Day 3- All about stamps

For day 3 I tackled my rubber and acrylic stamps.  My husband made me this shelf about a year or so ago.  I love it because I can see all my stamps at one glance.  I put the large background stamps on the top, images in the middle and sentiments on the bottom so I can read them.  I also have a clear jar of tiny stamps.  My rubber letter stamps are stored below in a pull out storage.  I might end up getting rid of those since I hardly ever use them.

 

For organizational purposes, I have 3 types of acrylic stamps- Stampin' Up, Close to My Heart and Other.  My Stampin' Up and Close to My Heart stamps I have labeled with a number and placed in their own baskets.

The numbers are used for my resource binder.  I have a category for rubber stamps, acrylic stamps, punches, and die cuts.  I make photo copies of the stamps or use the sheet that came with the acrylic stamps to use as a reference for what stamps I have.  This way instead of searching, trying to remember or if I am away from my scrapbook room, I can just look at my resource binder to see what I have.  I take my Other acrylic stamps and place them on cling storage sheets and store them in a binder.  I got my cling sheets from scrapbook.com but I'm sure there are multiple places you can purchase them.  If a die came with a stamp, I place the die in a pouch in the front of the binder.  Each sheet is labeled with a number that corresponds with the cling sheet the stamp is stored on.  If this sounds confusing I added some photos to show you what I am talking about.

 

You can  stamp the image, use the image that came with the stamp or photo copy it. 

Corresponding cling sheet that the stamp is stored on.

 

Photo copies of my rubber stamps but stored on the shelf.

 

My paper punches.

Photo copies of my Stampin' Up stamps stored in a basket.

 

Photo copies of my Close to My Heart stamps stored in a basket.

Hope this gives you some ideas of how to store and organize your stamps.