Wild Wyoming Art Cafe'

How to store Spellbinders Grand Nestabilities

I live a house that was built in 1920.  It's a bungalow style house.  I'm lucky enough to have a funky little room all to myself on the main floor, where I can create art!

I've had several emails asking how I store my die templates, particularly the Grand Nestabilities(TM).  So, I thought I'd give you a peek into my room and show you my system.  There are lots of different ways to store them, but this really works for me.

 I bought the shelf unit at Costco, it's about 4 feet wide by 7 feet tall.  I love it!  The clear drawers and fabric open top boxes I got at a discount store.  

 

 The fabric boxes have strong sides and a cardboard bottom so they are fairly sturdy.

 
I used standard shipping tags and wrote a label for each box, then tied them to the front of the box.  Each box has a large metal eyelet on the front of it, making it easy to tie the tags.

I pull out a fabric drawer and all my dies are standing up, which makes it easy to flip through and find the one I want.  Each die is still in the original packaging.  This makes it easy to identify the die, see a photo of it, read the name and sku # of it as well.  This really helps when I'm creating blog posts for Spellbinders and need to type in all that information.

 
Here's how I use the packaging to store the die templaes:  I cut along one side of the packaging, leaving the plastic folded side in tact. 

 
This makes it easy to open the package, and the folded side almost works like a hinge.  I find that the original sticky tape that comes in the packaging can be used again and again, but I have also added magnetic sheets into the original packaging for the die templates that have a lot of little pieces I want to keep track of.

 
Here's a picture of the new  L-161 Grand Labels One on the left, and S4-161 Labels Oneon the right.  Look how perfectly they go together!  The difference between die template sizes within a Nestabilities set is ½”, which becomes a ¼” border when layering.

I'm so excited to have received the entire set of the Grand Nestabilities!  Stay tuned for more details about them and some projects coming up too!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Holly

My Little Artist...

This is my nine year old, Arianna Faith.  She has such an artistic spirit.  I love that about her. 

She saw these shoes at The Children's Place.  She loved them instantly!  You see they are made for coloring. 

I let her use any of my Copic markers she wanted.  She would color and bit, then switch to a different shade, then ask me what I thought.  She chose to color just a little here and there, and leave some black and white. 

They turned out beautifully and everywhere she goes, she gets lots of compliments!  She's my little artist.

Thanks for looking.  She's so excited to be the topic of my blog this time. :)

Holly