Organization . . . . FINALLY!

Ok, so I'm not totally finished organizing my space, but it's close! I still have one corner to work on.

I know how much I enjoy looking at how everyone else has organized their spaces, so here you go!

When you look into the room, this is what you see first:
To the left -- my desk/computer/printer is now between the two front windows.

Straight ahead & to left -- a small cabinet with all of my stamp sets inside (even the soon to be retired that are very sad . . . ) and on top is my "cuttlebug station"!! I'm SO excited to have a designated area for cuttlebugging cardstock.
Straight ahead & to right -- The *beautiful* white shelf is from IKEA. I'm still deciding how to organize the shelves. I've written what is on each shelf (click to enlarge). And I put this lovely piece together all by myself this morning.











When you turn to the right, this is what you see:
My workstation is a table next to the shelf. I have my ink pads on top for now (looking for a table to put in the corner of wasted space & get them off the table top). By the way, my little table lamp is another IKEA find for $3.99!
Above left is my IKEA rack/organizer & above right is a shelf that holds extra ink pads, drawers of adhesive & my ribbon holders.

Here is my "unorganized corner." I figure this "before" picture will be a great contrast to the "after" picture. I have a great acrylic paper holder/organizer that needs to be REorganized! The worst part of this area is under the table. I need to sort out the papers and get the clutter out of there into its new home somewhere in the new IKEA shelf. There's also a box of retired stamps under there that will be offered up for sale soon.

*NEW* Stamping Space!

I'm so excited I can hardly stand it! My husband and I made a late trip to IKEA (best store ever) last night. We purchased a great new bookshelf that has completely changed the effectiveness of my stamping space! I will finish organizing tonight and post some pictures real soon.

Just wanted you to know why I haven't posted any stamped projects . . . . OH, I've also been working on the Stamps in the Mail projects, which I don't post pictures of in advance. So I have been stamping, but you can't see it yet!

Stamps in the Mail Round 1 Projects

Well, their packages are all officially mailed out or delivered! I thought I would show you the four projects the SITM participants will be making this month.
In case you're wondering, for $35 they received (or will receive soon) the following:

• Doodle That
• Basic Brown classic ink pad
• So Saffron marker
• Certainly Celery marker
• Anywhere glue stick
• a mini Stampin' Store filled w/embellishments for projects (ribbon, hodgepodge, punched ovals, etc.)
• a cello bag with all consumables for 4 cards/projects (precut & scored cardstock, envelopes, precut designer series paper, etc.)
• directions with color photos & Stampin' Up grid paper
• Stampin' Techniques booklet

I also have demonstrators participating in this as well. For $31.50 total (that's for all 3 months -- 12 projects!), they received:

• a mini Stampin' Store filled w/embellishments for projects (ribbon, hodgepodge, punched ovals, etc.)
  
• a cello bag with all consumables (precut & scored cardstock, envelopes, precut designer series paper, etc.)
• directions with color photos & Stampin' Up grid paper

If you are now sad that you missed out on Round 1, start planning to sign up for Round 2! I'll announce details through this blog the end of June and sign up will be by July 15th.

More wedding samples

I have been playing around with the Happy Everything stamp set this morning because my Stamps in the Mail group will be making cards/projects with it next month. I like to use it in different ways to see how I like it best -- as the only stamped image, or in combo with another stamped image. I also played with the 2-way glue and Dazzling Diamonds glitter (needless to say, I AM a big "blob" of glitter right now!). . . .

To create the look of the flower, I inked my Paisely BG stamp, set the Big Blossom stamp on top to pick up the design, then stamped the flower on the paper. I then "huffed" on the flower and stamped again to create the lighter flower. Then I covered it with 2way glue and glitter.

DETAILS: I used Regal Rose ink on Shimmery White cardstock, added choc chip & certainly celery cardstock for the base, then tied a celery narrow organdy ribbon on. I also punched out a 3/4" circle out of So Saffron that had been stamped with the Paisley in Regal Rose and adhered it to the underneath of a clear button, then some more glue on top and of course more glitter!

This card uses Naturals White, Choc Chip, Certainly Celery cardstocks, Basic Brown ink, crystal effects & Dazzling Diamonds; Happy Everything stamp set; & ribbon from Michaels!

I also wrapped the bride-to-be's wedding gift to match her card. (Truth be told, I designed the gift wrap/package first, THEN I made the card to match!) Anyway, I used SU's gift wrap, flirt ribbon, regal rose ink, Big Blossom & Paisley stamp set, whisper white & Regal Rose cardstock, 2 way glue & Dazzling Diamonds. To create the look of the flower, I inked my Paisely BG stamp, set the Big Blossom stamp on top to pick up the design, then stamped the flower on the paper. I then "huffed" on the flower and stamped again to create the lighter flower. I drew around the edges with my 2way glue pen and added glitter.This is the top of the present where you can see the detail better. I stamped the sq envelope with Happy Wedding Day from All Year Cheer III (which is retiring from the SU Idea Book & Catalog). I created the flower following the same steps, but I mounted a flower on Regal Rose cardstock and cut it all out. I added a 3/4 " circle of Regal Rose on top (bent the edges of the flowers down, as I sort of "cased" from another blogger, and finally added 2 lg ovals out of Certainly Celery that I folded in half for dimension.

Cuttlebug Candy winner

Congratulations toTami! She got 6 out of the 8 colors correct. Everyone else only got 5 correct. :) That's pretty good considering how poor my picture came out!

Tami said...

Taken with Teal, Elegant Eggplant, Gable Green (although I debated on this one), Bravo Burgundy, Creamy Caramel, Bordering Blue, Pretty in Pink, Orchid Opulence, and the one that is close to bravo burg. has pretty sparklies in it (or at least it appears that way in the pic!)

The correct names of cardstock colors are:
Taken With Teal (SU)
Bordering Blue (SU)
Elegant Eggplant (SU)
Brushed Copper (SU) -- this one looked like sparkly Bravo Burgundy b/c of my picture
Orhid Opulence (SU)
Gable Green (SU)
Creamy Caramel (SU)
Blush (CTMH) -- no one guessed this one correctly

Tami, please email me at Kellybstampin@yahoo.com & send me your snail mail addy.