PaperAngel
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Post by PaperAngel on Mar 2, 2023 23:14:22 GMT
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Post by kmage on Mar 3, 2023 0:54:36 GMT
Please share where, in what, & how you store & organize various sizes/types/brands of inks? TIA. My ink storage is my favorite storage in my whole craft area! I just love it. I use 2 vintage Napa Valley Box Company wooden cassette holders. One was my FIL's, he had a great music collection and when he passed DH received it. We no longer listened to tapes, but kept the cassette holder because it was just beautiful. I have 2 of them, stacked. They hold 36 inks each and right now I am technically at capacity but I have a old Hero Arts that I will probably give away/pitch to make room for another Distress Oxide. I also could remove the one Stampin Up ink I have lol. The only problem is that my Versafine Clair inks are slightly bigger than a cassette (thicker) and don't fit. But the nice thing is the cassette holder top acts as a little ledge, so they live up there. I only have 6 so it works fine. http://instagr.am/p/CpTqxOCO7vI |
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Post by Linda on Mar 3, 2023 2:01:09 GMT
one of my Alex drawers is my mixed media drawer - i have an open basket with my ink pads (I have a random assortment), a silicone mat, 2 distress sprays (I think that's what they are) and a water spray bottle, and my stencils in there. Oh and a glitter texture paste thingy that I bought for a challenge here a few years back
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Post by mom on Mar 3, 2023 2:16:05 GMT
I bought one of these cabinets from Hobby Lobby with a gift card I won. It holds all of my inks, blocks and embossing things (besides the actual stamps). The inks just stand on their sides. Probably not ideal to store them this way, but it works for me. I sort them by color families. Sorry for the dark photos, but I just snapped this quickly.   |
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Post by honeypea on Mar 3, 2023 4:29:59 GMT
Mine needs some attention, but I haven’t found a method I like.
There are basic white plastic storage boxes from ikea that come with a fitted white lid. The lid has an inset so you can stack the boxes. Well, that lil alone makes a really nice tray, like a melamine baking sheet. I keep my inks flat on those. I have a couple layers. Most used on top, then I lift a tray up to access the others. This worked great when all my inks were SC/AE because they were all the sane height.
But then I added some TH and PP. The PP are annoying because of the rounded lids and they don’t stack. These are all off to the side and I don’t use them as much. I might use them more if there were as easy to access as the trays.
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Post by hoopsfn on Mar 3, 2023 15:51:44 GMT
Thank you for posting this PaperAngel. This is something I've been trying to work on for weeks. So far I've only gotten everything gathered and in one place but in no way organized. My recent obsession with Distress Oxides requires that I come up with something that works better than putting it all in a tote and digging through everything. kmage, what a treasure you inherited. Perfect for your inks. |
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pinklady
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Post by pinklady on Mar 3, 2023 16:06:50 GMT
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Post by gizzy on Mar 3, 2023 22:41:21 GMT
Full size pads are stored in stamp n storage wall holders. Cubes are stored in clear plastic 1x1 containers (with lid)that I believe come from the same company. Those I store in my ink drawer.
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Post by refugeepea on Mar 4, 2023 0:54:48 GMT
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Chinagirl828
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Mar 4, 2023 1:34:58 GMT
This is rather timely as I moved my inks yesterday into my desk drawer. They had outgrown my previous storage space, and I still use them all frequently enough to keep them. I have the oxides stacked, roughly in colour groups, although I do have enough space to stand them on their sides if I decide to change things up in the future. The small ink cubes are in tins, half in one of the TH mini storage tins, the rest in an old Maya Road embellishment tin, stacked in the same drawer. I only have a small number of ink blending tools so these are all in a small basket in the same drawer.
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Post by joblackford on Mar 4, 2023 3:21:39 GMT
I recently adjusted my storage because I bought more Catherine Pooler mini sets and wanted to keep them all together and close at hand. They are in my desk drawer right in front of my belly, along with some brushes and foams. The sets come in their own little boxes which I keep so I can keep them together, easier to pick coordinating colors within a set. There’s a little space to tuck some matching foam heads in the top of the boxes. The drawer is shallow so I have sets stacked in pairs, and I also have my 2 full sized CP pads there.
