 Hi guys, we're here for art room organization part 2 So and we're shooting it vlog style obviously We're gonna talk about stamp and stamp storage Last time we talked about stencil storage. Where's my rack? It is behind my head. Nope. Nope. Nope. There it is You see it there there there over my shoulder, right there all right Love the rack by the way. It's working out great As far as my stamp storage, it's been an evolution for me for literally for years. I Hesitate to say it, but we're probably going on a decade ten years or more I Have a few videos already on my channel regarding stamps and stamp storage and unmounting wood block stamps I'm gonna link the videos I can find in the description below When I first started My journey into mixed media. I was a creative memories consultant fun fact and doing a lot of scrapbooking I quickly learned that although it was a Nice thing for me to document my family's life and journey. I didn't enjoy scrapbooking in general I didn't enjoy card making so my first round of purging was getting rid of a lot of those kind of stamps And over the years, I've really whittled it down to things I use for mixed media. I don't have any more Alphabet stamps. I have very few sentiment stamps And the ones that I do are mixed media oriented type stamps stamps for instance, they don't say thank you They don't say happy birthday. They say believe create inspire I've stored my stamps and lots of different things bins baskets boxes The one that works for me and has worked for me And still does from the old house that I'm really not changing much Are my quarter bins and my cd cases. So I am going to show you how they sit in the closet We'll talk about that a little bit. Then I'll pull one down to show you what I mean Hang on. I'll be right back Okay, so here is the inside of my closet and this white bin in the far right is my silhouette This is my binded all machine and then these are all my stamps All these little boxes. They're called a quarter bin. They're from target I don't know if they make them anymore, but they're literally called a quarter bin So if you type that into the target website and search it, that's what you should find um I also in the quarter bin I have These are cd cases. We'll get a better look at those in a minute. I have them category Um category categorized into categories that work for me. So for instance people Doodles and small backgrounds backgrounds nature houses images Tim Holtz, Dina Wakeley ranger Tim Holtz blueprint stamps And then my own stamp line Um, so those are the ones that work for me I do have a few And by few I think I mean maybe one Wood mount stamp left. I don't really use wood mount stamps. I use cling mount red rubbers my preferred Kind of stamp a deep edged red rubber I can not only use it in a mixed media way without a stamp block But I can make great stamp images with it I do have one drawer in the closet down lower that as you say as you see says stamp stamping blocks and tools I have the tim Holtz stamping platform I have acrylic blocks and that sort of thing in here um to stamp with Um, that's what I have. It's not a lot and the one would mount and stamp I believe is my in my desk because it says happy mail okay, so This is what my quarter bin looks like this happens to be the one with my design line in it so it's really full and When I add more stamps to my design line, I don't know what to do what I'm going to do about these bins because They don't think they make them anymore Um, there are other bins that are of a similar size um, so I will probably just add one of those or I'll double up a category to make more room Uh, I'm going to give you measurements in a minute What I store the stamps in are empty cd cases. So these Um, actually are cd cases, but they don't have the little circular thing in them to hold the cd So they're perfect for storing rubber stamps. I get them on amazon. I'm going to link them in the description below and I do For my line put a copy of What the stamped images look like inside the you know plastic cover that comes on the outside of the case Um, or I stamped the stamps off On a piece of paper and then put that in there Um, and on mine I have them labeled because I otherwise don't remember which ones they are Um, I do try to label the stamps and that way, um, if somebody asks me Um, I can tell them I seem to be a little bit mildly better about labeling the stamps than I am stencils I suck at that What I will say is this Storage system seems to really work for me, uh, really well. It has for a long time Like I said, the only thing is I can't get these bins anymore, which Does kind of bug me um Let's see the bins are About six and a eighth inches high They are about six and a half inches wide And they are about Approximately 13 and a half inches long And they hold one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 cd cases very tightly um This works really well for me. It may not work for you. Maybe a binder works better for you Maybe you have a file cabinet or other storage system that works better for you. For me, this works great They are inside the closet, but they're in a place that can easily grab them and use them They're categorized