Organizing Spellbinders Grand Borderabilities Dies

Spellbinders Grand Borderabilities Dies are great for all my scrapbook layouts but I have been looking for a storage solution for these extra long dies for a while. The other day, I was looking at Cropper Hopper's Craft Pro-File Binders and found a way to organize these Grand Borderabilities.


I started with a large plastic bag that is large enough to keep 3 sets of Grand Borderabilties. You can use the packaing bags from 12 x 12 paper or 12 x 12 page refills.

I punched some holes and then used these pretty color Chatterbox Scrapbook Rivets to divide the plastic bag into 3 sections. You can use brads instead of these Scrapbook Rivets. But what I like about these Scrapbook Rivets is that they are reversable, unlike brads. Also they can hold the bag very tight.












Now you can fold all 3 sets of dies together.












There are 2 styles of Cropper Hopper Craft Pro-File Binders to choose from.


The first one is 7 x 12 Craft Pro-File.

This one you can fit Grand Borderabilities Dies and any other 6" x 12" craft paper on one side since they are expandable. On the other side, there are two 7" x 6" expandable pockets that you can keep more paper in there.












The second option is this
12 x 12 Craft Pro-File. On one side, it has one 12" x 6" expandable pocket and you can keep the Grand Borderabilities and other 12" x 6" paper here. One same side, it also has two 6" x 6" expandable pockets to store more craft paper. On other side, it has one 12" x 12" expandable pocket. You can definitely store your favor 12" x 12" paper collection there.

How is this for keeping your dies and paper together in one storage solution?!!!!

Organizing Spellbinders Dies

Today I want to share a great solution I found for Spellbinder Dies.

I have been using CD cases to store my Spellbinders for a while but I didn't quite like the solution. The first problem was that I couldn't fit long rectangles dies into a CD case. Also with the number of CD cases I had, a lot of times they would fall off when I transported them from the house to a crop.

Then I found Tim Holtz's stamp binder. The dimension of the pocket is 7" w x 8.5" h, I can definitely fit the long rectangle dies and curved rectangle dies in there without any problem.

To keep them from shifting, I then found some avery inkjet printable magnetic sheets sold at Sam's Club's website for $7.88 with shipping fee included. That saved me a trip to the store... :)

Each package of magnetic sheets comes with 5 sheets. I cut each sheet in half and trim off the long side to be 8" long and they fit perfectly in the pockets. So I can store 10 sets of Spellbinder Dies. I then printed out their item number and name of dies on address labels and stock them on the magnetic sheets. See how neatly they stored in this cute binder.

Inside of the binder also has a front pocket and that's where I keep my tan embossing mat and white spacer plate and instruction sheet.

Here is great thing about this binder. It comes with a zipper so when I am done with these dies, I just close the zipper. Voila...they are safely kept inside the binder.

Not only I can keep Spellbinders Dies in this binder, I can also keep my clear stamps, stickers sheets, stencils,..., etc. I just love it.

Here is another tip for organizing Spellbinders Dies. I don't know about you but when I scrapbook, I love to take out all my tools and accessories. But when I am done, it's difficult to separate Spellbinders Dies into their own sets. So when I get a new set of dies, I use marker to label them in the back with the item number and die number with the largest one as 1 and second largest one as 2, and so on. That way, it's easy to sort them.


















For Scalloped Square Dies, because these dies overlapped with each other, you can not nest them together on the magnetic sheet. You have to alter the sizes and keep in 2 separate piles like below.