Hello! This week, My Favorite Things
is sharing all kinds of fun organizational tips and tricks for
organizing your crafty stash including stamps, stencil, dies, cardstock
and ink! Each day will feature a different product and will include
ideas for storage, organization and keeping everything in a system that
works for you!
The MFT Creative team will be taking part all week long, sharing what we
use to organize and what works for us. Hopefully once the week is done,
you'll have a lot of different ideas to help you get organized and
ready to create!
Today's post is all about cardstock storage! I love cardstock and use it a ton in my card designs. I generally use white cardstock for all of my stamping, but I love adding pops of colour as well. I currently store my cardstock in 12x12 Cropper Hopper paper holders that I've had since my scrapbooking days. I have recently started to switch over to letter size plastic holders from Ikea that I love... it's currently a work in progress. ;)
The shelves that hold my paper are under my desk, so I like to have my paper stand straight up and have all the dividers at the top so I can easily see them when looking down. This makes it quick and easy for me to find the colours that I'm looking for.
All of my coloured cardstock gets stored together and as I update the storage containers, I've also been updating the order of the colours to make it work better for me. I used to just add in new colours at the ends or wherever it would fit, but I'm really trying to keep the colours in order now. ;)
Since I need to know the actual colour names, I always add labels to my paper before I put it away with the colour name. I don't worry about adding the manufacturer name - since I don't use a lot of different manufacturer's cardstock, I don't really have a problem knowing who makes it lol! ;)
To label my cardstock, I use these awesome Post-it Filing Tabs. I like them because they are re-positionable, so you can move them whenever you add in more cardstock. The top area on them is white, and you can either write directly on them or add a printed label to them.
I label all of mine with my Brother label maker and 6mm label tape. This size of tape fits perfectly along the top of the tabs. Once I have them labeled, I stick them to the top of the coordinating cardstock and then put the rest of that colour immediately behind. I just add a new label with each new colour.
So that's a little peek into how I store my cardstock. Make sure to head over to the My Favorite Things blog
today (and all week long) for a lot of ideas, links to the other MFT
Creative Teams blogs where they're sharing their storage ideas, and
awesome amazing giveaways!! ;)
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I use those post it tabs all the time in my craft room but never thought of using them on my CS!!??? GREAT IDEA! So glad I followed along. TFS!
ReplyDeleteI like these paper holders, they all look so neat.
ReplyDeleteWow, gotta love Post Its. LOL. What an awesome idea. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your system and ideas.
ReplyDeleteThose post it labels are new to me -- tres cool! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteOoh...the post-it tabs are really cool! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHopefully can implement some of these ideas
ReplyDeleteGreat idea to use those tabs to label your cardstock!
ReplyDeleteLiking those post-it tabs. Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeletenever even saw these post it tabs before but how wonderful!!!! AWESOME SAUCE!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing theses neat little post it labels, haven't seen those yet. The colors are so pretty.
ReplyDeleteI just love the cardstock when it is displaced like that, such happiness!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea on labeling!
ReplyDeleteAwesome idea on labeling your paper. This looks great. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeletehugs,jen
Awesome idea on labeling your paper. This looks great. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeletehugs,jen