ME, ORGANIZING????? YES IT'S TRUE!!

Well, it's a bit of a stretch for those of you that know me, but I have been taking some time to organize my scrappy supplies....this week I took on my dozens of little dollar bin clear stamp sets that I got at Michael's and AC Moore. I had at least put them all in one bin, but I would have to dig through them to find what I wanted, and would give up when I couldn't find what I wanted right away......well, as part of another project, (ripping all my CDs into iTunes on my new MacBook Pro, I am discarding all the plastic cases and putting all the liner notes and cds into a CD case, to cut down on how much space they take up.) So I have all these plastic cases going to the dump, so I decided to repurpose them into clear stamp holders. I put all the little sets into the CD cases, and organized them all by theme. When I realized I would no longer need my wood CD organizer for CDs,  I labeled the spines of my new CD stamp holders, and slid them in, another great repurpose! And now I can find any stamp easily!

The wood Cd organizer repurposed to hold my stamp sets, along with the bin they had all been in, and a few other sets of clear stamps that didn't go with the others.

This is how the cd/stamp holders are all labeled for easy searching. 

This is how I have them all stored, in the repurposed cd organizer! The pink bin is where they were all in a jumbled mess. Now the ones that don't go with these sets are also in their own cd case holders, ready for me to figure out another place for them....heck, maybe just on top of the organizer...

A MUSE CHALLENGE # 22

Well, this weeks challenge was for Multi-Purpose stamps, to use an image in a way that it may not have originally been intended for.... so after thinking about it for almost a week, I was rummaging through my a muse bin of stamps hoping for an idea to pop out, and I ran across Boris, and thought "ohh..... mad....hmmmmm......mad about you....Mad for your love.....Mad about your love!!" So here he is, appearing on Valentine's Day, instead of hanging around till Halloween! I think my Sweetie will love it!!! After all, it's not too girlie!! I think Boris looks good in pink!! LOL!

I cut an oval out of pink mulberry paper, and then stamped Boris with black Stazon ink, colored him in with my Gelwritersx pens, the glitter ones, and then frayed the edges of the mulberry paper. I covered a pink jewel heart by Colorbok with Stickles Diamond glitter, and stuck it over the test tube, and used the stickles to highlight Boris's labcoat buttons, and then put glitter spewing out the test tube and beaker. Then I mounted him to a white oval the same size as the mulberry, and then foam mounted the oval to a deeper pink scalloped oval, then attached it to a pink argyle a muse notecard...tied a pink a muse ribbon around it, and hand wrote "mad about your love" in a black glitter Gelwritersx pen. I really love how it came out. TFL!!