ORGANIZING YOUR DIES

I have seen a lot of methods for organizing your dies especially the spellbinders sets but I was always worried that they would fall off hooks or magnets.  I decided to  put  magnets sold for printing pictures in a 8.5 by 11 scrapbook album and store my dies.  I filed them back to back with cardboard in between and marked all the sizes and how many I should have in each set.  Knowing the size makes it easier when you want to print an image and use a certain die cut.

RIBBON ORGANIZATION

I have tons of ribbon in every color and if it doesn't stay easily accessible  I usually wind up buying more because I can't find it.  I came up with a system that works really well. I purchased boxes from the dollar store and cut small squares of card stock with a indent in the middle to keep the ribbon from slipping off.
I then took small elastics , also from the dollar store, and secured the ribbon.   If the ribbon was narrow  I wrapped two on the same  card stock square. I cut the card stock squares with a little  tab in the middle  to separate the two ribbons.  Originally  I cut the cardboard squares from my cricut until I realized it was much quicker just to do it by hand.

CRAFT STUFF ORGANIZATION

So much stuff to organize.   All my sentiments stamps were in sets so when I was looking for a Happy Birthday  I would have to pull out all the  different sets of sentiments or other sets and look through them all to see what size or style I wanted to use.  Many times the stamps had fallen off the acetate and I would have to search for them.   It drove me crazy.  I decided to divide all my sentiments by  events , like Happy Birthday,  Sympathy, etc. etc.   I got thin plastic boxes at Michaels and Stampin up , cut two pieces of acetate to fit .   I then stamped all like sentiments on the sheets of acetate in stazon ink and filed two sets in each box back to back with white cardstock in between.  You can find the sentiment in seconds and if it falls off the acetate it remains in the box.