Wow!! This is such a great video. How did I miss it from way back in April 2020??? Your ideas are wonderful. I will certainly be trying several of them. I must say, you probably rarely ever get the chance to go back and see all the comments your viewers are making. But we could have an awesome group of crafter friends just among all the commenters here. I love so many of the ideas and we could combine our own ideas to answer commenters with tried and true solutions. I was reading Audre Gaer's comment and felt for her. I, too, have a sewing room...but am fortunate to have a little studio that used to be our boys' bedroom. I feel for her because she said she sold her 25 years collection of Threads magazine to make room for her paper crafting!! That's tough. I've been collecting them for ages. But I also love the answer Sandra S. shared about using her Fuse tool to customize her plastic sleeves for dies, etc. Good ideas in the comments here, too, as well as all of your ideas. I just love your videos. I've stopped watching a lot of videos because many of them aren't necessarily sharing techniques or creative ideas as much as promoting new product. Not that I never purchase anything...but I'd love to just use what I have, which is a roomful!!! And when I watch your videos, I try so many different things that I already have supplies for. Many of these supplies have only been used once because I don't think to use them all that much. I get so much out of every one of your videos!! Thanks!
I put my stencils, stamps and dies into binders. Organized into themes, dies are on magnetic sheets I buy (they’re actually magnetic duct covers that I cut to size I need), and then I slide dies and stamps into 8x11 page protectors. As needed l divide the page protectors by sewing them into 2-4 pockets carefully cutting open the tops of the pockets on the bottom half. I have half a doz binders full and it looks I need to start another one. I do love how you store your card stock. Will have to do that. So much easier to grab what you need then lifting pikes off to get the one near the bottom. And I have tons of cardboard magazine holders.
The area I need the most organisation with - just the bit between the floor & ceiling, followed closely by that between the four walls!!!!! My apologies, but I just couldn't resist that!!!!
For me it's the centre bit - there's currently a 4 storey 1:12 dolls house parked there on a large TV video unit so I have to shoehorn myself in now. I could do with teaching it to levitate near the ceiling, calling it down as and when whilst I renovate it....
Your ideas are great. Of your experiences are great especially to keep it clean. Organizing the stencils, never thought of putting them in a book. Yes fridge bins. They are great. Thank you much
I have to share my craft space with other household items, like files and home bookkeeping items. This series could be very valuable to me. I need to get busy!!
I had to take a break in the middle of watching this to quickly move my stencils into page protectors. I already have a binder where I store die cuts and stamped items I have cut out, waiting to go on cards (I buy a lot of doodlebug packs, so many die cuts!) and I love being able to page through and see what I’ve got. I don’t have many stencils but I forget I have them, so maybe this will help remind me to use them. I love having everything standing up, easy to access, ready to use. My problem area is half finished projects.
Sorry she didn't seem to have responded to you, but, from the description of your stash I'd say you have the makings of your own solution!! Get some large, cheap, 💲🌳 envelopes; compile some of your goodies (ephemerals, die cuts, papers, e'boss'g folders, WHATEVER‼) into each of, say, 3 - 6, and set yourself a time to make something out of the items in one of the envelopes. Impose upon a friend to participate. If wine is called for to git 'er dun, w h a t e v e r!! (Somewhere on Y.T. are videos wherein a few crafty friends send each "challenge" stashes. The envelopes contain the makings of some theme or other, and one of the gals pulls it together on their channel. A bit more "heat" than I'd want to submit MYself to, but, hey, it seems to unblock the creative juices!!) I, too, was having problems getting things to the "complete" stage, for several reasons (STILL do sometimes!!): A) I've been SO focused on making just THE right card for that special somebody that it takes me way too long to get started, so I lose time, shelve the project, and just buy a card; OR (B) even though I start a birthday card three wks in advance, my pickiness gets in the way of "getting there". So, again, I just buy one for THIS year, I get disgusted and shelve the whole thing. This year a good friend surprised me with the request that she, too, wanted to make greeting cards, but she's one who does NOT futz (!!), so, with her "git 'er dun!" work ethic we managed to make 5 cards in 7 1/2 Days!! That's not to say she's "cured" me of my nit-picky ways, but HER way gave me the JOY of actually COMPLETING a card!! Hope you, too, get to experience that feeling soon; m a y b e with some of my input?? 😉 Be well, Jo!!
I like the binder idea for stencils and foils. Organizing stamps, dies, and embossing folders by maker would be difficult to locate something. We prefer to sort by holiday and subject. Thx for sharing. 🌷
Great organizing hacks 😍 I don't have a place in my craftroom that needs organizing, yesterday I just finished spring cleaning & organizing my home & craftroom YAY. Now it's time to have fun creating lol ❤ thanks for sharing and happy crafting Hugs xx
I just subscribed to your channel, I look forward to your videos! I love how u organized everything ! 😁 My favorite is how you store your stencils, so genius! Thank you so much for sharing! Stay safe, healthy and positive! GOD bless you and your family! 🙏❤🇺🇸😊
Hi… Thanks for sharing your organization tips. I have a lot of stencils and keep most of them in 6x8 Simple Stories or Project Life Albums as well as a magazine file box (like your card stock is in) that has my 9x12 and 8x8 stencils in but some of them are stored with that brand’s stamps (PaperArtsy, Art by Marlene, Tim Holtz)… anyway… I love the categories you separated yours into. Although I tend to file by company/designer I love the idea of the categories at least for the bulk of the rest of the stencils… I like the circle cut card stock indicator as well… I’ll have to rewatch this again when I’m in an organizing mood because there was another idea I really liked that escapes me at the moment. LOL … Have a great day! 🙂
Just started organize my craft room with this whole pandemic time. I have collected stamps since I was 8 (long time) and have been lucky enough to work in art type positions where I received a lot of sample products so any idea are great!
