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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2015 17:56:26 GMT
There are so many great little kinds of clips and pins for scrapbooking... fancy little straight pins, decorative bobby pins, clothes pins in so many different sizes, paper clips in every shape and size imaginable.. wee little binder clips.
How do you store them all?
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Post by alittleintrepid on May 9, 2015 19:19:33 GMT
I have a box from Michael's that is the same size as an Iris box but the top layers pulls out and the second layer is divided into sections. Most of what you describe goes in there and it's one of my favourite things to look through while scrapping !
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 10, 2015 5:14:48 GMT
I use clear Artbin bead boxes with a slide off lid for all of that little stuff. They have 25 compartments in each box. For longer straight pins that wouldn't fit in the compartments I would probably stick them into a pincushion, but I don't have any of those.
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Post by streetscrapper on May 10, 2015 13:38:48 GMT
I have a magnetic board above my desk and I store little trinkety things in tins with a magnetic bottom I picked up from the dollar store. The problem is that the dollar store I got them at stopped carrying! I did find similar tins at M's. They are a bit of a different size, but they still do the trick.
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Post by alissa103 on May 10, 2015 16:32:20 GMT
I have Darice bead organizer boxes, they're divided and there's one section that's longer that works perfect for stick pins. I have my buttons in a few and brads and things in another too.
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Post by tiffanytwisted on May 10, 2015 16:35:42 GMT
Whatever you do, don't use the sectioned boxes designed for embroidery floss! The lid does not close tightly enough and small things like hundreds of buttons that you painstakingly sorted by color will fly all over the box.
Don't ask me how I know this.
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 10, 2015 21:24:07 GMT
Whatever you do, don't use the sectioned boxes designed for embroidery floss! The lid does not close tightly enough and small things like hundreds of buttons that you painstakingly sorted by color will fly all over the box. Don't ask me how I know this. Here's my PSA on this topic. Don't use the cylinder shaped screw together clear plastic bead organizer things, put them all in a big plastic tote, and then have your friend accidentally drop the whole tote on your paved driveway! I would say about 25% of the screw together things broke or popped apart, and I was left sorting out literally THOUSANDS of brads, eyelets and other miscellaneous stuff. It was ugly. And time consuming. Ugh. That's when I switched to the Artbin boxes with the slide off lids. |
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Post by tiffanytwisted on May 11, 2015 23:29:25 GMT
Whatever you do, don't use the sectioned boxes designed for embroidery floss! The lid does not close tightly enough and small things like hundreds of buttons that you painstakingly sorted by color will fly all over the box. Don't ask me how I know this. Here's my PSA on this topic. Don't use the cylinder shaped screw together clear plastic bead organizer things, put them all in a big plastic tote, and then have your friend accidentally drop the whole tote on your paved driveway! I would say about 25% of the screw together things broke or popped apart, and I was left sorting out literally THOUSANDS of brads, eyelets and other miscellaneous stuff. It was ugly. And time consuming. Ugh. That's when I switched to the Artbin boxes with the slide off lids. You win.  |
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 12, 2015 2:37:01 GMT
Here's my PSA on this topic. Don't use the cylinder shaped screw together clear plastic bead organizer things, put them all in a big plastic tote, and then have your friend accidentally drop the whole tote on your paved driveway! I would say about 25% of the screw together things broke or popped apart, and I was left sorting out literally THOUSANDS of brads, eyelets and other miscellaneous stuff. It was ugly. And time consuming. Ugh. That's when I switched to the Artbin boxes with the slide off lids. You win. LOL. I didn't think so when I spent the better part of the next two weeks of TV time at night sorting out that mess!  |
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Post by tripletmom on May 13, 2015 11:55:38 GMT
I keep them in their packaging and hang them on my homemade clip it up.
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Post by tiffanytwisted on May 13, 2015 12:17:30 GMT
You win. LOL. I didn't think so when I spent the better part of the next two weeks of TV time at night sorting out that mess! I still haven't sorted mine! |
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Post by thatmarie on May 15, 2015 18:38:34 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2015 19:12:14 GMT
I've eyed that piece many times  It's so cool! |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on May 15, 2015 19:23:42 GMT
I feel bad 'liking' the posts about spilling the stuff and having to clean up the mess... I hope you guys know that I mean 'I can sympathize and feel your pain' instead of actually 'liking' the fact that it happened to you, lol! For me, I do the Iris box thing-- I have some smaller divided plastic boxes inside the 12x12 box that hold my doo-dads, Flair, wood veneer, shaped paper clips, etc. But that's mostly because I like to sort and rummage when I'm designing my pages, so the Iris box is perfect for doing that. It makes me smile to look through those boxes with the fun little stuff in them!! it gives my little collector heart the warm fuzzies!!  |
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 17, 2015 2:40:46 GMT
I feel bad 'liking' the posts about spilling the stuff and having to clean up the mess... I hope you guys know that I mean 'I can sympathize and feel your pain' instead of actually 'liking' the fact that it happened to you, lol!For me, I do the Iris box thing-- I have some smaller divided plastic boxes inside the 12x12 box that hold my doo-dads, Flair, wood veneer, shaped paper clips, etc. But that's mostly because I like to sort and rummage when I'm designing my pages, so the Iris box is perfect for doing that. It makes me smile to look through those boxes with the fun little stuff in them!! it gives my little collector heart the warm fuzzies!! You don't have to feel bad, I'm pretty sure we all knew what you meant!  I can laugh about it now, but at the time it was pretty frustrating! I usually know exactly what I want and like being able to go right to the thing I'm looking for without having to sift through a bunch of other stuff to get there. |
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It's so cool!
I can laugh about it now, but at the time it was pretty frustrating! I usually know exactly what I want and like being able to go right to the thing I'm looking for without having to sift through a bunch of other stuff to get there.