 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching today I'm going to just show you just a quick video on just how I store my stamps so I did subscribe I don't anymore that's not because I don't like it it's just because I've subscribed to other magazines I still buy it now when it's issues that I really like and that's the creative stamping magazine it's a fantastic magazine every single month you get an A4 of stickers stamps do you know what I've said stickers because I've just been sorting out my stickers so there you go um you get yeah A4 of these stamps and they're brilliant and I have four of these files that have all of these stamps in them and you can see now this is I'm coming to the end this is the fourth one and um this is how I've had them stored and it's been fine I've actually I've liked this there's there's no problem with it so this is a good way if you do have these and basically I you will get a plastic sheeting on the back as well as on the front when you received them in the magazine and then what I use here is this is it's all faded now whether I've been in there for ages but this is just photograph paper so they actually stick to that and it doesn't damage your stamps I've had them in here for years but it's a good way you know to obviously store them but the problem is now they're just getting so bulky and kind of forgotten they are up on one of my shelves and what I'm using now or I have been for a while with my smaller stamps is these tubs and I have everything divided and I'm just going through and sorting them all out again but I've been transferring them and I want them to be in these smaller A5 pockets so that I remember to see them so when I go to my I've got a category that is um scenes so when I flick through my scenes so this will go into a scene because it's it's classed as the the C theme or you know the um yeah C theme and then you've got here this is all um I would put this under my um crafts themes or you know have a dashery they're there with the sentiments and I see them straight away whereas I kind of do forget about them um I've got a great one there with sweets so again it's just and this one I wish I'd use more um I promised myself I would and I just haven't and it's the um Prince and Princess and the unicorn and it's just again they're really really good so I'm transferring them across to um A5 but because these are um A4 but they're all spaced out randomly you can't just cut this in half because you'll cut your stamps so this is what I've done they may be better out there please let me know I'm always keen to know you know ways to do it but I wanted to keep the images so what I've done here these are my A5 pockets now the pockets I buy are from Muji which is available in the UK I'm not sure about the US um but they're just five by five pockets and then I've just used my brother um p-touch uh labella to label them and then you can see there they all are on there and it looks just like it's been brought like that now two it takes two A5s obviously because it's an A4 so that's what A4 is two A5s together um and then I've just cut down that photograph paper so you'll see there it's got that shine make it out just about where's my light there you go you can just see it there so again they sit nicely on that so what I have come up with and the best way that I found to do this is literally to cut into it so I've gone and cut around every single thing so that I keep the image on the back so I'm going to go through this one now and I'm going to cut every single image every stamp out okay so I've now cut all of those pieces down and then all I'm going to do is just grab my snips and just go around do it on the actual stamped side so there's the stamp there um just so you don't run the risk of cutting it and just fussy cut basically so it is a bit tedious if it's something if you don't like fussy cutting you don't have to be as close as I am the reason I'm doing it this close is so that I can fit them all perfectly on my A5 sheet like so now the reason I obviously I want to keep it on the plastic because I want to see the image and the detail and how it should look um and also it means then that I can pop them back when I need to so you can still peel this off it'll be better when it's stuck down on the other bit of plastic but you can see there the stamp I haven't actually used that one so they they're harder first time around to take off but I can just stick that one back over now okay so that's that one I'm just going to go around and just roughly as close as you want really you just don't want any big bits of plastic kind of hanging off and obviously don't cut your stamp but just go around I'm going to leave those two in the middle there so just go around all the stamps and just get that plastic um all cut away as close as you can okay so I've cut them all out now so they're literally just got their plastic um picture basically um then on so I said that when you receive these particular stamps you also get a sheet of plastic or acetate on the back there so I always keep those and what I've gone and done is I've got them here because I just cut them in half on my trimmer so now that's a five size and then basically I stick these back down onto this two of these a five pieces so where was my other one where did I just put it I can't see where it was here it is so there's the two there so I'll just sit that one there and just I don't stick them down until I've got them all on because the last thing I want to do is obviously start sticking them now and then they find out I won't have room for like one or something so I'm just starting to really get them into you know all the corners fill all those gaps um kind of mix the sentiments across the two until I've filled everything up really so I'm just going to carry on and get these all into position okay so that is everything from that a four sheet now across on those two a five pieces so now what I'm going to do is I've got this thin quarter inch double-sided tape I'm just going to pop it on the back of each piece now this particular one is completely clear when it's on the other side you don't see it so I just stick that one down there I know they're all going to fit on there now but if I just turn that over you can see obviously faintly see it but it doesn't interfere with your image so now when they're in my sleeve I can see that perfectly and I've just obviously you know made it work for me and it's better for my storage situation now and for me to get more use out of them I found that they were just getting forgotten so I'm going to go get those all stuck down okay so they are all stuck on there and then if I put them against the white so I always keep these pockets with the white card in there ready for when then I need to use it so it's all ready to go I mean this is time consuming for me at the moment because I've got a lot or I've had a lot to go through but now when I get a magazine it won't take no time at all so you can see when I put it against the white there how nice it looks you don't lose any of the pictures you can't see the tape so that's really good and yeah I know I'm going to use them so much more now I mean there's amazing sentiments on these which is why I bought the magazine in the first place now I've already gone ahead and done my labels with my label art I've got the brother p-touch d210 which I've showed before and then I've just gone and cut it so I'm going to have creative stamping at the top I'll just trim these down it's the sea view collection and it was made 2017 and the reason I keep all of that is for you guys believe it or not for myself as well to a degree but you all ask me what I use so it's so much better for me to have it wrote down so I can just quickly go to it and it makes it easy for me to write in my blog I don't have to go back into the computer and look up archives and stuff it's just all there so and it does look better anyway looks nice and organized so it's the sea view collection from May 2017 and I've got January 2016 so that's how many I've had a lot so just working my way through but I don't do this with all my stamps because all the rest tend to be a five or smaller just my magazine stamps those ones in particular are this larger A4 size which I absolutely adore yet I forgot to use like this one I love him I made a wonderful card with that sailor which I have yet to share so maybe now I've remembered I will because it's somewhere okay there you have it my fonts a bit bigger on that one I should have gone smaller but I totally forgot but it's fine but there so I've got those ones I've got loads more here but just to obviously give you an idea this is how they're all looking I will always keep those two together what I might do as well is put one of two as another little and sticky label just so I know I've got them all together but yeah so I hope that's helped in some way maybe giving you some some ideas both ways are good the way I used to have it and also this way but if there are any other ways that you guys do I'd love to know so if you've enjoyed today give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye