Craft Room Organization Part I

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I think of myself as a pretty organized person, but I am *definitely* a work-in-progress when it comes to my craft room. My house is small, my workspace is small, my desk is small, and I have other things I need to do in here (family bookkeeping, painting, sharing the space with my better half...). I have found a few solutions so far that work really well for me and I wanted to share those with you all! I am at the point where I am very happy with my journal card organization, but I am still working on a solution for all of my embellishments.

This is how I "file" my assortment of journal cards by kit or color.

I used to keep all of my journal cards willy nilly, organized by Studio Calico kit, core kit, or mini kit (kind of). and that was fine in the early days when I only had the remnants of a few kits and one core kit still in the box! But I hit up Studio Calico's Black Friday sale in 2015 and greatly increased my collection of both journal cards and embellishments. I read a lot about organization and decided to organize my cards by color, taking the (kind of scary!) leap of separating my kits.

The centerpiece of my entire organization system are these storage boxes.

I liked these boxes because I could fit both 4x6 and 3x4 cards (side by side) so that it would be flexible as my stash evolved. I bought three of them along with a pack of these dividers. I sorted my kits by kit name and my Studio Calico journal cards by color, then I labelled everything.  As you can see, it's the perfect size to hold my Seafoam Core Kit. The boxes have lids that fit on top, but they also stack nicely on top, so I keep the lids underneath for easy access to my goodies.

These boxes fit perfectly on top of my Raskog. I used to use this little cart before I got my Raskog and, though it was a bit smaller, it still held everything I needed. And it has wheels which were awesome when I was moving my workspace around before I "built" my craft area. Since I got my Raskog, this cart was repurposed to hold cleaning supplies in our utility closet.

I put my dog's bed there because we're in this room a lot and she likes to keep her eye on us!

On the top shelf of my Raskog are my journal cards, a mug with pens, rules, scissors, and a hole punch, a package of baby wipes for my stamps, and all of my stamps, blocks, and ink pads organized upright in a clear divided acrylic organizer.

There is also a ziploc baggie with my miscellaneous scraps. This comes in handy when I need one pop of color or just to add a little something to a page.

I also keep my 4x6 pads here for easy access. I have a separate bin with my 6x6 pads and these could go in there but they're new and I like looking at them!

The second shelf of my Raskog are my embellishments and some more stamping and painting supplies.

The third shelf of my Raskog is my "hoarder shelf." On it, I keep things some people would throw away, like the bags or boxes my kits come in and random packaging. Sometimes I like to incororate the fabric from the bags in my layouts or use something to store more stuff, if I need it. So I keep it mostly out of sight.

Having this little cart system really helps me stay organized, whether it be the kitchen cart of a Raskog. In a small space, it helps a lot to build vertically rather than spread out horizontally.

I hope this helps some of you with storage dilemmas and I have to say it's working well for me so far! Thanks for reading!