 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Crowd, thank you for watching today. So I'm going to be showing you how I store and organize my stamps and dies. This is a highly requested video. I get asked this every single day whether it be in comments via email messages. I always get asked this question. Now I did touch on this when I shared a video that showed you how I stored my A4 magazine stamps. So the way I store them is how I basically store everything. I'll link that one up here because that's again if you're someone that collects a lot of those A4 ones from the Creative Stamping magazine which I know you do. Some of you may already do it that way but do check that out because it's for me it's a bit more of a compact way to store those because I've got quite a few. So this is how I store everything. So I'm going to talk you through this. I've been using this system now for about two years or so. I did show you everything in my craft room tour video which again is about two years ago. I'll share that up here because you can see it in a bit more detail but I'm just bringing some of the tubs into you know onto my desk here so you can see them. So this is one of my stamps. So I've got five of these tubs. Okay I'll share some pictures at the end and I'll put them on Facebook but I'll share them in the video at the end somewhere. So I've got these ones here. Now I did pick these up in China so a lot of this has come back when I shipped all of my craft stuff. There was a lot but I had these tubs. Now the reason I love these tubs so much is because they are completely square so you can see here they're the same width at the bottom as they are at the top. A lot of things you find in the shops are larger at the top and then they go narrow and they're no good for when we want to fit the you know stamps and dies and stuff. So I will try and find something similar but I'm sure you know you can pick these things up in I would well actually these here I think I picked up in the range. These are slightly different and they've got handles so these were in the UK. The reason I love the ones with the handles I can just literally pull this and just kind of it's this is very heavy. I've only got two of these and these are all my dies so I think some of you think I have a lot more but this is it because when you actually take all the packaging off I know I share a lot of things in my what did I get videos but once you take everything away all you're left with you know is a piece of metal and it's very thin so yeah just two of these for my dies and then a few more of these for my stamps because they are a bit more bulky. Now I have a mix of two pockets so the older pockets I used to use are the ones that I purchased when I was living in China so they are I'll show you this one here. So they are just straight at the top and I purchased these from a shop called Muji which is in the UK as well I think it's worldwide actually it's a Japanese store and they've got a really nice stationary department but it's just flat at the top so there's no kind of finger piece so let me just take out the white there there we go so that's how they are and they've been working brilliantly I still got them now there's nothing wrong with them at all it was what was that hand for me when I was living abroad so they've you know they've done the job and they're still you know you can see they're being used perfectly but since moving back my mum actually got me on to the newer ones and I'll go through all my titles as well all my dividers because like the categories because a few people have asked like how I categorize them so I'll show you the titles that work well for me but the ones then my mum uses and these are stronger are these ones here okay so I'm still sorting a few bits out these are my newest Christmas stamps so I need to I like to put a piece of white paper behind I can just see everything a little bit better so I do put up just a plain piece of copy paper just cut it in half and that will fit into each of these pockets so I will link these pockets below you can buy them in different quantities I always usually go for the 100 it just works out cheap I think it's about 6.99 for 100 and they're from eBay I will see if I can find any equivalents on Amazon as well because they seem to be the two kind of places that most of us will buy these kind of things but for the for the amount you get these are the ones that I've seen to be you know good value for money and I said they're nice and thick and they have the finger piece here so it is easy to pull out you know if you've got something taller like the bigger plastic stamps or the actual magnetic sheets so that's how I do that I've still got a label bits and pieces as well and I will show you my labeler in a moment so if I just bring this up to the side this is just one of them so here I've got fashion I've got new home I've got animals I've got cartoons and then I've got Christmas so Christmas is quite big I want to sort it out a bit because there's a few in there that I don't really go for anymore so I will donate those and yeah these are just ones that have kind of evolved as I get more bits and pieces so the fashion is quite a new one and that's kind of come from me getting those lovely let me show you the stamps that I got from craft stash which was the fashionista which was a big A4 one and I cut that down and re kind of