I'm sorry it has been a while but in my defence I have been busy doing some clearing out and reorganising, and having purged, I'm feeling much better and can think about creating some things again. My husband was away for a few days so I even swore off blog visiting and knuckled down to some hard work.
The main areas I wanted to reorganise were my die storage and my card storage. For ages I've had my card organised in loose colour combos such as blues and greens together in a box etc but the card was getting dog eared when I was looking for bits and I was always cutting into a new sheet of card when I had perfectly serviceable bits lower in the box. I got an idea from Ted on the PTI forum and bought lots of suspension files for my filing drawer and now every colour has its own file with a Ziploc bag hung over the back of each file for the small pieces of card that 'might come in useful'.
For my die storage, I had been using a zipped CD storage case, but every now and then it would get turned upside down and all the dies would fall and and need replacing. I had thought about storing them with the matching stamp sets but I would still need a storage system for those dies from other companies that do not have matching stamps. I bit the bullet and found a small set of plastic drawers that fit tidily under my desk and made dividers up from card I already had. It doesn't look pretty and I might change it in the future if I see something more suitable but it will do the job for now.
The top drawer has all my small PTI dies,
The next drawer has all the borders and larger dies,
and the final drawer has all my embossing folders and impression plates.
As you can see it fits beautifully under the desk in a handy position. All this was followed up with a deep clean and tidy so I can enjoy spending time in the room again.
After all this work I wanted to sit down and create something so I made this little thank you card using a Penny Black image which I have always loved but rarely use. I cut and embossed a frame to finish the card off and used diamond Stickles for the centre of the flower, which I hope will qualify me to enter this into the Cute card Thursday challenge which this time is Diamonds are Forever.
After all this work I wanted to sit down and create something so I made this little thank you card using a Penny Black image which I have always loved but rarely use. I cut and embossed a frame to finish the card off and used diamond Stickles for the centre of the flower, which I hope will qualify me to enter this into the Cute card Thursday challenge which this time is Diamonds are Forever.
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Gosh this ended up being a much longer post than I anticipated, so thanks for sticking with me. I'm off now to blog hop and see what everyone has been up to whilst I was being so industrious.
Hugs
Carol x