The problem for me is organizing 1/2 way done cards-you know the ones that just need one more thing to make it complete. Also along the same line, What do you do with images that you have already stamped and colored in? Great videos.
I have two HUGE thick binders full of stencils stored like this! This works great foe me! I need ink pad organization , steel rule die organization, I don’t have a ton of them but I have some and I do use them so I want easy access to them . and small “bits” organization ( like pots of glitter, stuff for shakers , the metal embellishments like brads, and the ideology embellishments ...right now these are in the We R Memory Keepers jars that screw one jar on the bottom of another together to form a tower, wirh just one lid on the top jar. This is such a pain when I need to use something, not to mention , where do I put all the different size and height “jar towers” ? and I have a huge number jars of stuff, like acrylic mediums, texture pastes, jars of crackle paste, that are all,sizes ( I’m thinking drawers wouid work for this) I also need some storage for the wood mounted stamps ( I’m planning to take them off the wood but for now, I need storage for them) ( and I’m thinking small drawers wouid work for these too, just smaller ones. Right now these stamps are in cheap and tacky looking plastic drawer units. I’d also like some small desk organizer for the tools I use constantly ( like bone folder, scissors, several pens, pick up,tool, ) if the desk organizer is too big it ends up being a catch all for stiff that doesn’t need to live on my desk , but I can’t find another place for it! One goal of my organization is to get rid of all the “ make do” cheap and tack solutions . I’ve just grabbed whatever storage solution that looked like it wouid do and the result is a bunch of different colored, mis matched baskets and plastic bins. Ugh! All these things I use regularly and I need to have easy access to. They don’t have to be in view , but I need to be able to get to these supplies . I’m planning a trip to IKEA and the container store and as a birthday gift I can buy what organization I need
W O W !! You enumerated quite a list, but didn’t tell us about your craft space. Do you have a dedicated room for your crafting? Did you get the birthday present you wanted / needed for all your craft items?!? Hope so. 😉👍. Be well!
great way to store your paper and love the idea of buying the sample paper so you don not end up up paper you don not use that's my problem, so i'm giving it to friends.
I am struggling with my clearstamps and dies organization. I use plastic sleeves from avery elle in three sizes and since I switched from sorting by size to sorting by themes it is horrible to go through the sleeves, the small ones often slip through my fingers without been seen. So I will change all sleeves to the big ones. I think I will make them myself with the fusetool. The dies that belong to a stampset will stay as is in the same sleeve on a magnetic sheet but the other ones will be stored in my new art bin box that will arrive tomorrow or next year 😂 (30.12.) The clear sleeves that are now popping out of their box will find then enough space to dont have me to worry about squeezing clearstamps. I hope my organization will satisfy me then. Now I am not happy at all.
I have mine done like yours but my room is a mess. After I do a set of cards it’s crazy then I have to reclean. A video on how to craft without a mess (if possible) would be great.
Great video. Very useful. In terms of organizing your stamps.... why by company vs by theme? I am a scrapbooker as well as a cardmaker. The hardest thing for me to keep organized is chipboard, die cuts, stickers... basically those kinds of embellishments.
I’m in the middle of a move so I get to reorganize. It is so overwhelming. I started as a scrapbooked and have added cardmaking and planning. My style has also changed significantly. I have so much stuff that just needs to go but I don’t know where!!
@@hilarypeterbishop959 Yup! F.b. has a place to post either certain items for sale, or possibly even a Garage Sale kind of thing. Some of the Stampin’Up ladies in the Twin Cities area have just that kind of thing periodically, as they N E E D to make room for the next season’s offerings!
These are great ideas and I have used some of them in my own variation. The thing I have trouble organizing is paper scraps. I just went through a bunch yesterday and cut them down to usable shapes but just have them in an envelope and plastic bag now.
I found an old photo album at a thrift store that was originally made to hold panorama photos. Each page is divided into horizontal thirds making it easy to slide in scraps that are less than 3.5 x 9.5 inches. Each pocket holds quite a few pieces so I have them organized by color/pattern. Hope you don't mind me jumping in here... Have a great day!
I see no need to go to any greater lengths than what you’ve already come up with! The plastic bag idea is wonderful, IF it’s clear! That way, it’s a fast way of determining if you have what you need as a scrap, OR if you need to chop into a full size sheet. 😉👍
Greetings, Justine. Can you please share which bin you use for your double-wide stamp storage. The only one I found has a divider in the middle, and that thin piece of plastic keeps me from fitting a double row of stamps. These things are too pricey to stab around trying to find the right one, only to miss by "that much". Thanks for your help! I love your videos.
Great video! My challenge is using wall space for storage. Maybe I am apprehensive but I think it’s an area that I should use in my small space. Would love some organizing tips.
We gain so much storage space when we "move upward" and store things on walls. I used stacking wall cabinets stacked 2 high with doors on the fronts when I started redoing my craft room. The area above my large craft table will have the 3 ft. high, narrow bookcase I bought for jars of paint storage and the wall on the right side (it's along a wall and the corner wall) will have shelves fro storage. Underneath the craft table are 2 filing cabinets for even more storarge. There are also the stacking bins with pull out drawers to hold my Many, many paint brushes. When you open up the sets of wood type stacking units that run the length of the back wall in my art room - they are filled with the plastice pull out 3 drawers that will hold 8.5 X 11 card stock and 12 X 12 cardstock, some hold stamps that are sorted by seasons, etc & now as I phase out of owning a Lot of stamps, I will be using the bins to store resin and clay molds that I make to add to furniture, mirrors and frames - getting into the anthropology look. Hope this helps - Happy Stacking to gain more storage space. Also - I have several work stations/ tables and try to keep things within reach that I use in each area. I paint furniture, sew and do card making/ scrapbooking. I even am creating a special work area - on a rolling table for my cricut, easy press, etc. If you can find any used rolling tables with drop down sides or even narrow tables on wheels = they are awesome!!! You can pull them out, use them and tuck them back into a space to give you more space to work with. Happy Crafting!!!
