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Using part of your home for your scrapbooking area let it show your unique personality

I always feel like I need a big area when I’m doing some scrapbooking or craft project. It’s not that the coffee table is too small but I feel that it is easier to get creative when I can lay out all my stuffs on a big table. I don’t like doing it on the carpet for fear that I’ll suddenly spill the glue on it. That will be a nightmare isn’t it. So, as a creative scrapbooker, do you have a favorite spot in your home where you like to be when you are doing your scrapbook?

Do you have a place where you can store your scrapbooking supplies and do your work?

Not all people have the budget and luxury to have a big area dedicated for their scrapbooking room. So a small area should be good enough for you to get in the zone. Even if it is ‘small’, you should still be able to put in some essential items in there. After all, you don’t want to have to zig-zag around the house when trying to complete your creative scrapbooking project.

You’ll need a flat, hard and preferably large surface.

A desk or table will be good so that you can put your stuffs on it. The bigger it is, the more stuff you can spread on it so a good solid working surface is something that you’ll find useful. You’ll find that a flat surface is very easy to use for all the cutting, tracing and gluing work :)

Adjustable Drawing and Craft Table

Don’t forget the shelves to hold your jars and storage container

Shelves mounted on the wall can be used to hold all the jars and containers that you use for storing your scrapbooking materials. It helps your place to look organized too.

What type of place should you consider for your scrapbooking area?

In my opinion, you should not use your basement or garage for your scrapbooking room or area because they are normally damp and can easily damage your scrapbooking supplies.

Basement is not a suitable place for scrabooking room

Basement is not a suitable place for scrabooking room

After spending your hard earned money buying all your scrapbooking materials, the last thing you want to is to exposed it to too much moisture or sunlight as these elements can ruined and aged your scrapbooking stuffs faster.

Take note of temperature and humidity control, sun exposure and the possibility of flooding when setting up your scrapbooking area. You want your scrapbooks to last longer right? So, try to include these factors in your planning.

Before you start adding stuffs to your scrapbook area/room, do your planning first. Plan how and where you are going to put the table, shelves and the movable storage. These simple steps will save you from a lot of headache later. Be creative and let your scrapbooking area show part of your creativity streaks

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Tips and advice on small scrapbooking room

Not all people has a big space for their scrapbooking spots. Sometimes, we make use of nooks and corners to create our own little heaven that we call scrapbook “room” or closet. I was looking around the net to find ideas for small scrapbooking corner because I don’t have my own house yet. I’m still renting at the moment but I figured that I need my own space for ideas.

I found lots of interesting advice on how to make use of small scrapbook room. I thought maybe I should list them in my blog so that others can benefit from it too.

Here are 3 tips that you might want to consider if you have small scrapbooking room:

1) Put your shelves on the wall

Your bare wall can be put to good use and you shouldn’t waste this space. Why not get shelves mounted to the wall so that you can use them to place your bins and boxes? You can have lots of shelves but make sure you don’t put very heavy items on it. Now, you can save your floor space for some other scrapbook material

Store your embellishment into jars and small bins and line them up on the shelves. See through jars make it easy for you to identify your stuffs but you can also put some label if you don’t have one.

2) Use movable storage

Store scrapbooking materials and tools that you always use inside a movable storage. You can then roll them nearer to your table when you’re working on a scrapbook project. When not in use, you can stow it away.

The multi-layer storage is also great to store your scrapbook paper. You can use folders to separate different paper types and colors. That way, it is easier for you to find the one that you want to use and it’ll look more organized

3) Plenty of light and good air circulation

The small space can feel very crowded and stuffy if you have lots of material crammed into it. You don’t want this to limit your creativity or cause you scrapper’s block. So, it is important to have good lighting and nice window that you can open if you need some fresh air. The light can be ceiling mounted and also put on the table. Plenty of lights can help to prevent strained eyes so invest in a good one

Hope these three tips will be useful in helping you organize your small scrapbooking space. I’ll write more on this topic if I find anymore useful tips :)

Why not share tips on how you organize your scrapbook area?

