CASology - Craft Space Tours

If you are looking for the 25 Days of Christmas Tags post for today. It is below this post.

If you have been following along at CASology for the past few weeks you know that two of the design team have been sharing a tour of their craft rooms on Thursday and Friday.

Today is the day that I am taking you on a tour of my craft room.
Many of you know that I moved in the summer and it has taken me sometime to get my crafty space into order. You are getting a tour of  my work in progress. This room is going to be renovated this winter, so everything is moving out again so that we can get rid of the stucco ceiling, add pots lights, close the ensuite off from the room and open it up to the hall as a powder room, paint the walls and rotate all the desks to the right one turn!



To describe my craft space would be functional, uncluttered and organized. I like to have everything accessible but not messy. That is the only way I can create. All my furniture is Alex from IKEA. I do most of my creating along the wall under the two lamps. I have my score board, craft mat, Big Shot and tool carousel on the desk. The rolling cart under the desk, I use to keep some files (yes this is sometimes a home office) and the drawer unit on the right end is where I keep the supplies that I reach for most often. Sam also has a bed under my desk that he sleeps in while I craft to keep me company.

My Pottery Barn carousel was one of my first crafty gifts from my hubby and I keep the tools that I use most.

Top drawer is where I keep my black inks, VersaMark and my adhesives.

Second drawer has my Papertrey and Altenew inks, my MFT ink is in the middle drawer on the rolling cart under the desk.

The third drawer has my foam blending tools, embossing pastes, spray inks, Stickles, Glossy Accents, Multi Medium Matte and Gelatos.

The bottom two drawers have my small paper trimmer, mini score board, label maker and cleaning supplies. They were not pretty to look at so I didn't take pictures.

The side desk has my Foldio and my new Scan N Cut 2 on it and the tripod is usually set up in front.

The other side of the room is where I keep all my stamps, dies, papers and other supplies.

I am in the process of reorganizing my stamps and dies to be together. I used to keep them separately but it is much easier to keep the dies with the stamp set they coordinate with sorted by manufacturer and then theme. I keep the stand alone dies there too. I use the Jennifer McGuire style method of storage using clear pockets and Fridge Binz. The dies I have on magnetic sheets behind the stamps or in pocket on their own.

I store my cardstock by colour and label the first sheet with post it tabs with the manufacturer and the colour name. This is Michelle Short style!  My white shoeboxes are labeled with their contents--twine, jewels, die cuts, jingle bells, scrapbook supplies, cards I have made. I keep my 6 x 6 patterned paper pads in wire bins on the shelf.

In the closet I keep  my woodblock stamps, Distress Inks and all my 12 x 12 cardstock and patterned papers.

The Last item that I wanted to share is my Rascog cart! I love mine and always love to see what others keep in their cart! My cart sits in front of three Alex cupboards that I keep my printer paper, stickers, camera lenses and chargers in.

I keep envelopes, stamps and dies that I haven't put away yet, journaling cards, small stamp sets, my mini distress inks, embossing powers, envelope score board, Project Life cards, my ZIG Color Clean Real Brush Markers and my MISTI on the cart.

I did a craftroom tour back in 2013 HERE. I will do another once the renovations are done. Thanks for dropping in today and have a wonderful weekend.