Thursday, June 4, 2009

Storing tiny acrylic stamps

I have a small collection of clear acrylic stamps that are never neat and I always seem to be losing the tiny pieces. I've tried to keep them on the original plastic sheets, but its really tedious, especially since most of the acrylic stamps I've got have a lot of teeny individual pieces (alphabet sets, for example) and it takes me forever to re-attach them all. They usually end up loose with my other craft stuff and eventually get lost or ruined.

Today I saw a small, sectioned plastic container (below) in the craft section at Walmart (around $3.00) and immediately knew what I could use it for!

When I got home, I pulled out my stamps and put each of my small sets in their own section. Then I cut out a representative stamp image (or several) from the clear plastic packaging that they came on and taped them to the inside of the lids, so I can easily see whats inside each compartment. The stamps are loose inside, which probably isn't ideal if you want to keep your stamps perfect for all eternity, but I'm just happy I don't have to spend 20 minutes sticking them on a little plastic sheet anymore.


Here is another idea I saw on www.scrapscene.com, using old CD cases (if you're into sticking your stamps on something):

http://www.scrapscene.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/stampstorage.JPG

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