stuck them so it's double-sided you know it's all about handbags and perfume and stuff like that so I thought okay that's that's very you know fashion-oriented and then I had with that I've got this one here which was free from one of the card making magazines and it's the girls and you change all the clothing so I thought okay they sit well together and I've got this one here which is very old this is a CD's hats off to you and it's got hat boxes so yeah things kind of evolve as I get more and more stamps I've got a hunky dory one there which I need to label which was the shop till you drop okay so I will show you the other tubs in a moment and then new home again that's kind of newish because I've received the Daisy Mae lovely houses I've got the welcome cottage I've got some big stamps of houses I've got that one there for the lover stamps which is the you know decorating your new home so that's where I go with that and then animals it's obviously self-explanatory anything with animals in mainly dogs and cats and then cartoons are like the critters so I guess more well it is just cartoon images so I know that's an animal but it's more of a cartoon for me so this makes sense to me obviously we've all got our own ways of doing things I need to take some out of this because it is a little bit too kind of wedged and then for example they're like that's the Wallace and Gromit that came free with the magazine that's a cartoon and then I've got spot the dog again that's a cartoon so yeah cartoons and animals this is kind of a fine line but for to me in my head it makes sense for me okay so that's how I stamp them I'm going to give you the measurements and show you the laminator all that stuff I'm going to do in a minute and then this is like I said one of my dye ones and this one here so I've got circle dyes square dyes hoovl dyes rectangle dyes then I go into words numbers border and edge dyes flowers flowers flowers and nature then I've got butterflies and then I've got topper dyes so topper dyes for me are just those big plates so anything that you would die cuts this is the big happy birthday and that would almost be the card done kind of thing so they are yeah exactly that I've got that lovely big one there the x-cut one I haven't used that for a while actually I should bring that one back out but I do have still quite a few to label that was another nice one I've got a clarity heart there x-cut heart so just those big plates really the things that kind of do it for you I mean the heart could go into like valentines maybe but for me when I think of toppers I know that's in there so that's where I kind of go for that um doilys I've got big spellbinders one there so like I said that's one of those I'll show you the other one in a moment so what we're doing first of all because I am in the middle of organizing some more kind of categories so I thought it'd be good to do this video so I'm just going to put this to one side okay so I have brought a new laminator there was nothing wrong with my other laminator but it was a two pin and I'm in the UK and we have a completely different plug socket system and everything and I was just worried that was something that has a lot of heat to it having the different voltage I just wasn't comfortable with so I have invested in another one this was just as inexpensive I paid 23.99 from amazon for this one the royal sovereign it's got really good reviews and it is a really nice machine it's also all digital and you have a bit more control with the thickness of the laminating pouches that you put through it so it's very easy there is a little bit of a sound to it because it has a fan in it to keep everything obviously nice and cool so I'm just going to turn it on okay so you can hear it starting up there now you can change your thickness you just hit that you've got bring up here so let's go back to the beginning so that's hang on so that's cold okay then you've got 75 I find that's the best to have it on this is such a powerful machine for my simple laminating 75 microns is perfect on your laminating pouches it will say what they are I generally buy 150 micron laminating pouches and they're what I'm using today but they work perfectly with the 75 setting okay and then you've got 100 125 150 175 200 and 250 and then it goes back to cold so I'm going to keep it on 75 you can also reverse as well if you want to go back over it and then that's just your power on and off okay so we're going to leave that on when it's ready this will it does a little beep I think and then that stays green then what I've done is I just cut down copy paper to six by 10 and a half that's the size that I like for the the kind of the the tubs that I'm using so if your tub is thicker you might have a seven inch tub then you'd want to have your your width thicker and your pouches might not be if you're not going to go for the same ones I have yours might be smaller therefore you wouldn't need yours to be so tall so you see what I mean here so these are what we're going to make these little dividers and they poke out by about an inch and a half so I can see all of my titles so that's why these are all 10 and a half inches high and six in width so just look at what's going to work best for you know the tubs that you have but this is just you know like I said lots of you have asked you've all got different setups so hopefully you'll pick up something