Today, I am taking you on a tour the finished room and a peak inside all my baskets and drawers full of scrapbook supplies.
There are a ton of photos, so take your time to browse. I will keep these posts handy on my right sidebar so you can reference them later at your convenience.
So! Let's get started...
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This is my craft studio. Complete. Cozy! Wonderful!
I have a dining room table in the center of the room for crafting with the kids or playing board games. The 12 foot long table is where I do most of my scrapping and create my projects - it's useful because everything is within arms reach (or a little farther because it is 12 feet, after all). I also have a large desk where I keep my large equipment like my sewing machine, Cricut, Cinch, and Cuttlebug. The drawers are handy for keeping related necessities like die cuts, punches, Cricut cartridges, and sewing thread.
In addition, I have a large hutch where I keep my larger supplies, like boxes that I want to embellish.
My desk is also in this room. And my little photo studio too!
There is enough room for eight to join me and scrap. The table in the center of the room was a wonderful antique store find. It it a gorgeous oak table with the original wonky swivel wheels. The table was painted entirely white when we found it, but that was a little too much white for me. We removed the paint from the table top to find a gorgeous oak finish. We stained it slightly and now it's perfect, shabby and chic!
Plus there are two leaf extensions so it can fit even more people if needed!
The desk on the left side is perfect for storing my punches and die cuts. Plus I am now able to keep my sewing machine out at all times. Before I had to keep it in the garage and bring it back and forth. It became quite exhausting for as much as I enjoy using it.
Also, my intent is to start using my Cricut machine more. Hopefully now that it's stored on top of the desk, I will see it and put it to use.
Here is the side view of all the shelves we built. I also just love the storage containers tucked underneath my 12 foot table. They are made my Jetmax and you can find them at Michael's. They were all on sale when I bought them for 40% off! Perfect timing for my room makeover weekend!
Also on sale at Michael's were these baskets. I am so lucky they were having a sale on the same weekend that I went shopping. Otherwise I would be broke by now! Each cubby is full of paper sorted first my manufacturer, then the extras are sorted by type.
Underneath my shelves is plenty of room to store all the common items that I reach for the most. I placed everything in the order of how I most often reach for them so I don't have to look to hard.
My glues and paints are stored in a little spice rack. Another thrift store sale find for only .90 cents! Score! And my wooden stamps, embossing powders, and glimmer mists fit perfectly on a wire rack.
In the center of my table, I keep my stamps and buttons. I use these the most so placing them in front of me was a must!
I keep my buttons organized by color. I prefer to keep them in one giant box, rather than individual jars. I do this because if I want more than one color for a project, I don't have to keep getting up and down. They are all here when I need them in one big helping!
Another clever storage container that I own is made by Craft Mates. I love this little box full of my handmade resin embellishments. The container will not open unless you press a button on the side. It keep accidents from happening, which I learned the hard way when all my buttons went flying across the table. But no more! Not with little genius little box!
Inside my baskets, I have them organized by type of product. Here is a basket full of flower embellishments.
In this basket, I store my rub-on stickers and alphabets. They seem to be in the same size packaging, so for me, it made sense. I also have a basket just for the kids. It's full of markers, crayons, and scrap papers that I have given to them. My son loves to come here to color. He is a very good artist and loves to create paper bag mini albums with all his artwork inside. I will have to take a photo of some of his finished art pieces. They are just too adorable!
Another great thing about these Jetmax storage drawers is that they are the perfect size to store all of your completed cards! I have them organized by type of occasion so they are easy to find at a moments notice! Notice the card in the back row on the right side? It was given to me from
Heather Jensen! She has a ton of talent and I love that she sent me a card!
Let's talk about scrap paper! If you're like me then you have a ton of it. I decided that I wanted to keep it more organized. I used to dump it into one large tupperware, but could never find what I was looking for.
Usually when I create, I stay close to using one manufacturer at a time rather than mixing too many products. When I have leftover scraps, I keep them stored in the plastic binder sheets, sorted by manufacturer. So the photo above shows all my Cosmo Cricket scraps. Next time I use more Cosmo Cricket, I can look through my stash first!
Here is my desk. It's giant! And heavy! I had to call for help to carry it into the house. Which of course, we broke off a piece of the back. But it's covered, so no one will ever know. Oops! Forget I told you that part!
On top of the desk are my son's gold fish. Can you believe they have lived for almost four years now? Is that even possible?
Inside the drawers are my die cuts and plates. They are so easy to use because they are kept right next to my Cuttlebug and my Cricut machines. No excuse for not cleaning up anymore!
The desk drawers are also perfect for keeping my punches. I used to keep them in one giant basket. That was torture because just my luck that the punch I always wanted was always at the bottom of the basket! Not anymore! They are all in view and so easy to find!
I had forgotten I had all these punches! Have you ever seen me use a scalloped square? Or how about those stars? It's like I have all new goodies to play with now!
My other way of keeping scraps are in this antique mixing bowl. Usually embellishments like chipboard of paper flowers I created are stashed here until I find a use for them.
This wire basket was another amazing antique store find. I keep all my seam binding ribbon here and extra ribbon that doesn't fit on my ribbon holder. Each tier spins so you can find what you need on the back side. Plus, it's a gorgeous green color! I am in love!
Well, thanks for taking the tour! I know it was a lot of photos see, but a craft room makeover doesn't happen very often.
I hope you enjoyed your visit into my home. If you have any questions at all, you may leave me a comment or send me an
email. I'd love to hear from you!