Distress Oxides used to fit in that drawer but they’ve been relegated to the big wide drawer in the sideboard a few steps away, along with other craft supplies I use less often. They’re in stacks of 3 or so, grouped by color family. I stopped buying them so I don’t have too many. I keep some random ink cubes I got in kits there too. I have my swatch cards in the main CP ink drawer though, so if I’m trying to match something I can see pretty quickly whether I need to get up and get ink from the other drawer.
My most used ink, my black ink pad, is in the top drawer of my desk along with my other most essential supplies. I don’t have to move to access that stuff and often keep that drawer open while I’m working.
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Post by hoopsfn on Mar 4, 2023 15:47:09 GMT
pinklady, those storage units are perfect. How wonderful that you & your Dad could make them yourself.
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Post by cbscrapper on Mar 4, 2023 16:38:59 GMT
I store my mini cubes in the Tim Holtz storage boxes. My larger inks are stacked up on a shelf by my desk. The best part of my ink organization is my swatch book - total game changer. I used the coin pocket sleeves with 2x2 squares.
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scrappinwithoutpeas
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Mar 4, 2023 22:31:42 GMT
My larger inkpads (Catherine Pooler, fullsize Distress inks/oxides) and my mini Distress inks are all in a Sterilite 3-drawer unit that sits on a bookshelf. They take up 2 of the drawers and I have my ink blenders and other assorted ink accessories in the third. The smaller ink pads (a few cat's eyes that haven't dried out yet and some mini CP inks) that I use for inking edges and quick stamp projects for scrapbooking and card-making are in a bin by my scrapping desk within easy reach.
ETA: My swatch book sits on a small shelf on my scrap desk hutch, and has all my ink swatches and watercolor marker (Spectrum Noir & Firefly) swatches. So helpful!
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Post by scrappieannie on Mar 4, 2023 22:44:32 GMT
I have a stamp pad organizer from Organize More, and I'm pretty happy with it. They sell little cardboard spacers to go with the Distress Oxide pads, but I just made my own with cardstock. This conversation is super timely as I just finished (finally) color swatching mine and shared a pic on Instagram: http://instagram.com/p/CpGIXC9vgsq |
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Post by 950nancy on Mar 4, 2023 23:29:10 GMT
I have kept mine in the Napa Valley cassette holders and then moved them to my Alex drawers using the inserts from the Tim Holtz containers (found 6 of the for $1.80 each at local second hand store). Recently I bit the bullet and bought a holder on Etsy. It is really pretty. I also got the Tim Holtz labels that show the name and color. So now I have extra Napa Valley holders and Tim Holtz containers.  17 Oxide drawer by Nancy Tim, on Flickr |
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Post by infochick on Mar 6, 2023 16:04:41 GMT
I have kept mine in the Napa Valley cassette holders and then moved them to my Alex drawers using the inserts from the Tim Holtz containers (found 6 of the for $1.80 each at local second hand store). Recently I bit the bullet and bought a holder on Etsy. It is really pretty. I also got the Tim Holtz labels that show the name and color. So now I have extra Napa Valley holders and Tim Holtz containers. I LOVE this idea. I currently have mine in the Tim Holtz containers that live in the deep, bottom drawer of my desk. Every time I need a colour I pull out all of the containers to find the one with the appropriate colour, then I put the container back while I use the ink, and the ink pad either lives on top of my desk, or gets tossed into a different drawer. This would work way better. Those containers are expensive, but I can always repurpose the metal tins for something else. |
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PaperAngel
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Post by PaperAngel on Mar 13, 2023 21:46:09 GMT
Thanks for your responses. I exclusively use inks for scrapbooking (e.g. basic stamping, stenciling, inking edges), so only have a handful of neutral colors. Along with other stamp-related tools, they are stored together in the top drawer my 5-(wide/shallow) drawer cabinet.
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