Small Craft Room Studio Tour - Storage and Organisation Hacks!

hi everyone and welcome to my small craft studio tour now I've just revamped an area in my house it was a garage but we've built some walls up inside made it into my very own studio now you will see the building of this room on my channel on a different video that's been up for a little while but I will link that down below for you and this is kind of the tour with all the organization and storage in instead now I'm going to try and run through all my storage tips and tricks that I've got here and do let me know in the comments if you can think of any others that might help me out in here so many of you know that I've been renovating my house for a while little clue to that is we have walls that look a bit like this but the studio is done now we do have a secret opening into this and it is obviously designed to look like a bookshelf or bookcase and then we go into the studio so here's a little overview of the studio at the moment and I'm going going to be covering each and every one of my storage boxes organizers everything so I think we're going to start over here at the desk area so as you can see when I sit at my desk I can have the windows open I can see out the front of my house people walking past when my kids come home things like that or I can close a door that's in front of them on the outside and that blocks it all in so people can't see in now because this is not only a craft studio but also a filming recording studio I obviously have a large computer here I have a camera that's down onto the top of my desk I have another camera just here that's looking at me and then I also have this arm this is actually really handy because I can bring in another camera anywhere I need over my desk at an angle uh or my phone if I choose to do that so they're really handy as for speakers or microphones I actually use the ones in the cameras they're really good now Lighting in here my husband is an electrician he put in a number of daylight bulbs for me in the ceiling but he also installed these really fun side lights now what this means is that obviously when I've got my window closed and the sun's not coming in on my desk when I'm working with my hands down it actually eliminates any of the Shadows like I say today we've got the sunlight coming in but I can close that as I need for when I'm filming so these are actually really really helpful and again it's daylight so it doesn't interfere with the white balance on my videos so now to storage and if you look under my desk I've actually got here a uh Hobby Craft tote that I can pull out now this basically has everything on it that I need all those essential tools that I come to all the time so all my scissors my Pokey TOS my uh mattes my most used glues although I have thousands of glues uh in the middle besides some treats that you can see there I actually have a box with my stamping Platforms in this also has uh any other stamping tools have a hairbrush because you know I do do lots of videos um my cropadile some more scissors in there and underneath are either projects that I've got to get on with and do or um my notebooks as well so this is kind of just admin stuff almost um underneath my desk here so let's come down this way I've actually got some more storage down here now my desk is actually an old piece of worktop and it's sitting on uh three shelving units two of them facing the other way I've got a lot of my cutting mats under here this is a fun piece that we used on craft videos just recently this is actually my scraps section all of this is my scraps so these are separated into paper magazine files into colors um and I just find them so so helpful to have everything literally uh within Arms Reach when I'm working because I tend to go for scraps more than I go for large sheets of card stock now I've also got white black and craft card stock here underneath are just a couple of extras so for example this one has got um just some ink pads in there things like that uh kind of storage that I don't go to very often now this is one of my um probably my most fun storage items here this is two uh magnetic knife uh blocks knife holders that for the kitchen but they hold my nesting dieses now again these are my most used nesting dies they're not all of my stash I've got hundreds of different shapes and sizes um different designs as well but these are the ones I kind of go to the most I've got basic squares basic circles basic hexagons a couple of different rectangles uh I just popped a few little stars on the bottom there you may notice as well that I haven't got skirting board yet that's one thing that is left to do in here but otherwise the office is finished now uh on my desk I have this really cool little plastic hole holder it was just a sticky holder this holds my again most used ink pad so my black one so momento versify um my embossing um inks as well things like stays on in Black I've got my heat tool and my glue gun and then just again things like hand cream lip gloss bit of mascara if I do have to do a close-up video uh I've got my big shot this is the machine that stays on my desk nearly all the time I do have other machines we'll see those in a moment um but this is the one that I use 99% of the time so it stays up here this little box which I love because it color coordinates is my wet wipes in there uh obviously I've just got my computer things up here just above my desk this is actually this is actually a kitchen towel holder so I've got my kitchen towel on it for when I'm doing mix media projects but I've also got again my most used reels of adhesive a couple of additional just metal tins here I haven't actually got anything in these yet uh so yeah that's still to come now as we move around lots of you will have seen previously I did do a tutorial on this a long time ago my ink blending uh or my distress inks and my blending brushes so my blending brushes are both to the left and the right of me as I sit at my desk and I found these cute little shelves uh just on Amazon they came in packs of four I believe for about 8 something like that so what I've done is I've put one for each row of my blending brushes and do you know I don't worry that these are not in order with the brushes I just know that within them six the brush is there somewhere it works for me within everything in my craft studio it's what works for me and how I