More Punch Art

Hi Peeps!

Another short post today but this one is pre scheduled. Here are a few more punch art pages for you to enjoy as promised. I will have a card or two next week! In the mean time have a great weekend & thanks for spending part of your day with me! Leave me a comment & let me know what you think of the punch art book!


Alligator


Bear


Ice Cream Cone


Have a great day & stay cool!

Punch Art Book

Hello all!

This will be a quick post today, I have so much to do before going out today.

I made a punch art scrapbook (mine is an 8x8) & I still have some more to do but thought I would share some with you today & tomorrow. These are so darn cute & I just love things like this...just think of the possibilities, you could put them on a card or on top of a box or put them on a big paper clip, or even on top of a post it holder just to name a few. I got the idea from Angie over at Chic' n Scratch & then found a few other pages from different blogs in blogland but the majority came from Angie's blog, so take a look & create your very own punch book!

Lady Bug


Hippo


Lion


Lamb


Have a great weekend everyone & thanks for dropping by today!

Stamp Inventory Binders

Good morning everyone!

OMGoodness, we had so much fun yesterday!!! I showed Sandi a lot of things about stamping, we made a card & a template for her to have on hand on how to make a spring card. I gave her some stamped images & we cut them out with a few different nestabilities so that she could make a few cards when she has time. She told me I just created a monster! Hehehe!!! Dan grilled us some hamburgers & made us a salad for lunch & then he took off to leave us ladies alone in our stamping glory! What a great guy I married hah? He's the BEST! I had a ball Sandi & can't wait to do it again, maybe bring Janis next time (her daughter) just leave the kids with her mother-in-law for the day, she would love that!

Ok all, here is my stamp inventory binders that I talked about last week. By setting up these binders it saves me so much time, now my sets are in company sections & by each stamp or sentiment (in the sentiment binder as well) I have a little note telling me where to find the stamp in my craft room...yes I did put that info in pencil in case I move the stamp into a different section as I get organized. I tried to think ahead, hahaha!!! I still have a lot more to put into these binders but a little at a time right?! I'm about halfway done with this. As I get new sets what I will do from now on is make a copy of the picture of the whole set & then adhere it to the page, so that all I need to stamp is the sentiments in that binder. Leave me a comment & let me know what you think, tell me how you keep track of your stamps.

This is my SU stamp section


This is my Hanna Stamp section



This binder holds all my sentiments by category...Birthday, Get Well, Sympathy, Wedding, etc. I luv this, now all I have to do is look in the binder for a sentiment & see where it is & go get it, saves so much time from searching through my sets to see what I want to use.


Picture of both binders

Thanks for stopping by & have a great day!

Keeping Tabs on Card Stock & SU Punches!

Hi everyone!

Well as promised here is my first post on my attempt at organizing my time & craft room, hope you like it!

I used to spend a long time going through my SU filing drawer & Papertrey file bin to see what card stock I wanted to use to match a DP that I had in mind for a card & so I wanted something that would cut down on the searching time & came up with this after buying Cat's SU punch key ring. Now all I have to do is take out the key ring & check the colors & if I need more card stock in that color the stock number is right there, nice & easy & simple to make. I bought the big rings at Wal-Mart, their cheap enough. I cut the card stock 2 1/2 X 3 1/2. I made one for SU card stock & one for Papertrey, I will be working on one for Gina K Pure Luxury card stock when I buy some of her colored card stock, right now I only have 2 colors. I laminated the top white cs & I think I'm going to laminate a back piece as well. I'll have more tips for you tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great evening!

SU Card stock keyring


The name & stock number are right on the card stock so it's easy to jot down when I'm running low on a certain color.


Papertrey Inc. card stock keyring


Card stock name


This is where I got the idea for my card stock key rings. I bought this SU punch key ring from Cat so that I can have it handy to see if a word will fit into a punch before I stamp it or if it will work with a layout that I might have in mind. She does update it with new punches every so often when SU comes out with some new ones. So head on over there if you want one.


SU Punch Keyring





Two card stock & one SU punch key rings

My Nestabilities Storage

Nestabilities Storage Tips

Hi everyone!

I used to store mine in CD cases but got tired of asking people for cd cases, no one buys cd's much anymore, my kids download their music onto their ipods. Here are the pictures of my NEW nestie’s storage system. I luv this & it does not take up much room. The folder for the long Rectangle nesties is called “Quickutz Revolution magnetic storage binder” and I got mine on ebay, I figured I would buy two of them & keep one in case Spellbinders made another large set , I bought 1 in black & 1 in white. Click Here to check it out. I just noticed that she doesn't have any right now, but they have them at Quickutz for $12.99.
The double CD case I got at Best Buy & I have plenty of room for future nesties, hehehe!! I bought thin magnetic sheets from Staples & cut them to fit inside the pockets, made them a little smaller than the pockets so that it would be easy to slide in & out & kept a template of the size for when I add to my collection & my collection is growing. Also someone on SCS said what they did for the longer rectangles was to cut the first pocket on the bottom of the CD case & make a longer magnetic sheet to slide the nesties in, but I liked the Quickutz folder better. The first 2 nesties that I bought were the large regular ovals & the large regular scallop ovals, then I got smart & starting ordering the complete sets because they came out cheaper than ordering just 2, I just have to wait longer to receive them & that’s OK by me as long as I’m getting a good deal on them. I think that the nesties are one of the best purchases that I have ever made, I just luv them so much! So I hope this helps you & gives you another idea for storing your nesties.

Have a great day & thanks for stopping by today!






This is the Quickutz Revolution magnetic storage binder. It lays nice & flat or you could stand it upright like a book, it's nice & sturdy. The cheapest place I found was on ebay for around $9.95 I think.




Open folder. One side of the folder has a cover so that the magnetic sides don't stick together. Take the cover off & the other nesties are there. I luv this folder, but sometimes its hard to get them out so I have my CM flat tool to slide underneath & get them loose, I only have to that when I cut my fingernails short. Every so often I cut my nails down really short when they start to break.




Take the cover off on the right side & there are the other nesties.





This is what the Double CD case looks like closed, it has a zipper. It was $19.99 at Best Buy & I got it on sale last week for $17. & change. I think that's a great deal for this storage system. I think the magnetic sheets were just over $10. for 4 sheets which netted 4 cuts per sheet & a little trimming. My final measurements for the magnetic sheets for the pockets were 4 1/4" X 4 1/2" & they slide nice & easy when you need to take them in & out.




I put a label on the sheet to let me know what size they are & then put a label on the outside pocket of what they are, square, round, rectangle, etc. Not that I don't know but I like to label everything!




The Squares & the Round ones I just got in 2 weeks ago & used the rest of my magnetic sheets. Time to go back to Staples to get more magnetic sheets.




This is what they look like on the thin magnetic sheet when you take them out of the pocket. I take them out, work with them this way then when I'm done I just slide them back in the CD pocket.




Easy to slide in & out whenever you need them


Revised to add that the Square scallop nesties don't nestle perfect so I split those up into 2 pockets each for the large & the small. So there are only 3 nesties in those pockets.