Cartwheels In My Mind

Photo of the Day, October 1, 2010.

(c) Nora Griffin

I used to have them scattered around the house, but now I'm loving having my little collection of globes gathered together.

Organization Tips & Tricks 04

 
 

My scraproom was built just a little less than a year ago when we refinished our basement.  I love having my own space, but am always looking for ways to organize all my supplies.  I love when I find ideas that are unique and fun...but still functional!

I found this 3 tiered stand at Hobby Lobby recently and use it to display all my small embellishements - jars  of brads and buttons, bowls with tags, patterned tape, and misc small embellishments, and .  I love having all this out on my counter and within reach instead of buried in a drawer....plus I love the color it adds!

These 4 little metal bins sit right in front of my main work area.  I found them in the dollar spot at Target (one of my favorite places to find containers for organizing!) several years ago.  I use 2 bins for new supplies - one for stamping related supplies and one for scrapping/art supplies, another bin is for cards I'm working on or have just finished, and the last one is for pictures I want to scrap soon. 

Many artists use vintage items for organization in their creative space. 

Cheryl has found some fun storage items for her buttons and punches:

 

Karen Russell uses hobnail glass to store stamps:

Stephanie Howell uses a muffin tin for small embellishments and vintage blue glassware to hold pens and scissors:

Jenny B. Harris used a tiered cupcake holder and mug trees for organization in her studio:

Layle Koncar uses a vintage suitcase to hold some of her supplies (and check out the awesome display made from a bed spring above her suitcase - LOVE!):

 

Nora - one of our own design team members - is a girl after my own heart....she organizes her ribbon, cardstock and stamp pads in RAINBOW order.  I ♥ rainbow order!!
  

Cindy - another Cartwheels design team member - recently purchased a new organizational item at IKEA - this set of drawers - and uses it to store punches, paints, and even her die cut materials.

 

For more fun ideas, you can check the categories (click on organization or art spaces to the right for other ideas that have been shared in Cartwheels articles!  I'd love to see any creative ideas you have for organizing your creative space.  Be sure to share them on our flickr site!!

HAPPY ORGANIZING!

Kitschy Digitals Card Set Winner

The card set goes to...Kristine!

LOVE LOVE LOVE~! It speaks to my 1970's heart also!!

KRISTINE LEROSS | SEPTEMBER 23, 2010 AT 10:46 PM

Kristine please e-mail me your address and I will get it in the mail this week.

 

Kitschy Digitals Week, A Card Set

I have been a Kitschy Digital fan for awhile now, collecting up my very favorites designs from Danielle's great kits. When I saw the Calico Dream kit last month I had to get it right away...those patterns just spoke to my 1976 heart.  

I decided to make a little stationery set using the kits elements to design a flat note card...I printed it out on textured cardstock...

 

Altogether I made a set of four with matching seals...

 

And packaged up the set to giveaway...

 
I definitely will be turning to these patterns time and again...thanks Danielle for such great inspiration!

I'm actually giving the set away to a Cartwheels reader...please leave a comment on this post if you'd like the cards sent to your house. I'll pick a random winner on Sunday afternoon.

Photo of the Day, September 22, 2010.

(c) Nora Griffin

I really love to take photos of just about every single flower that comes out of our backyard.

Happy Everything.

 

Is the air crisp where you are or is it just when you walk past the air conditioning? Either way it's almost officially fall even if it might not feel like it yet, so it's time to think about trees full of color changing leaves.

Since here in California we don't get much of a fall, I'm always bound and determined to make one. I took out my little leaf punch and a pile of fall colors and got to work.

 

Then I took those leaves over to the sewing machine to be strung together. It was a little tricky working with shapes this small, but if I can do it anyone can.

 

Then it was time to hang it. I have a couple of branches I've saved from walks around our neighborhood and this particular one is stuck into a little galvanized bucket filled with stones (the kind you find in a mesh bag at a local craft store). I love to use a branch like this to display all kinds of tags or decorations.

 

I simply strung the leaf garland from the branch and I officially have a little piece of fall sitting on my mantle.

 

It will help tide me over until the leaves around here start to change about the first week of December. Hope this inspired you to craft up a little something fall-ish no matter what the weather is like.