Stash Chronicles: pt. 1 – Paper Collection Overview (and how I keep track of all of it)

Happy New Year everyone! 🙂

One of the ideas I’m considering for my blog and Youtube channel, is something I mentioned briefly in one of my recent videos, namely: to log my journey towards buying less papercraft stuff, and shopping my stash more instead.

Although 2021 will not be a No Buy year for me by any means – I’m also a paper collector after all 😉 – I still want to use more of what I already own, instead of growing my collection while never using it.

Well, we’ll see how it goes. Like I said, it’s a journey. 😉

Also, it gives me the opportunity to share the (joy of the) collecting side of papercrafting: how to store, categorize and most importantly keep track of everything my paper supply comprizes. I’m of course hoping this will be of some use to you too!

Anyway, here’s to the start of this new year for me, I hope you’ll accompany me on my travels for as long as you like 🥂 🙂

Anything specific you’d like me to show in my next posts? Let me know in the comments!

Mini Album “2Die4” – an idea to store your dies

I haven’t been die-cutting from the beginning of my scrapbooking adventures (back in November 2012), but ever since I’ve been trying my hand at it, my stash of dies seems to keep growing no matter what I do… It didn’t take too long before I was in need of a handy and practical way to store my dies, preferably without having to save all the packaging.

I figured: why not create a mini album with magnetic pages to hold all of them!

So I got to work, stumbling along while experimenting, encountering several impediments and difficulties. I finished the project nevertheless, although the end result is not the most esthetically pleasing of projects.

I’m sharing this with you anyway, for now you can all learn from my mistakes, apply my tips and create your own very practical and no doubt far more pretty storage minis! 🙂

Have fun, and let me know what you think!