Yesterday, when I walked into my craft room and looked around at the chaos, I told myself, "Enough is enough! You have to get organized."
I decided to start with my Fun Stampers Journey stamp and die sets. I bought several of the storage boxes in January when they were on sale and I had been using them but I hadn't really given much thought about what was stored where. That wasn't so bad when I only had two storage boxes, but now I have five. It seems like the stamp or die set was looking for was always in the fifth box I looked in. So, I started sorting.
For my large stamp sets, I made 6" x 7 3/4" dividers out of card stock and used the square clip from the Tab Clips die set. I did this because I wanted to be able to change the category or move the position of the tab without having to create a whole new divider.
Almost all of my die sets were already stored in pouches, two to a pouch separated by tabbed dividers, but the tabs were hard to see. To remedy that, I used the round clip from the Tab Clips set and either clipped it to the front of the pouch or to the divider. These are also movable and changeable so if I decide later that I want to store my die sets differently it's no big deal, just swap out the clip.
I did the same thing with my smaller ATS sets, but I stored them sideways in two columns instead of one. They fit perfectly this way in the smaller storage box. The ATS dividers I made are 3" x 5 1/4".
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Almost all of my die sets were already stored in pouches, two to a pouch separated by tabbed dividers, but the tabs were hard to see. To remedy that, I used the round clip from the Tab Clips set and either clipped it to the front of the pouch or to the divider. These are also movable and changeable so if I decide later that I want to store my die sets differently it's no big deal, just swap out the clip.
Next I created labels for the boxes by cutting a 4" x 1 1/4" strip from card stock, writing the box content and wrapping it around the box handles.
I could have also purchased the the label charms for each box, but I wanted to get things done right away. I also wanted them to be more visible since my eyesight isn't the best.
Here's a list of the products I used for this project. If you're interested in any if them, they are available on my Fun Stampers Journey site.
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