Magazine Storage

I can't help it! I LOVE to organize. My husband thinks I like to organize more than I like to work on my paper projects. There is just something about about a neat, organized, and LABELED space! haha. I wanted to take my magazine of my bookcase (it was starting to look too cluttered with 4 subscriptions of magazine coming to me. So, I decided to put them into a filing cabinet, but I did not want them to start bending and curling. I tore apart regular hanging folders and used the metal rod to put inside each of the magazine. Then I separated the magazines titles and by months.
I also started spray painting my while plastic shelves brown to match the rest of my room. My goal is to get my room Chocolate Brown, Bashful Blue (SU! color) and white accents. I used that Krylon Fusion paint for plastic.

New Ribbon Storage Idea

Many of you know that I am a HUGE ribbon addict! I love to use ribbon on my projects. I'm always looking for new ways to store my ribbon. My favorite is using the ClosetMaid shelves seen on this post. But I don't have anymore room to put this racks on my wall ....so I purchased one of triple level hanging fruit baskets. I put them my "plain" colored ribbon in the basket.

Paper and Embellishment Storage

Here is a picture of my new paper and embellishment storage. The embellishment storage is from Making Memories. I got it at Michaels with my 40% off coupon. The paper storage is from ABC Distributing. It took awhile to put all these together! But I love them. Now I keep my StampinUp! 12x12, 8-1/2x11, and scraps all together. It definitely helps me conserve my paper. Now it is SUPER easy to look for small scraps of a certain color instead looking through plastic ziploc bags.

My Craft Desk

I promised pictures of my desk that my AWESOME dad made me! I love it! It has a built-in shelf that holds all my white drawers (I got these from Michaels). The best thing about this desk is the pull out drawer! My layouts stay on this ledge and I stamp glue and work on the actual desk above. No more accidental glue marks on my layouts! And it is perfect when my two little ones wake up from a nap and I'm not finished with a layout. I just push it in away from sticky fingers.



My dad is working on a sewing table for my mom too. Check out her blog to view her table. http://susansews.blogspot.com/search/label/Sewing%20Table

I think my dad should retire and start making craft tables and ribbon holders! He made me this ribbon holder on the right at this post

New Signature

I was experimenting with an online signature. What do you think? I made it from http://www.mylivesignature.com/ Visit and try it for your blog or forum signature.

Father's Day for my Dad

Here is a card I made for my Dad for Father's Day. It is Fixafella from Stampingbella! This is perfect for my Dad! He can fix ANYTHING! Inside the card I used old beer caps and punched out pictures of my boys using a1" circle punch. Then I put Crystal Effects on top to give it the glossy look! I also hot glued a magnet on the back of the beer cap so he can put the pictures on his tool chest at work! :) (You can also glue a thumb tack and use them for bulletin boards)

Another Father's Day Card

My husband is not a huge beer drinking, but I just thought this Beerafella stamp from Stamping Bella was cute! I never saw anything like this before. I used my new Prismacolor pencils (I still have alot of practice to do) I'm not use to them yet.

My Husband's Father's Day Gift

I loved how this turned out! I "cased" the idea from a Creating Keepsakes magazine, but added the title "A Father is..." myself. Each of the pictures have titles that say stuff like (Fisherman, Soccer Coach, T-Ball Coach, and Storyteller, etc...) All the pictures are of my husband with our two boys. I used a 11x14 frame and took out the glass so he can pull the pictures out of the pocket. The "background" is a woven leather place mat that I cut down to size and the cork board was from a dollar store bulletin board that I cut apart to use only the cork board. The pocket was a clearance napkin I found at Garden Ridge I thought the colors were very masculine.

Father's Day Generations Frame

Here is one of the frames I made for some of the Father's in our lives. The title Generations is a Alpha stamp from Stampin'Up called Jumbo Outline Alphabet. I used a versamark pen to color inside the letters just to slightly darken the letters. I made a card to match each of the frames. All the frames were basically the same except I changed out the pictures. The paper is from S.E.I - Decorator Series.

Standing or Sitting?

How do you prefer to scrapbook? My Dad made me an AWESOME table ( I can't take a picture of it yet) I have WAY too much of a mess on it. But lately I've been standing up scrapbooking (I guess I get tired of getting up and down to get stuff. I change my mind alot when I create a page. Plus, I like looking at the layout from higher up. I seem to get a better feel about it. I'm thinking about raising the table, but I don't want to do it then be sorry. Just wondering how others scrapbook.