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Craft Room Challenge – Reveal

Hello Crafty Friends!  I’m so glad you are joining us for the big reveal from the craft room challenge.  This is where we see all our hard work paying off. If you want to see where I started head over to week one’s post or here’s just a single picture to remind you.

The biggest difference in my space is my desk, and my new drawers from Ikea.  Replacing the old cabinets from Michael’s has made such a difference in my organization.  The old cubes just didn’t have enough space to place and see anything effectively.  As you saw in my organization post I can now readily see what I have.  It makes such a difference.

Another change I made is that I removed the VERY large white cabinet from the wall.  You can see the bottom of it in the picture above.  It was just so bulky for the wall and since it was almost empty it was wasted space.  I replaced it with a wrought iron rack from Hobby Lobby that now holds my kits.  If you’d like to see how I’m storing my kits in the rack please let me know.  I’d LOVE to share.

Now on to the big reveal picture….

A clean craft space after the hard work of the craft room challenge

It looks so much bigger without stuff all on the floor and with less on the walls.  I’m also not sure that the cabinets on the left, where my printer is, are staying. The printer would fit on the Ikea drawers so that corner may be empty at some point, but I didn’t want to get rid of them just yet. I may use them to store the items in my shop and replace the bins I currently have, but we’ll see how that works when the products all come in.

Thank you so much for joining us each week this month, and we hope that you have gotten lots of ideas and inspiration to get your craft room in order.  If there’s anything more you’d like to see close up please let me know.  Until next time….

Before you see the rest of the crafty spaces, please meet our lovely hosts:

Marie & Aleisha from The Inspiration Vault • Pam from P.S. I Love You Crafts

Yami from The Latina Next Door • Jolene from Create Pray Love

Habiba from Craftify My Love • Lyne from The Paper Addict

Megan from C’Mon Get Crafty • Erlene from My Pinterventures

Shirley from Intelligent Domestications • Valerie from Val Event Gal

Michelle from Our Crafty Mom

Now, let’s take a look at their craft rooms and spaces!

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Craft Supply Organization-Craft Room Challenge

Good day everyone and welcome to week four of the craft room challenge!  This week we were focusing on craft supply organization.  This is my favorite part of clean up. I LOVE to organize and I have several ideas to share with you that I think are just great! If you want to see where I started in this journey be sure to check out week one.

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Bling/Tools

The first thing I want to share with you is how I store my bling and most used tools.  The bling includes, enamel dots, stickles, gems, single colored brads, etc.  Each color (or color family if I don’t have many) gets their own white basket*.  The baskets come in a set of three from Dollar Tree. so it is very affordable to separate them this way. When I want a certain accent piece I can now just pull out that color basket and everything is right there.  I also placed some shelf liner* on the bottom of the drawer so nothing slides around.

The tools are the ones that I used the most – think tape runner, sticker maker and tiny attacher. This is the top drawer of my Alex cube so it’s very accessible when I’m creating and easy for clean up after.

Washi/Glitter

I store my washi tape and glitter.  The storage is VERY similar to the bling, but I use long baskets again from Dollar Tree.  I attempt to keep them color organized, but this drawer is our 22 month olds favorite to play in.  I figure if arranging washi keeps her entertained for 20 minutes it really doesn’t matter what order they are in!

The glitter is in tiny bottles also from the dollar tree. I find these are perfect for putting a spoon in to scoop glitter out and the opening is large enough that pouring back in is easy.  There’s less mess this way for me.

Store washi and glitter easily and inexpensive

Embellishments

This is one of my favorite storage tips.  I bought a bunch of 4×6 plastic photo cases off eBay (it was the cheapest place at the time) and each collection gets its own case.  If I have two collections of the same topic, and from the same company, they will go in the case together each in a zip top bag to save space.  I am still toying with how I want to label these.  I don’t really care for the post it note as it block me from seeing what’s in the case, but I don’t want a permanent level either since when a collection is done the case will be re-used.  Any tips for me?

scrapbook embellishment storage

6×6 paper pads.

I have been using this method for a long time, and it’s still working wonderfully for me.

Week Five Mission

I hope those tips gave you some ideas, and now it’s one to week five!  This week we are to clean and decorate…if that’s your thing.  Vacuum that floor – dust the shelves and hang some things up that make you happy and inspire you to create. I can’t wait to share the reveal with you!

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Before you see the rest of the crafty spaces, please meet our lovely hosts:

Marie & Aleisha from The Inspiration Vault • Pam from P.S. I Love You Crafts

Yami from The Latina Next Door • Jolene from Create Pray Love

Habiba from Craftify My Love • Lyne from The Paper Addict

Megan from C’Mon Get Crafty • Erlene from My Pinterventures

Shirley from Intelligent Domestications • Valerie from Val Event Gal

Michelle from Our Crafty Mom

Now, let’s take a look at their craft rooms and spaces!

