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Real life strikes again! I really wanted to make some cards but time just did not allow. Several evenings ago I did get to sit down and nothing seemed to come out right. I’m working on a simple card that I’ll post tomorrow from one of my new, never used, Close To My Heart sets. I hope you’ll come back for a peek. You live this day but once…..make it amazing!
Becca
 SHAREthis TWEETTHIS EMAILthis Hi all, I received a couple of questions through email and comments on the ribbon storage. Rather than send the answers by email, I decided to post it here in case anyone else was curious. Size of the Drawers: The drawers are designed to hold 12 x 12 paper so the dimensions are just a little bit larger. The unit of three drawers can be purchased at Walmart for about $10.00. They also sell drawers to hold 8.5 x 11 paper, so the one is used is the larger of the two. The Dividers: Ok, the dividers almost hold themselves in place and some people could get away with just putting a piece of mat board (12-13”X2”) in without anchoring it. Me? I’m a little bit too anal so what I did was tape the divider down on three sides. It’s not a perfect science and I didn’t try to get to pretty with it because you really never see it, especially if you use clear packing tape. So, what I mean by three sides is if you hold the mat board just like it sits when you are going to put it in the drawer, I taped the front edge on the left and right, the bottom edge on the left and right and the back edge on the left and right. You could probably get away with only taping the bottom edge. Does that make sense? I divided the drawers into four equal sections, so I needed three dividers. Matboard: I purchased full black matboard sheets from Hobby Lobby, they are 32″ x 40″. I have a heavy duty 25″ Carl Cutter that cuts matboard like butter, but believe it or not, my older Fiskars Rotary Cutter for 12X12 paper worked fine as well. It’s a pretty big board, so if you want it cut down to a more manageable size, I think HL will do it for $.50 a cut. Depending on how efficient you are when you cut, you ought to be able to get about 220 – 240 bobbins out of one sheet of matboard. The Rubber Bands: The rubber bands I picked up at Walmart in the hair section. They are really small, about the size of a ring on your finger. The ones I found were black but I understand that they exist in other colors and clear although I’ve never been lucky enough to come upon other cool colors. I hope this helps, but feel free to send me any other questions you have! SHAREthis TWEETTHIS EMAILthis
To begin I purchased one of these three drawer units from Michaels for around $10.00, a package of small black hair rubber bands and purchased a sheet of mat board which I cut down into pieces measuring 2.5″ wide by 2″ high. I decided on the matboard because I found cardboard bobbins you can purchase at the craft store to be too small and too flimsy. I divided the drawers into four sections by putting in three 13″ pieces of matboard and anchoring them with tape. I rolled all my ribbon that were lengths of 5 yards and less onto the bobbins that I had cut. Now, just a warning, the rolling of the ribbon takes a little bit of time. I saved it by rolling when I was watching TV and even carried a small bag of ribbon and bobbins in the car to roll while I was waiting in the car or at the doctor office. But here’s the thing…..it’s amazing the amount of ribbon one three drawer unit will store! In the picture below, 1 drawer can hold 140 rolls of ribbon; this particular unit is storing more than 400 rolls of ribbon!! I love this storage because I can pull a drawer or the entire unit and set it on the edge of my workspace
Here are the drawers opened up to show how easy it is to pack and stack the ribbons inside the drawer.
Here is what one of the individual bobbins looks like. It is simply a piece of matboard cut to 2.5″ x 2″ secured with a rubber band.
I have three of these units all together. The top drawers are devoted to my American Crafts Ribbons. Those are not stored on bobbins. The rolls are smaller and since they come packaged in sets of six, I wanted to keep each mini palette together (shown below).
Even storing the American Crafts as full ribbons, I can get a whopping 88 rolls in one drawer! I think this system will keep me for a while, I have a little bit of room to grow in each drawer and I can stack another unit on top if needed. I also wanted to show a picture of the system that I’m leaving behind. I hope this helps someone….it took me loads of time to brainstorm what I wanted to do and I’m really pleased with the results. SHAREthis TWEETTHIS EMAILthis
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Let me be the first to respond to a day with no card. I know that everything happens for a reason. But my day was so amazingly a day of everything happening to us in one day. It started out normal. Husband on his way to work and the chain of events was started. First the transmission in our car went out. So that ment repairs and towing. Plus a day of lost work that we truely needed the pay for. After my husband got home, he was so upset that he started having chest pains. So that added a doctors visit, because he has had bypass surgery. Then when doctor says it’s just stress to not worry so much about what you can’t change, my husband okay to that. While waiting for the doctor to write prescriptions for my husband, the office had a water pipe break and water was coming into the office. So my husband went and cut off the water. The doctor was worring who he could get to fix the break. My huband explained he was a plumber and he would do it. After the repair was made the doctor said my hubands bill was paid. My husband told him he was greatful because of all the trouble we had had with our car and that we were gonna have to buy a new one that we could not afford. With that the doctor asked my husband if he work on house not just businesses. My husband said yes. The doctor made a deal with my husband that if he would come and run lines to his pool house so they could have a wet bar and water at their BBQ grill that he had a nice car that we could have. My husband did all the work and now I have a very nice car, a well husnamd, and our doctor is send us business for my husband to do side work plumbing. He has now made more money than he lost missing one day of work. God does work in mysterious ways. Hopw all your days go better and end up even better. Looking forward to your next design and your next BLOG CANDY. I’m on here everyday to see what you do next.
BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!!