Good Morning SCT Friends!
As scrapbookers we are always collecting! We collect photographs, pieces of memorablia and most often lots and lots of products for scrapbooking. At the magazine, we are often asked for ideas on how to organize all of these products without having to spend too much money.
Today we share with you organizational ideas from Jeanette Smith, one of our readers. Jeanette has created a very functional craft room.
To create a desk Jeanette used a sheet of MDF, trimmed the front edge with baseboard and supported the two ends with shelving which she uses to hold larger items. Above her desk, she has homemade wooden boxes with removable shelves for her 12x12 papers.
For easy viewing and storage of her stickers and rubons, Jeanette hung up an old curtain rod with a bunch of pinch clips so she can quickly grab and return her items when finished with them.
For other items, Jeanette hung a piece of pegboard. Using different sized hooks, brackets and baskets, she is able to hang rulers, stamps, scissors, etc. and even organize her embossing powders while keeping them out of the way but still being able to reach them for ease of use.
Jeanette has other wonderful storage ideas that you can see on her blog here. Thank you Jeanette for sharing your organizational tips!
Today is also the July release of Colour Suite! This month Sarah Webb took on the Colour Suite challenge while Summer Fullerton has taken a much needed vacation. Here are this month's colours and Sarah's take on the challenge.
Thank you Sarah! For some amazing colour inspiration, visit the SCT website to see a years worth of Colour Suite challenges and more!
Most of the team is now enroute to Chicago for CHA, the Craft & Hobby Association conference and trade show. While they are gone, we are going to have some fun! We recently hosted a party on Facebook to celebrate 12,000+ fans. During this celebration, we had such an amazing outpouring of love that we actually hit and then quickly passed 13,000+ Facebook fans! So, while the SCT team is away, we are going to do what we do best ... THROW A PARTY!!!!
Beginning tomorrow, July 17th, we will be hosting a "Celebrating our Friends and Fans Contest!" I will see you all back here tomorrow to share the details of this sure to be BLAST event!!!
Have a fabulous Monday!
~ Jen
LOVE these pictures!!! Any organizing tip does wonders!!
Posted by: weezie13 | July 16, 2012 at 10:18 AM
Love that pinch clip idea. Great tips. Thanks for sharing. : )
Posted by: Chris R | July 16, 2012 at 10:30 AM
I really like the peg board and curtain rod ideas! I already have a Clip it Up that my Thickers and some embelllies hang on, but it's already getting a little overgrown. Moving the embellies off and onto a rod would make them more accessible. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: JessicaA | July 16, 2012 at 10:32 AM
I'm loving that shower curtain rod idea!
Posted by: Theresa | July 16, 2012 at 10:44 AM
I love to see other people's organization ideas for scrapbooking rooms. Right now I have a small area in the spare bedroom that we furnished as my crafting-area but ones we moved to a bigger house I'll be getting my own room. Offcours I am already looking for great ideas and good storage solutions although I don't even know what the room is going to be like in space and shape! lol! Thank you for sharing and see you all tomorrow for the party! ;-)
Posted by: Dee | July 16, 2012 at 11:34 AM
Whoo hoo, another Party!!! Can't wait to see what this brings us. And love that curtain rod idea...can put a LOT of embellies there and retrieve them easily!~ Gorgeous colors in the challenge too!
Posted by: Kathy P | July 16, 2012 at 11:44 AM
I love all the ideas for your room organization. I am moving my scrapbooking room to larger room and will definetly utilize some of your fantastic ideas. Tahnks so much for sharing.
Posted by: Donna Rawbone | July 16, 2012 at 12:19 PM
all ideas are wonderful
Posted by: marie o hanlon | July 16, 2012 at 02:14 PM
Love looking at new organizing options... I'm a freak like that :). But want to thank Jeanette for the great curtain rod tip! I have been looking at towel racks but they don't come cheap and I just changed some curtains in one of my rooms and had to change the rod and voila - I have the exact same rod as Jeannette left over! Doesn't take much to get me excited - lol.
Posted by: Joan K. Demers | July 16, 2012 at 03:10 PM
great scrap space...someday I'll have one that's not the dining room table! The colour suite rocks! love it!
Posted by: Anita Price | July 16, 2012 at 04:45 PM
What a great scrap space. Some great ideas to make mine function better. So cool. Whoopee! Another party. You guys throw a fantastic party, can't wait to see what you do this time. Thanks
Posted by: Dorina D | July 16, 2012 at 07:12 PM
Love the craft area! ;o)
Posted by: Ruza | July 19, 2012 at 11:20 PM
love the organization tips and I always love Summer's colour suites too!! i just need to play along!
Posted by: Nicole | July 24, 2012 at 08:39 PM
Love it, thanks.. Sure it is important to be organized, especially while as I do handle with options. Good organization may sure, enhance traders profit as a whole.
Posted by: online options trading | September 09, 2012 at 01:39 AM
These are nice organizational ideas by Jeanette. I love the idea of paper shelves. Everything is organized. :)
Posted by: Graphics Matrox | February 19, 2013 at 02:46 AM