PaperAngel
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Post by PaperAngel on Feb 16, 2023 19:50:22 GMT
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 16, 2023 19:56:05 GMT
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Post by Linda on Feb 16, 2023 20:15:04 GMT
mine are in my lowest Alex drawer except for my corner rounder and small heart - those are in my tool carousel drawers. I don't have a lot though
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GiantsFan
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Post by GiantsFan on Feb 16, 2023 21:28:40 GMT
I have two plastic "shoe boxes" on a lower shelf filled with punches. I definitely don't use them enough especially now that I have shape dies and a die cut machine.
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Post by GiantsFan on Feb 16, 2023 21:29:42 GMT
950nancy that's a lot of punches! I like how you have them displayed.
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Post by Shakti on Feb 16, 2023 22:28:22 GMT
My five largest are the lock-flat style from SU and EKS, so they're just kind of stacked.
My smaller ones (also only about five or six), most of which were actually purchased for my kid years ago, are on a little tiered shelf on the top shelf of what DH calls my "artmoire." Having them visible doesn't really seem to increase my usage of these, so I might move them into a drawer in my Bisley 5-drawer unit.
I can move some embossing powders to the tiered shelf if I do. Huh, done. Thanks!
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Post by lisae on Feb 16, 2023 22:30:34 GMT
I have Sterile 3 drawer stackable units that hold most of my papercrafting stuff. My punches take up 2 of the drawers. The round/scalloped ones are in one drawer and all others are in the other drawer.
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 16, 2023 23:05:59 GMT
950nancy that's a lot of punches! I like how you have them displayed. I try to use them on every layout. |
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Post by cbscrapper on Feb 17, 2023 4:26:52 GMT
I have my most-used ones (stars, hexagons, circles) in a Totally Tiffany Ditto bag. The rest are piled in a 6x12” canvas bin in the bottom slot of my cube system by my desk.
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Chinagirl828
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Feb 17, 2023 5:15:27 GMT
I don't have a massive stash, maybe a dozen, and they are stored in one of the drawers on my desk.
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Post by mikklynn on Feb 17, 2023 14:13:39 GMT
I have all sizes from 1/2" to 3-1/2" of round and scalloped round punches. I have them in my Alex drawers, except for the largest one that live in a bigger plastic drawer tower. I have about a dozen shape punches, like stars and hearts, that are just jumbled in a bin.
I like having them in the Alex drawer right at my fingertips.
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Post by sarahsprettypapers on Feb 17, 2023 14:20:34 GMT
I don't have a huge selection of punches, and most of them are those stamp around the page sets from Martha Stewart. They are just organized neatly in my drawer. Nothing fancy.
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Post by breetheflea on Feb 17, 2023 14:24:50 GMT
In an open bin near my desk. I don't own a ton, mostly border punches.
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Post by hoopsfn on Feb 17, 2023 14:47:32 GMT
I don't have a lot of punches and they're stored in a slightly larger than a shoebox Sterlite plastic container. The border punches take up the most room.
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Post by Ryann on Feb 17, 2023 16:41:55 GMT
The most used ones take up a drawer in a short/wide Alex unit. The rest are stored in a container the size of a Kallax cube. I also store embossing folders and steel rule Sizzix dies in there, too. I have some single hole punches that sit on my desk in a tool caddy with things like scissors, brayer, adhesive, etc.
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PaperAngel
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Post by PaperAngel on Feb 17, 2023 22:12:40 GMT
950nancy - Thanks for the photos! Are the edge/border punches in a clear organizer or simply stacked on the shelf in the first photo? Also, if you recall, what is the brand/source of the shallow-depth black units shown in the last photo? TIA.
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Post by refugeepea on Feb 17, 2023 22:25:38 GMT
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 18, 2023 4:34:16 GMT
950nancy - Thanks for the photos! Are the edge/border punches in a clear organizer or simply stacked on the shelf in the first photo? Also, if you recall, what is the brand/source of the shallow-depth black units shown in the last photo? TIA. They are just stacked on the bottom shelf and the other edgers on the top two shelves sit on handmade steps. The larger of the two CD cases is this one from Amazon. I just looked for something that would hold the punches and be sturdy. Atlantic Oskar Adjustable Media Cabinet - Holds 464 CDs, 228 DVDs or 276 Blu-rays, 12 Adjustable and 4 fixed shelves PN38435719 in Espresso |
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Post by joblackford on Feb 18, 2023 4:50:30 GMT
My punches live in a wide drawer in a dining room sideboard along with my other less used craft supplies. I only have about 9?? and most are very small.