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Iron Pig – Baseball Scrapbook Layout

Welcome back craft friends as I share another scrapbook layout with you.  I created this layout as part of the scrapping party over at the Secret Not Secret Kit Club Facebook page. There was a sketch created by Eileen that we were able to interpret to our liking.

I stuck pretty close to the sketch except for my embellishments. Since I used a camping collection for this layout the embellishments didn’t match my theme so I had to make my own.  I used punches, inked the shapes and added some doodles to make them interesting. The other items are small stickers from a totally different collection that was family themed, but matched the color scheme of the papers.

I really enjoyed this sketch because it lent itself to using a 6×6 paper pad.  As with most people I have way to many, and use them way to much.  It felt good to get some of it used. I previously used this collection to make a cookout invitation that you can see here.Family Baseball Scrapbook Layout

I originally started this layout on white cardstock, and I kept looking at it and not liking how it was coming out.  Additionally, I tried outlining, more doodles, etc and nothing helped.  Once I pulled everything up and tried a black background…wow…did it look so much better.  The bright colors just popped in a way they didn’t on the white.  Don’t be afraid to try a dark background when something just doesn’t seem to be going the way you like.

Thank you for joining me today, and reading about each project I created.  I love hearing your feedback and I’d love to see any projects you create as a result.

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Supply List:

Doodlebug Happy Camper 6×6 Pad

1/4 inch circle punch*

1 inch circle punch*

Thickers

1 3/8 inch circle punch

1 1/2 inch circle punch

Black American Crafts cardstock*

Tim Holtz Distress Paint – Broken China*

Simple Stories Family Frenzy Stickers

 

 

 

 

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Craft Room Challenge – Week Three

Welcome to week three of the craft room challenge.  How is the clean up going for you?  I feel so good about my progress so far.  Last week our focus was sorting and purging, and this was a rough one for me.

Purging vs Selling

Purging is very hard for me.  What if I need it right after I let it go…what if I could sell it and recoup some of the what it cost…etc.  I wish I had some magic solution to offer you, but it really was just buckling down and trying to forget that.  There are a few suggestions I have about the topic though. Nothing I purged can’t be bought again at low cost and I only kept things to sell that I thought would really be useful to others.

To determine if something was worth selling I turned to eBay.  The easiest way to determine is to search what else is for sale with that name.  If there were other items of that nature for sale, and with bids, it might be worth your time to sell.  If not, the prices were low, or there were no bids purging may be the better route.

For example, I had two beads containers that I was ready to let go of.  In eBay I searched the brand name of the container and found many listing with bids. Sounds like ok..time to sell…wrong.  Each item was only selling for between .75-1.00.  For me the time and hassle of listing, pictures, mailing, etc wasn’t worth .50.  Those items went in the purge pile.

Here is my purge box which is a large diaper box that is about 3/4 full.  It contains storage items, full glue bottles, full paints, punches, usable paper scraps, etc.  It will go on Facebook for free.

Craft room challenge - week three

Sorting

Once the purging was done the sorting was so much easier since there was less to go through. I placed all like things together or things that would be used together.  All stamping items are in one location.  All 6×6 paper pads go together in another location. I have WAY to much paper, and actually cancelled one of my kit club this week as a result of this sort.  Even though I’m on a no buy, besides the kits, I am not making as big of a dent as I’d like.  Maybe this time next year I’ll be able to sign up again!

Craft Room Challenge - Week Three

Week Three Mission

The mission this week is organization.  Find some systems that work for your sorted supplies and get them put away.  Now, you don’t want them away where it will be a pain to use them, but each item needs a place so you can actually find it when needed, and put it away after use.  I have some great paper and embellishment ideas that I can’t wait to share with you next week.

Before you see the rest of the crafty spaces, please meet our lovely hosts:

Marie & Aleisha from The Inspiration Vault • Pam from P.S. I Love You Crafts

Yami from The Latina Next Door • Jolene from Create Pray Love

Habiba from Craftify My Love • Lyne from The Paper Addict

Megan from C’Mon Get Crafty • Erlene from My Pinterventures

Shirley from Intelligent Domestications • Valerie from Val Event Gal

Michelle from Our Crafty Mom

Now, let’s take a look at how their craft rooms are changing this month!

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2017 Top Ten Blog Hop Winner

Good morning everyone!  First off let me say thank you all so much for your kind comments on my blog hop projects.  Reading everyones thoughts really makes my day, and is what keeps me going on this adventure.

Now on to what you’ve all been waiting for…the blog hop winner! Susan Bentz, you have won a hand crafted mini album made by yours truly, and it’s a cute one.

I have contacted Susan by email, and I hope she loves her prize. Again, thanks you all for your wonderful comments and following along with me on my scrapbooking journey.