craft so then coming from my desk behind me I've then got my Billy bookcase at the very top there we've got some really pretty mint colored boxes I have labeled as much as possible and I found this so helpful so I have embossing powders waxes so things like gilding waxes um I've got my my small ink pads which are like my teardrop ones cat's eye ones mediums is anything from gesso uh texture paste things like that I've got glitter and flakes gelato these two flowery boxes here I haven't actually labeled them but I know I've got my 6x6 in papers well I have labeled them but I've actually labeled them on uh the other side 6x6 papers and I've got my uh dot mandala Tools in another one I just love these I love watercolor and I just love anything in Rainbow order so I just thought they're really fun to put there to kind of fill in what was otherwise a blank space there now this is where I store again my most used Samsung dies okay so I've got five boxes here um So backgrounds is basically anything that's a background pattern alphabets is pretty much as it says on the tin although I've got lots of these a lot of them you'll see I'll show you where they are in a moment because they're actually separated into a different category lots and lots of floral stamps and dieses and lots of well you can see here how many sentiments I've got eventually I hope to fill these up so that they all stand up nicely like this under here I've then got Christmas now I laminated these front sheet and for this reason I could then stick any stamps on if I don't have time to put them away and then I know they go in that box they're stuck there and I will put them away next time I come to them obviously didn't tidy up before I did this video because I just thought you know what it's a working craft room so I've got my Cricket there as well kind of on display because um I do bring it out now and then but not as much as I used to my trimmer stay there my scoreboard stays there so while I'm sitting at my desk this is all behind me within Arms Reach in here nothing too exciting in here uh I do have my card bases now I've split these into uh rectangles and squares and then down here I've got my large card bases now a lot of the time I use 5x seven card blanks but I found great ways to buy them at 10 by7 in and cut them in half uh this is from Craft stash I'll try and Link that down below as well so I store those there this is another one of my boxes that doesn't fit on Top This is just just accents just kind of image stamps and dyes so anything that's a picture um a border not a background basically so there's an awful lot in there all different brands in there as well spare heat tool some alcohol pens this is kind of all my alcohol section and not the alcohol section that you're thinking about I've got lots of alcohol pens in in here as well hiding away these are new to craft I've also stored in here just because I know they're in here then things like my stay on cleaner because it's kind of that solvent alcohol base the same with these alcohol wipes as well um and I've got my alcohol lift ink to me just makes sense to keep them together because it's all like I say solvent alcohol I know where they are so although I don't necessarily use these items with my alcohol pens I just know I just remember where they are then down the bottom I have got this truck is great because I can pull it out I have got patterned papers of all different shapes and sizes and behind it there I've also got lots of 12 x 12 ones as well I like to make my own pattern paper so I don't come to those very often these are a couple of uh magazine files that need sorting since I've moved into my craft studio there's all sorts in here but they are mostly specialty papers I really need to kind of divide them so we'll just ignore those today now to the other side I've got my Ikea peg board which I love it's actually to be honest it's more for decoration it's really pretty I do use the blending brushes and the ink sometimes but I don't come to a lot of it very often it's just for display purposes I purposely ordered these uh wooden blocks when I uh first knew that I was having my own craft room designing a new one they're printers letters printers blocks I just love them and I'm not sure how I'm going to display them yet they're not going to sit there forever uh just a cute little mug for for no reason it's empty it's clean um this is my A4 full sheet card stock okay so I've got all different brand here this is where I reach to when I do need a full sheet of card stock um some lots of paint brushes all the paint brushes you can possibly imagine kind of in the back there are the used ones that are dried up that I'm then going to use on a project as it is these are my working ones really um obviously my distress ink tins as well above these I have got my pots of pens I've started labeling them I don't come to these as often anymore because I don't do my brush lettering much but I do still love to use them particularly for coloring stamped images so these are on Ikea containers uh I didn't have the Ikea bar I actually lost that a long time ago about two craft rooms back um but I I found in a supermarket amongst their recycling um being outside someone had put this cardboard tube in so I sprayed it white and put it on with a couple of hooks and then it works so there we go recycle and reuse here's a distress chart now you'll find this on my website this is free for you to download I've just laminated it stuck it on my wall I've just got all the distress colors there at a glance that I can see so it's really handy they're just behind there if anyone's wondering that's actually my um fuse board so really not very exciting but like I say my husband's an electrician so he deals with that down the side here I've got a couple of more magazine holders and these have got again specialty papers I've got flower forming foam in the bottom and I've got fabric paper colored fabric paper in the top some of that is new not released products so I can't really show you that just yet but inside here I then have uh again these are lots of things I don't really come to very often um but I do have all my stencils in this really lovely mint colored metal container so stencils of all different brands uh these are just kind of fixing so I've got paper clips batteries magnets all the sort of stuff you put in a junk drawer really in there these are lots of