As crafters we have tendacy to hoard. Comments such as "What lovely paper, I must save that." and "Oh that will be useful" are commonly heard. Hoarding is great and saved treasures are usually used to great effect, but organisation and storage can be a real problem. Sorting your resources into colours or topics is a good way of finding everything a home. Have a container with all your bows and ribbons, another for flowers.

Die cuts can be themed- eg boy birthday, Christmas, Baby cards etc. With many new craft groups and workshops becoming availble for crafters being able to take your resources with you is an increasing issue, but segmented carry cases can provide the solution as you can take a wide variety of materials in an organised and compact way.

Being organised is the key to stress free crafting as it is easy to lay your hands on your materials which makes it easier to experiment with different ideas. I also find a cork backed board vital for displaying new ideas so I can look at them carefully and decide if I am happy with them. Keeping backing papers neat and flat can be a real problem, why not store them in punched plastic pockets in a A4 binder, you can then flick through them with ease with out creasing the other papers. Card toppers can be stored in a similar way, attatch similar themed toppers to A4 hole punched card with blue tack, then you can just unstick them when you want them. Again these can be stored in binders.

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