in a way that I can easily grab say the box of background stamps when I want to do an abstract background And I know there is going to be a stamp in there that's going to work for me really well Um, so this is what I do. I'd be interesting to interested to hear what you do. Um When There's a lot of different ways like with everything else that you can do storage in your art room So let's share. I'd love if you guys all went over to our a life of art itself expression or art joy of sharing And um, let's share what we do in our storage rooms and maybe help other Creatives out who are struggling with how to store their stamps. Um, the one thing I will tell you that I did do is All that purging. Um, I really, um over the years have purged down to What I really love and what I'm really going to use. Um, I did do another round of purging right after I moved When I knew the stencils were going on that rack and I knew all my stamps were going to Um, these actually these stamps from my design line were in a binder and while that worked in the old space It didn't work here in the new space and I really wanted them all in one of these bins So that meant I had to purge some more and I knew I had still stamps in there that I wasn't ever going to use And I got rid of them all um no matter how bad about it I felt because I spent money on them It was better for me to sell them or pass them along to somebody who would use them Then for me to hang on to them and then just take up space and not be used Um, so it's not about having a ton of stuff. It's about just having stuff that you're going to use Um, I have like I've said a lot less stuff than I used to in this room What I have I can get to and that's like the name of the game and just keeping what you love and next I'm going to be um Working on the stickers, which is another stickers and die cuts that box. You haven't seen that yet That's going to be in part three Um, anyway, so this is what I do with my stamps. I'd be interested to see what you do Share what you do and um, yeah, I watch those other videos. They're in the description below I do still own a few stamps. Hang on. I own a few stamps like this one These were wood mounted stamps I unmounted it This is how it came off I've never replaced the bow on the back or anything um somewhere I also have a Hand writing stamp that actually cracked in half when I unmounted it and I did keep it because I do like that stamp um For me I should probably just take that off for me having them on wood blocks I knew right away a long time ago wasn't going to work for me and although I love some of the stamps like this one Storing them on their wood blocks takes up a lot of space And then rifling through them when you want to pick one out to create with just drove me crazy Because unless you have A room even bigger than the one I have now and you can devote a whole entire wall to just Wood block stamp storage um, it's You're going to just have them in a bin somewhere and you're going to have to dig through it And that just drove for me that drove me crazy that might be fine for you for me It drove me crazy. Um, and I also had Other priorities for the wall space in my old art room as I do in the new one. So Just Dedicating and whole entire wall to stamp storage wasn't going to work for me So I unmounted the stamps a long time ago and I do have a video for that I have a lot of different things I tried for Um, sticking them to a acrylic block um Some of them worked. Okay. Some of them didn't what you can do is Um, you can just keep microwaving it when which is basically how you take it off the wood block And you microwave it enough till you get this stuff off and then you put it um You attach the rubber to some easy mount Um easy mount is a clean mount stamp foam That you can put red rubber stamps on and then make it into a clean mount stamp So I'll link that in the description below too along with the video links and everything else Um, I just I hope it gives you some ideas of what you can do with your stamp storage This really works for me. It may not work for you, but if you have something else that works We I'd love to hear it. Let's share and let's inspire each other to create A easy happy stress flute free creative space for Everybody I really I wish that for everybody. Um, and I want to share ideas so everybody can have that And that's it for right now. Don't forget to please like share and subscribe check out the description for all those links I spoke of there's also a link to link tree Uh, the link tree is a basically a list of links Uh, my social media links my place is online that you can support the free content here on youtube and over on facebook Like patreon and my etsy store and my amazon affiliate store and all of that stuff I have a teespring store coming out. Um, you're going to be able to get some of my artwork on leggings and things and um What else my happy mail address is down there and a bunch of other stuff So check that out like share and subscribe hit that little bell icon if you want notifications on future videos And the most important thing go out and have a great day Enjoy your space do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys