I thought I should show you another side to my craft room, only because for the last few weeks I have seen people whom are setting off on their journey of sorting their stamps. Mine are all catalogued and stored in a unique system that really works for me. So to be fair I have taken photos of my system for stamp storage. They are all catalogued and stored in a way that is so, so easy. I have unmounted all of my stamps bar a few of my regular favourites that are used all the time. The others are in your typical CD storage boxes, cover/insert is stamped and inserted into the front of the CD box so at a visual I know what is to go in there, then I stamp the image into my catalogue into categories that work for me, for example if it is words, it is stamped in words, or people in people. I have many different categories like..... flowers, asian, flourishes, backgrounds, fantasy, zetti etc. So when I want to do something like a flower card using the stamp I go to the catalogue, look up flowers, see the one I like, it could be number 176, I then go to the draw and pull CD 176 and stamp the image using an acrylic block. As I purchase more stamps I place them in the CD boxes and stamp into catalogue, number it as the next CD in the system. This way any stamp can go into any CD and I don't have to worry about keeping to style, types or even themes, they can be mixed up and it doesn't matter. I have purchased a CD drawer storage system to keep them all in order. The stamps that are to big for the Cd's go into the A4 hard plastic folders and again stamped on the cover what they are and numbered/named.
A4 Catalogue with titles for the stamps
CD boxes with image on front, of what the contents are ..............
Spine of the CD with the number for easy visual find
CD storage drawers starting at 001 to ......... Drawers are numbered for easy visual find.
File boxes for the larger stamps that don't fit into the CD boxes, these are also numbered for easy reference.







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