I tap the tip of the reinker lid onto the color pad it belongs to so that I can tell at a glance what color is in the bottle. Every now and then you may have to reink the tip to make sure the color doesn't rub off or fade.
I need help purging! I simply have too much! I use the dining nook in my apartment but have to store bins in my daughter’s room, ton ‘o stamps in my bedroom, and random stuff in my living room -help! Love your craft room!
I have been organizing my stamps and my dies. What I need to work on is labeling the containers better so I know where each stamp is within each stamp set. I keep a copy of each stamp in a book but the book needs to be updated. I like the idea of keeping your stencils in a binder, I think the dry emboss folders could be stored that way also..
wow - impressed - my room is tiny and a nightmare - no excuse during lock down to sort it :( - but will get some metal ikea mag holders - when we and they are allowed to open
I had a beautifully organized sewing room and then I started card making. I have been using every bit of horizontal space to store my craft c..p. I even sold my entire collection (25 years) of Threads magazines to make room. I have a few questions about your foil. How do you decide how big to cut your foil that comes on rolls to maximize use. How have you separated your Minc foil from your hot foil for the Foil Quill which comes in small sizes and 12 inch wide pieces.
My crafting stash is pretty small so i only have a 5 drawer plastic rolling cart for adhesives, paper, scraps, embellishments, and cutting implements. My basket holds stamps, stenciles, paper cutter, scoreboard and pen sets. A flat box holds all my inks and embossing powders, placed on top of the rolling cart.
I would say my biggest problem right now is organizing my stamps and dies. I have so many and they are just piling up. I like the idea of the clear bins and storing them upright in folders so they can be flipped through.
Great organization tips, Justine! I was wondering, do you find that your cardstock when stored vertically bends sometimes? I tried that once and that is what happened to me, but I didn't have them in the protector sheets though so that may have been my problem.
I need help with my entire craft room. 🤦♀️ I just invested in a great shelf system and took everything out of my craft room. I unfortunately haven’t been it all back in yet so my poor boys have lost a chunk of their play room. 😂
Regarding foils...mine are in tubes...do you take them out of the tubes and cut them down to fit the pocket sleeves or that is like scraps? How do you differentiate between hot and cold foils?
My biggest organization issue is remembering my stash. I don't need three magic picture changers from three different companies. The same goes for cute swans, or typewriters. As much as I wish I could, I can't afford it nor do I have the room. So I'd like not to accidentally buy this stamp or die set only to find I have something pretty similar. Maybe using a phone app? Idk, I think I'll go check out the containers for nuvo drops, those look amazing. TFS!
There is an app called Color My Life where you can enter everything you own with lots of tags and pictures and details. After entering all your supplies, you can do a search and see what you have at a glance so you don’t buy two!! Ask me how I know!!
I’m sitting here in the middle of my crafting mountain, trying to find the strength to start. AHHHHHHHH! Now I know I’m in trouble, I just got to the ....storing card in folders in a box...l looked around the mountain to my card storage and I have the same Ikea storage boxes but each 1 only holds 1 colour, they are all full to exploding with different thicknesses, textures and slight variations + a pocket for scraps....I have 20 of them! I think I may be a craft hoarder.
I have a number of lawn fawn critter stamp sets, and some of the dies are tiny. Now when I get a set of coordinating dies, as I clip them apart I also write some initials on the back of each die, just something I will remember that the die goes with one mouse set or another. I use a sharpie, and sometimes it wears off then I just write it again. Also, when I get a set that has tiny similar images (like the tiny friends sets) I match the die to the image once. Then I number the image and the die the same number so that they are easier to match up.
Keeping my tabletop organized. I am not a one project girl. I find that I have 2, 3, or 4 projects on my desk and I go back and forth from different projects. I don’t like to put up cuz I know I will go back to that project in a day or 2 or 3. So putting/cleaning up is not an option for me. I want it there at my finger tips or in close proximity when I am ready to go back to that project.
I'm obviously not Justine, but I was struggling with this too. I just made a special area on my craft desk devoted to projects in progress though and it's kept my desk clear. This is what I did to set mine up. I limit myself to 3 projects at any given time. There's 3 components to each project in progress: a large document holder, a clipboard, and a pencil pouch. The clipboard and pencil pouch are stored in a magazine sorter (like Justine used for her colored card stock). These two items and the sorter itself give me space for the bulky items while also keeping things like alcohol markers or colored pencils that I might have picked out just for the project separated from each other. There's additional room in the magazine holder though for additional items if needed. Each document envelope holder has a zipper and can easily fit a 9 x 12 piece of paper. Each is labeled with a project number (1, 2, or 3). This is for storing paper materials like card fronts and stamps and dies. If the zipper is closed, I can see the head of it at the top and know there's a project waiting for me. If the zipper is open, I can't see the head of it at the top and know I can come up with a new project. This visual helps me remember what I'm working on and not get overwhelmed by starting things but never finishing them. The clipboards I have only because I tape watercolor pieces to them to work on. The area all this takes up is a little under 6 inches wide but it also includes mats that I put on my desk to keep it clean. I store it all vertically. Perhaps setting up an area in your craft space to hold onto your projects your working on would help you keep your space clean too? Happy crafting!
