I'm reorganizing some of my stuff... one area I'm focusing on is my SU wood mounted set storage area.
I have a fair number of wood mounted SU sets (250ish) and until now I have kept them in their own clam shell case. It was taking up, as you probably know, a GREAT amount of space. But I'm not willing to unmount them ... I love that they're mounted on wood.
My solution was to combine sets into different storage containers, by grouping them by art style AND theme.
So, all of my nature/leaf/birdy sets that have the same art style got grouped, all of my garden girl/bird house/country images with the same art style got grouped, whimsy snowmen/tree/snowflake images with the same line art style got grouped, etc....
In essence, I feel like I've just created larger sets, because all of the images I put together into the same containers could be used together, interchangeably. For example, I can use the tractor from Times & Seasons with the chicken from Franny Farmer, and they work perfectly together.
I wrote the set name and number of stamps on every stamp block (ie Tree 4 Seasons 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, etc) to make putting sets back together again later (should I decide to sell any). Then I created labels on my Dymo label maker and stuck the label to the cardstock strip, and tucked it inside the case once the stamps were in place.
I used Stampendous THICKER containers, which are similar to SU clam shells, but are 8.5"x11". So far, I've been able to condense 131 SU sets into 30 Thicker containers.
I've decided to continue using the jumbo sized SU clam shells as most of the sets that I have in those cases either mostly fill the shell anyway, or I use the jumbo sized cases for things like sentiments, $1 stamps, misc other stamps (like Riley), etc.
Imagine my joy!
I have more to do, but it's been so rewarding already, I don't even mind the "work"! And, I get to touch all of my stamps in the process! How fun is that!?
Here is a photo of the sets lined up, with the set names visible on the spine of the containers.
Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010 GMT Views: 5419
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Thu, Oct 21, 2010 @ 10:52 PM
this looks awesome, what a great idea.. always fun to settle on a way to condense our stamp storage! good for you!
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Sat, Oct 23, 2010 @ 12:41 PM
I just recently decided to break up my sets, and I have been wondering how to store them. I had a couple of these boxes that I started with, and I was going to switch to acrylic photo frames, but now that I see how you stacked and labled yours, I am sticking with the boxes!! Thanks for the inspiration!!