My Craft Stash Organization

Craft week at Spell Outloud continues! I thought I'd share how I am currently organizing most of my craft supplies. Now a long, long, time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away----ok, it was really only several years ago and 5 states away---I was a professional scrapbooker. No seriously, I didn't make that term up---lol! There are such things as professional scrapbookers. :) In my previous house, I had a huge room devoted to all my scrapbooking supplies---which was a lot! I had many different storage carts, drawers, cabinets and shelves. Now I no longer have a room, but do have a pretty good-sized closet to store our stuff. When I switched to digital scrapbooking, I got rid of most of my scrap stash, and had lots of empty organization bins. Just recently I thought I'd put them to good use again and use them to organize my kids' craft supplies.

When I was a paper scrapbooker, I had purchased a Plano fishing tackle box to store all my embellishments. Now I use this box for some of our smaller craft supplies.

I used my Brother label maker to label all the individual drawers. I love that it is very portable. We can carry it to wherever we are crafting with no problem.

I also have several plastic craft storage box to store small items in. These stack neatly on a shelf and they are pretty cheap. I can usually find them under $2.00 at my local hobby or discount store.

Next I have two 6-drawer Iris carts. These use to house all my scrapbooking paper. Now we use them to keep our craft supplies organized.

I have drawers labeled:

*fun foam sheets
*tissue paper
*cotton balls & paper sacks
*popsicle sticks
*misc. crafts
*glue guns
*adhesives
*Chrismtas
*craft kits
*scissors & cutting mats
*water colors and brushes

I also have two 3-drawer white plastic carts. I have drawers labeled:

*recycled crafts ---this is where I throw all the paper towel/toliet paper tubes, plastic lids, paper plates, cool containers that might make good crafts etc.

*fun foam pieces - I have fun foamies in plastic bags by theme and then put them all in this drawer.

*card making -- prefolded cardstock and envelopes

*large stamps -- I have lots of foam stamps that I let the kids use.

*punches

*extra school supplies

I also have 3 of these Sterlite bins on a shelf that contains our construction paper packs, loose notebook papers and scratch paper/drawing paper.

So that is what my craft organization looks like for now. It seems to be an ever-changing process though :)  All I know is that if I keep up with the system, creating happens more often. I can't stand when I know I have a supply but can't find it (believe me--this still happens even with my organization!) So how do you store your craft supplies?  Do you have a dedicated craft closet or cabinet? If you have a blog post about your craft organization, please link us up! I'm always on the look-out for organizational ideas.