Storage Question: Metal Dies

Thank you to the ladies that emailed and commented regarding my selling post the other day. I really appreciate all the great advice that I received.  Once I go through everything and decide what I am selling, I'll figure out which of the options will work out for me. My LSS also just sent out a notice about their tag sale so I could just put everything there too and get store credit for some new stuff - yay!

In my never ending quest for organization, I am putting out a new question~

How do you store your metal dies? 

I left most of mine in their original packaging which is a hassle for my Spellbinders since the most often used dies often fall out since the package doesn't stay shut anymore.  I have dies from My Favorite Things, Papertrey Ink and Taylored Expressions sorted into small drawer organizers...but they are still a mess. Just a big pile of dies.

I'd like to find an easier way to store them - and possibly make it portable for crops. Right now I have a bunch thrown in a ziploc bag for next weekend's crop. Not exactly ideal but when I started packing, it was the first thing I could grab.

Also do you label them somehow?  I like to try and link them up on my blog when they are used but half the time I cannot remember what the name is and I spend more time scrolling through store websites than really needed. 

Any ideas/helpful tips would be great!

Thanks!

P.S. I finished the baby shower thank you cards last night.  I'll have a post up with them in the next few days!

Mission Organization: Stamp Storage

One of my many goals for this year is to *finally* get my scrap room under control. I've been in it for 2 years now and I can't say that it's ever been completely workable and organized for me. Of course the fact that I never seem to stop collecting doesn't help!

Last week I started with organizing my unmounted rubber stamps. I have bunches of them organized by company in canvas bins of varying sizes but most bins are so full that I can't find what I want. I decided to transfer them to a binder system using baseball card page protectors.  This worked for 90% of the Paper Makeup Stamps that I started with.  Some stamps that didn't fit in one pocket ended up in two pockets. I split the pockets and then taped up the seam. Not an ideal solution but one that works for me to keep them all together.  As I was organizing them (first by category and then alphabetically), I numbered each pocket with a sharpie and then wrote out a corresponding list with the name of each stamp/set. The numbering of pockets is especially helpful with the large combo sets.

Here's a finished picture~

If anyone tries this for their storage, I recommend heavy duty binders as I tried a durable binder first and it wasn't sturdy enough for the weight of the rubber stamps. This 3 inch binder has about 28 pages in it.

Tomorrow I hope to start organizing my Stamping Bella stamps!