my my um distress brushes uh either knee cleaning have been cleaned old ones I'm not using some new ones in there this ink pad dried up I don't know why it was almost dry when I first received it so it's just sitting in there down here I've got um these these two folders actually are as old as my son they're sort of going on 15 years old this one I I'll have to show you this because if you've been crafting a long time this might bring back some memories this one is actually full of all my old sentiment stamps you can see they're so old started going yellow I've got things from technique Tuesday in here I could never bring myself despite the fact that they've aged uh I couldn't bring myself to get rid of these I've got Ali Edwards in here just so I used to do a lot of scrapbooking and I use these more then um but yeah I've got so many sentiment stamps it's actually disgusting that I don't use them as much but I will never throw them out and then the same let me move this is another one of those boxes it's all specialty card stocks board fabric paper all sorts of different random papers and things in there so that one is another one that needs sorting out with the other two but in here again very similar all my old stamps I think that's upside I'm not upside down but back to front uh so we've got some alter new stamps in here these really could do is being separated um into categories in different storage but this is how I started this is how I used to store my stamps in these sort of albums and this is these are just really old ones look here we've got uh Studio 490 there um this is just how I used to store them for years and years that one's not even in a pocket or if it is I think it's falling out of there look um but again this is just it's just I love it there's so much here and I'll probably very rarely come back to those but you know it just it's just just memories isn't it crafting a long time ago now this is my uh second or third adhesives box this is my spare spare box actually this might be my spare box so this is um where I keep adhesive that I don't come to very often you see there's a stray roll of tape there uh at the back there's a large Circle template this is I said to you about having nesting dyes again before I got the studio this is how I would store my nesting dyes in this sort of little album they're all muddled up again this is something that needs um sorting out as is this this whole folder here is full of nesting D okay so now moving further down the craft room I've got um obviously I've got a color wheel here just helps me with inspiration sometimes uh I have got my distress Swatch chart this is something so this is one this is a chart that you can download on my website again completely for free uh you'll have heard me talk about that in lots of my videos now these are all my swatches that that were created when I did my distress Inc and oxide color combination videos there's hundreds of them and at the top here you'll see I've still got more that I need to laminate I do write on the backs of them each time so I know what colors they are um but I am gradually going through scanning and um copying these and editing them into my blog with all the wording with them so the names of the inks on them as well so that you can see all these swatches and you can use them that is taking me a very long time but they will be there eventually so moving round because above my desk here I have this is full of embossing folders these are all my trimmers stamp platforms and scoreboards there's a few new products from creative Craft products in there that um I can't show you they've not released yet at the top just there see I've got a little bit of storage I've got a couple of trays that I don't know what I'm doing with yet I'll store them somehow I've got my hot foiling items my prismacolor pencils a couple of frames to Decor alcohol inks I don't have a huge selection of those at the moment so they're in a metal tray the blue tray is all of my kind of altered things so clipboards uh door hangings MDF shapes things like that uh my pencil case on top which has lots of specialty drawing items uh these are props so these are props that I can use for photography we'll come to Photography in a moment now in here are all my papercraft Society items these are the most recent wallets and the most recent boxes as well I've got new ones to add to that but I thought I better not spell the surprise if you are a subscriber the door's a bit broken on that one so I need to just uh do something with the hinges in there but it's fine it's all stored away nicely uh here I've actually got a plastic jewelry tree and this holds all of my stencil brushes really nicely these again are my creative craft product stencil brushes so these work really nicely just hanging on there in the back there you'll see my distress inks in one one of the Laser Smith MDF storage solution storage um units that fits really nicely inside my CA as you see the inks I don't come to very often at all now so that's why they're in there and then I've got a few more blending things so ders some of my brushes and such in there the next unit along is crochet I do love to crochet so I've got two um boxes there completely dedicated to that one again is Laser Smith storage this one is um just a box with all sorts of hooks and different things in these scissors don't actually work anymore but they're not very good but they look beautiful and I've got a couple of uh books there in here are Cricut things so Cricut any sort of um electronic cutting machine so mates wires I've got my joy in there vinyl any tools along here this is a bit of an odd one this is one of those units that doesn't really have a place yet I've got some vinyl down the bottom some of my larger ribbon spools in there and some envelopes and a we are memory cuers let punch at the top but this one kind of feels a little bit bitty like there's not much in there not really much going around now talked about photography I said at the top there I've got a box of uh these are basically faux flowers uh a book I've got an old telephone up there plants metal embellishments some of these I use for photography which is all here now I do have an old camera just for display here as well but this is my photography box on the side here along with my Harry Potter lamp I've actually got a switch so I can turn this on as you see the light comes on see I