Comments on: The Great White North and inking about storage….

By: Conniecrafter

Conniecrafter — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:08:09 +0000

Great picks, sounds like a wonderful fun day out.
Sorry no help for the ink pads, I just have my few stored in a couple shallow plastic drawers.

By: CherylQuilts at SCS

CherylQuilts at SCS — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:44:18 +0000

Wonderful pictures, and your boys are darling! Glad you had a nice day. As far as ink storage, a friend and I recently purchased some from Michael Wiggons at OrganizeMore. They are reasonably priced, well made, and they now hang on my wall and look great and are the best storage solution for me. He is very accommodating as well, so I’d urge you to give him a look-see. http://www.organizemore.com/. I’d be happy to share a photo or two of my set-up if you wish. Thanks again for all your inspiration!

By: Trudy

Trudy — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:23:39 +0000

Hi Julia,

To store all my inkpads - I bought a couple of cheap, freestanding CD towers made out of metal. Each holds about 160 CD cases - all within easy reach of my stamping workspace.

I sorted all my inkpads by color story (brights, muted, metallics etc) and then turned them all over and affixed them to CD covers using double sided tape (I separated each of my CD cases to give me two ‘trays’).

Now when I need an inkpad - I grab a color ‘pallette’ and turn it over to make a selection from the color range.

You can fit nine small inkpads or two large inkpads on each ‘pallette’.

Here’s a couple of snaps to show you how I do it:

http://wildoakdesign.com/tmm_inkpadstorage.jpg

Hope your find your storage solution soon!
Happy Stamping!

Trudy

By: Shel9999

Shel9999 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:17:40 +0000

GREAT pics, J!!!! WOW!!!

I’m in need of ink pad storage idea myself so I can’t help you there.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:18:23 +0000

Great pictures Julia. Sounds and looks like you had a wonderful time. Love the horses. Are those clydesdales? My uncle (from the UP) had a few and they are massive but beautiful animals.

By: Jannette

Jannette — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:48:43 +0000

Hi Julia,
There’s a discussion on Splitcoaststampers.com about inkpad storage: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=406438&highlight=ink+pad+storageI hope that gives you some ideas, especially the one you can make yourself for the SU inks for about $6.00 (American probably).

By: Yosha

Yosha — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:47:41 +0000

Oh wow! Brought back some great memories! I unfortunately only did the sugar bush thing once, couple of yrs ago while living in Ottawa. I was suprised that the maple sap looked like water.

The guy who owned the farm had a little cottage where he setup the pancakes, becon and all the other good stuff. On the fireplace inside there was a big kettle cooking deer meat (one and only time I had it!) on the outside fire he was heating up the syrup. After we stuffed ourself and the syrup was ready he dropped spoonfuls of the syrup on the snow to make little candy’s! What a great day!

By: Susan Liles (susiestampalot)

Susan Liles (susiestampalot) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:33:30 +0000

OH my goodness, julia! those pictures are fabulous! it looks like ya’ll had a great time and yes, you got a good one in the hubby department! for inkpad storage, i use an old cassette tape wooden holder that my neighbor spraypainted white for me. it has 100 slots. they are a little hard to find–my husband still had it from the 80’s with all his KISS and AC/DC tapes in it (LOL!), but i have seen them on ebay pretty cheap. i have it hanging on my wall over my desk, as i have taken over only a small corner in our bedroom and don’t have much room either. i’d be happy to send you some measurements or pictures!

By: Bev J.

Bev J. — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:55:17 +0000

Great pictures and great looking kids. Glad you enjoyed your day; everyone needs time off to recharge! tfs all your cards and projects.