Hello! The last couple of days, when I have been in my stamp shack, I am thinking about all the card ideas I have, and the fact that I have to get a couple of birthday cards made and sent by Friday. So, do I work on them? No, I work on something entirely different! Stamp stuff organization is an on going process, as you know. A while back, I started putting some of the Spellbinders nestibilities dies, that I don't use as often, in some CD cases, as I found out my hubby has a huge box of empty CD cases he said I could use some of! (Remember my hubby's hobby is music.) So, I found that most all the nestibilities fit very well in these. Wal-mart has packages of magnet sheets that can be cut to fit the CD cases to hold the nestibilities in place. So, it works for them. But, lately, I have purchased many border dies from companies like My Favorite Things, The Cat's Pajamas, and Taylored Expressions. Note here that I have quite a collection from My Favorite Things, as the store I am teaching at, is carrying their line of stamps and dies. These dies are about 6" long and they do not fit in the CD cases. Well, I guess one would at an angle but how about all the others? So, my thought was ... maybe I could make a book to hold them all in one place! When I had my store, we bought all kinds of clear envelopes in all kinds of sizes to either resale or use for merchandising. I have the big box of leftover clear envelopes and bags in my shack. The ones I ended up using for this project are actually taller than the die which I think works fine but the envy was also a lot wider than I would have liked. But it works. I found some bright pink cardstock in the ex-Imprints box which means free and not waisting my good cardstock! I cut the cardstock to fit the envelope and used the tape at the top of the envy to secure the cardstock in. Then I cut a strip of magnet to hold my die. And, used my label maker to add the die name to the outside of the envy. I made the outside front and back by just covering pieces of chipboard and added "my border dies" title to the front with some thickers I have in my stash. The front is still kinda plain but I can spoof it up later, as I just wanted to get the book done so I could show that to you. Here are my pics!
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The Front |
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Shows Top of Clear Envy |
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Envy with die inserted and label |
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Shows how thick book is. |
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3 Pages are ready to add more dies. |
That is my share for today. I have no idea until I am in the middle of a project, whether this idea is a workable one or not. I will just have to wait and see. But, this project cost very little. The magnets -$2, part of one scrapbook sheet, and then the envys, the cardstock, the chipboard all came from ex-Imprints stash so that means paid for a long time ago, and then 6 rings of the one inch size for the bind-it-all. So, basically, if I don't like it, I won't feel that I wasted a lot of money, just a little time. And the time, I enjoyed!
Hope to be back tomorrow with a couple of those birthday cards I need to get to!
Happy Stamping!
Tina
1 comments:
Will you bring it to Waxachie next week?
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