Here it is, my scrapbooking corner!

A good view over my scrap table.  Sewing Machine is under the table ready to be pulled up when i need to use it. All the boxes hold some kits that i need to put together. Love my Making Memories  storage unit - VERY tempted to get the matching piece for the Slice. 

A view from the doorway as you come into the room. 

A view from over on the "playroom" side. 

My cabinent. Rolf talked me into getting it. Wasnt sure at first but it is fabulous. Its called USM and i think is available world wide. I have all my thickers in the blue basket on the left at the top. Next to that is my cardstock and then pattern paper and also kits in cropper hopper storage. I really do not have a ton of pattern paper. Then are some empty albums. Finally on the right in the basket are my other alpha stickers. The bottom of the cabinent stores some of my inspiration books, magazines and four baskets. The four baskets contains. 1. chipboard mini albums 2. other kids of mini albums 3. misc embellishments that are divided in ziplock bags 4. Scrapmuse Kits (the embellishments)I have to start using more of my kits as it is full 

Inside the first section. all my ribbon are still in the jars with magnets. The wooden draws have misc tools, altered art supplies, and lots of adhesive. The metal basket on top holds some embellishments that i want to see annd the two clear containers hold rub ons and misc alphabets

Next one dow holds my stamping supplies. The folder on the left holds my clear stamps (organized just like Jennifer McGuire) then the two clear boxes hold all stamping supplies including stamp pads, baby wipes, embossing dryer, etc. Next along are my foam stamps. 

Here i store a lot more embellishments. The two little boxes on the left have misc stickers that dont come under any catogries. The four draws are divided into birthdays, holidays, vaction/season, kids/family/baby. 

Inside here i store my Curvy Cutter that i got for christmas as well as threads in the middle glass jar. And some empty jars behind that for anything else that might wonder into my room. The right you can see my Xyron 150 and behind that the 250. Also the rest is my chipboard embellishments and alphabets. 

My cork board - which i would love to do up - just have no idea what i want to do with it. It will be my inspiration board and holds my clipboard below for my LOM class. Getting excited about that!

These three boxes are long clear containers. The bottom one is on wheels. The bottom container is my gift box. So all the things i buy that i think will make great gifts get put in here. I like that it is still hidden enough away from my kids but easy enough for me to get to. The middle box has all my extra scrapbooking supplies. Page protectors, all sized zip lock bags, extra albums etc. Things i rarely touch. The top box stores all my Christmas supplies. This Christmas was the first Christmas as a scrapbooker and i quickly outgrew the small container i was holding all my holiday supplies in. Now Christmas has it own largish box. On the very top is a tray that i use to take a project out to the lounge room so i can spend some time with Rolf once in awhile. 

Scrap space

I am having a lot of trouble taking photos of my scrap space without a flash. So here is the only photo that really turned out well enough. All of the shelves and bars on the wall are new and all are from my big IKEA trip on Thursday. 

The top shelf on the wall has a orange bucket (from Jysk) with currently nothing in it. Then the jar (from IKEA) has my treats in them Reese's Peanut Butter Cups! They are up high so i have longer to think about if i need one when reaching for the jar. Then the frame next to it is from IKEA and i used my new Butterfly Punch to make a collage like Ali Edwards. I used my fav papers of 2008, Pink Pailsee - Spring Fling Collection. 

The next shelf down has another bucket from Jsyk but in blue which stores my mini alphabet stamps, next to that is one of my background stamps i want to remember to use and then in the big glass jar in the middle is my wooden stamps. Far right is a clear container that i just got at a local shop and contains my square punched photos of my family and good friends to make personality pages with (idea from Stacy Julian i think!)

Down another level and we are at the top of the little shelves from IKEA, the Hensvik line. Here is another little green bucket from Jsyk (BTW Jsyk is i suppose a mini Danish IKEA that opened up here in Switzerland a couple of years ago) More clear IKEA glass jars this time filled with my AC ribbon and some felt, and of course some tissues. 

In the bookshelves themselves is little jars again from IKEA. Top three shelves are all my flowers and then the bottom two are little things, brads etc. divided by color. the last little shelf has my new Canon photo printer. 

The bars hung on the other wall are also from IKEA found in the kitchen department. I have been able to hang all my punches from them and the little ones that didnt hang are in the basket on the middle row. I have my acrylic paints in one basket at the top and have hung my trimmer with hooks. The big wire basket in the middle right has a cutter mat in it at the moment, but will store my new goodies as they come in, be that a new kit or just goodies in general. The bottom little bar has an empty (for now) black bucket and then a basket that holds the printing paper and other things for my photo printer, and the right black bucket has paint brushes in it. 

Will wait and see if the lighting in the room changes today and try and take some nicer photos later on.

Happy Sunday to everyone!!

A real busy day

Boy has it been a long day, well it feels like that anyway. 

I have been working all afternoon on my scrap area and i would say i am almost done. With everything in its place. It is too dark to take any photos today, but will take photos as soon as the sun comes up in the morning. 

I have also got lots of new goodies this week. Will share more tomorrow, but they include lots of stuff from the States (Thanks Phyllis!) including Thickers, AC Cardstock, and some new punches. 

Night!

My scrap space

So i have been a reader of the 

I'm an organizing junkie

for awhile now. I thought that this month would be a good time to jump in to her monthly organizing! This month was the craft/sewng room, which wa

s perfect timing because I have been redoing my space. After a trip to IKEA and some help from my friend P

hyllis I am almost there.  I will note here that my scrap space is a corner in my kids playroom, so it was a challenge to get the right set up. 

BEFORE:

as you can see, my space was a huge mess

AFTER:

here is my new cabinet. I still need to find some storage

 baskets for the bottom but other than that i am really happy with this storage piece

This is a look inside the first fold down compartment. 

I have stored all my flowers in jars on the top left, by color, the smaller jars to the right hold my small embellishments again by color. The wooden boxes hold from left to right, Misc tools, Altered Art matierla, Adhesive, Xyron Adhesive.  The metal containers on the fold down part hold my ribbon - my fav part of this cabinent is that its metal!

These metal containers are magnets so they stay in place when its closed. I just love them and have used them also in other places in my space. Here they hold my loose ribbon, again by color. 

Here is the second compartment - top right. 

This holds my Xyron Sticker machines and also some catorgarie draws. I am mainly organizing by color, but i felt that there were certain things that i would want to find not through my color system so i have made the following catergories. Holidays (including easter, halloween, christmas, new years), birthdays, travel and seasons, and the final draw holds family, baby and kids. 

So that is the first part, as you can see the photos are not the best, so i will have to wait for some sun (we are stuck in fog presently) to take some better photos of the rest. 

It is for sure still a work in progress as i need to work a little in it to make the final decsions. Also i need to buy some more paper storage and need to find photos boxes that can hold my photo catorgries. Difficult to find here. 

My scrap space

Very exciting news! My new furniture has arrived for my scrap space. Not sure when i  will get to figuring out where everything will go as the piece my husband bought is much bigger than i imagined. So it is going to take some moving around to figure out the perfect set up. As you can maybe see, i share a room with my kids toys, the idea is that i can scrap while they play. Not sure if this will always be this way as there is another opition of moving my exercise things into the playroom and my scrap space into our bedroom. We will just have to see what happens!

 So while i am doing this, take a look at my before picture. You can see how much in need i am for better storage!

So all of you out there in Blog World - what is your top tip for organizing a scrap space?