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Home Home and Family Family How Do You Store All Your Scrapbooking Materials? Part 2
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Written by Janette Miller   
In the last article, we looked at how we keep our scrapbooking basics and smaller items. This time, we will be finishing off the little things and working our way up to the big stuff.
by JanetteMiller


In the last article, we looked at how we keep our scrapbooking basics and smaller items. This time, we will be finishing off the little things and working our way up to the big stuff.

Boxes

I'm not talking about the huge cardboard boxes that things usually get shipped in (although those are quite helpful too), I'm talking about smaller, plastic boxes. These types of boxes may be used for tupperware containers, but I love to use them for my bits and pieces. You will find that most supermarkets will sell cheap tupperware boxes that are good for this and makes for some cheap scrapbooking supplies.

If you're anything like me, you've got a couple of crimpers, craft knives or stencils that are an one of a kind sort of tool. Here's where boxes come in useful. Boxes, like the tools you can hold in them come in all styles and sizes,

Lazy Susan

If you have never seen or heard about one of those, they're basically I giant disc that sits on a table, which you can rotate. You may ordinarily see these in chinese restaurants, especially on large tables.

The idea behind these is you can load these up with stuff and revolve it around to access whatever you want, regardless of where its stored on the wheel. I keep a little one of these to make it easy to access all of my materials and the holders they're in.

Draw Caddy

A draw caddy is sort of a small tray that is divided up and designed to sit in the top of most drawers. You will most probably have one of these sitting in your cutlery drawer in the kitchen.

Its the ultimate way to hold plenty of your tools and tools for simple access and storage. I usually keep my scissors, rulers, tape measures, some glues and an exacto knife in mine. The best technique here is to keep your most commonly used tools here for simple access.

Cupboards

Finally we come to the standard cupboard. While everyone has these, it might serve you well to have a dedicated cupboard for your scrapbooking tools and materials.

You will not be scrapbooking all the time and its a superb idea to put away all your scrapbooking materials if you're not using them. There are two important reasons for this. One, you need to use the table for other activities and uses and secondly, it keeps your scrapbooking tools and albums out of reach of the mischievous hands of children or accident prone do-gooders.

Its also the perfect place to keep a vacuum or dust buster in, to help speed up the cleaning process after your scrapping session is complete.

Hopefully this has motivated you to sort out and organize your own scrapbook craft area. You will be thankful you did!

About the Author:

To get more easy and cheap scrapbooking supplies ideas check out Janette Millers website now, and while you are still there you may download 10 free scrapbooking layouts!

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