular readers will comment with ideas of their own too.

If, like me, you seem to acquire stash at a somewhat alarming rate, then I am sure that you too are always on the look out for storage ideas that work for you.

I am lucky to have a dedicated scrap room, but it is small and so best use of space is key. I love finding cheap storage that certainly wasn’t meant for scrapping but works really well for crafters. Here are a couple of my ideas.

I love ribbons and have a Pull-eaze for some of them, but this is a storage idea I have found works for me. I bought three kitchen roll holders and a mess of book rings and little zip lock bags. The total spend was probably under £10.00

I then put the ribbons into little bags – many of the bags have two different ribbons in. I punched holes in the bottom and threaded about 10 little bags onto each book ring and then popped them round the central spindle.

They are really easy to get to. You can see them all and they look pretty in their colour coordinated way too.

The ribbons are rolled rather than folded, but if they are a little kinked when I want to use them I just hold them for a few seconds over the bulb in my desk top lamp and they straighten perfectly.

Another neat thing I use is a pill box  OK so in all honesty I have several of them! The pill organiser was 99c on holiday from Walmart and each little section seals perfectly. It works well for brads and eyelets and buttons. This happens to be the brad box (well one of them!)

 

These are also really useful as they have moveable compartments. They were from a local DIY store and have handles –which I removed – so they can be carried really easily. I have 4 of the carriers making 16 trays/drawers in total and Nigel wall mounted them for me. They are incredibly useful.

  Inside you can use them for whatever you need and the dividers move to make either 24 small sections or fewer if you make them doubles or triples.

 

And I have yet to see if this last idea works or not, but it cost very little. I have a LOT (and I mean a lot) of clear stamps. I have tried lots of different ‘systems’ and not found one that works for me. The most recent failure was a 7 Gypsies carousel which looked gorgeous but took up so much room and irritated the heck out of me. So this weekend I bought two pretty boxes and have sorted out all of the stamps in them. I made card dividers to categorise the stamps and made sure the boxes were big enough to store even the Autumn leaves sets that were still in their original packaging and almost never got used as they were not easily accessible. The smaller box stores the small stamp sheets like Hero Arts etc. and the large box takes even the Autumn leaves sets. Oh and they do, of course, have matching lids.

I am, however, still a  little sceptical and will wait and see if this method works. I have more pictures of various storage things in a photo album on my blog here 

Here at IACW we would love to hear your storage ideas so do share what you have found works.

 

 

Comments

[Eleanor]

I love the ribbon baggie bookring idea, and that the bags open from this end, as it were, so can stay on the spike. Ingenious.
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[Nicky]

I love looking at other people's craft storage idea, I SO need to do mine more thoroughly. One idea I have is this one: http://creativeflourishes.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/craft-storage-idea.html

[Lynne]

Great ideas, I really like your ribbon storage and look forward to hearing if the box storage with dividers works for the clear stamps.

[Val]

Hi. I have similar boxes to yout pin boxes. A friend of mine gave me a box which when he goes fishing he uses for floats, hooks etc. and you can move the dividers around for different size sections. These are very useful. Val x