How I Store My Tools 5 - Cricut Cartridge, Handbooks and Machines

I may have the Gypsy and can't design without it, but I still make sure that my cartridges and my handbooks are within reach. 

 

This Snapware plastic organizer that I bought from Target is where I store my original as well as Imagine cartridges.  I also used it as storage for my cables and Imagine cartridges handbooks.

This is a fold it plastic storage that DH sent from Germany.  Designing using Gypsy is a breeze but I honestly couldn't design unless I have the handbooks. Crazy?!  Maybe LOLz...

I finally bought a dust cover for my Cricut machines.

 So happy with the dust cover I bought for my Cricut Imagine.

Too bad I didn't get a uniformed dust cover for my machines but still I'm so pleased with them.

 Look at my Personal Bug, it's kindda sad but soon I will buy one for it as well as for my Cricut Create machine.  

 These are my Cricut cartridge boxes and some of my Sizzix Alpha dies that are now stored in our library downstairs.

My Cinch binding machine

 My old Cuttlebug machine.  I really hope it will retire soon... "Babe, I want a Grand Calibur for my birthday! LOLz."

 My newest toy, Teresa Collins Stampmaker machine.

 I hope one of these days, I will be able to play with this new toy.  I really like the idea that I will be making my own stamps!

How I Store My Tools 4 - Dies, Acrylic Blocks, Stencils and Old School Tools

Below are some of the new and old school tools that I still find way to use in my projects:

 My scrapbooking, cardmaking, rubberstamping, quotation and sentiment books

 Veggie and sandwich meat packaging are my proffered storage for my used and unused sponges.

 Another one of lined basket that's full of all kinds of stencils, mask and piercing supplies.

 Another basket full of seldom used tools as well as old school tools.

 Also stored in this basket are my spare craft blades, crafting knives and scissors.

 This is a hanging plastic bin I bought in a Korean dollar store and I'm using it to organize my acrylic blocks.

My Sizzix dies which was stored in my Jetmaxx cubie drawers.

How I Store My Tools 3 - Embossing Folders, Plates and Stencils

I store my embossing folders, templates and stencils in two Cropper Hopper photo cases.  

 This is how it looks like inside.

 I patiently made these swatches, so I know what embossing folders or plates I want to use for my projects. 

These swatches are labeled according to its brand and description.

How I Store My Tools 2 - Punches

My supplier knows that I'm crazy about punches.  I'm a big fan of EK Success and Martha Stewart.  I have a couple of corner craft punch too and a bunch of paper shapers.  I am not really into craft punches because I could always cut images using my Cricut.

Here's how I store them:

 I used this Ikea off-white drawer to store most of my punches.

 

 Just a bunch of papershaper punches.

 SU and McGill punches

 

 I love the EK Label punches and I used them mostly for sentiments for my card projects.

 A drawer of EK XL Large and regular punches

 Another drawer for my EK punches

 Then another drawer that has my Fiskars hand squeeze punches.

 Fiskars edge punches

 MS Punches including deep edge punches.

 Another bunch of MS punches

Drawer that has all the seasonal MS edge punches.

 Last drawer has the original MS edge punches, which is really hard to store.

Got a couple of this Ikea rod, mounted it under my Making Memories Embellishment Center and used it to store my MS craft punches and corner punches.

Just like my embossing folders and plates, I made swatches too for all my edge punches.

How I Store My Rubberstamps - Unmounted, Cling and Wood-Mounted

I have several ways of storing my rubberstamps.  It all depends on whether they are unmounted, cling or woodmounted stamps.

 This is a wide depth bookcase that we got at Ikea.  Everything in this bookcase are stamps.

 Clear stamps are organized in the binders.  My unmounted and cling mounted rubber stamps are organized and sorted according to brands in a plastic binder that you can buy at Unibinder. 

 My collection.  This is mostly character stamps.

 Stamps inside these binders are mixed of clear stamps, cling mounted and unmounted.  I used Aleene's Tack It Over and Over glue for the unmounted ones. 

 I got these 1-inch document protector plastic cases in Korea and paid less than $1 for one.  I stored my lose stamps in there as well as old rubberstamps sets.  I unmounted my 50 some sets of CTMH rubberstamp, mounted them in an EZ mount panel sheets, and store them in those document protector plastic cases.

 These plastic cases are from SU stamps but instead I used them for my $1 stamps that I normally picked when I'm at Michaels or Joann's.

 Now look at these DVD clear plastic cases. These cases has all my SU stamp sets. Pretty neat huh!?

 I'm not much of a big fan of alpha stamps because I honestly doesn't know how to use them.  I really dont like it when they don't line up.  So the few sets that I own, I store them in this embellishment organizer.

 I also have a basket for new stamps and those that I haven't mounted and organized just yet.  I been wanting to buy another batch of Unibinder binders but not really in a hurry to buy them.  That's why these goodies sits in these baskets.

 More stamps that needs to get mounted and organized.

 I have two other baskets that sits in the bookcase for big lose stamps that I grabbed whenever they are on sale at Hobby Lobby.

 This is my simple way of storing my Justrite Stamps using drawer organizer that we bought from Ikea.

 Mounting blocks and tweezers are all in here too.

 I store this on the top of the Jetmaxx drawers inside the walk-in closet. I want to make sure that my children could not get hold of these stamps.

 As for storing my background stamps, House Mouse Collection, Thomas Kinkade Collection, Unity and Hero Arts, they are all here in these two Making Memories Embellishment Hanging Centers.