crafty corner storage

I share my craft room with my own bedroom and my daughters room so you can only imagine how crowded my room is. Lol. I wanted to do a quick tell-all about how I make my little corner of craftiness work. I hope I can help someone else that is as crowded as I am :)

First off starting with the left side of the corner is my cube shelving unit. I love it! It holds sooo much. This is where my cricut and some albums go. Inside the cubes holds a lot of random stuff. Like photo boxes and edge punches and my xyron sticker makers. It also has a lot of non-scrappy stuff like school books, Kenzie's books, and in the canvas drawers are random things like clothes I didn't want to put away ;) lol OHH and not to mention all Kenzie's toys that are too big for the rest of the house -__-

eyelets and brads container, xyron and edge punches... my others are on my desk at the moment, i only have 3.. I need to step my edge puncher game up lol :)

ongoing papermache drawer project :/ photo box

cricut boxes, xyron, random shoebox with more storage

Then on the right of the corner there is my printer shelf and my ribbon shelf with my sissix texture boutique :) (in the mirror you can see my daughters makeshift closet above her changing table on the other side of the room.. told you it was crowded!

To the right of that there is my desk.. Not much room if you ask me, that is why recently we put a huge table in the middle of my room. Totally in the way but so much more work space! I can shove the table under the printer when I need it out of the way but it hasn't been there yet! There's Kenzie flipping through the pages of my 4x6 paper pads.. She's obsessed with paper already!!!! On the left side are all of my papers, then all my stickers and scraps and embellies are in the drawers and to the right on top of the desk (not shown) are my little drawers for little stuff. (my desk is a mess ;))

These shelves are sold at Michaels. This is 2 paper stacker ones on top of each other.

First shelf is my Best of K&Company pad (also where I store my cricut mats)

Second shelf is all of my Best Creations 12x12 and 6x6 that I won from Britt:) at Life, Paper, Scissors

Third shelf is all of my single sheets and papers I use the most, including my open pack of Echo Park (LOVE)

Next is my paper stacks

Then my mat stacks and cardstock 12x12 Loose sheets (underneath)

And the rest are more paper pads

On to the colorful drawers under my desk: 

The top drawer is all my pens, then the second drawer is all of my letters and letter stickers and my diamond glaze.

Next is all my stamp pads, mists, inks and embossing powders and stamp cleaner

Then all of my clear stamps, rubber stamps, PKS and punches

Then scraps!!!

Last on the left side is all my cardstock 8.5x11

top drawer on the right side is my embossing folders, ATG and heat gun, and stencils and tissue tape by TH

Then bling and random embellies

The TH embellies and more bling and stickers

The a whole drawer for baby embellies and stickers

Then my loose ribbons and acrylic mini albums not even started on.. 

Then las ton the right is more scraps!

in the white drawer that makes up the right leg of my desk is where i put all my twine and embroidery floss and glue gun and zots.. its a mess!

Then in the shelf I have my flower tins and paper bags

and some albums and my MS score board

On top of the desk that I was talking about above I have my small drawers that have my tool kit...

scissors and stapler and Sew-easy

I don't know why the white out is in here.. but this one is pliers and circle cutter templates

zig pen, tape runner and pop dots.. and in the top are my white board pens.

I hope this showed someone that you can have alottttt in a little bit of space with the right system.. I have a little organizational problem but hey it works for me and everything has its place and if it's moved I know it. :)

HAPPY SCRAPPING!

Lasting Memories Challenge - Getting to know you

It's time for Lasting Memories first challenge of the year! I had so much fun doing my introduction page for my first layout as part of the DESIGN TEAM!!!

I hope you will join us in the challenges and I reallllllllyyyy hope I can provide you with some inspiration along with the other amazzzzing design team members! :)

Here is my first challenge:

"Getting to know you"

First of all I feel like my title explains it all :) "I'm a mother above all else"

All patterned papers used are from Echo Park Country Drive, along with the flower stickers and title tag. I inked the white paper (recollections) with green and stitched around the layout with a green glitter gel pen.

I used Blossom twine from the twinery to tie my elements together and to add a little texture ;)

I added bling from Recollections to all the flower centers.

"mother" is from Me & My Big Ideas Alphachips chipboard stickers with glitter. And I added bling to the flowers printed on the tag as well.

I used a sketch from Pagemaps for this page.. This sketch is from March 2011:

I'm so excited to be a part of this design team! Please visit Lasting Memories blog and go check out the other teams projects for this week and join us in our first challenge of the year! You have until Saturday, January 14, to link up your challenge!

HAPPY SCRAPPING

Getting Scrappy Challenge - Anything Goes!

Today is our first challenge on Getting Scrappy Challenges as a DESIGN TEAM!

I hope you will come join us over at Getting Scrappy and play along in our first challenge of the year!

Here is my layout! The challenge is:

"Anything Goes"

I chose a picture of my daughters little foot when she was just born and I used acrylic paint splatter for the first time! I wanted to do something new to represent my new role as a design team member! The polka dot glitter paper and the black glitter paper is from Best Creations and the blue paper is Echo Park Country Drive.

I also used embossing powder for the first time from Recollections and stamped an image from studio g. The scalloped circle is cut from the Lacy Labels cartridge at 3" and 2.75" The black glitter paper is Best Creations.

I added random rhinestones in the splatter designs for added bling and texture and visual interest :)

The bling is recollections, extra singles added here as well in black and gray.