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Post by scrappyrabbit on Feb 18, 2023 6:38:21 GMT
I have a small plastic basket/bin for mine. I don’t have that many, only a few basic shapes.
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Feb 18, 2023 10:40:54 GMT
This is lovely to look at. I, too, have mine in a variety of places! Only one of my 'systems' overlaps with yours. A shoe door rack thing. The other side of the door is an xnarrow elfa 'spice rack' (had the bins wall mounted in my old craft space and bought a new pole plus brackets when I realized they'd work great for punches). I have most of my locking style on a fb marketplace found Gnedby shelf from Ikea and the rest are in a bunch of different Alex drawer units. I love that you love punches, too (though more than half of mine are from my 2 estate buys last summer, which prompted me to have to find organizating solutions that may or may not have been pondered for about 6 months before I got them all put away)! |
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Post by KelleeM on Feb 18, 2023 13:16:58 GMT
I have my most used small ones in a drawer close to my desk. Border punches are in a small canvas bin close by. Most of my punches are in an Iris storage thing that holds their large cases. I also have some stored in tackle boxes (EKS alpha punches that I can’t give up but never use).
A word of caution to those who store punches in Alex drawers, be careful of the weight! I had Sizzlit dies in an Alex drawer and the bottom started to fall out. I have to disassemble it and add glue (glossy accents for the win!) and use heavy tape to hold it while it dried.
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Post by Restless Spirit on Feb 18, 2023 13:17:19 GMT
I love punches. I have mine stored in a cheap version of the Alex drawers. They are the Modular Mobile Chests by Recollections from Michaels I bought them years ago. Most of my punches are from EK Success and weigh a ton! Unfortunately the weight of the punches proved to be too much for the cheap Recollections drawers. Within the last couple of weeks, two of the drawers, have had the bottoms have fall out of them and into the next drawer. That was fun trying to get the drawers open and get the punches out! My DH is going to try to help me put the drawers back together and make them a little more sturdy. If not, I really need to check into the IKEA units. HA. I was posting at the same time as KelleeM ! I guess buying the IKEA units wouldn’t get me anywhere! |
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Post by judyc on Feb 20, 2023 13:40:47 GMT
Like RS, I also have one of the 5 drawer Michael's rolling-drawer units- cost about $50 at M's -- for my punches. I have one drawer for border punches, one for Martha Stewart punches, one with squeeze punches, tag punches, square, banner, and chevron punches, one for circles, ovals, label, and corner punches, and an everything else drawer. I have a few punches too thick to fit the shallow drawers and they are in a plastic tote on top of the rolling drawer thing which lives in a closet. I only have about 100 punches total, so not too many but more than a few. I have also had drawer bottoms fall out, but just fix them when they do. I use punches on most of my layouts, sometimes just a corner punch or reinforcement, but love the flexibility of just being able to punch a scrap of paper and create an embellishment.
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PaperAngel
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Post by PaperAngel on Feb 22, 2023 3:32:28 GMT
Thanks for your responses. I store punches together & easily accessible in the wide, shallow, lower drawer of my (long-ago discontinued PB Bryce) project table.
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Feb 23, 2023 4:17:54 GMT
My most-used punches are in two stackable fabric bins that sit on the shelves adjacent to my scrap desk, and the larger ones that I use a lot sit on top of my desk hutch. So all of my most-used punches are within easy reach when I'm at my scrap desk. The punches that I don't use as much are organized into zippered pouches that I keep on another shelf nearby. I sometimes swap some of them out from one of the zippered cases depending on the project I'm working on or if I'm going to a crop, since the zippered cases are handy for carrying (they have handles LOL). Those cases stack too. I don't have anywhere near as many punches as 950nancy, though! |
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