Dawn's Creation Station: March 2017

More Labeled Drawers!

11:00 AM

Here are a few more pics of my labeled drawers:

This photo shows a 4-drawer cube on top of a 3-drawer cube. I love the versatility of these cubes! I put every one of them together myself and have moved them around many times!!

You can see the bottom drawer is not labeled. It currently holds some random product that I need to find better homes for!

I also used the adhesive chalkboard stickers on this plastic cart from Target.

It is home to my Cuttlebug and supplies needed for that.

Close-up of the labels:

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My Organization - Week 1

4:07 PM

If you know me, you know I love organizing things!

I love cute storage containers and furniture for organization. I have Pinterest Boards for Craft Rooms and Organizing all sorts of things.

I especially love organizing tips and ideas for my Creation Station, which is my special paper-crafting 'she-shed'!

I have had my Creation Station for about 10 years now and have re-organized it multiple times over the years! Over the last year, with the exterior makeover complete, I have also updated some things inside and thought I'd share it with you over the next few weeks.

These are some of the things that have worked consistently well over the years.

First off: my labeled drawers.

I have had Jetmax storage cubes for my stamping and scrapbooking storage even before I had my Creation Station. I do not work well when I have everything visible...it's just overwhelming for me! But I do need to remember everything I have! And yes, I have a LOT of supplies and product on hand! The fairly recent addition of my chalkboard labels helps me keep everything in it's place. I purchased adhesive chalkboard labels from Michaels and trimmed them down a bit to fit inside the bookplates that are part of the drawer handles. I use a fine-tip chalk marker to write on the label. This works great, looks neat, and I can easily change around my products and just erase and change the label. (*I use a baby wipe to get the chalk marker off when I want to re-label.)

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Baby Girl Layouts

8:02 AM

After I completed the Baby Boy album I was still into "baby-mode" so I recreated the same layouts with papers and accents for a Baby Girl album!

Once again, I used Whimsy Fundamentals papers...these 2-sided papers are so versatile!

The Baby Girl Complements pack has gold glitter accents, but I used the same idea as the Baby Boy album to create the month accents.

I also used papers from the following paper packs:

Hello Lovely

Sugar Rush

Kaleidoscope (retired)

Calypso (retired)

Picture My Life cards were added for journaling boxes and the title box.

Hopefully someday I will get a little granddaughter whose photos will grace these pages!

If not, I have a gift, made with love, for a special baby girl:)

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Baby Album Layouts

7:29 AM

I am SO EXCITED to be a grandma!! Our first grandchild is due in May and it's a BOY!!!

So I created an album for his first year of life!

(This is what I hinted at in a recent post!)

Here is the title page:

For this album I used current papers from Whimsy Fundamentals & Hello Lovely and the cute page accents from the Baby Boy Complements. I also used a variety of papers from retired packs:

Georgie

Caboodle

Happy Times

I love how papers from several packs can be combined to create beautiful layouts!

The glittery numbers and 'month' vellum strips are part of the Baby Boy Complements. I cut and layered patterned paper and cardstock to create these accents for each layout.

I love the little critter stickers from the Complements pack! The journal block with the elephant is a Picture My Life card cut down a bit and matted on cardstock.