from what I'm doing so I've already done three I need 10 more because I've got a whole new tub of categories now I've got lots of laminating pouches I recently brought these here I got a hundred from amazon so again I will share that link and they're all here and these are 150 micron then with this I got these here I got this one which is 20 pouches of 150 micron and then I also got some others but I think I use them for testing and you also get your cleaning papers you just roll that through with nothing on it it's like a glossy piece of thick card and it will just I guess clean up anything that might be on there so I'm just going to use these ones here now yes there is a waste I cut away this kind of plastic here because obviously I can't go I can't get two out of this because this is only eight and a quarter a full width so it's just not it wouldn't benefit me being a divider so I'm just opening up each of my pockets like so and then just grab one of these and pop it in there pop it's more to one side I mean the acetate I say acetate once it's obviously melted it is like an acetate so some of these pieces I will keep with my other acetate and it will be enough for a little window on a card so I will recycle some of this as well so let's pop those to one side so you can see now my light has stayed green and then I will pop the rest of those in there in a moment but now it's pretty quick as well with this one so just pop it in and then that will just do its thing and I'll just load up some more pockets okay so now I've got a nice laminated piece so I'm going to cut around this and then I will be using my labeler to get all those categories done now the one I had before was the bonsai and it is along my amazon storefront and I'd still recommend it there was nothing wrong with that machine like I said the only reason I've changed is because I just felt a bit more safer having the correct watt or wattage in my plug so I'm going to carry on now and get the rest of these laminated and then I'll come back and show you how I do my labelling okay so I've laminated them all and now just cutting them down and all of these pieces here are also great for my pop-up box cuts you know I like to use the acetate on a lot of the pop-up kind of features and because it's a little bit softer it's you know it's going to work great you can always do some nice bows and things like that so that just all goes into my kind of acetate folder that I have and I can reuse most of that again so I'm just trimming it so that it's about an eighth of an inch border okay you get a really good seal and plus it's only copy paper so you um you should get your your join your seal really almost literally on the paper so I think that's everything there okay so now on to labelling so this is my other tub and I've just put pieces a whole scrap paper in to actors dividers for the minute until I got around to doing this so I am going to be doing food and drink because I have I just pull out some of these here so I've got the pizza I've got this one here which is the fast food fun which I did do a video for but I lost all the footage so I will share the card I've got rosy studio ice cream there I've got some wine from a magazine I've got best day cake I have even a little one there which is a trim craft wine which I need to do again labelling on the front I've got Altenew coffee love so yeah I had quite a few then I thought right let's do food and drink so now I've got two here this one's actually my mum's I thought this is battery operated but they both use the same I guess these are what would you call this is a tape cassette this is what's got your your sticker reel on so these will work in both of these machines they're the 12 mil and this one here is my one that I purchased in China from brother so it's all legit there's nothing fake there's nothing dodgy about it but this one does have an adapter so I've just changed my lead so now I've got the the correct watt for this one so I didn't need to replace that it was quite funny though that I had to label my labella so I went on to the brother website and I had to just work out what all my Chinese symbols meant but I do love this I know how to use this even really without seeing that you kind of get used to kind of like a pattern but these are the same ones here the 12 mil you know these ones are white so that is basically a white sticker with black ink this one is black on white you can get yellow red greens you can have white on black so it's the other way around so do look at that because you don't want to order obviously the wrong one but you can see how they look there in the picture as well so it's exactly the same so yeah the brother one is very good that's battery operated there is no mains with that one let me just double check no it's all just batteries and it's very easy just take that out and pop it back in again there's they're not difficult to use to work at all and then to use them there's really clear instructions and brother are really good online anyway so I'm going to stick with my one here okay so I've just turned mine on now when I know I'm going to be typing and printing a lot of labels I would just do it all in kind of one go so I don't have big gaps because there are tricks and other ways around it but the one that I find the easiest is just to continue typing and just leave a space and then cut it if you just do one label