Good grief, it's quiet!!

Having been doing a card swap with a friend of mine for the last 7 months or so I have discovered I really really need to get the craft room occassional guest room) organized for easier rubber stamp creations. A nice closet style or wall unit cabinent full of all sorts of useful nooks and crannies and drawers/shelves specific to rubber stamps and the sattelite accessories that go with it. More wall mounted shadow boxes to hold more of my stamps and emb powders/glitters would be useful. Thats rather grandiose :)

More realistically one of those top of the line wheeled Craft Tote /cart things would be great to allow me to keep my in progress stamp creations and paraphanalia off the living room coffee table and rolled to the craft room at the end of my session rather than leave my stuff on the table for a week or more at a time. Yes, I have a table in the craft room but its completely covered by stamping stuff other than the 8 inch clear space in which I emboss . hahahah

I have a Marvy Uchida heat tool thats works for me. Tends to warp vellum a bit but that may be do to my technique.

I use my plain ol 35 mm camera with the close up zoom to take pics of my cards I send off to others . Sometimes takes 6 months to get the roll of film developed though. :D

Cathy

ahhh, so maybe I need to put a Ranger heat gun on my Christmas list. My Marvy does indeed blow my Cloisenne thick emb pow all over the place to the point I haven't messed with it upon that discovery. I do have a little melting pot for glue sticks I could experiment with. I was thinking a Xyron would be fun. Can you make one sticker at a time or would that be wasteful of the sticker paper if that is what it uses?

I realized this year that I haven't noted who the card was for in my camera photos of them. Hate to send the same stamped card twice to a person in the same year.

Mine was an Accu cut machine!

I think that I would get a Rollerbind system for quick and easy journal making (in particular some for the children as I thought I would get them to make and keep a journal through the summer holidays).

BTW anyone got any feedback on the rollerbind - do you ise it a lot, what are its limitations etc.

Funny that you should have an 8" working space in your craft room - so do I! Does that usually end up as the 'norm' except for the super-organised?

Jenni

Funny you should ask this question! LOL

I just splurged on a new xyron 900 came with 1 cartridge and I bought 3 more cartridges and got the little x150 sticker maker free with my purchase from

I even got free shipping! all this only cost me $128! plus ups delivered it with in 5 days of ordering... service was great and fast!

I am not affiliated... just a happy stamper now! :)

now to figure out what i want to do with it first! LOL

Deborah

I'd love a series of wooden racks that would hold all my stamps, enclosed by glass (to keep the dust at bay). But right now my money will have to go to paying the electric bill. It's been getting to 100+ degrees this whole week here - 108 today. Even with air conditioning, one feels the heat and I'm too zapped to stamp or scrap.

Mary in OK

I would love a *room* devoted entirely to my crafts. Right now, I use the office/guestroom/storage room.

~Scrapula

I have the room. I would love to have the money to renovate it to be best for stamping and other crafts.

Erin-Joi

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If money were no object, I would get myself two flat files (the ones that architects used to use for their drawings) that would hold all my stamps and let me open a drawer and I could see hundreds of my stamps all at the same time. Think that I would get one that was around 39'' wide by 25" deep. Unfortunately, you rarely find used ones and the new ones are really pricey. Check out

They have some beautiful oak ones. I can always dream...

Cheryl

What type of cabinets did you purchase from IKEA? I am looking for something to store my paper.

If i could buy anything, i would buy myself a house so i could setup a craft room just for ME!!!! I currently live in an apt and i have NO ROOM to do anything!! too much stuff...and i have to do all my crafting in my bedroom. i should just take over the whole living room and switch out the rooms, but i'm lazy. hehe.

i need a nice decent sized house where i can just take over the den/dining room area for all my stuff! :)

-jen

Mmmm, if I were to splurge I'd have to say practical storage. Right now all my stamping stuff, paper and toys live in a not so great collection of moving boxes :-/

Geiar

Cecelia,

You're right in saying that the Sizzix is mostly geared toward scrapbooking, but I have seen some very nice cards made out of the cutouts from the Sizzix. My sister has one (she got it from my parents for Christmas), so that's something to think about...Ask someone to get it for you as a gift (if your family is into gift-giving). Then the only expense to you is the occassional die for it (and even those can get expensive!).

Anna