gettin organized

I decided the beginning of this year that I wanted to re-organize all of my scrapbooking and craft supplies. (as well as my garage which has been taken over with said items) 🙂 I have been working on it all month long. I don’t have much to show for it as I have mostly just been sorting and purging. Lots and lots of purging. One day the hubby and I took 3 boxes and 5 bags full of junk to goodwill. Anyway…it is still a work in progress but I thought I would show you what I ended up doing for my stamps.

You see….I have this problem. I am addicted to buying cute new stamps. I love them and get so excited when I see that new ones have come out. This addiction has made it hard for me to organize. Every time I get a container for them it seems I soon out grew it. I love the stamping up clear boxes they sell, but they just aren’t big enough for my collection. I had stamps stored in 4 separate boxes or drawers and it almost was annoying to want to pull out my stamps. That was a problem that I wanted fixed right away.

I am on a budget so I was trying to come up with an inexpensive but practical way to store my stamps all together. Then…(inspired by those said stampin-up cases) I made my own holders. I took a large Ziploc and put a cut up cereal box in it to add support. Then I added my stamps and had a simple easy to view way to store my stamps.

I ended up making three of them and keeping two sets in the hard plastic boxes.

I still found a good use for the stamp-in up boxes. I grouped my ink with like colors and stored them that way.

Then everything went in to a big rubber maid tote. I was even able to add my photo box full of clear acrylic stamps, chalks and stamp markers to the box. Now all of my stamps and accessories are in one box and I love it.