Another Chore Finished---(well, almost!)

My neck hurts, my hands hurt and my butt hurts from sitting back here hour after hour reorganizing and cataloging my stamps!

Here's what I started out with:


Clear CD cases are wonderful to store acrylic stamps! Until you get so many stamps that you just run out of room!

I went from having some stamps stored this way, some in Stampin' Up stamp cases, some still in their plastic wrappers and some stashed in drawers........

to this!   There are 60 Stampin Up stamp cases on a single shelf.  ***notice there's a "little bit" of room left? LOL! 

Each case has a number on it so I'll know exactly where it belongs on the shelf.

 This is a photo of the front of the stamp case.  I cut a piece of paper 7 x 4 3/4" to fit inside the clear overlay and then stamped the images onto it and placed it inside so I can easily locate the stamp I need.

This is the back of the same stamp case.

I laid the stamped pages side by side and made a copy and numbered each of these pages.

The pages were put into a 3 ring binder inside page protectors.  Now, when I want a stamp, I can just flip through my catalog, find the image and take the numbered case off the shelf.

Until I did my catalog, I was constantly flipping through the CD cases to find a stamp I wanted to use.  

I know I could have kept them in the clear CD cases and just made the catalog, but, I replaced the carpet in my craft room with commercial tile.  Every time I drop one of those hard plastic cases on the floor, it breaks! 

There are a few stamps still needing to be cataloged.  I ran out of stamp cases---and motivation, for now!  Next time I get an invitation to a SU party I'll order about a dozen more and will get those done too.

Even thought it's taken me three full days to get this project done, I think it's going to save me so much frustration when I'm looking for a certain stamp.  Also, now I can "shop" for inspiration with my catalog!