Wednesday, May 25, 2011

My stamp & dies books

Several weeks ago, inspired by this post, I made a couple of books to help me keep track of my stamp & dies inventory. I thought I'd share them with you, today.

The books are basically the same... They are both 6"x5.5" made with plain white cardstock and chipboard covers, attached together with a binder ring.

For my stamp book, at the front, I have a list of my inks (note, I'm expecting an order of new ink and once I get it, I want to redo this list, in the order of the rainbow.)




The following pages contain all of my stamps, stamped into it with black ink. I have my sentiments stamps sets...


And my images...


I find that this book really helps me when I'm looking for a certain stamp, or just basically reminds me of what I have.

For my dies book, I have my alphabet dies...




...my shaped dies & punches...




... my embossing folders...


... and my impression plates.


Again, this helps me to keep track of what I have. On each page of the book, I've labeled what everything is.

Another cool thing that I can do with these books is use them together, to see what stamps fit with which dies...

For instance, I was thinking of using the top image of my SU! Bliss set...


And wondered if it would fit on my Mat Stack #5 die.


So I took the page with my die and layered it over my stamped image, like this.


And could see how well it would fit.



Thanks for looking!

4 comments:

xoxo... t said...

Wow, this is amazing, Leigh!!! So organized!

Elizabeth said...

Leigh this is amazingly organized!!! I don't even own that many stamps but I could see it working for other things to be organized for sure!!!!!!

Hope you are well. Forgive me for not emailing. My life is uber, crazy, busy!!!
Thinking of you daily though and praying for you too!
e.

carol said...

Great idea Leigh! I had dreams of doing something like that, but I have never just put my mind to it and done it.

Lisa said...

Leigh this is awesome! Thanks so much for sharing! I have something similar to this but have let it slide and now have SO MUCH catching up to do that it just seems too daunting. Must get motivated!!