You said your stencil notebook was 8x8, do you just buy regular size page protectors and cut them down or do they make a smaller size page protector? I don’t think I’ve ever seen them if so. Thank you in advance 🤗
F.Y.I.: My 12” x12”s p a p e r I have stashed in clear page protectors, currently in those large plastic boxes sold at our craft stores. I’d very much like to move them into scrapbook albums, so it’d be easier to flip through them, but i’d want to store them spines up on an adequately deep shelf. As it is, I mostly use solid color cardstock, because the plastic boxes have gotten a bit heavy to regularly pull down and peruse. My 8.5” x 11”s are mostly corralled in a plain ol’ cardboard box that was gifted to me by an ex-Stampin’Up rep. They fit in there snugly, so I don’t have any issues with curling. Embossing folders doesn’t seem to be much of a problem for me since they’re only one theme (unlike “STAMP SETS” 😖 😵💫‼️). I was lucky (smart?) enough to have purchased several boxes, originally designed to store dress patterns, from Hancock Fabrics back in the day. (These are, in essence, half the size of a “banker’s box”). In one, I have, so far, managed to stash everything I have related to “embossing”, both embossing folders and the items I have pertaining to heat embossing, except the heat gun, which I just can’t get shoe-horned in 🥴 🤭 ! Same treatment for my clear stamps, but I H AT E leaving each of those in their sets, as there’s NO way to know that a darling little fairy is in with a set of flowers, etc.!! Wood mounts are another thing, but I’ll be demounting them and filing them “like with like”.
Good morning Justine. The second to the last shot where you showed the Nuvo drops up side down in your drawer,where did you get the holders. Thank you for your videos.
Thank goodness someone asked. I would love to get an idea on storing embellishments. There's so many categories such as; stickers, 3D stickers, gems. Flowers and their styles. Ribbons bows. Those I've made myself. Ephemera. Vellum. Borders. And so many sizes of within so many more categories. If I go by theme ...or just size. It's so hard. HELP plz
That would be tough. I don’t really own any of those things anymore. I just make them if I need them but I don’t stock up anymore because I found I just don’t use them.
I have trouble with my bigger acrilic paints like the amsterdam /liquitex/... tubes and my zero wast & handmade texture tools I use for mixedmedia and gelliplates.
Probably my biggest problem is all the miscellaneous stuff - boxes full of kits that really kind of need to stay together, like Hero Arts kits that sometimes include stamps, dies, stencils, ink, paper (all coordinated colors) and sometimes some add-ons as well. In addition to this is all the tools like ribbon cutters, fusing machine, photo props, shot box, foiled cardstock, patterned paper pads, backdrops for shot box, hot foil machine, cold foil machine, foils in rolls, and I have one whole shelf of Anna Griffin kits, patterned paper, dies, etc. For example, I have a plastic box for my props but most everything is just on a shelf and looks messy. Any suggestions?
Organizing my papers/paper pads is likely the first thing to "explode" in my craft room. I started keeping scraps in a small two drawer file folder organized my color/theme. I struggle with storing my 12×12 sheets.
As I don’t have a great deal of space, I have to be organised, but I have two 6” square box of random backgrounds and half completed projects...they are always on my desk and untidy!
I’m worried I’ve mixed many of my word stamps (organized like with like) and wonder if this will cause me issues if I sell my cards. I was just going to do angel stamps on cards that last k like Stampin’ up! stamps. What are everyone’s thoughts?
These are great ideas! I am currently setting up my craft area, so these are welcome and timely for me. My biggest challenge is organizing wood mounted stamps.
I have quite a few wood mounted stamps my daughter in law got me at a yard sale. I got rid of a few I knew I would not use, but the rest are displayed up high on 2 skinny shelves in my room. They look cute up there, and I like how they look!
My entire craft room is a mess. I need to purge but struggle with how to clear out. I've donated, sold and unfortunately just tossed. Once i clear out, i believe i can organize. I also struggle with what items i truly need out on my desk and what just needs to be close by.
Wow!! This is such a great video. How did I miss it from way back in April 2020??? Your ideas are wonderful. I will certainly be trying several of them. I must say, you probably rarely ever get the chance to go back and see all the comments your viewers are making. But we could have an awesome group of crafter friends just among all the commenters here. I love so many of the ideas and we could combine our own ideas to answer commenters with tried and true solutions. I was reading Audre Gaer's comment and felt for her. I, too, have a sewing room...but am fortunate to have a little studio that used to be our boys' bedroom. I feel for her because she said she sold her 25 years collection of Threads magazine to make room for her paper crafting!! That's tough. I've been collecting them for ages. But I also love the answer Sandra S. shared about using her Fuse tool to customize her plastic sleeves for dies, etc. Good ideas in the comments here, too, as well as all of your ideas. I just love your videos. I've stopped watching a lot of videos because many of them aren't necessarily sharing techniques or creative ideas as much as promoting new product. Not that I never purchase anything...but I'd love to just use what I have, which is a roomful!!! And when I watch your videos, I try so many different things that I already have supplies for. Many of these supplies have only been used once because I don't think to use them all that much. I get so much out of every one of your videos!! Thanks!
I put my stencils, stamps and dies into binders. Organized into themes, dies are on magnetic sheets I buy (they’re actually magnetic duct covers that I cut to size I need), and then I slide dies and stamps into 8x11 page protectors. As needed l divide the page protectors by sewing them into 2-4 pockets carefully cutting open the tops of the pockets on the bottom half. I have half a doz binders full and it looks I need to start another one. I do love how you store your card stock. Will have to do that. So much easier to grab what you need then lifting pikes off to get the one near the bottom. And I have tons of cardboard magazine holders.
The area I need the most organisation with - just the bit between the floor & ceiling, followed closely by that between the four walls!!!!! My apologies, but I just couldn't resist that!!!!
For me it's the centre bit - there's currently a 4 storey 1:12 dolls house parked there on a large TV video unit so I have to shoehorn myself in now. I could do with teaching it to levitate near the ceiling, calling it down as and when whilst I renovate it....
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Too funny!!!!! I have problems with that area too! 😂
🤣🤣🤣 Me too!
Love the binder for the stencils. I will be doing that.
Your ideas are great. Of your experiences are great especially to keep it clean. Organizing the stencils, never thought of putting them in a book. Yes fridge bins. They are great. Thank you much
I have to share my craft space with other household items, like files and home bookkeeping items. This series could be very valuable to me. I need to get busy!!