at a time you'll get a good inch of wastage either side so yeah it's just a bit easier to do it this way and I think Jennifer McGuire she has a tutorial on the brother labeler so again take it take a look at that because she gives you lots of hints and tips so so I want to do food and drink so I'm just going to type food and I do the symbol for and actually so I'm not really going to be teaching this because I've got the Chinese ones there's no point okay just find the and sign it's right at the end there we go so food and drink okay then you could do print which will then and then it will come up saying are you sure and then you do print again and it will come out but like I said there will be an inch either side so I'm just going to carry on now and do a space and go into my next one so my next one is going to be what have I got here travel I think it was yeah travel because I've got stamps of stamps so like on an envelope I've got places like Big Ben and the Empire State Building and things like that so I thought if I do that under travel got suitcases those kind of things so just travel okay and then space again and then I've got another one here which is um yeah see I've got a lot of c-themed stamps because usually I would just before I had them kind of mixed in with I think it was scenes I had but now I thought actually I've got that many that they can afford to have their own little category so I'm just going to have under the sea or do I want to see and I'm going to do under the sea um under the now it will only allow you to have so much because it will only print off so much in one go but it's got here 204 millimeters I'm not sure how long it is but it will tell you so don't worry it's okay and then space what other one I've got here oh children should I have children or kids now I'm going to children children and that I cover everything okay space and then oh I've got like a planning so yeah I'm just going to put planning because I've got like the days of the month and like lines and boxes and things like that so just check us about that right okay space and then the other one here is oh yeah I've got whimsical because I've got things like princesses unicorns I've got fairies I mean I've got the beautiful babushkas which is for the lover stamps but I'm going to put that under whimsical because I probably wouldn't find it otherwise and I've got garden as well so let's do whimsical whimsical I've done that right yep and then okay space what did I say the last one was oh yeah garden which is a mix it's kind of got a little bit of food in it it's got the vegetable patch one that I had but it's also got that lovely garden one from the magazine that I recently had and I've got the stamps from the secret garden so and there's a few others to go in there as well so whimsical and then garden so I keep them very short just to the point I don't you know I don't need to have loads of it because I'd go into more detail on the stamps themselves so okay so now I'm going to print that's basically now just saying to me are you sure I'm going to print again and now it will come out the back here so you see there at the start there's that kind of like an inch that's just wasted whereas now now you can make them smaller but I don't just go straight into it so I know I could probably save even more but this is just the way that I do it but now what I'm going to do is just cut them between the words so that's everything there so then you just push that and it cuts off and this is so handy this I use this in the kitchen I labeled like my cereal things because I had them in plastic tubs you know spices and things like that so yeah don't just think that they're just for the craft room because you can use them all over the house so now I'm just going to but see what I mean so I have if I hadn't if I'd done each one separate I'd have that inch and inch here either side of garden so it would end up being like this long and you just have so much wastage whereas least if you do it this way you've you've managed to still print all them off and just lose those two pieces but I'm sure there probably is even a way to not have that but like I said I'm fine with it so now I'm just going to cut these down so I've got garden okay so they're all done so now on the backs of them you basically just fold it in half and the sticker comes up on one side so you just peel the sticker off like this and then just peel it off the other side so if you want to stick you know the top down first and then the rest you can but I just take it all off because it's only a little bit that I'm sticking down now the good thing is is that these are you can keep forever and these peel off quite easily they will stay on but you can peel them off nice and easily now you can make these with pattern paper if you wanted to and I used to have them like that which you would see in my craft room tour but the reason I've changed it is because I found it to be a little bit too busy so as lovely as it looks quite pretty I was just I don't know I just found it easier to have them just plain so that's just my choice but you know by all means you do this how you want this is just the way that I'm doing it and then just stick it to the top left and that's it so now I can pop in food and drinks right at the back so that's going to go in there I'll take that out so that's from my scrap drawer and what was the very back