Craft Organisation

Seeing that I have been too busy lately to make cards, I want to share some of my favourite blogs that I follow.  The first one is Beautiful Craft Spaces.  Rochelle shares photos of beautiful craft rooms and some lovely craft organising ideas.  Happy browsing!  Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Promarker storage

Yay, it is almost weekend!

I have been wanting to share my Promarker storage system with you and just haven't got around to taking photos yet.  So here it is.  My hubby, Neil made it for me over a few months after I saw something similar at Amanda.  We have such a busy household and it took him a while to get the holes drilled for each pen.  I am thrilled with it and he has made extra layers so that I can add to it when I need to.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Storage ideas

Here is another storage idea. I store my A4 paper in a filing cabinet but the 30 x 30cm scrapbooking paper and card does not fit. So I got hold of these magazine holders which are ideal for storing the larger size. I file the plain cardstock separately from the patterned papers. The patterned paper is a lot thinner and needs to be stored horizontally not vertically like these ones.

Sorry I have not been posting much lately, hopefully things will quieten down soon. My children start exams next week and they are still too young to study on their own, so I am re-doing Grade 5 and 6 again.

We are back in the middle of winter in Cape Town - it is great stamping weather if you have some spare time! Hope you have a great week!

Storage ideas

My ribbons and lace used to be a nightmare! Some were on spools, others were in boxes, others were crumpled up in packets and I was fed up that I could not see my stock at a glance and I sometimes the ribbon was too creased to use on a card.

I found this fabulous idea and implemented it immediately. It started off as 1 hanger and has progressed to 2 as I sorted through the piles. You take a plastic hanger, select a sturdy good quality one as they get surprisingly heavy. I tore a white towel into strips about 1 inch wide. Glue the one end to the hanger and use a peg to keep it in place, then wind the strip around the crossbar using glue to secure it until you reach the other end of the crossbar, glue the end of the towel well and peg it until the glue is dry. Remove the pegs the next day. You need large safety pins for the next step, take your strip of ribbon and hang it onto the pin, if the strip is long, fold it in half and put the pin through the fold so that you have loose ends to cut ribbon from. I store my ribbon by colour, each pin contains 1 colour and the ribbon is about 1.5 metres long. The hangers hang on a large cuphook in the side of one of my cupboards but you could easily hang them behind a door. I made large plastic bags to protect them from dust with heavy duty plastic and a bag sealer.

When I am working and need a specific colour I simple unclip the pin and take it to my desk to choose the ribbon and snip the piece off. I no longer have crumpled ribbon and have to look for ribbon in numerous places which was a huge frustration for me as I use ribbon/lace on most of my cards and have a big collection. I also never buy less than 3 metres at a time because I may want to use it for a large swap and there is nothing worse than having too little!

I hope this idea will help you if you are struggling with ribbon storage. Have a great stamping day!