I had to take a break in the middle of watching this to quickly move my stencils into page protectors. I already have a binder where I store die cuts and stamped items I have cut out, waiting to go on cards (I buy a lot of doodlebug packs, so many die cuts!) and I love being able to page through and see what I’ve got. I don’t have many stencils but I forget I have them, so maybe this will help remind me to use them. I love having everything standing up, easy to access, ready to use. My problem area is half finished projects.
Sorry she didn't seem to have responded to you, but, from the description of your stash I'd say you have the makings of your own solution!! Get some large, cheap, 💲🌳 envelopes; compile some of your goodies (ephemerals, die cuts, papers, e'boss'g folders, WHATEVER‼) into each of, say, 3 - 6, and set yourself a time to make something out of the items in one of the envelopes. Impose upon a friend to participate. If wine is called for to git 'er dun, w h a t e v e r!! (Somewhere on Y.T. are videos wherein a few crafty friends send each "challenge" stashes. The envelopes contain the makings of some theme or other, and one of the gals pulls it together on their channel. A bit more "heat" than I'd want to submit MYself to, but, hey, it seems to unblock the creative juices!!)
I, too, was having problems getting things to the "complete" stage, for several reasons (STILL do sometimes!!): A) I've been SO focused on making just THE right card for that special somebody that it takes me way too long to get started, so I lose time, shelve the project, and just buy a card; OR (B) even though I start a birthday card three wks in advance, my pickiness gets in the way of "getting there". So, again, I just buy one for THIS year, I get disgusted and shelve the whole thing. This year a good friend surprised me with the request that she, too, wanted to make greeting cards, but she's one who does NOT futz (!!), so, with her "git 'er dun!" work ethic we managed to make 5 cards in 7 1/2 Days!! That's not to say she's "cured" me of my nit-picky ways, but HER way gave me the JOY of actually COMPLETING a card!! Hope you, too, get to experience that feeling soon; m a y b e with some of my input?? 😉 Be well, Jo!!
Great tips! I love the way you label the different color paper!
I like the binder idea for stencils and foils. Organizing stamps, dies, and embossing folders by maker would be difficult to locate something. We prefer to sort by holiday and subject. Thx for sharing. 🌷
Great organizing hacks 😍 I don't have a place in my craftroom that needs organizing, yesterday I just finished spring cleaning & organizing my home & craftroom YAY. Now it's time to have fun creating lol ❤ thanks for sharing and happy crafting Hugs xx
Thanks Justine! I have many stamps that need to be organized. I purchased A LOT over the course of 2019 and need to get them organized.
Cool video! Thanks for the tips. Binder is good idea. Thanks for sharing.
Always need ideas for organizing, thanks.
I just subscribed to your channel, I look forward to your videos! I love how u organized everything ! 😁 My favorite is how you store your stencils, so genius! Thank you so much for sharing! Stay safe, healthy and positive! GOD bless you and your family! 🙏❤🇺🇸😊
Hi… Thanks for sharing your organization tips. I have a lot of stencils and keep most of them in 6x8 Simple Stories or Project Life Albums as well as a magazine file box (like your card stock is in) that has my 9x12 and 8x8 stencils in but some of them are stored with that brand’s stamps (PaperArtsy, Art by Marlene, Tim Holtz)… anyway… I love the categories you separated yours into. Although I tend to file by company/designer I love the idea of the categories at least for the bulk of the rest of the stencils… I like the circle cut card stock indicator as well… I’ll have to rewatch this again when I’m in an organizing mood because there was another idea I really liked that escapes me at the moment. LOL … Have a great day! 🙂
Great video! I absolutely love the way you personalized your dividers using the Foil Quill, it's just so pretty 🥰
I love your storage idea for foil sheets. Your video and Ardyth’s were helpful and I’ll be using a couple of them! Thanks so much!
Just started organize my craft room with this whole pandemic time. I have collected stamps since I was 8 (long time) and have been lucky enough to work in art type positions where I received a lot of sample products so any idea are great!
The problem for me is organizing 1/2 way done cards-you know the ones that just need one more thing to make it complete. Also along the same line, What do you do with images that you have already stamped and colored in? Great videos.
Thanks for sharing your ideas. I found them very helpful. Stay safe Justine. X
This was a great video, with some really great ideas. I am looking forward to your future organizing videos.
Thanks for the great tips, Justine!
I have two HUGE thick binders full of stencils stored like this! This works great foe me!
I need ink pad organization ,
steel rule die organization, I don’t have a ton of them but I have some and I do use them so I want easy access to them .
and small “bits” organization ( like pots of glitter, stuff for shakers , the metal embellishments like brads, and the ideology embellishments ...right now these are in the We R Memory Keepers jars that screw one jar on the bottom of another together to form a tower, wirh just one lid on the top jar. This is such a pain when I need to use something, not to mention , where do I put all the different size and height “jar towers” ?
and I have a huge number jars of stuff, like acrylic mediums, texture pastes, jars of crackle paste, that are all,sizes ( I’m thinking drawers wouid work for this)
I also need some storage for the wood mounted stamps ( I’m planning to take them off the wood but for now, I need storage for them) ( and I’m thinking small drawers wouid work for these too, just smaller ones. Right now these stamps are in cheap and tacky looking plastic drawer units.
I’d also like some small desk organizer for the tools I use constantly ( like bone folder, scissors, several pens, pick up,tool, ) if the desk organizer is too big it ends up being a catch all for stiff that doesn’t need to live on my desk , but I can’t find another place for it!
One goal of my organization is to get rid of all the “ make do” cheap and tack solutions . I’ve just grabbed whatever storage solution that looked like it wouid do and the result is a bunch of different colored, mis matched baskets and plastic bins. Ugh!
All these things I use regularly and I need to have easy access to. They don’t have to be in view , but I need to be able to get to these supplies .