one there I forgot to oh weddings ah missed that one so I have to do wedding in a minute so then I've got travel so I'm just going to stick all these on here and replace those pieces of cardstock that I had okay so now I'll just pop on its side you can see everything there so they stick out just enough for me to be able to quickly go and then I can look into it further so there I then got creative stamping the enchantment collection April 2017 so I will then you know do the same labeling but just do it on each of my stamps in more detail so I mean you don't have to do that the reason I mainly do it is because I'm sharing tutorials with you guys and when you ask where things are from especially if they're a little bit older you can still find a lot of things whether it be on ebay or someone else is selling it so for me if I have everything listed it just makes it easy but you can also just keep the you know the the actual part of the packaging in the piece as well but I will take those probably out so but I put white paper in everything so there's a few that I need to and I've done pretty much all of my like my dividers I now need to just sort out some of the stamps themselves so there's a lot of my creative stamping ones there and in here like when I have little stamps things like this so these are all those tiny ones that you get from Dovecraft so I get a piece of acetate A4 acetate cut it in half so I then have you know a A5 piece and then I just stick them because they come on their acetate piece with the picture and I just stick them on there so that you can see all the separate pieces and then just pop them all together so they are mixed and that's why I've just got their mixed Dovecraft stamps so I might have a miscellaneous section which I can obviously go to because that for me would go under hobbies because I do have one for hobbies so I think as it grows a bit more and maybe I get some more smaller ones that I've got hobbies then that can be added to it and so on so that's just kind of how I've done it for me it's worked the best way I mean years ago I used to have them in folders and they just would always the plastic would end up ripping I used to have them in little what do you call them the zip kind of things but I would forget about them I need to be able to see everything so for me this is just to the right hand side I'll share a picture of how I have them and it is literally I can just you know kind of twist my chair and I can just flick through and it just for me visually to be able to have them like this is the best way I know I see lots of people have them on magnetic great big walls they have a wall full of magnetic sheets that's another good way because you can see it but I like to know like what the collection is from and if I just sometimes I see that and for me I think I would panic that I would get things mixed up and I don't know things would just yeah just get a bit of lost for me so this this works well so that's I need to sort out the front let me just show you so this is another one here so this is sentiments which is huge so I have a lot of sentiment stamps so this one is near the front because this is the one that I kind of go to the most because I pretty much have a sentiment on everything that I make then behind that I have alphabet and numbers and then I've got love but what I would do is move these around because love will sit perfectly with wedding so well I will have those closer together um and things like the garden what else have I got here no like have a look there are going to be more so that's those ones let me grab the other one so then there's this one here so here I have spring and Easter I've got patterns and backgrounds this one is oh I forgot that one oh look I've got this is baby see because I had children I said that would cover also I forgot that one so what I might do is well I have one I'll keep the children and keep the baby one I guess so I look at that and then here's another big one which is flowers in nature so this is all of these here so yeah and also if something comes with a dye what I find is I keep the dye with my stamps in with all of my stamps so for example here I have the daisy may peony bloom and that comes with a dye now the reason I keep the dyes with the stamps is because if that dye was separate with my dyes I wouldn't use that without the stamp the stamp is the first thing you're going to use and then the dye so it's best to keep the dyes with the stamps with all your other stamps I personally feel I think for me it definitely seems right and I use them because I think if I didn't have if I went to get the stamp first I know I know my collection so I know that this has a dye with it anyway but you may well forget and you end up fussy cutting it or something and then later on think oh my gosh I had the dye for that and I totally forgot so I keep them together on the back so that's that one and I've got I've got quite a few like that actually so I'm going to pull out some more like I said I am still sorting this and then I am slowly going to start having some of my brands together so for example here there's some of the stamping up but I've got a lot of woodware and I would rather I think have them all together because sometimes they work well together as well so that's another thing that you can do you might just have a lot of maybe like lawn form for example and like yeah