Organizing My Dies…

Hello!

Monday, I shared how I organized my stamps. Today I am going to share with you how I organized my dies.

I don’t have a photo, but trust me, my dies were a mess. Most of them were in a wire basket, in their original packaging and I would sift through all of them, trying to find he one I was looking for. It was time to get this under control!

Once again, I credit this idea to my friend, Jennifer. For this project, I also used the small and large Avery Elle Pockets that I used for organizing my stamps.

Since I was organizing dies, I needed to use magnetic sheets, instead of cardstock.  The magnetic sheets that Jennifer uses are actually  magnetic covers for air vents that can be purchased at your local hardware store.

I had already invested in (and used a few for dies) Taylor Expressions Magnetic Pages, so I decided to use those sheets, instead of purchasing the vent covers.

The only difference between the two sheets are that Taylor’s sheets are heavier or thicker then the vent covers, and the vent covers are a bit less expensive!

For the dies, I cut the Taylored magnetic sheet to the size of the Avery envelope I was storing the die. The dies fit perfectly onto the magnetic sheet and stayed put! This shows a large Avery Elle envelope.

On the backside of the pocket, I cut the label for the die to fit in the pocket, and slid that down inside.

Some of the dies were stuck to the original packaging with tape, so I just trimmed the packaging down to fit into the envelope.

For this die, which wasn’t very large and had many smaller pieces, I cut down the original packaging and cut a magnetic sheet to fit the smaller Avery Elle envelope.

Here are all my dies sorted by categories and, at this time, by size. It makes me happy!

I do have some Tim Holtz dies that are already packaged in nice plastic envelopes and plan to keep them in those at this time. Jennifer has taken hers and placed them on  magnetic sheets due to the tendency for them to fall out of the edges of the packaging.

The best part of getting this all organized is knowing what I have and how easy it is to put things back after using them on a project.