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Scrapbook Room Videos

I always envy people that have their own scrapbook room.

I wish that one day, I’ll be able to have one too. Anyway, I saw this youtube video from Chanda Brock, a talented and creative scrapbooker showing her scrapbooking room. Her scrapbook room is so tidy and has lots of stuffs too.

Chanda has a blog and you might want to check it out. You can see her beautiful note card there too :)

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Scrapbooking and craft room layout tips

Designing your craft or scrapbooking room?

Then you might want to consider these factors when choosing your craft room furniture and fixtures.

1. The furniture and fixtures that you choose need to be balanced and optimize with the the amount of space that you have

2. It is always a good idea to measure the size or area of the room or space that you want to use before you go furniture hunting. This will save you from lots of unnecessary mistake and guesswork

3. If you are looking for furniture for your scrapbooking room, take note of the location of the windows and door. Don’t forget to jot down the window height from the floor. This information will be handy especially if you want to buy dressers or shelves that will sit near the windows. You’ll not want them to obstruct the window

4. It is a good idea to plan and decide what type of furniture that you need and where you want to put it. For example, do you want to put the table in the middle of the room or next to the window? How about the shelves, should it be placed against the wall?

5. Don’t forget the lighting. Do you want it wall or ceiling mounted? If your room has big window, let the natural lighting come in and do not obstruct the window with your shelves

6. Choose a comfortable chairs. If you have extra fund, you might want to invest in ergonomic chair. It is more expensive compared to normal chair but it provide better back support and promote good postures.

7. Don’t waste your wall space. Invest in good quality wall mounted shelves and you can use them for your storage

Always remember these when you are designing your scrapbooking and craft room .. budget > plan > build > origanize ;)

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I dream of my own scrapbooking room

I always dream of having my own scrapbooking room…

At the moment, I don’t have my own place yet but nobody say I cannot have a dream. Have you ever dream of your own scrapbooking room?

I saw this video of a lady showing her scrapbooking room on you tube and really envy her. I dream that one day I’ll have one too.

One day, when I have my own house, I want to dedicate a special room for it. It doesn’t have to be very big but it must have enough space for me to put a table in the middle and some storage area for the scrapbook supplies. I don’t want to use my kitchen or the area under the stairs for this purpose. To me these place has too much distractions.

I want the room to have big window and overlooking the lawn. The natural lighting is very important and I want the room to be airy also. Stuffy and dingy room is a NO NO for me.. .I believe that ideas can flow easily if we have good ventilation.

What color do I want my scrapbooking room to be? Well.. I want it to be light blue and maybe have light blue or white curtains to complement it. This color has calmness effect to me and I love it.

I have some rough ideas of how my scrapbooking room layout will be. The center piece of the room will be a table that I’m going to use for my scrabooking activities. The table has to be big enough for me and one or two friends, in case if I decide to host a scrapbooking party. Adding a number of comfortable chairs will be a big plus also.

Now come to the storage part. I want to have floor to ceiling shelves where I can put the storage container for my scrapbooking supplies. Movable dresser or organizer will be useful for those scrapbooking tools that I use so that I can roll it next to the table when I scrapbook. This one from Amazon looks nice and the roller will make it easier to move around.

I can put all the tools and materials that I always use inside the dresser and can easily pull it to everywhere that I want it to be. Nifty storage ideas…

Those little embellishments will need to go into some art bins or storage container. It will be better if I can find embellishment organizer like the one below. This one look really cool… Too bad, I haven’t seen one like this in the mall near my areas :(

I want to have shelves for my scrapbooking books also. I purchased some reference books so I want a place to put it. I always use these books for ideas  so the shelf must be at the bottom so that it is easily accessible.

My scrapbooks will need a dedicated cabinet. I might categorize it according to themes ..it seems to be the easiest way to do.

How does your dream scrapbooking room looks like?

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How can you make your scrapbook room comfortable and cozy?