The glitter flower and bling button are Recollections, tied off with twine from The Twinery in Charcoal. The itty bitty stamp is a studio G stamp. The frame is also cut from the Lacy Labels cartridge at 2.5" and 2.25". I inked the edge of the blue paper with some silver ink and popped the flower up on a pop dot.

Come join our "Anything Goes" challenge!

You have until Saturday, January 21st

I am entering this layout in a few different challenges:

Alphabet Challenge

X for Xtra Special Occasion (Birth of my daughter)

The Paper Variety

Black and White with a kiss of color (Blue)

Sketchy Thursdays

Sketch & Blue and Silver

HAPPY SCRAPPING!!!

I made the Getting Scrappy Challenges Design Team!!!

I'm sooo excited to FINALLY be able to announce that I made it on my first 2 design teams.. The first, I mentioned in the post below. 

The second (in no particular order) is Getting Scrappy Challenges over at Amanda's Crafts and More blog!!!

Our first challenge of the year and as a design team is tomorrow Sunday, Jan 8th. I hope you will come out and play along with us! :) I will also be posting my first DT project for Getting Scrappy Challenges tomorrow so check back to see what I did for our first challenge!

HAPPY SCRAPPING!!

I made the "Lasting Memories" Layout Challenges Design Team!!!

I'm soooooooo excited to FINALLY announce I made it on my first 2 design teams!

The first (in no particular order) is:
 "Lasting Memories" Layout Challenges!!

I will finally have motivation to "get those pages done and those memories on paper"! :D


Check back Sunday for my first Lasting Memories design team challenge layout!!
Here is a sneak peak ;)

 And keep an eye out tomorrow for my second design team announcement and first challenge layout!!

Michelle:D

HAPPY SCRAPPING!!

Facebook Page!!

Hey all my bloggie land followers!!

Please stop by my new facebook page and click that wonderful little "Like" button!

Scrappin' For Kenzie Creations

Thank you!

ANDDD**

Make sure to stop by on January 8th for some very, VERY, exciting news for Scrappin' for Kenzie! ;)

Water Baby

I'm still truckin' along on Kenzie's first year album.. I am now on July '11. I decided that I am going to do a month at a time so I can get at least caught up to the more recent pictures of her, or else I would still be on her newborn pics haha! This way I can then go back throughout the year and get the rest in there and just put them where they go (if they are in order, others are by theme or just bunched together)

Here is girly layout for July :) 

I'm so in love with it.. it's one of my ultimate favorites of everything I've made :D

Isn't it the cutest page you ever seen! 

I used Best Creations Jubilee Paper for the background, the trees, little butterflies and swirls on top are printed on it and glittery! The heart paper is the back of it, I cut out the block where the pictures are and used the other side (Great Way to get maximum use!) Then I used a edge punch for the scallop things. The paper behind the pictures with the butterflies is from K&Co.

The stickers "summer", "swim", and alphas "July 2011" are from Echo Park Summer Days Alpha stickers and the blue strip sticker is Echo Park Country Drive. The rhinestone flourish is from M's.

This little birdy is from Recollections Signature (I love everything that M's made for this collection) So cutesy! She is up on a little pop dot chirping away :)

The birdhouse is from the same pack at the birdy, and again the stickers are EP Country Drive

I used Alphalicious Cart and welded the words together using my DS and outlined it with a glitter pen.

 I am entering this into Frosted Designs Sketch along Tuesdays challenge.

Here is their sketch:

I could not be happier with the way this layout came out!!

HAPPY SCRAPPING!!!!

&&Happy New Year 2012!

***OH and btw I found this awesome FREE new photo editing software, that is why my pictures have been looking better:) Its called Picnik.com. Check it out if you don't have any editing programs like me!***

Design Teams

"Lasting Memories" Layout Challenges Blog

January '12-December '12

Getting Scrappy Challenge Blog

January '12-June '12

Little Scraps of Heaven Designs

May '12-Nov '12

Kenzie's First Christmas (2010)

Hi! Over at "Lasting Memories", they are having a design team call for 2012! They are layouts only which is perrrrfecttt for me since I need to get my butt in gear and crank out those layouts of Kenzie's first year. The current design team is amazing, so I wanted to apply for the design team call and complete their challenge this week. Wish me Luck!

Here is the inspirational photo:

And here is the sketch I used that they provided for optional use:

And finally here is my layout!

The picture on the left is so much like the inspirational photo I had to use it! It is Kenzie at only 1 month old admiring the Christmas tree lights :) the one on the right is her little Christmas pjs with reindeer on the feet and says Baby's First Christmas on the tag on her chest.

This is a little tag that came on one of her gifts from this Christmas, I though it was soo cute I wanted to use it as an embellishment. It's one of those little picture things that changes when you move it side to side. I used little metal accent snowflakes and tied twine from the twinery in peapod and maraschino (love their color names!) into a little bow and attached it with a glue dot.

I used metal letters and instead of attaching them with brads or eyelets, I glued them with a zig pen and put little gray rhinestones over the holes, then popped the whole thing up on pop dots.

I used my Martha Stewart score board to accordian fold this strip along the bottom and attached just the ends so it would stay 3D. I then stamped a little circle only halfway underneath and put the year and Kenzie's name.

WISH ME LUCK!

Merry Christmas!

****Update! I made it on the Design Team!!*****