lawn form and my favorite things they're quite similar in their kind of stamping they do a lot of the critters lots of animals and creatures and things like that but it might be nice to have lawn form together and then categorize that down to you know if they're travel related or if there's food and drinking them and under the sea and that kind of thing so there are lots of ways but for me this is the one that works the best I've got another one as well but I can't fit it that was the one I showed you with the fashion new homes it's four that I've got sorry not five and then two of the dye ones so we move on to the dyes now and I'll show you how I do that and the magnetic sheets that I use okay so here are all my dyes so I talked you through the categories for that one but on this one here I've got birthday dyes animals whimsical dyes shapes buildings and objects so when I've got shapes that's like because here I've got my squares ovals rectangles and circles they're my the most common but the shaped ones are things like a triangle hexagon just more obscure cloud shape just things like that that's yeah I don't really go to as much so that's why I've got them like that then I've got buildings and objects so in that one I have because I've got obviously objects but it's kind of a little bit travel as well I guess but yeah so I've got these ones here and then I've got these buildings so they're Fest addition I also need to remember to put the amount so six means how many there are so when I go to put them away because I always forget that I don't do it on the stance but I did do it on my dyes and I've kind of forgotten a few um and then that one there's like a hot air balloon so it's like in the sky I think I need to sort that one out a little bit more but anyway I know what I mean you get used to what you kind of do and you so now I've got bunting I've got children and babies so need to see that I now is that's what I should have done for my stamps is children and babies I've got romantic love dyes frames and tags got loads of frames and tags and I've also got inside here some old stamping up ones as well and then I've got under the sea because I've got a few there and then I've got Christmas I have got a lot more Christmas ones to go in here I haven't that's what I'm in the middle of doing is sorting out all of those new because I've been receiving a lot of product lately and I haven't got around to filing it away yet so that's what I need to do then at the front here I have my magnetic sheets now I was annoyed because the ones that I always order are the it's either 0.5 mil again I'll share the links so don't worry it's 0.5 mil thick was it 0.5 yeah not quite 5 mil it is right and um I was ordering from the same company but the ones they sent me look they're just they're so flimsy they're just no good whereas the ones that I use are here and this is in the proper little sleeve that I use now so this is if I bring this one out just fits in this one actually but that's the one with the little piece there and this is just so much thicker it doesn't flop about or anything like if I had these on this one they would start to I mean this this magnetic sheet doesn't you know it just it's it's the one you want basically trying to describe a magnetic sheet so um yeah they sent me these and I stuck and I thought when I got them I thought they don't feel right and I thought oh no me I've ordered the wrong ones clicked the wrong drop down or something and I checked and I thought no I definitely have so I contacted them they said they're going to send me them again so what I do is these all come as an A4 sheet like so and I just cut it in half on my trimmer so I have the two sizes which fit perfectly in my pockets so yeah I mean these can still be used I won't not use them they'd be good for just like plates I'll probably swap them for some of my like topper dies they work okay on these so yeah so it's just exactly the same way that I do my stamp organization is just you add the magnetic sheet you know this isn't going to work for everybody we've all got different ways of doing things we've all got different space you know some people have heaps and heaps of space I've I'm okay I've got a you know a shelf dedicated for this but I still got to keep it contained and you know I can't keep adding no more tubs I'm pretty much there in terms of my tubs so I'll just kind of look back through things that I don't really use so much and then I can kind of you know donate those and I want to keep it within these kind of ones really so I will share all the links below I'll share the links for the labular machine the laminator machine you know the pouches that I've purchased the laminating sheets everything everything you see today I will link below because that's what you've all been asking but I hope you can take something from this you know whether it be just the categories that I use you know that might be something that you might use in the folders that you've got or something so yeah hopefully it will help some of you let me know what you think let me know if you've got any suggestions as well and ways that you do things link them not link them sorry comment below and I will you know be sure to check those out so thank you for watching please give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more and I'll be back tomorrow with another tutorial thanks for watching bye