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Candy and Lori are enjoying themselves at CHA Winter 2012 in Anaheim, California. I hope they are having as nice weather as we are having here in central Ohio. It was sunny and 60 today. Craziness for January!!! Shhhh......let's not wake up Mother Nature.
The girls been busy little bees fluttering from booth to booth. There are so many good things to see and I know they have picked up a lot of treasures for future kits. Here are just a few sneak peeks they sent our way.
They come in all shapes and sizes, a rainbow of colors and about as many types, textures and styles as you can imagine. Scrapbooking would not be the same without flowers! Flowers are not just for girls anymore, either. I have two boys and they've gotten used to seeing flowers on their layouts over the years.
I love flowers because they are so easy to incorporate onto a layout, card or project. Flowers easily fill up an empty space and provide depth, texture and interest to any project.
The problem with flowers is we tend to collect them.....a lot of them! You can never have too many flowers, right? They can easily multiply when you aren't looking. So, what to do with those delightful blooms when we bring them home? It's important to keep your flowers well organized or you can easily over purchase if you don't know what you have on hand. Some people like to keep flowers in their orignal packaging. Some like to store them in zip lock baggies or other organization products on the market.
I prefer to store my flowers in glass jars.
I found a this set of glass canisters at Target for $20 and I knew they would be perfect for storing my flowers. I love seeing them sitting on my scrappy desk and they are easily accessible. The tall square jar I found at a garage sale for $1 (score!). The remainder of my flowers are in zip lock baggies and stored with my other embellishments (more on those later in the series).
Here are some other great storage ideas. Click on the photo to go directly to the web page to learn more.
Great idea for easy access:
Love the uniform look of these jars:
Zip lock baggies are very cost effective and travel easily:
These storage containers can be found at local discount stores like Wal-Mart and Target. They are inexpensive and stack neatly:
We would like to hear from you. What is your favorite way to store flowers?
We have a winner to our second round of trivia questions!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY – MIXED MEDIA BINGO CARD ALBUM – Happy Birthday to you and to ScrapScription! It's been 3 years since this little dream of ours came true and we sent out our very first newsletter announcing our very first kit. Since then we have always taken the month of January to celebrate with a birthday themed album. This year we bring you our own creation with a great mix of bright, colorful products from some our favorite manufacturers – Jenni Bowlin, Doodlebug Designs and October Afternoon. The base of this album is the adorable birthday themed bingo cards from Jenni Bowlin. Then we added some of her fun chipboard shapes including a big star for the front cover. Inside we've mixed some of the patterned papers from Jenni's Play Date collection with a set of Doodlebug birthday Cute Cuts and coordinating blank cards. You'll get an entire 12x12 sheet of multi-colored alphabet stickers from October Afternoon to personalize your album. This album is perfect for anyone's birthday – adult, child – male, female – makes no difference – there's a lot to celebrate with this one! Order yours today and help us blow out the candles on the start of another great year here at ScrapScription!
Cost: $39.00
Oh my, whose heart doesn’t go pitter patter when they see a funky new alphabet font? I just love how alphabets come in all different shapes, sizes and colors. You can get wooden, acrylic, metal, vinyl, fabric…the list goes on and on. These puppies tend to multiply fast and can sometime create a storage challenge, especially if you haul them along to crops. I even got a Cricut with the intention of cutting my own letters so I didn’t have to store so many, but alas, I still do not cut alphas. {sigh}
I like to store my alphabets in a linen lined wicker basket I got at Hobby Lobby. They are organized by color except for Tiny Types, which I store in the front. I don’t know why I store them in the front, I just like them there where I can see them and they won’t get lost.
When I go to a crop, I usually just take a couple packets I think I may need. I organize for crops pretty well and like to travel light. However, when I go away for a weekend retreat, I just take the whole basket with me.
How do you store alphabets? Do you sort them by color? Are you a “Thou shall not comingle Thickers with other alphabets” person? Your goal this week is to organize your alphabets in manner that is convenient for you. Lets us know what you do!
Note: These will normally be posted each Sunday, however, my post was stuck in cyber space. Oy!
I love the start of a new year. I like planning on what I want to accomplish for the next 12 months and it almost always includes some type of cleaning or organization project. Are there any other uber organizers out there? If so, you will enjoy our new series 12 Weeks to Organizing Your Scrapbook Stash in 2012.
The first week in our series will focus on ribbon. We love it and we gotta have it…a LOT of it. But what the heck do we do with all those mountains of glorious fibers? If you’re like me you have reorganized your ribbon a dozen times from zip lock baggies, to spools, to fancy boxes and nothing seems to stick for very long. One thing I know is I like to have my ribbon sorted by color. My ribbon is currently sorted by color and stored on rings.
This is what it should look like. Isn’t it purdy?
However, mine is a hot mess because it gets used A LOT and this is what it actually looks like:
My ribbon has been organized like this for about two years and probably the longest I’ve had anything organized. I like it because it’s very portable. I can grab a specific ring color or just take the whole shebang with me to a crop. See how portable it is? LOL! I’m such a dork.
You can get these ribbon storage cards at www.ribbonring.com. I’m too cheap or perhaps too lazy to order them and just made my own with a blank plastic stencil I had on hand and my craft knife.
There are hundreds of ideas on the Internet. Just Google “ribbon storage ideas” and you will find dozens of ideas to adapt into your work space. Here are some of my favorite ribbon storage ideas I stumbled across. Click on the photos for detailed info.
We want to hear from you. How do you currently store your ribbon? Is it working for you? Do you need an organizational change for 2012? Feel free to send us before and after photos on your ribbon storage organization.
