How I Store my Chipboards

Okay I'm one of those who'd gone nuts over chipboards couple years ago.  I love adding them in my scrapbook pages and since I hardly make layouts nowadays, I felt like my well-loved chipboards are being ignored.  So sometimes, I will let the guilt rule and would use/add them in my card projects and honestly it made me feel good.

Here are some storage ideas for chipboards:

 Over-sized chipboards are placed in a 12X12 plastic paper organizer.

 I have die-cut chipboard albums on the top shelf of this bookcase.

 I have all my naked chipboards in two drawers inside the walk-in closet.  All chipboards are sorted by its kind.

 

I also stored my colored chipboards in one of the drawers.  These white drawers are Jetmaxx brand bought at Michaels using 50% coupon.  The other drawers has all my Asian theme stamps, Washi paper, Origami Paper and all sorts of Asian theme embellishments.

 I got these gift boxes right after Christmas at the BX in Osan.  These boxes comes in 3 different sizes and I got them at 75%.  These 4 boxes has all the colored shapes, dingbats and number chipboards

 Looks yummy, right!

 These are the medium size boxes that I used for my alpha chipboards.

 As you can see, I have several letters mixed together with others in each boxes.   However, each of them are stored separately using plastic ziplock bags.

I got these chipboard alpha's from some ebay seller/scrapbooker who also happens to be retiring.  Part of the deal for this chipboards are plastic containers that she used to store them.  I decided not to use them because it eats up too much space.  Shock to see these lose chipboards?  Well, you'll be even shocked when you see my unopened chipboard stash.  But I'm not worried about those because I can always sell them if I think I won't be using them anymore.

How I Store My Other Embellishment

Here are my storage solutions for my bling, dew drops, brads, charms, beads and seldom use embellishments.

This is a plastic box that I just grab whenever I needed some bling or novelty brads and even those flat-back pearls.  I really love adding a touch of bling in most of my projects.

 This small bookcase was placed inside the walk-in closet in my craftroom.  See those two spice racks?  I used them to organizer my dew drops and novelty brads.

 I don't use too many embellishment in my scrapbook or card projects anymore.  See those plastic bead organizers and jars?  That's where I store my old school embellishments like clips, paper clips, discs, epoxy stickers, sequins and alot more that I can hardly name.  These organizers and jars are stored in a shelf in the walk-in closet. 

 This is I think a picnic basket big enough to store most of my brass and filigree charms. 

I also have boxes solely for rice and micro beads and hardwares (like classic brads, bookplates, metal frames etc).  The 12X 12 plastic container has my oversize bare chipboard shapes.

 This drawer is solely for Around The Block embellishment and to be honest I hardly use them.  If I remember correctly, these goodies were new although some of them were out of its original packaging.  I think I paid $13 for all of these from an ebay seller who retire from doing scrapbooks.

 In these gift boxes, I also store my beading notions.  I used this mostly for hat pins and/or decorative pins that I add on my card projects.

How I Store My Decorative Pins

Decorative pins became a part of the cardmaking trend.  I would use them once in a while and like my other supplies I'd like to know what I have so I came up with a unique storage solution for my pins.

 This is an airtight stainless steel jar that I bought at the base thrift store in Osan.  I traced and cut a piece of styro and pushed it down to the bottom of the jar.  Then I stick those pics nicely.  I used this airtight jar to make sure that none of my kids will get hurt if ever they play with this.

 All these pins even the lose ones on the plastic fits perfectly in this container.

How I Store My Ribbons, Twines, Floss, Hemps and Laces

Most of my ribbons are winded in a round vintage clothespins that I bought from Do It Best.  Like other embellishments, I have a huge collection of ribbons.  Using the clothespins, my ribbons stash doesn't eat space so finding the perfect storage was easy.  I decided to go for huge cookie jars that you can find at Walmart then I sorted them according to its colors.

 

 

 I found this door organizer at Big Lots and I used it to store huge spool of satin ribbons.  I also have some yard-size ribbons that I hang in this door organizer.

 

 I found this wooden tray at the base thrift store in Korea and I use to store packs of ribbons, that's kindda nice to display around the craftroom.

 This jar is solely for scrap ribbons.

 I bought these small white storage boxes at Walmart and guess what I use it for?

 

 I used it to store floss, hemps and twines...

 If not hidden, these things are a clutter and kindda sour to the eyes.

 Again, another salad mix plastic container you are seeing, which I used to store my trims and laces.  I have this basket that sits right next to me that has all my laces and spools of baker's twine.

 

I also have a bunch of spools of ribbons in these hanging embellishment center.

How I Store My Flower Embellishements

Do you like flowers?  I do, I do, I do!  I specially like Prima and I so love the jars that comes with it.  I have a huge collection of them ranging from mulberry, to silk, to felt.  Because of my OCD, I have to make sure that they're being stored according to its color and its kind.  I have one black cardboard Ikea box that is solely for silk flowers but the rest are stored in either plastic containers or jars.   

 

I have some of my flowers stored in the plastic containers of salad mixes.  Rather than throw those big plastic containers for salad mixes, I re-purposed them and used it to store my mini-roses, feathers, stamens and leaves.

These are collection from Prima Got Flowers that I made into mini-flowers and roses and I stored them in SU stamp plastic storage (I think they called these clamp shell plastics).

 These are my lose Prima flowers I sorted according to colors.

 

 I found this 3-plastic drawers at the thrift store and used it to store my small packs of flowers from Prima, K & Company, Petaloo and well as felt flowers from American Crafts.

 My felt flowers...

My Prima flowers that comes in a nice jars are all stored in these hanging embellishment center.  They make my craftroom looks nice, colorful and cheery...