Posts Tagged With: stamp storage

Stamp Storage!!

I have been working hard on getting my craft room all organised after it was finally decorated. I will do full reveal photos soon. In the mean time I thought I would share a handy way I store my stamps. I previously shared my clear stamp binders:

It is simply a cheap A5 deep ring binder. I got A5 plastic pockets for them and cut a sheet of card just slightly smaller than A5. I then stick the sheet of clear stamps to this sheet. When I want the stamps I just slide the card out and peel off the top sheet of plastic off the stamps. This allows me to get the stamp I want and stops the stamps sliding out of the folder when I move it around.

My latest storage was to sort out my rubber stamps and background stamps. I tend to use my background stamps a lot, especially the superb Market Street Stamps ones. :) So I wanted to be able to get to them all easily. So again I went for a A5 ring binder. But I set it up slightly differently inside….

This time I laminated a sheet of A5 card. This gave me a surface to adhere my stamps to (also known as cheap stamp mount!). I stuck one background stamp on each side of this laminated card. I cut out the image of the stamp from the package and added it into the folder. The first image is the first stamp and the second image is the second stamp on the other side of the plastic.

I have a sheet of plastic (saved from packaging) in between the stamped image and the stamps. This is to stop the stamps sticking to the card.

This is a super cheap storage solution, I reckon it worked out at about €3 in total for each folder. To get to my stamps it is literally a case of lift it down from the shelf and peel the stamp off to use it. Super quick and easy :) The rubber stamps are done the exact same except there are a few to the page, and not just one stamp!

While I am sharing some storage let me show you how I store my embossing powders. I used super cheap spice racks from Ikea and painted them white….

I can get two rows of embossing powders onto the rack. Which at the moment is all that I have :) I have a bunch of these spice racks to go up on the wall by my desk to store paint dabber’s as well as alcohol inks etc. I just need to put up the blind first so that I know where I can position the shelves!! The spice racks are great for small spaces though as they are big enough but dont take up a lot of space!

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Music loving robot & new stamp storage..

I love this adorable little singing robot from Snag ‘em stamps.  He is just so cute, I love the little word music in between his antenna! I kept him fairly simple in colours, except for his little cassette in his chest. I coloured it blue because I can just picture this little guy singing the blues :) I used my kaiser craft bubble wrap stamp for the background on the black card stock, and stamped it in silver. I also love this bubble wrap stamp, its so much fun!

I have been looking for a stamp storage solution for a while now. I had gotten too many stamps to keep them in the small box I started off with. It was just not easy to find a specific stamp when I wanted. I also could not flick through them for inspiration either. So after a bit of research I decided to go with A5 folders and plastic pockets.

I cut a piece of white card stock just a fraction smaller than the plastic pockets. I then removed the packaging from the stamps – but made sure to record the stamp make & name on the white card. I then adhered the stamp set to the card with low tack sticky dots so that when I want the stamp set I can slide the card out and remove the stamp set for use.

I filed the stamps in a way that will work for me – sentiments only, sentiments and image sets, images only etc. I have yet to get dividers for the sections but I dont yet have enough stamps for this to matter at the moment! I am quite happy with this storage solution at the moment, it seems to be working well. It was also quite cost effective, around E6 for each complete folder.

Its the last day of my Christmas holidays, back to work tomorrow!! Got to fit some more crafting in before its back to the grindstone!!

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