I’m planning a trip to IKEA and the container store and as a birthday gift I can buy what organization I need
W O W !! You enumerated quite a list, but didn’t tell us about your craft space. Do you have a dedicated room for your crafting? Did you get the birthday present you wanted / needed for all your craft items?!? Hope so. 😉👍. Be well!
Great storage ideas. Can’t wait to see more.
Your craft room looks AMAZING ♡ this video. Thank you for sharing.
great way to store your paper and love the idea of buying the sample paper so you don not end up up paper you don not use that's my problem, so i'm giving it to friends.
Beautiful well organised♥️
Awesome storage ideas, I will use them for sure. Thanks Justine, stay safe💕
I am struggling with my clearstamps and dies organization. I use plastic sleeves from avery elle in three sizes and since I switched from sorting by size to sorting by themes it is horrible to go through the sleeves, the small ones often slip through my fingers without been seen. So I will change all sleeves to the big ones.
I think I will make them myself with the fusetool. The dies that belong to a stampset will stay as is in the same sleeve on a magnetic sheet but the other ones will be stored in my new art bin box that will arrive tomorrow or next year 😂 (30.12.)
The clear sleeves that are now popping out of their box will find then enough space to dont have me to worry about squeezing clearstamps. I hope my organization will satisfy me then. Now I am not happy at all.
Thanks for sharing --I picked up some tips.
I’m excited to see the organization videos. Love your videos❤️
I have mine done like yours but my room is a mess. After I do a set of cards it’s crazy then I have to reclean. A video on how to craft without a mess (if possible) would be great.
Dear Justine
I am getting sm foils and Tks for the organisation tip
I am watching your video as I am making magazine files out of cat food boxes to organize my card stock...made me laugh😁
You are recycling-way to go!
Great tips Justine! Can’t wait to hear more!!! ♥️
Great video. Very useful. In terms of organizing your stamps.... why by company vs by theme?
I am a scrapbooker as well as a cardmaker. The hardest thing for me to keep organized is chipboard, die cuts, stickers... basically those kinds of embellishments.
I was on a lot of design teams before so company made sense to me. That’s just how I know my stash, even now that I’m not working with any companies
Great ideas. Thank you for sharing 😊🤗
I’m in the middle of a move so I get to reorganize. It is so overwhelming. I started as a scrapbooked and have added cardmaking and planning. My style has also changed significantly. I have so much stuff that just needs to go but I don’t know where!!
I give to charity shops, or, I sell on a secondhand trading site.
@@hilarypeterbishop959 Yup! F.b. has a place to post either certain items for sale, or possibly even a Garage Sale kind of thing. Some of the Stampin’Up ladies in the Twin Cities area have just that kind of thing periodically, as they N E E D to make room for the next season’s offerings!
Thanks so much for sharing! Blessings & health!
Stickers and clear stamps are my nemisis
I love this video my biggest unorganized area is my stamps it's very overwhelming to me and how to tyfs this helps
These are great ideas and I have used some of them in my own variation. The thing I have trouble organizing is paper scraps. I just went through a bunch yesterday and cut them down to usable shapes but just have them in an envelope and plastic bag now.
I found an old photo album at a thrift store that was originally made to hold panorama photos. Each page is divided into horizontal thirds making it easy to slide in scraps that are less than 3.5 x 9.5 inches. Each pocket holds quite a few pieces so I have them organized by color/pattern. Hope you don't mind me jumping in here... Have a great day!
@@pokeyjo8177 I’m sure Justine doesn’t mind, and the rest of us NEED the help of our fellow crafters!!
I see no need to go to any greater lengths than what you’ve already come up with! The plastic bag idea is wonderful, IF it’s clear! That way, it’s a fast way of determining if you have what you need as a scrap, OR if you need to chop into a full size sheet. 😉👍
Wow! Your room is amazing! I bought a large storage unit in January and I’m still working on filling it! I have a lot of supplies lol. TYFS ❤️
Greetings, Justine. Can you please share which bin you use for your double-wide stamp storage. The only one I found has a divider in the middle, and that thin piece of plastic keeps me from fitting a double row of stamps. These things are too pricey to stab around trying to find the right one, only to miss by "that much". Thanks for your help! I love your videos.
Love all your tips Justine, your newest craftroom looks great!
Great video! My challenge is using wall space for storage. Maybe I am apprehensive but I think it’s an area that I should use in my small space. Would love some organizing tips.
We gain so much storage space when we "move upward" and store things on walls. I used stacking wall cabinets stacked 2 high with doors on the fronts when I started redoing my craft room. The area above my large craft table will have the 3 ft. high, narrow bookcase I bought for jars of paint storage and the wall on the right side (it's along a wall and the corner wall) will have shelves fro storage. Underneath the craft table are 2 filing cabinets for even more storarge. There are also the stacking bins with pull out drawers to hold my Many, many paint brushes. When you open up the sets of wood type stacking units that run the length of the back wall in my art room - they are filled with the plastice pull out 3 drawers that will hold 8.5 X 11 card stock and 12 X 12 cardstock, some hold stamps that are sorted by seasons, etc & now as I phase out of owning a Lot of stamps, I will be using the bins to store resin and clay molds that I make to add to furniture, mirrors and frames - getting into the anthropology look. Hope this helps - Happy Stacking to gain more storage space. Also - I have several work stations/ tables and try to keep things within reach that I use in each area. I paint furniture, sew and do card making/ scrapbooking. I even am creating a special work area - on a rolling table for my cricut, easy press, etc. If you can find any used rolling tables with drop down sides or even narrow tables on wheels = they are awesome!!! You can pull them out, use them and tuck them back into a space to give you more space to work with. Happy Crafting!!!
@@pamstassi8421 great ideas! Thank you so much!
SCRAPS . . . they always pile up on my desk! (I have trouble throwing anything away)
Thank you great video
I tap the tip of the reinker lid onto the color pad it belongs to so that I can tell at a glance what color is in the bottle. Every now and then you may have to reink the tip to make sure the color doesn't rub off or fade.