take this camera out I don't use this camera I to use my phone but I pop my cards in there and take photos of them there uh and then I've got also a box of props down here but we'll come to all this area in a little while so just turn that off um before we get to the cax boxes I've got this second desk now this desk was intended to kind of do maybe messy work here or to come and do my video editing away from the messy area which would be here I've actually found since creating this that I'm using this Des all the time everything's to hand I've not once sat here so I'm thinking that this desk will actually I'll actually remove the desktop and just have the storage that's underneath instead the only thing this is actually at the moment good for besides displaying my beautiful rainbow inks uh is my sewing machine my brother scanning cart and my extra uh die cutting machines as well but they could all sit on top of the other storage so you know we'll see so coming to the ca here we've got um some more more um A4 storage papers here so these I know sorry I lie these are 12 x 12 shows how often I come here I don't use 12 x 12 as often anymore as when I was scrapbooking more often but they're all here if I do need them for larger projects then these are more of my A4 um paper papers but obviously not to hand so I've kind of split them so half of them are here half of them are to hand right near me but if I can't find a color over here I'm likely to find it here or in the 12 x 12 then I start getting into um some of my products I mean first I've got platforms old stamping platforms smaller trimmers again ones I don't use very often or ones I've got two or three of my magazines here and I do have to clear this out regularly I get all the Practical publishing magazines every month so I do have to go through those quite regularly and have a clear out give them to the care home uh so that I don't have too many in there at a time these two boxes are product um a lot of this is new these are my licensed products so for example things like bag pus things like um suti things like peanuts as well Alice and Wonderland or um William Morris anything that crafts as do that's a license they go in there under this desk this is again it's not much that's pretty it's just storage at the moment so I've got my props these are a lot of these are as you can see Christmas props for example berries all sorts in there that I can use for photography spray paints in here um I've got copy paper I've got my laminating machine my sewing bag there um I've got some more alcohol pens and so on so I've got my label making machines down the bottom here and at the top I've got things like watercolor paper card stock and then as we come over here so let's come to the back of the door now these letters were from a an old neighbor she was giving them away for free and I just love them I absolutely love them my husband thinks they're pointless I just think they're absolutely beautiful and they just sit there so nicely I am not a big ribbon fan I'll admit I'm not a huge ribbon fans but I do have some so I've sto them like this on the back of my door so I've got blues Reds and Twine and neutrals that's a as much as I need I very again very rarely I actually come to the twined a lot more than anything else on the top of this CA unit I do have all my alcohol not alcohol sorry acrylic paints and I've got all my sprays my enamel dots things like that this I do want to grow these a lot so I'm probably going to be ending up having shelving actually on this wall much larger but we'll see when we come to it now these boxes are all of the what we call the co-brand product from Craft stash so SMC is simply made crafts MTS is made to surprise and so on and so forth I've got creative Craft products I've got paper Discovery I've got Sheena there's all sorts in here that they all going there they're like the newer product though I have an old filing cabinet in my Conservatory for old old product that is now discontinued and then eventually they go to charity this section is my textures Collections and this is why you don't see many of the textures items in the stencil box in my embossing folder box things like that because they're all kept within the collections I love these I I will link these These are on Amazon so they are five five drawers plus the black um kind of outer case and handles I don't know between 20 and 3030 £25 something like that and they're just genius I love them and they of course they do stack too so absolutely fantastic and then really lastly from my storage is the units that my desk are kind of sitting on um this has more boxes again but then I have my watercolors so all my watercolor paints my favorite paper jars palettes I have these this is my other adhesives box so again more adhesives spare adhesives in there um card making magic my gel plate and Associated items with that so brers and such embellishments is a very messy box as you can imagine embellishments covers all sorts I've got let's have a look in a little delin here look at this absolutely crazy needs a big sort out but do you know what if I need an embellishment I know that it's in there and this box that says cards here are all my cards that I've created for videos for craft stash I keep them for a while before I donate them um or recycle them either way this trolley here again I'll link this on Amazon it's an absolute godsend it comes actually with uh the other two sections there that I don't have on at the moment but this stores secondary craft items for when I need to go away if I'm going anywhere like Create and Craft for example I will have this with me and that's got everything it's got all my tools in the top papers and such trimmers and that in the bottom and everything embellishments in the other containers at the minute I've got a lot of sort of comp Computing items in there wires Chargers boring things like that so I think that is my entire craft room that I've shown you um lots of different Storage Solutions um if there's anything I've missed out you've seen and you're wondering what it is please do shout let me know and I'll tell you um but I think I've covered everything hope you've enjoyed that let me know which is your favorite of the uh crafting Storage Solutions and if you've got a link to a studio tour of your own I'd love to see it let me know in the comments take care everybody I'll see you again very soon