More great Storage Ideas!!

Hello everyone!!

How do you store your chipboard? 

Do you need to update the way you store your chipboard pieces?

Have a look how Leonie, Solange and Sonia store their Imaginarium Designs chipboard... maybe one of these ideas will work for you!!

Leonie

I like to store my Chipboard Titles and Phrases on a 12x12 piece of packing cardboard. I use a small piece of double sided adhesive under each phrase so that I can easily remove it when I want to use it. I store these boards in a 12x12 ziplock bag so that I can see at a glance the title and phrases that I have, makes life very easy!

For my smaller chipboard shapes and word boards I store them in an Ikea drawer divider. Designed to fit inside the Alex set of Ikea drawers, as you can see this divider can hold a lot of chipboard pieces! Once again ease and visibility are important when storing my chipboard, it means no piece of chipboard is forgotten at the bottom of a box!

Solange

I keep my chipboards in drawers divided by themes: shapes, borders, frames, flourishes...
To the alphas I've criated a litlle drawer and I've glued the letters on the front of each drawer. To keep my words and phrases I've used a binder folder, this way I get find my chipboards easily.

Sonia

Sonia is someone who doesn't enjoy rumaging around trying to find things so keeping the chipboard organised is important so it can all be seen at a glance. To do this, a variety of different album inserts hold the different sizes of chipboard. Some kraft cardstock has been cut to size to back each sleeve to protect the chipboard and make it easier to see at the same time. All of the sleeves are held together with rings

The chipboard is stored into types so if you are looking for flourishes or leaves, they should be together. However tidying up quickly after a crafty session sometimes means that the chipboard doesn't always go back where it should!

All of the phrases and alphabets are stored together making it quicker to find everything

This post brings us to the end of our DT's sharing their STORAGE IDEAS with you in July, we hope you might have seen a system that will work for you!!

Wait to you see what the THEME is for August...

Love Natalie xx

October Inspiration and an Idea For Chipboard Storage

Hello, Leonie here today with two pages choc full of lovely Chipboard and

a little idea from me on chipboard storage to share with our readers.

Something bright and colourful first up.

I used paint to colour the chipboard pieces on this first page.

On the butterflies I added some glitter glue for a little sparkle. :)

It's Your Smile 

IDP 0093

8 Butterflies on A Board 

IDS 0003

Denise's Art Deco Corner

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Denise's Art Deco Corner

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My second page today features the Cogs On a Board Chipboard as 

well as a few other pieces.

Some of the cogs and the bicycle were simply inked black and the rest of the 

cogs I spray painted with a Gold Foil Metallic spray by Krylon.

It gave a lovely metal finish and it's hard to tell the difference 

between some of the chipboard cogs and 

some metal embellishments I used.

Here are a couple of the tiny script words from Imaginarium Designs

which fitted perfectly with this pages' theme.

IDW0077

  

IDW0080

 

9 cogs on a board 

IDS 0018                          

Loolabelle's Chevrons #1

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Bicycle 

IDS0011

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If you've been following the blog closely this week you will have noticed

that some of us Design Team girls have been sharing some peaks into our creative spaces

Check out Amy's post HERE and Belinda's HERE

Read on for some pictures of my Scrap room.

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First up is how I like to store my chipboard phrases and any small loose pieces.

I use a 12x12" piece of cardboard packaging and a tape runner to adhere the chipboard.

It then goes in a plastic snap lock back.

I find this a great way to easily see my chipboard at a glance.  

It also keeps them from getting broken and the tape

runner isn't permanent so when I choose a piece to use I can easily lift it off 

without damaging the chipboard.

 I have a lovely long desk in our study that my Dad built for me that I absolutely love.

  I bought it as an off cut from a kitchen cabinetry store.  It's been in for a few years now and although the black colour shows up any

marks like splashes of gesso or paint,

 they wipe off easily and it's been very hard wearing to date.

On the opposite wall is an Ikea cube unit and filing cabinet.

And just so you don't think I'm super organised and tidy,

 more often than not this is how my space really looks!!

 Plenty of mess spread everywhere and my 5 metre long bench space 

is reduced to the size of the 12x12" page I'm currently working on!

Does this happen to anyone else??

Happy creating to you all.

 Don't forget to leave a comment to go into the draw to win a pack of chipboard!