Thank yoy fir the Stencil organizing idea
Great ideas, thanks for them. By the way what is that stamp on the shelf on your left on the top looks like windows. Thanks
I need help purging! I simply have too much! I use the dining nook in my apartment but have to store bins in my daughter’s room, ton ‘o stamps in my bedroom, and random stuff in my living room -help! Love your craft room!
I have been organizing my stamps and my dies. What I need to work on is labeling the containers better so I know where each stamp is within each stamp set. I keep a copy of each stamp in a book but the book needs to be updated. I like the idea of keeping your stencils in a binder, I think the dry emboss folders could be stored that way also..
wow - impressed - my room is tiny and a nightmare - no excuse during lock down to sort it :( - but will get some metal ikea mag holders - when we and they are allowed to open
Ugh I need .to get onto doing this thanks Justine 💕
I had a beautifully organized sewing room and then I started card making. I have been using every bit of horizontal space to store my craft c..p. I even sold my entire collection (25 years) of Threads magazines to make room. I have a few questions about your foil. How do you decide how big to cut your foil that comes on rolls to maximize use. How have you separated your Minc foil from your hot foil for the Foil Quill which comes in small sizes and 12 inch wide pieces.
I'm sorry that she didn't seem to respond to you. Did you find a solution?
Would you or have you make a video about how to make your dividers on your cricket.?
Biggest unorganized area is a variety of watercolors in flat sets, bottles, random half-pans, etc. Brushes are fine though. Thanks for the fun video!
My crafting stash is pretty small so i only have a 5 drawer plastic rolling cart for adhesives, paper, scraps, embellishments, and cutting implements. My basket holds stamps, stenciles, paper cutter, scoreboard and pen sets. A flat box holds all my inks and embossing powders, placed on top of the rolling cart.
I would say my biggest problem right now is organizing my stamps and dies. I have so many and they are just piling up. I like the idea of the clear bins and storing them upright in folders so they can be flipped through.
Great organization tips, Justine! I was wondering, do you find that your cardstock when stored vertically bends sometimes? I tried that once and that is what happened to me, but I didn't have them in the protector sheets though so that may have been my problem.
I need help with my entire craft room. 🤦♀️ I just invested in a great shelf system and took everything out of my craft room. I unfortunately haven’t been it all back in yet so my poor boys have lost a chunk of their play room. 😂
I’m a card maker. My table is 6ft long. What do I put on my table so I have what I need right at my fingertips.?
Maybe have a super fast chair on wheels so you can zoom to where you need to get stuff from??
Regarding foils...mine are in tubes...do you take them out of the tubes and cut them down to fit the pocket sleeves or that is like scraps? How do you differentiate between hot and cold foils?
My biggest organization issue is remembering my stash. I don't need three magic picture changers from three different companies. The same goes for cute swans, or typewriters. As much as I wish I could, I can't afford it nor do I have the room. So I'd like not to accidentally buy this stamp or die set only to find I have something pretty similar. Maybe using a phone app? Idk, I think I'll go check out the containers for nuvo drops, those look amazing. TFS!
There is an app called Color My Life where you can enter everything you own with lots of tags and pictures and details. After entering all your supplies, you can do a search and see what you have at a glance so you don’t buy two!! Ask me how I know!!
Definitely stamps!
My paper area needs the most help because I have too much! How do you convince yourself to purge? I have a hard time getting rid of any paper!
Great ideas, thank you.
I’m sitting here in the middle of my crafting mountain, trying to find the strength to start. AHHHHHHHH!
Now I know I’m in trouble, I just got to the ....storing card in folders in a box...l looked around the mountain to my card storage and I have the same Ikea storage boxes but each 1 only holds 1 colour, they are all full to exploding with different thicknesses, textures and slight variations + a pocket for scraps....I have 20 of them! I think I may be a craft hoarder.
There's plenty of us out here. Think of how many homeless craft items there'd be on the streets if not for us generous folks!!!!
I have a number of lawn fawn critter stamp sets, and some of the dies are tiny. Now when I get a set of coordinating dies, as I clip them apart I also write some initials on the back of each die, just something I will remember that the die goes with one mouse set or another. I use a sharpie, and sometimes it wears off then I just write it again. Also, when I get a set that has tiny similar images (like the tiny friends sets) I match the die to the image once. Then I number the image and the die the same number so that they are easier to match up.
That's a great tip, I do that with some larger sets as well.
I love your 8 1/2 × 11 paper storage. What plastic covers are you using and where can we find them. Thank you in advance.
I just bought them at office depot. Look for pockets that are open on the top and on the side.
Loved This. Thanks
Great ideas
I have the insane amount of paper... Lol
My problem isn't so much organizing my craft room.... It's keeping it that way.
I have such trouble keeping track of all the ephemera.
Keeping my tabletop organized. I am not a one project girl. I find that I have 2, 3, or 4 projects on my desk and I go back and forth from different projects. I don’t like to put up cuz I know I will go back to that project in a day or 2 or 3. So putting/cleaning up is not an option for me. I want it there at my finger tips or in close proximity when I am ready to go back to that project.
I'm obviously not Justine, but I was struggling with this too. I just made a special area on my craft desk devoted to projects in progress though and it's kept my desk clear. This is what I did to set mine up.
I limit myself to 3 projects at any given time. There's 3 components to each project in progress: a large document holder, a clipboard, and a pencil pouch. The clipboard and pencil pouch are stored in a magazine sorter (like Justine used for her colored card stock). These two items and the sorter itself give me space for the bulky items while also keeping things like alcohol markers or colored pencils that I might have picked out just for the project separated from each other. There's additional room in the magazine holder though for additional items if needed.
