I have been working on organizing and "making pretty" my stamp room for a few months now. I have done LOTS of looking at pictures, TONS of analyzing, measuring, browsing and any other 'ing' you can think of! I now have all of it figured out and most of it done 🙂 I will try to once a week share with you the things I have come up with. I would love to hear your thoughts on these, any input is also much appreciated. In addition, please feel free to leave a link in your comment to your storage idea.
This was my first "brilliant" idea, and while it looks great and worked wonderfully, I soon out grew it. This is a wine rack from Target.
This is what I have now, and I absolutely LOVE it! It was cheap, and infinitely expandable! I will be adding a 5th column here after the holiday weekend. The original idea is not mine, but I found it in the Mission Organization area on SCS, Michelle328 is the brain child here! How did I make this? Well first I sent hubby down to Home Depot to get some Drain Spout, it came in a white PVC material and was less than $10 for about a 12 foot length. I measured my markers and decided that I wanted them to stick out a bit, so I had him cut the spout in to 5 1/2" pieces. Then I used some contact cement to glue them together and some spray paint (cause white just is NOT my color, lol!).
Each piece holds 20 Sketch markers with wiggle room to still be able to pull them out with ease. I store my markers by color family and as you can see some families take more than one cube (E's for example). Here's a close up of one of the cubes.
The best part about this is I chose the height and width, so it fit where I wanted it to go on my table top perfectly! I'm still trying to think of a way to pretty it up a little, but the flexibility and inexpensiveness for this was just right up my alley! Patter Cross uses these Copic Cubbies, which are great and very nice looking and VERY reasonably priced, but the shipping was not so pretty 😦 Well I hope this helps you out some, like I said I'd love to hear your thoughts. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you are having a fabulously inky weekend!
**ETA** Several of you are asking about the back, my apologies for forgetting one of the most important things, lol!! I have not yet covered the back because I am not sure if/how I want to "pretty it up". HOWEVER, when I do cover it, I will use a piece of mat board (because it will be stronger than chipboard), trace the shape of my holder and then cut. I will use the same glue to glue the back on as I used to glue the cubes together (it just holds better on PVC). Hope this covers it, but if you have more questions I'd love to hear them.
Check out these 2 posts for my unmounted stamp storage ideas:
Crain's Addiction 
Sigh. i wish I had the space to organize like that! Love the PVC idea!
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LOVE this idea!!!
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Tangii, hon, wonderful idea and inexpensive too but have a question. 12′ length cut tells me opened ended so what did you use to cap the back end so they don’t push out the back?
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Brilliant!
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This is a terrific idea! Much better than the Copic Cubbies. I like that the colors can be arranged by families and that it’s expandable.
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What a wonderful idea!! I love this!!
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Wonderful idea…may give it a whirl. My question is what do you have on the back to keep them from pushing thru (if you do not have a wall to back them up to?
Jan Castle
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Wonderful idea – I have been trying to find better storage for my markers, too and this looks like it just might fill the bill. I was wondering about the back, too – how to close them up on so the markers don’t go through.
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Ive been using a photo case as my copic storage it comes in all sizes with individual cases in side. you can stand it up and it is clear so you can see all the names and colours. I am just starting out with copic makers so i dont have alot. Each of the small cases caries 20 caio and 18 sketch. I have the 6 case but they come in 12 24 and 50, although the 50 case does not come with the separate cases inside. (it comes with dividers instead. you can take the smaller cases out and just use the box itself.
I found it at a little hobby convention for 8$ and ive seen it at Michael’s for 25$ (for the 6 case) 40$ for the 12 case and 65$ for the for the 50. The 24 had no price on it but i think its somewhere between the 12 and 50 sets. I should have bought 2 of them 1 for my regular colours like greens blues etc and one for my double colours like yellow-red, but they didnt have any more 6s.
Michael’s always has those 40% off coupons but i didnt have one at the time which is why i didnt buy one there. Its lucky i found them somewhere else though.
Lastly the containers that come inside of the case can be bought seperatly for 2.50$ but they do not come in clear (they have green, pink and red.) They are transparent though.
I live in Canada so the prices would be lower in other countries
I will be posting a video on youtube here –> http://www.youtube.com/user/isilvawolf
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I also forgot to say that they can stack on top of each other
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What a great idea! Thought I don’t have this many yet, I made a foam board divider grid that fit into a small tote to hold my Copics. Your concept looks so pretty with the color families separated. I could see using a glitter paint to bling it up a bit, although for my scrap space I’d go with a shiny red enamel.
Also, if anyone is interested, my husband has created a free smartphone app for tracking which Copic markers you have. You can check it out here: http://www.hyliston.net/iphone/copic/howto.htm
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This would work nicely for colored pencils too, turned upright so they can be stored with their points facing up…
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I am definitely going to try this crafty idea – i can figure the same size pieces will work
and then if i wanna go wide or tall on the final structure. I am in desperate need of fast
cheap and sturdy marker and pen storage for my desk. Thanks for passing on this idea!
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I forgot the measurement and got them 6″ lengths –
but to solve that – i am going to put a 1/2″ piece of hard
foam in the back ends so that the pens and markers will
peek out a bit. Cannot wait to share photos of my finished
project on my facebook timeline!
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