Organizational Project~

Happy Sunday! Yesterday I saw an organizational project in blogland.  It made so much sense, that I DIY'd my own.

 Here is the finished project - a notebook stamp holder.  Maybe you have seen these, I probably have also, but it struck me as brilliant on Saturday.

Rather then going and buying these 2 pocket sheet protectors, I made my own!!

Start with a sheet protector

Sew it in half

[look at that - I even sewed a straight line! :)]

Using my new board and a box knife, I cut through the sheet, leaving 1/4" on either edge

I lined each sheet section with card stock cut 5x8

Added my stamps, and I am good to go!

One sheet holds 4 stamps sets! I ended up making 2 notebooks and I still have one more to make, but this has gotten rid of a couple of boxes, along with making these images much more accessible.  I was pretty darn excited that I actually sewed too! I linked this up to A Bowl Full of Lemons.

Hope you had a good week end~

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Something to Share

My DH rocked out a gift for me!  It is so awesome, I wanted to share it with all of you.

It is a self healing cutting pad [similar to a scor pal pad] however,

this has a slide ruler!

Now, I will have no problem lining up my stamps and images!

I love the way the ruler hooks on the edge and slides up or down, to line up my stamping.
DH got this at Michaels in the drafting department.  This is going to be so handy!  He did good :).

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Another project I worked on was my scraps. I saw this idea in blogland somewhere and loved it!  I had my scrap papers in this:

I put them all in a household 13 pocket bill holder from Kmart - [like $6.]

Because my scrap piles are so out of control,

I put the holder into a [temporary] storage box until I can condense down my scraps. Once that happens, I will be able to easily access my scraps [and use them more instead of making more - hence the out of control state they are currently in] Now, I have 12 empty drawers for additional storage.  What a win-win organizational idea!  I just love finding useful ideas in blogland~

I'll be back tomorrow with an FYI card.  Another amazing photo courtesy of Steph!

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Out of the Box or Stamp Room Actually

Well, this post is totally out of the box for me!  The last 3 days, I have been organizing and detail cleaning.  For about the last 3 years, all I have done is stamp.  Seriously!  I keep my house picked up, but detail cleaning not so much..  I have started subscribing to a couple organizational sites and I have to say, when you see "Today's Organization Project is....." -- well, it really is very motivating!  To get me out of my stamp room............ I'd say so!

Just for fun, I took some before and after shots to share with you all.  Who knows, maybe I will motivate you to organize something... [besides your craft space :).]

Keep in mind, I spent approximately 1-2 hours a day doing just these 3 projects.  You have to remember, what you remove, you need to either #1 throw it out, or find another place for it.  As example, for my patio, I put all the "stuff" into totes, LABELED them, and put them on the side of my house - still accessible, just not so messy.

While I am happy with all 3 areas, my favorite has to be the entertainment center!  I love the way it looks now, and I love that all my electronic toys are one box!

Have a Happy Bunny day everyone~
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Paper & Such Challenge

My stamper friend, Julie Smith owns an online store, Paper and Such.  I have been a follower of her clean and gorgeous work for years. (I found her gallery 4 years ago when I joined SCS).  Anyway, Julie graciously sent me a few of her images to play with.  OH HEAVEN -- lovely stamps!  I have been having fun creating with her images.

This is called a Basketful of Flowers. I did a little spotlighting to accent the flower basket.  I made this for my son in law -- do you think it is masculine enough?

While perusing Julie's store, I came across her Paper and Such Blog -- it has challenges!  [The stuff you find in cyber space, so fun!]  Well, when I saw the inspiration photo, I had to join in the fun!

I used another one of her fabulous images - Poppies.  These are so gorgeous -- this is only 1/3 of the image -- the entire image is big and gorgeous!  I had every intention of using sage green, but well, aqua kind of won. :)  I am thrilled with my coloring (ya all know I am color challenged) - but this image was so easy to color!!
Unknown to me, both of these sets are currently on SALE!  Pop on over to Paper and Such and get them before they are gone!

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On a side note,an interesting thing happened to one of my Tim Holtz dies -- actually, it p.o.'d me off!

Do you see this!! (These are not sitting on top of the plate, they are CUT INTO the plate!) I cut with this die (on the card above) and [gee, thanks Tim] the ridiculous sturdiness of these dies (ha!) cut so far into my plate that it TOTALLY came out of the frame!  The die is destroyed!  DH had to get pilers to get it out of the C plate! ARE YOU KIDDING!  This is the same die that I used 2 days ago over 30 times for labeling my stamps -- I had no problem at all........then.  I am not sure WHAT I did, but I am so bummed I ruined this die!  Naturally, I got it at summer CHA and can't get it replaced (w/o buying another one) -- damn.

Did you want to see my project made with this die?
BEFORE:

AFTER:

See why I am bummed? I wasn't done labeling my stamps! On for goodness sake!

On that note, really, I am done for today...... Thanks for stopping by~

Help to Organize

I want to thank GinaK over at STV for this fabulous project! [there are 4 parts to this project] When I got done, I realized how nice it would be to do this for my unmounted and acrylic stamp sets! When I get the time [sooner the better] I am going to make more folders ~ stamp the images on the outside and label the folder with the company name/ stamp set. That way, when I need stamps simply grab the folder and its all neat and tidy! No more loose stamps laying on my desk! Oh I just love that idea....now I just have to do it!

What do you think? Would this help you??