Each document envelope holder has a zipper and can easily fit a 9 x 12 piece of paper. Each is labeled with a project number (1, 2, or 3). This is for storing paper materials like card fronts and stamps and dies. If the zipper is closed, I can see the head of it at the top and know there's a project waiting for me. If the zipper is open, I can't see the head of it at the top and know I can come up with a new project. This visual helps me remember what I'm working on and not get overwhelmed by starting things but never finishing them.
The clipboards I have only because I tape watercolor pieces to them to work on.
The area all this takes up is a little under 6 inches wide but it also includes mats that I put on my desk to keep it clean. I store it all vertically.
Perhaps setting up an area in your craft space to hold onto your projects your working on would help you keep your space clean too?
Happy crafting!
You said your stencil notebook was 8x8, do you just buy regular size page protectors and cut them down or do they make a smaller size page protector? I don’t think I’ve ever seen them if so. Thank you in advance 🤗
Great tips! My biggest organizing issue is embossing folders and paper!
F.Y.I.: My 12” x12”s p a p e r I have stashed in clear page protectors, currently in those large plastic boxes sold at our craft stores. I’d very much like to move them into scrapbook albums, so it’d be easier to flip through them, but i’d want to store them spines up on an adequately deep shelf. As it is, I mostly use solid color cardstock, because the plastic boxes have gotten a bit heavy to regularly pull down and peruse. My 8.5” x 11”s are mostly corralled in a plain ol’ cardboard box that was gifted to me by an ex-Stampin’Up rep. They fit in there snugly, so I don’t have any issues with curling. Embossing folders doesn’t seem to be much of a problem for me since they’re only one theme (unlike “STAMP SETS” 😖 😵💫‼️). I was lucky (smart?) enough to have purchased several boxes, originally designed to store dress patterns, from Hancock Fabrics back in the day. (These are, in essence, half the size of a “banker’s box”). In one, I have, so far, managed to stash everything I have related to “embossing”, both embossing folders and the items I have pertaining to heat embossing, except the heat gun, which I just can’t get shoe-horned in 🥴 🤭 ! Same treatment for my clear stamps, but I H AT E leaving each of those in their sets, as there’s NO way to know that a darling little fairy is in with a set of flowers, etc.!! Wood mounts are another thing, but I’ll be demounting them and filing them “like with like”.
Good morning Justine. The second to the last shot where you showed the Nuvo drops up side down in your drawer,where did you get the holders. Thank you for your videos.
Those are from Scrapbook.com. they are great
Thank you so much.
Thank goodness someone asked. I would love to get an idea on storing embellishments. There's so many categories such as; stickers, 3D stickers, gems. Flowers and their styles. Ribbons bows. Those I've made myself. Ephemera. Vellum. Borders. And so many sizes of within so many more categories. If I go by theme ...or just size. It's so hard. HELP plz
That would be tough. I don’t really own any of those things anymore. I just make them if I need them but I don’t stock up anymore because I found I just don’t use them.
Right now my major need is purging. I really have too much stuff to store in my space. So it is all over the place.
I have trouble with my bigger acrilic paints like the amsterdam /liquitex/... tubes and my zero wast & handmade texture tools I use for mixedmedia and gelliplates.
Probably my biggest problem is all the miscellaneous stuff - boxes full of kits that really kind of need to stay together, like Hero Arts kits that sometimes include stamps, dies, stencils, ink, paper (all coordinated colors) and sometimes some add-ons as well. In addition to this is all the tools like ribbon cutters, fusing machine, photo props, shot box, foiled cardstock, patterned paper pads, backdrops for shot box, hot foil machine, cold foil machine, foils in rolls, and I have one whole shelf of Anna Griffin kits, patterned paper, dies, etc. For example, I have a plastic box for my props but most everything is just on a shelf and looks messy. Any suggestions?
Organizing my papers/paper pads is likely the first thing to "explode" in my craft room. I started keeping scraps in a small two drawer file folder organized my color/theme. I struggle with storing my 12×12 sheets.
I need help with ink storage...mini ranger and large Gina K ink pads
papers and tools [esp punch boards and thermoweb rolls] are my biggest storage issues
As I don’t have a great deal of space, I have to be organised, but I have two 6” square box of random backgrounds and half completed projects...they are always on my desk and untidy!
I’m worried I’ve mixed many of my word stamps (organized like with like) and wonder if this will cause me issues if I sell my cards. I was just going to do angel stamps on cards that last k like Stampin’ up! stamps. What are everyone’s thoughts?
These are great ideas! I am currently setting up my craft area, so these are welcome and timely for me. My biggest challenge is organizing wood mounted stamps.
I have quite a few wood mounted stamps my daughter in law got me at a yard sale. I got rid of a few I knew I would not use, but the rest are displayed up high on 2 skinny shelves in my room. They look cute up there, and I like how they look!
I have the most need on my stamps and dies organization 🤓
Great video! Where did you purchase your black craft mat that was on your table?
It's the Tonic Studios Tim Holtz Glass Media Mat. Just ordered mine yesterday!
It's a great one.
Where do you get the pockets you keep your stamps in?
Magnetic sheets ? Haven't seen these in Australia but so much better. Can you give me a link for them. America
My favourite things sells good ones :)
My entire craft room is a mess. I need to purge but struggle with how to clear out. I've donated, sold and unfortunately just tossed. Once i clear out, i believe i can organize. I also struggle with what items i truly need out on my desk and what just needs to be close by.
Sorry for asking, but where did you get the large clear bin? Loved this!
Amazon. Search fridge bins
OMG, that is so organised, wish it was my place. Love the clear containers you've used.
I would stagger the circles on the cardstock pockets (NOT all at the same position).
Amy desk is hardest. I have so many things that need at hand.
Curious about your heavy duty plastic sheet protectors. What brand do you use?
I got them at Office Depot. I think it was Avery
My workspace needs the most work. All of it needs work, buts this is my most consistent problem,
Embellishments please xx