“Make due and save money” by Amanda Probst on page 56-57 under the “Creative Spaces” section of the Feb. 2009 Creating Keepsakes Magazine.
(Everything in quotations are from the magazine article.)
Amanda talks about simple, less expensive ideas for storage. Here are some ideas that she incorporated in her scrap space. Be sure to check out the pics in this article to see these ideas in use.
--“Wood-mounted stamp storage.”
Amanda used the wooden storage units that are used to keep children’s blocks in them in layers to store all her wood-mounted rubber stamps. Or you could use from MemoryWorks, the new AMM Tote-ally Cool Tote Accessory Kit. The drawer could house your stamps and it’s portable too! The kit comes with a carousel, drawer and zippered sleeve. The drawer can be use alone or kept in the zippered sleeve. The sleeve is water resistant and can attach to the AMM Tote-ally Cool Tote.
--“Clear stamp storage.”
Amanda used blank, empty CD cases and a $20 CD holder to store all her clear stamps. This is a great idea because it takes up less space and you can label each case of what stamps it contains. You can group all the like stamps and stamp sets together, such as all the flower stamps, Christmas stamps, sentiment stamps, etc. This is a great idea to house all the wonderful clear stamps that MemoryWorks carries.
--“Pens.”
Amanda used a wine-bottle holder with some rolled up chipboard in each compartment. If you don’t want to use chipboard, you could use empty cans that would fit in the compartments of the holder and decorate the cans with patterned paper and use the cans to house all your pens and markers.
--“Paper.”
Amanda recycled empty Priority Mail boxes into paper holders. She cut the tops off of the boxes and covered the boxes with paper. A neat idea is to cover each box with samples of the paper or cardstock the boxes will hold. You could also use plain corrugated magazine holders covered in paper as well. Or you can use the Cropper Hopper Organization Paper Holder that MemoryWorks carries. The paper can be separated by using the dividers which are sold separate. The paper can also be put in the Paper File, also by Cropper Hopper. And if that isn’t enough, there is a Scrap Storage, for all those scrap pieces of paper, and a Page Planner to hold all your materials that you want to use on a layout.
Also by Cropper Hopper, are the ribbon organizers in different sizes to hold all your ribbon. They come in 3 sizes: 3.5”, 2.25” (shown), and 1.5”. So there is an organizer for each size of rolls of ribbon. And these organizers stack nicely on top of one another.
“Tips for improvising on what you have:”
--“Look around you.” Amanda states that if you can put something into an item, then it can be used to hold scrapbooking supplies.
--“It doesn't have to be pretty.” You can cover the storage items or look for items with character.
--“Look at office-supply stores and flea markets." Look beyond your favorite scrapbooking stores. You would be amazed at all the possibilities for storing scrapbooking supplies.
--“Think about how you scrapbook.” What is your process to scrapbooking? Base your storage on that process so that the storage will work for you and don’t change or rework your scrapbooking process for the organization of your supplies.
I thought this article is very helpful in that it gives you ideas of ways to organizing your scrapbooking supplies with what you already have or items that don’t cost much. With the economy the way it is right now, any way to cut the cost for our habit is very useful information.
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