Organizing Craft Scrapbook Room Makeover

Lots of organizing ideas for Craft Scrapbook Sewing Room Makeover looking inside the cabinets.  I love having all of my scrapbook and craft goodies this organized.  I feel much more creative in a clean, organized room. 

 

Scrapbook Room Craft Sewing Studio Makeover Reveal Continues

My scrapbook room / craft / sewing studio reveal continues.  I have everything moved in and decided to go ahead and take more photos. The timing was perfect because right after I took these photos today, I received a custom order from my ETSY shop and lets just say, my desk is not so clean right now.  I have had several crafting spaces but this is for sure the most creative space I have ever had.  I am very thankful! 

 

 

 

Scrapbook Room Makeover Accucut Die Storage

My scrapbook room makeover included a few new storage shelves for my AccuCut Craft dies and a larger space for them.  When I first purchased my GrandeMark machine  years ago, I never realized how many dies I would end up purchasing.  Although AccuCut Craft has some very nice storage units, I wanted something custom fit for under my thirty inch counter space.  I drew the plans and my husband made the shelves for me.  The smaller shelves have slides on the bottom and easily pull in and out from under the counter.  The larger dies are too heavy for me to slide in and out from under the counter, so I decided to just have shelves along the back wall of my room. 

My next scrapbook room makeover (when I need new carpet again in about 7 years LOL) will include custom cabinets with doors across the entire back wall so my dies will be hidden but still easy to access.  I almost had them made this time but I am pretty sure we will be moving into a new house before I need new carpet again.  And my house will be built around my scrapbook room LOL!!

I also made a dust cover for my GrandeMark die cutting machine using my fabric from 1990.  And I die cut a few letters from all of my alphabets and hung them on the handles so I can find them a little quicker. 

Scrapbook Room Makeover

When I started my scrapbook room makeover, I knew I wanted to keep my Cropper Hopper storage items but wanted them moved off the counters out of sight.  I really like organizing with Cropper Hopper products.  One of the first storage items I purchased years ago was a Cropper Hopper embellishment box /organizer.  I liked it so much that I added a few more in various sizes.  I even use Cropper Hopper photo storage boxes for my Close to My Heart stamp pads and ribbon spools. 

Craft Room Makeover Sewing Quilting Table

This is the first craft room makeover reveal from my newly decorated scrapbooking / crafting / sewing room.  In the past, I only scrapbooked in this room because I have a sewing area in my laundry room.  But since I like the light and the space in this room, I decided to add a sewing table that is big enough to handle quilting, cutting and a small pressing board, plus roomy enough underneath to hide three pink plastic storage bins.

My sewing table is 36 inches deep, 80 inches long and 30 inches tall.  There is a 15" wide cabinet on the right of the table and a 36" wide cabinet on the left end of the table.  I added a rectangle shape leg made from 2x4's that I put behind the small cabinet to support the width of the table top.  The fabric is covering the area of the leg.  The oak cabinets are unfinished stock wall cabinets from Lowe's and are only 12 inches deep.  I painted the cabinets with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint and waxed them.  I love the color, pink is very calming to me.  The color was made using 1 cup Old White chalk paint with 10 ml Emperor's Silk.  It is a perfect pink, not too purple and not too orange, just a pretty shade of pink.

I used a hollow core door from Lowe's for the table top but I do not recommend using hollow core doors.  The door is too flimsy to handle the vibration from my sewing machine, it bounces all around while I am sewing.  I now have a 1"x12" piece of pine shelving under my machine which helps a little but I do plan to change the counter top in the near future.

I used hollow core doors throughout my room for counter tops and now I wish I hadn't.  Although the sizes were perfect, they are not sturdy enough for me. I got the idea to use the doors from Pinterest of course, but obviously that person never tried to use a sewing machine on top of those doors. 

My old counter/table tops were made from plywood topped with laminate flooring.  They were sturdy and so much more practical.  I didn't worry about scratching or staining them.  I will be going back to that idea just as soon as I pick out laminate flooring!  As you can see, I didn't finish the edges of the door since I am going to be changing them out soon. 

I made the pressing board from plywood covered with a towel and placed inside a pillow case that I made with my pretty vintage fabric.  It is just the right size to press quilt pieces and it is lightweight and movable.  The fabric is from 1990 and I love it!  I bought the entire 25 yard bolt back then and made curtains for my family room, I am using what was left over.  I saved it all those years hoping to use it for a special project and I think it is perfect for my room remodel.

 

Layout Stacker Things

I have been sitting here trying to remember what I call these things...and I realize I refer to them as "cardboard stacker thingys".   When I asked my DH he laughed and said they are "stacky things".  So in this post, for lack of a better title,  I will refer to them as " Layout Stacker Things" "LST" for short.

I started using LST years ago, before the days of my Dream Scrapbook Room.  Yes, once upon a time I scrapbooked at my dining room table out of a rolling cart and loved it.  As I started scrapbooking for others and making multiple layouts I needed a way to put the pages together and add embellishments to them or make changes without wasting time.  This is what I came up with.

I cut cardboard into 13"x26" pieces, big enough to lay a two page layout on.  It worked great, I could make the layouts, stack them up and finish them as I had time.  I repurposed my daughter's computer desk into my paper sewing desk, so the keyboard drawer was the perfect size to stack the layouts waiting to be machine stitched. 

My first LST were plain thick cardboard cut from a big box.  The next time I made LST, I covered them with white vinyl so they can be easily wiped off if I get ink or adhesive on them.

EDITED:  my brilliant daughter said they are "Planning Boards".

Creative Spaces My Dream Scrapbook Room

Creative Spaces / Craft Studio / My Dream Scrapbook Room / Cool Crafting Space  is all reorganized with the new armoire for storage. 
edited:  my cool creative space is organized and still clean 10 days later...I have made three two page layouts, and two projects and it still looks just like this photo!!  So happy!!
When I have friends coming over to scrapbook, I move the blue chair out and put up two 6 foot folding tables for them.  You can't see in this photo but in the right lower corner in front of a window, I moved my desk with the sewing machine on it. I can't believe how clean and organized it is!  Now it is time to scrapbook and mess it all up! LOL
I love the blue chair and ottoman.  I call it my creating chair, it is sooo comfortable and gently rocks so I can sit there and think...sometimes you will find me with a piece of 24 inch cardboard on the ottoman working on a layout, the ottoman makes a great working table. LOL

Scrapbook Closet...she does all those beautiful pages in there!!

This is my daughter's scrap closet!! Have you ever seen a scrap space more organized and user friendly. It is tucked away in a hall closet. When I visited her I had the opportunity to sit in her space and it was great!! She does beautiful layouts and has all her scrapbooks displayed in her living room. I love looking through them and remembering good times. She is not much of a scrapbook collector of stuff except maybe her Quickutz which I like to contribute to at birthdays and Christmas.
She is a Close to My Heart consultant as one might guess by all the stamps and stamp pads. On the right side of her closet are all of her paper packs and embellishment boxes toward the bottom. She does buy all of the CTMH paper packs and uses them frequently for her scrapbook pages. Her sweet darling daddy made her the paper boxes and her sweet darling hubby installed her custom shelves and desk top made to fit her perfectly. Her desk is only 24 inches deep by 40 inches wide.  Notice how the shelves are smaller at the bottom and get bigger as they go up, giving her the feeling of more space and head room when sitting in the closet.
Under her desk she stores her rolling cart always ready to go to a crop, and her Cricut in the CGull rolling cart which is awesome!!
Check out her blog for some of her inspiring scrapbook layouts. http://www.mysweetarts.blogspot.com/